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open in the area since the beginning of the pandemic. The newly built slender glass tower opened its doors at 159 W.

Meghan Markle and Prince Harry: the A-list inner circle.After failing to get an invite to the Oscars or the Beckham wedding, insiders say the couple are feeling snubbed by the local celebrities in California – and are setting their sights instead on being king and queen of New York.“The Sussexes have been house hunting in NYC for a while now – they think they could make an impact there,” says an insider close to Meghan and Harry, who moved into their £11.2million mansion in California back in July 2020, after dramatically quitting the UK.“To be honest, they’ve failed to break in to any Hollywood circles. They had hoped to become part of the elite, with friends such as Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson [his wife], the Spielbergs, the Obamas and the Clooneys, but they can’t seem to get a foot in the door.There’s a reason you’re not seeing them front and centre at Hollywood dinners and events – and it’s not by choice.

Jem Aswad Senior Music Editor“The only way that this could be more elegant,” said Father John Misty as he surveyed the crowd in New York’s legendary Rainbow Room, a venue that epitomizes elegance, “is if we had three tables heaped with shrimp cocktails.”He wasn’t wrong. The opulent venue, opened in 1934 and located on the 65th floor of 30 Rock, has multiple chandeliers, a sunken, circular dancefloor and a 15 or so floor-to-ceiling windows offering breathtaking views of Midtown Manhattan and beyond, with the Empire State Building’s nightly light show occasionally distracting from the performance onstage.

Emmy and Tony winner Judith Light will be honored with the Excellence in Media Award at the 33rd annual GLAAD Media Awards in Manhattan next month.

shocking assault of Chris Rock at the Oscars. The actor, 53, stormed the stage at Sunday night’s event, slapping the 57-year-old comic across the face after he made a joke about his wife, Jada Pinkett Smith, 50.Now, venues across the country are considering “adding security guards, pre-show warnings and even metal detectors” in fear of copycat attacks, according to The Hollywood Reporter. “We’ve never had anything like that in our history,” Noam Dworman, owner of New York’s iconic Comedy Cellar, told the publication of the incident witnessed live by millions.

Strippendales, in early 2020. Unlike his dad who was in on the business side, Banerjee is also the gyrating talent. But behind his family legacy — the G-strings and glossy camp veneer of the ’80s beefcake phenomenon — is a bloody tale of greed, arson, FBI informants and murder.

My Chemical Romance have unveiled the support acts for their upcoming US tour.The band will be supported by numerous acts across the dates including: Badflower, Devil Master, Dilly Dally, GHÖSH, Kimya Dawson, Meg Myers, Midtown, Nothing, Shannon And The Clams, Soul Glo, Surfbort, Taking Back Sunday, The Bouncing Souls, The Homeless Gospel Choir, The Lemon Twigs, Thursday, Turnstile, Waterparks, and Youth Code.You can find exact details of who is playing where on the band’s official website.A post shared by My Chemical Romance (@mychemicalromance)A post shared by My Chemical Romance (@mychemicalromance)The returning group will kick off their reunion tour in the UK and Ireland, with a date at the Eden Project in May followed by gigs in Milton Keynes, Dublin, Warrington, Cardiff and Scotland. The tour will then move onto Europe, before visiting New Zealand and Australia in 2023.Last week, the group added more North American dates to their upcoming 2022 reunion tour.The band had previously confirmed more than 25 dates to take place in the States and Canada this summer and autumn, including festival headline sets at Riot Fest, When We Were Young and more.The reuniting emo band then added more arena shows to their itinerary, including 10 new cities.

My Chemical Romance have added more North American dates to their upcoming 2022 reunion tour.The band had previously confirmed more than 25 dates to take place in the States and Canada this summer and autumn, including festival headline sets at Riot Fest, When We Were Young and more.Now, the reuniting emo band have added a further 14 arena shows to their itinerary, including 10 new cities. Tickets for the new shows will go on sale on Friday (March 11) at 12pm local time and will be available to purchase here.My Chemical Romance have also shared a new tour trailer, which opens with a statue smashing among a pile of rubble and is soundtracked by grinding guitars.

investment into a Staten Island Ferry with fellow “Saturday Night Live” cast member Colin Jost, Pete Davidson is now also dipping his hands into New York’s bar scene. Davidson, 28, joins a long list of celebrity investors behind the 19th century townhouse-turned-bar, including music producer Mark Ronson and actors Nicholas Braun, Justin Theroux and Jason Sudeikis. Dubbed Pebble Bar, the new multilevel watering hole with a secret entrance via Rockefeller Center replaces a longtime pub so frequented by “SNL” cast members they often referred to it as “Studio 1-H.” But Matt Kliegman, who is a partner investor in the space, told The Post he wanted the vibe to feel “residential” and “intimate,” despite its ritzy features and high-profile backers.

Broadway’s real-life Max Bialystock.After producing “Ragtime” and “Show Boat” in the 1990s, Drabinsky was thrown behind bars in 2009 for keeping two sets of books for his Broadway production company Livent. In doing so, he misled investors into believing that money-losing flops were really big hits, bilking them out of some $500 million. The Canadian crook was only allowed to cross the border into the United States again in 2019 after charges here were dismissed with prejudice because he served time in Canada.

Pete Davidson made his return to Instagram this week. The "Saturday Night Live" star's new verified profile went live on Wednesday. It's reportedly the fourth time he's rejoined the social media platform since first ditching it in 2018.

Lil Nas X embodies camp in his music video for Montero (Call Me By Your Name) 

Disruptive Restaurant Group (DRG) celebrates the East Coast expansion of their Las Vegas-based Japanese restaurant Kumi. Now, New York City has the chance to indulge in Kumi’s classic Japanese cuisine that takes on a Korean-American twist. While the Las Vegas location can be found at Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino, the New York City location opened up in the heart of Midtown inside the Le Meridien hotel on February 3.

hosted more than its fair share of Instagram museums. But the new immersive experience, RiseNY — an assortment of random cultural artifacts paired with a theme-park ride, and shoehorned into an otherwise drab Midtown storefront — might be the most absurd yet. Now in previews in Times Square, this $28-per-person tourist trap offers audiences a “three-part journey” through the five boroughs’ history that will purportedly “help the city soar to new heights” as it “rebound[s] from the pandemic in an extraordinary way,” as the press materials for the exhibit say. In reality, it is a charmless, New York-themed highlight reel of pop art spread across three windowless floors.

ATLANTA -- Imagine a town clock that displays not the minutes and seconds that govern our lives, but time that moves faster or slower based on how fast rivers are running.The Chattahoochee River and its tributaries flow through metropolitan Atlanta, but they hardly register for most people in the city — a disconnect that dismays Jonathan Keats. The San Francisco-based conceptual artist is on an extended stay in Georgia, where he's been devising ways of encouraging people to interact more with their natural environment.His latest concept, "Atlanta River Time," would enlist volunteers to go down to riverbanks and take measurements.

is being remembered as a “positive, hardworking, and fun” person by former “Extra” colleague Billy Bush.Kryst, 30, who, in addition to pageantry and practicing law also did red carpet hosting, was said to have been a jovial spirit while with the TV show, according to fellow “Extra” host Bush.“She was positive, hardworking, fun and of course beautiful,” Bush, 50, wrote in an emotional Instagram post Sunday after learning of her death.“Always dancing in between takes. This is a complete shock to all.

There are far weightier consequences of the Omicron variant’s holiday-season surge than New York media types having to puzzle out the fate of red-carpet events.

Bon appétit for Katy Perry and Orlando Bloom! Ahead of the singer’s appearance on “Saturday Night Live” this weekend, the engaged pair squeezed in a date night in New York City on Thursday at celebrity Italian staple Carbone.

Katy Perry and Orlando Bloom! Ahead of the singer's appearance on this weekend, the engaged pair squeezed in a date night in New York City on Thursday at celebrity Italian staple Carbone. For their night out on the town, both stars put a fashionable foot forward, Bloom in a denim blue ensemble and Perry in head-to-toe camel corduroy, a stark change from the leather, oxblood-hued outfit and black fur coat she was photographed in while spotted in Midtown. And what would date night be without some romance? «Orlando is such a gentleman, he opened the doors for her, held her hand, and led her into and out of the restaurant,» an eyewitness told ET. «They still seem very much in the honeymoon phase!» While they are parents to 1-year-old daughter Daisy, the infant did not join them for dinner.

111 W. 57th St. — and the second tallest in the Western Hemisphere — has hit the market for $21 million.

GLAAD Media Awards Wednesday with the organization championing a wide variety of projects and people, including Lil Nas X, Demi Lovato, “Pose,” and “Tick, Tick…Boom!”“RuPaul’s Drag Race” Season 13 finalist Gottmik made the announcement via TikTok.For the second year in a row, streaming services dominated overall with 63 nominations that included such films as Netflix’s “The Mitchells vs. the Machines” and TV series like HBO Max’s “The Other Two” and “Hacks.” Cable followed with 39 nods, the broadcast networks followed with 17.

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorGLAAD announced the nominations for their 33rd Media Awards on Wednesday morning.The 226 nominees include Lil Nas X, “West Side Story,” “Hacks,” Anderson Cooper and “Yellowjackets.” HBO Max topped the streamers with 19 nominations, followed by Netflix with 17 and Hulu rounding out the top three with seven. Broadcast network noms were led by ABC with four and NBC and PBS with three each.

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorVariety has earned its fifth GLAAD Media Award nomination for outstanding magazine overall coverage. The publication won the honor in 2019.This year’s nomination submission included the magazine’s annual Pride issue featuring a cover story on Jazz Jennings written by Caroline Framke, a story about trans actor Josie Totah, also by Caroline Framke, and the Power of Pride List.

Chris Noth of sexual assault. The latest claim comes a day after two women came forward accusing the 67-year-old actor of sexual assault.

global real estate company that owns Midtown NYC’s iconic Rockefeller Center, launched a bid to stay on trend this week by chiming into the NFT market, right alongside the likes of former FLOTUS Melania Trump and the ghost of Marvel guru Stan Lee.While fancy yachts and luxury real estate are among some recently minted NFTs — meaning non-fungible tokens — Speyer has positioned the beloved Rockefeller Christmas Tree in the same camp.But don’t be fooled — the actual holiday spectacular is not

Rough Trade, an independent record store from London, opened at 30 Rock in June after closing its Williamsburg location in March. It’s helping usher in an edgy vibe to the long-stodgy area, bringing live performances to the outdoor Plaza and inside the famed 65th-floor Rainbow Room alike.

Investigators in New York City are looking for a suspect that stabbed a sleeping subway passenger to death during an “unprovoked” attack on a train at the city’s Penn Station early on Sunday morning.

a Broadway season dominated by a ton of so-so new plays about ripped-from-the-headlines issues, one of the best has already reached retirement age.“Trouble in Mind,” which opened Thursday night at the American Airlines Theatre, was written way back in 1955 by Alice Childress, but never got to Broadway until now. There were plans for it to go to Midtown 66 years ago, however the backstage satire about a cast rehearsing a poorly written black drama was considered too edgy for white audiences at