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Kwame Amoaku, former director of the Chicago Film Office, is the new deputy commissioner for film at the Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment, where he’ll be principal advisor on production. A push by Mayor Eric Adams to accelerate the industry’s recovery, and surpass pre-pandemic levels, also includes creating a council of local industry insiders, and assigning a film liaison at every city agency.

A crew member of the US show Law & Order: Organized Crime was shot and killed while working near the set in Brooklyn, New York City, on Tuesday 19 July morning.The New York Police Department press release shared they identified the victim as 31 year old Johnny Pizarro, from Queens, who was sitting in his car in the Greenpoint neighbourhood of Brooklyn when the horrific incident occurred. An unidentified person approached the vehicle at about 5:15am and opened the door before shooting him.

The New York City Council have approved an application to rename the corner of Ludlow Street and Rivington Street on the Lower East Side of Manhattan “Beastie Boys Square.” Efforts to pay homage to the long-running rap trio in that location — where the cover photo of their critically acclaimed 1989 album Paul’s Boutique was taken — since shortly after the death of one of their founding members, Adam “MCA” Yauch, in 2012. In 2014, Manhattan Community Board 3 turned down the proposal due to lack of community support for the petition created by Leroy McCarthy, who had successfully campaigned to designate a green space in Brooklyn Heights Adam Yauch Park and later got a Beastie Boys mural installed at the Ludlow and Rivington intersection — still there today, in its third iteration.

Prince Harry delivered a keynote speech on Nelson Mandela International Day, in which he referred to his wife Meghan Markle as his "soulmate." On Monday, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex arrived in New York City, where the British royal gave a special address to the United Nations.The couple held hands as they entered the building and Markle, 40, wore a pinky ring signifying women's empowerment, People magazine reported. After New York City Mayor Eric Adams spoke, Harry addressed the assembly.

Thania Garcia The New York City Council has voted to officially bestow the name “Beastie Boys Square” upon the intersection of Ludlow Street and Rivington Street in New York City– the corner popularized by the rap trio’s 1989 album, “Paul’s Boutique.”Council member Christopher Marte confirmed in an interview with local news channel Pix11 that the effort, which had been pushing for the official dedication for “about nine years,” had officially achieved its goal.In 2014, the Community Board had rejected a petition to rename the Lower East Side corner. Now, the New York City Council accepted the renewed application under the name, “Beastie Boys Square,” on July 14.

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Adams said during a press conference in East Harlem when asked if he would look into reducing the charges against Gill. He added, “From what [Giuliani] stated about being punched in the head, [that it] felt like a bullet, what he stated, there was a lot of creativity.

Common said working on the film Selma turned him into an activist and that a recent seven-month stay in London, where police don’t carry guns, “felt like a weight was off my shoulders” as he talked over his life and career at an event awarding him the Tribeca Festival’s second annual Harry Belafonte Voices for Social Justice Award.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorThe New York City Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment has announced the full slate of programming for the fifth annual New York Music Month, to run throughout the month of June 2022 in New York City.This year’s NYMM will feature a combination of in-person and virtual programming, with more than 20 events, including an all-day industry conference on the future of NYC’s music industry, skill-building workshops, free rehearsal space, songwriting camp, and showcases of emerging NYC artists. This month-long series aims to support songwriters, established musicians, emerging artists, and NYC’s entire musical community, many of whom were severely impacted by the pandemic.

Broadway will continue requiring audiences to mask up at least through June, the Broadway League announced today.

soaring crime rate is no laughing matter — but John Mulaney is quick to quip about Mayor Eric Adams’ questionable crackdown on illegal behavior. The comedian took to the stage at the Robin Hood benefit on Monday night, skewering Adams after he defended the arrest of a woman selling mangoes in a Brooklyn subway station. Mulaney blasted Adams — who was sitting in the audience at the swanky event — for targeting low-level offenses, while major crimes, such as felony assault and burglaries, continue to surge.

Gilded Age!Laurie Cumbo, commissioner of New York City’s Department of Cultural Affairs, got proposed to by her partner — former NY State Assembly candidate Bobby Digi Olisa — at one of the most fashionable events of the year. The pair gave Kim Kardashian’s skin-tight Marilyn Monroe gown a run for its scene-stealing money as they made their way down the infamous Metropolitan Museum of Art steps at Monday evening’s 2022 Met Gala.Cumbo and Olisa, both 47, were at the bash when the latter got down on one knee and presented his love with an unmistakable robin’s egg-colored Tiffany’s ring box.Cumbo and Olisa — executive director and founder of Staten Island’s the Canvas institute — share a 5-year-old son and have been together for almost eight years.“I guess my fiancé just asked me to marry him and this is amazing, unexpected, wonderful.

dying to go” to the Met Gala “for years,” New York City Mayor Eric Adams finally got his wish.Adams, 61, arrived on the red carpet wearing a statement suit, making a political splash on the red carpet alongside girlfriend Tracey Collins. He donned a coat with decorative forearms and lapels that paid homage to the MTA in addition to the back of his coat, which read “END GUN VIOLENCE” in bold red letters.Adams’ move to make a political statement on the red carpet follows Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who wore a gown last year that read “TAX THE RICH.”His look was also complete with a fresh pedicure, which he debuted on Twitter.

On the latest episode of Last Week Tonight, John Oliver turned the heat up on the campaign of Pennsylvania Senate candidate and television personality Dr. Mehmet Oz.

Britney Spears’ recent announcement that she and fiancé Sam Asghari are expecting a baby did not go unnoticed by the writers on “Saturday Night Live”

imitation of Mayor Eric Adams as a cocky Casanova who was excited for spring, and glad the Brooklyn subway shooter was no longer his problem.“Don’t adjust your television set, I am this handsome, ya understand?” he boasted.“We got him. We got the shooter. Sure it took 30 hours, and the suspect turned himself in, but we got him.

On the second day of Passover, halfway through Ramadan, the second night of Coachella’s first weekend, and just hours before Easter Sunday, Saturday Night Live kicked off tonight with the Easter Bunny himself, a very timely overeager hipster reference and yet another bloated political cameo skit.

no deaths among the injured survivors of Tuesday’s deadly Brooklyn subway shooting, Stephen Colbert was able to find some humor while talking about that attack during Wednesday’s episode of “The Late Show.” And one of the funniest bits came when he poked fun at a weird technical malfunction experienced by NYC Mayor Eric Adams at the press conference announcing the shooting suspect had been arrested.By now you know that the suspect in Tuesday’s mass shooting, a man named Frank James, was arrested on Wednesday. So it is that NYPD held a big press conference bragging about his captured, but the announcement itself was reserved for Adams.

Eric Adams, the mayor of New York City, is canceling all public events for the remainder of the week after an announcement today that he has contracted Covid-19.

The Mayor of New York City has launched an ad campaign denouncing the passage of Florida’s “shameful” “Don’t Say Gay Bill”, while calling on LGBTQI Floridians to come and live in New York City.Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay Bill,” officially named the Parental Rights in Education Bill, will restrict the teaching of sexual orientation and gender identity. It states, “Classroom instruction by school personnel or third parties on sexual orientation or gender identity may not occur in kindergarten through grade three or in a manner that is not age-appropriate or developmentally appropriate for students in accordance with state standards.”Parents would be able to sue if a school if school is suspected of violating the law.LGBTQ+ activist Daniel Dromm said, “These ads will reaffirm New York City’s commitment to creating an inclusive school environment, in sharp contrast to the discriminatory policies of Governor DeSantis.”The campaign will run on social media and on digital billboards across Florida for eight weeks, from April 4 until May 29.© Star Observer 2022 | For the latest in lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and intersex (LGBTIQ) news in Australia, be sure to visit

City Girls have teamed up with Fivio Foreign for their first single of the year, ‘Top Notch’.The new cut sees Yung Miami and JT rapping over trappy production courtesy of AXL Beats. It’s full of the duo’s typical bravado, with lines like “I just got my hair did to shit on hoes like it’s a hobby / Every bitch that hate on me got an ugly face and a botched body” from JT.Fivio’s verse echoes the sentiments, rapping: “Go to the hood and the topic is me / When I was down, I was broke but I told ’em I knew I’d be rich by the top of the week.”‘Top Notch’ arrives alongside a Ben Marc-directed video that sees City Girls and Fivio partying in the streets of New York.

Broadway will maintain its mask and vaccine requirements through April 30, the Broadway League announced today.

slapped Chris Rock during Sunday’s Academy Awards, and shouldn’t have to return the Oscar he won.During an appearance on Fox 5, Adams explained that though “violence is never the answer” Smith should not be judged too harshly on his actions when he failed to control his “passion.”“Violence is never the answer. It’s a painful moment,” he told “Good Day New York.”“But you know, sometimes when you’re dealing with [an] illness of a loved one, you become emotional,” he added. “And sometimes we have to think through our actions and not react through our passion.”Asked by host Rosanna Scotto if the “King Richard” actor should be forced to give back the Best Actor award he won that evening, the tough-on-crime retired NYPD captain replied, “I don’t think he should.”“The worst day in our life should not be the description of our entire life,” Adams continued.

Michael Appler On Monday evening in New York City, “Plaza Suite,” a Neil Simon comedy starring Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick, opened on Broadway with a comedic crash nearly three years in the making.Set in the late-1960s, “Plaza Suite” comprises three one act plays in which Broderick and Parker — married in real life — portray couples staying in a suite at the Plaza Hotel. In the final act — a grand farce in which the pair play parents whose bride-to-be daughter has barricaded herself in the bathroom — Broderick takes a slapstick run at the locked-shut door. On Monday, in front of a star-studded crowd including Mayor Eric Adams, Broderick busted right through the set in an opening night gaff for the Broadway books.

pic. twitter. com/ffPHhUKRT4The band announced that they would not be performing at Estéreo Picnic festival following the tragedy.

NEW YORK -- New York City's mayor exempted athletes and performers — including Brooklyn Nets star Kyrie Irving — from the city’s vaccine mandate Thursday, while keeping in place the rule for countless other workers who faced losing their jobs for refusing to get vaccinated.The city's sweeping vaccine mandate still applies to many, including private workers and government employees. Critics of Mayor Eric Adams' decision, including several public employee unions whose members were fired for not getting vaccinated, blasted the mayor for seeming to lift the rule only for wealthy and famous athletes.The city’s largest police union, which has sued the city over the mandate, said its officers “don’t deserve to be treated like second-class citizens.”“We have been suing the city for months over its arbitrary and capricious vaccine mandate — this is exactly what we are talking about.

Brooklyn Nets guard Kyrie Irving will be able to play at home court Barclay’s Center in the NBA playoffs. Aaron Judge and Max Scherzer will take the field at Yankee Stadium and Citi Field soon for the New York Yankees and Mets, respectively.

NEW YORK -- New York City's mayor will announce Thursday that he’s exempting athletes and performers from the city’s vaccine mandate for private workers, a move that will allow Brooklyn Nets star Kyrie Irving to play home games and unvaccinated baseball players to take the field when their season begins.Mayor Eric Adams will make the announcement Thursday morning and it will be effective immediately, according to a person familiar with the upcoming announcement who was not authorized to discuss it publicly.The city’s sweeping vaccine mandate for workers will still apply to people with other types of jobs, including government employees.Adams had said he felt the vaccine rule was unfair when it came to athletes and performers because a loophole in the measure, imposed under his predecessor, allowed visiting players and performers who don’t work in New York to still play or perform even if they are unvaccinated.Irving, a vaccine holdout, had been among the most high-profile people impacted.