Fun Lovin’ Criminals announce departure of frontman Huey Morgan

Maggie Gyllenhaal's adaptation of Elena Ferrante's novel "The Lost Daughter" won four Gotham Awards, including best feature film, at the 31st Gotham Awards, the annual New York independent film celebration that serves as a boozy kickoff to Oscar season.  Gyllenhaal won breakthrough director and best screenplay for her directorial debut, and star Olivia Colman shared the award for outstanding lead performance with Frankie Faison, for "The Killing of Kenneth Chamberlain," a drama based on the 2011

Former "Real Housewives of New York" star Heather Thomson called out the show for creating "staged" and "faked" storylines. Thomson criticized the show while talking to a New York Post photographer outside the high-end Japanese restaurant BondST in New York City.

Famed anime director Hayao Miyazaki revealed he is coming out of retirement once again to make a feature length animated film.

LCD Soundsystem‘s Gavilán Rayna Russom has announced that she has left the band.The synth player/multi-disciplinary artist joined the James Murphy-fronted group in 2008, but was notably absent from the first show of their Brooklyn Steel residency in New York last night (November 23).Explaining her decision to depart LCD in a new interview with Pitchfork, Russom said:  “When this offer came up again [to perform at LCD Soundsystem’s Brooklyn gigs], I had considered it.

A fan came after Seth Rollins during a live WWE taping, People is reporting.

Studio Ghibli legend Hayao Miyazaki is coming out of retirement to make one more film.The animator and filmmaker confirmed to the New York Times that he will direct a new feature-length project called How Do You Live? based on a 1937 novel by Genzaburo Yoshino.Miyazaki had initially announced his retirement in 2013 but then returned to make a short film for the Ghibli museum and for his grandson Goro Miyazaki, who most recently directed Earwig And The Witch.Goro had said that he believed his

Brighton 4th was a big winner at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival, taking awards for Best International Narrative Feature, Best Actor and Best Screenplay. Shot on location in New York, Kino Lorber’s Oscar hopeful from Georgia tells the story of Kakhi, a former wrestler who travels from his native Tbilisi to Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, in the hope of helping his wayward son get his life back on track.

Rolling Stone, Brad Hoylman (D-Manhattan) and Jamaal Bailey (D-The Bronx) are proposing a bill called ‘Rap Music On Trial’.The purpose of this bill is to set a new high bar compelling prosecutors to show “clear and convincing evidence” that a defendant’s rap song, video, or other “creative expression” is “literal, rather than figurative or fictional”.Hoylman argued that nobody thinks Johnny Cash actually “shot a man in Reno just to watch him die”, as depicted in the lyrics of ‘Folsom Prison

New York State Senators Brad Hoylman (D-Manhattan) and Jamaal Bailey (D-Bronx) plan to introduce legislation later this week that would severely limit the criminal prosecution of rap music and culture, Rolling Stone reports.

peeing on a fan onstage — while insisting she’s “not a shock artist.”“I have always pushed the limits in music and on stage.

EXCLUSIVE: Criminal Productions, the rising podcast studio founded by Phoebe Judge and Lauren Spohrer, has been acquired by Vox Media.

Your Old Droog first came into the public eye about seven years ago, roughly two eternities in the hip-hop world. But to his (and our) ongoing benefit, the New York-based rapper has never wavered from making immersive and lyrical collections of music with whip-smart wordplay and a nearly flawless beat selection.

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos purchased a $78 million private estate in Hawaii surrounded by dormant lava fields. The 57-year-old billionaire bought a three-building estate on La Perouse Bay in Maui. The estate, which has an oceanfront view, is surrounded by lush greens and palm trees and sits on 14 acres of land.

Shonda Rhimes‘ highly-anticipated new series Inventing Anna has a premiere date!

Piers Morgan has claimed Meghan Markle 'exploited" Prince Harry's royal status for financial gain in a Twitter rant.