Halsey and Ariana Grande donate to Beirut relief fund after devastating explosion

New York Post.Electra and Viola’s new penguin chick – Photo: Oceanogràfic Valencia, via Facebook.In an August 17 post on its Facebook page, Oceanogràfic València wrote: “Electra and Viola, two female penguins from the Oceanogràfic València, have incubated the egg of another couple and now have their first offspring. Although the formation of same-sex pairs is common in more than 450 species both in zoos and in nature, this is the first time this has happened in our aquarium.

NEW YORK -- Despite being interrupted by the coronavirus pandemic, the shortened Broadway season will nonetheless have a Tony Awards. Tony Award Productions said Friday that the celebration of live theater will be digital but offered no date or streaming platform.

Irina Shayk has spent the majority of her quarantine in The Big Apple since splitting from ex, Bradley Cooper in January. And the Russian supermodel took the opportunity to give back to her community on Friday, posting on Instagram to reveal she had teamed up with Voss water to donate 2,000 bottles of Voss to The River Fund and Food Bank For New York City. On the same day, her ex Bradley, 45, was also spotted out in New York, as he left his home for a game of tennis.  Bradley was dressed smartly

Nellie Andreeva, Denise Petski HBO Max has given a pilot order to Verbatim, an anthology series from Brett Weiner (Honest Trailers), Ben Stiller’s Red Hour Films and Left/Right Productions.Your Complete Guide to Pilots and Straight-to-Series ordersCreated and directed by Weiner, Verbatim is based on his New York Times Op-Docs digital series. It tackles actual events with all dialogue taken from primary sources and presented verbatim.

Ramin Setoodeh New York Bureau ChiefNikolaj Coster-Waldau, the Danish actor best known for playing the conflicted, sardonic Jaime Lannister on HBO’s “Game of Thrones,” was eager for his latest film to premiere at South by Southwest last March.

Author Brit Bennett has had quite the whirlwind summer. Though her novel, The Vanishing Half (Riverhead Books), arrived while the country was in the midst of a pandemic, the author's new release became an instant sensation.

Matt Grobar Assistant Editor, AwardslineFor Apple TV+ drama The Morning Show, Angus Wall and Hazel Baird designed a main title sequence that was at once visually abstract and thematically rich, speaking to the various challenging facets of life in the high-pressure world of morning news.Created by Jay Carson and Kerry Ehrin, the series centers on a popular breakfast news program broadcast out of New York, which is rocked to its core when one of its longtime anchors is fired, due to accusations

Mika has penned an emotional letter to the people of Lebanon following the giant explosion that took place in Beirut last week.The explosion, which happened in the Lebanon capital on Tuesday (August 4), has killed nearly 80 people and injured 4,000.The New York Times reported that the explosion was caused by a fire at a warehouse at Beirut’s port, and that “highly explosive materials” that the government seized years ago were found at the blast site.British singer-songwriter Mika, who was born

Ramin Setoodeh New York Bureau Chief“Feel the Beat,” a track from the Black Eyed Peas’ recent bilingual English-Spanish album, “Translation,” features the group’s first collaboration with Latin music star Maluma. In an interview this week for Variety’s Power of Young Hollywood issue, frontman Will.i.am.

The New York Times. “Dissolving the corrupt, dangerous, and extremist NRA organization will end an illegal scheme led by the NRA leadership to enrich themselves and push an agenda that leads to the deaths of nearly 40,000 Americans each year,” Lindsay told Metro Weekly in a statement.

George and Amal Clooney have donated $100,000 to three charities in support of those affected by the devastating explosion in Beirut on Tuesday.More than 130 people are known to have died, with thousands more injured, following the deadly explosion in Beirut, the capital city of Lebanon.It's believed that the explosion may be linked to 2,750 tons of highly explosive ammonium nitrate, which was being stored in a warehouse near the port, per The New York Times.George and Amal Clooney are showing

Halsey, Bette Midler, Sara Bareilles, Gloria Estefan and more stars shared their thoughts on the massive explosion in Lebanon's capital of Beirut Tuesday (Aug. 4) that has killed nearly 80 people and injured 4,000.

Jill Goldsmith Co-Business EditorNew York Governor Andrew Cuomo said Monday the current COVID-19 relief bill being hashed out in Congress must include help to stricken local governments to avoid a “real recession” in the country.“If they don’t make this bill right, frankly, they shouldn’t pass it because it will be the last bill… If this bill does not have funding for state and local government you will see a real recession, not just in New York but across the country [by] forcing state and

Greg Evans Associate Editor/Broadway CriticEXCLUSIVE Playwright Keenan Scott II, whose play Thoughts of a Colored Man is a likely contender for a post-shutdown Broadway staging, has signed with A3 Artists Agency in all areas.Scott, a native New Yorker born and raised in Pomonok Housing Projects in Flushing, Queens, was among a group of prominent and/or promising Black playwrights featured in a recent New York Times article titled “Black Plays Are Knocking on Broadway’s Door.