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and get professional help, get away. Your partner is probably not going to change.Don’t worry about your abuser.

The Today Show. I was also a big tattletale as a kid.

New York Daily News.He is next scheduled to appear in court on Mar.

Ellise Shafer administratorJohn Frey, an actor, screenwriter, director and teacher known for the 2018 film “Cabaret Maxime,” died on Jan. 23 of heart failure.

In the latest sign of Donald Trump’s plunging stock as a business brand, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said the city is moving ahead with plans to cancel its business contracts with the Trump Organization.

Bronx state Sen. Luis Sepúlveda turned himself in to the NYPD Tuesday morning for allegedly assaulting his wife, according to police sources.  Sepúlveda, 56, and his wife, Elizabeth Sepúlveda, filed separate reports accusing each other of assault during a domestic dispute on Saturday.

Slick Rick has shared a new mini-documentary that highlights his influence on shoe fashion – watch it below.Created in partnership with Clarks Originals, the clip entitled Mind-Body-Sole focuses on the London-born rap legend’s longstanding relationship with the footwear brand.Described as “a story of heritage, community and purpose above all”, the Katherine Mateo-directed doc follows Rick around landmark locations synonymous with his upbringing in the Bronx, New York, before making his way to

told TMZ that she was walking her dog on Christmas Eve and, when she returned home, she collapsed. She was taken to the hospital, put on a ventilator but never recovered and passed away Sunday.Born Victoria Leigh Blum in the Bronx, Roberts’ career began when she was a teenager, studying at the Actors Studio and, eventually, modeling in commercials for everything from Ultra Brite toothpaste to Clairol hair products.

Three agents from the U.S. Marshals Service were hurt or shot Friday morning in New York City while exchanging gunfire with at least two suspects, one of whom has died, according to officials and reports.

Tracy Morgan is giving back to his community. The "30 Rock" star handed out 1,200 turkeys for Thanksgiving at the Mott Haven Community Center in the Bronx on Tuesday.

Mitch Douglas, a literary agent who spent three decades at ICM and represented the likes of Tennessee Williams, Graham Greene, Arthur Miller, Lanford Wilson and Howard Koch, has died. He was 78.

If nothing else, director Stanley Tong and martial arts superstar Jackie Chan’s latest effort, Vanguard, proves the law of diminishing returns. Not too long ago a Chan film guaranteed an entertaining time at the movies and heaps of awe at what the human body could endure.

Storms hammered New York, New Jersey and Connecticut on Sunday night, even sparking tornado warnings. The National Weather Service issued tornado warnings and severe thunderstorm warnings for parts of New York and Connecticut as the storms battered the area.

City sheriffs broke up an illegal Bronx fight club with enough guns, booze and drugs to make Brad Pitt and Edward Norton’s on screen antics look tame. The unlicensed, “Rumble in the Bronx” club was operating in an industrial building on Coster Street in Hunts Point, sheriffs say.

Jennifer Lopez is still Jenny from the block.While accepting the award for Pop Culture Innovator at WSJ. Magazine's Innovator Awards, Lopez opened up about her Bronx, New York, upbringing and how it paved the way for her beyond-successful career.

In spite of the challenges that restaurants have been facing during the coronavirus pandemic, this restaurant decided to lend a helping hand by becoming a soup kitchen. La Morada, a Mexican restaurant in the Bronx, first opened in 2009 and has been recognized by the Michelin Guide for its authentic Oaxacan food.

Jeff Vasishta It’s not a very long drive from the bucolic community of Rye in New York’s affluent Westchester County to Yankee Stadium in the Bronx where Panamanian-raised Yankees baseball legend Mariano Rivera plied his pitching prowess during a celebrated 19-season career that stretched from 1995 to 2013.

A 20-year-old man was shot dead in broad daylight as he sat in his car in The Bronx — one of seven victims of gun violence Wednesday and Thursday amid the city’s worst year for shootings in at least five, according to cops. The victim was sitting in the front driver’s seat of a black Acura on Cromwell Avenue near West 170th Street in Mount Eden around 9:45 a.m.

Major Cedric Valentine Godfrey, brought the idea to the city after seeing how they worked in the tightly-packed districts of The Bronx, Queens, Brooklyn, and Manhattan in New York who had created play streets.Salford City Councillors agreed to launch the pilot scheme during today’s council meeting (12/10/2020).Those affected by the street closures will be consulted, with the council planning on releasing a consultation with guidance and risk assessment forms for residents who put themselves

Also Read: Clark Middleton, 'Twin Peaks' and 'Blacklist' Actor, Dies at 63 From West Nile VirusBorn in The Bronx, after graduating from Michigan State University, Edward S. Feldman was hired by 20th Century Fox to work as a writer in the studio’s press book department in Manhattan.

People can’t go to a Bad Bunny concert right now, so Bad Bunny brought the concert to the people.

canceled altogether, while this month’s New York Film Festival will mix mostly online viewing with a few outdoor screenings in Brooklyn, Queens and The Bronx. Only Venice has been totally brick-and-mortar.The pandemic has taught us a few things: For starters, more straight-to-digital releases from major studios will come in the future and many of us will work from home indefinitely.

Dade Hayes Finance EditorEXCLUSIVE: The New York Film Festival’s unorthodox 58th edition, which starts next week, has added a drive-in at the Bronx Zoo to its roster of screening sites.Three films have been confirmed to screen at the location, which has been built in the zoo’s south parking lot. Steve McQueen’s Lovers Rock, which is the opening selection at the festival next Thursday at a drive-in in Queens, will be shown in the Bronx on September 23.

Pat Saperstein Deputy EditorPaul Kagan, who built his expertise in the budding cable television business into the longtime media consulting business Kagan and Associates, died Aug. 23 of kidney failure in Carmel, Calif.

Bronx Times.It wasn’t clear if Williams had any signs of trauma to her body, or if she was clothed, and police were unable to immediately determine whether she had been killed or died of other causes, reports NBC New York.The medical examiner’s office will conduct an autopsy to determine how she died.Williams had previously been reported missing by a friend, who had received a call from Williams saying she was going to the beach. But Williams never returned to her Harlem neighborhood.

Also Read: Judd Apatow to Direct Documentary on George Carlin for HBODuring one emotional moment, he brings up Hart Island, an area in The Bronx used as a mass grave for disease-related deaths and unclaimed bodies and which was filled with thousands of victims of the AIDS epidemic in the ’80s and ’90s.“This isn’t the first time New York has gone through something like this, and this isn’t the first time our country has gone [through] what it’s going through now,” Williams warned.A post shared by

Cardi B, Shia Labeouf and J.K. Rowling worked their way to the top from humble beginnings.Cardi opened up about her upbringing in the Bronx in an interview with Global Grind in 2016.

Shirley Ju For French Montana, accolades come in threes. His 2017 single “Unforgettable,” featuring Swae Lee, has accumulated over three billion streams in the three years since his album “Jungle Rules” made a home for the hit — all milestones the South Bronx, New York rapper celebrated this week in addition to 13 billion combined streams throughout his career (including features).

Dino-Ray Ramos Associate Editor/ReporterIn 2009, award-winning playwright Katori Hall started research for her play Pussy Valley, which put a spotlight on the world of stripping. She stepped into the heels of these women, took pole dancing classes and even spent her 30th birthday in the locker room of the New York strip club Sin City Bronx.

The New York Times.A native of the Bronx in New York City, he got his start as an undergraduate at Cooper Union art school designing place mats with silk-screen designs for Wanamaker’s department store.He went on to become one of the most influential designers of the late 20th century, creating everything from magazines to advertisements to posters — including the iconic 1966 image of Bob Dylan with psychedelic hair commissioned by CBS Records to accompany the musician’s first greatest-hits

Dave McNary Film ReporterWith the moviegoing business still mostly dormant, Tribeca Enterprises has unveiled “Jaws,” “The Dark Knight” and “Black Panther” as highlights of more than 30 titles in its upcoming Tribeca Drive-In series.Events will be hosted at drive-in theaters in Nickerson Beach in Nassau County, N.Y., and Orchard Beach in the Bronx; the parking lots of AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Tex.; the Rose Bowl Stadium in Pasadena, Calif; and NFL venues in Miami and Seattle.

Related: Openly gay Bronx Councilman Ritchie Torres to run for CongressThe problem, though, is that while Lopez, Torres, and the others compete for the same pool of voters, they risk fracturing the field and allowing the anti-LGBTQ Diaz — a longtime politico who not only benefits from name recognition in his own right, but his son’s status as Bronx Borough president (and the party apparatus behind him) — to romp to victory by consolidating more socially conservative Democratic voters.Diaz — who,

Herbert Stempel, the contestant on NBC’s “Twenty-One” who helped uncover the quiz show rigging scandals of the 1950s, died on April 7 at the age of 93.

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In our new weekly series, we’re revisiting some of our favorite music movies—from artist docs and concert films to biopics and fictional fantasies—that are available to stream or rent digitally. Spoilers ahead.