Nas says ‘Hip Hop Is Dead’ was “mainly” aimed at New York rappers

Nineteen people - including nine children - have died in what has been described as the 'worst fire in New York in 30 years'.

Ryan Reynolds’ local pizza place thinks he’s Ben Affleck and he’s fine with that. The star made the reveal during a recent appearance on the podcast.«They believe I'm Ben Affleck and I've never corrected them,» he said about the eatery in New York’s East Village.

Hours after Donald Trump sued New York’s attorney general seeking to end her investigation into his businesses, Letitia James has vowed that her probe will continue “undeterred.”

New York State today recorded the highest single-day total of new Covid cases since the beginning of the pandemic. The count of 21,027 new infections is well above the previous recorded high of 19,942 on January 14, at the absolute peak of the winter 2021 surge. That does not bode well for the winter of 2022, which is only just getting underway.

Gene Maddaus Senior Media WriterSeveral appellate justices said Wednesday that they worried that Harvey Weinstein had been subjected to “overkill” at his criminal trial in New York last year.Weinstein, the disgraced Hollywood producer, is appealing his conviction on charges of sexual assault and third degree rape, which resulted in a sentence of 23 years in prison.At a hearing before the Appellate Division, First Judicial Department, on Wednesday, three of the five justices expressed serious

earlier this month, in which she said that the institution of the Supreme Court may not “survive the stench that this creates in the public perception that the Constitution and its reading are just political acts,” by striking down long-held legislation protecting a woman’s right to choose.“Listen, Justice Sonia Sotomayor got it right. The stench right now — no,” James said.

Sam Fender has revealed that he wants to get straight into working on his next album and that he hopes to head stateside to lay the tracks down.The singer-songwriter was speaking to NME after his second album, ‘Seventeen Going Under‘, was crowned Album Of The Year 2021 when he said that he will only take a small amount of time off at Christmas before going back into the studio.He explained that writing and recording music in itself is “chill time” for himself and his band, so once he’s had a bit

Fashion model Iman is giving Vogue a special tour inside her Catskills home, which includes a couple of treasured keepsakes in honour of her late husband David Bowie.

Deadline has launched the streaming site for Contenders Film: New York, its movie awards-season showcase that took place Saturday at the Museum of the Moving Image in Queens. A total of 23 Oscar-buzzed films were on display across the day of panel presentations, a one-stop shop for Academy and guild voters as they sort out their ballots.

Stillwater director/co-writer Tom McCarthy and Matt Damon joined Deadline’s Contenders New York event today to discuss the film and what they were looking for in the Bill Baker character.

The Many Saints of Newark writer David Chase and stars Ray Liotta and Alessandro Nivola discussed the Sopranos prequel Saturday at Contenders Film: New York. Speaking with Deadline’s Mike Fleming, Chase and Nivola zeroed in on the explosive rage of Nivola’s character, Dickie Moltisanti, while Liotta had a different perspective on his role.

Oscar Isaac had been waiting a long time to work with filmmaker Paul Schrader, and in The Card Counter, he found a much-longed-for opportunity to portray an antihero directly in the mold of the writer-director’s signature works including Taxi Driver, Light Sleeper and First Reformed.

The heroine of Zola – the unique, Twitter-chain inspired pic about a hastily arranged raunchy road trip – was drawn in part from The Wizard of Oz, director Janicza Bravo told a panel at Deadline’s New York Contenders event. It’s a about  girl who craves adventure, leaves a boring pale life “and is transported into this deeply saturated world, and by the end has made three enemies” (Yes, the end is a twist from the classic.)