New 'cultural hub' to return library services to Stockport town centre from next week

Where Love Lives, recounting his experience as a young, recently out gay man in New York during the AIDS pandemic.

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New York City’s annual symbol of summertime – Free Shakespeare in the Park – will return from its Covid hiatus in July, the Public Theater has announced.

Andrew Cuomo is not resigning.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo Friday blasted politicians for putting “opinions ahead of facts” and said he’ll continue with the business of running New York until a pair of inquiries into allegations of sexual harassment are completed.

direct to your inboxSainsbury’s former store in Stockport town centre has been bought by a developer with plans to build more than 500 homes at the site.The supermarket closed its doors at the end of January despite a campaign to save it and the intervention of Stockport MP Nav Mishra.But the three-acre Warren Street site has now been sold to build-to-rent specialists Amstone Ventures for an undisclosed sum.The firm is currently drawing up plans for the site and is expected to submit a planning

It was Andrew Cuomo’s Emmy-winning performance: daily televised coronavirus briefings in which the New York governor projected competence and compassion, helping to calm a nervous nation.Now, the many Americans whose positive impressions of Cuomo were formed during the height of the pandemic are getting a close-up of a very different governor, one accused of underreporting COVID-19 deaths in nursing homes, sexually harassing female staffers and bullying colleagues.To New Yorkers who have watched

Alec Baldwin went on a lengthy social media rant in which he seemingly defended Woody Allen and New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo while bashing "cancel culture."  The actor initially released a 14-minute video on his Instagram in which he covered the topic more at length before deleting it and replacing it with a significantly shorter video that takes on cancel culture in less-specific terms.  "I think my last message went on too long.

led by Los Angeles Lakers legend Lebron James, in lieu of Jordan who retired from basketball for the final time in 2003.Critics have called out the classic cartoon character, a bilingual mouse from Mexico who wears a sombrero and speaks in a thick accent, for playing into stereotypes about Latin Americans.A New York Times piece by opinion writer Charles Blow last week discussed how racially insensitive cartoons of yore have endured today — tied to news that a number of Dr.

Bruno Mars has spoken out about the cultural appropriation claims he has faced during his career in a new interview.The musician – who is of Filipino, Puerto Rican and Ashkenazi Jewish descent – has been accused of appropriating Black music through his work.During an appearance on New York radio show The Breakfast Club last week (March 5), Mars defended himself against those allegations.

A New York Times columnist’s tweet about a cartoon skunk is causing a big stink on Twitter.

Peter Debruge Chief Film CriticIt’s a very different landscape this week than it was a year ago, just before the pandemic forced cinemas to close around the country.

Actors’ Equity is warning members that New York City’s just-launched “Open Culture” program of outdoor performances on city streets does not meet the union’s minimum standards for wages or its Covid-19 safety protocols.

The Osage News reported about a meeting that was held between Martin Scorsese, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Osage cultural leaders Principal Chief Geoffrey Standing Bear, and Chad Renfro, the meeting organizer.The discussion, held Monday night, February 22nd, 2021, was centered on the upcoming film adaptation of Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Indian Murders and the Birth of the FBI, a bestselling book from New York Times staff writer David Grann.The true-crime book, which The Boston Globe

HBO, marking 20 years since the 9/11 terror attacks in New York City.Production is currently underway on NYC Epicenters 9/11→ 2021½, which is set to be released later this year on HBO and the HBO Max streaming service.A synopsis for the documentary promises an “unprecedented, sweeping portrait of New Yorkers as they rebuild and rebound, from a devastating terrorist attack through the ongoing global pandemic”.Speaking about the project in a statement, Lee said: “As a New Yawker who bleeds orange

Mónica Marie Zorrilla HBO Documentary Films and Academy Award and Emmy-winning director and screenwriter Spike Lee are currently in production on “NYC Epicenters 9/11→ 2021½,” a film that will chronicle the life, loss and survival of New York City residents over the twenty years since the terrorist attacks on the original World Trade Center complex.“As a New Yawker who bleeds orange and blue (the colors of New York City), I’m proud to have a ‘Spike Lee Joint’ about how our/my city dealt with

Director Spike Lee and HBO Documentary Films are in production on NYC Epicenters 9/11-2021½, a multi-part documentary described by the network as “an epic chronicle of life, loss and survival in the city of New York over the twenty years since the September 11th attacks.” The epicenters of the title refer to both 9/11 and Covid-19.