New York governor dedicates state park in memory of LGBTQ activist Marsha P. Johnson

Michele Amabile Angermiller On-air personality Chris Booker returned to New York City’s radio airwaves today (Sept. 11), hosting the afternoon drive shift at alternative rock station WNYL (Alt 92.3).

Andreas Wiseman International EditorEXCLUSIVE: LA-based Film Bridge International has boarded international sales rights to crime series Big Dogs, which it will begin selling during the Toronto virtual market.The eight-part series premiered domestically on Amazon Prime in July and stars Brett Cullen (Joker), Manny Perez (The Night Of), Michael Rabe (Homeland), and Lance Henriksen (Falling).Filmed in New York, the series charts intersecting stories of organized crime, white collar felonies, and

Dominic Patten, Ted Johnson Donald Trump may have told Bob Woodward he wanted to play down how deadly the coronavirus pandemic could be, but the incumbent’s campaign today seems to want to stamp out how their candidate’s supporters are ignoring basic COVID-19 safety protocols.New York Times reporter Kathy Gray was just “kicked out” of the ex-Celebrity Apprentice host’s ongoing rally in the battleground state of Michigan – as she detailed on social media in near real time:Trump rally in freeland

Ben Brantley, the influential New York Times theater critic, will leave the job next month. “This pandemic pause in the great, energizing party that is the theater seemed to me like a good moment to slip out the door,” Brantley said in a statement.News of Brantley’s departure was announced on Twitter by the newspaper’s theater reporter, Michael Paulson.Brantley joined the Times as its second-string theater critic in 1993, taking the chief critic job three years later.

Andreas Wiseman International EditorEXCLUSIVE: Cast is rounding out on gangster comedy All Mobbed Up, which is due to shoot for eight weeks from late October through mid-December in Newburgh, New York.The ensemble cast so far includes Tony Sirico  (The Sopranos), Vincent Pastore (The Sopranos), Golden Globe winner Sally Kirkland (Anna), Joseph D’Onofrio (Goodfellas) and Paul Mormando (Bound By Debt). More will join.John A.

R. Kelly was denied bail by a federal appeals court in New York City on Tuesday.

Jennifer Lopez and Alex Rodriguez are on the move again!

Bruce Haring pmc-editorial-managerSarah Palin’s defamation suit against the New York Times can move forward, a federal judge said on Friday.US District Court Judge Jed Rakoff rejected the Times bid to dismiss the suit, which arose over a 2017 editorial Palin claims wrongly linked her to the 2011 mass shooting of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords. Palin was a 2008 Vice Presidential candidate and is a former Governor of Alaska.Rakoff today said there was “sufficient evidence to allow a rational

Baseball’s Mets and Marlins are standing in solidarity with Black Lives Matter protesters.

New York has honoured the memory of the late Marsha P Johnson, LGBTQI activist and a leader of the 1969 Stonewall uprising, and dedicated a park to her – the first state park in the country to be named after an LGBTQI person and a trans person of colour.New York Governor Andrew Cuomo made the announcement on Monday, which would have been Johnson’s 75th birthday, that the East River State Park in Brooklyn will now be known as Marsha P. Johnson State Park.

The late LGBTQ icon Marsha P Johnson

Stars will have the privilege of skipping out on New York's 14-day quarantine mandate when they visit for the MTV Video Music Awards next week. The awards, set for Aug.

A fire that tore through celebrity chef Rachael Ray's upstate New York home started in a fireplace chimney, officials announced Friday. The state Office of Fire Prevention and Control said the Aug.

Bruce Haring pmc-editorial-managerContinuing baseball’s strangest season ever, the New York Mets’ scheduled game tonight against the Miami Marlins has been postponed by positive coronavirus tests on a Mets player and staff member.The game was scheduled for Citi Field in New York. The state has been relatively quiet in coronavirus outbreaks over the last two months, while Florida has been among the nation’s leaders.

NEW YORK -- Actor Cuba Gooding Jr. is accused of raping a woman twice in a Manhattan hotel room in 2013, according to a lawsuit that escalates the severity of the growing number of claims against him.

Mackenzie Nichols Staff WriterNew York Gov. Andrew Cuomo addressed the prospect of reopening movie theaters during a news conference in Manhattan on Monday, saying they’re “not that high on the list of essentials” and pose a higher risk of spreading COVID-19.“I am sure there is a whole group people who say, ‘I cannot live without going to the movies.’ But on a relative risk scale, a movie theater is less essential and poses a high risk,” Cuomo said.