One-Two Punch: Patterson and Alexander team up on Ali book

After years of silence, Fiona Apple emerged from the wilderness last month with news that she's finished her fifth album, Fetch the Bolt Cutters. She told The New Yorker that the LP's title was directly inspired by a line from British crime drama The Fall, when Gillian Anderson's lead detective calls for the said bolt cutters to unlock the door to a room where a young girl has been tortured. "Really, what it’s about is not being afraid to speak," she told writer Emily Nussbaum.

NEW YORK -- As a young woman growing up in the 1980s and '90s in New York City’s Hell’s Kitchen — “the name was exactly accurate for what it looked like, what it felt like,” as Alicia Keys recalls it — the budding musician born Alicia Cook would purposely wear baggy clothing and Timbaland boots as she walked to and from the one-bedroom apartment she lived in with her mother.

Frank Ocean has never marched to the beat of anyone else's drum, so it's no surprise that the singer who delights in keeping fans off balance with unexpected releases has done it again. After debuting two new tracks on the first night of his PrEP+ club night in New York in October, Ocean finally began shipping remixes of the two new songs, "Dear April" and "Cayendo," last week.

In January, Alicia Keys hosted the Grammys for the second year in a row — after winning 15 gramophones of her own. And in her new book, “More Myself” (Flatiron Books) out Tuesday, the New York native, 39, reveals her journey to becoming a Grammy goddess. Here are five secrets that she shares in opening up the diary of her life.

It's Killer Mike and El-P's second new song in a matter of days

NEW YORK -- David Byrne is adapting his stage play “American Utopia" for the printed page.

It’s a far cry from the iconic New York apartment of Monica Gellar, but Courteney Cox’s Malibu beach house is the ultimate dream.

Why self-isolate at home when you can hit the beach? Chrissy Teigen and John Legend, along with many more celebrities and athletes have packed up and headed to the sand and sun to keep safe amid the coronavirus outbreak. The couple, along with their son, Miles and daughter Luna, retreated to Malibu, where the couple was pictured playing a game on the beach on Monday, March 16.

NEW YORK -- Isabel Wilkerson's first book since her Pulitzer Prize winning “The Warmth of Other Suns” is a years-long project that will explore what she calls the “unseen skeleton” of hierarchy in American life.

Body en pointe! Megan Fairchild has found the balance between ballet and motherhood, but getting back in shape after giving birth came with its challenges.

On March 1, New York became the third state to ban single-use plastic bags, following California and Hawaii. As someone who's lived in the city for over eight years, I can cosign how common it is to spot a plastic bag, drifting through the wind (hi, )—and littering streets or getting caught in trees.

Antonoff admitted that they're "just messing around" at the moment, though

NEW YORK -- Katherine Schwarzenegger Pratt has made a career of writing what she knows, from teaching about healthy body image to grappling with entering the real world after graduating college.

The Kate Spade New York sale is the gift that keeps on giving! 

NEW YORK -- The publisher of John Bolton’s highly anticipated memoir has pushed back the release date from March 17 to mid-May.