Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorThe “Hella Mega Tour” featuring Green Day, Fall Out Boy and Weezer has unveiled new dates, beginning in July and stretching into September.
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NBCUniversal has named Jim Denney Executive VP and Chief Product Officer, Direct-to-Consumer overseeing Peacock’s global product strategy.
Denney will start next month based in New York and reporting to Gidon Katz, President, Direct-to-Consumer. His mandate includes all aspects of product development and user experience as well as product vision and strategy for other customer-facing NBCU digital platforms, including broadcast and cable entertainment apps, NBC Sports, and hayu.
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Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorThe “Hella Mega Tour” featuring Green Day, Fall Out Boy and Weezer has unveiled new dates, beginning in July and stretching into September.
This year marks the third and final season of FX’s groundbreaking series Pose, which was co-created by Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk and Steven Canals. The drama, which premiered in 2015, broke ground with the largest transgender cast in TV history as it put the spotlight on the underground ballroom culture that thrived during the 1980s and ’90s in New York.
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Pat Saperstein Deputy EditorAndrew McCarthy was barely mentioned in the original New York magazine article that coined the term “the Brat Pack.” But in the public consciousness, the star of “St. Elmo’s Fire” and “Pretty in Pink” was still lumped in with the group of red-hot young actors that included Emilio Estevez, Rob Lowe and Judd Nelson.
New York Post. The victim exited the car at the next stop, the 161st Street-Yankee Stadium station, where he sought help from transit police.The victim was taken to Lincoln Medical Center and treated for non-life-threatening injuries.That stabbing was followed five minutes later by another, in which an off-duty MTA conductor was slashed with a box cutter while riding a northbound J train by a man passing through train cars.
BRIDGEPORT, Conn. -- Bruno DiFabio, a celebrity pizza chef who owns restaurants in Connecticut and New York, was sentenced to 30 days in prison Thursday for tax evasion.DiFabio, 51, known as “Lord of the Pies” and for appearing on “Chopped” and other TV shows, was sentenced in federal court in Bridgeport, Connecticut.
Jazz Tangcay Artisans EditorThere’s a change this year for FX’s trailblazing “Pose,” set in the New York drag ballroom culture scene of the late ’80s. The third and final season begins in 1994, where the ballroom is all but a distant memory and AIDS is the leading cause of death for many.Yet costume designer Analucia McGorty confesses an upcoming episode that takes place a decade earlier than the original timeline is one of her favorites.
Diddy has debuted yet another name change, and this one is legally binding.
Hot Chip’s Joe Goddard has teamed up with New York singer-songwriter Amy Douglas to form the new group Hard Feelings.The duo came together after Goddard reached out to Douglas on Twitter, tweeting at her: “Amy, can we make a thing?”Now, the pair have shared their debut single as Hard Feelings, titled ‘Holding On Too Long’, via Domino Records.
Billie Eilish, A$AP Rocky and Post Malone lead the names for Governors Ball 2021, which will take place this September.The New York festival will celebrate its 10th anniversary at this year’s event, as originally planned for the 2020 edition.While some acts booked to play last year’s cancelled festival remain on the line-up, such as Dominic Fike and Carly Rae Jepsen, there are some major differences, with all new headliners in Eilish, Rocky and Post Malone.The likes of DaBaby, Leon Bridges,
EXCLUSIVE: Here’s your first look at Oscar-winner Ben Kingsley as Salvador Dali in Mary Harron’s (American Psycho) feature Dalíland, which has now wrapped filming in the UK.
NEW YORK -- The big flashy red carpet has made its return to New York City — albeit in a massive socially distant manner — with the premiere of the third and final season of the FX series, “Pose.”Series co-creator Ryan Murphy considers the energy of his inclusive cast perfect for celebrating a return to normalcy after a devastating pandemic shut the city down for more than a year, but that’s not the only reason.Murphy calls the series — which resumes Sunday — a “love letter to so many things.”He
Janet Mock, a writer, director and executive producer on the FX series Pose, delivered a strongly worded criticism of Hollywood at the show’s third season premiere event. Created by Ryan Murphy, Pose centres on the gender-conforming ball culture of New York in the 1980s and 1990s, and features an ensemble cast which includes numerous transgender actors.
Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorIn what Hollywood hopes is a sign that live events are finally on the rebound, FX and 20th Television launched the third and final season of “Pose” with a red carpet premiere Thursday night in New York.The event was held indoors at Rose Theater at Jazz at Lincoln Center. The socially-distanced, 200-foot carpet included clear plastic barriers between photographers.
Texas Senator Ted Cruz was not a fan of a Tuesday Daily Show segment and he let host Trevor Noah know it.
Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorNBCUniversal hired Jim Denney, a TiVo veteran who most recently was at Hulu, as executive VP and chief product officer of direct-to-consumer, overseeing Peacock’s global product strategy.Denney will start at NBCU next month. He will be based in New York and report to Gidon Katz, NBCU’s president of direct-to-consumer.
EXCLUSIVE: Here’s a huge transatlantic project for you: The team behind Golden Globe-winning BBC/PBS drama Wolf Hall, including Oscar winner Mark Rylance, are reuniting to make cybersecurity series The Undeclared War for NBCUniversal streamer Peacock and UK broadcaster Channel 4.
NEW YORK -- The New York Times is retiring its Op-Ed page and inviting guests.The newspaper said Monday it is eliminating the designation it has been using since 1970 to signal opinion columns written by outsiders.