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Broadway’s ‘Jagged Little Pill’ shuts down permanently amid COVID surge - nypost.com
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21.12.2021

Broadway’s ‘Jagged Little Pill’ shuts down permanently amid COVID surge

The producers of Broadway’s “Jagged Little Pill” said Monday that they decided to shut down the musical amid the latest COVID-19 surge.

Whoopi Goldberg ‘not dead’ amid wild fan theories about her ‘View’ absence - nypost.com - Italy
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06.09.2023

Whoopi Goldberg ‘not dead’ amid wild fan theories about her ‘View’ absence

her third bout with COVID-19 — but apparently, according to Joy Behar, some viewers hatched their own ideas about her whereabouts.“People write, ‘Well, she got the vaccination, how come she still gets it?’” Behar, 80, said on Wednesday’s episode before showing a video message from Goldberg. “Because she’s not dead, she’s just a little bit under the weather!”“If you don’t get [the vaccination] and you get the disease, you might die … this type of irrational talk drives me nuts,” Behar told co-hosts Sara Haines, Sunny Hostin, Alyssa Farah Griffin and Ana Navarro.The “Sister Act” star also squashed nonsense theories herself, explaining in a video taped in her bedroom, “I am not at Burning Man.

Cream cheese shortage forces Junior’s to pause cheesecake production - nypost.com - New Jersey
nypost.com
10.12.2021

Cream cheese shortage forces Junior’s to pause cheesecake production

lox in supply of the currently scarce dairy product — which is a vital ingredient in its namesake cheesecake — for several weeks, owner Alan Rosen told CNN. Indeed, the shortage is so bad the company had to pause cheesecake production at its New Jersey baking facility last Friday, Dec.

How Gary Shteyngart beat the pandemic blues to write a novel in lockdown - nypost.com - New York
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13.11.2021

How Gary Shteyngart beat the pandemic blues to write a novel in lockdown

Super Sad True Love Story” pounded out “Our Country Friends” (Random House), a comic novel about a group of friends who gather in a country house to wait out the pandemic.

How underground arm-wrestling mania is slamming NYC streets - nypost.com - New Jersey - county Queens - county Long
nypost.com
23.08.2021

How underground arm-wrestling mania is slamming NYC streets

Armbet, which Anoshka describes as “the Tinder of arm wrestling,” he and his new friends soon discovered fellow table-owners in Queens, Long Island and even New Jersey to train with.“A lot of arm-wrestling in the past has been very word of mouth. We created Armbet to help people connect,” app founder and North America’s No.

Coney Island Mermaid Parade once again canceled due to COVID - nypost.com
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18.08.2021

Coney Island Mermaid Parade once again canceled due to COVID

annual Mermaid Parade as a result of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. “It is with sadness that we announce the cancellation of the 2021 Mermaid Parade,” the not-for-profit organization behind the beloved yearly event announced Wednesday. The group had already pushed the gathering’s usual June date to next month, in hopes the threat of COVID-19 would be lesser by then.“When we set the September date, we hoped that the Parade, the largest art parade in the nation and a point of civic pride for

How COVID nurse Maggie Rawlins became a Sports Illustrated swimsuit model - nypost.com
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04.07.2021

How COVID nurse Maggie Rawlins became a Sports Illustrated swimsuit model

Rawlins was one of its rookies for the annual Swimsuit Issue that hits newsstands July 19. Her backstory — not to mention her sizzling photos — catapulted the model into the national spotlight.“SI definitely gave me a platform I didn’t have before,” she said during her Post photo shoot at the The Sentry.

Sudden end of booze-to-go a ‘massive’ problem, NYC bar owners say - nypost.com
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26.06.2021

Sudden end of booze-to-go a ‘massive’ problem, NYC bar owners say

serve takeout and delivery cocktails, a lucrative and popular pandemic allowance. “Licensees please be advised that with the ending of our state of emergency and the return to pre-pandemic guidelines, the temporary pandemic-related privileges for to-go and delivery of alcoholic beverages will end after June 24,” the NYS Liquor Authority tweeted June 23. The sudden decision to end takeout drinks is not just intensely unpopular, restaurant and bar owners told Eater, but is also a huge blow to

New Coney Island roller coaster the Phoenix to open by July 4 - nypost.com
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22.06.2021

New Coney Island roller coaster the Phoenix to open by July 4

told Brooklyn Paper. The attraction is located at Deno’s Wonder Wheel Amusement Park and sits directly next to its eponymous star attraction, which turned 101 this year.“We got the best of the old and the best of the new,” Dennis Vourderis, a member of the family that owns and operates the park, said of the adjacent rides’ age difference. The Vourderis family has owned and operated the park since 1983, and bought the plot of land that the Phoenix now sits on in 2019.

Where to watch tonight’s fireworks in and around New York City - nypost.com - New York
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15.06.2021

Where to watch tonight’s fireworks in and around New York City

70 percent vaccination threshold, the Empire State will wave bye-bye to the coronavirus pandemic with a statewide fireworks extravaganza from various locations at 9:15 p.m. tonight.The festivities were announced by Governor Andrew Cuomo at a press conference Tuesday where he also lifted state restrictions on commercial settings.

Here’s what’s new at NYC’s freshly reopened 5-star hotels - nypost.com - New York
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15.06.2021

Here’s what’s new at NYC’s freshly reopened 5-star hotels

The bellhops are back this summer.Nearly every hotel in the New York City shut its doors last year. While some of the city’s most iconic rooms for rent — like Rosewood’s tony Carlyle Hotel, as well as the Mark and the Pierre — where quick to reopen (notably the Lotte Palace Hotel never closed), others — like the resplendent St.

Cuomo says Broadway can reopen at 100 percent capacity on Sept. 14 - nypost.com - Manhattan
nypost.com
05.05.2021

Cuomo says Broadway can reopen at 100 percent capacity on Sept. 14

theaters can reopen at 100 percent capacity on Sept. 14, Gov.

COVID-19 survivors regain smell thanks to ‘magician’ perfumer - nypost.com - USA
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27.04.2021

COVID-19 survivors regain smell thanks to ‘magician’ perfumer

American Academy of Neurology, some 51 percent of people who lost their sense of smell due to COVID had not regained it five or more months later.Starting at $650, clients get one meeting with Phillips (she also offers a Zoom option, where she sends smell strips ahead of time) and a custom fragrance to take home. She blends scents using ingredients such as lavender, musk, amber and vanilla, which are divided between top, mid and base notes.

Jerry Seinfeld to headline Gotham Comedy Club reopening - nypost.com - New York
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03.04.2021

Jerry Seinfeld to headline Gotham Comedy Club reopening

Gotham Comedy Club on Friday, April 2.“You better believe I will be on stage tonight,” he announced in a tweet Friday afternoon, adding, “Opening God Damn Night! NYC Lives!” In a second post he added that he would be “first on stage at 7:00pm.”The in-person standup show, which is sold out, marks the reopening of the club — alongside other entertainment institutions as New Yorkers keep lining up for COVID-19 vaccines — after the coronavirus pandemic shut down venues across New York, and the

‘Safe haven for freaks’: NYC’s iconic Pyramid Club closes after 41 years - nypost.com
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02.04.2021

‘Safe haven for freaks’: NYC’s iconic Pyramid Club closes after 41 years

RuPaul and others spent countless hours being inspired by the depraved music and beauty happening within its walls.“We are another sad consequence of Covid-19,” the club’s final managers, Maria Narciso and Quirino Perez, wrote in an Instagram post Thursday.

When Broadway will reopen and what shows you can see first - nypost.com - New York - parish St. Martin
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11.03.2021

When Broadway will reopen and what shows you can see first

almost exactly a year since Broadway went dark due to the coronavirus pandemic — but now there’s light on the horizon of the Great White Way. Broadway insiders are finally looking toward re-opening after months of delayed optimism.

Death of NYC’s most beloved restaurants puts landlords in danger - nypost.com - New York
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25.01.2021

Death of NYC’s most beloved restaurants puts landlords in danger

fabled 21 Club two weeks ago, might only be getting started. And as painful as it would be to food lovers, it would hurt landlords even more as retail vacancies of all kinds mushroom in each of the five boroughs.Many of the “couple of thousand” eatery closures to date, as estimated by the New York City Hospitality Alliance (NYCHA), were small neighborhood spots less “iconic” than media accounts claimed.

Struggling Brooklyn bartenders sell ‘sexy’ $20.21 pinup calendar - nypost.com
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15.01.2021

Struggling Brooklyn bartenders sell ‘sexy’ $20.21 pinup calendar

the firemen do?” Leslie Hong, floor manager at Bushwick’s Our Wicked Lady, told The Post of the mid-December conversation. “When we were sober the next morning it still seemed like a good idea.”Hong recruited 13 neighborhood bars, brought on Fernet as a sponsor and put together the “Bushwick Bar Babes of 2021” calendar, which is being printed locally this week and is available for pre-order.

Fauci says when live shows will be back — depending on vaccine rollout - nypost.com
nypost.com
12.01.2021

Fauci says when live shows will be back — depending on vaccine rollout

COVID-19 vaccine rollout can get rolling.The director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases made the announcement during a virtual panel discussion held Saturday by the Association of Performing Arts Professionals. He said, “early to mid-fall, you can have people feeling safe performing onstage as well as people in the audience.”However, the relaunch depends on one big “if” — ironing out the ongoing kinks in national vaccine distribution.Dr.

How Broadway’s workers are getting through the shutdown together - nypost.com
nypost.com
23.12.2020

How Broadway’s workers are getting through the shutdown together

theaters were closing on March 12. But as difficult as that news was, none of the 97,000 people who work in the business of making Broadway come to life suspected that the shutdown would last for more than nine months.

Gloria Gaynor to perform ‘I Will Survive’ in Times Square on New Year’s Eve - nypost.com
nypost.com
16.12.2020

Gloria Gaynor to perform ‘I Will Survive’ in Times Square on New Year’s Eve

ongoing coronavirus pandemic, a divisive presidential election and more.

Pete Davidson rips Staten Island’s anti-COVID-19 lockdown ‘babies’ on ‘SNL’ - nypost.com - New York
nypost.com
06.12.2020

Pete Davidson rips Staten Island’s anti-COVID-19 lockdown ‘babies’ on ‘SNL’

declared itself a COVID-19 restriction “autonomous zone” when he appeared on the “Weekend Update” segment.“I saw the protests, people were outside the bar shouting about freedom, talking to cops, chanting that they should arrest the governor so I just assumed that it was a typical last call,” Davidson said.Davidson explained that the bar, Mac’s Public House, is located in a “neighborhood with the second-highest COVID infections in all of New York, so the rule is that they’re only supposed to let

Neil LaBute’s new COVID-19 play has no live actors - nypost.com - New York
nypost.com
17.11.2020

Neil LaBute’s new COVID-19 play has no live actors

mocked Zoom meetings in episodes that were filmed from the cast’s apartments. Richard Nelson’s play “What Do We Need To Talk About?” depicted a WASP family’s Zoom call.

‘Hamilton’ pre-films for audience-less Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade - nypost.com
nypost.com
16.11.2020

‘Hamilton’ pre-films for audience-less Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade

Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade will still have a lineup of star-studded theatrical and musical performances, but there will be no crowds of onlookers this year due to the coronavirus pandemic.Floats and performers will travel just one city block down 34th Street– as opposed to their two-and-a-half-mile route starting at West 77th Street– and the streets surrounding the site will be closed off, even during the planning stages, to prevent onlookers from congregating, according to reports by The

Broadway to remain closed through summer 2021: report - nypost.com - New York
nypost.com
09.10.2020

Broadway to remain closed through summer 2021: report

COVID-19-induced delay before live theater productions will return, NBC New York reported. Details about refunds for tickets sold during the newly announced shutdown period are also expected.Returning productions are tentatively projected to resume performances over a series of rolling dates beginning June 2021, according to BroadwayWorld.com.Broadway performances were suspended on March 12, 2020.

Health-care workers can get tickets to ‘SNL’ Season 46 premiere - nypost.com
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28.09.2020

Health-care workers can get tickets to ‘SNL’ Season 46 premiere

are still available for both Saturday’s afternoon dress rehearsal and late-night live show, which will feature former cast member Chris Rock and musical guest Megan Thee Stallion.

Metropolitan Opera to remain closed through 2021 due to Covid-19 - nypost.com
nypost.com
23.09.2020

Metropolitan Opera to remain closed through 2021 due to Covid-19

the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.“We regret to inform you that we have made the difficult decision to cancel the 2020–21 season, based on the advice of health officials,” the Met tweeted Wednesday just after noon. “However, we are pleased to be able to announce the Met’s 2021–22 season, which will open Sep.

Outdoor dining bubbles are the perfect solution for chilly NYC - nypost.com
nypost.com
22.09.2020

Outdoor dining bubbles are the perfect solution for chilly NYC

Outdoor dining is still the only legal option until Sept. 30, when indoor dining will resume at 25% capacity in the city.Enthusiastic diners said the tents, which can open on two sides, shield them from the wind without triggering their claustrophobia.“When we arrived, we were asked if we wanted to be sat under a bubble or just outside,” Naiara Parker, who dined at du Soleil on Monday evening, told The Post.

New bills would reopen NY comedy clubs closed during COVID-19 pandemic - nypost.com
nypost.com
22.09.2020

New bills would reopen NY comedy clubs closed during COVID-19 pandemic

restaurants and bowling alleys got the OK to to resume operations, albeit with rules limiting capacity to prevent the spread of the killer bug.But bills introduced by Sen. Michael Gianaris (D-Queens) and backed by the jokers and club operators would allow the venues to re-open and operate under the same indoor restrictions as either bowling alleys or restaurants.Channeling Rodney Dangerfield, comedians and club owners say they’re getting “no respect” from Gov.

Sen. Chuck Schumer pushes Save Our Stages Act to save Broadway - nypost.com - New York
nypost.com
18.09.2020

Sen. Chuck Schumer pushes Save Our Stages Act to save Broadway

Sen. Chuck Schumer vowed to fight for entertainment venues hard hit by the coronavirus crisis.The New York Democrat and Theater District representatives touted the proposed Save Our Stages Act as a much-needed lifeline to live venues and most importantly Broadway, which has been shut down since the beginning of the pandemic.“The phantom of COVID has hit Broadway maybe the hardest of all live venues in America,” Schumer said at Duffy Square at Seventh Avenue and West 47th Street.

Fauci says Broadway will see a ‘gradual return to normal’ through 2021 - nypost.com
nypost.com
16.09.2020

Fauci says Broadway will see a ‘gradual return to normal’ through 2021

last week when Fauci said the safety of theaters could be compromised for a year or more as the novel coronavirus continues to ravage the country.Roider had reached out to Fauci asking for any indication of when theatre would be returning.

Who is this year’s VMA host? Meet Keke Palmer - nypost.com - New York
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30.08.2020

Who is this year’s VMA host? Meet Keke Palmer

Keke Palmer is going to be having a real kiki as host of the 2020 MTV Video Music Awards from New York on Sunday.The “Hustlers” actress-singer, 27, will preside over performances by the likes of Lady Gaga and Ariana Grande, The Weeknd and Miley Cyrus in the first live major awards show of the coronavirus era.But while she’s emerged as arguably the It girl of 2020, Palmer has much more of a résumé than you may realize.

New Yorkers celebrate reopening weekend for museums - nypost.com
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30.08.2020

New Yorkers celebrate reopening weekend for museums

reopening weekend at many city museums and other cultural institutions, pumping their fists triumphantly as they entered the Metropolitan Museum of Art Saturday for the first time since the coronavirus closed its doors on March 13.Masked Met visitors had their temperatures checked before browsing museum collections behind mandatory facemasks.The museum had been opened to members on Friday, but Saturday was the first day the general public could enjoy the exhibits.It was the first weekend after

Eligibility for the 2020 Tony Awards have been announced - nypost.com
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29.08.2020

Eligibility for the 2020 Tony Awards have been announced

shuttered for the better part of the 2019-2020 season, the Tony Awards show must go on — virtually — and with far fewer productions qualifying for consideration.Only 18 shows and plays qualified for this year’s award show, a significant drop from last year’s 34 eligible productions, and so many of the categories have shrunken according to TimeOut.“Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the rules have been adjusted for one-time only to ensure broad recognition of excellent work that occurred during the

NYC museums reopening: Everything you need to know - nypost.com
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29.08.2020

NYC museums reopening: Everything you need to know

months-long hiatus of the city’s beloved institutions since the coronavirus pandemic hit in March. Gyms and bowling alleys are also allowed to reopen with safety precautions, and movie theaters are expected to return next.Still, it won’t be a free-for-all in the galleries’ great halls once they’re open to the public.

Nick Cordero tribute concert to stream Labor Day weekend - nypost.com
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25.08.2020

Nick Cordero tribute concert to stream Labor Day weekend

A tribute concert celebrating the life of actor Nick Cordero will be exclusively streamed on Labor Day weekend via Broadway on Demand. The webcast takes place Sunday, Sept.

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