Thousands of SAG-AFTRA and WGA members lined the sidewalks surrounding the Warner Bros. Discovery office Thursday, raising signs of union solidarity and dancing to tambourines and drum beats as leaders chanted for a just contract. Actors like Oscar Isaac, F. Murray Abraham, and John Leguizamo were joined by union representation …
Read More »'The Drew Barrymore Show' in Chaos: Picketing Writers and WGA Pins
As ticket-holders for The Drew Barrymore Show lined up along the CBS Broadcast Center entrance Tuesday, Writers Guild of America members and Barrymore’s three co-head writers circled the block chanting and cheering in protest. According to the WGA, the daytime talk show is “a WGA covered, struck show that is …
Read More »'The View' Is Still Airing and Striking Writers Want Answers
As The View audience members formed a line along the show’s 66th Street entrance in Manhattan, a dozen Writers Guild of America members marched around ABC Studios holding signs of protest. When Mikey Day, a Saturday Night Live cast member and former writer (as well ashost of the hit Netflix …
Read More »NYPD Drones to Monitor Backyard Parties This Labor Day Weekend
Outdoor gatherings in New York City may fall under the watchful eye of police drones this Labor Day weekend. “If a caller states there’s a large crowd, a large party in a backyard, we’re going to be utilizing our assets to go up and go check on the party,” assistant …
Read More »How 'And Just Like That…' Season Three Can Actually Be Good TV
And just like that… another chaotic, traumatizing, and strangely addictive season of And Just Like That… has come to an end. Season Two introduced penis pumps and a palatial new apartment into Carrie Bradshaw’s world, plus the reappearance of her former flame Aidan Shaw and the blink-and-you’ll-miss-it return of Samantha …
Read More »O'Shae Sibley Stabbing Death: Suspect Pleads Not Guilty in Hate Crime Charge
Dmitriy Popov, the 17-year-old charged with the stabbing death of a gay, Black man, O’Shae Sibley, has pleaded not guilty to murder as a hate crime. He entered the plea in Brooklyn’s State Supreme Court on Friday, according to The New York Times. Popov will be tried as an adult …
Read More »Migrants Are Stuck in NYC's Shelter System. What's the City Doing to Get Them Out?
It’s midday in midsummer and dozens of men and women are crouching, splayed out on cardboard, or standing in midtown Manhattan, beaten down by the heat. After a journey that’s taken many of them across an ocean or through a dangerous jungle — past multiple border enforcement agents demanding payment …
Read More »Suspect Charged With Murder in O'Shae Sibley Stabbing Death in Brooklyn
A 17-year-old has been charged with murder as a hate crime and criminal possession of a weapon following the July 29 stabbing of O’Shae Sibley. The individual, who authorities have not identified due to them being a minor, turned themself into the NYPD on Friday, Aug. 4. Joseph Kenny, assistant …
Read More »Hollywood Actors Are Striking. But on Broadway, the Show Must Go On.
Actors have now taken to the streets, walking shoulder to shoulder on picket lines with members of the Writers Guild of America (WGA) after failing to secure an equitable contract with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP). We are one week into the SAG-AFTRA strike, and, as …
Read More »How Did Charlotte Become the Breakout Star of 'And Just Like That…?'
I have never been a huge fan of Charlotte York Goldenblatt, the Upper East Side princess played by Kristin Davis in Sex and the City. As a New York Jew, I didn’t relate to her WASP-y country club optimism, nor was I particularly charmed by her wide-eyed pearl-clutching at her …
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