Thursday, April 18, 2024

Empire State of Mind

NYC Wrap Up: Avett Brothers Rock, Paging Julie Chen or Whoopi Goldberg, Morocco Race Rallye Preps

How was this past week in NYC? In a word: busy. Despite Hollywood falling apart, everyone soldiered on. It's also charity season, which means...

Greed Destroying Greenwich Village as Famed Eatery The Riviera Set to Close After 48 Years

EXCLUSIVE (with a tip of the hat to Michael Musto): The Riviera Cafe on Seventh Avenue South in Greenwich Village will close on August...

NYC Week Ends: “Shuffle Along” Has a Lot of Baggage, Geraldo’s Dead Foot, A Manual for Philanthropy

This is all the other stuff that's been going on around town in the last week... Broadway producer SCOTT RUDIN donated all of Friday night's...

Eric Garner’s Killer Cop Daniel Pantaleo: NYPD Settled Cases with 2 Others, Another Is Pending

This isn't a scoop, per se. It's been written about before, but not much. Indeed, the New York Times has never mentioned the names...

Nicki Minaj vs. Her Old High School: She’s Not Telling the Whole Story About Declined Offer to Speak

EXCLUSIVE Apparently hip hop celebrity and former "American Idol" judge Nicki Minaj is not telling the whole story about her offer to speak to...

Robin Hood Foundation: At Least a Dozen Execs Make Over $250K a Year Including Brother of Amazon Founder

This weekend it's time for the annual Robin Hood Foundation gala. This is a dinner for multi-billionaires who donate large chunks of money, place...

Empty NYC: No One Talks About All the For Rent Retail Space

There's more for rent retail space in Manhattan than ever before. Since the fall of 2008, the city is full of 'for rent' signs...

NYC Round Up: Michael Strahan, Diane Kruger, David Duchovny, Say ‘No’

IN AN EMPIRE STATE OF MIND…Diane Kruger and fiancee Joshua Jackson took a break from filming a pilot for their new TV show The...