Move over, soup dumplings and dragon rolls — NYC’s buzziest in-demand new dishes are pork belly chicharron and tacos callejeros. After long playing backup to the city’s Asian offerings, Mexico’s culinary bounty is having a moment — and on a grander stage than the cuisine has enjoyed in some time. While we’ve long had an array … Read more
Johnny Depp is praising longtime collaborator Tim Burton. The actor, 62, recalled how the filmmaker, 67, made accommodations for him to continue filming “Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street” in 2007 despite his daughter’s illness. At the time, Lily-Rose Depp was 7 years old and had developed a form of kidney failure. Johnny … Read more
Remember to dink responsibly! Pickleball, which combines elements of tennis, badminton and ping-pong, has mass appeal thanks to its low-impact design, accessibility and straightforward rules. Played by 19.8 million people in 2024, this wildly popular sport actually serves up some pretty serious eye injuries. Researchers are hopeful their findings will encourage players to use proper … Read more
movie review ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER Running time: 170 minutes. Rated R (pervasive language, violence, sexual content, and drug use). In theaters Sept. 26. Unrelenting drive powers director Paul Thomas Anderson’s sprawling, violent, sweaty, vulgar and invigorating new movie “One Battle After Another.” Its adrenaline-junkie characters, like Leonardo DiCaprio’s paranoid Bob, keep charging ahead as … Read more
They’re tiny, trendy and taking over New York. From thrifted knick-knacks to $10 blind-box toys, city girls are turning their apartments, backpacks and purses into shrines of “trinketcore” — the aesthetic where the smaller the object, the bigger the obsession. “What makes a trinket? Anything nostalgic and wholesome,” QingYing “Mimi” Guan, 26, of Chinatown, told … Read more
He’s cracked jokes for decades, but Pauly Shore’s latest update is no laughing matter. The “Encino Man” actor, 57, revealed this week that he recently went under the knife to have a tumor removed from his pancreas — a shock diagnosis that came without any warning signs. “Instinct played a huge role in this,” Shore … Read more
A New Jersey bagel shop is being schmeared online for its cream cheese placement on a woman’s bagels. A New York City-based influencer posted a video on TikTok earlier this month showing her 55.7K followers their abysmal breakfast from Bella’s Bagels in Seaside Park, New Jersey — racking up 25 million views and countless infuriated … Read more
The National Football League’s deal with Walt Disney in which it will gain an equity stake in ESPN in return for prime media assets is expected to face scrutiny from the U.S. Department of Justice, according to legal experts and industry sources. The agreement, announced late Tuesday, involves Disney’s ESPN acquiring the NFL Network and other media … Read more
A relationship expert has warned about the use of AI when it comes to emotional connection after a man was spotted treating ChatGPT like his lover. Blake Pavey, an Australian comedian, appeared on the On It Off It podcast and revealed he was on the train and noticed a man messaging ChatGPT “like it was his girlfriend”. … Read more
AFC Richmond will be down a player next match. Phil Dunster, who played Jamie Tartt, is out as a “Ted Lasso” series regular, Apple TV+ announced on Monday. According to Deadline, Dunster had a conflict, as he signed on to be a series regular on an untitled new HBO comedy with Steve Carrell. However, he … Read more
Sydney Sweeney earned her spot in the ring. The actress, 27, opened up about her dramatic transformation to play professional boxer Christy Martin for the upcoming biopic being directed by David Michôd. “I came onboard to play Christy, and I had about three and a half months of training,” Sweeney said in a new W … Read more
Americans are losing a vast array of people and programs dedicated to keeping them healthy. Gone are specialists who were confronting a measles outbreak in Ohio, workers who drove a van to schools in North Carolina to offer vaccinations, and a program that provided free tests to sick people in Tennessee. State and local health departments responsible … Read more
It’s the last of Season 2. The sophomore year of the grim HBO drama “The Last of Us” ended on Sunday night, wrapping up a dark stretch of episodes that killed off the series lead, Joel (Pedro Pascal). Spoilers ahead for “The Last of Us” Season 2 finale. Based on a popular video game of … Read more
The sun has a bone to pick with Earth — and it’s not done yet. A colossal solar storm just zapped the daylight side of the planet, causing global blackouts and knocking out radio signals across Europe, Asia and the Middle East. The culprit? A fiery X2.7-class solar flare that erupted from sunspot AR4087 early … Read more
Frequent flyers of the friendly skies are not feeling this fox and her huge hound. Curses and epithets are being hurled at a social media smoke-show who hauled her humongous Great Dane, an alleged service animal, onto an airplane. Pietra Luccas, a fashion influencer from San Francisco, is currently in the eye of the internet’s ire for … Read more
Disney’s newest attempt to turn one of its animated classics into a live-action hit is already taking heat from fans — similar to the “Snow White” fiasco that embroiled the entertainment giant earlier this year. “Lilo & Stitch” has sparked concern among Disney fans after its director, Dean Fleischer Camp, revealed he tried to keep … Read more
Olivia Benson’s elite squad is losing two of their own. Octavio Pisano, who portrays Detective Joe Velasco, and Juliana Martinez, who is Detective Kate Silva on “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit,” are exiting the NBC series at the end of the current Season 26. Pisano, 38, joined the drama during Season 23 as a … Read more
Selma Blair said she was “thrilled” to have received her Multiple Sclerosis (MS) diagnosis. The “Cruel Intentions” actress, 52, was diagnosed with the debilitating disease — which affects the central nervous system by disrupting the flow of information within the brain and between the brain and body — in August 2018. “[I was] thrilled,” Blair told … Read more
It was a rare cosmic collision — and the sky responded in technicolor. A rare and rowdy “cannibal” solar eruption slammed into Earth this week, which painted the sky in jaw-dropping color from Scotland to the South Pole. The freaky phenomenon, known as a cannibal coronal mass ejection (CME), occurred after two solar eruptions decided … Read more
Legendary rock band The Who has kicked out long-time drummer Zak Starkey after a “huge fallout,” according to reports. The band’s frontman Roger Daltrey, 81, and guitarist Pete Townshend, 79, ended things with Starkey — the son of The Beatles drummer Ringo Starr — following two shows in March at Royal Albert Hall in the UK, … Read more