Costco is facing a new lawsuit over its rotisserie chicken, after an animal rights nonprofit claimed that the retailer’s chicken processing plant in Nebraska suffers from salmonella contamination. The proposed class action lawsuit filed on Thursday cited a December study by Farm Forward that criticized safety conditions at Costco’s Lincoln Premium Poultry plant, which opened … Read more
Bad dates are a fact of life in NYC — from agonizing, job interview-esque nights out with unchecked egomaniacs, to marathon get-togethers that wind up leaving you both deflated and ghosted, it’s no secret that making connections in today’s Big Apple is a toxic, metropolitan mess. Exhausted by the swipe culture of the apps and the … Read more
Timothée Chalamet enjoys a spanking. The Oscar-nominated actor, 30, refused a butt double and willingly got spanked by his “Marty Supreme” co-star Kevin O’Leary in a critical scene in the A24 film. “When it came time to whack him, there was a stunt ass. There was a double,” O’Leary, 71, told Variety in a new interview. … Read more
Maya Rudolph’s sketch didn’t quite hit the funny bone. The comedian, 53, revealed that she and former President Barack Obama were set to appear alongside Amy Poehler and Darrell Hammond in an “SNL” sketch. However, the bit was pulled from the show. Maya Rudolph and Amy Poehler dish on “SNL.” “It was a sketch where … Read more
There’s no place like home for the holidays — or the natural slide back into adolescent feelings and behaviors that often accompany being back with family during Christmastime. Coined by some mental health professionals as “holiday regression,” the tendency to revert to old dynamics, habits and especially anxieties during familial festivities can be an annoying … Read more
Macaulay Culkin just wanted to stay home alone. The actor, 45, revealed why he decided to step away from acting in 1994 after starring in the holiday classic “Home Alone” in 1990 and its 1992 sequel, “Home Alone 2: Lost in New York.” “What I wanted is to be with people my own age. You … Read more
She works in a glass tower. He works with his hands. Cue the love story. Wall Street power suits are getting steamrolled by steel-toe boots. This winter, a growing number of high-achieving city women are swapping cubicles, KPIs and Slack notifications for something straight out of a wintry Hallmark movie: blue-collar boyfriends with calloused hands, … Read more
Jewish comedian Amy Schumer was taped proudly lighting candles to celebrate the closing days of Hanukkah — adding that she learned who her “real friends are’’ after speaking out post-Oct. 7. “I stood up and spoke my mind after Oct. 7, I didn’t know I would be such a minority,’’ the native New Yorker, 44, … Read more
Koko Hayashi — a celebrity face yoga instructor whose clients include Kim Kardashian — let her 741,000 TikTok followers watch as she ran a microneedling pen over her red, serum-slicked face. “I think I did too much, so it’s bleeding a little bit,” she lamented as she drew the pen close to the corner of … Read more
Like any good mother, Gina Kasoff rises each morning, heads to the nursery to greet her baby girl, Pippa, before waking up the tot’s older siblings in preparation for yet another busy day. The difference between Kasoff and other moms, however, is that Pippa, along with her brothers and sisters, isn’t real. They’re dolls. “They’re … Read more
The Knicks and their biggest supporters wasted no time Tuesday celebrating their first NBA Cup triumph. Not long after Jalen Brunson and Co. hoisted the trophy inside T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas following a 124-113 victory over the Spurs, the captain’s wife, Ali Brunson, and Jordyn Woods, the longtime girlfriend of Knicks big man Karl-Anthony … Read more
They come in peace. Steven Spielberg’s new UFO movie has reignited speculation within the alien conspiracy theory community, especially after cryptic billboards teasing the upcoming film popped up across the country this week. “All will be disclosed,” read billboards for the forthcoming flick in New York City and Los Angeles, alongside the “E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial” … Read more
Viewers were not lovin’ it. McDonald’s has taken down a Christmas ad that was allegedly entirely produced with artificial intelligence after the brand was slammed with an onslaught of backlash from unahappy customers. The 45-second advertisement from McDonald’s Netherlands was first posted on their YouTube channel on Dec. 6 and was removed just a few … Read more
Not even a month in the hospital on a feeding tube was enough to make Sydni Collins quit pot. Collins reached for her weed pen most days in high school since she turned 16, even as waves of extreme nausea and vomiting overtook her. One particularly brutal episode left her vomiting nonstop during her spring … Read more
It’s the holiday season, which — in hyper-polarized 2025 — means familial estrangement is in the air. Or, as the kids raised in therapized society call it, “going no contact.” Such splits have become so commonplace that Oprah Winfrey recently hosted an entire episode of her podcast to the trend. In “The Oprah Podcast” episode, therapist … Read more
New York City’s Christmas tree sales aren’t a holly-jolly business. The most statuesque trees worthy of a Manhattan pied-à-terre or Brooklyn brownstone don’t come cheap — or without behind-the-scenes drama that has been kept from New Yorkers, until now. The Christmas tree sellers that pop up on the streets of NYC in the run-up to … Read more
He’s chilling. Ice-T revealed the real reason behind his reduced screen time on Season 27 of “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit” during an interview with TMZ published Monday. “It’s just basically business,” he told the outlet. “They brought Kelli [Giddish] back. At the end of the day, they couldn’t keep both of us on … Read more
A single mom has revealed the insane way she found out she was fired from her job. Kristin McCarley, a real estate agent from East Texas, took to TikTok to share the single “drunk” message she received from her boss at 10:36 p.m. on a Saturday night. “Do not come in Monday,” the text read. … Read more
AI is the new Grinch that’s stealing Christmas. Nervous laughter was Kelly Bowron’s visceral, hysterical response to her son learning the truth about Santa Claus Tuesday — courtesy of a Google search. Her Leo, 11 — whose belief in the jolly fat man had remained firmly intact from childhood to preadolescence until this week — … Read more
Will the real Slim Shady please stand up? Eminem has taken legal action against an Australian beachwear brand called Swim Shady due to the company name being too similar to his Slim Shady alter ego. The “Lose Yourself” rapper, whose real name is Marshall Mathers III, filed his petition against Swim Shady with the US … Read more