When Usher hit the stage at Barclays Center on Friday night, he made himself right at home at the Brooklyn arena for the first of four sold-out shows on his Past Present Future Tour. The R&B superstar — dressed in all black everything, from his sequined coat to his shades — opened with “Coming Home,” … Read more
When Madonna, then just barely famous, auditioned for the title role of 1985’s “Desperately Seeking Susan,” she made it clear to the film’s studio executive, Barbara Boyle, how badly she wanted the part. “Madonna walked into Barbara’s office, fell on her knees, and said, ‘I’ll do anything to get this part,” the film’s director, Susan … Read more
Many of the royal family’s most pivotal moments have been recreated for “The Crown” over the last five seasons. The sixth and final season is set to drop this fall on Netflix and one of the most significant turns of the modern age is when Prince William became smitten with now-wife Kate Middleton. The royal … Read more
Restaurateur Marco Moreira is either the bravest man in New York — or the craziest. His recently reopened Tocqueville, heroically reborn after a blaze and rebranded as 15East @ Tocqueville, flaunts the post-pandemic restaurant rules. The seasonally driven, Modern American place has bet the farm on wooing customers to a plush jewel box that’s everything … Read more