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The people selling fake vaccination records online are ravenous for my attention. The Telegram channels ping me at all hours of the day with emoji-laden reminders to deal only with verified sellers, copy-and-pasted passages from anti-vax e-books describing infertility, pulmonary issues, and neurological degeneration. “THE ONLY WAY FOR YOU TO…

NEW YORK - HBO said that US director Spike Lee is re-editing the final episode of a documentary series on the September 11, 2001 terror attacks that featured interviews with conspiracy theorists. The last episode of the eight-hour series -- which focuses on the effect of Al-Qaeda attacks and the…

In an effort to prevent the spread of COVID-19, some businesses and institutions are now requiring employees, students, or patrons to be vaccinated — and cities including New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans have issued mandates requiring people to show proof of vaccination in order to enter indoor establishments…

Yesterday I got an email from the Department of Health here in New York City announcing that they are spraying local bodies of water in Brooklyn starting this Thursday, to eliminate mosquitoes carrying West Nile virus. Man, it's bad enough that we're dealing with the Delta variant of COVID-19 --…

For two months we’ve known that Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams won New York City’s Democratic primary for mayor with 31 percent of first-place votes (he finally achieved a majority in the ranked-choice election after eight rounds of instant runoffs). But for two months we haven’t known for sure exactly…

The cruelest thing Bravo has ever done to us is to slap a “To be continued …” onto the end of this episode as if it were a very special Webster where he finds out his adoptive parents had a miscarriage. What are they going to continue into? More lifeless,…

Series was based on Crystal Moselle’s 2018 film ”Skate Kitchen“ HBO HBO canceled the series “Betty” after two seasons, TheWrap confirmed. “We will not be moving forward with a third season of ‘Betty,'” the network said in a statement. “We are very grateful for the collaboration with Crystal and our…

The setting sun reflects off One World Trade Center and the skyline of lower Manhattan in New York City as the moon rises on March 7, 2020 as seen from Jersey City, New Jersey. Gary Hershorn | Getty Images New York City now holds the top slot as the most…

“Pretend It’s a City,” the seven-part Netflix docu-series directed by Martin Scorsese, marks the second time that Scorsese has turned his cameras on Fran Lebowitz, the author, sardonic wit and quintessential New Yorker. This fact makes Lebowitz very uncomfortable. “Marty made a documentary about me, ‘Public Speaking,’ in 2010,” Lebowitz…

Name: Public grooming. Age: Pre-human. Appearance: Rudy Giuliani shaving himself in an airport restaurant. Why on earth would you put an image like that into my mind? I didn’t. Rudy Giuliani did, by shaving himself in an airport restaurant. Wait, this happened? Unfortunately, yes. A man called Nick Weiss filmed…