• Bennie’s Thai Cafe in Manhattan to close after 24 years, citing COVID-19 crunch

    Bennie’s Thai Cafe in Manhattan to close after 24 years, citing COVID-19 crunch

    Bennie’s Thai Cafe is about to become the latest restaurant casualty of the coronavirus in Lower Manhattan. The popular eatery at 88 Fulton St. is calling it quits on July 26 — the 24th anniversary of its opening in 1996. “We made it through the dark days of 9/11, the recession and Superstorm Sandy, but …
  • Nick Cannon to remain on Fox’s ‘Masked Singer’ after anti-Semitic comments

    Nick Cannon to remain on Fox’s ‘Masked Singer’ after anti-Semitic comments

    Nick Cannon will remain the host of Fox’s “The Masked Singer” after he came under fire for making anti-Semitic comments on his YouTube series, “Cannon’s Class.” “Nick has sincerely apologized, and quickly taken steps to educate himself and make amends,” Fox said in a statement Wednesday. “On that basis and given a belief that this …
  • ViacomCBS Fires Nick Cannon over Anti-Semitic Comments

    ViacomCBS Fires Nick Cannon over Anti-Semitic Comments

    ViacomCBS has fired Nick Cannon after the TV host and producer made “hateful” anti-Semitic comments in a recent episode of his podcast. “While we support ongoing education and dialogue in the fight against bigotry, we are deeply troubled that Nick has failed to acknowledge or apologize for perpetuating anti-Semitism, and we are terminating our relationship …
  • Navarro Slams Dr. Fauci in Unsanctioned Op-Ed: ‘Wrong About Everything I Have Interacted With Him On’

    Navarro Slams Dr. Fauci in Unsanctioned Op-Ed: ‘Wrong About Everything I Have Interacted With Him On’

    In an op-ed published Wednesday, top White House trade adviser Peter Navarro accused Dr. Anthony Fauci of being “wrong” in virtually all the determinations he made while coordinating the administration’s coronavirus response. “Dr. Anthony Fauci has a good bedside manner with the public, but he has been wrong about everything I have interacted with him …
  • Nick Cannon apologizes for ‘hurtful’ and ‘divisive’ anti-Semitic comments

    Nick Cannon apologizes for ‘hurtful’ and ‘divisive’ anti-Semitic comments

    Nick Cannon apologized Wednesday for making anti-Semitic remarks on a recent podcast, saying he feels ashamed for his “hurtful” and divisive language. “First and foremost I extend my deepest and most sincere apologies to my Jewish sisters and brothers for the hurtful and divisive words that came out of my mouth during my interview with Richard …
  • Nom Wah, Chinatown’s oldest eatery, used frozen dumplings to offset pandemic struggles

    Nom Wah, Chinatown’s oldest eatery, used frozen dumplings to offset pandemic struggles

    COVID-19 forced Nom Wah Tea Parlor to chart a new course through its 100th year in business — and it leads straight to your freezer. After the pandemic shuttered the Chinatown dim sum destination, owner Wilson Tang decided to try something new: Freezing Nom Wah’s famous dumplings for patrons to prepare at home. The resealable …
  • Diddy offers Nick Cannon a job at Revolt TV following ViacomCBS ouster

    Diddy offers Nick Cannon a job at Revolt TV following ViacomCBS ouster

    Sean “Diddy” Combs offered Nick Cannon a job on his Revolt TV network — just hours after Cannon was fired by ViacomCBS Wednesday for making anti-Semitic remarks. “@NickCannon come home to @REVOLTTV truly BLACK OWNED!!!” the hip-hop mogul tweeted on Wednesday alongside a fist and heart emoji. “We got your back and love you and …
  • How comic book rebel Grant Morrison put his stamp on Peacock’s ‘Brave New World’

    How comic book rebel Grant Morrison put his stamp on Peacock’s ‘Brave New World’

    Grant Morrison has been riding out the coronavirus pandemic at a safe distance from Hollywood. “As a writer, you’re self-isolating your entire life anyway,” Morrison says from his home in his native Scotland. “So it hasn’t been that difficult. We’re in the country, so you barely notice what’s been going down. But we’re looking at …
  • Ime Udoka is wild-card Knicks candidate outside of ‘Recycled Coaches Association’

    Ime Udoka is wild-card Knicks candidate outside of ‘Recycled Coaches Association’

    Knicks owner James Dolan passed on one Nigerian basketball brain in Masai Ujiri to be president. Some feel Dolan should take a harder look at a Nigerian-American in Ime Udoka to be head coach. Tim Shea, the former Knicks director of international scouting and assistant Olympic coach for Nigeria, says hiring Udoka would be a …
  • Ex-‘RHOA’ star Shereé Whitfield tests positive for COVID-19

    Ex-‘RHOA’ star Shereé Whitfield tests positive for COVID-19

    Former “Real Housewives of Atlanta” star Shereé Whitfield revealed on Tuesday that she has tested positive for COVID-19. “I know I have been MIA,” Whitfield, 50, said on Instagram. “I’ve really just been at home, self-quarantining, for the past week and a half. I just want you guys to know that it is no joke. …