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Owners of many shuttered Big Apple restaurants are less worried about making rent payments during the coronavirus pandemic than they are about customer-density rules likely to be put in place once they reopen. Le Bernardin chef and co-owner Eric Ripert is hopeful that he can work with his landlord to keep the great, three-Michelin-star seafood …
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Video-game sales exploded last month as the coronavirus forced millions worldwide to hunker down at home looking for something to do. March spending on video game hardware, software and accessories jumped 35 percent from a year earlier to $1.6 billion — reversing a seven-month streak of declines to hit the highest March total since 2008, …
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“Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” returned to Bravo for its 10th season just last week, and there’s already drama between series veteran Kyle Richards and newbie Garcelle Beauvais. Richards, 51, recently addressed comments the actress, 53, made during an appearance on “Watch What Happens Live,” where Beauvais told host Andy Cohen that Richards has the …
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Chipotle is paying a record $25 million fine to settle criminal charges that its burrito joints sickened more than 1,100 people over a three-year period because of lax food-safety practices, the Department of Justice said Tuesday. The fast-food chain made headlines repeatedly between 2015 and 2018 for multi-state food-borne illness outbreaks — including one that …
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Amid the jocks, nerds and shoulder pads of the ’80s teen rom-com landscape, a dark horse emerged: 1985’s “Just One of the Guys,” which wore its feminist agenda lightly. In a riff on Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night,” high-schooler Terry (Joyce Hyser Robinson) goes undercover as a boy at a rival school after deciding she’s been discriminated …
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Ansel Elgort has some serious balls. “The Fault In Our Stars” actor used a nude photo to get donations for COVID-19 relief on Tuesday. In the steamy shot, Elgort, 26, poses naked in an outdoor shower using just his hand to cover himself. “OnlyFans LINK IN BIO,” he captioned the pic, referring to the subscription …
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Oil prices continued a historic plunge Tuesday as the coronavirus pandemic’s stranglehold on demand for fuel showed no signs of loosening any time soon. June futures contracts for West Texas Intermediate crude oil plunged as much as 68 percent to $6.50 a barrel — the lowest price in at least 50 years. And the May …
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Just call him Watergod. Foodgod donated an 18-wheeler full of drinks to Miami’s Mount Sinai Hospital and University of Miami Health Center last Friday to give healthcare workers a refreshing reprieve from their fight against coronavirus. The man formerly known as Jonathan Cheban described the experience as “such an honor.” “It was a really great …
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Hundreds of Amazon warehouse staffers are staying home on Tuesday in protest of their work conditions during the coronavirus pandemic, according to labor groups. Some 300 workers across more than 40 Amazon facilities in California, Texas, Wisconsin, Florida and New York, among other states, signed a pledge to not work on Tuesday, Zachary Lerner, a …
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“Real Housewives of Orange County” star Kelly Dodd offered her surprising take on the coronavirus pandemic on Tuesday, calling it “God’s way of thinning the herd.” On Instagram, Dodd, 44, has suggested she was both tested for COVID-19 and recently traveled on an airplane. Responding to a commenter that took issue with her air travel …