Early Addition: The East Village's Halloween Adventure Shop Is Closing After 40 Years

James Ramsay

Published Jan 8, 2021

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President Trump is reportedly looking to issue preemptive pardons for himself, his daughter, Don. Jr., Stephen Miller, Rudy Giuliani, and Jared Kushner, in the event that any of them are charged with crimes. He also plans to pardon Lil Wayne and Kodak Black.
A New York Times photographer who covered the riot at the Capitol gave her account of being thrown to the floor by pro-Trump extremists before having police guns drawn on her.
Car travel plummeted in 2020 but the rate of fatal crashes surged, largely due to people speeding on less congested roads.
R.I.P. East Village Halloween Adventure (1981-2021).
Mean Girls won't return to Broadway once Broadway reopens, though Paramount still plans to make a movie based on the musical (🤯).
Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is suing the federal government for $250,000 for confiscating his baseball hat and limiting him to three showers a week. He's currently in a Colorado prison, serving a life sentence.
100 Gecs is releasing a series of Linkin Park remixes, starting with "One Step Closer." (R.I.P. Chester Bennington)
Dust off your crystal coupes, the Viennetta is back.
Today would've been David Bowie's 74th Birthday, and New Sounds has been honoring the late musician with a week-long rebroadcast of performances of Bowie's "Berlin Trilogy."
Go Bills:

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