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Extra Extra: MoviePass Finally Being Put Out Of Its Misery
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Ben Yakas
Published Sep 13, 2019
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- Actress Felicity Huffman was sentenced to 14 days in prison for paying thousands of dollars to have one of her daughter's SAT scores inflated. She also must serve 12 months of supervised release, 250 hours of community service and pay a $30,000 fine.
- Here's a memorable anecdote from a piece about Vice's latest pivot: "This spring, as part of Vice’s annual Weed Week around 4/20, a Vice producer came up with the idea to make a video in which Lil Yachty, the rapper, would try to set the Guinness World Record for rolling the world’s heaviest blunt. The idea was approved, but the amount of weed that was purchased and sent to the Vice office was enough to qualify them as a marijuana distributor. Two senior employees were fired as a result."
- All over the world, self-proclaimed ‘nice guys’ are attending meetings and workshops in hopes of becoming far less nice.
- Mile End Delicatessen had its flagship NYC location shut down by health inspectors this week after construction next door brought pests into the eatery.
- The New Republic has a story about how housing insecurity in the nation’s richest cities is far worse than government statistics claim.
- A New Zealand man who had a feeling he was getting fired brought a support clown to his recent redundancy meeting—and the $200 performer provided comedic relief as his bosses fired him.
- The New York attorney general’s office said that it had tracked about $1 billion in wire transfers by the Sackler family, including through Swiss bank accounts, suggesting that the family tried to shield wealth as it faced a raft of litigation over its role in the opioid crisis.
- After Christine Blasey Ford came forward to accuse Brett Kavanaugh of rape, The Federalist reports her father "repeatedly communicated to Kavanaugh's father that he supported Kavanaugh's confirmation to the Supreme Court."
- RIP MoviePass, it's finally over.
- The Washington Post has an oral history of Sharpiegate, and as one person put it: "In a way, it encapsulates Trump. He’s pathological. I thought, even as I and other people laughed, 'This isn’t just a stupid story, it’s a big story.'"
- The Gem Spa shirt is the hottest clothing apparel in NYC.
- HBO dropped a new full trailer for Watchmen.
- Are burritos really just tacos by another name? That's what Texas Monthly’s newly appointed taco editor believes.
- And finally, look how quick this good boy is:
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Ben Yakas is a former Gothamist reporter.
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