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Extra Extra: Bad cluck
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Published Mar 27, 2025
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It’s Thursday afternoon in New York City, where this auction has items like Ottessa Moshfegh’s toothbrush or Eddie Huang's boxers up for grabs.
Here’s what else is happening:
- She’s not a manicurist, she’s a nail artist, and she’s also a New Yorker whose clientele includes Ariana Grande, Heidi Klum and Bad Bunny.
- A Park Slope elementary school community is mourning the loss of Waffles, a beloved chicken who was part of the school’s homesteading program. Waffles died from egg-laying complications, even after parents donated more than $2,000 for veterinary care.
- The New York Liberty plans to open a state-of-the-art training facility in Greenpoint featuring luxurious locker rooms, recovery suites and family lounges.
- This is how a fake prison stunt landed a Brooklyn comedian in a real NYC jail.
- Two of the characters on "The White Lotus" are supposed to be Duke University alumni, and as things get a little weird on the show, the school is denouncing the association.
- A train car gifted to New Jersey from France after World War II that had been missing for decades was finally found at a museum in Missouri.
- Can Hooters be saved?
- And finally, good manners:
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