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Extra Extra: DMX Memorial Welcomed At Yonkers Raceway
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Published Apr 10, 2021
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Published Apr 10, 2021
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- Check out this great Elle piece about the rise of Becky “The Man” Lynch in the wrestling world, weaving together her story against the backdrop of Trumpism, kayfabe, and the pandemic.
- Yonkers Mayor Mike Spano would like to honor hometown rap legend DMX (who died this week) with a public memorial at the Raceway and possibly a statue or street renaming, according to TMZ.
- With the new taxes on New York’s wealthiest residents, “now we will have an opportunity to see how many people making $2 million a year will really move from the Upper East Side to South Beach — a location where climate models predict two feet or more of sea-level rise by 2060 — for a savings equal to the cost of a five-year-old Chevy Malibu,” Ginia Bellafante writes.
- The first musical to officially return to New York stages is the off-Broadway production of The Office! A Musical Parody.
- Pockets are incredibly useful to put hands and other things into, so a seven-year-old girl in Arkansas told Old Navy corporate officials she’s disappointed that some of their girls’ pants have fake pockets.
- A portion of the Manhattan Beach land seized a hundred years ago from Black families under eminent domain may be returned to their descendants through a new California bill.
- Matthew Perry briefly posted a picture of himself in the makeup chair to film the Friends reunion, amassed 27,000 Insta-likes and then deleted the photo.
- The New York Times has a detailed look at the internal squabbling over the Wall Street Journal’s future as the newspaper considers how to ”attract new readers — specifically, women, people of color and younger professionals — by focusing more on topics such as climate change and income inequality.”
- And finally, let’s enjoy spring as much as these deer in Nara, Japan are:
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