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Extra Extra: Mexico cartel shake-up won't scare away NY-based drag performer who winters there
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Published Feb 23, 2026
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Good Monday afternoon in New York City, where we're nearing 2-foot territory.
Here's what else is happening:
- City Council Speaker Julie Menin is helping her neighbors with storm stuff. So is she running?
- Meet the New York-based drag performer who spends his winters in Puerto Vallarta and doesn't plan on abandoning his community down there just because of the unrest brought by Mexico's killing of a cartel leader.
- Will the U.S. men's hockey players agree with President Trump that the State of the Union address is "the coolest night?"
- If you want to interact with Daniel Radcliffe onstage during a Broadway show, your chance is coming up.
- Bronx native Willie Colón, a trombonist and major figure in the world of salsa music, has died at the age of 75.
- Susan Sheehan, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author who wrote about New Yorkers struggling with severe mental illness and poverty for The New Yorker, has died at the age of 88.
- "KPop Demon Hunters" is being inducted into the Criterion Collection.
- And finally, baby:
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