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Extra Extra: Zohran, emphasis on the 'ran
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Published Oct 22, 2025
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Good Wednesday afternoon in New York City, where the famed light display at the Bronx house in Mariah Carey's "All I Want for Christmas Is You" video will return, eventually.
Here's what else is happening:
- Listen to Zohran Mamdani pronouncing his own name.
- Curtis Sliwa quit his own radio show today during an on-air rant about the station's alleged support for Andrew Cuomo.
- The MTA expects to get $2 billion in licensing fees — and potentially billions more in tax revenue — from casinos between now and 2029.
- George Santos celebrated his release from prison with dinner at a hibachi restaurant in the Poconos.
- Yankee Stadium is hosting a kind of driving range experience for two days in November.
- Schnitzel in a pita.
- Pitchfork is going to let readers rate albums.
- Go ahead, cut that tag off your suit sleeve.
- And finally, gonna stub his paw:
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