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Love Island’s season seven last year are still going strong, as they gazed at each other in a slew of photos that Millie uploaded to her Instagram over the weekend. 25-year-old Millie is very close to hitting 2 million followers on Instagram, and the photos she added racked up 137,371 likes. READ MORE: Millie Court sends fans into a frenzy as she puts on a stunning show for Instagram followersShe stunned as she wore a gorgeous floral cut-out, one-shoulder dress with green, purple and yellow colours.

Second City Theater.For decades — since 1959 (!) — the improv and sketch institution has served as one of the major training grounds for American comedy. Notable alums include the aforementioned “SNL” players as well as household names Steve Carell, Stephen Colbert, Amy Poehler, John Candy and Martin Short to name just a few from their stacked roster.And now the venerated theater has landed in New York, putting on laugh-out-loud funny, ballsy, personal, physical, immersive shows seven nights a week.So, we checked it out.On April 25, the New York Post attended a production of the theater’s ambitious mainstage revue “Ruthless Acts of Kindness.” To give you an idea of what to expect — and we highly recommend you do — here’s everything you need to know and more about getting your inner Lorne Michaels on and catching a show at New York’s newly opened Second City Theater.Commuting to the Brooklyn theater from Queens, Manhattan or the Bronx?If that’s the case, we suggest boarding either an L train and getting off at the Bedford stop for a 5-10 minute walk to the venue or taking the scenic route and strolling over from the G’s Nassau Avenue stop.

Story Ave starring Luis Guzman grossed $9.85k in a limited opening at one theater, Quad Cinema, with multiple sold-out shows. The first feature from director Aristotle Torres, which won for Best Cinematography at SXSW (see Deadline review) expands to Chicago and the Bronx next week, followed by LA and additional markets October 13.

YouTube has announced that they will celebrate the 50th anniversary of hip-hop this year by launching the FIFTY DEEP campaign.This month marks 50 years since DJ Kool Herc performed at a party in the Bronx and showed off his DJing invention of scratching records to extend the instrumental breaks in the song. This revelation was the cornerstone for hip-hop as people could dance longer (evolving into breakdancing) and aspiring MCs could rap during song breaks.In honour of the musical milestone, YouTube has launched FIFTY DEEP, “a cultural campaign on YouTube that salutes how far [the genre] come.” Director of Black Music & Culture Tuma Basa wrote a blog post on the new campaign, saying that the mission “is for every generation to dig into the gems of YouTube’s archival treasury of Hip Hop.”They plan to fulfil their mission by collating a visual library of 2,000 videos that “have changed the game” for hip-hop music, having a custom Yoodle (YouTube’s version of the Google Doodle) to pay homage to the phenomenon of type beats, and creating a Google Arts & Culture Hip Hop Hub to collate “a wide range of cultural institutions’ collections and curated stories.”FIFTY DEEP will kick off this Friday (August 11) with a live stream of Hip-Hop 50 Live on Mass Appeal’s official YouTube channel.

As sample drill took over New York last year, rappers from the Bronx and Queens flocked to the trend’s beats created with elements sourced from obvious (and at times obnoxious) places. For some, hearing yet another song sampling Missy Elliott, Gyptian, or Barrington Levy just wasn’t chaotic enough. “Heartbroken,” a 2021 song from comedian-turned-rapper Bandmanrill and Mcvertt, swerved hard right and took the trend in a frenzied new direction with an infusion of Jersey Club’s pounding drum patterns, layered samples, and insanely high BPMs.

Hollywood star Leslie Grace had a go at the Glaswegian accent as Batgirl filming officially wraps in Glasgow.

Hollywood star Leslie Grace penned a heartfelt tribute to Glasgow on social media as Batgirl filming comes to an end.

Spotted! New York Fashion Week is officially in session, which means Us Weekly’s Stylish is keeping an eye on the always-fabulous celebrity street style. 

Sarah Jessica Parker is celebrating a successful season of . The 56-year-old star of HBO Max's reboot took to Instagram on Thursday after the show's season 1 finale was released.In the post, Parker shared pics from a pivotal moment in the season finale, where her character, Carrie Bradshaw, (spoiler alert!) scatters her late husband's (Chris Noth) ashes on the Paris bridge where they rekindled their love on .«From Manhattan, the Bronx and all the boroughs in between,» Parker wrote. «To all those on the bridge that beautiful, long last night in Paris There were hundreds of hands involved in creating our first season of @justlikethatmax.

Batgirl star Leslie Grace thanked the people of Glasgow for welcoming her to the city but admitted: “I didn’t know the meaning of cold until I got here.”

The Bronx have spoken to NME about what to expect from their “big, badass new rock record” ‘VI’, and the return of their side project Mariachi El Bronx.The Los Angeles hardcore band’s last album, 2017’s ‘V’, saw the Californian five-piece raging against political turmoil, social unrest and personal uncertainty and stood up as a big musical middle finger to the world at large.“We had to make that record,” vocalist Matt Caughthran told NME. “We had to prove to ourselves that we could do it.

Barbara Kavovit made headlines when she became the new cast member of the Real Housewives of New York City after Carole Radziwill‘s departure, and now she’s doing the same thing for a very different reason! The New York native revealed she’s entering the race to become Mayor of “The City That Never Sleeps” in a tweet that shocked many of her followers on Jan. 27.

Moving on up! After appearing on season Real Housewives of New York City, Barbara Kavovit is setting her sights on something bigger: the New York City mayoral race.

her Instagram Wednesday, saying her beloved Big Apple “is in a state of crisis” under Mayor de Blasio’s watch.“I may not be a politician, but I’m a Bronx-born New Yorker who isn’t fearful of the hard work and tough decisions that lay ahead,” she wrote. “It will take a builder to rebuild #NYC, and I’m the woman to do it.”In September, Kavovit, the CEO of Evergreen Construction, floated her dreams of Gracie Mansion, telling Page Six she was ready to rebuild the city.“Number one is rebuild a safer and more inclusive New York City,” she said at the time.

Lady Gaga was always going to be a hard act to follow for Jennifer Lopez. And if Inauguration Day was a battle of the belters, there was no contest.Still, J.Lo — looking resplendent in all white with her $1 million diamond ring from Alex Rodriguez on full display — held her own in a medley of “This Land Is Your Land” and “America the Beautiful” that showed she really can sing something other than “Waiting for Tonight.”There was a simple sincerity in the 51-year-old’s performance, unadorned from all the booty-shaking showmanship we’re used to seeing from Bronx’s own Jenny from the Block.

Dave McNary Film ReporterHackman Capital Partners and Square Mile Capital have acquired Silvercup Studios, the high-profile independent film and television studio in New York City, for an undisclosed price from brothers Stuart and Alan Suna.The acquisition, which includes the property’s operational components and equipment, was announced late Wednesday.

“I Am These Truths: A Memoir of Identity, Justice, and Living Between Worlds” (Harper One), out Tuesday.Judgment about her race happens at work, too. “It really irritated me,” she writes, referring to colleagues who tell her she isn’t black enough or Latina enough.Hostin, whose full first name is Asunción, grew up “really poor” in the South Bronx to a Puerto Rican mother and black father who were both teenagers when they had her.

In recent memory, Bronx-based, Dominican collective and label Sie7etr3 has positioned themselves to be some of more exciting stateside acts to rise out of the Latin trap scene. But what has distinguished the crew from peers in their orbit is that their music also takes inspiration from Chicago drill — which has infiltrated just about every corner in the world since its rise last decade. Today, two of Sie7etr3's most recognizable voices, Chucky73 and Fetti031 released their latest track, "Colombiana." In the video, they kick back at a local bar while being entertained by dancers and trippy lights to add to the ambiance.

In February, Latin music shone in unprecedented fashion thanks to two Latinas. Jennifer Lopez, who is Puerto Rican by way of the Bronx, and Colombian pop star Shakira co-headlined the Super Bowl halftime show in Miami. J.Lo waved a Puerto Rican flag and Shakira danced the Afro-Colombian Champeta in front of more than 62,000 people in the stadium and an additional 104 million home viewers.