Broadway has temporarily gone dark, but the pod-way is up and running: A full-scale musical podcast debuted this week. “Little Did I Know,” based on a novel by Broadway producer Mitchell Maxwell, features 22 original songs over the course of its nine episodes. Set in 1976, it follows a young director named Samuel August (played...
“We get issued one N95 mask at the beginning of the week and we’re told to use it the whole week,” the employee said. “The irony to that is before this all took place, if we were to use any mask more than once, we would get written up for that.”
They are already parents to 4-year-old daughter Arlo.
The small Long Island town of Southold, with its serene waterfront enclaves on the North Fork, has a new distinction — the region’s highest concentration of confirmed coronavirus cases. The Suffolk County community, with a population of just over 22,000, had 152 confirmed COVID-19 cases as of Wednesday, or 6.8 cases per 1,000 residents —...
Coronavirus-ravaged corpses have been rotting in the streets of the port city of Guayaquil in Ecuador — while others lay unclaimed in hospitals and clinics because morgues were filled to capacity, according to a report. Municipal officials said that in the past few days, 400 bodies have been recovered in the city of 2.8 million...
Quarantine is allowing certain celebs to hone new skills.
Fashion brands around the globe are pitching in to battle the coronavirus. Big-name retailers — including Gap, H&M, Brooks Brothers, Gucci, Armani and Bulgari — are making masks, gowns, hand sanitizer and hefty donations. Others, meanwhile, are offering serious discounts and limited-edition merch to help those hit hard by unemployment, with proceeds going to groups...
The couple have taken it upon themselves to help couples find intimacy in these trying times.
Nurses at Mount Sinai West say they are finally getting more protective gowns after The Post revealed a safety gear shortage so dire that some staffers were forced to wear trash bags. Staff at the Manhattan hospital said Thursday the desperately needed supplies allow them to change gowns more frequently, including each time they visit...
Italy’s coronavirus death toll is likely much higher than official figures indicate, according to a new report — a grim indication of what might lie in store for the US. The country, which quickly emerged as Europe’s epicenter of the virus, has an official fatality count of 13,155, as of Thursday afternoon — more than...
Jared Kushner, son-in-law to President Trump, has added another job to his already jam-packed White House responsibilities – coronavirus wrangler, according to a report. While Trump, Vice President Mike Pence and health-care experts have become the face of the crisis during nearly daily White House briefings, Kushner has carved out a position behind the scenes...
J.J. Watt is his own biggest critic. Replying to a before-and-after meme Wednesday — showing what the Texans defensive end looked like in high school compared to now — the five-time Pro Bowler made it clear there are some things he would have done differently. “For the love of pete, what in the world was...
SYDNEY – Australia on Thursday announced free childcare for six months as part of a bid to keep businesses operating through the coronavirus pandemic, as data on new infections supported early signs of “flattening the curve.” The childcare center subsidy adds to a growing list of support packages worth some $121 billion for airlines to...
Meet the elephants that are on parade for an entire year. In the new documentary “Elephant,” now streaming on Disney+, we follow a herd of the enormous, big-hearted African animals who annually journey thousands of treacherous miles across the Kalahari Desert for a drink of water and a bite to eat. “They travel such huge...
WASHINGTON — A House committee will be established to oversee the roll-out of the historic $2 trillion coronavirus bailout, Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced Thursday. The House Select Committee on the Coronavirus Crisis will be chaired by Rep. Jim Clyburn (D-SC) and will ensure that the aid package, the largest in US history, makes its way...
While supporters say the campaign could be critical in keeping fragile startups in business, critics argue it would just amount to a handout to wealthy Wall Street investors, Politico reported.
Few debut singles in the history of pop have introduced a group as perfectly as “Hold On,” the 1990 smash that launched En Vogue into the R&B stratosphere. But as much as the funky divas sang their faces off, the song wasn’t an instant hit with their label. “The head of our record label didn’t...
The 2020 Atlantic hurricane season is shaping up to be a doozy, with four major hurricanes predicted along with a higher than average number of named storms. The forecast, from meteorologists at Colorado State University, is for 16 named storms to strike during the season, which runs from June through November, up from the seasonal...
NASA’s Mars 2020 mission will include a secret coded message that no extraterrestrial life form — or most humans, for that matter — can read. The quaint message is etched into an aluminum plate that is affixed to the side of the rover itself and it sits alongside the trio of tiny chips that hold...
Georgia’s governor and his top health official both admit they were clueless that the coronavirus could be spread by people not showing symptoms — despite it being headline news for months. “Finding out that this virus is now transmitting before people see signs … we didn’t know that until the last 24 hours,” Gov. Brian...
The city’s coronavirus outbreak continued its dreadful upward trajectory Thursday, with over 3,500 new cases and more than 250 deaths in the past 24 hours. Thursday morning the city had 48,462 confirmed COVID-19 cases and 1,397 deaths. At the same time Wednesday there were 44,915 cases and 1,139 deaths. Just a week ago there were...
Netflix led rivals YouTube, Amazon Prime and Disney+ with more than 59 million installs in the first quarter of 2020, but more time was spent on YouTube’s Kids service.
Paramount just made some release date changes given the unpredictable coronavirus climate. The long-awaited Tom Cruise Skydance sequel “Top Gun: Maverick” is now going to Dec. 23, instead of June 24. This will push the Chris Pratt sci-fi Skydance movie “The Tomorrow War” to an unset date. “The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run” will...
The number of coronavirus deaths in New York exploded past the 2,000 mark on Thursday, as the number of confirmed cases eclipsed 90,000, according to Gov. Andrew Cuomo. A total of 2,373 New Yorkers have been lost to the contagion statewide, a leap of 432 fatalities from Wednesday, while 92,381 have tested positive, a 24-hour...
Almost a million people worldwide have confirmed cases of the coronavirus, according to the latest data. The gut-wrenching numbers from Johns Hopkins University also show a death toll topping 50,000. At 1 p.m. Thursday, 981,221 people were confirmed infected across the globe while 50,230 people have died. The US has more COVID-19 cases than any...