On any given Sunday, Jamila Hooker will be in her Harlem apartment with a magic marker in hand, making black swooping marks on postcards that she will mail to dozens, hundreds, thousands of people across the globe. All she wants in return is a photo of the recipient holding the postcard on which she scribed their name in a mysterious script — Arabic.
Pierre Francillon has a dream to fill the outer walls of Prospect Lefferts Gardens with building-sized flashcards to catch the eyes of the area’s fastest growing population: kids under 10. And with the help of a team of emerging and established artists, he hopes to have all 26 letters of the alphabet, each linked to a landmark or idea associated with the surroundings, glinting in the sunlight by mid-summer.
Longtime Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin announced Monday plans to separate from husband Anthony Weiner amid new allegations of his old habit. Hours after the Post published its report online, Weiner deleted his Twitter account. Conversations between Weiner and the woman, who spoke to the Post on the condition of anonymity, began in January 2015 and continued through earlier this month.
"The Daily Show's" outgoing host Jon Stewart has been one of the fiercest critics of the Iraq War, yet it turns out he has been supporting its veterans with an intensive TV-training boot-camp for soldiers that's been kept a secret mission until now. The five-week program is designed to prepare veterans for careers in broadcast media, a field historically absent of military types.
Misty Copeland, the African-American ballet dancer who rose from poverty and learned the art at the untypically late age of 13, was named Tuesday as the first female black principal dancer of the American Ballet Theater in its 75-year history. Ahead of the official announcement, Copeland remarked at a cocktail reception June 24 on her opening night as the lead in ABT's "Swan Lake," that she "never dreamed" she would become a principal dancer.
Jerry Seinfeld says political correctness is destroying comedy. The comedian talked to ESPN radio host Colin Cowherd while promoting the latest season of his Web series, "Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee," and remarked that comics are up against a mighty generation of culturally sensitive people who can't seem to take a joke.
"San Andreas," director Brad Peyton's earthquake action-adventure set in a crumbling California, seems to have reviewers taking cover as it hits theaters Friday. Glenn Kenny from RogerEbert.com focused on the movie's good graphics: "The direction by Brad Peyton is particularly effective during the brisk scenes of disaster, from the felling of Hoover Dam to the snapping of the Golden Gate Bridge.
"Entourage" will flash into theaters Wednesday and passé or not, the posse and its well-worn gimmicks are ever more abundant and indulgent for series creator Doug Ellin's movie adaptation, according to critics. The four years since HBO's cheeky saga "Entourage" ended in 2011 after eight high-flying seasons has seemingly been compressed into just a few weeks for its big-screen event.
A Georgia motorist is suing Bobbi Kristina Brown for severe injuries stemming from a car wreck in January, four days before the daughter of the late-Whitney Houston was discovered unconscious in a bathtub on Jan. 31. Russell J. Eckerman from Marietta, Georgia, is claiming medical bills and damages exceeding $730,000 from an accident involving Brown on Jan. 27, just days before she entered the hospital.
Presidential hopeful Donald Trump isn't waiting to be elected to start building borders. Earlier this week Trump lost Univision's support to air the pageant on July 12 after the mogul said that Mexican immigrants are "bringing drugs, they're bringing crime. They're rapists." On Friday, the pageant's planned host, actress Roselyn Sanchez, resigned as Trump's employee, remarking that it would be "inconceivable" to go on hosting the show.
"Inside Out" might turn box-offices upside down. Reviewers are singing the praises of the Pixar animated film by "Up" and "Monsters, Inc." director Pete Docter as one of the studio's best ever. "Inside Out" is already garnering critical acclaim for its adult-appeal despite its PG rating, and its scores of 100 percent from Rotten Tomatoes, and 91 percent from Metacritic seem likely to hold past its wide release on June 19.
If you high-tail it right now you might make it to the last few days of Bonnaroo (June 11 - 14) in Manchester, Tennessee, to catch Mumford & Sons and Billy Joel. But if you can't, do not fret -- there are still many big music festivals left for summer 2015. Check out our quick guide to the best of the rest across the country for a sonic getaway.
Although "Ted 2" is scoring shortly on Rotten Tomatoes with 45%, many reviewers are nevertheless touting the sequel to Seth MacFarlane's 2012 surprise hit as a bowl of laughs -- as in toilet bowl. Though sufficiently well acted and packed with cameos, the sum of vulgar jokes about black-male genitalia and human rights themes is a polarizing piece of work that is delighting some and disgusting others.
