Fyre Festival was hyped up to be the most opulent of all music events, a “once-in-a-lifetime” experience on a private island in the Bahamas. Instead of fancy bungalows and food prepared by celebrity chefs, festival-goers found themselves trapped in airports, sleeping in flimsy tents, and eating boxed lunches.
With a headline of “Yep, I’m Gay” on the cover of Time and the same declaration on her sitcom, Ellen DeGeneres made history 20 years ago as the first prime-time lead on network TV to come out, capturing the hearts of supporters gay and straight amid a swirl of hate mail, death threats and, ultimately, dark times on and off the screen.
Andre Agassi and Steffi Graf, his wife, made a $1 million donation during Keep Memory Alive’s Power of Love gala Thursday night. Agassi, along with Ron Perelman and Siegfried Fischbacher, were given awards at the event.
Two-time Tony Award winner James Earl Jones will soon get a third — for lifetime achievement.
Dust advisories are nothing new in these parts. But pixie dust advisories? Definitely not the typical local forecast — until now.
An old sketch up for auction May 20 at the Hard Rock Cafe in Manhattan is a crude, ink-on-paper drawing of the iconic “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club” album cover. The artist is almost surely John Lennon. The significance is another story.
