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people at Sauna Comedy enjoy hearing jokes from performer

Health

If laughter is the best medicine, Sauna Comedy is a miracle worker for New Yorkers

Posted on November 23, 2025

NY: Brooklyn Museum Funding

Brooklyn Paper

‘The people’s museum’: State lawmakers award Brooklyn Museum $10M amid federal arts cuts

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Bronx Times

Bronx punk band Planta Industrial plays to packed house for EP release show

"American People Series #19: U.S. Postage Stamp Commemorating the Advent of Black Power" by Faith Ringgold

A reckoning in color: Faith Ringgold’s fierce legacy shakes the walls at Jack Shainman Gallery

Posted on November 20, 2025

LI Press

Radiant Eye Studio: Where ideas become art, energy, and experience

WWE Superstar R-Truth performs for fans in Manhattan.

Telling the ‘Truth’: WWE superstar R-Truth sings for fans in SoHo, reveals health battle

Posted on November 17, 2025

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Caribbean Life

Oliver Samuels brings the laughter — America’s premiere backs Jamaica’s hurricane relief

WWE superstar R-Truth, also known by his real name Ron Killings, is trading in the ring for the stage in a special, one-off musical performance in the Big Apple this month.

WWE superstar R-Truth talks one night only concert in NYC, overcoming adversity

Posted on November 14, 2025

La-Troupe-de-Mademoiselle-Eglantine by Henri Toulouse-Lautrec

Arts & Entertainment

From brothels to galleries: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec’s iconic prints on view in Soho

Posted on November 13, 2025

GRAMMY Award-winning artist Shaggy.

Caribbean Life

Music for a Cause

Jamaican singer Richie Stephens.

Caribbean Life

Richie Stephens, reggae stars bring relief to Jamaica in aftermath of Hurricane Melissa

Artist Charisse Weston with a sculpture on display

Layers of glass, and meaning: Charisse Weston’s bold art on display in Chelsea

Posted on November 12, 2025

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Bronx Times

‘Stay Scared’: George A. Romero retrospective opens across three Bronx venues

Jonathan Adler, Amy Adler and Simon Doonan attend MAD Ball 2025 at Museum of Arts and Design on October 29, 2025 in New York.

Annual MAD Ball honors Jonathan Adler’s glimmering contributions to art

Posted on November 6, 2025

La Cabane a Cagne by Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Arts & Entertainment

Pierre-Auguste Renoir, a custodian of the human heart, has select works on display in Soho

Posted on November 6, 2025

Keenan “Special” Bristol, a Guyanese-American artist and activist and founder of “Music Brings Life.”

Caribbean Life

Music With a Mission

Drag Queens of New York author Julian Fleisher with photographer Brooke Williams

Arts & Entertainment

NYC exhibit honors the legends behind ‘The Drag Queens of New York’

Posted on November 5, 2025

Dr. Shuvendu Sen (second from the right) talks "Broadway and Bar Fortunes"

Arts & Entertainment

How Shuvendu Sen spotlights the arts in ‘Broadway, Bars and Fortunes’

Posted on November 5, 2025

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QNS

NYC Marathon documentary ’26.2’ premieres at Upper West Side in Manhattan, featuring Queens resident Joel Kaufman

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Bronx Times

Meet the Bronx 3rd grade teacher running her first New York City Marathon

Century Ladies Ver. IX 134 by Peter Max

Arts & Entertainment

Peter Max: The artist who painted America’s psychedelic soul, on display in Soho

Posted on October 30, 2025

Longtime friends Bob Gruen and Jesse Malin at The Django

‘You’re only 80 once’: NYC legends jam at birthday bash for iconic rock photographer Bob Gruen

Posted on October 29, 2025

Pupkin contest

Brooklyn Paper

Hundreds flock to Fort Greene Park for beloved ‘Great Pupkin’ dog costume contest

founders of red hook pinball museum

Brooklyn Paper

Brothers in bumpers: Friends and pinball wizards go all in on pinball museum in Red Hook

saturday night live

QNS

Middle Village local wins Emmy for work on ‘Saturday Night Live’

Barclays Center

Brooklyn Paper

Barclays Center unveils new fan spaces ahead of Brooklyn Nets season opener

"Dark Side of the Moon" by Stephen Fishwick

Arts & Entertainment

Stephen Fishwick at Park West Gallery — Where color becomes sound, and motion becomes spirit

Posted on October 23, 2025

Catch a night of Caribbean comedy on Oct. 26!

Arts & Entertainment

Get into the Halloween spirit Caribbean-style with spooky comedy

Posted on October 23, 2025

Wendy Moonan, Sylvia Hemingway, Barbara Tober and Lee Fryd attend Musical Bodies at The Metropolitan Museum of Art on October 14, 2025 in New York.

The Met’s ‘Musical Bodies’ — where form becomes sound and sound becomes soul

Posted on October 22, 2025

Atmosphere at Museum of Arts and Design Celebrates Douriean Fletcher at Museum of Arts and Design on October 8, 2025 in New York.

The radiance of tomorrow: Douriean Fletcher and the Jewelry of the Afrofuture at MAD

Posted on October 22, 2025

Members of the group, the Doo Wop Project. From left, Santino "Sonny" Paladino (Musical Director), Charl Brown, Dominic Nolfi, Russell Fischer, John Michael Dias, and Dwayne Cooper.

Caribbean Life

Keeping Doo-Wop alive: Musical group celebrates new album release

ice spice

Bronx Times

A song so nice, Ice Spice named it twice: ‘Baddie Baddie’ music video drops with scenes of the Bronx

Rainbow Bright kinetic art by Yaacov Agam, 2006

Arts & Entertainment

Yaacov Agam: The architect of the invisible with his kinetic art

Posted on October 16, 2025

NY: A Very Brooklyn Fashion Show

Brooklyn Paper

Local designers shine at ‘A Very Brooklyn Fashion Show’ to support Red Hook artists

A view of performers at the Hudson River Park Friends 2025 Gala at Hudson River Park's Pier 62 on October 09, 2025 in New York City.

The Midnight Garden Gala: Where New York’s waterfront went full bloom

Posted on October 15, 2025

The team responsible for "Sunday at Il Posto Accanto": seated, Seth Svi Rosenfeld, Beatrice Tosti di Valminuta, Julio Pena. Standing, Victor Rasuk , Danny Hoch

Classic East Village eatery Il Posto Accanto becomes the star of its own movie

Posted on October 15, 2025

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Brooklyn Paper

Bankrupt, structurally unsafe Brooklyn Mirage files for demolition

red hook open studios waterfront

Brooklyn Paper

Red Hook Open Studios forges ahead after fire

Ringmaster Jan Vasquez and his sister Carolina Vasquez performing their new act for the 2025 Flip Circus Tour.

QNS

Flip Circus returning to Queens this fall featuring all new acts

"Self Portrait" by John Wilson, 1943

Arts & Entertainment

John Wilson at The Met: Witnessing humanity and defying erasure through his canvas

Posted on October 9, 2025

NY: A Night Against Censorship with George Takei

Brooklyn Paper

George Takei speaks out against censorship at BPL Banned Books Week event

Jack Kirby (left), a cartoon portrait of Jack Kirby with superheroes

Lower East Side

A human superhero: Push to honor Lower East Sider and Superhero co-creator Jack Kirby

Posted on October 7, 2025

Jeremy Piven doing standup comedy

Arts & Entertainment

Jeremy Piven on standup, family legacy, and his return to New York’s stage

Posted on October 7, 2025

$Light refracting off Shoshanna Weinberger art$

Lower Manhattan

Shoshanna Weinberger showcases the space between light at PES FUTURES in Lower Manhattan

Posted on October 2, 2025

Cultural Institutions Group Announcement

Brooklyn Paper

‘A generational investment’: NYC Cultural Institutions Group adds five, including BRIC, in historic expansion

In the Fiddler’s House

Arts & Entertainment

Itzhak Perlman Celebrates 80th Birthday with Klezmer Concert at Beacon Theatre

Posted on October 1, 2025

Jasmine Wahi, Rebecca Pauline Jampol, Tatyana Fazlalizadeh, Jennifer Hoffman Williamson, Sophie Landres, Kalia Brooks, Deborah Willis, Carla Williams, Cheryl Finley, Ebony L Haynes, Lauren Marinaro, Legacy Russell, Ruba Katrib, Meg Onli

La Résilience: A night of badass women at the Angel Orensanz

Posted on October 1, 2025

Sixties Surreal opened at the Whitney.

Sixties Surreal at the Whitney: yesterday’s dreams, today’s echoes

Posted on October 1, 2025

More from around NYC

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2025 Power Women of the Bronx: a night of women leaders honored, glass ceilings shattered

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Queens Botanical Garden to host ‘Winter Wonder’ holiday celebration

‘We are all one family’: Cops spread Thanksgiving cheer to North Brooklyn families in need

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Report details allegations of police harassment against LGBTQ New Yorkers