Director Taika Waititi and his wife, singer-songwriter Rita Ora, are producing a stage musical based on the infamous 2017 Fyre Festival disaster. The project aims to turn one of the most notorious event failures in modern history into a theatrical production.
New York Governor Kathy Hochul is under fire for refusing to disclose how much taxpayer money is being spent on a fuzzy, cartoon-like mascot dubbed “Frankie Focus.” The character, part of a campaign to promote cellphone bans in public schools, debuted last week at a Brooklyn middle school. Critics across the political spectrum are blasting the initiative as wasteful and “tone-deaf.”