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.”
A new Gallup poll shows declining support for capitalism in the United States, especially among Democrats and younger Americans, as socialism continues to gain traction. The shift in public opinion follows the rise of socialist figures like Zohran Mamdani, who recently won New York City’s Democratic mayoral primary.
