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'Once Upon a One More Time' review: Britney Spears' Broadway show is awful Fresh off of “Bad Cinderella” comes the new Broadway musical “Once Upon a One More Time” — an even worse Cinderella. The dreadful show, which opened Thursday night at the Marquis Theatre, takes the pop songs of Britney Spears and plops them willy-nilly in a feminist Cinders in which the main character realizes there’s more to life than falling in love with a prince. Good for you, Cindy, but wouldn’t it be nice if you were both a freethinking, independent woman and your musical’s story made a lick of sense? It’s bibbidi-bobbidi-brainless. Instead of crafting compelling characters or a gripping plot, book writer Jon Hartmere has combined dance floor tunes from the aughts and half-baked, teacher’s-pet ideas into shapeless mush. “Once Upon” is rarely fun, but always cloying and impossible to follow.

Ina Garten's Facebook hacked — to post Olive Garden recipe The people at Olive Garden have never felt so insulted!

Think of the endless press coverage there will be when she's found alive.

Hey, I'm not the only one here who has said Matt Gutman is sexy.

Angels infielder Gio Urshela was placed on the injured list this week due to a pelvic fracture and now it seems like the issue might prevent him from returning again this year. Manager Phil Nevin relayed the news to reporters, including Sarah Valenzuela of the Los Angeles Times. Urshela won’t need surgery but he will need to be shut down for six weeks and then will require at least six weeks of ramp-up time after that. Given that timeline, it will be very difficult for him to make it back to the Angels this year.

Maybe they were.

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I subscribe to Reader's Digest. (Not really, but I needed a punchline.)

A family-run Greek supermarket business that has been a staple of 31st Street in Astoria for nearly 40 years shuttered on Sunday, although the business is expected to reopen in the fall at a new location close by. Titan Foods, known for its large selection of goods imported from Greece, will close at 25-56 31st St. since its lease will expire at the end of the month. The family business has been an Astoria mainstay for years, locally famous for its Greek cheeses and olives as well as its baked goods and other Greek delicacies. The supermarket also prepares hot and cold foods as well as ready-made meals. The company has been forced to shutter after its landlord sold the 31st Street building earlier this year. The 7,500-square-foot site in which the building stands was sold to Aniska31 Realty, LLC in February, according to city data. Aniska31 Realty, LLC also purchased two lots to the rear of Titan Foods — including a single-family home — with the total cost of all the sites coming to $10.5 million, according to city data. It is understood that the supermarket and the home will be bulldozed and a large apartment building will go up in its place. The sale of the site left Titan Foods scrambling to find a new home. Titan Foods is in the final stages of negotiating a deal on a new location and will make an announcement on the matter soon, according to Anna Mastoras, who is the daughter of the supermarket’s owners Kostas and Stavroula Mastoras. “We are staying within the neighborhood and not going too far from where we are now,” Mastoras said. “We will be relocating, not closing. We’re just getting an upgrade and seeing it as a good thing.” The business announced the closure via post to its Instagram page on Thursday. There are also notices – in both English and Greek – plastered on the front doors of the building. On Friday, the supermarket was bustling with regulars looking to stock up on goods to get them through to the fall. Mastoras said that while the supermarket is closing, the company’s online store is stocked full of items that customers would have found in the store. “Everyone’s a little panicked right now, but we do have the website, so we’re going to be supplying everyone during the time period that we’re closed,” Mastoras said. “We’re still going to be here, it’s just a small break.”

The Twinkies lead the AL Central at 36-37. The Red Sox are in last place in the East at 38-35, the same record the NL Central-leading Reds(!) have after a 9 game winning streak..

After he shockingly went hitless in 3 straight games recently, it looked like the quest for .400 was over. However, he had his second 5-5 game out of his last 3 tonight, his third in 17 days, and is now at exactly .400 again. He's gone 5-5 thrice and 4-5 twice. That's 23-25 in his 5 best games. That'll do.

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Florida woman allegedly steals Coast Guard tricycle(?), rides it onto taxiway of busy airport(!) and tries to board plane to Argentina(!!) I don't even know where to begin with this one, other than not being surprised where it happened.

Hey, I'm only 60.

Bird-watchers are blowing the internet’s collective mind after sharing a video of a “mutant pigeon” with a puffed-out breast and legs so long that viewers suspected it was an AI deepfake. A now-viral video of the stretchy squab has amassed over 18.6 million views on TikTok as viewers debate if the animal is real. The seemingly species-defying clip — shared by UK-based @pigeonsTV — features the awkward-looking birdie strolling along a table with its mile-long legs and its bulbous breast at full mast. Its towering, top-heavy physique evokes thoughts of a regular pigeon — following an Ozempic regimen gone bizarrely wrong. The gangly bird’s comparably scrawny legs and talons, meanwhile, are covered in plumes like natural, feather-hemmed pants. However, as it turns out the bird is actually an English pouter pigeon, a species of homing pigeon that’s the “tallest breed of fancy pigeons with some of the biggest ones being 16 inches in height,” according to Backyard Poultry. The flamboyant featherbag is known for being able to inflate its crop — the muscular pouch on the inside of its neck. Bred through centuries of selective breeding, the fancypants pouter is often referred to as the “supermodel” of the pigeon world due to its resplendent appearance — think of it like bird equivalent of a French poodle. Needless to say, the pigeon’s “Dr. Seuss”-esque silhouette raised many eyebrows on social media. “Stage 3 pigeon Pokémon, bro evolved,” quipped one gawker, while others compared it to something celebrities would wear at the “Met Gala.” “That’s definitely two pigeons under a trench coat,” said another. “Me drawing a pigeon from memory,” one TikTok wit joked. Another wrote, “What in the A.I generated pigeon is that?” Some even thought the bird was a regular pigeon that got plucked a la those countless videos of dogs with botched haircuts.

Officers from the 104th Precinct responded to a call regarding a collision at Metropolitan Avenue and Cooper Avenue in Middle Village that resulted in an elderly pedestrian being taken to the hospital on Monday morning. Police say a 42-year-old man was behind the wheel of a Hyundai driving eastbound when they mounted the curb and hit the 65-year-old woman at approximately 8:31 a.m. on June 19. If I ever get my hands on the young whippersnapper who wrote this...

BTW, the strangest thing has been happening for months: HULU is the only place that seems to have GOC without commercials... I try to play it, only to get a PSA about the evils of cigarette smoking, followed by an Indian film. Nary a sheep in sight!

The Louis Armstrong House Museum (LAHM) in Corona announced it will officially open its new state-of-the-art building, preserving and expanding the legacy and ideals of America’s first Black popular music icon, on Thursday, July 6, as the new permanent home for the 60,000-piece Louis Armstrong Archive, the world’s largest for a jazz musician, and a 75-seat venue offering performances, lectures, films and other educational experiences. “This is a landmark moment for the Louis Armstrong House Museum,” said LAHM Executive Director Regina Bain. “Standing on the shoulders of the jazz and community greats who have come before us, the new Louis Armstrong Center invites today’s musicians, neighbors, and global fans to discover Louis and Lucille Armstrong’s story from a new perspective. We will bring the Armstrongs’ unique archives alive through new interactive events. And we will ensure that music once again rings out on 107th Street through groundbreaking programs in collaboration with emerging artists and contemporary icons.” The 14,000-square-foot center establishes the final piece of the campus that now comprises the museum as whole; it now includes the home itself that reflects the personal values of Louis Armstrong, the garden that serves as a place for gathering and a place for live performances, the donated home of next-door neighbor Selma Heraldo, reflecting the deep roots within the community, and the new center, designed as an interpretation of Armstrong’s music, where the public can learn even more about the icon who is Louis Armstrong. Armstrong’s classic “What a Wonderful World” was inspired by the neighborhood around his home at 34-56 107th St., where he and his wife Lucille Wilson lived from 1943 to 1971. The new Louis Armstrong Center in Corona will officially open to the public on July 6.

Clean-shaven Alec Secareanu is in SPY/MASTER, a six part series on HBO that ain't bad. 'Spy/Master' review: An enthralling Cold War thriller So. Much. Suspense. https://mashable.com/article/spy-master-review-hbo-max

The Rowdy Girls Directed by: David Trainer Written by: Linda Bloodworth-Thomason Taped: October 3, 1989 Airdate: October 30, 1989 For the annual Design Arts Center Talent Show, Sugarbaker's decides to lip-synch a Supremes song. Suzanne is called away to judge a beauty contest but promises to be back in time for the show. Before she leaves, she announces that she and Anthony are also doing a Motown routine together. Suzanne suggests doing her routines in black makeup, an idea the other women find racist. MARY JO: Suzanne, we can't go around in black face, that's racist! SUZANNE: Why? If Dustin Hoffman was gonna play Martin Luther King, you don't think he'd wear black makeup? JULIA: Suzanne, Dustin Hoffman would never play Martin Luther King -- that part would go to a black actor. SUZANNE: Well I think that's racist! I mean, I think it should go to whoever the best person is --- and that could be Dustin Hoffman. I can quote Designing Women for many situations in life. 😎

Fishing crew denied $3.5M in prize money after 600-pound marlin DQ’d in tournament A shark took a bite out of one crew’s dream of winning a high-stakes fishing competition when the massive marlin they reeled in was disqualified by tournament officials for being mutilated. The Big Rock Blue Marlin Tournament in North Carolina ended in controversy after the crew dubbed Sensation boasted a whopping 619-pound marlin Saturday that would have clinched the team members more than $3 million in prize money, but was disallowed because it appeared to be bitten by sharks. “It was determined that Sensation’s 619.4 lb. Blue Marlin is disqualified due to mutilation caused by a shark or other marine animal,” the tourney officials wrote in a statement Sunday. “It was deemed that the fish was mutilated before it was landed or boated and therefore it was disqualified.” The decision came after “careful deliberation and discussions” with tournament officials and experts. Sensation’s captain, Greg McCoy, told the Washington Post his crew believed they were winners after battling to hook the huge marlin for hours. “It’s the final hour, the final day and we fought with him for six hours,” McCoy told the newspaper. “It’s a tough pill to swallow.” He said he was shocked when the mutilation rule came up. A livestream of the event shows the crowd going wild as the crew proudly revealed their humongous catch of the day. But the mood quickly dampened. “It would appear that this fish has been bitten by a shark,” the announcer said over a loudspeaker. Sensation would have won about $3.5 million in prize money. The crew would have earned $2.77 million for coming in first place and another $739,500 for the first catch of the year that is more than 500 pounds, the Washington Post reported. The tournament, in its statement, said the decision to disqualify Sensation’s catch was consistent with past rulings and in line with the International Game Fish Association rulebook. A crew named Sushi ended up winning the tournament, in its 65th year, by landing a 484.5-pound blue marlin, tournament officials said. Tournament officials noted 271 boats competed in this year’s competition. https://nypost.com/2023/06/19/massive-marlin-dqd-in-big-rock-blue-marlin-tournament-over-mutilation/#:~:text=Sensation would have won about,pounds%2C the Washington Post reported.

Woman who knocked on coffin at her funeral dies after week in hospital