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Julia Fox Shows Her Disdain For Wealth By Living In A Tiny Mice-Infested NYC Apartment
Julia Fox wants us to know she is also a part of the struggle and hates wealthy people. The post Julia Fox Shows Her Disdain For Wealth By Living In A Tiny Mice-Infested NYC Apartment appeared first on The Latest Hip-Hop News, Music and Media | Hip-Hop Wired.
Green Light: NYC Officially Opens First Legal Weed Store In East Village
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: NurPhoto / Getty The long wait is over as New York City has opened its first legal marijuana dispensary, with more slated to open within the next few months. On Thursday (Dec. 29), the first legally licensed recreational marijuana dispensary in New York State will open in the East Village neighborhood of Manhattan. The Housing Works Cannabis Company is preparing to open its doors after being given the go-ahead by Governor Kathy Hochul December 21. Related Stories “We set a course just nine months ago to start New York’s adult-use cannabis market off on the right foot by prioritizing equity, and now, we’re fulfilling that goal,” she said at a press conference announcing the decision at the time. New York Housing Works, a minority-controlled non-profit orga...
NYC Mayor Adams Defends Virgin Islands Vacay Before Impending Winter Storm
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Pacific Press / Getty Mayor Eric Adams hasn’t met a scandal that he couldn’t avoid. This time, the cop-turned-politician is answering to questions about his decision to go on vacay just before a winter storm was set to hit the city he’s in charge of over the Christmas holiday weekend. Apparently, while the Mayor’s office didn’t let the public know his whereabouts, it turns out he was in the U.S. Virgin Islands. Reports Gothamist: The mayor revealed his weekend whereabouts at an unrelated press conference Tuesday evening after his office hid them from the public for days. Adams stood by his decision to leave town and said he was mourning his mother during his second Christmas without her. “After 365 days of commitment to this city, I decided to take t...
‘SNL’ Alum Chris Redd Calls Attack Outside NYC Comedy Club “A Planned Situation”
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Slaven Vlasic / Getty Actor and comedian Chris Redd is opening up about the brutal attack outside of a New York City comedy club in October that left him hospitalized. According to a November report from Deadline, the attack happened outside the famed Comedy Cellar on Oct. 26 as Chris Redd was walking in to perform a show. The unknown assailant quickly approached him, sucker-punched him in the face then fled the scene. Redd had previously said that he thought the man hit him with “something metal.” In an new interview with SiriusXM’s The Bennington Show, Redd said that he saw in surveillance footage that the assailant had been hanging around outside of the venue prior to his arrival. “People called it a random attack. I don’t believe that. He ...
Music Companies Must Now Include Salary Ranges on New York Job Postings
A new New York City law requiring employers to disclose salary ranges in job postings has officially gone into effect this week, with music companies hiring in the city mandated to comply. On the first day of the law, a picture of at least one of the major music companies’ salary ranges has come into focus. The day the law went into effect, several companies were criticized for overly-broad salary ranges that effectively subverted the point of the regulation, which was designed to give prospective employees insight into what they could be expected to earn at different companies in the city and address salary discrepancies between men and women and for people of color. The Wall Street Journal, for instance, posted reporting and producing jobs with ranges between $40,000 to $160,000; te...
Free Narcan Kits to Be Distributed to New York Nightlife Establishments, Per New Legislation
It’s no secret that the opioid epidemic is worsening across the country. In New York City, where one resident dies of an overdose every three hours, the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH) has teamed up with the Mayor’s Office of Nightlife for groundbreaking new legislation: distributing free anti-overdose kits to nightlife establishments across the state’s five boroughs. The hope, legislators said in a press release, is to combat accidental overdoses caused by pills or powders laced with fentanyl, a substance the United States Drug Administration found fatal doses of in 42% of pills they tested in 2021. Narcan, an anti-overdose agent that rapidly reverses the effects of an overdose, will be in each kit they provide to community nightlife hubs. “The frank real...
Free Narcan Kits to Be Distributed to New York Nightlife Establishments, Per New Legislation
It’s no secret that the opioid epidemic is worsening across the country. In New York City, where one resident dies of an overdose every three hours, the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH) has teamed up with the Mayor’s Office of Nightlife for groundbreaking new legislation: distributing free anti-overdose kits to nightlife establishments across the state’s five boroughs. The hope, legislators said in a press release, is to combat accidental overdoses caused by pills or powders laced with fentanyl, a substance the United States Drug Administration found fatal doses of in 42% of pills they tested in 2021. Narcan, an anti-overdose agent that rapidly reverses the effects of an overdose, will be in each kit they provide to community nightlife hubs. “The frank real...
The Number Of Homeless Adults In New York At Its Highest Since 2013
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: UCG / Getty Things are getting bad in New York City. Whether it’s the crime rate, rising cost of living or number of rats running around the street, things are a struggle out here. Now Gothamist is reporting that the number of homeless adults in the Big Apple is steadily rising as homeless shelters are reporting numbers that no one really expected. According to statistics, the number of adults living in homeless shelters is the highest it’s been since 2013 with that figure expected to break the record in the coming months. The figures, dating back to 2013 and posted on the city’s Open Data website, show that on Sept. 23 there were 39,136 adults in shelters overseen by the Department of Homeless Services. That was the first day that eclipsed the previ...
NYC Venue Slate Is Breathing New Life Into the Big Apple’s Clubbing Scene
What happens when you put an adult playground in the heart of Manhattan? Combining a modern clubbing experience with dozens of activities and games, Slate has cemented itself as one of the city’s premier hotspots. Located in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan, Slate hosts a variety of events, like live comedy shows, karaoke nights and vibrant electronic dance music parties soundtracked by some of the city’s most talented emerging DJs. Slate’s space is dynamic, covering 16,000 square feet over two levels while being able to host roughly 1,000 people. Its main level, which serves as the main party room, offers a modern clubbing experience with a massive LED screen, go-go dancers and much more. Partying isn’t all Slate is about, however. True to its M.O. of delivering a multi-f...
5 Things You Can’t Miss at Electric Zoo 3.0, a Technicolor Dreamscape
Choosing the best things to do at Electric Zoo is like choosing your favorite child—it’s impossible. With a lineup featuring Martin Garrix, Armin van Buuren, Seven Lions and many more of EDM’s corps d’elite, it’s tough to imagine anything else eclipsing the music at Electric Zoo 3.0. But that’s certainly not the case. E-Zoo is returning over Labor Day Weekend, when over 100,000 ravers will take in the sights and sounds of New York City’s premier electronic music festival. And thanks to a number of new, ambitious ventures, organizers are gearing up for perhaps the most exciting event in the festival’s history. Tickets are on sale now. Here are five things to look forward to at Electric Zoo 2022: Electric Zoo. Alive Coverage Brand...
Vegas Nightlife Entrepreneur to Open Cannabis Museum In New York City
There’s more than one way to celebrate cannabis than lighting up. Earlier this year, New York legalized adult use of recreational cannabis, and one Las Vegas-based nightlife entrepreneur is readying his effort to bring the city a major cultural touchpoint in celebration of the plant. The House of Cannabis, or THCNYC for short, is Robert Frey’s project to turn a sprawling 30,000 square-foot space into an immersive museum that will explore the history of cannabis and spotlight the creative arts and culture it has influenced throughout the decades. Frey is the former owner of Vegas’ Pure nightclub and the Pussycat Dolls Lounge. More recently, he became the owner of a 50,000 square-foot cannabis production facility and owned the city’s Zen Leaf dispensary. Frey has sinc...
The Jackie Robinson Museum Officially Opens In NYC
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: New York Daily News / Getty A new museum honoring the late baseball & civil rights icon Jackie Robinson officially opened to the public in New York City, after years of anticipation and planning. On Tuesday (July 26th), a ribbon-cutting ceremony occurred at The Jackie Robinson Museum, located just above the Tribeca neighborhood in New York City. The ceremony was attended by Rachel Robinson, Jackie’s widow and founder of the Jackie Robinson Foundation along with her son, David Robinson, and daughter Sharon Robinson. Also in attendance was Della Britton, the president and CEO of the Jackie Robinson Foundation, New York City Mayor Eric Adams, tennis legend Billie Jean King, filmmaker Spike Lee and former MLB pitcher C.C. Sabathia. Good Morning America ho...
