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- A heavy metal guitarist and founding member of the right-wing extremist group the Oath Keepers is the first person to plead guilty to charges related to the January 6th Capitol riot.
- The 10-year-long saga of renovating and reopening the (in)famous Chelsea Hotel to guests ... is still ongoing.
- Now that California theme parks are allowed to reopen, weekend tickets at Disneyland have already sold out through May, and Six Flags Magic Mountain and Legoland tickets are going fast!
- Your fave's Grub Street Diet can't touch this 72-year-old Welsh farmer's record of eating "two pieces of fish, an onion, an egg, baked beans and biscuits" every night for the past 10 years.
- Despite all we've learned about the relatively low rates of outdoor COVID-19 transmission, hell yeah we'll continue to gasp in horror at every picture of people drinking and having a good time outside.
- Helen McCrory, who starred in Harry Potter and James Bond movies and had two children with her husband, actor Damian Lewis, has died at the age of 52.
- Director Jon Chu's movie adaptation of the Broadway musical, In The Heights, will open the 2021 Tribeca Film Festival.
- Some narcissists, it turns out, actually hate themselves.
- 2020/2021: Classic Liminal.
- And finally, this is me when I listen to "Right Round" by Flo Rida (feat. Ke$ha):
Jen Chung / Gothamist
Published Apr 16, 2021
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