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Robin Byrd went to the Supreme Court with her fight to host nude porn stars and strippers on her wild NYC talk show — and won
Before there was YouTube — or OnlyFans — there was Robin Byrd. From 1977 to 1998, the sometime actress was the queen of New York City’s weirdest, wackiest late-night talk show, on public access’ Channel J. “The Robin Byrd Show,” which also ran in reruns for years later, welcomed porn stars, strippers and downtown deviants to…
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SoCal kids roasting marshmallows airlifted to burn center after tabletop fireplace jets out flames
A tabletop fireplace that was recalled after it was linked to two deaths in the United States is apparently still injuring consumers, with two children in Southern California rushed to the hospital over the weekend with serious burns, according to officials. Firefighters responded to the 500 block of the Strand North at a beachfront property,…
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Stocks rise and recover some of their losses from a rare losing week
Stocks rose Monday and recovered some of their losses from a rare losing week. The Standard & Poor’s 500 index climbed 1.2% and broke a five-day losing streak. It was coming off just its second losing week in the last 13. The Dow Jones industrial average added 0.6%, and the Nasdaq composite rallied 2.1%. Several…
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Meta Contractors Posed as Teens to Prompt Rival Chatbots About Suicide, Sex, and Drugs
Hundreds of contractors working on a project for Meta were instructed to pose as minors online and probe how competitor chatbots responded to prompts involving suicide, sex, eating disorders, and other high-risk subjects, according to internal documents and five people familiar with the project. The effort, which was managed by Meta contractor Covalen, was active…
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iHeartMedia lays off on-air personalities nationwide, including at Riverside-based KGGI
Riverside-based radio station KGGI has lost its last local on-air hosts. Longtime radio personalities Evelyn Erives, Nick Nack and Garrison King were all cut from the Inland Empire station last week as part of iHeartMedia’s latest round of national layoffs. In an internal memo, the media giant said it would restructure its radio programming to…
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DSA sat out every LI election this month — but a planned takeover is coming: experts
The Democratic Socialists of America likely chose not to run or endorse a single recent candidate on Long Island because it thought it could lose face — but a planned local takeover is coming, experts say. The far-left DSA’s leaders believe the ground work has now been laid for it to start targeting the massive…
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The Wedding-Conspiracy Mill That Taylor Swift Built
Are Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce getting married at Madison Square Garden? Will Stevie Nicks be performing? Will the wedding be on July 3, as some reports suggest? Or is that just a red-herring date that Swift gave out to see who would leak it to the media? Is Swift, in fact, planning two weddings—one…
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San Francisco Archdiocese to pay $395 million to sexual abuse victims
The San Francisco Archdiocese will pay out nearly $400 million to survivors of clergy sexual abuse, encompassing 70 years of children falling prey to priests, lawyers announced Monday. The settlement sets up a trust to compensate 530 survivors of childhood sexual abuse — all of whom are now adults — and establishes extensive child protection…
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Venezuelans search more earthquake ruins as attention turns to humanitarian crisis
LA GUAIRA, Venezuela — With the window for finding survivors closing fast, Venezuelans combed Monday through more ruins of buildings toppled by last week’s powerful back-to-back earthquakes, and attention turned to the country’s humanitarian crisis that could persist for years. Relief organizations say the first 72 hours after a natural disaster is the most crucial time period…
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Director Carl Rinsch Sentenced to 30 Months in Prison for $11 Million Netflix Production Fraud
Director Carl Rinsch was sentenced to two and a half years in prison for scamming Netflix out of millions. Nearly seven months after he was found guilty of defrauding the streamer of $11 million for his never-completed sci-fi series “White Horse,” Judge Jed Rakoff handed down the ruling Monday in New York City. Rinsch was…