• Delay in Caesars-Eldorado merger could mean deal totally craps out

    Delay in Caesars-Eldorado merger could mean deal totally craps out

    Casino regulators are putting the industry’s biggest gaming merger on the back burner due to the coronavirus — raising the odds that the deal could be squashed, The Post has learned. When casino operator Eldorado, which runs Tropicana and Circus Circus casinos, agreed to buy Caesars Entertainment for $17.3 billion last year, it had planned …
  • Alvin Ailey to stream full-length performances online

    Alvin Ailey to stream full-length performances online

    Dance company Alvin Ailey is moving online. “Ailey for All” will offer videos of performances starting Monday with its most well-known work, “Revelations.” Full length performances will then stream Thursdays, and clips made by dancers at home will be included in a series called #TheShowMustGoOn. And for those who want to learn moves while in …
  • U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson Tests Positive for Coronavirus

    U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson Tests Positive for Coronavirus

    Prime Minister Boris Johnson has tested positive for coronavirus, the respiratory illness that continues to spread in Britain and around the globe, he announced Friday. “Over the last 24 hours I have developed mild symptoms and tested positive for coronavirus,” Johnson wrote in a Friday morning tweet. “I am now self-isolating, but I will continue …
  • Gwen Stefani shaves Blake Shelton’s ‘quarantine mullet’

    Gwen Stefani shaves Blake Shelton’s ‘quarantine mullet’

    Gwen Stefani approves of boyfriend Blake Shelton‘s new look. The No Doubt frontwoman, 50, put an edgy twist on the “Voice” judge’s hair, which he recently said he would grow into a mullet as a “symbol of hope” during the coronavirus pandemic. “Quarantine mullet update 3/26/2020,” Shelton, 43, posted on Twitter. “@gwenstefani has decided to …
  • Giants mailbag: Evaluating roster after NFL free agency blitz

    Giants mailbag: Evaluating roster after NFL free agency blitz

    You ask, we answer. The Post is fielding questions from readers about New York’s biggest pro sports teams and getting our beat writers to answer them in a series of regularly published mailbags. In today’s installment: the Giants. With the bulk of free agency behind us, what are the biggest strengths and weaknesses of the …
  • Cheesecake Factory furloughs thousands of workers as coronavirus shuts restaurants

    Cheesecake Factory furloughs thousands of workers as coronavirus shuts restaurants

    The Cheesecake Factory has sidelined nearly all of its restaurant workers, without pay, as the coronavirus crisis shutters some of its eateries, records show. The California-based chain has furloughed about 41,000 hourly restaurant staffers because of reductions in dine-in service and “landlord closures of certain properties,” it said in a Friday regulatory filing. That number …
  • Shanghai reopening 205 cinemas that closed due to COVID-19

    Shanghai reopening 205 cinemas that closed due to COVID-19

    After two months of being shut down due to the rapid spread of coronavirus, Chinese officials announced Thursday that they are planning to reopen 205 cinemas on Saturday. The teeming metropolis of more than 24 million people is one of the first major cities to reopen multiplexes to the public after many of the outlying …
  • CBS sitcom ‘Broke’ gives timely twist to single-mom cliché

    CBS sitcom ‘Broke’ gives timely twist to single-mom cliché

    The single mom struggling to make ends meet is a well-worn TV series premise. In “Broke,” a new comedy on CBS, the cliché is given a timely twist. Reseda, Calif., mother Jackie (Pauley Perrette) receives the shock of her working-class life when her estranged sister Elizabeth (Natasha Leggero) shows up at her door one day, …
  • Jessica Chastain and husband step out with baby

    Jessica Chastain and husband step out with baby

    After quietly welcoming their first child via surrogate in 2018, it appears that Jessica Chastain and husband Gian Luca Passi de Preposulo may be parents of two. The actress, 43, was photographed holding an infant in a carrier on her chest during a family stroll in Santa Monica, Calif., on Wednesday. Her 38-year-old husband walked beside …
  • Britney Spears claims to run 100-meter dash faster than Usain Bolt

    Britney Spears claims to run 100-meter dash faster than Usain Bolt

    Just call her Sprintney Spears. Britney Spears puzzled fans on Instagram on Wednesday when she made the shocking claim that she ran a 100-meter dash in just under six seconds. “Ran my first 5 !!!!” she captioned a screenshot of a stopwatch timer displaying 5.97 seconds. “Getting over your fear of pushing it in the …