Six of America’s best gay Pride celebrations
New York City
The Big Apple’s Pride comes in late June and features rooftop parties, a street festival, a rally, luminaries and a brunch. Patti Labelle, Tegan & Sara, LeAnn Rimes and Nelly Furtado also will perform.
Los Angeles
The City of Angels’ L.A. Pride 2017 includes performances by Brandy, Aaron Carter and Spencer Ludwig among a host of others. There is also a tour of Universal Studios, a Dodger game and a #ResistMarch.
(Photo: Mark Vergan/The Journal News)
PDA at the Met Gala?
These couples weren’t shy!
'Charging Bull' creator plans to fight NYC on 'Fearless Girl' statue
Attorney Norman Siegel told the Associated Press that Italian-born sculptor Arturo Di Modica plans to explain his plans to challenge city officials who allowed the “Fearless Girl” statue to be installed without his permission during a Wednesday press conference.
The cutest Westminster champs
The Westminster Dog Show takes place this year in New York City on Feb. 13 and 14. It’s expected to feature nearly 3,000 dogs. (Photos: AP, Getty, USA TODAY Sports)Snow hard feelings: Winter is here and it’s beautiful.
(Photos: Kelly Kopp, Brittany Sullivan, Ashish Prashar, Rosalie Espinosa Quinto via @yourtake)
People are loving this thundersnow!
The blizzard pounding parts of the Northeast United States is bringing out love for an evasive weather phenomenon: Thundersnow.
As the storm hit, people across the Northeast reported with glee, spottings of thundersnow — a thunderstorm with snow instead of rain.
It seems odd to celebrate a storm that canceled flights and closed schools, but people are embracing the special feeling of hearing a loud thunder crash during a roaring blizzard. Plus, who could forget Weather Channel hypeman Jim Cantore’s epic thundersnow celebration from 2015?
Thousands across the USA protest Trump victory
Protesters took to the streets Wednesday in at least 10 cities to march against president-elect Donald Trump - and numerous college students and faculty leaders took to social media to announce support groups and even postponed exams.
Protests were underway in Chicago, New York, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Boston, Washington, D.C., Portland, Ore., St. Paul, Minn. and several other cities. An estimated 2,000 protesters shouted angrily in downtown Seattle, expressing their frustration at the Trump victory over Democrat and former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, who won 228 electoral votes to Trump’s 279.
Police in riot gear struggled to hold back scores of protesters in some of the cities as protesters chanted “Not My President” and “No Racist USA.” The protests were mostly peaceful. Seattle police said they were investigating a report of a shooting near the site of the protest in that city, but it may not have involved protesters.
In Los Angeles, protesters poured into the streets near City Hall and torched a giant Trump effigy, the Los Angeles Times reported. Later in the night, hundreds marched onto the busy 101 Freeway which brought the highway to a complete standstill. The California Highway Patrol and the Los Angeles Police Department —who urged protesters to remain lawful and peaceful — responded and were seen leading demonstrators away from the busy highway. At least 13 people were later arrested, LAPD Officer Tony Im told the Los Angeles Times.
(Photo credit: Tim Durkan, Your Take; Alba Vigaray, EPA; John Roark, Athens Banner-Herald via AP; Nick Oza, The Arizona Republic; Paul Chinn, San Francisco Chronicle via AP; Karen Ducey, Getty Images)
Light beams off One World Trade Center
A stunning photo shows sunlight reflecting off of the One World Trade Center days before the 15th anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks.
Ben Sturner captured the photo from Long Island City around 7:00 a.m. on Thursday.
Sturner, who owns a marketing agency, posted the photo on Twitter along with another of a striking image he took exactly a year ago of a rainbow ending on the One World Trade Center.
