ASTRA'S ENTERTAINMENT: Mariah's Holiday Special, J-Lo Dating, & What's Happening In NY

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Pleading uktu like success New York Astra's entertainment news Good
Morning and Happy Thursday. So TikTok just dropped the top songs,
artists and music trends that took over twenty twenty five,
and Jess Glynn's Hold My Hand is being named the
UK Song of the Year now. Other popular songs include
Radioheads let Down and Connie Francis's Pretty Little Baby. The

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most saved music of the year was Taylor Swift's album
The Life of a Showgirl. Dochie's Anxiety was chosen as
the music trend of the Year, and Kat's Eye was
crowned as the Global Artists of the Year by TikTok.
Speaking of Taylor Swift, the Swifties have been patiently awaiting
the arrival of her documentary series The End of an
Era and the concert film The Final Show from her

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Error's Tour, and Disney Plus just announced the release times,
so be prepared to be up late on December twelfth,
because they drop at twelve am Pacific time, which is
going to be three am our time. Now. If you
couldn't make it to Vegas, see Mariah Carey's holiday special
show The Final One is going to be streamed on
TikTok Live and Apple Music this Saturday. Now, if you

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are an Apple Music subscriber, you'll be able to watch
the show on demand if you missed the broadcast. And
don't forget, Mariah's also going to be performing on New
Year's Rock and Eve. Jennifer Lopez has reportedly removed her
Infinity Simple tattoo on her rib that said Ben Affleck,
while rumors of a new romance with Keith Urban have
started to heat up. Jenshaw from The Real Housewives of

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Salt Lake City was released from prison early in the
morning yesterday after serving nearly three years. Now. Her rep
insisted that she's done a lot of reflecting and real
growth during her time away and is genuinely not the
same woman that she was before, focusing on her family
and building a healthier, more grounded life now. She served
time for her role in a long running nationwide telemarketing

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fraud scheme, and she was charged with conspiracy to commit
wire fraud and connection with telemarketing, conspiracy to commit money laundering.
Speaking of the Housewives, Countess Luan, who was on the
Housewives of New York, well, she's going to be bringing
her cabaret show to the city, doing holiday classics and
telling stories about her time on the show. That you
could check that out at Sony Hall on December twenty

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second and twenty third. John Samos has joined the cast
of The Hunting Wives season two. He's going to be
portraying Chase Brylin. However, character details have yet to be disclosed,
and a teaser trailer for epic Elvis Presley in Concert
was actually released the other day, taking a close look
at Elvis's Vagus residency, which was a pivotal period following
his nineteen sixty eight TV special. Now you can go

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online and check out the trailer. It'll be open first
on Imax February twentieth, and then on regular screens everywhere
February twenty seventh. And that is the dirt to dish.
Bye Babe, what captain? And all right, here's what's happening
in New York and the Tri state area. So, for
the first time since the nineteen sixties, New York City

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just brought back a ferry route connecting Staten Island, Brooklyn
and Manhattan. Now you could say hello to the Ferizano,
which is the new Saint George route. Which is officially
we're restoring a crossborough connection, which we have not seen
in over sixty years. It's a faster way to hop
between the boroughs, and of course you get the best
skyline views ever. Now, if you're in Jersey and you

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love pickleball, a forty thousand square foot indoor pickleball club
is scheduled to open in the middle of twenty twenty
six at the former Brunswick Square Mall on Route eighteen
South in East Brunswick, marking the third location for the
Pickler franchise. If you're looking for the most festive restaurant
in the country, well you don't have to travel too
far because it's right here in New York City. Time

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Out has ranked Rolfs on third Ave the number one
spot to celebrate being It's all decked out in ornaments
and Christmas lights and it's the best place to get
into the holiday spirit now. It takes the restaurant three
months to put it together and they use over two
hundred thousand lights. I don't know about you, but I
don't want to see that electric bill. Central Parks Tavern
on the Green took the number two spot, followed by

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a Connecticut eatery called Cava in Southington. Santa Con returns
this Saturday, which which means thousands of people dressed as
Santa's elves and everything else under the sun are going
to be invading midtown bars and restaurants. But it's all
for a good cause. It's to raise money for charities
and social causes. It kicks off at ten am at
Broadway and thirty ninth Street And if you want to

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check out a list of locations to find everybody, just
head to Santa Con dot NYC. New Jersey's minimum wage
is going to increase on January first by forty three cents,
bringing it to fifteen dollars and ninety two cents per hour. Now,
workers employed by seasonal on small businesses are going to
see their minimum wage rise from fourteen fifty three to

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fifteen twenty three. And lastly, Texas Roadhouse in North Plainfield,
New Jersey, are doing a holiday toy drive. They're collecting
toys at the restaurant until December fifteenth, So stop by
and show some love to the kids in need. And
that's what's happening. What happened in