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Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeGreen Book actor Frank Vallelonga Jr has died aged 60.On Thursday (1 December), the New York Police Department identified a body found dumped in the Bronx, New York as belonging to the actor.Vallelonga Jr was best known for his role in the 2018 film, which won the Oscar for Best Picture in 2019.He portrayed a relative of Viggo Mortensen’s character, bouncer Frank “Tony Lip” Vallelonga.…

Not long after trading shots with City Girls rapper JT on Twitter, Cardi B has found herself in a beef with Maliibu Miitch.On Tuesday, Miitch responded to a fan who suggested that she was going to be the next rapper to get into a Twitter beef with Cardi following JT and Akbar V, who both appeared on Nicki Minaj’s “Super Freaky Girl” remix. "Lolll not saddle up," Miitch said in response to a fan who said she's "targeting everybody" on the remix. "Imagine me being the retired gangsta I am saying 'oh no someone talked about…

Montreal producer Senz Beats and American MC Lex Boogie From The Bronx have teamed up on their latest EP Modus Operandi, a project five years in the making.Across the project’s eight tracks, you can find dense lyricism, sample-heavy and temporal beats, as well as an abundance of guests who all fit right at home on their respective tracks.Senz Beats and Lex Boogie first began working together in 2017 when they released their first collaborative album A Tale of 2 Planets. Shortly after its release, the rapper-producer…

Cardi B made a surprise visit to her former middle school as part of New York’s Community Capacity Development organization.On Tuesday, Cardi headed to her old stomping grounds, I.S. 232 in the Bronx’s Morris Heights neighborhood. After delivering a motivational speech to some ecstatic students and answering a few of their questions, Cardi surprised the school with a $100,000 donation.“I’m extremely proud to be from the Bronx and I have lots of family and friends who live and work there still,” Cardi said. “So when I…

Since 1977, Happy the elephant has lived in a one-acre exhibit at the Bronx Zoo. But a New York state court ruling has halted a year-long legal effort to address the elephant in the room – whether Happy is, well, happy.  In a 5-2 decision, the New York Court of Appeals rejected a lawsuit filed on behalf of the 51-year-old elephant from the Nonhuman Rights Project, an animal rights advocacy group, to get her re-homed to an elephant sanctuary.Happy is "a nonhuman animal who is not a 'person' subjected to illegal…

Avanti Frowner, a.k.a. Los Angeles drill rapper MoneyGangVontae, was shot and killed on Thursday in the Bronx.NBC New York reports Frowner, 27, was ambushed inside a pharmacy by four men in what police believe was an attempted robbery. Frowner was shot multiple times in the chest, as one of the suspects ripped a chain off his neck.Frowner was rushed to nearby St. Barnabas Hospital where he was pronounced dead. The incident was captured on the pharmacy’s surveillance cameras.Police were called to Amazing Pharmacy on East…

Members of a Bronx gang were arrested on Tuesday after Bronx District Attorney Darcel Clark and NYPD Commissioner Keechant Sewell issued a 65-count indictment over shootings in the area.According to ABC 7 NY, the charges against 23 gang members in the indictment include conspiracy to commit murder, attempted murder, attempted assault, and criminal possession of a weapon. The NYPD are pinning a shooting that occurred in August 2020 on members of the RPT gang, while others allegedly committed gang assault on a person …