Amy Kuperinsky

1 week ago | nj.com | Amy Kuperinsky

“Sopranos” star Jamie-Lynn Sigler recently recounted the experience of being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis — and the mandate of silence that followed. “I went to a doctor’s appointment for a ‘checkup’ for the show,” she told Conan O’Brien on the “Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend” podcast. “You have to get, like, a sign-off that you’re healthy,” she explained. This was after she had been diagnosed by her own doctor when she was 20, during the fourth season of the show in 2002.

1 week ago | nj.com | Amy Kuperinsky

New Jersey stars were among the immaculately dressed and tailored crowd at the “Superfine” 2025 Met Gala. Celebrities converged on the Metropolitan Museum of Art Monday night for the fashion-centric event celebrating the opening of “Superfine: Tailoring Black Style,” the Met Costume Institute’s new exhibition. Both “Superfine” and the theme of the Met Gala are based on “Slaves to Fashion: Black Dandyism and the Styling of Black Diasporic Identity,” the 2009 book from Monica L.

1 week ago | nj.com | Amy Kuperinsky

It arrived in our inbox like a joke from a late-night talk show. A game show attraction where you hand over money to pay a series of games that vaguely channel well-known TV franchises. Only in this game, you don’t have a chance of winning any money or prizes. And it’s at the American Dream. Perfect. “You do win bragging rights at the end of your competition, which is pretty awesome,” general manager Chorsie Calbert helpfully explained to NJ Advance Media.

1 week ago | nj.com | Amy Kuperinsky

“The Equalizer,” the crime drama starring Queen Latifah, is coming to an end on CBS. Deadline reports that the Latifah-produced series has been canceled after more than four years on the air. The show’s season five finale, “Decisions,” will serve as the series finale on Sunday (May 4). The reimagined reboot of the 1980s series “The Equalizer,” which filmed in Latifah’s native New Jersey, premiered in 2021 after the Super Bowl and became a hit for CBS.

1 week ago | nj.com | Amy Kuperinsky

Jill Sobule, the singer-songwriter known for her 1995 song “I Kissed A Girl,” has died at 66. Sobule died in a house fire early Thursday morning in Minneapolis, Sobule’s representatives said in a statement shared with NJ Advance Media. They said Sobule’s “I Kissed a Girl,” which predated Katy Perry’s different, No. 1 hit song of the same name by 13 years, was “the first openly gay-themed song to ever crack the Billboard Top 20,” referring to the song’s position on the modern rock chart.