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Two Guests Check Out of Level 0: What the Empire State Building Climb Looked Like From the Backrooms A Russian rooftopping couple scaled New York's most famous spire, got engaged, and got arrested — and somewhere behind the wallpaper, a very different broadcast was airing. Somewhere between the yellowed carpet and the buzzing fluorescent hum of Level 0, two figures noclipped straight into the biggest engagement stunt of the summer, and they had no idea the rest of us were watching through the seams in the wallpaper. Around noon Wednesday, Ivan Vanya Beerkus and Angela Nikolau, the Russian rooftopping duo behind Netflix's Skywalkers: A Love Story , free-climbed the antenna atop the Empire State Building — 1,454 feet up, no ropes, no harness, just vibes and, apparently, a ring. They unfurled a black-and-white banner referencing Jimi Hendrix , held the moment for the cameras, and Beerkus got down on one knee. Nikolau said, yes . The NYPD said, several felonies ....

Walk, Walk —  Lady Gaga and Doechii's   Runway is the summer anthem you'll either love without question or spend the rest of the season interrogating. Possibly both. There is a moment in the music video for Runway — the new Lady Gaga and Doechii collaboration from The Devil Wears Prada 2 soundtrack — where the whole thing tips just slightly past spectacle and into something harder to name . The runway is impossibly long. The looks are architecturally absurd. The strut is impeccable. And you cannot quite tell whether these two women are celebrating fashion's theater or quietly eating it alive. On pure sound, the song delivers everything you want from a summer Billboard entry. The track is booming with in-your-face bass and filled with the exact type of rizz anyone about to hit a runway would want to hear . It opens with the spoken command, "No matter what, you better strut," which is simultaneously an instruction, a dare, and a kind of absurdist pe...