Month: August 2023

Hero Images | Getty Images It’s getting harder to find new, cheap cars, according to auto experts. Consider this: In July, just one car model — the Mitsubishi Mirage — had an average new-vehicle transaction price below $20,000, according to Kelley Blue Book data. By comparison, there were a dozen vehicles that met that pricing
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by Regina Avalos, August 28, 2023 (Photo: Disney+) The Spiderwick Chronicles is not coming to Disney+ after all. Ordered to series by the streaming service in November 2021, production on an eight-episode season of The Spiderwick Chronicles wrapped earlier this year. The fantasy series is based on the novels by Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black
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The Real Impact of Imaginary Friends Yiyun Li Share article Such Common Life by Yiyun Li 1. Protein “I thought all children had imaginary friends,” Dr. Ditmus said. Ida, upon being queried a moment earlier, had admitted that she had not had one when young. “Do you mean all American children?” Ida asked. Her Chinese
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National Cinema Day did 8.5 million admissions we hear off of a Sunday total day box office that’s estimated around $34M. All tickets for all movies and showtimes were $4 vs. last year’s $3. Note this figure could go up later today once final numbers are tabulated. Last year’s National Cinema Day drew 8.1M. The
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News John Kezdy, Effigies Singer, Dies at 64 A staple of Chicago’s music scene in the 1980s, Kezdy died from injuries sustained in a bicycle crash By Nina Corcoran August 28, 2023 Facebook Twitter Facebook Twitter John Kezdy, the singer in Chicago punk band the Effigies, has died, reports Streetsblog Chicago, citing the Cook County
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Electrical workers repair power lines leading into the fire ravaged town of Lahaina on the island of Maui in Hawaii, August 15, 2023. Mike Blake | Reuters Electric companies in the western U.S. are facing mounting lawsuits alleging that their failure to prepare for extreme weather has resulted in repeated, catastrophic wildfires that have taken
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Here is a wrap-up of all the news you need to know from Monday, August 28, 2023. NBC has dropped the official trailer for its upcoming procedural drama, The Irrational, starring The Flash’s Jesse L. Martin. The series follows world-renowned professor of behavioral science Alec Mercer (Martin) as he lends his unique expertise to an
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World Literature Today, the University of Oklahoma’s award-winning magazine of international literature and culture, will host a book signing with Native writers Chelsea T. Hicks (Osage) and Oscar Hokeah (Cherokee/Kiowa) at Norman’s Green Feather Books on Friday, October 13 from 6-8pm. The event—co-sponsored by OU’s Center for the Americas, Department of English, and World Literature
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In this article DIN Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT IHOP’s new lineup of biscuit sandwiches. Source: IHOP For the first time ever, IHOP is making its biscuits menu available nationwide. The Dine Brands chain, best known for its pancakes, has been branching out into different categories, from burritos to savory crepes, after slashing its
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Time was, Hollywood filmmakers would regularly travel to China in support of their movies, attending premieres and holding Q&As to drum up buzz in the massive box office market. The pandemic halted that ritual — until this week when Christopher Nolan became the first major Hollywood filmmaker since Covid to stroll a red carpet in
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