Thursday, December 26

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Car That Hit Pedestrians Outside New Year’s Eve Concert Was Filled With Gas Canisters, Police Say
2Jan By adminNo Comments
World

Car That Hit Pedestrians Outside New Year’s Eve Concert Was Filled With Gas Canisters, Police Say

A car involved in a deadly New Year’s Eve crash outside a busy concert venue in Rochester, N.Y., was filled with at least a dozen gas canisters, police said.Two people were killed when a car hit another vehicle and plowed through a group of pedestrians outside the Kodak Center in Rochester as nearly a thousand concertgoers were leaving an event early Monday morning, authorities said.Copyright ©2024 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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What to Watch: The 18 Best Movies and TV Shows From December
31Dec By adminNo Comments
Business

What to Watch: The 18 Best Movies and TV Shows From December

By WSJ Arts in Review Staff Here’s a roundup of the month’s most noteworthy movies and TV shows, as covered by The Wall Street Journal’s critics.Poor ThingsSumptuous, dazzling and glorious seem barely adequate as descriptors of “Poor Things,” a two-hour-and-20-minute cinematic fable of self-discovery. Writer-director Yorgos Lanthimos, the dryly weird Greek filmmaker who has mostly been forced to work on skimpy budgets before, has at last been given the resources to show off everything he can do. This film makes most of this fall’s acclaimed pictures look like, in the words of one of its characters, “signs of the conventional mind straining hard to almost touch mediocrity.”Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8 ...
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Taiwan Says Chinese Lip-Syncing Probe Aims to Pull Rock Band to Beijing’s Side
30Dec By adminNo Comments
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Taiwan Says Chinese Lip-Syncing Probe Aims to Pull Rock Band to Beijing’s Side

TAIPEI—A Chinese investigation into purported lip syncing by a rock band from Taiwan is aimed at pressuring the band into supporting Beijing’s stance on the island and is part of a broad effort to interfere in its politics, Taiwanese officials said.Mayday, one of Taiwan’s most commercially successful rock bands, is under scrutiny from authorities in Shanghai after the band declined to publicly back the view that Taiwan is a part of China, the officials said. Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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Why Max Decided to Lose ‘HBO’ in Its Name
30Dec By adminNo Comments
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Why Max Decided to Lose ‘HBO’ in Its Name

Warner Bros. Discovery sliced “HBO” from the name of its “HBO Max” streaming service earlier this year, sacrificing a seminal television brand name to convince consumers that it offers more than HBO’s style of programming.But the company is navigating a difficult time in streaming, as a growing mountain of competitors scramble for subscription fees and ad revenue. Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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‘Elizabeth Crowell With a Dog’: Thomas Eakins’s Revelatory Realism
29Dec By adminNo Comments
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‘Elizabeth Crowell With a Dog’: Thomas Eakins’s Revelatory Realism

The girl’s pose is so natural that you wouldn’t call it a pose. She is seated on the floor, reaching one hand toward a black poodle, signaling her attentive companion to remain still, while a biscuit balances on the dog’s nose. She has extended a single finger toward her canine playmate, her expression intense, as if a look could will the poodle to maintain its precarious upright pose indefinitely. It’s a moment of charm and intimacy, rendered with formal brilliance in Thomas Eakins’s painting “Elizabeth Crowell With a Dog.”It was completed in the early 1870s, during a highly productive decade for the artist. The works he made during the 1870s would establish him as one of the greatest American painters. His only equal among American realists of that era was Winslow Homer, whose pictures ...
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Hollywood’s Box Office Recovery Needs Rewrite
29Dec By adminNo Comments
Money

Hollywood’s Box Office Recovery Needs Rewrite

2023 may be over, but Hollywood’s painful reckoning isn’t—especially at the box office. This year’s holiday season has largely been a lump of coal for the movie industry. Domestic box office receipts for the season starting the first week of November have barely crossed the $1 billion mark. That is actually below the same period in each of the past two years, which had been helped by the release of mega-blockbusters like “Avatar: The Way of Water” and “Spider-Man: No Way Home.” It is also less than half the $2.3 billion average for the holiday season in the prepandemic years of 2015 to 2019, according to Box Office Mojo. Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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