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Wes Anderson’s Asteroid City is as Much Theme Park as Movie

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 10:15:19 GMT

Wes Anderson is a uniqueness, and we should be thankful he exists. But what is he? With each film, he’s doubled down on his particular battery of obsessive ideas (the chockablock dioramas, the loopy yarn-spinning, the deadpan quasi-farce, the overwhelming retro design), so that after a quarter-century of filmmaking, The French Dispatch (2021) was so intensely Wes-y, with more twitches and textual jokes than anyone could assimilate in one viewing, it felt almost like an experimental film. You have to salute his sui-generis-ness, his cultural curiosity, his subject-matter wanderlust, his distinctive visual craft, his attention to detail (often it feels like his films are all detail), and, honestly, his capacity for indexing some kind of late-Millennial/Gen Z toybox nostalgia, the hermetic pleasure of which, for his legion of devotees, should not be underestimated. If you fight in that pajama-clad army, you don’t ask questions, you just go. His newest confabulation, Asteroid City, is W...

Newsom plan would roll back access to police misconduct records

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 10:15:19 GMT

By Trân Nguyên | Associated PressSACRAMENTO — California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration has proposed an end to public disclosure of investigations of abusive and corrupt police officers, handing the responsibility instead to local agencies in an effort to help cover an estimated $31.5 billion budget deficit.The proposal, part of the governor’s budget package that he is still negotiating with the Legislature, has prompted strong criticism from a coalition of criminal justice and press freedom groups, which spent years pushing for the disclosure rules that were part of a landmark law Newsom signed in 2021.The law allows the state Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training to investigate and decertify police officers for misconduct, such as use of excessive force, sexual assault and dishonesty. It requires the commission to make public the records of decertification cases.The Newsom administration now wants to get rid of that transparency element. The commission says the pu...

New Deal-era school buildings to be demolished in Salinas

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 10:15:19 GMT

(BCN) -- A pair of New Deal-era schoolhouses in Salinas, the two oldest in the Alisal Union School District, will be demolished starting on Tuesday to make way for more modern accommodations. The buildings slated for demolition are the main building of the Alisal Community School, a Works Progress Administration project built in 1936, and Fremont Elementary, constructed in 1941. Search for missing Titanic wreck submersible continues: what we know about those aboard At the time of their construction, the region had received a massive influx of immigrants escaping the Dust Bowl and seeking work in California. The Alisal Community School building replaced the one-room school building that served the area since the early '30s. The project is Phase II of a $70 million initiative passed in 2016 to repair and update school infrastructure in the district. The two buildings will be rebuilt over the course of the 2023-2024 school year, according to a school district press release. ...

Apuñalan a un perro en el Central Park de Nueva York tras una “disputa verbal” entre dos dueños, dice la Policía

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 10:15:19 GMT

(CNN) — Un perro fue apuñalado en el Central Park de Nueva York el sábado, luego una “disputa verbal” entre dos dueños, dijo el Departamento de Policía de la ciudad.El altercado comenzó cuando una pareja que paseaba a sus dos perros se encontró con un hombre que paseaba a sus tres perros en el parque, según explicó Antonio Antenucci, agente de la policía de Nueva York, a CNN este lunes.Los perros empezaron a pelearse y se produjo una “disputa verbal” entre los dueños mientras intentaban separarlos, explicó. El hombre supuestamente sacó entonces una navaja y apuñaló a uno de los perros de la pareja.Según Antenucci, todavía no se produjo ninguna detención en relación con el incidente.El perro herido recibió la eutanasia después de que le detectaran una masa cancerígena en una ecografía posterior, según declaró Brian Cornwell, el propietario, a CNN.“Mi perro estaba en un charco de sangre”Cornwell y su esposa salieron a pasear por el parque con sus do...

Bad Bunny y otros artistas buscan que se desestime un caso de derechos de autor sobre ritmos de reguetón

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 10:15:19 GMT

Nueva York (CNN) — Bad Bunny y otras grandes estrellas de la industria musical buscan desestimar una demanda que asegura que se infringieron los derechos de autor de una canción de 1989.Abogados de Freundlich Law, que representan a Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio, mejor conocido como Bad Bunny, presentaron el jueves pasado una moción para desestimar la demanda, bajo el argumento de que los elementos musicales en cuestión no están protegidos por derechos de autor.Exnovia de Bad Bunny lo demanda por US$ 40 millones: ¿de qué se trata el caso?La demanda, presentada por los abogados de los productores jamaicanos de reggae Steely & Clevie, sostiene que más de 100 artistas y discográficas infringieron los derechos de autor de un ritmo de su canción “Fish Market”.Por su parte, los abogados de Bad Bunny sostienen que los demandantes intentan “monopolizar para sí prácticamente todo el género musical del reguetón”, al reclamar la propiedad de los derechos de a...

Police chase ends in Denver with crashes, carjacking

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 10:15:19 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) — A police chase that started in Adams County ended in multiple crashes, a foot chase and a carjacking in Denver.The driver, who police say was in a stolen vehicle, hit two cars at the intersection of Marion and Walnut Streets. ‘He had a hoof print on his chest’: Moose attacks man as he walks his dogs The Adams County Sheriff's Office confirmed deputies tried to stop a male in a stolen vehicle in the area of East 58th Avenue and Interstate 25. Deputies pursued the suspect but lost sight of him around East 38th Avenue and Brighton Blvd.A couple of blocks later, the driver hit two cars. Paula Fehringer was on her way to a work lunch when her car got hit."I didn't see a car coming at all because it just happened that quick," Fehringer said. "Next thing I know, the airbags were off, and it was a lot of smoke a lot of chemical smell."Her coworker, Janice Scott, was sitting in the backseat at the time."I heard it hit, yeah, and then I heard it hit something else," Scott s...

Colorado marijuana prices rise for the first time in 2 years

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 10:15:19 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) -- Rent is likely to grow again in the Denver metro, and marijuana prices may, too. Colorado marijuana has never been cheaper The COVID pandemic sparked a big change in marijuana prices. Sales reached their highest-ever levels between the summers of 2020 and 2021, and the price retailers pay for bulk cannabis has crashed ever since. The average market price for a pound of Colorado marijuana bud has been falling since early 2021, according to Colorado Department of Revenue figures. In January 2021, bud was at its highest price since 2016 at $1,731 per pound. By April 2023, it had shrunk to less than half that price at $649 per pound, the lowest price ever recorded since Colorado began its first legal marijuana sales.This month, though, retail prices have ticked upwards. The price for a pound of bud went from $649 to $703 in June. This is the first time retail has risen since October 2021. This is the longest stretch of time since legalization that marijuana prices ha...

Nikola Jokic back in Serbian hometown to watch family's horses compete

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 10:15:19 GMT

SOMBOR, Serbia (AP) — Nikola Jokic made it back to Serbia in time to watch his beloved horses race in his hometown. Less than a week after leading the Denver Nuggets to their first NBA championship, Jokic was back in his hometown of Sombor on Sunday to enjoy his big passion of horse racing.Thousands of his supporters in the usually sleepy northern Serbian town of some 47,000 people also converged on the local horse racing track where Jokic was watching his family-owned horses compete in harness races. Many had T-shirts with Jokic's portrait, some reading “Be the Next Champion” and “Sombor, the Town of Champions.”A billboard reading “Welcome Home MVP” showed Jokic with his No. 15 Nuggets jersey, also depicting galloping horses. Watch replay: Nuggets championship parade in Denver After winning the NBA title, Jokic was concerned about whether he could return home in time for Sunday's races after the team's victory parade in Denver on Thursday. He joked that he would ask Nuggets presi...

Barbie: A set tour of Barbie’s dreamhouse world

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 10:15:19 GMT

It’s Barbie’s world and we’re just living in it.Soon, we’ll be seeing it on the big screen too! The new Barbie movie doesn’t hit theaters til next month.But Margot Robbie teamed up with architectural digest to take us inside Barbie’s dreamhouse tonight.The assignment is a set tour of Barbie’s world.Margot Robbie: “Welcome to Barbie’s dreamhouse, come on in.”Margot Robbie: “It’s just fun and gorgeous and it’s see-through. So we can see each other. All the Barbies in their own Barbie Dreamhouses wake up in the morning and they can wave at each other.”Greta Gerwig, Director: “This is like the perfect product of so many discussions, so many references. I can’t even tell you the meetings we’ve had about pink. We like sat with like all these different types of pink. We were like, what is the pink? And how do the pinks interact? Because I didn’t want it to be so classy that it didn&#...

Teenage Kraken who learns to protect everyone from eveil mermaids and comes from royal family of legendary sea Kraken

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 10:15:19 GMT

Body hair, pimples, your first crush these are all teenage problems.But throw in giant tentacles in the mix and you get the movie “Ruby Gillman, teenage Kraken”.And she exists to protect us from evil mermaids.Jane Fonda as Grandmamah: “The women in our family have the mighty power to turn into Giant Kraken. Ah, what now? Ruby, you’re a princess.”Ruby Gillman is far from basic.Lana Condorl as Ruby Gillman: “I think I’m having a panic attack.”Because she’s heir to. Lana Condorl: “The kingdom, in the ocean, which is crazy! Like the ocean’s huge, it’s a big reign. Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken is one of very much a coming-of-age story. Very much about a young woman stepping into her power.”Toni Collette as Agatha Gillman: “You think it was easy to start over? To risk everything?”For Ruby’s mom, Agatha, played by Toni Collette keeping her royalness was a struggle.Toni Collette as Agatha Gillman...