HOLLYWOOD — Something unusual is happening in the American movie business. Audiences are returning to theaters in enormous numbers, yet many of the people who actually make movies in Hollywood are struggling to find work. The summer of 2026 delivered the strongest evidence yet that moviegoing itself is far from dead. Domestic theaters generated approximately $4.76 billion between May 1 and Labor Day, narrowly setting a new summer box-office record. An estimated 322.8 million

Twenty years ago, podcasting was something people did in spare bedrooms with inexpensive microphones and tiny audiences. Today, some of the biggest personalities in entertainment sit behind microphones for hours—and the companies distributing those conversations can be worth enormous sums. Podcasting has quietly evolved from an internet hobby into a mainstream entertainment industry. Joe Rogan became the symbol of that transformation. When Spotify struck its original exclusiv

Every Sept. 1, readers of “Thirty-Three Cecils” gather at a neighborhood pub to remember two men who never existed — and to celebrate the strange way a novel became part of a city. BINGHAMTON, N.Y. — On Sept. 1, people make their way to the Belmar Pub, order drinks and raise their glasses to two men who died years ago. There is only one complication. Neither man ever existed. They are characters from Thirty-Three Cecils, a novel by Everett De Morier whose fictional world is r

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