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1/25/2024
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Numlock News: January 25, 2024 • Olives, Penguins, Supernova
By Walt Hickey TONIGHT in NEW YORK: extremely exciting event you should come to! I'm doing an event at NeueHouse with Jeff Yang called “How Movies Make Us.” It's free, but you need to RSVP. You
1/24/2024
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Numlock News: January 24, 2024 • Atomic Knot, RAW, Wetherspoons
By Walt Hickey New York readers: extremely exciting event you should come to! I'm doing an event at NeueHouse with Jeff Yang called “How Movies Make Us” tomorrow January 25. It's free, but you
1/23/2024
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Numlock News: January 23, 2024 • Coconut Water, Anime, Wine
By Walt Hickey New York readers: extremely exciting event you should come to! I'm doing an event at NeueHouse with Jeff Yang called “How Movies Make Us” this Thursday, January 25. It's free,
1/22/2024
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Numlock News: January 22, 2024 • Ingenuity, Independence, Bigfoot
By Walt Hickey Welcome back! New York readers: extremely exciting event you should come to! I'm doing an event at NeueHouse with Jeff Yang called “How Movies Make Us” this Thursday, January 25.
1/19/2024
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Numlock News: January 19, 2024 • Sand, Helium, Counterfeit Games
By Walt Hickey Have a great weekend! Picture Day The government of the United Kingdom is spending £8 million to print and distribute copies of the official portrait of King Charles III to local
1/18/2024
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Numlock News: January 18, 2024 • Stellar Streams, Tetrapods, Richard Feynman
By Walt Hickey Cooperstown The National Baseball Hall of Fame is dealing with a bit of a cash crunch, with net assets declining from $67 million to $63 million in 2022 after a year in which the Hall
1/17/2024
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Numlock News: January 17, 2024 • Dog Man, Cousin Greg, Przewalski’s Horse
By Walt Hickey Succession An auction of props featured on Succession that coincided with the series' dominance at the Emmy Awards brought in a haul of $627825 across 236 lots up for sale from HBO.
1/16/2024
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Numlock News: January 16, 2024 • Mean Girls, Fingerprints, KFC
By Walt Hickey Welcome back! Musicals Following the smash-hit success of Wonka, yet another musical has crushed expectations and outperformed at the box office, with Mean Girls — the film adaptation of
1/12/2024
11 : 14
Numlock News: January 12, 2024 • Tectonics, Emmys, Turtles
By Walt Hickey Have a great weekend! Check out the Numlock Awards newsletter. Emmy The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, which is the organization behind the Emmy awards for
1/12/2024
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Numlock News: January 10, 2024 • Kleenex, IMAX, Fighter Jets
By Walt Hickey The Numlock Awards spin-off newsletter has returned! IMAX Fueled by new screens and the surprise box office success of Oppenheimer, IMAX reported the second-largest grossing year in its
1/12/2024
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Numlock News: January 11, 2024 • Centenarians, Saltburn, Wyndham
By Walt Hickey Anyone But You The romantic comedy Anyone But You has pulled off a rare trick and is the odd kind of movie to actually grow its ticket sales week over week for two consecutive weekends.
1/9/2024
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Numlock News: January 9, 2024 • Cursive, Humpbacks, Relatives
By Walt Hickey Cursive The teaching of cursive in public schools has gone in, then out, then back in style, and California is the latest state with a new law requiring cursive be taught as of January 1
1/8/2024
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Numlock News: January 8, 2024 • Robots, Ramen, Star Citizen
By Walt Hickey Welcome back! Night Swim Sleepy first weekend at the domestic box office, as Wonka continues to hold its chocolatey grip on the top slot with $14.4 million and the haunted swimming pool
1/5/2024
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Numlock News: January 5, 2024 • Stanley, Cordyceps, Hallyu
By Walt Hickey Have a great weekend! Stanley When we hear about an elusive and hard-to-get Stanley Cup, we all think the Toronto Maple Leafs. That is, until recently when expensive insulated drinkware
1/4/2024
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Numlock News: January 4, 2024 • Emoji, Indio, Roku
By Walt Hickey In December, I was thrilled that three comics I edited got released! The first was The Odyssey of the Adriana, which tells the story of a survivor of the devastating shipwreck of a ship
1/3/2024
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Numlock News: January 3, 2024 • Churn, Darts, Mason-Dixon
By Walt Hickey Bookies Professions evolve over time, and bookies are no exception. Once a stereotypically overworked North Jersey guy working a payphone in a parking lot in Jersey City, since
1/2/2024
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Numlock News: January 2, 2024 • Comics, Steamboat Willie, Wonka
By Walt Hickey Welcome back! Happy New Year! Wonka The biggest movie of the holidays was Wonka, which has grossed $140.2 million domestically and $400 million globally, pretty solid for a $125 million
12/22/2023
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Numlock News: December 22, 2023 • Romantasy, Beefeater, Zynga
By Walt Hickey This is the final Numlock News of 2023! As always, we're off the week between Christmas and New Year's. Thank you all for an amazing year; it's been a delight to write
12/21/2023
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Numlock News: December 21, 2023 • Dollars, Bears, Ski
By Walt Hickey Pretty much the last day you can pick up my book before the holidays, if you do still need a spare gift. George Washington The Met in New York plans to deaccession a portrait of George
12/20/2023
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Numlock News: December 20, 2023 • Boosters, Barbie, Bonobos
By Walt Hickey Barbie A new study published in the British Medical Journal analyzed 92 Barbie dolls as well as 65 comparison dolls that worked in the medical and science career tracks going back to the