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6/13/2024
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Numlock News: June 12, 2024 • Anime, Dog Man, J. Lo
By Walt Hickey Cancellations Ambitious, multi-city tours for musicians are cancelling amid a mismatch between demand and the shows on the calendar. Touring itself is expensive, more so than ever, and
6/11/2024
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Numlock News: June 11, 2024 • Cricket, Crackdown, Caterpillars
By Walt Hickey Crackdown Authorities in New York City have cracked down on illegal weed stores, and now there are about 3000 vacant storefronts citywide left by pot stores that have up and left town,
6/10/2024
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Numlock News: June 10, 2024 • Quidditch, Copper, Sintashta
By Walt Hickey Welcome back! Bad Boys Box office saviors often come in unsuspecting packages, and Bad Boys: Ride or Die's better-than-expected $56 million domestic and $104.6 million global haul
6/7/2024
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Numlock News: June 7, 2024 • Deer, Bikes, Dating Apps
By Walt Hickey Have a great weekend! Camp Packing lists for weeks-long camps are getting comprehensive, and parents shelling out thousands of dollars for sleepaway camp are often coming to the
6/6/2024
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Numlock News: June 6, 2024 • Glaciers, Gyros, Gross
By Walt Hickey Gross The 2023-24 Broadway season saw total grosses hit $1.54 billion, a tad south of the $1.58 billion collected last year in box office, which is still 17 percent off the 2018-19 gross
6/5/2024
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Numlock News: June 5, 2024 • Pinellas, Stumps, Careem
By Walt Hickey Storm the Beach The US Army Corps of Engineers has been in a standoff with about half of the 461 property owners along a barrier island in Pinellas County, Florida, over $42 million
6/4/2024
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Numlock News: June 4, 2024 • Webtoon, Oranges, Beagles
By Walt Hickey I'm on a fun creator panel at Tech Week in New York on Wednesday, if you're around it should be very neat! Lifetime In the mid-2000s, Rolling Stone magazine began to offer a $99
6/3/2024
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Numlock News: May 24, 2024 • Bathwater, Bitcoin, Hieroglyphs
By Adam Bumas Today's guest writer is Adam Bumas, who is an outstanding internet culture writer and a regular contributor to Garbage Day, one of my favorite newsletters. Have a great weekend! Once
6/3/2024
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Numlock News: June 3, 2024 • High Dynamic, Garfield, Genome
By Walt Hickey Hello! I'm back from my honeymoon. Thank you so much to all the excellent writers who stepped up to fill in for me while I was out. None Released This past weekend at the box office
6/3/2024
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Numlock News: May 27, 2024 • Fraud, Guns, Credit Cards
By Colin Sholes Guest writers continue through this week while Walt is on honeymoon! Today's guest writer is Colin Sholes, who writes the excellent newsletter A Scammer Darkly. It's Not A Lie
6/3/2024
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Numlock News: May 28, 2024 • Earth, Water, Airlines
By Rachael Dottle Today's guest writer is Rachael Dottle, a phenomenal visual journalist who can be found at Bloomberg. You can see her award-winning work at her website and on Bloomberg. In Hot
6/3/2024
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Numlock News: May 29, 2024 • Junk Fees, Big Tech, Ticketmaster
By Pat Garofalo Today's guest writer is Pat Garofalo, author of the incisive and insightful newsletter Boondoggle, which covers the various ways corporations and monopolies rip off states, cities
6/3/2024
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Numlock News: May 30, 2024 • Elections, Marathons, Boyfriends
By Grace Panetta Today's guest writer is Grace Panetta, an outstanding reporter who works for The 19th. Abortion in the House House Majority PAC, the preeminent super PAC supporting Democratic US
6/3/2024
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Numlock News: May 31, 2024 • Niners, Boston, The Stanley Cup
By Neil Paine Our last guest writer is the brilliant sportswriter Neil Paine, who writes Neil's Substack and co-hosts Podracing. Hello! My name is Neil Paine, and I will be your Numlock emcee today
5/23/2024
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Numlock News: May 23, 2024 • Light, Rhythm, Melatonin
By Olivia Walch Today's guest writer is Olivia Walch. She's the founder of Arcascope and the author of the forthcoming book The Sleep Groove, which is available for preorder. Long, Long Sleeps
5/22/2024
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Numlock News: May 22, 2024 • Seltzer, Canada, The Long Drink
By Dave Infante Today's guest writer is Dave Infante, who writes the rambunctious and insightful newsletter Fingers all about drinking in America. That's right, baby: Today's Numlock News
5/21/2024
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Numlock News: May 21, 2024 • Chili's, Hostages, Space Junk
By Dave Levinthal Today's guest writer is my friend Dave Levinthal. He is the editor-in-chief of Raw Story, an excellent publication you should check in on and one of Editor & Publisher's “
5/20/2024
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Numlock News: May 20, 2024 • Royalties, Remixes, Broadway
By Chris Dalla Riva Today's guest writer is Chris Dalla Riva, who writes the absolutely brilliant music and data newsletter Can't Get Much Higher. Musi The music industry has a Musi problem.
5/17/2024
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Numlock News: May 15, 2024 • Cheerleading, Wiley, Taco Bell
By Walt Hickey Cheerleaders Bain Capital, which owns the cheerleading company Varsity Brands, as well as the previous owners of the company agreed to pay $82.5 million to settle a class-action lawsuit
5/17/2024
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Numlock News: May 16, 2024 • Toto, Dog Man, Coke
By Walt Hickey Coke McDonald's announced a $5 meal bundle for this summer in an attempt to woo back consumers who got kind of mad that they have to pay over $10 for a burger from McDonald's.