Category: Around the World
Hollywood’s writers are on strike. Here’s why that matters.
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Hollywood’s writers are on strike. After six weeks of negotiation with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP), the Writers Guild of America — which represents approximately 11,500 people who write the Hollywood shows and movies we watch in theaters and at home — announced that its membership would walk off the job starting at 12:01am…
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What you should know about the Edmund Fitzgerald, the Milwaukee-linked ship that sank and inspired a classic Gordon Lightfoot song
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One of the best-known shipwrecks of the 20th century took place north of Wisconsin involving a ship owned by a Milwaukee company, registered to Milwaukee and named for a Milwaukee board chairman — and which became a legend thanks to a haunting song about the tragedy by Canadian singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot. Here’s what you should…
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