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Jeb Bush's son is fighting over the Alamo
"Bush is illegally trying to seize a 38,000-piece collection of Alamo memorabilia the Daughters of …
Colin Campbell
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Alamo Drafthouse's founders share how they created the coolest movie theater in America
As part of our Fast Track Q&A series, we interviewed the couple at the one of the first locatio…
Sponsor Post
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ANALYST: This Is The Tea Party's 'Alamo' - The Odds Of Default Are 20%
We talked to Tea Party stalwarts last night, and tried to make our best arguments. "Don't you reali…
Steven Perlberg
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Inside Alamo Drafthouse's beta test of its movie-ticket subscription plan, which has a waitlist of over 40,000 after less than a month
"Our number one movie people are seeing with Season Pass is 'Mission: Impossible - Fallout,' but ou…
Jason Guerrasio
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Movie Theater Chain Alamo Draft House Bans Google Glass
We've been talking about this potential ban for over a year. Google Glass did some early demos here…
Lisa Eadicicco
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An ex-Wall Street banker who's visited all 50 states at least 3 times shares his least favorite US cities
Lee Abbamonte has visited several major US cities while traveling through all 50 US states. Some ci…
Maria Noyen
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The real reason behind Hollywood's miserable weekend
Hollywood had a bad Memorial Day weekend. But moviegoing has been in decline for decades.
Peter Kafka
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You can book luxury hotels, cruises, and vacation packages through Costco for a fraction of the cost
Costco offers steep discounts on luxury hotels, cruises, and rental cars for members.
Talia Lakritz
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The women behind the Manhattan Project that Nolan's new film 'Oppenheimer' completely ignored
Women serving in key roles like explosion techs, librarians, and hematologists were essential to th…
Katie Hawkinson ,Jenny McGrath
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Silicon Valley tech execs are obsessed with 'Dune: Part Two' and renting out private theaters to host screenings
Investors and tech execs are renting out theaters and going all out on private screenings of the ne…
Lakshmi Varanasi
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With eyes on China, US special operators are back to battling the jungle
Jungle warfare skills were dulled by over 20 years fighting in the desert, but US special operators…
Stavros Atlamazoglou
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31 Nobel Prize winners had ties to the Manhattan Project. Oppenheimer isn't on the list.
The Manhattan Project employed hundreds of thousands of people, including at least 31 Nobel Prize w…
Jenny McGrath
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'Oppenheimer' leaves out New Mexicans exposed to radiation from the Manhattan Project, despite local efforts to contact filmmakers
The Manhattan Project displaced some New Mexicans, employed others, and probably irradiated thousan…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen,Jenny M…
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Left-wing AOC was with her fiancé at a Brooklyn cinema when pro-Palestine supporters accosted her, demanding she say the word 'genocide'
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was accosted by pro-Palestinian protesters at a cinema in Brooklyn, w…
Cameron Manley
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White supremacist fitness clubs are fat-shaming Trump supporters and plotting a race war
A network of white supremacist fitness clubs is spreading across the US, recruiting men to prepare …
Alia Shoaib
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J. Robert Oppenheimer stifled a petition by 70 scientists beseeching President Truman not to use the atomic bomb. Read it here.
Leo Szilard and other Manhattan Project scientists sent a petition asking President Truman not to d…
Jenny McGrath
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How bricks, a screwdriver, and a 'demon core' of radioactive material killed 2 Manhattan Project scientists
WWII-era experiments on a hunk of plutonium known as the "demon core" left two Manhattan Project ph…
Grace Eliza Goodwin
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I pay $30 a month for a 'season pass' to a dine-in theater chain that is strict about not talking and texting, because I can't stand the experience at normal theaters anymore
If you're sick of unruly moviegoers and live near an Alamo Drafthouse, its MoviePass-like subscript…
Travis Clark
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9 years before 'Oppenheimer,' Cillian Murphy could have played the father of the atomic bomb in another project
For the short-lived TV series "Manhattan," Murphy was considered for the Oppenheimer role, as well …
Jason Guerrasio
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How atomic bombs work and why Manhattan Project scientists designed two types of bombs during WWII
Atomic bombs work via nuclear fission. When enough radioactive material undergoes fission, it trigg…