AMC Lincoln Square on Manhattan's Upper West Side is running overnight IMAX 70mm screenings of Christopher Nolan's "The Odyssey" well past its debut weekend, and the crowds keep showing up at 2 and 3 a.m. On a recent weekday at 2:45 a.m., moviegoers were still filing into the theater for a late-night showing of the […] The post NYC moviegoers line up at 3 a.m. for IMAX screenings as 'Odyssey' and 'Dune 3' ticket frenzy grips Manhattan appeared first on American Almanac .
AMC Lincoln Square on Manhattan's Upper West Side is running overnight IMAX 70mm screenings of Christopher Nolan's "The Odyssey" well past its debut weekend, and the crowds keep showing up at 2 and 3 a.m. On a recent weekday at 2:45 a.m., moviegoers were still filing into the theater for a late-night showing of the Nolan film, part of a demand surge that has forced AMC to extend operating hours weeks after the movie opened. The phenomenon is not limited to "The Odyssey." Days before the article's publication, fully grown adults wrapped a line around the block at the same Manhattan theater to buy IMAX 70mm tickets for "Dune: Part Three," which opens in December. Digital ticketing platforms buckled under the load. Resale listings appeared…Open
A volunteer-run nonprofit that provides free knitted breast prosthetics to mastectomy patients now operates in all 50 states and 76 countries, with a recent viral Instagram reel flooding the organization with new orders. Barbara Demorest founded Knitted Knockers in 2011 after her own mastectomy left her struggling with the standard options. Her doctor told her […] The post Knitted Knockers gives breast cancer survivors free handmade prosthetics — and demand is surging appeared first on American Almanac .
A volunteer-run nonprofit that provides free knitted breast prosthetics to mastectomy patients now operates in all 50 states and 76 countries, with a recent viral Instagram reel flooding the organization with new orders. Barbara Demorest founded Knitted Knockers in 2011 after her own mastectomy left her struggling with the standard options. Her doctor told her she couldn't place a traditional silicone prosthetic against her surgical scar for weeks. The silicone was heavy, hot, and uncomfortable. He mentioned that some people had started making a lightweight knitted version instead. A knitting friend from her church took the idea and ran with it. She made Demorest a pair and delivered them in a Victoria's Secret bag. Demorest tried them…Open
King Oyo Nyimba Kabamba Iguru Rukidi IV, who captivated world leaders and held the Guinness World Record as the youngest reigning monarch, has died after battling an undisclosed illness, leaving a kingdom of more than two million people to mourn. Uganda's prime minister, Calvin Armstrong Rwomiire Akiiki, announced the king's death in a post on […] The post Uganda's 'boy king,' crowned at age three, dies at 34 after secret illness appeared first on American Almanac .
King Oyo Nyimba Kabamba Iguru Rukidi IV, who captivated world leaders and held the Guinness World Record as the youngest reigning monarch, has died after battling an undisclosed illness, leaving a kingdom of more than two million people to mourn. Uganda's prime minister, Calvin Armstrong Rwomiire Akiiki, announced the king's death in a post on X, saying Oyo died at approximately 10 p.m. local time Thursday. Few outside the royal inner circle knew the 34-year-old ruler had been critically ill. A Ugandan government minister told the BBC that Oyo had been seeking treatment in the United States, though neither the facility nor the nature of his illness was publicly identified. Oyo was the 13th monarch of the Tooro Kingdom in western Uganda,…Open
ABC put weeks of casting speculation to rest by confirming that all six current co-hosts of "The View" will return for Season 30, despite rumors that former White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt might join the panel. The network released a promotional video on Thursday spotlighting Whoopi Goldberg, Joy Behar, Sara Haines, Sunny Hostin, Ana […] The post ABC confirms all six co-hosts returning for 'The View' Season 30 after weeks of cast shakeup rumors appeared first on American Almanac .
ABC put weeks of casting speculation to rest by confirming that all six current co-hosts of "The View" will return for Season 30, despite rumors that former White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt might join the panel. The network released a promotional video on Thursday spotlighting Whoopi Goldberg, Joy Behar, Sara Haines, Sunny Hostin, Ana Navarro, and Alyssa Farah Griffin as the returning lineup. An official Instagram post from the show followed, announcing that "your favorite women of daytime are back for season 30" with a premiere week starting Tuesday, September 8 on ABC. The confirmation caps a summer of speculation that began almost as soon as Season 29 wrapped in July. Reports swirled about possible new additions, a 30th…Open
A 30-year-old homeless man drew a three-year-plus prison sentence after CCTV captured him failing three times to throw a parcel of Class A and B drugs over the wall of a British prison, a package guards recovered almost immediately. Joshua Smith was sentenced Monday at Hull Crown Court to three years and eight months behind […] The post Shirtless man sentenced after bungling attempt to hurl £12,000 drug package into British prison appeared first on American Almanac .
A 30-year-old homeless man drew a three-year-plus prison sentence after CCTV captured him failing three times to throw a parcel of Class A and B drugs over the wall of a British prison, a package guards recovered almost immediately. Joshua Smith was sentenced Monday at Hull Crown Court to three years and eight months behind bars on two counts of throwing a prohibited article into a prison. The article in question: a black parcel stuffed with an estimated £12,000 worth of drugs and a mobile phone, lobbed over the brick wall of HMP Hull, a Category B men's prison in East Yorkshire. Smith had pleaded guilty at an earlier hearing. The sentence caps an investigation that began last July, when a prison guard inside HMP Hull spotted the…Open
A home security camera in Tarzana, Los Angeles, captured a coyote repeatedly confronting and driving off a bear from a residential driveway early Sunday morning, a scene the homeowner called unbelievable. Richard Hurwitz got the alert on his phone around 2:30 a.m. A bear had wandered onto the stone path leading to his driveway. What […] The post Coyote stands down a bear outside a Los Angeles home — and the security camera caught it all appeared first on American Almanac .
A home security camera in Tarzana, Los Angeles, captured a coyote repeatedly confronting and driving off a bear from a residential driveway early Sunday morning, a scene the homeowner called unbelievable. Richard Hurwitz got the alert on his phone around 2:30 a.m. A bear had wandered onto the stone path leading to his driveway. What happened next played out like a nature documentary filmed in a suburban neighborhood. A coyote, the larger of two on the scene, charged toward the bear again and again, refusing to back down. The bear, outweighing the coyote many times over, eventually turned and fled to a nearby yard. Not a scratch on either animal, UPI reported . A second, smaller coyote watched the whole standoff from the road in front of…Open
Rosie O'Donnell publicly posted a photo and text messages exchanged with her incarcerated daughter Chelsea, offering a window into a relationship the comedian says went silent for a decade. O'Donnell, 64, shared the photo from a June reunion at Taycheedah Correctional Institution in Wisconsin, where Chelsea O'Donnell, 28, is serving an 18-month sentence after her […] The post Rosie O'Donnell shares photo and texts with daughter Chelsea as she serves prison sentence in Wisconsin appeared first on American Almanac .
Rosie O'Donnell publicly posted a photo and text messages exchanged with her incarcerated daughter Chelsea, offering a window into a relationship the comedian says went silent for a decade. O'Donnell, 64, shared the photo from a June reunion at Taycheedah Correctional Institution in Wisconsin, where Chelsea O'Donnell, 28, is serving an 18-month sentence after her probation was revoked last October. She followed it with a screenshot of text messages between the two, mundane exchanges about books, nail care, and Chelsea's plans for release, that the Daily Mail reported on Thursday. The posts mark the latest step in a reconciliation that O'Donnell has described as long overdue. She told PageSix in July that the June visit "was the first…Open
Chris Hansen bought preshow ad space on every theater screen showing A24's Primetime, flipping a film he never agreed to watch into a marketing vehicle for his streaming platform, and his attorneys may not be far behind. The ad opens on a setting audiences will recognize: a nondescript suburban kitchen, the kind Hansen made famous […] The post Chris Hansen turns A24's film about him into a billboard for his own streaming network appeared first on American Almanac .
Chris Hansen bought preshow ad space on every theater screen showing A24's Primetime, flipping a film he never agreed to watch into a marketing vehicle for his streaming platform, and his attorneys may not be far behind. The ad opens on a setting audiences will recognize: a nondescript suburban kitchen, the kind Hansen made famous during years of televised sting operations on To Catch a Predator. Hansen appears on screen, delivers his signature line, and then pivots, not to NBC, not to Dateline, but to TruBlu, his own streaming network. A QR code fills the screen. The message is clear: if the movie brought you here, Hansen wants you watching his version of the story next. The Hollywood Reporter first reported the ad buy, noting Hansen…Open
Deepak and Madhu Ahuja of Texas disappeared during catastrophic flooding along the Nepal-Tibet border just hours after completing a once-in-a-lifetime pilgrimage to Mount Kailash, and their two daughters say they still have no answers. Ashna and Shreya Ahuja have spent days gathered with relatives at a family member's home, working the phones to two U.S. […] The post Texas couple vanishes in Nepal flood as 90 Americans remain unaccounted for appeared first on American Almanac .
Deepak and Madhu Ahuja of Texas disappeared during catastrophic flooding along the Nepal-Tibet border just hours after completing a once-in-a-lifetime pilgrimage to Mount Kailash, and their two daughters say they still have no answers. Ashna and Shreya Ahuja have spent days gathered with relatives at a family member's home, working the phones to two U.S. embassies and contacts on the ground in one of the most remote disaster zones on Earth. Their parents had just finished the sacred trek and were heading toward the Nepal-Tibet border crossing with their tour group on August 26 when flash floods tore through the Himalayan region, obliterating communities, roads, and bridges with a wall of water, ice, rock, and debris. By Friday morning,…Open
A 67-year-old Northern Virginia man is among as many as 90 Americans unaccounted for after flash floods destroyed a Himalayan border checkpoint, and his family says they have heard almost nothing from the governments involved. Anil Goel, a retired World Bank employee and seasoned trekker, had his visa approved at the Rasuwagadhi immigration checkpoint on […] The post Virginia family desperate for answers after Nepal border floods leave dozens of Americans missing appeared first on American Almanac .
A 67-year-old Northern Virginia man is among as many as 90 Americans unaccounted for after flash floods destroyed a Himalayan border checkpoint, and his family says they have heard almost nothing from the governments involved. Anil Goel, a retired World Bank employee and seasoned trekker, had his visa approved at the Rasuwagadhi immigration checkpoint on Nepal's border with Tibet at 8:35 a.m. local time on August 26, 2026. Roughly 35 minutes later, the collapse of a distant rock ledge and the massive glacier it supported sent a wall of floodwater and mud through the valley, CBS News reported . Every building at the checkpoint was swept away or buried. Goel had sent a photo to his family from the border crossing just minutes before the…Open