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No "ands" or "buts" about it, "IF" is this week's winner at the box office. The live action-CGI hybrid movie about imaginary friends stars Ryan Reynolds. "If" earned 35-million dollars in its opening weekend. Meanwhile, "Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes" brought in 26-million dollars in its second weekend to come in at number two. Horror film "The Strangers: Chapter 1" earned a better-than-anticipated 12-million dollars in its first week to take third place.
Naresh Kumar [[ nah-RESH' KOO-mar ]] wants to rise his bike across the country. He is on tandem bike by himself to raise awareness of human trafficking. He left Astoria, Oregon yesterday morning and will arrive at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. in five to six weeks. He leaves the rear seat on the bike open for people who want to join him on the ride. You can find his route and follow his progress at pedaling 4 freedom dot org. He's hoping to raise 250-thousand dollars that will go to organizations that work to stop human trafficking.
Thousands of people named Kyles made their way to the city of Kyle, Texas over the weekend. They were trying to break the Guinness World Record for the largest gathering of people with the same first name. The "Kyle Fair" needed to see over two-thousand Kyles to do that. They fell short, meaning the record still belongs to a town in Bosnia and Herzegovina for a 2017 gathering of people named Ivan.
https://www.fox7austin.com/news/kyle-fair-texas-world-record
A legendary rock band is the subject of a new movie. "Becoming Led Zeppelin" will be coming...to a theater near you. Sony Classics Pictures announced it's picked up the documentary for theatrical release. What Sony is calling a "hybrid docu-concert film" first premiered in 2021 at the Venice Film Festival. Sony says the movie centers on how Zeppelin came together and includes footages from shows in 1969 and 1970. Sony did not provide a release date.
An historic wooden tower has been accidentally felled in California's Death Valley National Park. Federal officials say a tourist used the 113-year-old wooden tower to anchor a winch so they could free their vehicle from the mud. While retrieving their truck, the tower broke and fell to the ground. Park authorities say the visitor came forward and took responsibility for the accident, and will not be publicly identified.
https://ca.news.yahoo.com/death-valley-national-park-visitor-183701410.html
A livestream portal linking New York City and Dublin, Ireland is back open. The visual art exhibit called "The Portal" features a pair of installations that each have a giant screen and a video camera, one next to the Flatiron Building in New York, and the other in Ireland's capital city. It was shut down last week after people on both sides engaged in offensive behavior. In Dublin, visitors had gotten up close to the camera and held up phones with sickening images of the 9/11 attacks and swastikas. In the Big Apple, a pair of OnlyFans creators flashed their breasts. In addition to new limited hours and guardrails, both screens will now be blurred if a visitor steps on the portal and obstructs the camera, which organizers called a “proximity-based solution.”