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CHIPOTLE UNVEILS ITS MUST-VISIT RESTAURANT GUIDE TO IMPRESS DATES ON VALENTINE'S DAY

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Thursday, February 1, 2024

Among its approximately 3,400 restaurants worldwide, Chipotle has selected its top 10 locations that make an ideal backdrop for a memorable meal.

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  • Among its approximately 3,400 restaurants worldwide, Chipotle has selected its top 10 locations that make an ideal backdrop for a memorable meal.
  • Just like Chipotle's customizable menu of real food, there is a Chipotle restaurant for every personality type.
  • For The Nature Lovers – Sedona, Arizona
    Incredible views of Sedona's iconic red rock buttes and Snoopy Rock make Chipotle Sedona the perfect post-hike date spot.
  • For The Chipotle Super Fans – Denver, Colorado
    Prove your love for Chipotle with a pilgrimage to Chipotle Evans , the first-ever Chipotle restaurant, which also features the iconic Chipotle logo sign.

One of 2023's Must Read Books on Gun Rights is 'The Political Gun Evolution' by Author Darius Lamont Allen

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Wednesday, November 22, 2023

San Francisco, California--(Newsfile Corp. - November 22, 2023) - Darius Lamont Allen, recently released his third book, The Political Gun Evolution: Gun Rights + Pro-Life = Mass Shootings .

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  • San Francisco, California--(Newsfile Corp. - November 22, 2023) - Darius Lamont Allen, recently released his third book, The Political Gun Evolution: Gun Rights + Pro-Life = Mass Shootings .
  • The Political Gun Evolution begins by examining the 2nd Amendment and gun rights in historical context.
  • Adult readers from all walks of life can appreciate the research and authority in The Political Gun Evolution.
  • The Political Gun Evolution: Gun Rights + Pro-Life = Mass Shootings and Allen's other works are available for purchase on Amazon.com or wherever books are sold.

TacoTuesday.com Unveils Your Ultimate Taco Tuesday Buddy

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Friday, October 27, 2023

LAGUNA HILLS, Calif., Oct. 27, 2023 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Meet Alien: the not-so-typical resident of Earth, brought to you by TacoTuesday.com. Although his name is spelled Alien, the "i" is silent, hence, Alen. For those who've already shared a taco (or ten) with him, he's simply "AL".

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  • For those who've already shared a taco (or ten) with him, he's simply "AL".
  • LAGUNA HILLS, Calif., Oct. 27, 2023 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Meet Alien: the not-so-typical resident of Earth, brought to you by TacoTuesday.com.
  • For those who've already shared a taco (or ten) with him, he's simply "AL".
  • His expanding circle of Earthling pals frequently document their global taco escapades, and these antics are taking social media by storm!

Coffy: how Blaxploitation star Pam Grier helped lead the way for strong resilient women in film

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Friday, September 29, 2023

“She’s the ‘GODMOTHER’ of them all!”, exclaimed the poster, linking the African-American Coffy to Marlon Brando’s Don Corleone in The Godfather (released the previous year).

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  • “She’s the ‘GODMOTHER’ of them all!”, exclaimed the poster, linking the African-American Coffy to Marlon Brando’s Don Corleone in The Godfather (released the previous year).
  • But Coffy saw her for the first time as the main propulsive force in a Blaxploitation movie.
  • A label more popular than scholarly, Blaxploitation captures the wave of low-budget, black-character-centred films that emerged from Hollywood in the first half of the 1970s.
  • The film’s 50th anniversary allows us to reassess this vein of filmmaking and, more particularly, to think about the mixed politics of Grier’s own star image.

A liberated woman

    • According to her lover, African-American politician Howard Brunswick, Coffy is a liberated woman.
    • Nevertheless, a sense of constriction, as well as liberation, is still apparent in her screen persona.
    • Only two years after Coffy’s release, feminist film theorist Laura Mulvey published her essay Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema.
    • Grier, in Coffy, is frequently exhibited in this way, her unclothed body a point of obsession for the camera.

Dreaming of something better

    • More than once, as she enacts her spree of purifying violence, Coffy speaks of being in “a dream”.
    • Coffy’s dream of one woman redressing systemic injustice prompts caution, if not scepticism.
    • Though the film is touched by the Black Panther Party’s imperative of militant resistance, it utterly lacks the Panthers’ attention to communal struggle.

2001: A Space Odyssey still leaves an indelible mark on our culture 55 years on

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Monday, July 10, 2023

It is a work of extraordinary imagination that has transcended film history to become something of a cultural marker.

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  • It is a work of extraordinary imagination that has transcended film history to become something of a cultural marker.
  • It is not an exaggeration to say that 2001 single-handedly reinvented the science fiction genre.
  • The visuals, music and themes of 2001 left an inedible mark on subsequent science fiction that is still evident today.
  • You just don’t do that.” By that point, the golden age of science fiction film had run its course.
  • The narrative was linear, but radically, spanning aeons and ending in a timeless realm, all without a conventional movie score.

Vietnam

    • The war in Vietnam was already a highly divisive issue and was spiralling into a crisis.
    • The Tet offensive, which began on January 31 1968, had claimed tens of thousands of lives.
    • As US involvement in Vietnam escalated, domestic unrest and violence at home intensified.
    • They fuelled what Variety magazine called the “coffee cup debate” over “what the film means”, which is still ongoing today.

Harrison Ford is back as an 80-year-old Indiana Jones – and a 40-something Indy. The highs (and lows) of returning to iconic roles

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Friday, June 30, 2023

Saddle up, don the fedora and crack that whip: Harrison Ford is back as the intrepid archaeologist in Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny.

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  • Saddle up, don the fedora and crack that whip: Harrison Ford is back as the intrepid archaeologist in Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny.
  • The film premiered at Cannes, where Ford was awarded an Honorary Palme d’Or in recognition of his life’s work.

Role returns


    Ford first played Indy in 1981 and last played him in 2008. That is a full 15 years since the most recent film in the series, and 42 years since his first outing in Raiders of the Lost Ark. Ford has form in returning to celebrated characters. One of the great pleasures of watching The Force Awakens back in 2015 was seeing Ford play Han Solo again for the first time in over 30 years. Actors return to roles for numerous reasons:
    • And still, I’m intrigued to see what Michael Mann could do with his long-rumoured sequel to Heat, his definitive 1995 crime film.
    • Read more:
      Heat 2, the book sequel to Michael Mann's film, is 'fundamentally bizarre' – but superb

Undoing time

    • Actors used to just play characters of their own age when reprising earlier roles.
    • Here, it is as if we are getting two Fords for the price of one: the “younger”, fitter Indy and the older, more world-weary version.
    • Some viewers complain that the whole process is distracting and that the hyper-real visual look of de-aged scenes resembles a video game.
    • Given its reduced cost, speed and reduced human input, AI-driven innovation might have industry-changing ramifications.

The star of Ford

    • Harrison Ford remains a bona fide “movie star” in an industry profoundly buffeted by COVID, the rise of streaming platforms, the demise of the monoculture, and the changing nature of who constitutes a star.
    • In the midst of all this industry uncertainty, it seems there is no longer a statute of limitations on actors returning to much-loved characters.

The Iconic Xenomorph sculpture that inspired Ridley Scott's 'Alien' film series to be sold as 500 digital pieces on June 16th

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Wednesday, May 31, 2023

NEW YORK , May 31, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Particle, a digital fine-art platform and tokenizer of Banksy's 'Love is in the Air' painting, will give art collectors the chance to obtain digital pieces of the Xenomorph/Alien III sculpture from renowned artist, H.R Giger, the Academy Award winner behind the iconic Xenomorph design from Ridley Scott's Sci-fi horror film franchise, Alien. The genre-defining sculpture is being 'tokenized' into 500 separate parts which will go on sale on June 16th on the Particle website.

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  • The genre-defining sculpture is being 'tokenized' into 500 separate parts which will go on sale on June 16th on the Particle website .
  • It has been exhibited at prominent art centers such as the ICA Miami and Praz-Delavallade Gallery in LA.
  • Co-owners will obtain subsequent voting rights on whether to sell the sculpture, should an offer be made on it.
  • They will also be loaning the sculpture to the Particle Foundation, who will tour the work around the world.

The Iconic Xenomorph sculpture that inspired Ridley Scott's 'Alien' film series to be sold as 500 digital pieces on June 16th

Retrieved on: 
Wednesday, May 31, 2023

NEW YORK, May 31, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Particle, a digital fine-art platform and tokenizer of Banksy's 'Love is in the Air' painting, will give art collectors the chance to obtain digital pieces of the Xenomorph/Alien III sculpture from renowned artist, H.R Giger, the Academy Award winner behind the iconic Xenomorph design from Ridley Scott's Sci-fi horror film franchise, Alien. The genre-defining sculpture is being 'tokenized' into 500 separate parts which will go on sale on June 16th on the Particle website.

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  • The genre-defining sculpture is being 'tokenized' into 500 separate parts which will go on sale on June 16th on the Particle website .
  • It has been exhibited at prominent art centers such as the ICA Miami and Praz-Delavallade Gallery in LA.
  • Co-owners will obtain subsequent voting rights on whether to sell the sculpture, should an offer be made on it.
  • They will also be loaning the sculpture to the Particle Foundation, who will tour the work around the world.

HYDE SHIPPING CORPORATION PROVIDES NOTICE OF DATA PRIVACY EVENT

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Thursday, November 10, 2022

HIALEAH, Fla., Nov. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Hyde Shipping Corporation ("Hyde Shipping") is providing notice of an incident that may affect the privacy of certain individuals' personal information.

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  • HIALEAH, Fla., Nov. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Hyde Shipping Corporation ("Hyde Shipping") is providing notice of an incident that may affect the privacy of certain individuals' personal information.
  • On or around July 13, 2022, Hyde Shipping became aware of suspicious activity related to an employee email account.
  • Upon learning of the event, Hyde Shipping immediately took steps to secure the affected email account and investigated the incident with computer forensics specialists.
  • Hyde Shipping is also offering credit monitoring and identity protection services to individuals whose information may be impacted by this event.

TodayTix Group Acquires Secret Cinema, the Wildly Popular Immersive Film & Television Experience Company

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Thursday, September 22, 2022

TodayTix Group , the global e-commerce leader for cultural experiences, today announced that it has acquired Secret Cinema , the London-based entertainment company that specializes in immersive film and television events.

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  • TodayTix Group , the global e-commerce leader for cultural experiences, today announced that it has acquired Secret Cinema , the London-based entertainment company that specializes in immersive film and television events.
  • TodayTix Group will provide its frictionless technology, audience insights, and unparalleled cultural knowledge to help Secret Cinema expand geographically and creatively grow its offerings and audience.
  • TodayTix Groups acquisition of Secret Cinema is a game-changer for culture-seekers, the theatre industry, and the film and television industries alike, said Brian Fenty , co-founder and CEO of TodayTix Group.
  • TodayTix Group has a massive audience seeking rich content and Secret Cinema has the most coveted collection of IP that it turns into amazing, immersive theatrical experiences.