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Updated Dec. 8, 2023 1:11 pm ETTaylor Swift’s “Eras Tour” is the first tour to gross $1 billion, according to new data, capping off a record-breaking year for the pop superstar. The star’s tour brought in an estimated $1.04 billion this year, concert trade publication Pollstar said Friday. And it’s set to gross even more as the tour heads overseas. Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8 Updated Dec. 8, 2023 1:11 pm ETTaylor Swift’s “Eras Tour” is the first…

Updated Dec. 9, 2023 12:16 am ETJeff Zucker ran NBC’s “Today” show as a young executive producer and was CNN’s boss for nearly a decade. Now, the television veteran is angling for a very different assignment: turn conservative British news publications into global brands. Zucker is heading an investment group that has become the top contender to buy the Telegraph and the Spectator, a newspaper and a magazine that are both more than 150 years old. Copyright ©2023Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved.…

PARIS—A McDonald’s on a buzzy boulevard here offers a glimpse of what the future of serving fast food could look like. The burger giant doesn’t like what it sees.For those dining in, french fries are served in durable red containers, soda is dispensed into clear washable glasses and chicken nuggets come in hard plastic white bowls. When customers are finished eating, they are asked to drop the containers into a bin to be washed, dried and reused.Copyright ©2023Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved.…

HERE I AM on Main Street in the Magic Kingdom—again. Neither I nor my wife long for this place. During our first family trip to Disney World in 2018, she had to swallow vats of Dramamine to stomach the rides. And I resented getting taken on the proverbial ones—being forced to pay $5 for a stale churro offends me. But when my in-laws decided to go this fall, we felt obliged to take our daughter with the rest of her cousins.Rob Daniel, 47, is well aware that parents need help braving Disneytrips. For Ear Scouts, the…

Updated Dec. 5, 2023 4:49 pm ETThe next Republican presidential primary debate will give the two-year-old cable-news upstart NewsNation a chance to introduce itself to a wider audience.  Launched in 2021 as a fully fledged news network, NewsNation has struggled to make a mark in the crowded cable-news landscape, trailing behind the more established brands despite high-profile hires such as former CNN host Chris Cuomo. Adding to its challenges, the overall audience for cable TV keeps shrinking every year amid cord-cutting.…

Cecelia Bull Bear has been making quillwork art for as long as she can remember. “I learned from my grandmother, Ethel Black Crow, and my aunt, Rose Spotted Eagle, when I was real young,” the 76-year-old Denver-based Oglala Lakota artist said. “I’ve been doing it all my life.” Quillwork is an art form that uses porcupine quills to embroider clothing and make jewelry, and it is one of the oldest artistic traditions practiced by Indigenous North Americans, mostly in the northern plains of what is now the U.S. and across…

“The Nutcracker” is back, baby. It was a surreal, unprecedented moment when Colorado Ballet canceled its entire 2020-21 season, given the COVID shutdowns and complications. But when the refreshed production debuted during the 2021 holiday season — it typically runs for a month, or about 25 performances — a Denver tradition was reborn. This year’s 63rd installment is, as in the past, a boon for the state’s marquee ballet, as sales made up more than half of its annual revenue, which totaled $15.5 million last year. That’s…

The Hollywood Reporter won best entertainment website, Rebecca Keegan was named print journalist of the year and Daniel Fienberg was named best TV critic at the 16th annual National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Awards on Sunday night. Overall, THR took home a total of 11 wins at the awards, which are handed out annually by the Los Angeles Press Club. Presenters at the event said this year featured the most submissions ever for the NAEJ Awards. Also during the event, the Los Angeles Press…

Harry Potter had some engaging Defense Against the Dark Arts professors – let's talk about them. For those who know me and those who don't, I'm a big fan of Harry Potter. I grew up watching some of the best fantasy movies, but Harry Potter always stood out as one of the best. Years later, I'll happily rank the Harry Potter movies, rewatch them all I want, and re-read the books whenever I feel down. I love this world, all the creatures that inhabit it, and the characters (of course), as well as the Defense against the…

Nov. 29, 2023 10:38 pm ETNascar has struck new television and streaming rights deals worth $7.7 billion with media partners including Amazon, Warner Bros. Discovery and Fox as interest in the sport grows. The value of Nascar’s new seven-year deals is 40% higher than its prior arrangements, a person familiar with the situation said. Copyright ©2023Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8 Nov. 29, 2023 10:38 pm ETNascar has struck new television and streaming rights deals worth…