The Ubiquity of ‘Wicked’ Shows How Commercial Needs are Consuming Culture

The movie’s marketing push, involving 400 tie-ins with other brands, shows how our culture has become littered with increasingly formulaic and meaningless collaborations.

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No One Needs a Luigi Mangione Show

Online, lots of people have ideas about what could happen if the murder suspect’s life were given the Hollywood treatment. Let’s make sure that idea gets a red light.
Wired - 2d
How consumers can protect themselves against porch pirates this holiday season

A new consumer survey shows package thieves have stolen from 14 million Americans in just the last three months. National consumer correspondent Usher Quraishi shows how to protect yourself from ...
CBS News - 4d
Fantasy Football Pulse Check: Veteran star WRs show up in Week 14 when we needed them most

Fantasy football analyst Tera Roberts breaks down how some formerly sluggish stars finally turned up big in Week 14.
Yahoo Sports - Dec. 9
Think ‘Wicked’ the movie is doing well? The Broadway show version has made $6 billion.

Thanks to the film release, the Broadway show is a top seller once again — and it may spawn cinematic adaptations of other popular theatrical productions.
MarketWatch - Dec. 9
How Consumer Brands Are Preparing for Trump-Proposed Tariffs

Founders will be working overtime this holiday season on reconfiguring their supply chains away from China.
Inc. - Dec. 6
Black Friday showed consumers are still eager to spend — at the right price

Retailers again saw sales hit new heights from Thanksgiving to Cyber Monday, even as shoppers remain cautious about where and when to spend this holiday season.
NBC News - Dec. 5
How high can 'Wicked' fly? Competition for top musicals is extremely high

Disney dominates the list of 10 top-grossing Hollywood musicals, but Universal hopes 'Wicked' will break through.
Los Angeles Times - Dec. 5
Biden’s corruption highlights the need to fix the pardon power — here's how to do it

President Biden has pardoned his son Hunter Biden for tax evasion and lying to the government to buy a gun, but the pardon covers any federal crime he may have committed over the last 11 years, ...
The Hill - Dec. 4
Rap scene 'needs to know' about South Asian culture

South Asian rapper Sliime has seen his new track Bengali make its way on to the 1Xtra playlist.
BBC News - Dec. 4