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When the New York State Wage Board announced that the minimum wage in New York City would be raised to $15 an hour by December 31, 2018, Patrick McGeehan argued in The New York Times that it was a direct consequence of the Fight for $15 protests, and that "the labor protest movement that fast-food workers in New York City began nearly three ...
The completed center viewed from the South. Construction on additional facilities is nearing completion. The AT&T Performing Arts Center in Dallas, Texas, preliminarily referred to as the Dallas Center for the Performing Arts, is a $354-million multi-venue center in the Dallas Arts District for performances of opera, musical theater, classic and experimental theater, ballet and other forms of ...
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid is a 1969 American Western buddy film directed by George Roy Hill and written by William Goldman.Based loosely on fact, the film tells the story of Wild West outlaws Robert LeRoy Parker, known as Butch Cassidy (Paul Newman), and his partner Harry Longabaugh, the "Sundance Kid" (Robert Redford), who are on the run from a crack US posse after a string of train ...
Samuel "Roxy" Rothafel was a successful theater operator who was prominent in the city's movie theater industry, [34] having built the 5,920-seat Roxy Theatre on 50th Street in midtown during 1927. [35] The Chanin brothers also had some experience in theatrical development, having built six Broadway theaters in the mid-1920s. [36] [37] [a]
$15.3 million [2] [3] Quick Change is a 1990 American crime comedy film directed by Howard Franklin and Bill Murray (in their directorial debuts) and written by Franklin. [ 4 ] Based on the novel of the same name by Jay Cronley , the film stars Murray, Geena Davis , Randy Quaid , and Jason Robards .
Amsterdam is a 2022 mystery comedy thriller film produced, written, and directed by David O. Russell.It stars Christian Bale (who also produced), Margot Robbie, and John David Washington, alongside an ensemble supporting cast.
Preceding the Delano grape strike was another grape strike organized by Filipino farm workers that occurred in Coachella Valley, California on May 3, 1965. [14] [15] Because the majority of strikers were over 50 years old and did not have families of their own due to anti-miscegenation laws (first overthrown in 1949), they were willing to risk what little they had to fight for higher wages.
In the United States and Canada, Strays was released alongside Blue Beetle, and was initially projected to gross $15–17 million from 3,223 theaters in its opening weekend. [2] After making $3.4 million on its first day (including $1.1 million from Thursday night previews), weekend estimates were lowered to $8.5 million.