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The first Wicked movie was the fifth highest grossing movie of 2024, and advance sales are brisk for the second one.
Wicked superfans include two self-identified witches at a recent witch-themed street festival in Wayne, Michigan.
It's just a beautiful film, and I'm very excited to see the second one.
We're gonna have to go together.
Tiffany Walker and her friend who calls herself Mama Rainbow say Wicked is a film that finally gives witches a fair shake.
Candy prices are up 8 percent this year alone, according to the National Confectioners Association.
That's largely because of a cocoa shortage from West Africa.
That area produces the majority of the world's cocoa.
It's been deeply affected by climate change, like extreme droughts and rain.
That in turn affects big chocolate companies like Hershey, which doubled prices earlier this year.
Some consumer advocates are urging Americans to buy non-chocolate treats.
That could mean a lot of Jolly Ranchers for trick-or-treaters.
Americans are expected to spend nearly $4 billion this year on Halloween candy.
That's according to the National Retail Federation.
This is the 100th class of Guggenheim Fellows. They range from a paleontologist studying evolutionary responses to climate change to the best-selling novelist Miranda July. She talked to WHYY's Fresh Air last year about writing all fours, a book hailed as perhaps the first great perimenopause novel. Like if you're hiding the place where you're actually at, then it's hard to get to the next place.
This is the 100th class of Guggenheim Fellows. They range from a paleontologist studying evolutionary responses to climate change to the best-selling novelist Miranda July. She talked to WHYY's Fresh Air last year about writing all fours, a book hailed as perhaps the first great perimenopause novel. Like if you're hiding the place where you're actually at, then it's hard to get to the next place.
Other Guggenheim fellows include the novelist Jonathan Lethem and artist Theaster Gates, known for making abandoned old houses and buildings his medium. On average, grants range from $40,000 to $55,000. Netta Ulibi, NPR News.