Netta Uliby
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Several clubs in Brooklyn and San Francisco announced closures, including YOLO, where this live set was recorded last year.
In Los Angeles, the legendary Mayan Theater closed, and clubs announced closures in Cleveland, Chicago, Austin, Texas, and on the Jersey Shore.
Stephen Parker runs the International Venue Association.
He says the economy is to blame.
Margins are tight, people are going out less, and they do not drink as much.
Plus, he says gentrification is an issue, and so is pressure from big corporations like Live Nation and Ticketmaster.
Their practices spurred an antitrust lawsuit filed by the Justice Department with a trial scheduled for March.
Home Alone takes place over Christmas.
It's about a little boy left behind when his family goes on vacation.
It's been the most-watched holiday movie every December since 2021, except for last year when the prime video movie Red One took the top spot.
The action movie stars Dwayne Johnson as head of Santa's security detail.
Other recent top-ranked Christmas movies include Elf, Home Alone 2, and National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation.
The movie A Christmas Story benefits from a 24-hour marathon that runs on TBS and TNT.
And although there's debate about whether Die Hard is really a Christmas movie, Nielsen says last year it landed on the holiday list at number 11.
We remember the disaster because of the song by Gordon Lightfoot, but it was one of thousands suffered by crews transporting lumber, limestone, and other goods across Lake Superior.
A new best-selling book by John U. Bacon called The Gales of November tells the stories of the sailors.
Safety standards have tightened since the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.