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Barnes v. Glen Theatre, Inc., 501 U.S. 560 (1991), was a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court concerning the First Amendment and the ability of the government to outlaw certain forms of expressive conduct.
Winter Park Village was officially dedicated on November 15, 1999, but some stores and restaurants such as Borders and P. F. Chang's China Bistro opened as early as March. The empty Dillard's building was divided into smaller spaces to house The Cheesecake Factory and Guitar Center on the lower level and 58 loft apartments on the upper level.
Sky Dancers are a line of toys that were popular in the mid-1990s and were the basis for an animated series. [1] The toys consisted of a pull-string base and a doll with foam wings . When the doll was inserted into the base and the string was pulled, it would launch into the air and spin its wings like a propeller as it flew, similar to a ...
While the fate of the Bruin remains unclear, Hollywood director Jason Reitman led a group that bought the nearby Village, which launched as part of the Fox theater chain during the Great Depression.
The Standard Theater was the original segregated theater in Chapel Hill, beginning operations in 1924. It was owned and operated by the Black entrepreneur Durwood O’Kelly. [3] When the white-owned and operated Hollywood Theater opened in 1939, the Standard had to shut its doors because it lost most of its patrons to the Hollywood. [4]
In 1986, The Replacements were banned after they came out drunk during their performance of "Bastards of Young" and later appeared in each other's clothes during the second performance. However, Paul Westerberg later went solo and was allowed to appear. [ 26 ]
The events of the 1984 film Footloose were inspired by a dancing ban in the heavily Southern Baptist town of Elmore City, Oklahoma, which lasted until 1980. Finland banned dancing in December 1939 following the outbreak of Winter War, with the ban lasting until the signing of the Moscow Armistice in 1944 that ended Finnish participation in ...
There was a raid during the very first show. For the next four years, the theater showed a weekly profit of $20,000 after payola. [3] Billy's attempt, however, to present classy burlesque at the Park Theater on Columbus Circle failed miserably. Another famous raid occurred in April 1925, and inspired the book and film The Night They Raided ...