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How Trump Administration Cuts Are Hurting National Parks  The New York Times Parks and museums emerge as new culture war battlegrounds  The Hill Former supervisor of most-visited national forest shares concerns about ‘deliberate dismantling’ of public lands  SummitDaily.com Richmond rallies around Rosie the Riveter as Trump cracks down on ‘inappropriate’ memorials  San Francisco Chronicle The uncertain future of our national parks  KPCW Source link

After nearly 30 years, South Park still knows how to cause a stir. In the recent Season 27 premiere, the show’s creators, Trey Parker and Matt Stone, spoofed President Donald Trump, placing him in precarious situations with Satan, but it’s the second episode of the season that is drawing a huge crowd. On Aug. 6, the episode titled “Got a …

South Park’s recent satirical depiction of Kristi Noem as having undergone a defective cosmetic procedure and shooting dogs has rankled the US homeland security secretary, she said in a new interview. “It’s so lazy to just constantly make fun of women for how they look,” Noem remarked on Thursday’s episode of the Glenn Beck Program podcast – a little more …

Inside the $85 Million Renovation of Central Park’s Home for Shakespeare  The New York Times The Delacorte: A Palace for the People  New York Social Diary The Line’s the Thing: Shakespeare in the Park Returns to Upper West Side Thursday  West Side Rag How to Get Tickets to Free Shakespeare in the Park in New York City  Playbill Free NYC Shakespeare in the Park …

Across the US’s fabled but overstretched national parks, unusual scenes are playing out this summer following budget cuts by Donald Trump’s administration. Archeologists are staffing ticket booths, ecologists are covering visitor centers and the superintendents of parks are even cleaning the toilets. The National Park Service (NPS), responsible for maintaining cherished wildernesses and sites of cultural importance from Yellowstone to …

Two weeks ago, South Park kicked off its 27th season with one of its angriest, most politically daring episodes. The animated sitcom, long a magnet for controversy, incurred the wrath of the current US administration for its brutal and graphic send-up of Donald Trump as a petty, micro-penised dictator, as well as parent company Paramount’s cowardly capitulations to him. Creators …

Disney‘s streaming revenue increased 6% and the segment turned a profit of $346 million during the three-month period ended June 28, the company reported in its quarterly earnings results Wednesday. But it was higher sales and operating profit at Disney’s domestic parks business that helped the Mouse House beat Wall Street earnings expectations for the quarter, while linear TV networks …

Disney’s theme parks, which had a few wobbly quarters, blew past Wall Street estimates as streaming profits advanced in the June quarter, vying with red ink at the film studio and declines at linear networks. In an early look at the numbers, Evercore ISI analyst Kutgun Maral called it a “healthy quarter with upside where it matters most, theme parks …

Disney Looks to Higher Streaming, Parks Growth  The Wall Street Journal Disney earnings top expectations as streaming, parks offset TV headwinds  CNBC Disney’s 3Q profit climbs as it sees strength at domestic parks, adds streaming subscribers  The Hill Disney Sees Theme Park & Streaming Profit, Studio Red Ink In FYQ3 Amid Flurry Of ESPN News  Deadline Walt Disney blows past profit estimates after inking …

Facebook Tweet Email Link Judging by President Trump’s most recent post about TV ratings — “if you get ratings, you can say or do anything” — “South Park” can keep up the savage Trump criticism. The 27th season premiere of the animated series attracted 5.9 million viewers across the Comedy Central cable channel and the Paramount+ streaming service last week, …