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This week, our first place winner on the insightful side is n00bdragon with a comment about Florida’s age-gating law and its esoteric definition of addiction: Is anyone else bothered by this incredibly strange definition of “addiction”? Is YMCA soccer addicting if 10% of a youth soccer team (one player) plays soccer for more than two […]

On Oct. 18, 1961, “West Side Story” premiered at New York’s Rivoli Theater, bringing a groundbreaking Broadway score and a story of love and prejudice to movie audiences. Sixty-five years later, the opening stands as a defining event in musical filmmaking: Leonard Bernstein’s music, Stephen Sondheim’s lyrics and Jerome Robbins’ choreography helped make a neighborhood conflict into a work with international reach. The film adapted the 1957 stage musical, itself