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In its first weekend of wide release, ($9.1M/$187.7M) continue to chug along towards $200M.

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Some might call it acting in lock-step, some might call it a grand and fitting tribute to an American hero. Today the Pittsburgh Pirates announced that every one of their players will don Jackie Robinson's number 42 on their jerseys on Sunday, the 60th anniversary of the day Robinson broke the color barrier in major league baseball. In an unprecedented move, the number was retired from all MLB teams ten years ago, only being...

The Pirates came into town as losers of eight straight games; oddly,
they swept the Giants in San Francisco only two weekends ago, and even
managed to scratch a win off St. Louis, but that was a week and a half
ago. The Dodgers happily handed the Bucs three straight losses, and
so they leave town with their losing streak intact and extended eleven
games. They're nowhere near the National League record for futility,
held by the godawful href="http://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/CLV/1899.shtml">1899
Cleveland Spiders, a franchise that defined the depths of dispair for
all time by going 26-128.

That streak might not be the worst in the Senior Circuit, but it's a
local maxima; the Bucs haven't lost so many in a row since erstwhile
manager Fred Haney (and later, Angels GM) led the href="http://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/PIT/1955.shtml">1955
Pirates to a 55-99 record. What's even more embarrassing for the
Bucs is that they got swept ,
one of the few teams that even Pittsburgh should have, in theory, been
able to beat.

LAist loves watching bad musicals and horror movies in the summer. Much to our delight, the programmers at the American Cinematheque are screening a week of horror movies and musicals, probably as a prelude to their upcoming Festival of Fantasy, Horror and Science-Fiction.