Entertainment

This week is the annual San Diego Comic-Con (SDCC), the largest comic book and pop culture convention of its type in the world. Comic-Con has become a home for movie studios to showcase their biggest tentpole projects with trailers and panels of actors, writers, and directors.

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What time should you eat breakfast? A French study finds early is best. In the study, eating breakfast after 9 a.m.

LOS ANGELES — In Los Angeles and New York City, striking actors are chanting, “Hey hey, ho ho, corporate greed’s got to go!” Heat wave be damned, television and film stars have been grabbing their signs and heading out to the picket lines since the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists announced they were joining the Writers Guild of America in striking over wages and assurances regarding the use of artificial intelligence. On Monday, Hilary Duff gave “Lizzie McGuire” fans a blast from the past when she was captured singing along to “What Dreams Are Made Of” while picketing outside of Paramount Studios in L.A.

“It worked.” Those are the quiet words spoken in “Oppenheimer” after the Los Alamos trial of the atomic bomb, the whispery quality of the remark in dramatic contrast to one of the most momentous events of the 20th century.

Ads for “Barbie” claimed it was for people who hate her and love her, which left me wondering: What about people who don’t care about her at all? Turns out the comedy/drama has us covered, too. The key to the movie is director/co-writer Greta Gerwig’s ability — previously demonstrated in “Lady Bird” and “Little Women” as well as in performances in “Maggie’s Plan” and “Frances Ha” — to make sincerity feel cool.

Internationally acclaimed boogie woogie, blues and jazz pianist, Silvan Zingg, will be performing a live solo concert at the Poncan Theatre on Saturday, July 22. Hailing from Lugano, Switzerland, Zingg came from a family with musical talent.