Adriana Rozas Rivera

Reportera @noticentroWAPA 🇵🇷 Former bilingual anchor @wpri12 • Emmy winner ✨ • @NewhouseSU alumna • RTs/Likes ≠ opinions • Rozas con “Z”

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Christopher Nolan's $250 million movie depends on one building in Burbank, 41 theaters worldwide, and roughly 90 people on Earth who know how to run the projector.

The Odyssey is the first feature shot entirely on IMAX film, and FotoKem is the last lab anywhere that can make the 70mm prints. Every one of the thousands of cuts in the film was spliced by hand with a glue pot. The production burned through 2.1 million feet of negative, about 400 miles of film, and every foot of it flew back to that single lab for processing.

Each finished print costs around $80,000 to make. One Las Vegas theater spent $32,000 on humidifiers just to keep its copy from drying out. Its projector had sat idle since Interstellar in 2014.

Here's what the scarcity bought: when 70mm tickets went on sale a full year before release, 95% of seats sold within an hour. Retail price was $25 to $28. Resellers got $300 to $400. Presales have already broken the all-time IMAX record.

Studios spent 20 years abandoning film because digital was cheaper to ship. Nolan kept the last lab alive and turned the bottleneck itself into the marketing. Thousands of rooms can play the 4K version. Only 41 can show the 18K version, and that gap is why people are crossing state lines for a movie ticket.

The format Hollywood declared dead in 2010 is now the scarcest luxury good in entertainment.

[Magazine, News & Digital Journalism @NewhouseMND]

BIG NEWS: @Newhouse_SU is one of 4 J-schools nationwide selected for the 2026–27 @TeenVogue Correspondents Program.

2 paid spots. $250/piece. Direct editor mentorship. Writing + video roles available.

Seniors, apply by July 20 https://t.co/bCjmCVbjRT

#Journalism #TeenVogue

[Nantucket Current @ACKCurrent]

Hilarious new detail:

Unfamiliar with Nantucket, Sandler actually called the Nantucket Police Department’s non-emergency line to ask where he could find a game, according to public safety dispatcher Chris Reynolds.

Sandler said, “Hey, I’m here on your island and I like to play basketball. Can you tell me where there’s a basketball court I could play on?” Reynolds told the Current. He directed Sandler to the Backus Lane court off Surfside Road.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Josimar Dias is 40 years old, and across nineteen years of professional football he won a single trophy. Across Cape Verde he is known as Vozinha. Most of his career happened in places the World Cup never reaches: a season in Moldova, a spell in Angola, some time in Slovakia, five years in Cyprus, a few stops back home.

He grew up in Mindelo, a port town on the island of São Vicente, raised by his grandparents. His first game for the national team came in 2012, when he was 26. Over the years that followed he played more times for Cape Verde than almost anyone in its history, more than 90 games in all, turning out at four Africa Cup of Nations tournaments while signing for small clubs across Europe and Africa. His only trophy came in 2019, a Cypriot Cup with AEL Limassol, the club's first in three decades.

Almost none of this was known outside Cape Verde until June. The country had failed to reach a World Cup seven times before it finally won its qualifying group ahead of Cameroon, finishing the job with a 3-0 win over Eswatini in October 2025. A nation of about 525,000 people, roughly the size of a mid-sized city, was going to the World Cup.

Then came Spain, ranked second in the world, in the opening game. Vozinha faced 27 shots and saved seven of them, and the game finished 0-0, so Spain never scored against him. At 40 years and 12 days he became the oldest player ever to appear in a country's first World Cup match, and only the third goalkeeper over 40 to play a whole World Cup game without letting a goal in, after Peter Shilton and Dino Zoff. He was named man of the match and cried at the final whistle. He had started the tournament with 50,000 Instagram followers. Two days later he had 14 million.

Cape Verde held Saudi Arabia to another 0-0, which took them into the last 32 teams, the smallest country ever to get that far at a World Cup. On Friday they met defending champions Argentina in Miami. Vozinha made eight saves, four of them off Lionel Messi, including a 73rd-minute free kick that Messi hit about as well as a ball can be hit. Cape Verde drew level twice, once in normal time and once in extra time, before Argentina edged it 3-2, the winning goal going in off one of Cape Verde's own players. He finished with more than 18 million followers.

The one thing he had said he wanted from this World Cup was for his mother to watch him play. The family could not cover the cost of a US visa in time, and it took a public effort to get her there in the closing days. She reached Miami with days to spare, and she was in the stadium for his final match.

[AB⚕ @AbsoluteBruno]

That little boy was in tears, yet he was still consoling his father. This might be the most emotional moment I’ve ever seen in football🥹❤️❤️
https://t.co/uS6md7MAcm

[Benjamín Torres Gotay 🇵🇷 @TorresGotay]

Estados Unidos, hoy

[Juan R. Costa @NotiJuan]

Email enviado a las 8:32am. 🤷🏻‍♂️

[Jonathan Berk @berkie1]

The @BostonGlobe published a full page thank you letter to the Tartan Army in this mornings paper. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[Bloomberg @business]

The head of Puerto Rico’s economic development department and about a dozen others quit their posts Tuesday, complicating some of the government’s key initiatives that aim to attract manufacturing and wealthy mainlanders to the US territory https://t.co/HB8Xyzgmm8

[Carlos Rosa @crosarosa]

Una gran foto: los hermanos Ortiz, del barrio La Gloria de Trujillo Alto

[Reid Wiseman @astro_reid]

On the helicopter leaving the ship right now. This planet is impossibly beautiful from every altitude I’ve seen it…surface to 250,000 miles

[Dan Clark @DanClarkSports]

This is probably the most incredible baseball photo I've ever seen.

[Isaac @iTalkStudiosYT]

HE CELEBRATED IN THE STANDS LIKE HE WAS A FAN ONE OF THE COOLEST THINGS I'VE EVER SEEN

[Tim White @TimWhiteRI]

Honored to deliver this year's Taricani Lecture on First Amendment Rights at @URIHarrington.

Jim Taricani was a great friend, and a big reason I'm in this job.

"Defending Local News and a Free Press," April 21, 5:30 p.m. Join me or watch on YouTube:
https://t.co/3ZlH4wtpBi

[Benjamín Torres Gotay 🇵🇷 @TorresGotay]

¿La Habana? No. El casco urbano de Arecibo, Puerto Rico

[Shawn Spradling @Shawn_Spradling]

Following the Dominican Republic’s loss to Team USA in the WBC, Presidente designed a new beer can…with a strike zone on it. 😂

“Our pride never strikes out.” 🇩🇴

[NESN @NESN]

Today the Boston Bruins welcomed the Blackstone Valley team, who won the Rhode Island state championship last week 🖤 💛

[ESPN @espn]

Blackstone Valley Co-op won the Rhode Island Division II championship Tuesday night.

Colin Dorgan, whose family members were killed in a shooting at the teams Senior Day last month, scored the game-tying goal with less than a minute left in regulation. Blackstone Valley went on to win in 4OT.

(via @NicoleMenner, @ZachLetson, @Branden_Mello)

[Shawn Spradling @Shawn_Spradling]

The Spanish broadcast call in Puerto Rico of last night’s walk-off 🇵🇷

🎥: @wapadeportes