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Romaine lettuce in Simi Valley, Calif., in 2018. Wholesale produce distributors say demand is exceeding supply of iceberg and romaine lettuce. Mark J. Terrill/The Associated Press The cost of lettuce is spiking amid a shortage that’s leading some restaurants to temporarily stop offering leafy greens on their menus. Wholesale produce distributors say demand is exceeding supply of iceberg and romaine lettuce, and pricing pressures are expected to continue throughout the month. Restaurants Canada COO Kelly Higginson said a major lettuce-growing area in California was hit by some kind of virus, after a year that’s already been rife with difficulties thanks to heat and drought. “That particular area has had crops decimated. So there’s a massive shortage,” said Higginson. From fast-food joints to fine dining establishments, “everybody’s just pulling lettuce off the menu,” she said. That’s because not only is lettuce in short supply, but the available product has in some cases quadrupled in...

Screenshot : Ed Wood/Buena Vista There are few things Hollywood loves more than a movie about the craft of movie-making, which is hardly surprising: Film is rarely a part-time job, and doubtless for many, it feels like the entire world. From the industry’s early days, Hollywood has been something akin to an old-style company town, one in which people live and breathe the job of filmmaking, so of course there are a ton of movies about movies. What’s surprising is that there are so many good ones. From its inception, the movie industry has been a hotbed of gossip and scandal, but most of these films aren’t about that. They’re more broadly about the creative process, and that’s where we begin to care. They’re sometimes cynical about the true intentions of seemingly gifted artists, or about the ways capitalism constrains art and mutes voices that actually have something to say—concerns hardly limited to the movie industry. Well more than a century on from the birth of films, they’re ...