Real Pinard, who recovered from a 15-day bout of COVID-19, said many rally goers believe that the pandemic is a hoax designed to throw Trump’s re-election. Jim Urquhart for Insider Brands like Budweiser, Coca-Cola, Harley-Davidson, and PepsiCo are sponsoring this year’s Sturgis Motorcycle Rally, as they have in years past. […]
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(Bloomberg Opinion) — In folklore, the will-o’-the-wisp is a spirit that lives in marshlands, beckoning night-time travelers with its mysterious light until they stumble in darkness to their demise. The phenomenon is thought to be caused by igniting swamp methane, so it’s oddly appropriate that one of the world’s largest exporters of […]
Anya Taylor Joy in Neflix’s drama The Queen’s Gambit – Netflix Is Netflix cancelled? Today’s headlines – “subscriber growth stalls”, “dramatic slowdown”, ‘Netflix past its peak’, “streamer badly misses targets” – suggest things aren’t exactly peachy. The company’s quarterly results showed Harry and Meghan’s employer reporting a dramatic slowdown in […]
In my youth, the BBC’s Grandstand and ITV’s World of Sport, presented by the flamboyantly moustached Dickie Davies, competed for weekend dominance of the airwaves. © I grew up watching Giant Haystacks’ battles with Big Daddy Back then the Beeb had the rights to most major sporting events, and World […]
Launched in 1990, Empress of the Seas was the first ship from any cruise line designed for three- and four-night cruises, with her initial sailings visiting the Bahamas from Miami. She also made history as the first cruise ship to sail out of Cape Liberty in Bayonne, New Jersey when […]
To the crowd counting down at Cherry Crest Adventure Farm, this weekend’s pumpkin drop was a 1,200-pound splat, a two-second video and a lot of squash guts. To Jim Gerhardt, this was the end for Daddy Pumpkin, a squash he’s nurtured since the early days of the coronavirus. He doesn’t […]
Josh Harris, the co-founder of Apollo Global Management Inc., obsessively weighs the risks and implications of decisions he makes: whom to hire for a role at the private-equity giant, whether to move forward with an investment or which trades to make to fill out the roster of the Philadelphia 76ers, […]
Losing altitude: Virgin Atlantic is cutting back its flights (Matt Carter) UK travellers will have far fewer flights to choose from in the coming months and years, airline bosses have warned. Shay Weiss, chief executive of Virgin Atlantic, told the BBC’s Today programme that his airline plans to fly only […]
Photo credit: Trevor Raab From Bicycling The Giant Manufacturing Company in Taiwan has not, as one might suspect, always produced Giant brand bikes, but it has always manufactured bicycles. King Liu founded his company in 1972 as a frame manufacturing subcontractor for a variety of bicycle brands. It wasn’t until […]