ARLINGTON, Texas — For 54 consecutive years Mike Amodei attended at least one Dodgers game a season, beginning with a Sandy Koufax start in 1966. Nothing would ever stop him from keeping his streak alive, he thought — until a once-in-a-century pandemic put it in jeopardy. Though Major League Baseball […]
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(Bloomberg Opinion) — The pandemic has given rise to some big changes in consumer behavior. We’re all familiar with the obvious ones by now, including more meals at home, fewer trips on airplanes and a dearth of reasons to buy high heels or suits. But after a batch of big-name consumer companies reported earnings in […]
I was so obsessed with remembering to grab a few face masks that I forgot my wallet. Luckily, I had my driver’s license and a couple of credit cards in my iPhone’s protective case, because if I didn’t, my first trip to Newark Airport since the start of the coronavirus […]
It’s been almost ten years since Bridesmaids, the blockbuster that turned Kristen Wiig into a movie star and made Oscar nominees of Wiig and her co-writer and longtime comedy partner Annie Mumolo. What felt at the time like the beginning of something big did, over the years, prove more of […]
We’re on the cusp of the next phase of what you might call restricted living. Come the end of the week we could be in Tier 3, Tier 2, voluntarily sheltering – who knows? – but whatever happens we’re beginning to realise we’re never going to rid ourselves of all […]
President Donald Trump’s legal team on Tuesday announced a state Senate hearing on election issues in Pennsylvania featuring former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who is an attorney for the president. But MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow found the event ― like so much else involving the Trump legal effort ― isn’t […]