On a recent Monday, New York City inspectors were out in full force in Harlem. A Department of Buildings officer lurked around a recently constructed makeshift restaurant patio on Frederick Douglass Boulevard. He took photos, jotted down notes and was soon joined by a colleague. They conferred, pointing here, there and over there, too. Karl Franz Williams watched all this from his perch on a stool at a high table on his own makeshift patio. It extends from the sidewalk in front of his cocktail bar, 67 Orange Street, into what would normally be a parking spot. The area is delineated […]
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After a hellish summer, when Florida became a major hot spot for COVID-19, Governor Ron DeSantis has decided it’s time for everyone to grab a beer. And experts are already worried what the public health fallout could be. The Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation announced in a statement Thursday that “at the direction” of the Republican governor an earlier order that had cut off bars from selling alcohol to be consumed on site was being thrown out, and instead, a new order will be in place that by Monday lets bars “operate at 50 percent of the facility’s indoor […]
On Tuesday, Lionel Messi notified Barcelona of his decision to leave the Spanish football club despite having a contract that doesn’t end until June 2021. The move came after his club’s surprise 8-2 defeat to Bayern Munich in the Champions League. Football star Lionel Messi has told FC Barcelona that he would not show up for coronavirus testing on Sunday, according to Catalan radio station RAC1 reporter Gerard Romero. On Saturday, Romero tweeted that “Messi communicated to Barca that he wouldn’t appear for the PCR [polymerase chain reaction] test on 30 August prior to the start of the new season”. The […]
The folks at Constellation Brands surely had a premonition that this was going to be a very tough year. “Seriously?” they must have thought, “there’s a virus that’s become a deadly pandemic, and it’s got the same name as our bestselling beer Corona? You have got to be kidding.” Unfortunately, this was no joke. Constellation is the sole U.S. importer of the Grupo Modelo beer brands, including the super-popular Corona Extra, along with brands like Modelo Especial, Pacifico and the new Corona Hard Seltzer. (Grupo Modelo was wholly acquired in 2012 by AB InBev, but export rights in the U.S. went […]
“We’ll always have Paris.” Since spring, many Parisian came to doubt the veracity of that famed Casablanca promise, and for good reason. Under complete lockdown for weeks, the city just didn’t feel like itself. Fortunately, it all changed mid-June when cafés and restaurants reopened. Seeing Parisians sipping coffee, munching on croissants and gazing and contemplating life, makes all the difference. I almost forgot I’m wearing a mask. And it helps that the so-called terrasses (patios with outdoor tables) are now spread out on the sidewalks much more liberally than before thanks to special governmental measures aimed at helping restaurateurs and café […]
Land-Based Ethics And Settler Solidarity In A Time Of Corona And Revolution By Natalie Avalos, The Arrow. July 29, 2020 Land-Based Ethics And Settler Solidarity In A Time Of Corona And Revolution2020-07-292020-07-29https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/07/art-agricultre-ane-indusrry-e1596047892349.png200px200px Settler colonialism has been defined as a structure, not an event, meaning that settler societies like the U.S., Canada, and Australia endure over time through racist laws and ideologies that naturalize the dispossession of Indigenous populations. One of the most effective strategies that settler states rely on to eliminate Indigenous peoples and their power is the idea that their knowledge is primitive and superstitious, examples of failed epistemology. This view is rooted […]
The Solar Orbiter satellite, a joint NASA and ESA (European Space Agency) mission, has sent back the first batch of images taken in mid-June during its initial close pass of the sun from a distance of 77 mln kilometres (48 mln miles). As the media revels in astounding closest-ever images of the sun taken at 77 mln kilometres (48 mln miles) above the solar surface between the orbits of Venus and Mercury, the images beamed back by Solar Orbiter spacecraft have also revealed that its surface is speckled with flickering beacons, writes The European Space Agency portal. The miniature solar flares, […]
On his personal website Colin Peter Field presents himself plainly as a “bartender” and shares a list of his favorite spirits, including the ubiquitous Grey Goose Vodka and Maker’s Mark Bourbon. But don’t be fooled—Field is a visionary mixologist and is regularly hailed as one of the greatest bartenders in the world. (There’s a reason why Kate Moss wrote an introduction for one of his cocktail books.) The British native arrived in Paris in 1981 at the age of 20 and has since helped change the drinking landscape of the city, which used to be curiously uninterested in cocktails. Since its […]
The Black Lives Matter protests across the world show the ‘necessary force’ people need to use when fighting global warming, teen activist turned climate change icon Greta Thunberg believes. “It feels like we have passed some kind of social tipping point where people are starting to realize that we cannot keep looking away from these things. We cannot keep sweeping these things under the carpet, these injustices,” 17-year-old Thunberg told the BBC. She says the protests that have come in the wake of the death of George Floyd shows people can “have an impact.” Also on rt.com The king is dead! […]
Jerry Morales owns Gerardo’s Casita, in Midland, Texas. The former mayor of Midland and past president of the Texas Restaurant Association has done anything and everything to keep his businesses alive over the past two months. John Burnett/NPR hide caption toggle caption John Burnett/NPR Jerry Morales owns Gerardo’s Casita, in Midland, Texas. The former mayor of Midland and past president of the Texas Restaurant Association has done anything and everything to keep his businesses alive over the past two months. John Burnett/NPR Restaurant doors are cautiously opening again in Texas, but nothing is quite the same with the continuing threat of […]
The elderly have already been hit hardest by the coronavirus pandemic, but one Oxford economist thinks that they should shell out to ease the economic burden on the young. He’s since been accused of “scapegoating” the vulnerable. “Young people benefit the least from the lockdown measures, because they are less susceptible to the virus,” economist and professor Jan-Emmanuel De Neve told Belgian news channel VRT on Thursday. “The older generation should realise that young people are sacrificing themselves, both economically and in terms of mental health.” To even the score, the 41-year-old Oxford professor – who heads the prestigious university’s ‘Wellbeing […]
India 07:56 GMT 14.05.2020Get short URL https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107903/90/1079039095_0:116:3072:1844_1200x675_80_0_0_bbcadb9e3370f99efcfcfa9516d5c0df.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/india/202005141079298771-indian-equities-unimpressed-with-pm-modis-corona-stimulus-sensex-loses-600-points-in-opening-trade/ New Delhi (Sputnik): The COVID-19 contagion seems to have taken the fizz out of the Indian equity markets. From levels of over 41,000 in February, the benchmark index Sensex has fallen to its current level of 32,000. The coronavirus health emergency has led to a national lockdown since 25 March and is likely to continue beyond 17 May. The COVID-19 economic stimulus worth $266 billion announced by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday seems to have failed to impress the equity markets. Even as Finance Minister […]
For nearly two years I traveled around the world and wrote about the subcultures of blockchain – from Bali to Budapest, from Serbia to Switzerland. I planned to continue the journey. I imagined I’d be traveling to far-flung places this summer, reporting on global blockchain projects for CoinDesk. Then came COVID-19. Since the word “travel” is now a glum anachronism – maybe our grandkids will be able to experience this thing they call “travel” – like everyone else I’m holed up in an apartment, staring at screens. But I was curious. How is the global crypto community, or at least the […]