(San Diego) — The USS Theodore Roosevelt returned home to San Diego on Thursday led by a new captain who came aboard after the previous commanding officer was fired over the handling of a massive COVID-19 outbreak on board. There were no emotional embraces on the Navy pier typical of such homecomings when sailors return…
via U.S.S. Theodore Roosevelt, Which Was Plagued by Coronavirus, Returns Home to San Diego — TIME
As we ease out of lockdown, life is about to get busy again. Many will be back at work, traffic will be heavy, and life will be full again. As well as essential busyness we want to be entertained, 500 or more TV channels, an unlimited number of sites to browse online, constant use of…
via Are You Too Busy For God? — Godinterest Christian Magazine
The best electronic music festival in the world will take place as both a physical and digital experience this year. Nyege Nyege Fest will return in 2020, meeting all challenges posed by the COVID crisis head on as they bring audiences both physical and online celebrations from September 3 – 6. In Uganda, Nyege Nyege…
via Nyege Nyege Fest returns for a hybrid 2020 edition — FACT Magazine
Fact will be hosting sets throughout the festival, which takes place from July 16-31. A new digital festival co-founded by the creator of Vancouver’s New Forms Festival called Refraction launches later this month with a two-week programme of streamed DJ sets, digital art and AV performances in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Artists including object…
Digital signings and meet-and-greet platform talks fan interactions and the future Source
MBW’s sources suggest platform will partner with local telco MTS Source
via Exclusive: Spotify is launching in Russia next week — Music Business Worldwide
Fairwood and Konic Records also ink their own deals with Turnkey Source
United Airlines is warning 36,000 employees – nearly half its U.S. staff – they could be furloughed in October, the clearest signal yet of how deeply the virus pandemic is hurting the airline industry. The outlook for a recovery in air travel has dimmed in just the past two weeks, as infection rates rise in…
This post is in partnership with History Today. The article below was originally published at History Today. In England and parts of Germany, extreme drinking at universities often looks much the same as in the U.S. But in countries where wine is more popular than beer, such as Italy, France, Spain and Greece, bingeing and…
via The Long History of Drinking Games—And How to Win Them — TIME
MobsterTiger 
Recent Comments