If the runup to Tuesday’s Game 2 was all about checking the weather reports, the hours before Game 3 were focused on figuring out who was going to show up, as Lieber’s team in particular was looking very short-handed. In … Continue reading
Most of the runup to yesterday’s game against Lieber was spent refreshing forecast.io over and over, watching the odds of rain bounce around between “maybe you’ll get a little drizzle” and “don’t even think of leaving the house.” Fortunately, as our … Continue reading
You couldn’t have asked for better weather this morning — bright and sunny and just a little cool, but warming up as the game went on — for the opening game of the 2020 season for the … oh, hey, … Continue reading
If pandemic Manhattan is a ghost town, Hudson Yards is its ghost capital. The million-square-foot mall built into the base of 20 Hudson Yards is open but eerily empty, its assemblage of single-named highest-end stores—Dior, Fendi, Cartier, Rolex—entirely devoid of … Continue reading
When the Carolina Hurricanes bounced the New York Rangers from the Stanley Cup bubble with a 4-1 win on August 4th, it seemed like a mere footnote in a sports season turned upside down by the coronavirus pandemic. The Rangers … Continue reading
As a historic set of wildfires sweeps across California, sparked by lightning and stoked by record heat and drought resulting from climate change (Mercury News, 8/19/20; Scientific American, 4/3/20), many news outlets have drawn readers’ attention to an additional problem … Continue reading
The Australian state of Victoria declared a “state of disaster” over Covid-19 on Sunday, August 2, sending the nation’s second-most-populous region, which includes the city of Melbourne, back into a strict lockdown. Nonessential businesses will be closed for the next … Continue reading
In the second half of June, the story of the United States’ coronavirus pandemic began to shift dramatically, as a massive surge in new infections took hold, particularly across states in the South and West that had previously been spared … Continue reading
“After Curfew, Detroit Police Act Aggressively to Disperse Protesters Who Refused to Leave” (Detroit Free Press, 5/31/20) “Minneapolis Officers Use More Aggressive Tactics Against Protesters as Rallies Flare Around US” (NBC News, 5/31/20) “An Agitated Trump Encourages Governors to Use … Continue reading
Last week, a piece of news put another dent in the Swedish government’s claims that it’s been able to get Covid-19 under control without stay-at-home orders. Swedish officials had previously said that their capital city of Stockholm could be approaching … Continue reading