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The Glory of Schoenberg’s ‘Gurre-Lieder’ in a Singular and Extraordinary Performance. The American Symphony Orchestra under Leon Botstein
Arnold Schönberg’s gargantuan Gurre-Lieder was performed Friday evening in Carnegie Hall’s Stern Auditorium by the American Symphony Orchestra and...
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Coronavirus Daily News Brief – March 29: Covid Changed Spending Habits Dramatically, CDC Warns of Rare Forms of Meningitis
Good afternoon. This is Jonathan Spira, director of research at the Center for Long Covid Research, reporting. Here now the news of the...
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Coronavirus Daily News Brief – March 28: Pandemic Fraud At Least $9 Billion, Actor Thrown Off Plane for Refusing to Sit Next to Person Wearing a Mask
Good afternoon. This is Jonathan Spira, director of research at the Center for Long Covid Research, reporting. Here now the news of the...
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New York Auto Show Returns for 2024 Promising an ‘Electrifying Experience’
NEW YORK — The New York International Auto Show returns once again to the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center and electric vehicles and new cars...
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Summer Time in Europe for 2024 to Start This Weekend
Another confirmation that spring is indeed here comes this Sunday when Europeans spring forward. This weekend, clocks in the European Union...
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Did You Reach the Minimum Daily Recommended Fruit Intake Today? Here Are Eight Fruits Experts Recommend That You Will Enjoy
Did you meet your minimum daily fruit intake today? Or even yesterday… or last week? Come to think of it, do you even know what the guidelines...
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Coronavirus Daily News Brief – March 26: New Moderna Vaccine Shows Improved Results, What Bill Gates Said About Covid Four Years Ago
Students on campus, known as the grounds, of the University of Virginia Good afternoon. This is Jonathan Spira, director of research at the...
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Intoxicated Actor Refuses to Sit Next to Sober Passenger Wearing Face Mask on Flight From (‘Uh, Where the Hell Am I at’) Houston Airport
A Southwest jet taking off in Newark. The airline is the dominant carrier at Houston’s Hobby Airport. An actor who apparently doesn’t...
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Francis Scott Key Bridge Collapses into Baltimore’s Patapsco River After Freighter Loses Power, Hits Support Column
The Curtis Bay Yards Bridge carries Interstate 895 over CSX’s Curtis Bay Yards in Baltimore, Maryland. and is an approach to the Baltimore...
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Coronavirus Daily News Brief – March 25: Head of U.N. Relief Efforts Says Long Covid is Forcing His Retirement, BioNTech Gets Default Notice from NIH
The New York City Pavilion in Flushing Meadows Park, the site of the 1939 and 1964 World’s Fairs. The U.N. General Assembly used the...
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Boeing CEO, Other Top Execs, to Resign in Management Shakeup After Blowout of 737 Max Door Plug
An early test version of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner in Dallas Three senior Boeing executives including CEO Dave Calhoun are stepping down,...
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A ‘Worm Moon’ Eclipse and Auroras Lighted Up the Weekend Skies
The night sky lighted up in the wee hours of Monday morning for several celestial events ahead of the highly anticipated solar eclipse in early...
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Coronavirus Weekend News Brief – March 24: Covid Vaccines Cut Risk of Heart Failure, Blood Clots; FDA Authorizes New Antiviral, and Today’s Statistics
A CDC vaccination card from early 2020 Good afternoon. This is Jonathan Spira, director of research at the Center for Long Covid Research,...
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In Northeast, New York, Philly See Record Rainfall. Flooding Traps Cars and Commuters, Causes Chaos at Area Airports
An electronic variable message highway sign warned on Friday of the forthcoming deluge. The Northeast saw record rainfall and dangerous...
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Four Years After Broadway Shutdown, Have Audiences Returned to Theaters?
Four years ago, the pandemic brought live performance to a halt when then New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced a ban on gatherings of 500 or...
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The World’s Happiest Country in 2024 is (For the Seventh Time in a Row) Finland, But Who Exaclty Is Happy These Days?
Happiness is a vague, multifaceted, and subjective phenomenon that is difficult to define precisely for measurement and hard to measure in a...
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At Least 133 Killed and Many More Wounded in Moscow Concert Hall Attack. ‘We Are All One Big Family’ Says Lead Singer of Band That Was to Perform.
Saint Basil’s Cathedral in Red Square in Moscow At least 130 people were killed Friday night in a terrorist attack on a concert venue in...
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Stereo Storm Systems From California to the Northern Tip of Maine Bring Heavy Rain, Flooding. ‘Travel Should be Restricted to Emergencies’
A variable-message sign warning of heavy storms on the Cross Bronx Expressway on Friday in New York City Two major storm systems – one on...
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Coronavirus Daily News Brief – March 22: FDA Authorizes Antiviral Effective Against Omicron Variants, Broadway Has Yet to Recover From the 2020 Shutdown
“Six – The Musical” is one of three musicals that have opened since the start of the pandemic and are ongoing hits. Good...
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Man With Gun Hijacks Bus in Los Angeles, Sideswipes Dozens of Cars, Makes Unscheduled But Final Stop in Ritz-Carlton Hotel Lobby
Entrance of the Ritz-Carlton, Maison Orleans A man hijacked a Los Angeles Metro bus using a BB gun and forced the bus driver to speed the...
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Early Spring ‘Significant Winter Storm’ to Unleash Heavy Snow and Severe Weather Across Much of the U.S.
Ominous dark clouds at Jones Beach on Long Island It may be spring but what the National Weather Service termed “a significant winter...
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U.S. Files Suit Against Apple, Alleges Tech Giant Exploits Illegal ‘iPhone’ Monopoly
The iPhone 14 Pro Max smartphone The U.S. Department of Justice along with 15 states and the District of Columbia filed suit against Apple...
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Coronavirus Daily News Brief – March 21: Bus Riding Amplified Covid Transmission, Almost 20% of Americans Had or Currently Have Long Covid
A school bus in New York City Good afternoon. This is Jonathan Spira, director of research at the Center for Long Covid Research,...
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As Covid Slows to a Drip, the NIH Ends Its Guidance on Covid Treatments But the Fat Lady Has Yet to Sing
The U.S. National Institutes of Health has issued the final version of its Covid-19 Treatment Guidelines, perhaps the most influential reference...
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Coronavirus Daily News Brief – March 20: 20% of U.S. Population Has Had or Currently Have Long Covid, Bolsonaro Indicted
The Queens-Midtown Tunnel in New York City, empty during rush hour in early 2020 Good afternoon. This is Jonathan Spira, director of...