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On Sunday, New York City’s Yankee Stadium was certainly a concrete jungle where dreams are made of — at least, for the thousands of Jay-Z fans who waited hours to see the rapper take the stage for the third and final night of his residency there.A four-hour delay caused the…
Olena Yakobchuk / Shutterstock.comIt’s getting expensive to get away. Many people budget $2,000 to $5,000 for each vacation. A big chunk of that goes to airfare and lodging. That’s a lot of money, especially if you’re a retiree on a fixed income. But don’t despair. If you’re willing to be…
My sister and I spent a week in Santorini to celebrate my 30th birthday. Somehow, that turned into a sacred tradition and, for the next decade, I took a trip for my birthday each year.I rang in one birthday by road-tripping from Seattle to San Diego in a Mustang convertible…
Between freezing temperatures and blizzards dumping feet of snow that last for weeks, Rhode Island can be brutal in the winter. Once it gets warm enough for ice-cream stands to put out their “Open” flags and hydrangeas to bloom, though, everything changes.As a lifelong local, I’ve always believed that summer…
Today is your last day to take part in Bed Bath & Beyond’s Legendary Coupon Hunt. The retailer announced the launch of a nationwide 21-day event that began June 22 and is designed to “uncover the oldest surviving Bed Bath & Beyond coupon,” according to a news release. “For decades,…
Tim Ryan thrives in chaos.Few signs suggest Ryan’s appetite for the messiest problems. An often-smiling, mild-mannered Bostonian, he traded nearly a decade as PwC’s senior partner for one of Wall Street’s toughest turnaround jobs at Citigroup.”I knew that I really needed to be in a place where I get my…
Paramount Skydance’s plan to buy Warner Bros. Discovery is running into resistance.State attorneys general from California, New York, New Jersey, and nine others have sued David Ellison’s media company, alleging its WBD deal is anticompetitive and harmful for consumers.”The unlawful merger of these two entertainment behemoths would lead to higher…
Cow Appreciation Day is back at Chick-fil-A. The fast food chain is bringing back its popular event on July 14 for the first time since 2019 to celebrate its 80th birthday. The company told USA TODAY that the event was put on hiatus in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Olivia Pollock, vice president of brand at Evite. It has been edited for length and clarity.I have a core memory of getting ready for a friend’s birthday party when I was growing up in the 90s. It was at Chuck E.…
President Donald Trump says the US will reinstate a blockade of the Strait of Hormuz and impose a 20% fee “on all cargo shipped” to help pay for it.”The Hormuz Strait is OPEN, and will remain OPEN, with or without Iran,” Trump wrote on Truth Social on Monday morning. “We…
