CNN
–
By Alexis Benveniste, CNN Business
– Nov 22, 2020, 7:24 AM
New York(CNN Business) Guitar Center is filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, the latest company to go bankrupt during the pandemic that has decimated America's retail sector. The 61-year-old company -- the biggest musical instrument retailer in the…
(CNN) The US is expected to announce on Sunday that it will formally exit the decades-old Open Skies Treaty, some six months after President Donald Trump first announced the decision, according to multiple US officials. The 1992 treaty allows the…
THE JUDGES of Britain's most prestigious literary award wisely returned to convention on November 19th. After the prize-splitting confusion of 2019, this year the Booker Prize was awarded to a single author, Douglas Stuart, for his novel…
SHORTLY AFTER the release of the first season of “The Crown”—Netflix's decadent drama about the British monarchy during the reign of Queen Elizabeth II—various publications gleefully reported that the queen herself was a…
The Economist
–
M.S. | AMSTERDAM
– Nov 18, 2020, 6:27 AM
IT IS AN iron law of cinema that a montage sequence of Paris must use an Edith Piaf chanson for its soundtrack. For Berlin, a music supervisor might go with Marlene Dietrich or a bit of thumping Schlager music. But what about Amsterdam? Few outside…
