In The News: Department of History
Atlantic City's casinos won almost $3.3 billion from gamblers in 2019, helped by surging sports and internet bets as the seaside resort continued to rebound from a mid-decade meltdown that saw five casinos close.
Let’s state the obvious: Winter is cold. Clothes keep us warm. Yet every year a stubborn subset of people across Minnesota venture outdoors in their summer finest. If pressed, they’ll say it’s not that cold.
The world is preparing to celebrate a new decade, and as the times have changed, so has the technology.
Women put up with a lot at the office. At least grant us elastic waistbands.
It’s getting much more difficult to make sure what happens in Las Vegas stays in Las Vegas.
If the 2020 presidential election is going to have a ‘Jim Murren moment’, as the gaming industry saw nearly four years ago, it won’t be from Jim Murren.
The Oakland Raiders’ yearlong march into oblivion will end Sunday at the aging Coliseum.
It will be the Democrat's ninth of their presidential primary cycle, coming on February 19.
I don’t remember what specific combo of frustration and busyness led me to wear leggings to the office one day recently, but I do remember it felt magical. With nothing but a stretchy band and Nulu(™) fabric holding me in, I felt freer, like I was dancing through my duties, rather than trudging through them encased in polyester and wool. My computer seemed to run more quickly; my sources were more responsive; the PR people were less angry.
It was 150 years ago that construction began on the Sutro Tunnel. It had quite an impact … and didn’t amount to much. If that sounds contradictory, well, bear with us.
High-tech fabrics, an obsession with health and the slackening of dress codes make a new range of clothing possible.
Decades only take shape with the clarity of hindsight. The artifacts that make a decade memorable don’t become obvious until long after it has passed.