How the Coronavirus Is Affecting America’s Vinyl Record Industry

Updated May 6 with cancellation of Pitchfork Music Festival

There is "significant doubt" that the chain can "continue as a going concern for a reasonable period of time"

She’s keeping up with the Kardashians in an extreme way.

The Black Lives Matter protests continues to rage across America as it continues to gain momentum. While parts of America witnessed violent clashes, many other places saw peaceful protests being carried out.

Thanks to tough measures that included overnight curfews and restricted travel between provinces, health authorities were hopeful that African countries could avoid the worst of the coronavirus outbreaks that have ravaged Italy, Spain, the United Kingdom and the United States. As of May 28, Nigeria and South Africa — two of the continent’s largest music economies — had

2020 has been an unforgiving year, what with the coronavirus pandemic claiming more than 300,000 lives and counting. Moreover, the US is currently on an uproar after the death of African American, George Floyd, who died due to police violence.

The phrase “It’s not the destination, it’s the journey,” which has often (and perhaps erroneously) been attributed to American writer Ralph Waldo Emerson, was a familiar saying by about 1920. And it makes perfect sense that the phrase roughly coincides with the dawn of cinema, because filmmakers have been cinematically paraphrasing it for much of the last 100 years.

The Panama Film Festival (IFF Panama), with support from the Inter-American Development Bank, is unspooling a five-day online festival, running May 22-26, which includes film screenings and round tables.

U.S. Ambassador to Germany Richard Grenell plans to step down from his post.

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