Month: June 2021

Clarence Williams III — famous for roles in “The Mod Squad,” “Half Baked” and several other movies and shows — has died. The veteran actor’s management team confirmed the sad news Sunday, saying Clarence had actually passed away Friday in L.A. due to colon cancer. CWIII had a long history with his craft … dating
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MoMo Productions | Stone | Getty Images LGBTQ small business owners are confident about their post-pandemic recovery, but more than 78% don’t have a succession plan in place, according to a new CNBC + Acorns and NGLCC Small Business Owner Financial Health Survey. Since many small businesses are handed down generation to generation, that’s really
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(CNN) — Cultural heritage, great food and… boutique hotels? Some people travel to Iran for its history — the 24 UNESCO World Heritage sites in the country, for starters. Others go for the living culture — the great food and legendary day-to-day hospitality that regular travelers rave about. Thomas Wegmann is a little different. For
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There have been several new blows to the foreign holiday situation, with no additions to the UK Government’s ‘green list‘, and Portugal being moved to ’amber‘ status on Thursday. So, while it is legal for Britons to travel abroad, many restrictions stand in their way under England’s traffic light system; and only those returning from the 11 green-listed
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The British Council has appointed Scott McDonald as its chief executive. He will take up the role at the charity for cultural relations and educational opportunities on 1 September. McDonald joins the British Council from his current positions as chief executive and president of the global management consultancy firm Oliver Wyman Group, and vice-chairman of professional
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Developer Pocketpair, Inc. has announced a new title called Palworld, which promises a Pokémon-style adventure with survival crafting elements and, surprisingly enough, firearms. The developer is known for its other bizarre title Craftopia, an early access game which blends elements of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild with a staggering array of crafting
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The market conditions and technology in the mania over current meme stock AMC Entertainment are vastly different from day trading during the dot-com bubble of the late 1990s, online brokerage pioneer and former options trader Tom Sosnoff told CNBC on Friday. “There’s no comparison between the day traders of 1999-2000, and that first transition into
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As people continue to get vaccinated across the U.S., travel demand is surging. Hilton CEO Christopher Nassetta told CNBC on Tuesday the company notched a record-breaking number of bookings last Saturday, during the Memorial Day holiday weekend. “We had a blockbuster weekend,” Nassetta said in an interview on “Squawk Box.” “On Saturday night we were,
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While the Honda name is synonymous with four-wheeled land vehicles, they’ve been in the aviation industry since 2006, producing private jets that optimise performance and comfort using their own innovative technologies. The latest in the company’s line of aircraft is the HondaJet Elite S, unveiled in a virtual product launch on 26 May 2021, and
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(CNN) — For years it’s sat abandoned in a dilapidated hangar in Kazakhstan, visited only by intrepid urban explorers keen to photograph a spectacular if unloved piece of space history. At least one Buran resuable spacecraft — closely modeled on the US Space Shuttle — currently sits in storage at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, a remote
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