Aston Villa vs Bologna: When the Renaissance Meets the Second City in a Parking Lot Called Europa The announcement that Aston Villa will face Bologna in this season’s UEFA Champions League group stage landed with the diplomatic elegance of a dropped tray at a state banquet. On paper it’s a pairing of two clubs who,…
Ace Bailey, Utah Jazz, and the Great American Export Nobody Asked For By Our Man in the Cheap Seats, Somewhere Over the Mid-Atlantic The Utah Jazz—an oxymoron wrapped in a mountain-range logo—have reportedly set their sights on one Ace Bailey, the 17-year-old New Jersey phenom whose wingspan is longer than most EU parliaments manage to…
The Man Who Sold the World Twice: Dean Metropoulos and the Global Art of Buying Low, Selling High, and Never Actually Eating the Product By the time you finish this sentence, Dean Metropoulos will have bought another legacy brand, slapped a gluten-free label on it, and flipped it to a private-equity firm in Luxembourg for…
Breeze Airways: The Boutique Airline That Turns Jet Lag Into a Morality Play By Our Man in the Departure Lounge, Somewhere Between Existential Dread and Gate C7 The planet’s newest boutique carrier, Breeze Airways, began life in 2021 with all the innocence of a freshly stamped passport. Founder David Neeleman—serial aviation midwife behind JetBlue, Azul,…
When the Cleveland Guardians quietly promoted David Fry from Triple-A Columbus last June, the transaction barely registered on the Richter scale of world affairs. Somewhere in Kyiv, artillery continued to arc across a smoldering horizon; in Beijing, a Politburo member refreshed his offshore account; and in Davos, a panel on “AI-driven empathy” concluded that feelings…
Roo Irvine and the Global Cottage-Core Arms Race By Our Man in the Back Row of Antiques Roadshow International In the grand chessboard of soft-power projection, where nations once hurled missiles and trade tariffs, they now deploy ceramic rabbits and polite Scottish accents. Enter Roo Irvine—ceramicist, antiques expert, and, whether she likes it or not,…
Good Morning America’s “Deals & Steals” segment ran again this morning, parachuting another crate of discounted ephemera onto the breakfast tables of an anxious republic. While the hosts chirped about 40 % off a cordless neck-fan, the rest of the planet—some of it literally on fire—was left to wonder how a country so allergic to…
If you type “Jon Rahm wife” into a search engine anywhere from Reykjavík to Reykjavík-on-the-Patio (Miami), you are greeted by the same beatific photograph: Kelley Cahill, former Arizona State javelin flinger, standing beside the Basque-born golfer like a statuesque insurance policy against loneliness. The picture is cropped so tightly you can almost smell the sunscreen….
House of Guinness Review: A Dublin Tale of Stout and Stagnation the World Can’t Stop Watching Dave’s Locker — Global Desk DUBLIN — If the Guinness Storehouse were a nation-state, it would be the only country whose GDP rises in direct proportion to how loudly its citizens sing “Dirty Old Town.” The seven-story shrine to…
**The Global Carousel of Wind and Irony: How Hurricanes Became the World’s Shared Nightmare** By the time a hurricane finishes its trans-oceanic temper tantrum, it has usually racked up enough frequent-flyer miles to make a business-class consultant blush. Born off the coast of West Africa as a sultry breeze, it sashays across the Atlantic, upgrades…
Saliba: The Word That Launched a Thousand Tweets and Terrified a Continent by Lysandra Voss, Senior Correspondent, Dave’s Locker PARIS—Somewhere between the foie-gras counter and the manifesto aisle, Europe discovered that “saliba” is not, in fact, a trendy new hummus flavor. The syllable—Arabic for “cross,” Latin for “panic in Group F,” and Twitter for “please…
Primavera Sound 2026: The World’s Loudest Peace Summit By Eduardo Valdez, International Correspondent at Large Barcelona, 6 June 2026 – The Parc del Fòrum smells of sunscreen, irony, and whatever TikTok has declared the “new patchouli” this season. Tens of thousands have converged on the Mediterranean shoreline for Primavera Sound, the annual pop-music panacea now…
