From bat noises to Mondrian: the Museum of Modern Art in New York is exhibiting sounds in its first-ever show on sound art. “Our intention was never to blow out people’s ear drums.”
The Empire State Building is set to be listed on the New York Stock Exchange. As of today, investors can buy shares in Manhattan’s iconic building. Preparing the IPO for the second-tallest structure of the city has taken almost two years.
The Toronto International Film Festival, which opens tonight, has grown into one of the leading film festivals in the world. “In Cannes, Hollywood is seen as the enemy, that is not the case in Toronto.”
Dutch economist Heleen Mees made a court appearance in New York yesterday over charges of stalking. The 44-year-old columnist is accused by her ex-lover, corporate economist Willem Buiter, to have bombarded him with thousands of e-mails. “Do you understand that you are not to have any contact?”
World-renowned piano builder Steinway is almost certainly falling into the hands of a private equity firm. Steinway has left an indelible mark on the international music scene and on a borough of New York. Now, piano enthusiasts fear a move of the factories to Asia.
The New York Cosmos made soccer history in the 1970s and 1980s, starting a craze for the sport in the United States. Now, the pioneering team of American professional soccer is getting a restart – without big stars as in the glory days, but with young players.
The train disaster in Lac-Mégantic has exposed a creeping trend in North America: an exponential increase in the transport of crude oil by rail. Railway companies like the booming business, but critics say the risks of the oil trains are too big.
The people of Lac-Mégantic cannot yet grasp the enormity of the train disaster that wiped out their town centre this weekend. There is growing disbelief: how could a runaway train careen into their town to cause such deadly devastation?
A freight train carrying crude oil derailed and exploded in the centre of the Canadian town of Lac-Mégantic this weekend. Dozens of people are missing following a massive inferno. Canada’s Prime Minister compared the disaster area with a war zone.
BlackBerry’s new smartphone, a touchscreen device called Z10, has finally gone on sale. The device is the result of a metamorphosis at Canada’s iconic tech company. “We have our innovation mojo back,” says CEO Thorsten Heins. A visit to the company’s headquarters in Waterloo.
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