China to Create ‘Closed Loop’ Balloon for Winter Olympics

The International Olympic Committee has released a set of health protocols for the Winter Games to be held in Beijing on Wednesday, suggesting that the next Olympics, which will begin on February 4, may be the most extraordinarily restrained large-scale sporting event since its inception. coronavirus pandemic. The Beijing Olympic and Paralympic Games will take …

Theater Career Risen Like a Hot Air Balloon

If theater matchmakers were asked to recommend someone to remake the National Yiddish Theater Folksbiene, a small nonprofit with a niche audience, into the animated producer of the Off Broadway hit, Christopher Massimine might not have been first on the yenta list. Massimine in 2012, century old theater He was a 26-year-old Italian-American Catholic, producing …

Tokyo’s Olympic Balloon? Wait Until You See Beijing.

BEIJING – Guards in biohazard suits ready to stop anyone from leaving. Athletes giving interviews from behind plastic walls speak through microphone. All-day underarm thermometers with tiny transmitters that sound the alarm if someone has a fever. Just six months before the Winter Olympics in Beijing, Chinese authorities are planning elaborate measures against Covid-19. The …