News Of The Week Roundup: Week 11, 2021
Home prices are insane and we are just starting the spring real estate season.
"It’s the hottest market I’ve ever seen.” The pandemic helped ignite a real-estate boom, but lots of things might keep it going, even after Covid-19. https://t.co/Kh7pcdfdqJ
— The Wall Street Journal (@WSJ) March 15, 2021
A shooting in Atlanta left 8 dead and is being viewed as attack against Asian Americans. Was it a hate crime?
March 16 (Reuters) - Eight people, including at least six Asian women, were shot dead at three day spas in the Atlanta, Georgia area on Tuesday, police said, and man suspected of carrying out all of the attacks has been taken into custody.https://t.co/gyZHkOwwUn
— Vincent Lee (@Rover829) March 17, 2021
Reports that the Atlanta shooter was a Christian who killed massage workers because they were a “temptation” he wanted to “eliminate” ignited a conversation about purity culture. Blaming women for a man’s sin is an old, oppressive story. My Sunday essay: https://t.co/6mlw26BJNa
— David French (@DavidAFrench) March 21, 2021
In NFL football news, Andy Dalton is going to the Bears as QB. I'm a long suffering Bengals fan. It is still weird not having Dalton in an orange and black uniform. I wish him well - and good luck to the Bears with him, I suppose!
Breaking: Andy Dalton is signing a one-year deal with the Bears on a $10 million deal, with the chance to earn another $3 million in incentives, sources tell @AdamSchefter. pic.twitter.com/tKo0PXFH2i
— SportsCenter (@SportsCenter) March 16, 2021
Viola Davis is a queen - just one of my favorite actresses, ever. She's nominated for another Oscar.
.@violadavis just set an #Oscars record! https://t.co/ReEeVcUvVf
— Entertainment Weekly (@EW) March 15, 2021
The EU is currently fighting another surge of COVID-19. Many countries are going back under lockdown like Poland and parts of France, including Paris. Meanwhile in America, Miami Beach is under a state of emergency because Spring Breakers are apparently out of control.
BREAKING: Miami Beach is setting an 8 p.m. to 6 a.m. curfew, officials announced, after hard partying spring breakers trashed restaurants, brawled in the streets and gathered by the thousands without masks or social distancing. https://t.co/CdiojrFxIU
— The Associated Press (@AP) March 20, 2021
A Diamond Princess - COVID-19 cruise-from-hell documentary coming to HBO this month.
The film explores what happened on Princess Cruises' Diamond Princess cruise ship, which was quarantined off Yokohama, Japan, early in February 2020 after a former passenger tested positive for COVID-19. https://t.co/ZSzaeNiZls
— USA TODAY Travel (@usatodaytravel) March 18, 2021
And I leave you with this:
Guns N’ Roses' Greatest Hits spends its 520th week on the Billboard 200 Album Chart, or exactly 10 years. It is the 5th album to spend this long on there. pic.twitter.com/1bqFIR0mxH
— Eric Alper 🎧 (@ThatEricAlper) March 21, 2021