The Carnival Corporation is having a pretty lousy January. The largest cruise line owner in the world has been hit with multiple lawsuits over the January 13 sinking of the Costa Concordia and Bahamian authorities are investigating the death of a passenger aboard the Carnival Fantasy. Read More
The Costa Concordia foundered off the Italian coast on Friday, January 13. Some have tried to associate Concordia with the sinking of the Titanic nearly 100 years ago, but that’s a reach; over the last 9 days the tale of the Concordia has become its own kind of tragicomic clown show, emphasis on the “tragic” part of the word. An exhaustively detailed list of ridiculous and sad elements of the disaster would already fill a book, so here are a handful: Read More
Divers searching the sunken Italian liner Costa Concordia have discovered two more dead bodies. This brings the death toll to 5, with 17 passengers and crew still missing. On a positive note, more survivors have been found as well, including 3 who were rescued over a day after the Concordia foundered Friday night. Read More
Francesco Schettino, captain of the wrecked Italian cruise liner Costa Concordia, may wish he had gone down with his ship. Schettino has been arrested on multiple charges related to the huge ship running aground Friday. The charges include suspicion of multiple manslaughter, abandoning ship and causing a shipwreck. Read More
One of Italy’s largest ocean liners, the Costa Concordia, ran aground off the Italian coast Friday night. There were 4231 passengers and crew on board. Witnesses at the scene were quick to draw (perhaps overly) dramatic comparisons, telling local media the Concordia “looked like the Titanic.” Sky News reported 2 deaths late Friday but Italian paper Il Messaggero reported up to 8 casualties with more wounded and missing. Read More
As if The National Enquirer filing for bankruptcy wasn’t enough bad news for one day, Starbucks locations across the city are out of their Tall cups. It is a disaster the likes of which New York has not known since Scoop sold out of Uggs way back in 2004.
A barista at one of Read More
