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Extra Extra: What happens if a 'natural force' like an eclipse or earthquake hits when you're about to putt?

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Published Apr 8, 2024

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Good Monday afternoon in New York City, where people are itching "to be in our bodies and in places."

Here's what else is happening:

• More than 20 New York state courts are closing or limiting proceedings during the eclipse.
• About 140 people, mostly New Yorkers, pooled together to buy a middling Danish professional soccer team that once counted Nobel Prize-winning physicist Niels Bohr among its players. They gather at a Williamsburg bar on weekends to watch games and drink breakfast beer.
• Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez told New York Magazine about when she was a server at the erstwhile Coffee Shop near Union Square and waited on Hanson (the band).
• Metropolitan Opera Director Peter Gelb confirmed the late Luciano Pavarotti used to snack on pasta backstage between arias.
• The Bronx Night Market is returning to Fordham Plaza this year after a hiatus in 2023 due to safety concerns.
• The Vatican came out with a statement on Monday calling gender fluidity a threat to human dignity and "a concession to the age-old temptation to make oneself God."
• J Cole has apologized for his "goofy" diss track about Kendrick Lamar, saying it "didn't sit right with my spirit" to speak ill of an esteemed peer.
• If an earthquake hits while you're golfing and it moves your ball and creates a little crack in the green between you and the cup, sorry, but the rules are clear: You gotta play that sucker as it lays.
• And finally, groovin':

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