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Forbes
01-08-2025
- Automotive
- Forbes
Big Box Store Sam's Club Joins IndyCar's Andretti Global Racing
One of the pioneers in 'Big Box' stores, Sam's Club, has teamed up with Andretti Global for the final NTT IndyCar Series race of the season at Nashville Superspeedway on August 31. Sam's Club, a leading membership retail club will be the primary sponsor for the No. 27 Honda driven by Kyle Kirkwood in the Borchetta Bourbon Music City Grand Prix. 'As we prepare to open a new club in Lebanon, Tennessee in early 2026, our collaboration with Andretti Global couldn't be more timely,' said Harvey Ma, Vice President and General Manager, Sam's Club Member Access Platform. 'It offers a unique way to engage with the community and showcase what Sam's Club truly represents. 'We're committed to creating memorable experiences that bring value and joy for our members and connecting them with the brands they love.' Sam's Club Sees IndyCar As a Launch Pad Sam's Club believes the high-speed world of IndyCar is a great avenue to launch the company into the future of retail by creating seamless, connected experiences, whether in the club or online. This sponsorship arrangement also underscores the mission of Sam's Club's Member Access Platform (MAP) to lead as the first retail experience network, providing members and advertisers with unique experiences they won't find anywhere else. Sam's Club driver and five-time IndyCar race winner Kirkwood will bring members closer to the action with special appearances, club meet and greets and exclusive behind-the-scenes content leading up to the 2025. 'We are proud to welcome Sam's Club to Andretti Global and the IndyCar paddock,' Andretti Global President Jill Gregory said. 'They are a nationally known consumer brand that will resonate with fans, and we are excited to collaborate on immersive race experiences for their members. 'Kyle and the Andretti team are bringing great energy to this opportunity, and we look forward to driving results for Sam's Club with this new sponsorship.' The IndyCar season finale at Nashville Superspeedway is a track where Kirkwood delivered a strong performance during last year's return to IndyCar with a pole position and top five finish for the Andretti Global team. Kirkwood will debut the No. 27 Sam's Club Honda on track at Nashville Superspeedway August 30-31 with hopes of securing his second career IndyCar oval victory. 'I'm extremely excited to have Sam's Club on board for the IndyCar season finale in Nashville,' Kirkwood said. 'It's amazing to have such a well-known, national brand join the team, and we're excited to show them what the Andretti IndyCar program is all about. We hope that we can continue to elevate their success in the Nashville market with a strong performance on track in the No. 27 Sam's Club Honda.' The Borchetta Bourbon Music City Grand Prix will air live on FOX on Sunday, August 31, at 2:00 PM ET.
Bloomberg
14-04-2025
- General
- Bloomberg
How Did This Suburb Figure Out Mass Transit?
It is taken as a truism in the world of urban planning that successful transit requires what is known as 'transit-supportive development'— a high-density combination of concentrated destinations and walkable streets. But what if I told you that some of the highest transit usage in North America can be found in a place with none of those things? It's a Canadian city full of suburban cul-de-sacs, Big Box retail complexes and wide arterial roads. To be clear, none of these things are good for transit ridership. All of them do indeed make transit less appealing and less pleasant to use. What this place shows, though, is that even in a place without any of the supposed prerequisites, you can still get tens of thousands of people to choose to ride the bus. We don't have to wait until all our suburbs are rebuilt to become European-style walkable utopias; it's possible to get people out of their cars in a matter of months simply by running buses more frequently.
CBC
03-04-2025
- Entertainment
- CBC
Life After creator Britta Johnson turned her teenage grief into an acclaimed musical
In a Q interview, the Canadian composer and playwright discusses her award-winning musical Media Audio | Britta Johnson turned her teenage grief into an acclaimed musical Open Full Embed in New Tab Loading external pages may require significantly more data usage than loading CBC Lite story pages. Growing up in the theatre town of Stratford, Ont., Britta Johnson was under the impression that pretty much everyone worked in the performing arts. Both her parents were pit musicians, and her older sisters ended up pursuing music as well. To her, it seemed as normal a career path as any nine-to-five. Following in her family's footsteps, Johnson wrote her first full-length musical, Big Box, when she was just in high school. It was inspired by her distaste for the Walmart that was set to open in her town. "Walmart still ended up coming to town," she tells Garvia Bailey in an interview for Q."I didn't end up saving the day, but I did kind of begin my career, which I feel very lucky about." Today, Johnson is one of Canada's most acclaimed composers, lyricists and playwrights. Her award-winning musical Life After follows a 16-year-old girl grappling with the death of her father. It originally debuted at the Toronto Fringe Festival in 2016, but later this month, it will return to Toronto at the CAA Ed Mirvish Theatre. The show is loosely inspired by Johnson's own experience of loss, but she says it's not autobiographical. "If it was a show about my grief, it would be a show about a girl growing her bangs out too long and getting kind of weird and quiet, which is far less theatrical," she says with a laugh. "But at least the texture of coming-of-age through loss, that first kind of transformative loss at this moment when you're just kind of trying to figure out what being a person is like — I certainly pulled from that experience in my life." [Grief is] so many colours at once.... I think music has the ability to hold all of that. - Britta Johnson When Johnson was 13, her father passed away. Then, near the end of her time in high school, one of her friends died and she found herself once again faced with grief. She recalls attending visitations, shoving finger sandwiches into her mouth to avoid the awkwardness of not knowing exactly what to do with herself. She couldn't quite put the things she was feeling into words, so she started writing music. "[Grief is] so many colours at once, and you exist in this altered state where the past and present are really mingling together," she says. "I think music has the ability to hold all of that, the comedy of it, the immense humour and warmth of it, as well as the things that are scary and devastating and hard." Life After also includes songs Johnson wrote as a teenager, many of which have remained untouched as the show has evolved. While writing the musical, she says she felt like she was collaborating with past versions of herself. The very first songs she wrote for this show are the only ones that haven't been rewritten. Even as she becomes a more skilled composer and her music takes on more complex forms, she's always striving to capture exactly what she was thinking as a teenager navigating the process of mourning. "My highest priority always in working on it is trying to preserve that initial impulse," she says. "There's something very honest at the core of this show that I found very early." Life After premieres at the CAA Ed Mirvish Theatre on April 16. Interview with Britta Johnson produced by Aajah Sauter.
