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SpaceX said on Twitter it has booked its first space tourist to go on a rocket ship around the moon. SpaceX will be revealing the space tourist’s identity in a press conference on Sept. 17.  Fortune

In the world of competitive video games, mental health issues loom so large and come up so often that the problem somehow becomes invisible.  ESPN

The schedule for the two-day Music Midtown festival has been released. The annual festival runs Sept. 15-16 at the city’s Piedmont Park with acts that include Portugal. The Man; Imagine Dragons; and Kendrick Lamar. AJC

A Dutch island in the southern Caribbean, Curacao conveniently sits below the hurricane belt, making it appealing for travelers who can do without the angst of weather delays during the Atlantic hurricane season that continues through the end of November.  USA TODAY

JetBlue Airways’ “TrueBlue” frequent-flier program topped the list for customer satisfaction for the second consecutive year. That’s according to J.D. Power, which revealed its 2018 Airline Loyalty Program Satisfaction Study on Wednesday. It’s the second year that the group looked specifically at airline loyalty programs, a study that’s in addition …

New Jersey sportsbooks reported $3.8 million in gross revenue in July and nearly $7.3 million in gross revenue since the state began allowing sports betting on June 14, the state reported on Tuesday.  The industry handled $57 million in sports bets in the second half of June and all of …

Malls, print magazines and even football could be in mortal danger.  Millennials have been accused of killing so many products and industries—taxis, landlines, snail mail—that it’s become a media trope. But millennials are old news. Today, businesses and marketers are desperately anticipating the murderous whims of Gen Z, the demographic born after 1996. Bloomberg

Upstart Canadian “ultra-low-cost carrier” Swoop is making its first push into the United States, revealing plans Thursday to fly seven routes from five U.S. airports.  The airline’s first U.S. flights start Oct. 11, when Swoop launches non-stop service between Las Vegas and Edmonton. The carrier will add six more U.S.-Canada routes by the end …

The most ambitious rail project of California’s future is increasingly dependent on the cooperation of the very railroad that shaped the state’s past — and there are signs their relationship is growing strained. Contractors building a 31-mile section of the high-speed rail project in the Central Valley have complained that …

The Lollapalooza music festival starts Thursday in Chicago, featuring Bruno Mars, Jack White and the Arctic Monkeys. The show also will include The Weekend (the band, not the time period); Portugal, The Man; and in a throwback, LL Cool J, among more than 170 acts on eight stages during the three-day festival …