The sheer volume and variety of new projects available at the Cannes Film Market this year is evidence that COVID-19 did not shut down the independent movie business. While the pandemic closed cinemas […]
“Employers never let a crisis go to waste,” writes Alexandra Bradbury in Labor Notes. “The [chicken processing] speedup demand was never really about Covid—a fact underlined by Trump’s attempt to make […]
L.A. County public health officials are breaking with many other health departments, asking even inoculated residents to modify their behavior amid a concerning uptick in coronavirus transmission and the circulation […]
A chorus of calls for mandatory Covid-19 vaccinations – and the possibility that the industry soon might make them a requirement – prompted SAG-AFTRA to adopt new guidelines for employers who want to require […]
For the first time since December 2020, California’s 7-day Covid test positivity rate is on the rise. The test positivity rate, which hit a pandemic-era low of 0.7% on June 5, has risen slowly but steadily over the […]
In the same week that Governor Gavin Newsom dropped capacity limits, social distancing rules and most masking requirements across the state, the so-called Delta variant of Covid-19 increased nearly 30%. […]
The L.A. County Department of Public Health reported 3 new deaths from Covid-19 and 258 new positive cases on Sunday. The new data brings L.A. County to a total of 24,441 deaths from the coronavirus and 1,247,618 […]
Pacific Theatres Exhibition Corporation, which includes Arclight Cinemas, is really not set to reopen anytime soon. The exhibition company released a statement on Wednesday that they’re filing […]
“We are here,” announced Governor Gavin Newsom from a stage at Universal Studios Hollywood, “[on] June 15, to turn the page, to move beyond capacity limits, to move beyond color coding, to move beyond social […]
On Sunday, the L.A. County Department of Public Health reported 5 new deaths from Covid-19 and 191 new positive cases. At time of reporting, 221 people in the County are hospitalized with Covid-19. […]
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