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One Year in a Pandemic: Your Weekend Briefing
A special edition looking at a year of living in disruption and pain.
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A year ago, we realized everything was about to change.
We rushed to the store to get cleaning supplies and canned goods. Our bosses told us to stay home. Millions of students across the country started remote learning. For a while, toilet paper was a hot commodity. And so much more.
This week was the anniversary of the World Health Organization’s declaring a global pandemic, but also of something deeper: It has been a year since we had to unexpectedly and dramatically alter the way we live. Most of those changes are still part of our daily routines.
The Uncertain Recovery of Manhattanâs Chinatown
Alternate-side parking: In effect until March 28 (Passover).
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Jenny Wu, 28, planned to have her wedding banquet next year at Jing Fong, the largest restaurant in Chinatown.
For many, the dim sum palace was the prime spot to hold weddings, birthdays, graduations and reunions. But that is no longer possible: After 28 years in operation, the banquet hall closed down this past Sunday.
The restaurant will continue to offer takeout and some outdoor dining. But Jing Fongâs banquet hall was geographically and symbolically at the heart of Chinatown, and the shutdown underscored the uncertain recovery of one of New Yorkâs most famous immigrant neighborhoods.
âWhat is your truth?â: The selfie project celebrating Melbourneâs many faces
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Melbourneâs streets have this week been transformed into open-air galleries displaying works from some of photographyâs biggest local and international names for the PHOTO 2021 festival. But the hundreds of black and white portraits pasted up in Federation Square are largely works of local amateurs. Photography, after all, belongs to everyone in the Instagram age.
These self-portraits form Inside Out, a global art project started in 2011 by French street artist JR, which has so far featured more than 250,000 participants in 129 countries, the world s largest participatory art project. In each country, participants have submitted portraits around themes such as diversity, hope and climate change.