Melody Petersen, and it’s
Monday, April 5. In ordinary times, I write about healthcare and business. But these aren’t ordinary times, and for the last year, I’ve written mostly about the pandemic. Now I’ll be writing this newsletter for the next couple of weeks. Let’s get started with a look at what’s happening with the coronavirus in California and beyond.
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Oakland discussing topics including water infrastructure and small businesses.
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Hollywood’s strange awards season continues with the
Directors Guild Awards held virtually on
Saturday. Two women are nominated for the top prize for the first time this year. On Sunday, at the Screen Actors Guild Awards, “The Trial of the Chicago 7 walked away with the night’s biggest prize for ensemble film cast.
And now,
here’s what’s happening across California:
Across L.A., Black churches celebrated Easter and embraced a new normal: From living rooms to parking lots to chapels with masked, socially distanced worshipers, my colleagues Kailyn Brown and Donovan X. Ramsey report on how Southern California’s Black churches celebrated their second pandemic Easter on Sunday. With indoor services permitted at 25% capacity, pastors wrestled with whether to ditch Zoom and invite their flock to worship in person. Most decided to wait.
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Let me tell you from the get-go that the creator of one of the nation’s largest and most diverse grass-roots mask-making efforts did not intend to start a movement, to mobilize the masses, to spend the last year searching out under-resourced communities and commandeering fabric and elastic to give away thousands of COVID-19 face masks.
A year ago March, before she launched a Facebook group called the Auntie Sewing Squad, performance artist and comedian Kristina Wong was like so many of the rest of us at the start of the pandemic. “Grief. Uncertainty. Panic. Anxiety. Doom. Anyone else?” she posted on Facebook.
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Star became CEO and majority owner of the female-focused film fund Gamechanger Films in January.
She has extended Gamechanger’s remit to encompass projects by and about people of colour, LGBT+ people and people with disabilities. Brown and her new team of four were based in a WeWork space in Los Angeles when California’s shelter-at-home order was issued in March. Brown has been working from home ever since, where she lives with her dog Roxy.
How has your working life adapted to 2020?
My team and I are still getting to know each other so when we were allowed to have small gatherings I did my front deck so we could all meet outside, twice a week, in a socially distanced way. We got tested once a week [for Covid-19].