The Day the Bay Area Shut Down
Monday: A year into the pandemic, California is reopening. Here’s a look back at the day it started shutting down.
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Popular areas around the Golden Gate Bridge were noticeably emptier on March 17, 2020, after officials issued a shelter-in-place mandate.Credit.Philip Cheung for The New York Times
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This week, counties across California will be allowed to ease some of the nation’s most stringent remaining pandemic restrictions.
Starting today, restaurants in Los Angeles County will be able to serve diners indoors for the first time in most of a year. Gyms, movie theaters and museums, which have all been shuttered or allowed to operate only outside, will at last be able to open their doors in L.A., as well as in Orange, San Bernardino, Sonoma and nine other counties moving from the state’s most restrictive purple tier to the second most restrictive red tier in the state’s color-coded reopening framework.
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Today, weâre starting with a dispatch by Manny Fernandez from Montecito, the edenic Santa Barbara County enclave where â yes, of course, that one â took place:
On a sun-soaked strip of shops and restaurants in one of the most high-end places in America, the only sign anything was amiss Monday was a subtle one.
A wire-service photographer, with two cameras dangling from his neck.
It was the day after The Interview: Oprah Winfreyâs exclusive sit-down with Prince Harry and Meghan Markle. Numerous international headlines were generated, but in Montecito â an unincorporated community known as a coastal enclave for the ultrawealthy â it qualified as local news.
Thursday: California is slated to get $42 billion from the federal pandemic relief bill, with $8 billion going to struggling cities. Also: Inside the Covid surge in Los Angeles County.
Whatâs Up With the Golden Globes This Year?
Friday: The Hollywood Foreign Press Association is under fresh scrutiny ahead of its big awards show. Also: Pandemic updates; and messages from Mars.
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A view of the set up in New York for the 78th annual Golden Globe Awards. The show will be telecast live on Sunday from both New York and Los Angeles for the first time because of the pandemic.Credit.Angela Weiss/Agence France-Presse â Getty Images
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Ah, the Golden Globes.
Itâs the film and television awards show where the winners always thank that group, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, that â does what, exactly? Other than put on the Golden Globes?