May is breathing a refreshing new life in Singapore's hospitality industry. Along with peeps of a pre-pandemic life, the month brings with it new and notable openings sprucing up our gastronomic scene. Coming up thick and fast, look forward to fresh-faced dining concepts, renowned Japanese restaurants and farm to table multiverse cocktail bars. Here's our pick of some of the.
Photos from previous celebrations of the 5Point Film Festival.
5Point Film Festival is hosting a screening from 8-10:30 p.m. on Friday night, in a drive-in format. Last year the event was virtual only and Sarah-Jane Johnson, a spokesperson for 5Point, said the organization was excited to host a group of people to come together and watch the same films. Post Independent reporter Jessica Peterson connected with Johnson to learn more about what audience members can expect when attending the 2021 5Point Film Festival.
How does this year’s 5Point Film Festival look different than what you guys usually put on?
Fire (Digital photograph).
Carbondale’s Virtual First Friday for March is an extension of CORE’s Imagine Climate 2021 programming and explores the intersection between art and science. Rayna Benzeev, a fourth-year phD candidate at CU Boulder in the environmental studies department, said historically science has struggled with communicating to a general audience. The NESTed Gallery in Carbondale gives sci-artists artists with scientific backgrounds and vice-versa the chance to captivate the public through various strategies.
,” she said. “We are a group of seven chin characters that they’re upside down human faces, with a face and a wig on the chin part that try to make climate change funny. So the point is that climate change is often presented as this doom and gloom scenario…But there’s reason to have hope and reason to make it funny rather than super serious all the time.”
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Restaurateurs choosing to stay open and those closing dine-in service at least agree on one thing: their decisions are driven by staff and the general welfare of Garfield County.
“We’re going to follow the state,” said A.J. Hasbrouck, manager at Masala & Curry on Cooper Avenue in downtown Glenwood Springs. “They’re kind of our boss, and we feel we have to follow the state guidelines in this case.”
For Jessica Hale, owner of Atina Bar & Grille in Carbondale, and Don Andre, owner of Sammy’s Rocky Mountain Steakhouse in Rifle, that simply wasn’t an option.