Queen’s Gambit co-creator, director, and showrunner Scott Frank is adapting Mary Doria Russell’s classic novel,
The Sparrow, for FX. Frank is said to be “writing every episode” of the limited series, with Johan Renck, late of
Chernobyl and
Better Call Saul’s Mark Johnson joining as executive producer.
The Sparrow was published in 1996, and was immediately hailed as a modern classic. Set in a near-future, the novel follows a Jesuit priest, Emilio Sandoz, the only survivor of a mission to the newly-discovered planet Rakhat. When Father Sandoz left for his mission, there was talk of canonizing him. But when we meet him, he is mentally shattered, physically mutilated… and don’t even get him
Stay-At-Home Order Lifted For Greater Sacramento Region
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SACRAMENTO (CBS13) The stay-at-home order was lifted for the Greater Sacramento region Tuesday.
During a Sacramento County Board of Supervisors meeting Tuesday, acting County Executive Ann Edwards said the order would be lifted immediately based on ICU projections. Edwards said she was informed by state officials.
“Looking at the projection out four weeks and anticipating that we will be above 15% ICU bed capacity, and they are thinking that the Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year’s surges, we’re seeing the worst of it and it’s getting better,” Edwards said.
California Lifts Stay-At-Home Order For Greater Sacramento Region
Tuesday, January 12, 2021 | Sacramento, CA
Pfc. Paul Diaz of the National Guard administers a COVID-19 test to a driver in Elk Grove, August 12, 2020.
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By Andre Byik, Nick Miller, Sammy Caiola, Kris Hooks
Counties in the greater Sacramento Region were released from stay-at-home orders for the region Tuesday, ending a six-week period where many businesses had to stop or severely limit business operations.
Sacramento will be the first of California’s regions to have the order lifted. Those counties will reenter the “purple tier,” which means businesses including restaurants, barbershops, hair salons and more will be able to reopen with some restrictions.
California Coronavirus Updates: Sacramento Likely To Remain Under Stay-At-Home Orders
Thursday, December 31, 2020 | Sacramento, CA
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Stay-at-home orders for the Sacramento region are likely to be extended, state officials announced Thursday, as intensive care unit capacity continued to stay low.
The region fell under the state s regional stay-at-home order Dec. 10, after intensive care unit capacity dropped below the state s 15% threshold to remain open. Under the orders, businesses such as barbershops and nail salons must close, while retail stores can stay open at 20% capacity and restaurants are limited to takeout-only.