Cellphones offer look back at most personal moments of 2020
Sarah Weaver, owner of Bandit Coffee in St. Petersburg, Fla., places online orders on a pick up table outside the shop in this undated photo. The shop closed to customers on March 16, 2020, and Weaver quickly pivoted to contactless, curbside pickup orders â which was no small feat. Pre-pandemic, Bandit didn t have a phone and didn t take orders online for their carefully sourced, house roasted coffee. Now, nine months later, most customers order online and pick up at a table under a tent. (Sarah Weaver via AP) December 31, 2020 - 9:01 AM
A year like no other: Americans shambled through it, doing the best they could under circumstances that were uneven at best â and sometimes downright punishing.
From the camera rolls of American phones, glimpses of 2020
by The Associated Press
Last Updated Dec 29, 2020 at 11:58 am EDT
A year like no other: Americans shambled through it, doing the best they could under circumstances that were uneven at best and sometimes downright punishing.
As they endured, here and there they pulled out their phones and did what so many people do these days: They snapped photos of the world around them.
Snapshots of 2020. We all have them. And behind some are the stories of an era of pandemic and polarization and progress and upheaval and daily life the visual representations of the lives people experienced and the moments they captured.
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is a series in which our favorite entertainers answer our questionnaire about the music, culture and memorable moments that shaped their year. We’ll be rolling these pieces out throughout December.
Metallica had booked gigs all around the world, including several summer festival headliners in the U.S., but Covid had other plans for 2020. After the group canceled its tour dates, it donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to Covid relief organizations through its All Within My Hands charitable foundation, using money it raised from streaming video of past concerts. Eventually, the band members figured out how to play together again creating a socially distanced, acoustic rendition of “Blackened,” regrouping in person for a newly filmed concert that they showed
James Monroe Iglehart
(Photo courtesy of HGTV)
Who better to make spirits bright than James Monroe Iglehart? The December episode of the series
Broadway Profiles with Tamsen Fadal, which is airing throughout the country this month, includes an interview with the Tony winner. Most recently seen on Broadway in
Hamilton as well as on Hulu s
Biggest Little Christmas Showdown, in which people create tiny, holiday-themed homes. The amount of detail you would put into your home, they put into these houses, Iglehart said. It is amazing. The amount of detail is ridiculous. If you were to have one of those sci-fi shrink rays, you could live in these houses. The performer also showed off his freestyle skills and memories of his Tony win in 2014 for his performance as the Genie in Broadway s