Social distancing mandates to slow the spread of COVID-19 are keeping most of us at home, unleashing a spate of do-it-yourself projects to fill the time. From home improvement to baking bread, it seems nearly everyone on Instagram is a regular Martha …
Monthly Archives: April 2020
Navigating the new world: Tips for your post-shutdown life
How to visit safely with friends, begin a job search, support local businesses and more.
How 2020’s draft class could transform the Raiders’ attack
For several days, the Las Vegas Raiders IT department helped set up and explain all the technology old-school general manager Mike Mayock would utilize for this year’s NFL’s Draft.
Checking in with some folks who continue to keep us fed
Almost 70% of people [at this grocery store] are wearing masks, but there’s a lot of people who really don’t care, who are either oblivious to [the pandemic] or feel like this whole thing is a hoax.”
Netflix’s ‘The Half of It’ wins Tribeca Film Festival honor
Alice Wu’s “The Half of It,” a teenage spin on Cyrano de Bergerac, has won the top award from the Tribeca Film Festival.
Many Japanese defy appeals to stay home to curb virus
Under Japan’s coronavirus state of emergency, people have been asked to stay home. Many are not. Some still have to commute to their jobs despite risks of infection, while others continue to dine out, picnic in parks and crowd into grocery stores with…
Immigrants deliver food, ‘hope’ to workers hit by pandemic
Every afternoon, Sandra Pérez and Francisco Ramírez go over their list of fellow New Yorkers who need help because of the coronavirus pandemic. Some are sick. Others lost jobs, but have children to feed. Others are elderly or disabled. All are immigra…
Police called after NYC funeral home puts bodies in trucks
Police were called to a Brooklyn neighborhood Wednesday after a funeral home overwhelmed by the coronavirus resorted to storing dozens of bodies on ice in rented trucks, and a passerby complained about the smell, officials said.
Analysis: NCAA moves toward athlete compensation but how?
The foundation is in place for the NCAA to drastically alter its definition of amateurism.
‘People should be outraged’: Musk rails against virus measures
An order in the San Francisco Bay Area forced Tesla to close its Fremont plant starting March 23 to help prevent the virus’ spread, and it was extended until the end of May. Musk called the plant closure a “serious risk.”