As of March 18, The Coollab Project’s live sessions have been postponed until further notice and organizers are instead using Instagram live.
Tag: COVID-19
Posted inARTS & CULTURE
Panoringan: The Brave New World of Restaurant Dining. How Was the First Week of Service?
As restaurant restrictions loosened over Memorial Day weekend, columnist Anne Marie Panoringan ventures out to experience how the dining scene has changed.
Posted inCountywide
Local Arts Groups Get Creative, Look for Funding as They Chart a Difficult Path Forward
With the Orange County Board of Supervisors taking steps to distribute $75 million in CARES Act funding, arts groups are advocating to be included among those eligible for those funds.
Posted inARTS & CULTURE, Countywide, Culture, Music, Top Stories
Online Raves: Orange County EDM DJs Reach New Audiences From Home
Electronic dance music (EDM) DJs are turning to online streaming to bring their community together and keep their skills sharp.
Posted inCommunity Opinion
Mosko: On Pandemics, Pork Chops and Chicken Nuggets
A hard to swallow truth: Factory farms are America’s cultural equivalent of China’s wet markets…..Pandemics are a price we pay for eating animals and otherwise using them.
Posted inCommunity Opinion
Roschmann: Let’s Honor Our Veterans With Actions…Not Just Words
In honoring veterans, Governor Newsom said, “it was time to reflect and remember” and his, “deep respect and admiration” for their sacrifices. Yet, he cut the funds necessary to begin a veteran’s cemetery in Irvine. He forgot that veterans had already paid for the cemetery with their sacrifice…much more.
Posted inCommunity Opinion
Carty and Barraza: The Hidden Victims of Covid-19
The situation at the men’s prison in Chino is deteriorating rapidly as COVID 19 has spread throughout the facility. While the prison halted the mixing and transfers of inmates between buildings and yards in early May to stop the spread of infections, this policy is being reversed and inmates are terrified. In their efforts to resist the change in policy their families and friends have organized a “dive by” rally close to the facility on May 23.
Posted inCommunity Opinion
Park: City, School Leaders to OC Board of Supervisors: Work In Partnership With Us
This joint letter, co-signed by more than twenty Orange County elected officials, respectfully requests that the Orange County Board of Supervisors work in partnership with communities by expanding COVID-19 testing, follow Governor Newsom’s guidelines, and release federal CARES Act funding to cities as the funds were intended.
Posted inCommunity Opinion
Aly: Orange County Should Prioritize Working Families and Create A Pandemic Unemployment Loan Program
California’s EDD system is not working for many Orange County residents suffering unemployment and delays on claims. Residents should seek a bailout from their local government. Orange County should use its $554 million in federal grants for working families. To learn more or support this campaign, please email: alym@ocpoverty.com.
Posted inCommunity Opinion
Kriz: A Record Thirty-Four People Died “Without Fixed Abode” in OC in April 2020, Now for God’s Sake Do Something!
A record Thirty-Four people died “without fixed abode” in OC last month, April 2020, eighty percent to one hundred percent more than then the year before. What to do? Let the State use FEMA funds to simply buy the near empty hotels needed to bring everybody indoors. To yet again do nothing, or next to nothing, is morally unfathomable.
