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“The precautions and considerations detailed in this guidance will ensure that when small cohorts of children and youth, and those that care for them, come together they can do so with the appropriate health and safety measures in place. It’s important that appropriate steps are taken to reduce virus transmission and the risk of infection,” said Acting State Public Health Officer Dr. Erica Pan. … [Read more...] about California Coronavirus Update: Governor Gavin Newsom Issues New Reopening Guidance; Kids At Schools, Day Care, Youth Sports and Colleges Told To Operate In Small Groups Of “Cohorts”

The African influence on Cuban music is in Brazilian music as well, like the samba. When I joined the [Miami Sound Machine] at 17, I asked Emilio [Estefan] and the musicians learn to learn Brazilian songs, then I would sing them in Portuguese. I didn’t know what I was singing, but I’ve always loved languages! On our first album in 1976, we put a song called “Malvina” on it, which was a Brazilian hit. Then in 1983, we did a whole album called Rio where we covered Brazilian songs, then wrote the lyrics in Spanish. “Baila Conmigo (Lança Perfume)” was a huge hit for us all over Latin America, as were several of the songs. So when [Sony Music Latin executive] Afo Verde  asked me what I thought about [revisiting] my songs, to go to Brazil and record them with Brazilian musicians and arrangers? I was all over it. Getting back in the studio to record vocals on tracks that I had done decades before was a very exciting prospect, but I wanted to do … [Read more...] about Gloria Estefan on New Album ‘Brazil305,’ Seeking Joy in Quarantine

“We call on authorities to revise the charges to reflect the true culpability of this officer,” the family statement reads. Later in the statement, the family says, “For four officers to inflict this kind of unnecessary, lethal force – or watch it happen – despite outcry from witnesses who were recording the violence – demonstrates a breakdown in training and policy by the City.” … [Read more...] about George Floyd Family Demands First-Degree Murder Charge Against Ex-Cop; Calls For Arrests Of Other Officers – Update

McCain just got done giving a Major Policy Address on crime and punishment at the South Carolina Criminal Justice Academy in Columbia, which is where the caravan is heading back to Charleston from. It was a resoundingly scary speech, delivered in a large airless cinderblock auditorium surrounded by razor wire and guard towers (the SCCJA adjoined a penal institution so closely that it wasn’t clear where one left off and the other began) and introduced by some kind of very high-ranking Highway Patrol officer whose big hanging gut and face the color of rare steak seemed right out of southern-law-enforcement central casting and who spoke approvingly and at some length about Senator McCain’s military background and his 100 percent conservative voting record on crime, punishment, firearms, and the war on drugs. This wasn’t a Town Meeting Q&A-type thing; it was a Major Policy Address, one of three this week prompted by Bush2000’s charges that McCain is fuzzy on … [Read more...] about David Foster Wallace on John McCain: ‘The Weasel, Twelve Monkeys and the Shrub’

“Based on this performance and multiples we have seen in the international release of the film, we are confident that we will hit our goal of $30 million box office at a minimum by the end of the movie’s theatrical run in North America,” said Shari Hardison, head of distribution for Solstice Studios, the picture’s producer and distributor. “We have a lot of stairs to climb, but the first steps are encouraging.” … [Read more...] about ‘Unhinged’ Slowly Fastening Domestic B.O. Back Together With $1.4M Friday In Marketplace Where CA & NY Are Still Largely Closed