reopen
L.A.'S REOPENING PROCESS started slow but began to accelerate at a speed that can best be described as absolutely bananas.
If you're getting mixed signals and confusing messages it's because of the mixed signals and confusing messages.
California's reopening rollercoaster belongs in a 1980s New Jersey theme park.
or: How I Learned To Start Worrying And Love The Couch
react
WE ARE ALL, in one way or another, sitting alone in a parked car staring into the void and meditating to the Frozen soundtrack. Hold tight to that zen, because it’s time for action. Sometimes scary action.
The Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine requires two doses over three weeks. The Moderna vaccine requires two doses over four weeks. Health care workers and nursing home residents are first in line.
In a nutshell: lay low, pay attention to your body, and notify people.
Not an Onion article. Actual high-conflict resolution tactics for dealing with anti-maskers.
relief
THERE'S A DEADLY VIRUS running amok, coupled with a traumatic upheaval of daily life, strobe-lit by a monumental reckoning hundreds of years in the making. No one feels fine, but support is out there. We put together resources to help you find it.
This is not a drill. Changing rules. Changing payments. Changing qualifications. And millions of people trying to figure out a system that was inscrutable to begin with.
Extreme grief and isolation are extremely real threats to your health. Experts worry the next pandemic will be a mental health one.
reinvent
IT'S TIME TO REBOOT. The system is down and it's been down a long time. Global contagion. Militarized police. Entrenched racism. Old voting systems. Here's what's being done to change things, and what you need to know to get involved.
Let's give it the ol' college try, eh? 🤦♀️
As the movement to defund armed policing and reinvest that money into care-based programs gains momentum, the long-held assumptions about law enforcement's roles in traffic safety are being challenged.
There's LAPD and LASD -- and 45 more(!) police departments operating in Los Angeles County.
A violation of the Civil and Human Rights Ordinance can mean a fine of $250,000.
For starters, you're automatically getting a mail-in ballot.
respite
PLEASE ENJOY THIS mirthy selection of low-risk activities and diversions to keep your sense of humor limber, your spirit of adventure twinkling, and that reservoir of joy well-hydrated. These muscles may have atrophied in the past few months, but they're going to be crucial going forward.
Tech companies are taking a huge bite of dough.
Here, let us help take your mind off the horribleness outside.
All I want for dinner are these essential cookbooks for Angelenos.
remember
NARRATIVES ARE VULNERABLE, memories are permeable, and sometimes gaslighting happens at the highest levels. But facts don't fracture. Do not forget where you've been these past few months. It will help you get where you are going.
Los Angeles yelled itself awake as thousands marched to condemn police brutality, and demand accountability, racial equity, and meaningful change. Here's what it looks like when L.A. has something to say.
Especially at the pandemic's start, Los Angeles looked wildly different -- like scenes straight out of a post-apocalyptic film.
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