In normal circumstances, cinema-goers would be basking in a glut of high-quality films released to coincide with the awards season. Covid, the tiny spoilsport, has put paid to all that. Among the treats we’re missing through cinema closures is News of the World, a gritty, sprawling western directed by Paul Greengrass and starring the eternally Oscar-friendly Tom Hanks.
Hanks, who has won two Academy Awards and been nominated six times, plays Jefferson Kidd, a former Confederate army captain who now ekes out a living reading newspapers to illiterate passers by. As he is travelling from town to town, he comes across an overturned wagon and an abandoned girl. She was abducted by the Kiowa tribe years before, and Kidd reluctantly becomes involved in the search to find her family.
The special meeting came less than a week after Kuhlman, sent out an email to families within the district outlining what the start of the spring semester will look like.
“As you are all aware, we are in the midst of a surge in COVID transmissions throughout the Southern California community,” Kuhlman wrote in an email Friday. “We’ve been monitoring this situation closely over the holiday break to ensure that we adhere closely to the requirements of State and County health orders.”
At the time, Kuhlman said that district officials would provide support to small cohorts of students throughout the district at the start of the spring semester, which began Monday.
A collaboration between Santa Clarita residents Bill West and the husband and wife team of E.J. and Kim Stephens has culminated in the publication of “Images of America: Newhall’s Walk of Western Stars.”
Since 1981, the Walk of Western Stars in Newhall has commemorated beloved performers from Western film, television, radio, and music. Over the years, nearly 100 honorees have been memorialized in the sidewalks of Old Town Newhall with bronze saddles and terrazzo tiles.
Each April, new inductees are added to the walk during the Santa Clarita Cowboy Festival. Santa Clarita, which includes Newhall, has a century-long history of Western film and television production that continues to this day.
The City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs on Thursday launched Reimagine Public Art, a virtual exhibition produced by DCA’s Public Art Division that highlights how artists respond to, and reimagine, Los Angeles amidst social, economic and healthcare emergencies.
The L.A. County Metro board of directors approved a $679.4 million total budget for the Interstate 5 North County Enhancement Project in the Santa Clarita Valley on Thursday, setting the stage for the project to move forward with construction of new carpool lanes.
Texas law firms took millions in PPP loans they say saved jobs
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Rusty Hardin & Associates, the Houston criminal defense firm known for high-profile corporate clients and those in sports and politics, said it received $672,000 in PPP funds.
Dozens of law firms, including some of the biggest and best-known corporate and personal-injury firms in Texas, have received millions of dollars in federal forgivable loans to cover payrolls, rents and utilities during the pandemic.
The law firms, with oil companies, restaurant chains and churches, are among some of the largest recipients of the federal lending program launched in spring as part of the $2 trillion stimulus package passed by Congress.