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Dream team of local emerging acts stage virtual concert.
As coronavirus shuts down all the parts of social life that make life colorful and wonderful, the arts have proven to be particularly vulnerable, as have those who perform them.
Ogden's Own Distillery, makers of Five Wives Vodka, temporarily gets into the hand sanitizer biz.
Fans of the company’s spirits, places like the Ogden Clinic, police entities and even the Utah Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control (DABC) have expressed interest in the sanitizer.
A work-in-progress list of local eateries currently offering delivery, curbside pickup and gift cards.
Mandatory social distancing measures are going to hurt a lot of businesses, including restaurants. Yet many remain open for service, providing curbside or delivery options for your meals.
The state’s Division of Emergency Management, tasked with coordinating response to disasters and recovery, estimates aftershocks will continue to be felt throughout the rest of the day.
We’re in uncharted territory as the COVID-19 epidemic touches on every aspect of daily life, including the cancelation of performing arts events to facilitate social distancing. Though it might be a while before all shows, theatrical productions and other large-scale gatherings are back to business as usual, here are ways to help ride out the storm in ways that support both your own need for art and entertainment to brighten dark times, and support the organizations and individuals who create that art.
Big Time Adolescence, The Traitor, The Times of Bill Cunningham, Swallow
Big Time Adolescence ***
Hypothetically speaking, if this movie consisted solely of 90 minutes of Pete Davidson smiling goofily and describing everything as “sick,” it might still be hella-fun. It turns out to be more than that, following the friendship between 16-year-old Mo (Griffin Glick) and his unlikely best friend: 23-year-old Zeke (Davidson), the pot-smoking, layabout ex-boyfriend of Mo’s sister.
Much like alcoholic beverages, those seeking medical cannabis have to give way to the will of legislatures who do not understand—or care to understand—the product.
TUESDAY 3/10
The Wonder Years, Free Throw, Spanish Love Songs, Pool Kids
Devotees of pop punk—the traditional kind that fuses post-hardcore guitars and a specific, earnest-as-hell vocal delivery also utilized in early-aughts emo—need to get out to this stacked night at The Depot. Tuesdays are rarely opportunities to get super pumped, but how could you not while seeing The Wonder Years?
