Arts & Entertainment This Is Giving Me Life Today: SF Gay Men's Chorus Serenades Healthcare Workers The torrents of bad news and ticking up of death tolls the past few weeks have been met with near equal windfalls of moving human moments, tributes, and applause for the Americans who are out there each day taking care of the sick.
Arts & Entertainment This Is Giving Me Life Today: Original ‘Hamilton’ Cast Members Zoom-Bomb Nine-Year-Old Fan For Her Birthday Since Zoom-bombing is all the rage, actor John Krasinski decided to use the privacy-invading fad to surprise one nine-year-old girl who had a disappointing birthday last week and missed her chance to see Hamilton in her hometown of Jacksonville, Florida.
Arts & Entertainment This Is Giving Me Life Today: Dolly Parton Reading to Children As the entire country is on varying degrees of lockdown, the great Dolly Parton has decided to do weekly live readings of bedtime stories for children — so there's a reason to look forward to Thursday.
Arts & Entertainment This Is Giving Me Life Today: Fantastic Negrito's New Coronavirus Anthem Grammy Award-winning Bay Area artist Fantastic Negrito has just put out a music video for this song "Chocolate Samurai," which is dedicated to those of us in isolation, and has the timely refrain, "Have you lost your mind yet?!"
Arts & Entertainment This Is Giving Me Life Today: David Byrne's Reasons to Be Cheerful We could all use some reasons to be cheerful this week, right? Singer and all around genius poet of American music David Byrne has a new journalism project that wants to give you some hope.
Arts & Entertainment This Is Giving Me Life Today: Drag Queens and Musical Theater Artists Performing From Their Living Rooms One obvious way our current shelter-in-place, pandemic crisis differs from those in other eras is how wildly connected we already were in virtual space before all this began.