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Sunday, October 11, 2020

NFTRW Weekly Top Five

 Here are the top five comment generating posts of the past week:

Report: Coachella Postponed Again to October 2021

www.ticketnews.com: Coachella, the enormously popular music festival in California, is once again moving its date back, Rolling Stone reports. Traditionally held in April, it was bumped to October this year due to the coronavirus, then bumped to April 2021 when it became clear that the virus would not be at a point where state authorities would allow a mass gathering in the fall.

Colleges cancel diversity programs in response to Trump order

www.insidehighered.com: Two campuses are halting diversity efforts in relation to the White House’s recent executive order against “divisive concepts” in federally funded programs.

In a campus memo, the University of Iowa’s interim associate vice president for diversity, equity and inclusion, Liz Tovar, said, “Let us state unequivocally that diversity, equity and inclusion remain as core values within our institution.”

NFL game broadcasts in 2020: Explaining the fake crowd noise, other TV oddities amid COVID-19

Sporting News: The NFL's TV partners are doing everything they can to make sure game broadcasts in 2020 look more like what viewers are accustomed to and less like reality. But the reality that is a pro football season being played amid a global pandemic can't be completely hidden.

Combat Fatigue With the Army's 'Aggressive Napping' Strategy

lifehacker.com: After more than a century with an image problem, napping is getting a rebrand, courtesy of the U.S. Army. Many of our perceptions of naps—and the kind of people who take them—go back to Victorian times, when women were seen as physiologically weak and frail and prone to fainting, requiring periods of rest and recovery to get through the day.

At this Virginia theater, the show -- and the masks -- must go on

CANVAS Arts: To be or not to be. Seven months into the coronavirus pandemic, live theaters are struggling to raise the curtain.

John Yang is back to take us to one regional company in rural Virginia that hopes it's found a way for the show go on, safely.

It's part of our ongoing American Creators series on rural arts and Canvas, our coverage of arts and culture.

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