Coronavirus: Don’t panic and other helpful tips

By Anita Bennett

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are here for you in these scary times. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex posted on their Instagram on Friday tips to combat loneliness, as they and millions of people around the world practice social distancing amid the coronavirus pandemic.

Back when Kylie Jenner was pregnant with her and Travis Scott's daughter Stormi Webster, she did a pretty good job of keeping the news under tight wraps by not leaving her house and staying away from the spotlight. Turns out, the experience prepared her for self-quarantine amid Coronavirus Pandemic.

The Avalanches’ comeback motors on with “Running Red Lights,” a new single featuring the vocals of Weezer’s Rivers Cuomo and L.A.-based rapper Pink Siifu.

The Avalanches have shared the music video for a new song called “Running Red Lights,” and it features Pink Siifu and Weezer’s Rivers Cuomo. During his verse, Pink Siifu raps lyrics from David Berman’s Purple Mountains song “Darkness and Cold.” Listen to it, and find the band’s statement about the song, below.

In today’s film news roundup, “Phoenix, Oregon” is being offered at a discount, Fantastic Fungi Day​ is set for March 26, and the opening of Methodfest has been shifted to May.

To put it simply — and, yes, gratefully — “Phoenix, Oregon” is the sort of movie a lot of us need right now. It’s an undemandingly enjoyable and reassuringly predictable dramedy in which nothing, not even the sourball attitudes of its comically unpleasant malcontents, ever is allowed to get out of hand or unduly strain credibility. But it also is too playfully spiky and unaffectedly down-to-earth to come across as bland pablum.

A quarter-century after starring in a film called Floundering, James Le Gros still makes an ideal embodiment of his generation's ambivalence about joining the world of squares. In Gary Lundgren's gently warm Phoenix, Oregon, the actor plays an unpublished comic book artist who, after years of tending bar for others, is talked into starting a business of his own.

Jon Voight, 81, was seen with a grocery basket full of paper towels while shopping at Gelson’s in Sherman Oaks, CA on Mar. 15.

The coronavirus was a topic heavily discussed by Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden during the latest Democratic debate on Sunday night. While the debate was originally set to take place in Phoenix, Arizona, it was moved to Washington, D.C.

The Democratic National Committee is moving Sunday's presidential debate from Arizona to Washington, D.C., because of concerns about coronavirus. The party had already announced that the debate between Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders would be held without a live audience.

There have been some major changes in plans for the upcoming Democratic Primary debate between former Vice President Joe Biden and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders.

By Ted Johnson