GDC Summer, New Event to Replace Postponed Game Developers Conference, Set for August

By Amanda N'Duka

A California doctor featured in the Netflix documentary Pandemic: How to Prevent an Outbreak claims to have found a potential cure for COVID-19.

Album release week felt a little different for the 5 Seconds of Summer guys this year. Instead of running around the country performing tracks from their new LP, Calm (which arrived March 27), each of the 5SOS guys were at their respective Los Angeles homes, quarantined as part of the efforts to stop the spread of COVID-19.“It’s definitely odd,” frontman Luke Hemmings says over the phone.

Best known for the unexpectedly soul-shattering San Francisco suicide doc “The Bridge,” indie filmmaker Eric Steel came out and came of age in 1980s New York at a moment just before AIDS devastated the city’s gay community. Such timing must have been surreal, to assume something so liberating about one’s own identity, only to watch in fear and uncertainty as this fraternity of newfound freedom collapsed around him.

Including a set from New York's CBGB's in 1989

JoJo has rescheduled her Spring tour dates that would have kicked off on April in Washington. In support of her upcoming album good to know, the pop star will now launch her 2020 U.S. dates on Nov. 1 at the Showbox in Seattle.

G-Eazy never forgets his Bay Area community, especially in a time of crisis.

The Eagles have rescheduled their Hotel California tour dates, which will resume in September. After having to reschedule dates due to the coronavirus outbreak, The Eagles will hit the road again on Sept.

It's their first record in three years

Lady Gaga has decided to postpone the release of her forthcoming album, “Chromatica,” for now.

The 2020 Academy of Country Music Awards have set a new live air date!

In today’s film news roundup, film festivals in San Franciso and Toronto are being canceled or postponed, the American Cinematheque stops screenings and veteran executive Jon Berg lands a new gig.

Apple is the latest company to alter plans in the wake of the coronavirus (COVID-19), moving its annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) in June to a virtual, online-only event.

Earlier this week, Berlin’s Berghain—a dance club infamous for its anything-goes darkrooms—announced it was canceling all upcoming “self-produced events” and effectively going dark through April 20. At Barcelona’s Sala Apolo, the lights will stay off for at least the next two weeks, its wooden floorboards gleaming dully in the emptiness.

Many were stunned last summer when Jay-Z unexpectedly announced that his Roc Nation company had struck an entertainment and social-awareness campaign with the NFL. After all, the rapper-mogul had harshly criticized the NFL over its treatment of former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick, whose controversial symbolic kneeling during the National Anthem to protest racial inequality in the U.S. has essentially seen him drummed out of the league.

The releases of upcoming Disney releases Mulan, The New Mutants, and the horror-thriller Antlers have all been postponed due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, so reports multiple sources. The live-action version of Mulan was set to hit cinemas later this month, while The New Mutants and Antlers were set to debut in April, but that now won’t be the case.