At 5 PM Saturday, March 21, Governor J.B. Pritzker’s COVID-19 Executive Order No. 8, aka the Stay at Home order, took effect. Here’s a daily-ish journal of how Reader staff, our friends, family—and our pets—are spending our time.

  • Medicine live at Lounge Ax on January 30, 1993
  • Choirs doing indie-pop covers—notably The Chorus doing Camera Obscura’s “Lloyd, I’m Ready to Be Heartbroken”
  • in Victoria, BC in 2018 and the Coastal Sound Youth Choir
  • performing the New Pornographers’s “Letter
  • From an Occupant” in Vancouver in 2015
  • 97X – Rumblings from the Big Bush podcast about the cult-legendary
  • southwest Ohio radio station (1983-2004) and webstream (RIP 2010)

What we’re cooking:

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