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.
- No, but really, perhaps we’re witnessing what will be a new era of how we can relate to both performance and essentially each other. I’m watching a televised morning program as I write this that is running a segment where the reporter is interviewing her husband, who is just showing us records from his record collection. I’m for this. I’m unabashedly for this.
- And although some people are worried about missing music festivals specifically, I contend that the most moving and essentially important music moments of my life were not spent surrounded by other people, but were me in a room by myself with a bunch of records and cassette tapes.
- When we’re back (whenever that is) can we strive to go to 1,000 concerts with nine other people in the room instead of nine concerts with 1,000 people in attendance? I mean, do what you want. Within reason.
What online livestream events we’re looking forward to:
