Tag Archives: covid-19

Though the coronavirus is still, as President Trump put it last week, a “thing,” universities around the country are opening for the fall semester, albeit with an array of restrictions in place that are intended to tamp down the virus’ spread among students and faculty. But those restrictions seem to …

Pearl Jam performed their Gigaton track “Dance of the Clairvoyants” live for the first time during the All in WA COVID-19 relief concert Wednesday. The socially distanced performance not only found each member of Pearl Jam recording from home, but there was a little bit of lineup movement as well, …

Santana and Earth, Wind and Fire have announced their new tour dates, rescheduled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Their Miraculous Supernatural Tour, originally scheduled to kick off this summer, will now begin on June 18th, 2021 in Chula Vista, California, and end on August 28th, 2021 in Tampa, Florida. Previously …

Update (6/5): A Nashville judge has ruled that Tennessee must provide registered voters the opportunity to vote by mail-in ballot. “In this time of the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic and its contagion in gatherings of people, almost all states – both Republican and Democrat – are providing their citizens the health …

Following weeks of contention between the state of Arkansas and Fort Smith music venue TempleLive over plans to stage the country’s first pandemic concert, the art deco theater opened its doors Monday night to host Travis McCready, the singer of blues-rock band Bishop Gunn. It was America’s first concert since …

This story appears in the June 2020 print edition of Rolling Stone. In late April Marko Kolanovic, a financial analyst for JPMorgan Chase, wrote to clients with good news. Pandemic aside, investors should expect stock prices in S&P 500 companies to return to record numbers some time early next year! …

John Oliver highlighted the current COVID-19 crisis within the United States Postal Service during his Sunday night segment ofLast Week Tonight, pointing out that over 1,000 postal workers have tested positive for COVID-19 and that 40 have died from it. As Samantha Bee noted in a similar segment on Full …

Ever since touring promoters Live Nation and AEG made the unprecedented decision to cancel and postpone tens of thousands of shows starting in mid-March due to the coronavirus pandemic, the United States has not held one major concert with a live audience. As stay-at-home orders close in on their eighth …

Bing Liu, a University of Pittsburgh research assistant professor studying COVID-19, was found shot and killed in his townhouse on Saturday in what was apparently a murder-suicide, authorities say. Officials found Liu in his home in Ross Township, Pennsylvania, with gunshot wounds to his torso, neck, and head. Local police …

Like many of us, Jimmy Fallon is starting to feel the long-term effects of staying at home on his sanity. So the late-night host did he usually does in times like these: he wrote a song about it called “Starting to Crack.” “I’m starting to crack/I’m starting to crack/Will I …