Nashville heartland-rock outfit Andrew Leahey and the Homestead offer something to hold on to during pandemic times with their new song, “Keep the Car Running.” Originally a celebration of the idea of hearing a song so powerful on your car radio that you won’t turn off the ignition until it …
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In the midst of an unprecedented global coronavirus pandemic that has killed hundreds of thousands of people worldwide, it can be hard to make sense of the destruction COVID-19 has wrought. In this context, the proliferation of conspiracy theories downplaying the dangers of the virus is sadly unsurprising, though disheartening …
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President Trump and his allies have settled on a new strategy for defending their weak response to the novel coronavirus pandemic: Attack China. On Tuesday, that strategy took the form of Trump’s announcement that he would freeze funding for the World Health Organization. At a White House press conference, Trump …
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I t was the beginning of March when Don Smiley started planning for the worst. As the chief executive of Milwaukee’s Summerfest — which calls itself “the world’s largest music festival,” attracting 900,000 people over 11 days each year — Smiley was confronting a tidal wave of reports about the …
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Last month, Joe Satriani decided to postpone his European tour due to the COVID-19 pandemic. “I was pretty adamant about getting the ball rolling early,” he tells Rolling Stone from his home in San Francisco. “Because it was obvious. Some folks, maybe they were just frightened and didn’t want to …
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This story appears in the May 2020 issue of Rolling Stone, on newsstands May 5th. On February 24th, Dr. Duane Caneva, the chief medical officer at the Department of Homeland Security, sent an urgent email with the subject line “Red Dawn Breaking Bad” to a small group of doctors, epidemiologists, …
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Dave Grohl, who’s known for covering everyone from Queen to Killing Joke with the Foo Fighters, picked a predictably eclectic group of artists for his pandemic playlist. The Cars, LCD Soundsystem, Smashing Pumpkins, Patsy Cline and Alice Cooper all made the cut for an emotionally charged selection of songs he …
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UPDATE: The Department of Health and Human Services is now saying they have halted their plans to end support for coronavirus testing sites to states on Friday, according to a Thursday night report from NPR. The report goes to say that localities will be able to choose whether they want …
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Pink was one of the first guests on the quarantine edition of The Ellen DeGeneres Show, talking to the daytime host via video chat about how she and her son Jameson came down with the coronavirus. “It started with Jameson, actually, and you know, he’s three — three-year-olds get sick …
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Olivia Wilde‘s breakout role was the secretive doctor Thirteen on House over a decade ago. Now, during this uncertain time when doctors, nurses and other medical professionals are on the frontlines fighting the coronavirus pandemic, Wilde has made a video tribute to “healthcare heroes” for World Health Day Tuesday — …
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