Arts/Entertainment

How Smaller, Quirkier Sports Are Stepping in to Fill the Live-Events Void – this is probably how I stumbled upon a TETRIS championship the other weekend…and watched for about 30 minutes!

Happy Fourth of July! A recording of the original Broadway cast of Hamilton will be released on Disney+ on July 3rd… I can’t wait.

Something else I’m severely missing is concerts and live music. “Live music is how I measure out the next week, month, year of my life. But on a bigger scale, the shows are how we measure history. When you picture the past or the future, you imagine what musicians are doing in a room and who shows up to hear it.”

Consumer Trends

Sharing a story about the resurgence of drive-in theaters as movie fans avoid crowding indoors, where they face a higher risk of catching Covid-19. More than 300 drive-in theaters — basically parking lots equipped with a giant outdoor movie screen — are currently in business across the U.S. Wonder if we’ll see one open up in NYC?

As people start thinking about the future of travel and their upcoming plans that have been postponed they are also wondering when travel will feel safe again. Local travel and road trips will be encouraged as people start to venture out of their homes.

Culture

Are ghosts real and can you be in quarantine with one?