Welcome to the golden era of livestreaming
ON A RECENT SATURDAY NIGHT, HIP-HOP eminence Derrick “D-Nice” Jones threw a dance party for 100,000 with attendees including Michelle Obama, Mark Zuckerberg, Drake, J. Lo, Rihanna and both finalists for the Democratic presidential nomination. In an interview with CBS This Morning’s Gayle King the following Monday, D-Nice confirmed his plans to keep the party going as long as possible. And he has. But before you cancel the DJ, rapper and producer for creating the world’s most distinguished COVID-19 cluster, I should mention that the gatherings—dubbed “Homeschool at Club Quarantine”—have taken place exclusively on Instagram Live. The host, ensconced in his kitchen alone, is practicing social distancing.
This is live entertainment in the coronavirus era, when theaters, concert halls, museums, sports stadiums and nightclubs are closed; music, comedy and book tours are canceled; and non-news TV production has ground to a halt. Within the first two
