# New Yorker omits "Goings on About Town"

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-yorker-omits-goings-on-about-town/849765>\
**Category:** The Quarantine Zone\
**Tags:** covid-quarantine\
**Created:** [March 18, 2020, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-yorker-omits-goings-on-about-town/849765 "2020-03-18T23:07:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![Hari\_Seldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hari_seldon/32/5173_2.png) [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\
**Post date:** [March 18, 2020, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-yorker-omits-goings-on-about-town/849765/1 "2020-03-18T23:07:47Z")

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What the title says. No movie, theater, museum, concert, or restaurant reviews in the latest issue. I’ve never seen that before. Sign of the times.

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**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\
**Post date:** [March 19, 2020, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-yorker-omits-goings-on-about-town/849765/2 "2020-03-19T00:03:27Z")

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Another observation, from a very different place, a rural region of Germany: we have a free local paper that comes twice a week, lives from advertising and usually contains a dozen or so leaflets from local stores: today, not one leaflet, only a very small paper, and the mid-week edition is cancelled for the next two weeks.

ETA: this paper is also the most important announcement source for local events. But all events are cancelled, so almost nothing to report.