We’re all on the hunt for new things to do at home.
To aid you in your quest, each night we’ve been rounding up some of the best streaming options we’ve found around the internet.
Today we’re spreading the word about an eclectic online music festival, a YouTube channel that will teach you to make better drinks and a new way to experience an old film.
Use the arrows at the bottom of the page to navigate through the slideshow to the next suggestion. On the last page you’ll find a rundown of the many entertainment options we’ve highlighted already.
Find something great we haven’t written about yet? Tell us about it in the comments and we might feature it in a future post.
Jam along with the UnCancelled Music Festival
The necessity of social distancing has unfortunately resulted in a lot of canceled concerts. The UnCancelled Music Festival is a daily all-online music festival featuring a ton of performers who might have otherwise been playing at local music clubs and bars. The shows are all on StageIt and each costs money to attend, although in varying amounts.
StageIt requires you to load at least $5 onto your account to get started, which represents 50 “notes” (the on-site currency). Each performance costs at least one note to attend (that’s 10 cents if you’d rather not do the math). More popular artists might charge more, but everything you pay goes into a pool that’s divided evenly amongst all the artists that perform at the virtual festival that day.
Catch a classic flick with the American Film Institute
The American Film Institute is currently hosting a nightly Movie Club, during which they encourage audiences to watch a film “together while we’re apart,” and tonight’s feature presentation is E.T. AFI is offering a ton of extras on its site to help enhance the movie experience, though to see the film itself, you’ll need to dig out your DVD or stream the movie on a paid service of your choice (it’s available on Vudu, YouTube, Prime Video and Google Play).
AFI’s E.T. pairings include an archive video in which Steven Spielberg reveals the moment the idea forf E.T. first came to him, as well as a number of other videos and fun facts about the film.
If E.T. isn’t your jam, you can almost check out the bonus content for the films from the last week, including The Wizard of Oz and Moulin Rouge.
Learn how to make some drinks
If your cocktail game is starting to get a little monotonous, there are tons of great cocktail-making classes available online. One good place to start is the “Steve the Bartender” YouTube channel. In the video embedded above, he runs down a list of 10 easy cocktails to make at home. The channel also features a ton of info on different types of spirits as well as in-depth videos explaining how to perfect the preparation of particularly complicated drinks.
Watch an opera
The Met is continuing its nightly opera series this week. Tonight’s opera is Puccini’s La Fanciulla del West. It will be available to stream for 24 hours on the Met’s website starting at 7:30pm EST. Here’s how the Met describes it:
“Though less familiar than Puccini’s greatest hits, this action-packed tribute to the American Wild West, which received its world premiere at the Met in 1914, is every bit as compelling. Its sweeping, evocative score deftly captures the feel of a Gold Rush–era mining camp—the perfect place for a sweet-talkin’ bandit to fall for a gun-totin’ bar owner with an enormous soprano voice and a heart of gold.”