Thread by @nytimes

A parking lot dance party, new tattoos, homemade pizza and life-size cardboard cutouts for company — this is the new Saturday night.

@amandahess and 33 photographers show us what Saturday night looks like now where they live.
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Saturday night has always been “a time of mythic potential and mundane reality,” @amandahess writes. “It’s the night when we can make ourselves believe that anything could happen, even though it hardly ever does.” nyti.ms/2zPWUdv

Billions of people around the world in various states of lockdown improvise new rituals to help make Saturday night feel different.

Staff members of the Wayside Women’s Treatment Center in St. Louis Park, Minn., host a parking lot dance party. nyti.ms/2zPWUdv

Now that staying in on a Saturday night is no longer a choice, the fear of missing out is gone, replaced by more existential fears. Our need for escape is greater than ever, but now there’s nowhere to go. nyti.ms/2zPWUdv

In Oahu, Hawaii, Gioncarlo Valentine and his housemate, Malcolm Hall, spend Saturday night working on their kitchen choreography for Beyoncé’s “Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It).”

Saturday night now can feel a bit like a rehearsal for the real deal. nyti.ms/2zPWUdv

Since the coronavirus spread and social distancing became the rule, expectations for Saturday night have been relaxed.

In Milan, Lucia Buricelli makes her own pizza from her mother’s recipe. “It was fun and the pizza was good.” nyti.ms/2zPWUdv

In Seoul, Sungjoon Yang and his wife Hyesoon indulge their hobbies during quarantine.

Now, many of us are in the unsettling position where staying in on a Saturday night represents a major human accomplishment. nyti.ms/2zPWUdv

See how people around the world have transformed Saturday night during a pandemic simply by making the effort to spin something out of nothing. nyti.ms/2zPWUdv