Live music venues “might be the most screwed businesses of the pandemic,” according to Slate. The story follows the travails of Washington D.C.’s U Street Music Hall as it tries to survive.
- They’re hoping for a bailout from Congress, which makes U Hall’s owner feel like “a shipwrecked sailor at sea, waiting for aid that may never come.”
- Boulder, Colo.-based Terrapin Care Station donated $30,000 to preserving the city’s concert venues.
- According to Yelp, at least 300 U.S. venues, and probably many more, have shuttered permanently since March.
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- Kendall Jenner came out as a “stoner.”
