Now that mean ol’ COVID-19 appears to be going bye-bye and since most of us non-mouth-breathers have gotten vaccinated, the time is now for some springtime show-going. One new place I haven’t been to yet but am desperate to hit, Tulips (112 St. Louis Av, 817-367-9798) gets the weekend started right. Two of
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And local venue owners and operators are hoping they, too, will stay open.
Earlier this month, the Small Business Administration (
SBA) was slated to begin processing applications for financial aid from venue owners/operators across the country whose businesses had been crushed by the pandemic. The owners/operators seeking a sliver of the
$16 billion in available federal funds as part of the
Save Our Stages Act encountered a crashed website.
The feds went to work, and the website reopened Monday for applications to Shuttered Venue Operator Grant (
SVOG) monies.
MASS owner Ryan Higgs said the process “went great,” adding that he is “relieved to have it done.”