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Courtesy The Mutual Musicians Foundation Friday and Saturday night jam sessions have been cancelled for most of year.
The Shuttered Venue Operators Grant is a new program that will offer eligible venues 45% of their 2019 gross earned revenue.
Riot Room owner Tim Gutschenritter says he can sum up the past 12 months with one word: survival. And even though those who love the Riot Room have done all they can to help during the pandemic, “grim” and “horrible” also come out of Gutschenritter’s mouth when he describes his business’ situation.
He and other small entertainment venue stakeholders hope they’re about to get some much needed relief in the form of the $16 billion Shuttered Venue Operators Grant established by the Economic Aid to Hard-Hit Small Businesses, Nonprofits, and Venues Act.
“We give audiences a bunch of colors through which to feel sexy that run that gamut of what we think of as masculine and feminine and dark and light. You can take what you like,” Cunning says of the show. “As an emcee, I love playing with control and acknowledging that my audience has grown up in a patriarchal world, but in my house, I want to make sure to challenge them, take care of them, and send them home excited to try things they’ve never tried before.”
Cunning began their career by performing in baroque-burlesque operas” with the Brooklyn-based Company XIV and has performed on Broadway in productions of
Fort Smith History: Feb. 21-27
Fort Smith Times Record
Feb. 22, 1882 Deputy U.S. Marshal J.T. Ayers dies a week after his weapon accidentally discharged and shot his leg. “He was a gentleman and died a brave man,” the Fort Smith Elevator proclaims.
Feb. 22, 1900 George Sengel sells his homestead on Fifth Street, which he built 18 years ago. Ed Haglin bought the property for $6,500.
Feb. 22, 1906 Ground is broken for the Second Baptist Church, at the junction of North 11th and Fifth streets.
Feb. 22, 1909 Eads Brothers Furniture Co. begins construction of a $20,000, two-building chair factory.
Feb. 23, 1918 Chancellor W.A. Falconer grants an injunction against the Rev. J.M. Carroll, restraining him from representing himself as pastor of Bethlehem Baptist Church. Carroll previously was ousted from the church after he was convicted on the charge of practicing divine healing.