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Print Just when federal help seemed imminent for L.A. s long-suffering music venues, another disaster afflicted the afflicted. On April 8, the Small Business Administration’s website, through which clubs were set to apply for their life-saving grants, crashed. It’s been down ever since, and it’s left venue owners angry and bewildered. “I was joking a couple of days later that it felt like a horror film where everyone’s running to the door, getting picked off one by one,” said Kora Peterson, the concert director at the independent folk venue McCabe’s in Santa Monica. “It was salvation we were so desperately hoping for, and it just got pulled out from under us.”

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