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Rolling Stone Save Our Stages: How an Industry Hail Mary Became Live Music’s $15 Billion Lifeline “There’s been a lot of hard work that’s been put into this to make sure that everyone who the bill was really intended for will be able to get what they need,” says venue owner and NIVA member Kerri Park By Drew Angerer/Getty Images For Dayna Frank, owner of First Avenue in Minneapolis, Minnesota, the feeling was completely indescribable. For Kerri Park, general manager at World Cafe Live in Philadelphia, there was a palpable shift towards positivity. For Christine Kara...

Stimulus Offers $15 Billion in Relief for Struggling Arts Venues The coronavirus relief package that Congressional leaders agreed to this week includes grant money that many small proprietors described as a last hope for survival. An empty United Palace Theater in New York. $15 billion of a $900 billion coronavirus relief package is designed to help the culture sector survive after a nearly yearlong revenue drought.Credit...George Etheredge for The New York Times Published Dec. 21, 2020Updated Dec. 24, 2020 For the music venue owners, theater producers and cultural institutions that have suff...

Dec. 15, 2020 I was speaking recently to Matt Dunne, founder of the Center on Rural Innovation, which promotes digital economic development in small-town America, and he was telling me about a Vermont community near his home with a great public library: “You could drive by on any Sunday and the parking lot would be full,” he said. “There was just one problem: The library was closed on Sundays.” The parking lot was full of cars with kids doing their homework and adults doing their office work — using the wireless connectivity spilling out of the empty building because their rural hom...