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Fort Worth Weekly 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) monie...

Fort Worth Weekly Hindsight on 2020 This year, despite many losing their means to make a living, local musicians proved the pandemic couldn’t lock down their creativity. By JUAN R. GOVEA AND PATRICK HIGGINS - Twenty-Twenty wasn’t fine, but it certainly was musical. Collage by Patrick Higgins One day, when we look back on the unholy year that has been 2000 and 10 times two, the cataloguing of unbearable tragedies, atrocities, and absolute insanities that we’ve all somehow endured this year will read more like CliffsNotes exposition from a clichéd dystopian young adult nove...