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L ike many people during the early months of the pandemic, Ari, 21, lost her job in the summer of 2020. She’d been working at a casino in the U.K., but government shutdowns forced her employer to lay her off. “I had to get money somehow,” she says. Ari, whose …

When the pandemic hit and the music stopped, the hundreds of entertainment venues that housed live events went dark. Nearly a year later, there finally appears to be a glimmer of light at the end of the tunnel. Like restaurants, entertainment venues rely on customers spending disposable income by treating …