A live music venue with shuttered doors. Old concert posters are taped up and a health mask is fluttering in the wind. There are graffiti markings over the closed pull down garage doors.
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Live Music Is About to Get Its Grand Reopening

And it’s going to be total chaos

Patrick Sisson
Published in
14 min readMar 23, 2021

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WWhen the stage lights rose before the show on March 14, 2020, at Saint Vitus, a cramped New York City heavy metal bar, the venue felt a little more on edge than normal. In its near decade of shows, dance parties, and drinking, the intimate, dimly lit bar and concert venue, a former plumbing school located in the “ass-end” of…

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Patrick Sisson
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A Chicago expat living in Los Angeles, Patrick Sisson writes about the intersection of cities, business, and culture.