While they’re stoked to have received a handout, some Adelaide live music venues owners are frustrated they're still in a position of needing subsidies to survive ongoing COVID-19 trading restrictions.
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Hindley Street hookah lounge owner Ammar Ali believes the COVID-19 shisha ban is "discriminatory" and "racist", and says he and his colleagues in the industry want to return to trade.
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Sound technician Zach Stern is earning 10 per cent of his usual income, and musician Ben Whittington recently sold eight guitars to keep a roof over his head. Both music industry workers say they're questioning their careers and doubt the government is listening.
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Two prominent festival and event organisers from music scene behemoth Five Four Entertainment are exiting the field, blasting SA Health and the South Australian government on their “insensitive” treatment of musicians and professionals on their way out.
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The co-owners of award-winning North Terrace live music venue Lion Arts Factory and music events company Five Four Entertainment need a combined $500,000 lifeline and property lease extension from the State Government to keep their businesses from collapsing.
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Eric Ott has owned West End cult dive bar and metal music venue Enigma Bar for more than two decades, but says if he can’t raise at least $50,000 from the public, the long-held haven for alternative music will shutter.
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Sustainability-minded designer Lisa Penney, who transforms plastic bottles and deadstock fabric into Hey Reflecto's face masks and high-vis cycling vests, saw a significant pandemic bump last year, generating half a million dollars in sales.
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How young South Australians came to be able to book Pfizer appointments is a story, told through tweets, about a government eating its words and the power of viral information in the hands of a desperate demographic left at the bottom of the vax priority list.
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Councillors this week supported a month-long free parking scheme expected to cost the council $300,000, but several urban planners tell CityMag the initiative is unlikely to increase city patronage and contradicts the council's carbon reduction goals.
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