There's an argument to be made that Covid was, once again, the top news story this year, as it was in 2020. The pandemic's negative effects continue to be obvious on all aspects of life, including the arts and entertainment.
In one respect, the biggest arts story of 2021 was the re-opening, on a limited, masked, socially-distanced basis, of bay area theaters, concert halls and clubs. The business of art was peeking out from behind the Covid curtain, testing the feasibility of coming back at all. Of making spirits bright.
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