Entertainment industry treading water after 6 months of coronavirus restrictions
People enjoy a movie at the Regency Theaters Plant Drive-In in Van Nuys, Thursday, September 3, 2020. The theater has converted a parking lot into a drive in theater due to the coronavirus shutdown. (Photo by Hans Gutknecht, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG) Entertainment happens in gathering places, which is what officials are trying to discourage to combat the novel coronavirus . When the COVID-19 pandemic broke out in March, few people could have imagined a world without places to go for entertainment: no amusement parks, no multiplexes for movies, no theaters or festival grounds for concerts, no casinos. But not only did all those venues close, most haven’t reopened. And as we head into fall, no one knows when they will come back. They are part of w..