With every extension of “shelter-in-place” and social distancing policies, another music, comedy or theatrical performance gets canceled in Solano County.

It’s gotten so bad, venue managers practically suffer from arthritis clicking on the calendar “delete” button.

From Lucca’s Beer Garden in Benicia to the Empress Theatre in Vallejo, Downtown Theatre in Fairfield, Vacaville Performing Arts Theater and The Palm’s in Winters, an eerie silence abounds, with no end in sight.

Depressing? Sure, but Susan MacDonald of the Vallejo Community Arts Foundation said the Empress may be knocked down, but it’s definitely not knocked out — even after cancelling around 40 events.

“There is no way the Empress is not going to come back,” MacDonald said, not when she and her husband, Tim, have kept the

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