How to apply for aid and have some fun otherwise
With a little help from Eric B. & Rakim and TLC, we’ve arranged a couple of guides to help you navigate these unusual times. Below you’ll find links to unemployment assistance for individuals, as well as access to emergency funds for small businesses.
As many of you know, the protocols for each have remained fluid through these unprecedented times, so we waited until now to post these. If you see anything that becomes out of date, please let us know, and we’ll do our best to make this a living source of accurate information.
We’ve also included some fun suggestions and links to various other pieces of entertainment that can help you weather the storm while practicing social distancing.
How to Apply for + Receive Pandemic Unemployment Assistance, an Easy Step-by-Step Guide
Get The Money: How to get help for your business through COVID-19 season
Here’s a loan tracker resource aiding small businesses with a list of institutions to submit their PPP loan applications with and a small business owner’s progress update who applied in 7 different places.
If you’re looking for something for the kids in your household, check out Ijams Nature Center’s online learning hub. Here you’ll find scavenger hunts, information about the park and much more.
Looking for a way to celebrate Knoxville? There’s no better time than now to ackowledge the humans and businesses you love and you can do that by voting in our annual readers’ poll. Pick Knoxville’s Finest below.
BigWheel, a local marketing agency, would like to say thank you to all first responders in the Knoxville area by offering a free lunch and dinner drive-thru on April 22nd. With the help from our friends at US Foods and All Occasion Party Rentals, they will be serving lunch from 11 am to 2 pm and dinner from 4 pm to 7 pm on the 22nd. They invite all first responders to drive through the parking lot at 920 Volunteer Landing Lane and receive their complimentary meal. More info can be found here.
Want to find a new TV show, movie or album to enjoy? Want to discover something new? Peep our “Best of the Decade” lists. If you don’t find something you absolutely adore, we’ll give you your money back. Guaranteed.
If that’s not enough, check out our Homebound series, which features somewhat obscure books, TV shows, albums, movies and video games. Each of the BLANK staff members who participated curated a list of their own and each varies drastically.
Pink Floyd, Grateful Dead, Radiohead, The National, Metallica and Genesis are releasing unseen full concerts on Youtube every now and then. Check out the full story here.
Local businesses have taken a hit all around the globe and it’s no different here in East Tennessee. Here’s a link to support several local businesses that we put together for the Second Bell Sofa Soiree last month. The event was an online music festival that featured 28 performers. It was 100 percent local and garnered over 11,500 views. Thanks for watching, neighbors! If you’d like to give it a watch, it is below.
Miss Football? NFL Redzone is currently rebroadcasting each week of the 2019 season. You can watch every touchdown from every game throughout the next several days. This is great, but wouldn’t this be a great opportunity to rebroadcast games of yesteryear? Wouldn’t it be fun to watch every game that Barry Sanders got at least 100 yards rushing? Or Walter Payton? Or Bo Jackson? How about the golden era of basketball? Could a network air every game that Michael Jordan or Larry Bird scored 30? How about every game that Magic Johnson got a triple-double? We’ve got time. That’s for certain.
And last but not least, here’s a picture of publisher Rusty Odom’s new puppy. He named him Alamo after a John Prine lyric.
