…doesn’t mean that the nightclub doesn’t deserve it, Dan.
In a move that is sure to rile Seattle’s hipster crowd, Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels wants to shut down another Belltown nightclub.
Nickels said it was not an attempt to extinguish all night life in Seattle but a public safety issue.
Nickels has asked the state Liquor Control Board to suspend the license of Ximaica, a bar at Second Avenue and Blanchard Street, after an alleged incident last month in which two patrons were allowed to enter the club while brandishing guns. Club employees failed to call 911, according to security at a neighboring club.
I know this club (I live within a few blocks) and they’re fucking clowns. They have fights every night (almost), and their music is plainly audible from a block away. All of this says “please shut me down” in no uncertain terms. They’ve been asking for it.
Also, you gotta love the first line of that P-I article. Right after midnight, it read “sure to rile Seattle’s non-voting hipster crowd,” but I guess they thought that was pouring it on a bit much.
Will…Yes…Complaining about the profligacy of youth and their n’er do well ways…Next thing you know you’ll be buying a mini-van, getting your drawers at J.C. Penny, and…voting Republican…
A metamorphisis as natural as that which creates a butterfly…and almost as beautiful, too!
The Piper
@1 I’m sure you never smoked a toke in collidge, Piper. You weren’t the type. You were one of those drunken frat boys breaking windows, beating up people, and overturning cars on 17th N.E., weren’t you? C’mon, admit it.
@2…RR…
Nope…I didn’t go to the UW, so you can’t pin Greek Row on me.
And while I went to my fair share of parties up in Bellingham, I didn’t join you and the other SDS’ers and other Weather Underground Yippies in the torching and bombing of buildings, armed robbery of banks, vandalizing of research labs, and all the rest.
If you can make bald faced lying allegations about me?
The Piper
I don’t live in the Seattle are so let me ask a question.
Is the guy complaining white and are the club patrons african american?
Is the guy complaining a liberal/dixiecrat/democrat/progressive?
I’ve never been there would wager a beer that its a hip hop club.
er, is Ximaica really a “hipster” club?
Will
You knew when you moved there “Downtown” that it could be noisy. What do you expect the “club” to do, play it’s live music at noon?
@7
Agreed. Downtown = noisy and dirty. Get used to it – its a FUCKING CITY! Remember? A REAL CITY that’s soooo much better than those evil whitewashed suburbs.
So don’t try and make it one. Cause it ain’t, no matter how many 500k condos you put up in Belltown. Eightballs are still goin for cheap out there for chrissakes.