Fulfill your civic duties over drinks tomorrow night.
Posted by: Jessica Voelker on Aug 31, 2010 at 09:10AM
The HG Lodge
Photo: HG Lodge
Tomorrow night—Wednesday, September 1—the Stranger is hosting an event called Seattle’s Nightlife Throwdown at the Hunter Gatherer Lodge. (You may also refer to it as the HG Lodge, if you are so inclined.)
In attendance will be mayor McGinn, along with the president of the Seattle Nightlife and Music Initiative, the Liquor Control Board’s policy director, and Dave Meinert —who owns the Five Point Cafe and is a Seattle nightlife spokesperson as well as a perennial Stranger favorite.
This is an important opportunity if you want to be part of the conversation surrounding myriad Seattle nightlife issues, which include but are not limited to: liquor privatization (remember that two privatization initiatives, 1110 and 1105, will be on the ballot in November), staggered closing times for bars, and public safety.
The event is free and starts at 8pm.
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Got ideas about going out in Seattle? Here’s an easy way to give the powers that be a little piece of your mind.
Posted by: Jessica Voelker on Jul 16, 2010 at 10:44AM
As you may have heard, on July 14 Mayor McGinn outlined his proposal to improve Seattle nightlife. The proposal dealt with eight “principles.”
They are these:
1. Code compliance enforcement
2. Flexible liquor service hours
3. Noise ordinance enforcement
4. Security training requirements
5. Precinct community outreach
6. Professional development
7. Late-night transportation alternatives
8. Targeting public nuisances
Most interesting to me is 2. flexible liquor service hours, something I wrote about a few months back.
Whatever is most important to you, you should tell the mayor about it by taking the Seattle Nightlife Initiative Survey.
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City Attorney Pete Holmes is floating the idea of staggering last calls.
Posted by: Jessica Voelker on Mar 05, 2010 at 03:45PM
Dave Meinert says staggering bar closing times is a smart idea.
Did everyone hear nightlife impresario and Five Points Cafe owner Dave Meinert on KUOW’s The Conversation this week? He was talking about Pete Holmes’s not-at-all-planned-out plan to stagger the closing times of Seattle bars, and it was very interesting indeed.
One caller brought up the very astute point that because all the bars close at 2am, Seattle streets are basically deserted between the hours of 2:30am and dawn, which makes us all feel very sketched out when we are walking around in the wees. The caller compared the situation to NYC where the streets are peopled at all hours and so everyone feels a little safer. And mom, if you are reading this and wondering what good and productive things I’m doing between 2:30am and 6am, I’d like to point out that dog owners do not always make their own schedules.
Also, if you are curious about last calls in other cities, states, and countries, here is a list of last-call times around the planet.
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