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...attending clubs after 11 p.m., essentially limiting the club scene to the over-21 crowd.A CIVIC RESPONSESafety concerns may have triggered City Hall’s restrictions, particularly one event three months ago at the Avalon, a nightclub on Lansdowne Street next to Fenway Park. On Nov. 26, 2006, bouncer Craig Vierra was stabbed by a 20-year-old man and later died in the hospital.“You know they did all this [the new restrictions] because a friend of mine got stabbed,” says Erich J. Lamb, who spends many nights a week standing...
...Lieberman easily placated. He is one of the most controversial players on the Israeli political scene, a self-styled populist who, after breaking with Netanyahu in the late 1990s, delighted in blasting the Israeli political establishment. He is a former nightclub bouncer turned politician and businessman whose business dealings have been investigated at length by the Israeli police, although no charges have been filed. His plan to revoke the citizenship of Israeli Arabs and swap the land on which they live for the land on which West Bank settlements are built in order to maintain Israel's Jewish ethnic majority...
...President Jennifer L. Stachowiak writes in an e-mail, “I thought it would be a fun way to learn a lot [and] meet new people.”Until this year, Law School policy required student gatherings where alcohol was served to have a bartender and bouncer if over 50 people attended, an added expense which the group’s budget cannot cover, according to Ford. The group decided not to expand their membership when the Law School changed their policy to cover gatherings of over 100 students. “We felt it was important...
...interesting way to bring back Record Hospital as a community thing that people knew about,” says Baron, who is currently a contributor to the music website, Pitchforkmedia.com.Thomas M. Bechtold ’05, who spent four years as a RH DJ and will serve as bouncer this year, remembers the first two events fondly. He recalls that they were fun and—more importantly—loud. “If you’re coming to the show,” he writes in an e-mail, “bring earplugs...
...alternative one Friday night. We did find debauchery—in South Boston, no less—just not the sort we expected. Hotspot’s associate led us to a nondescript glass door marked with the RISE logo. Once on the other side, a remarkably congenial bouncer examined our guide’s card and allowed us to enter. You see, RISE is a “membership-only” club, whose packages range from $50 to $750 a year; depending on the price level. Members can bring between one and four guests. However, the lower membership...