Soho Alliance
Another City Slicker To Join State Liquor Authority
Anti-bar-sprawl activists used to bemoan the State Liquor Authority's glaring lack of a single voice from New York City.
Now, the state agency is poised to include a bonafide majority of city slickers.
Governor David Paterson today nominated a former legislative aide, Jeanique Green, presently a senior court analyst in the New York City branch of the state Office of Court Administration, to cast the crucial third vote on all licensing matters. read more »
Lola Loses Live Music Appeal [UPDATED]
Embattled Soho restaurant Lola will just have to make do without live music, the State Liquor Authority informed the eatery's owners on Thursday.
Proprietors Tom and Gayle Patrick-Odeen have said that their business—which has been the subject of a nasty, three-and-a-half-year legal dispute with neighbors, who have protested the place's right to sell booze—is "struggling" without live performances.
The couple recently told The Villager that they were "hanging on by a thread."
Live music had been a staple of the drinking and dining experience at the couple's prior location on West 22nd Street. But upon moving to the corner of Watts and Thompson streets, the duo initially applied to play background music only.
The owners insist that this was a clerical error and that the application was later "orally amended" by the SLA. read more »
