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Chelsea’s liquor license snatched for now

By Rebecca Breeden
@225 Magazine

Chelsea’s Café’s this week will close at 10 p.m., and the live music has been cancelled.

Here’s the back story: The state office of Alcohol and Tobacco

Control raided the restaurant in January. After a court hearing (in March, the ATC told owner David Remmetter he needed to change his zoning status within 30 days. Remmetter says he took steps to get rezoning through the Metro Council, but the process usually takes 60 to 90 days (read Councilwoman Tara Wicker’s reaction and about the “Save Chelsea’s” groups that formed as a result.

On April 21 around 4 p.m., ATC agents returned to Chelsea’s this time to yank the restaurant’s liquor license. Remmetter says he tried contacting the ATC, but the office was already closed. The next day—after Remmetter says he left several phone messages with the ATC and couldn’t get any response—Judge Trudy White granted a temporary restraining order so Remmetter could keep his business open. This prompted the ATC to immediately take steps to have the restraining order dissolved.

FULL STORY at: :: 225BatonRouge.com ::. Chelsea’s liquor license snatched for now.

Join the Save Chelsea’s Cafe group on Facebook by clicking here: http://tr.im/jYf8

[Chelsea's is one of my favorite places in Baton Rouge. It has everything. Good music, food, drink and cool people. Chelsea's supports LOTS of local artists, which gives money back to our community. They should have their liquor license AND live music. Period.]

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Local band to BTR. Love to see them live! Check out We Don’t Want No War from their playlist at The Michael Foster Project on MySpace.

New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival | Music Schedule | April 25, 2009

WooHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!! Some things overlap but I’m gonna try to do everything!   Check out my schedule at: New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival | Music Schedule | April 25, 2009.

What Grace and I Rocked on the Way to School – HOT 8 BRASS BAND — I Got You 2007 _ Future Jazz

Gettin ready for Jazz Fest!

YouTube – HOT 8 BRASS BAND — I Got You 2007 _ Future Jazz.

Kanye Works on Ego

In response to the South Park “Gay Fish” video, Kanye had this to say on his blog (in all caps as usual…)

SOUTH PARK MURDERED ME LAST NIGHT AND IT’S PRETTY FUNNY. IT HURTS MY FEELINGS BUT WHAT CAN YOU EXPECT FROM SOUTH PARK! I ACTUALLY HAVE BEEN WORKING ON MY EGO THOUGH. HAVING THE CRAZY EGO IS PLAYED OUT AT THIS POINT IN MY LIFE AND CAREER. I USE TO USE IT TO BUILD UP MY ESTEEM WHEN NOBODY BELIEVED IN ME. NOW THAT PEOPLE DO BELIEVE AND SUPPORT MY MUSIC AND PRODUCTS THE BEST RESPONSE IS THANK YOU INSTEAD OF “I TOLD YOU SO!!!” IT’S COOL TO TALK SHIT WHEN YOU’RE RAPPING BUT NOT IN REAL LIFE. WHEN YOU MEET LITTLE WAYNE IN PERSON HE’S THE NICEST GUY FOR EXAMPLE. I JUST WANNA BE A DOPER PERSON WHICH STARTS WITH ME NOT ALWAYS TELLING PEOPLE HOW DOPE I THINK I AM. I NEED TO JUST GET PAST MYSELF. DROP THE BRAVADO AND JUST MAKE DOPE PRODUCT. EVERYTHING IS NOT THAT SERIOUS. AS LONG AS PEOPLE THINK I ACT LIKE A BITCH THIS TYPE OF SHIT WILL HAPPEN TO ME. I GOT A LONG ROAD AHEAD OF ME TO MAKE PEOPLE BELIEVE I’M NOT ACTUALLY A HUGE DOUCHE BUT I’M UP FOR THE CHALLENGE. I’M SURE THE WRITERS AT SOUTH PARK ARE REALLY NICE PEOPLE IN REAL LIFE. THANKS FOR TAKING THE TIME TO DRAW MY CREW. THAT WAS PRETTY FUNNY ALSO!! I’M SURE THERE’S GRAMMATICAL ERRORS IN THIS… THAT’S HOW YOU KNOW IT’S ME!

via kanYe West : Blog :.

He’s working on it! What more can we ask for??

Voodoo fest reaches deal with La. City Park – AP – NOLA.com

Looks like Voodoo Fest is on for Halloween!!

Voodoo fest reaches deal with La. City Park – AP – NOLA.com.

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Chelsea’s must rezone or face shutdown

Chelsea’s Café is being backed into a corner to change its rezoning status. David Remmeter, owner of the popular Perkins Road restaurant and live music venue, pleaded “no contest” to charges of operating a bar without a license to do so and agreed to pay a $2,000 fine. His restaurant license is suspended for one year unless he meets certain conditions from the Louisiana Bureau of Alcohol and Tobacco Control, such as changing the zoning status to reflect operating as a bar. If Remmeter loses his restaurant license, he will be forced to shut down the business.

“The other part of the stipulation is he has a choice to get his city restaurant license to match the one he has from the state, or he can rezone and receive a bar zoning that would allow him to get a license from the state, called the restaurant conditional permit,” says ATC Commissioner Murphy Painter, who explained with that particular zoning, Chelsea’s Café can be a restaurant until 9 p.m. and be a bar until closing time, as long as ratio and qualifications are intact and there’s no zoning issues within the area. “That’s how complicated it is. I’m not a demon. I just do what I have to do.”

Remmeter says he is working to get his rezoning status through the Metro Council. In the meantime, he says, Chelsea’s will continue offering a full menu all day and live music after 10 p.m. Remmeter says that at his old location by LSU, alcohol sales outnumbered food sales. Since he moved to the Perkins Road overpass, food sales have surpassed alcohol sales. Painter, however, argues that the records show Chelsea’s is “selling barely more food,” which still puts the restaurant out of qualifications to be considered a “bona fide restaurant.”

“This is just the tip of the iceberg,” says Remmeter, who adds that a few restaurant owners in town are looking at ways get around the ATC restrictions. “It’s a big deal. We’ve got a strong business; people like this place.”—Rebecca Breeden

via :: Baton Rouge Business Report :: Daily Report AM.

This is ridiculous.. Why can’t Dave just run a restaurant that serves good food and supports live music?

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Pharrell in the Paris airport trying to get McDonald’s to open up. Funny..

YouTube – P vs McDonald’s.

Founder: Voodoo Can’t Move Date, Location – New Orleans News Story – WDSU New Orleans

NEW ORLEANS — The founder of the Voodoo Experience says a communication error with City Park means that one of the area’s largest outdoor music festivals may not happen this October.

WDSU first broke the story Monday that Voodoo was seeking to move the event to the last weekend of the month to coincide with Halloween, but that prior bookings at the park made that impossible.Festival founder Steve Rehage said Tuesday that he had agreed on the new dates with City Park officials. He said someone even updated the dates on the park’s Web site just before Voodoo officially announced its Halloween plans.”They actually posted the date change on their website on Feb. 16, 10 days before we sent out our press release and changed our Web site,” he said.But City Park leaders say they can’t understand the confusion, because Voodoo has secured the same dates with the park for the past five years.

Founder: Voodoo Can’t Move Date, Location – New Orleans News Story – WDSU New Orleans.

Wow.. I went last year and am sooooooooo looking forward to this year’s Voodoo Fest! I hope they can figure something out!