Ladies and Gentlemen,
Having just spent the last two days in court, I am pleased to announce that in some small number of weeks, DNA Lounge will have exchanged our "ABC Type 48 On Sale General Public Premises" license for an "ABC Type 47 On Sale General Eating Place" license.
This means you can expect to see 18-and-over shows here in the very near future!
The actual permit is not yet in my hand, and it's not real until that happens, but they tell me it should be within a few weeks.
We had been planning for this since I bought the club in April 1999. We started construction on our kitchen in February 2006. And we turned in the application for permit transfer in April 2007. So depending on how you count, this process took either two and a half years, or eight years. And a truly obscene amount of money. But it's done.
Details, as they say, To Be Announced.
Wow. That's totally beyond awesome. Great job on the perseverance in the face of bureaucratic hell. Congrats!!!
It's about fucking time.
Congratu-fucking-lations. over.
OMGOMGOMG AWESOME
Holy fuck! Congratulations! For an encore, can you do something about that FISA bullshit?
HOORAY!
Rockingness. Here's hoping for the really-final paperwork with ho further delay.
the hattercongrats!
HOLY FUCK!
TIME TO BOOK SOME SHOWS OR SOMETHING!
That is awesome fucking news!
Now I just need to get in touch with some bands or booking managers or whatever the fuck. RADZ0RZ!
Houston confirms: HOLY LIVING FUCK!
Congratulations on your victory, and may this point the way to plenty of future success!
Heh, didn't get the reference 'till you echoed it here :-)
It seemed certain at one point that this was never going to happen. Fantastic work!
OMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMG
\o/
With enough time and money, anyone can win with the CA government?
I look forward to even more awesome shows!
Congrats! :D I look forward to more live shows up there!
Well there ya go, ya ol' grouch! HOORAY!
Yrs,
--The Other Old Grouch
yeah, but that means the living paternity suits can be brought to Hubba Hubba.
Oh, I already had _that_ problem with the 21-year-olds!
Congratulations. I know you had your doubts. Celebratory eating and drinking is in order.
Congrats!
:cries:
Bout damn time...congrats!
bad.ass.
I await the entrance of TEENAGERS!
Finally!!!!
Congratulations. As a European, I have always found this 21+ business quite weird.
Yeah, when he first started writing about over-18 shows, my first reaction was "So, they let in under-18s on normal days?"
Hoo-fucking-ray!!!!!! That is a whole lotta awesome.
Good jorb! Did the free food night help? :)
SO
PROUD
OF
YOU
Seriously, congrats. That is one HELL of an administrative-hydra-head that you went up against, sir.
THANK YOU.
I already texted you earlier today, but, again. OMG. Congrats. You're the first one to make this work in years.
Time to let the rugrats play in the DNA ;)
Yay!
WOOT!
that is awesome news! congratulations us! (mostly you and everyone else who actually put the work into it)
WOW -- COMPLETELY AWESOME.
Now you too can enjoy even more property destruction and projectile vomiting from the 18+ crowd!
Congrats. Tough fight!
Congratulations!!!!
OMG.
Score 1 for the good guys.
Or the... uhm. Guys.
:)
Thanks to you I've learned much more than I should need to know about California ABC licenses.
If only you had planted a nice tree outside when the
process started. Imagine how big it would be today.
Seriously?
Congratulations!
holy crap, your perseverance really paid off!
Congratulations!
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on
the unreasonable manjwz."Well done!
So now how long until you go for all-ages shows? I can't wait to read THOSE updates.
Congrats, good for you for sticking with it.
Oh GREAT... now even YOUNGER girls will be hitting on me!
this is the best news i've heard in MONTHS! congratulations!
18+ concerts are much more fun than 21+ shows. i'm excited about coming back to the bay area soon and hanging out there more often!
seriously, congratulations! i know this is something you've worked really hard at for a long long time.
f n a! JWZ you are a pimp. thats all. so when people ask how you did it, look over the rim of your cocktail glass And say ″just some pimp shit"
This is the best advice that I've been given in some time. Thank you.
See, Sam, **THIS** is why we need you so bad.
Congrats
*cheers*
Awesome! It's been a long time coming.
Happy anniversary indeed!
Oh, I know so many lil gay boys and (L)grrls who are going to be ever so pleased. Next up: DISCO!
Is it here yet, is it here yet, huh, huh, is it *shiny* ?