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Music-related government doings like copyright, FCC, fair use, bad shakes, etc.
Riptide Entertainment License Hearing this Tuesday
The Riptide needs you to be there for its entertainment license hearing this Tuesday, July 19 at 5:30pm in Room 416 at City Hall. Many assume that The Riptide had an entertainment license since they saw so many shows there, but
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Hope for Live Music in SF
The new proposals would require developers to vet their projects near clubs with the Entertainment Commission, place more responsibility for sound attenuation on the development itself, and require disclosures specific to being an entertainment
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Rasselas Closing Highlights “Jazz District” B.S.
Hicks with Sticks generally supports the opening of live music venues, but in 1999, when the San Francisco Redevelopment Agency announced plans to reinvent Fillmore Street between Geary and Ellis, as a “Jazz District,”
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SF CITY HALL EASES OFF LIVE MUSIC
Most didn’t even know there was a “War on Fun” which is the sobriquet that City Hall followers bestowed on the harassment of live music venues under former Mayor Gavin Newsom. It came to head with
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