The city released the list of the 240 businesses that applied and were recommended by Cleveland. That full list, if you’re already scoping out which of your favorite neighborhood haunts will be serving until the wee hours that week, can be found here. We’re mildly surprised that not every bar in, say, Tremont and Ohio City, applied, but obviously that’s a choice each purveyor made based on staffing and etc.
Now that the city has had its say, the Ohio Division of Liquor Control will approve (or deny) each individual applicant. They will do so by June 17.
Anyway, do check out the full list and if you’re curious who applied but wasn’t recommended by the city, the list is short: J Lue’s Cocktails on St. Clair, Secrets Gentlemen’s Club on Brookpark, and something called Blueprint with an address on Euclid Ave.
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(Original story 1/19/16): A newly inked Ohio law will allow Republicans and Democrats and Trumpers and whoever else is in town to watch the RNC circus this summer to party well into the night during.
Bar and restaurant owners with liquor permits can access a waiver allowing alcohol service until 4 a.m. during major events. To qualify for the waiver, a bar or restaurant must be in Cuyahoga, Summit, Geauga, Lake, Lorain, Portage or Medina counties.
The liquor license waiver isn’t automatic, so anyone who wants to offer their liquor services during the convention must apply with their respective city before March 21. If the business is picked, city officials will add them to a list to be vetted by local police and sheriff departments by April 18. That list will be submitted to the Department of Liquor Control by May 18 and by June 17 the Division of Liquor Control will review the final list and issue the waivers.
So far, what may disqualify a bar or restaurant from serving booze is up to the discretion of the Ohio Division of Liquor Control.
The waiver can be used during the entire convention, which runs from Sunday, July 18 through Thursday, July 21.
Got all that? Yeah, you probably don’t care.
It boils down to some bars being open til 4, and that’s news to raise a glass to.
This article appears in Jan 13-19, 2016.
Area rock fans may need a few early morning drinks when they eagerly anticipate the summer tour of The Rock Hall Three for All (Heart, Joan Jett, Cheap Trick)………and realize that the only Ohio stop is in Cincinnati, with the closest venue being located in Burgettstown, PA.
Great, only to be used for drunken politicians and their hordes to drink excessively into the wee hours and rape pillage and plunder all over the flatlands of Cleveland.
Don’t ask the GOP to comment on legalizing or descheduling that “gateway drug”, cannabis..they’re too busy getting wasted and destroying their livers with alcohol…
This is good news not just for bars but for hookers, rentboys and coke dealers. Viva la RNC!
and how much is this going to cost the bar owners for this temporary license? a pretty penny I am willing to bet and if they pay for the new license will the income they expect to get be worth the cost of it?
What a waste of red tape. Go to bed y’all. Maybe you’ll wake up with a bit of sense? Oh what am I thinking. It won’t make a diff. Go ahead and spend all your money while here (if here is chosen). Be sure to at least visit some of the local shops and not just the bars. I’m betting you’ll need a present to bring home to your spouse.
What’s next…are they going to make prostitution legal?.
Come on, everyone knows the “family values” GOP’s don’t drink.
Hey Nancee Thomas, the license was free. Read the news, it’s only for a week. As for Scene, nice link to the list you clowns. Doesn’t exist anymore like what should be the case for you. Viva Derf douches.