Last month, at a town hall meeting in Ohio City, 150 residents showed up to voice their concern over a proposed plan to move Heaven & Earth nightclub from the Flats’ east bank to the former home of controversial nightspot/cocaine emporium Moda. Owners of the building were stabbed repeatedly, Councilman Joe Santiago was tarred and feathered, and the night ended in West Side Market, where a ravenous mob of Ohio Citians broke through the chain locks and feasted till dawn in a bacchanalian orgy that would have made Nero blush.
Which is why it was so surprising that today, three days before a liqupr-board hearing that was to determine the fate of the deal, everything ended so, well, quietly. …
This article appears in Apr 2-8, 2008.