As the Plain Dealer reported yesterday, the final hearing for beleaguered hip-hop club Spy Bar’s liquor license was held Tuesday morning. The club already closed due to controversy surrounding a July 4th shooting in a nearby parking lot. Its owners plan to re-open it with a new name and image. But city council, led by downtown councilman Joe Cimperman, wants to revoke its license and keep the owners from reopening a new club.
“They have a perception in their heads that hip-hop equals blacks,” the club’s lawyer, Subodh Chandra, told the the paper, “and blacks equal trouble.”
But what the PD neglected to publicize was the most unusual aspect of the hearing, as introduced by Chandra and Spy Bar: Booty. And not just irrelevant booty, either. This booty had a point to make. …
This article appears in Jan 16-22, 2008.
Now Chris Praizner, jerrad Bement his booty boy along with Elison and Raj are trying to do the SAME THING in Raleigh North Carolina..new city where no one knows your shame! Christopher Praizner is and always was behind these sort of slums…taking advantage of the ghetto folks he so often trashes, exploiting others and using others good names to run their shady operations. Chemistry Raleigh was the name of the place, then they changed it again and again…it’s open in downtown Raleigh, under the same old management and ownership well protected by their team of lawyers. Public beware! Praizner is at it again! Chemistry originally opened in the winter of 09, and then they closed to remodel it and changed the name to Spy Bar Raleigh, then something else.
This story is BS. I came along to help Chris Praizner and Jerrad Bement with Spy Raleigh after a former business partner named Nick Stelleto stole nearly a quarter of a million dollars from them. He is a criminal and was expelled from the business shortly before I came along. I suspect this is the same man that posted the comment above, and submitted this story. I have personally worked with Chris and Jerrad for the past seven months and I can tell you from experience they are two of the most commendable people I have had the honor of working with. I don’t know exactly what happened with the old Spy in Cleveland, but I do know the “shooting” didn’t actually take place on Spy property, and in fact happened well after Spy was closed that evening. Don’t believe this smear campaign.