April 24, 2004

San Francisco clubbing. Did you know that it is illegal to allow dancing without a permit in San Francisco? (scroll down to Dance Hall Keeper) I didn't. Starting with an existing club, you'd think it'd be easy, right?

This is a very extensive, and quite often quite interesting look at the sheer, endless hassle of it all. Includes the opening night, the Mozilla 1.0 party and assorted sundry abrasions.

posted by polychrome 20 years ago
  • Dancing is forbidden in NYC as well.
  • America, land of the free. NO DANCING
  • In England and Wales you need a public entertainment licence if you want to hold dancing, singing and just about any other public event.
  • See, I can just about wrap my head around requiring a licence if you are going to be offering music or other live entertainment. Noise can be, uh, noisy, after all. It's the whole requirement for a licence to let people move around in time to the music, once you have a licence to play music, that baffles me.
  • Guess this means a full-scale riot if protesters start dancing at the Republican National Convention.
  • Doesn't everyone know that dancing is the tool of the Devil? Don't we all know that dancing leads to licentiousness and depravity? Well, that's why I do it...
  • Well, it is common knowledge that dancing corrupts our youth and inevitably leads to a beheading
  • I'm against sex, on the grounds that it could lead to dancing /ancient Methodist wisdom
  • Dancing is just vertical sex. If done right.
  • Congress shall make no law ...abridging...the right of the people to peaceably assemble... Which sounds idyllic and quite simple, until you consider that a state, a county or parish, or a city or town -- or for that matter, a marching and chowder society or even a shopping mall -- is not equally prohibited from making such abridgements.
  • Beeswacky - 14th amendment. No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws That clause has historically been interpreted to extend the provisions of the bill of rights unto the states and unto localities.
  • Quick! Someone call Kevin Bacon!