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Article: New Orleans French Quarter's King Bolden jazz club may get 30-day suspension
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- New Orleans CityBusiness
- Article date:
- March 19, 2007
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King Bolden's is either the savior of jazz on Rampart Street or
its executioner. And the verdict may be delivered as early as today
when the city is scheduled to determine if the club must serve a 30-
day suspension for having live music without a license.
An unfavorable ruling will all but drive the four-year-old club
into bankruptcy and serve as a warning to anyone thinking of opening
a new music venue on Rampart.
Mario Madero and Ben Gersh, owners of King Bolden's, say they are
being targeted for closure by a small group of "vindictive" neighbors
and French Quarter organizations set on turning Rampart Street into a
quiet, suburban thoroughfare.
"Don't tell people all over the world that ...