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New venues to house local music
By Dave Nobles
dnobles@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
Two upcoming venues in downtown Lawrence are aiming to bring more live music to Massachusetts Street.
The Jackpot Saloon and Music Hall and the Sonic Temple have raised the question about whether Lawrence can be transported back to the music Mecca it was in the early 1990s.
Mark Silver, Leawood senior said he thought people were no as interested in local live music anymore.
The establishment will look like an upscale, turn-of-the-century saloon and will be a medium-sized venue to house smaller national and local acts, Carroll said. The
"There are a lot of venues that have gone in and failed," Silver said. "It's like a Bermuda Triangle down there."
But the two local business groups opening the new venues want to change that.
Nick Carroll is the owner of the Jackpot Saloon, 943 Massachusetts St., and the Replay Lounge, 946 Massachusetts St., across the street. He hopes the Jackpot Saloon will open its doors March 1, he said.
Initially, the projected opening date for the bar was Feb. 1, but Carroll said that changes to the building were taking longer than expected.
Jackpot will feature smaller bands than places like the Granada, 1020 Massachusetts St., and Liberty Hall, 642 Massachusetts St.
"We want bands that are under the radar," Carroll said. "For what we're doing, there's a niche, and for what they're doing there's a niche."
Carroll said the Replay Lounge fit a different niche and would remain the same.
"We don't want to make two Replays," Carroll said. "That's not the point."
The point, Carroll said, was to bring the interest for local music back to the area. Jerry Johnson, one of three partners opening the Sonic Temple, shared the same feeling.
After closing its doors last fall, La Tasca, 943 Massachusetts St., is again changing hands, its replacement, Jackpot Salloon and Music Hall, is set to open March 1.
"What we're going to do is bolster this renewed love for music in downtown Lawrence," Johnson said.
Sonic Temple, which will replace the Masonic Temple, 1001 Massachusetts St., will be similar but smaller than Liberty Hall, offering a more intimate atmosphere, Johnson said.
The establishment will be broken into two parts. One part will be an upstairs, auditorium-style area to host wedding receptions and theater productions in addition to live music, and the other will be a downstairs restaurant and bar.
Johnson said the historic Masonic Temple had not been open to the public for more than 90 years and that he hoped the Sonic Temple would be open by
this summer.
Jason Jouret, Columbia, Mo., senior, said he thought Lawrence had a great history of live music and that publicity would make the difference for the new establishments.
"The audience is definitely here to make it work," jouret said.
— Edited by Stephanie Lovett
Restaurant denied license for alcohol
By Laura Pate
lpate@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
PepperJax Grill will follow through with its plans to open in a couple of weeks. But the new restaurant will no longer follow through with its plans to sell cereal malt beverages.
PepperJax, 947 New Hampshire St., cannot serve alcohol because of a city ordinance banning the sale of alcohol within 400 feet of a church or a school.
William Faine, district manager of PepperJax, petitioned for a waiver at last night's city council meeting. The city commission declined his petition with a 3-2 vote. David Schauner, city commissioner, said he voted against allowing PepperJax to sell cereal malt beverages out of respect for the ordinance. But, he said that he would still come and eat at the restaurant. PepperJax is a family-oriented restaurant that serves Philly Cheese Steaks, rice bowls and salad wraps among other items.
Allowing the restaurant to serve cereal malt beverages would also harm Salvation Army residents, said Rich Forney, pastor of the neighboring Salvation Army Church, 946 New Hampshire St.
On any night it was possible to find at least one person staying at the Salvation Army in an effort to avoid drinking, he said. He called the Salvation Army a
safe haven for people trying to break addictions to alcohol. Forney said that if PepperJax sold the beverages, his residents could be harmed.
"I asked PepperJax if there was a restaurant opened within 100 feet of your church door and you were trying to get people off of beer, would you serve it?" he said.
Fain said that did not believe that his restaurant would pose a threat to the Salvation Army. Alcohol sales were not going to be the restaurant's focus, Fain sad.
Fain's request was also met with disapproval from Bill Mitchell, Lawrence resident. He said he thought downtown Lawrence had turned into
another Aggieville, the bar district located in Manhattan.
"I regret the change especially when I have to navigate around yet another vomit spill on my way to breakfast," Mitchell said.
Though she voted to give a cereal malt beverage license to PepperJax, Sue Hack, city commissioner, said that she thought the absence of a liquor license would not hurt PepperJax's business.
Fain said that his establishment could exist without the sale of alcohol. At his Omaha, Neb., PepperJax restaurant, 1.1 percent of sales in 2003 came from alcohol.
Edited by Henry C. Jackson
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