New music venue, restaurant set for mid-September opening in Old Fourth Ward

[tikigod311]

Huh, I'm kind of confused about the negativity towards this place. I love the idea of having ANOTHER entertainment option for the area. ATLondoner is right, it is in the epicenter of everything. This makes for such a great walkable night of entertainment. This is everything people want in a city. O4W is out of control and I love it!

I will agree that losing the Masquerade sucks, but who didn't see that coming years ago. The upside is that is going to move cool to a new part of town. Maybe West End, maybe Lakewood, who knows. But I think it is a good thing.

[ATLTJL]

Yacht Rock Schooner played a free show in downtown Duluth tonight.

And there were food trucks and alcohol that you could take anywhere in the area (you don't have to stay in a beer garden). My friend got a glass of white wine. It was $3.

And there was plenty of free parking, because nobody has made a case yet to get rid of all the parking.

There also wasn't an out of control bushy beard to be seen. As far as I know, everyone who walked back to their cars after dark made it without being robbed at gunpoint.

I gladly would -- and routinely do -- give up all those conveniences to see good live music. But not Yacht Rock Revue.

Face it, O4W is quickly becoming everything its residents hate about the suburbs. Only with a higher price tag and fewer conveniences.

[tikigod311]

Originally Posted by atltjl

yacht rock schooner played a free show in downtown duluth tonight.

And there were food trucks and alcohol that you could take anywhere in the area (you don't have to stay in a beer garden). My friend got a glass of white wine. It was $3.

And there was plenty of free parking, because nobody has made a case yet to get rid of all the parking.

There also wasn't an out of control bushy beard to be seen. As far as i know, everyone who walked back to their cars after dark made it without being robbed at gunpoint.

I gladly would -- and routinely do -- give up all those conveniences to see good live music. But not yacht rock revue.

Face it, o4w is quickly becoming everything its residents hate about the suburbs. Only with a higher price tag and fewer conveniences.

nooooooooooooooo

[magnetar]

Originally Posted by tikigod311

Huh, I'm kind of confused about the negativity towards this place.

It's like the "satirical" story somebody posted to my neighborhood's Facebook group last week about Ponce City Market making O4W "Buckhead South." There is a strange, vocal set of white hipsters who moved to intown Atlanta before it was hot, who are angry with the other set of white hipsters who moved intown after it became popular. The first set of white hipsters think intown should remain underdeveloped (another person in my neighborhood wanted to coin the phrase "Keep Reynoldstown ****ty", only to learn that Cabbagetown already said that about themselves).

I can't help but detect a hint of racism in the idea that Atlanta was better when it was poor; that its cultural identity is intertwined with the racially-motivated disinvestment that plagued intown neighborhoods for most of the 20th century. The idea that Atlanta should stay poor because it feels more authentic is a hard sentiment to listen to from white kids who moved to the city voluntarily, and could leave again just as easily.