Apparently so.
Printers' Ball Gets Busted... ...Over a Permit Violation? ...Or Was it a Liquor License Violation? Okay. So, poorly planned logistics doomed this poets' party. But did the city really feel they needed a SWAT team to usher everyone out?
Ah, finally a
hipster-eye view of the debacle. Jesus, I don't know which was a bigger waste of time: a huge arts event that tried to do it "underground" style, or 30-some cops protecting the ... world ... from underage drinkers.