COPS: Crackdown on Clubs (Comfort Zone)

latina4evrgp · Guru

RE: COPS: Crackdown on Clubs (Comfort Zone)

miguel · TOP Guru

LGigolo wrote:

Ahhh so back then, you were the student crackhead!

i was young... no comment biggrin

miguel · TOP Guru

latina4evrgp wrote:

I don't know how people pull all night clubs......plus after a while they are all the same. Forget that, I need my sleep!

Just curious do "underground clubs" still exist?

they do.

actually, believe it or not, in the 90s toronto was considered one of the hotbeds of underground music culture in the world (like berlin.. new york.. etc.. especially after giuliani cracked down in new york after the michael alig murder). people would travel here from all over the place to go to raves, warehouse parties, and industry nightclub. until 2001 when the city cracked down.

these days there are still a lot of underground nights in loft spaces, etc.. after hour boozecans.. it's an older crowd

i'm a little beyond partying all night these days.. but you can still find stuff if you know where to look.

latina4evrgp · Guru

I don't know how people pull all night clubs......plus after a while they are all the same. Forget that, I need my sleep! smile

Just curious do "underground clubs" still exist?

LGigolo · Comandante

miguel wrote:

LGigolo wrote:

miguel wrote:

gawd.. i havent been to the cozo on sunday mornings since the 90s.. what a scary place

From what I read - there are ALL KINDS of people there - from Suits, to ganstas, thugs, druggies and average goes.

id agree with that.. at any given point you wouldn't know whether the crackhead next to you was a doctor or a lawyer or a homeless person
geez... i can't believe they've kept that place going so long. I remember going there in 1995!

Ahhh so back then, you were the student crackhead! biggrin

miguel · TOP Guru

LGigolo wrote:

miguel wrote:

gawd.. i havent been to the cozo on sunday mornings since the 90s.. what a scary place

From what I read - there are ALL KINDS of people there - from Suits, to ganstas, thugs, druggies and average goes.

id agree with that.. at any given point you wouldn't know whether the crackhead next to you was a doctor or a lawyer or a homeless person

geez... i can't believe they've kept that place going so long. I remember going there in 1995!

DannyC · Guru

makes magnatzz look like a babalus

LGigolo · Comandante

miguel wrote:

gawd.. i havent been to the cozo on sunday mornings since the 90s.. what a scary place

From what I read - there are ALL KINDS of people there - from Suits, to ganstas, thugs, druggies and average goes. hmm

miguel · TOP Guru

gawd.. i havent been to the cozo on sunday mornings since the 90s.. what a scary place

DannyC · Guru

as long as there aint a problem at any of the latin clubs i go to...then its all good aww

LGigolo · Comandante

Clubs in a combat zone

Police try to get violence, drugs out of the night scene

By JENNY YUEN, SUN MEDIA

Last Updated: 26th October 2008, 5:02am

Toronto police stormed another downtown nightclub this past week.

Emergency Task Force officers armed with assault rifles kicked down doors, charged into Club 338 and ordered hundreds of patrons down to the ground.

It's becoming a common occurrence in the city's troubled Entertainment District.

In the "Project Hidden Dragon" raid on Club 338 on Adelaide St. W., police arrested 26 people connected to Asian gangs, busted the club for serving liquor to minors and seized a cache of guns and drugs around 4 a.m. Monday.

Shattered glass was found everywhere, vials of Ketamine (horse tranquillizers) were scattered all over the floor, and patrons who were not being sought by police were ushered outside without coats. Down the street, a handgun, a machinegun, wads of cash and more drugs were found.

Club 338's manager, who would only identify himself as Jimmy T, said he wasn't surprised about the raid.

"(Police) like to do these raids and make it look like it's drug-related or weapons-related or they're always looking for gang members," he said.

"You never hear about anybody dying here, O.D.ing here or being shot. I already knew we were going to get raided. We're next in line. They raided Republik and did Comfort Zone three times."

City officials and police are cracking down on the guns, drugs and rowdy drunken behaviour plaguing Toronto's club scene.

50,000 PARTIERS

Some 50 clubs occupy the Entertainment District, the area from Spadina Ave. east to Simcoe St. and Queen St. W. south to Lakeshore Blvd. W., and another 17 clubs dot the nearby neighbourhood.

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LGigolo · Comandante

Cops crack down on clubs

'Walk through' finds drugs, bad behaviour

By BRETT CLARKSON, SUN MEDIA

Last Updated: 27th October 2008, 4:12am

By the time 15 cops strolled into the Comfort Zone at 9 a.m. yesterday, the sun had long risen above a mostly quiet Spadina Ave.

Service pistols holstered to their jeans, flashlights in hand, the officers descended the brief flight of stairs past the seemingly unfazed security guards working the door.

It had been daylight for hours but inside the all-night, all-day house music club at Spadina Ave. and College St., at least 150 people were still up from the night before, dancing, hanging out, and some of them apparently getting rid of their drugs.

In one corner, a woman in a short skirt was enthusiastically straddling a man seated in a chair as if they were at a strip club.

Three shirtless guys, their arms around each other, were dancing wildly. The full dance floor was a like a gyrating beast unto itself, with all kinds of people -- Goths, gay men, gangster types, ravers, the business crowd, you name it -- all moving to the blasting house music.
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Everyone knows there are plenty of clandestine after-hours places to party at. Call me naive, but I didn't know there was 24/7 clubbing THAT out in the open.

After liquor hours (2:00 am to 11:00am), what's in it for the venue?

So, they say they are looking to shut down this particular club... anyone been to Comfort Zone? Experiences?