Festival district debuts in downtown Jefferson City

Dan Ranabagar aligns the girders on the main stage Wednesday evening for the first Thursday Night Live show downtown tonight at Madison and High streets. Photo by Stephen Brooks.

By Ben Yarnell

Thursday, June 2, 2011

Participants in Jefferson City’s Thursday Night Live event will have something new to which they can raise a glass tonight — the fact they have a glass.

Tonight’s installment of the event, which is in its third year, will be the first to incorporate Jefferson City’s new festival district, which the City Council passed in April.

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The ordinance creating the new district does have a few stipulations. Along with ....

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herewego 1 year, 11 months ago

Just what we need--- Bunch of drunk "Young Professionals" in down town JC impressing our young children. Showing them how to act as drunks in a public place, and get this ALL sanctioned by our own city council, go figure... But if this draws more YP folks, hey isn't that what JC spent a ton of money finding out? How much of a cut does the city get off the sale of adult beverages? Oh well, this is progress, no strike that... it's digress..

Rison 1 year, 11 months ago

What is it digressing from?

gofish 1 year, 11 months ago

Maybe a "night festival" isn't mean for "young children" as you say. Maybe they should be home in bed. Or maybe parents will use it as a teachable moment of what not to do.

cjanssen 1 year, 11 months ago

Yes, because every person that will enjoy the music festival will be a drunk young professional who is set out to set a bad example for the youth of this city.

I will be in attendance, I will enjoy the music, I will enjoy a nice night with the company of friends, and I may sip on a (yes one, single, uno.) beer. Sounds like I am setting a bad example for the children out in downtown on a Thursday night who have no guidance from their parents.... lol.

Get over yourself and try to enjoy life you stuffy old bat.

tonto 1 year, 11 months ago

Oh, no! Someone might have some fun...we better nip this ...nip it in the bud.

spelchek 1 year, 11 months ago

Now that you've got that off your chest; what is your alternative? You know why baptists don't fornicate standing up? They're afraid people might think they're dancing.

wcywing 1 year, 11 months ago

YP's? do we even have any. problem is when HS graduate, they leave JC and don't come back. why, well it is boring here. i have seen some drunk old people too, not saying its right or wrong. its almost illegal to have any kind of fun here.

i think the festivel is a good, especially if it brings in more people to spend money, help the economy, etc.

Sipowitz 1 year, 11 months ago

Its a German Catholic community. The CHURCH doesn't have an event where booze isn't a focal part of its success so why would we expect the city to set the bar any higher? Its not right, but its accurate. Pretty sad, that's the standard adults set, then expect their kids to "stand up to peer pressure". Yea, right. If parents can't do it with their peers, its pretty unrealistic to think their kids will with theirs.

JCLifer 1 year, 11 months ago

If they have live music, are the cops gonna look the other way if people want to smoke a little weed in the festival distric?

JMO 1 year, 11 months ago

Music and pot go hand in hand? Funny, I seem to be able to do one without the other.

JCLifer 1 year, 11 months ago

You sound about as much fun as the other old fogeys around here!

JMO 1 year, 11 months ago

Ah honey, you should have seen me 20 years ago! LOL If it wasn't illegal I might have a different attitude...but I kinda like staying out of jail. So I manage to have fun without drugs. It's hard to believe, I know, but it's doable.

cjanssen 1 year, 11 months ago

So alcohol being offered at an event is now peer pressure? Riiiiight.

A large group of my friends are meeting up tonight and over half were planning on not drinking, but I will inform them on the dangers of this peer pressure stuff so they can avoid the event and not get wasted.

JMO 1 year, 11 months ago

I'm afraid I don't see the difference between being able to walk around a festival area with beer in hand or sit in a beer garden or out in front of a business with a beer on the table. One's going to make you drunker than the other? If you leave the area selling and wander around you're probably going to drink less...at least that's been my experience.

asb 1 year, 11 months ago

It isn't wrong to imbibe in a festival environment. It's healthy. It's social. It's what we are. Our children, they be us, already have had more than enough examples of how to, and not to, handle intoxxication than to be led astray by a good, if wretchedly humid, evening. Abstainence is fine if its part of your religion or spirit, but it's not better. It's not more right. People who can't handle intoxication shouldn't do it. The rest of us can and do. The event would wither but for the music, and a buzz makes it better whether you like it or not. And I'm not sure I'd bark at the CHURCH. Its a reflection of the culture it came from, not the other way around. Gemutlichkeit R Us.

melbrooks 1 year, 11 months ago

I attended, and as far as I could see everything went well. Lots of young kids, cool motorcycles, muscle cars and live music. Obviously, the fears expressed by those here were misplaced.

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