Parties to end early for conventioneers (Boston)

[Khephra]

The party designer is all lined up, the $1,000-a-head guest list is rounded out with Ben Affleck, Billy Baldwin, and Sean Astin, and the superchic Louis Boston is finalized as the setting. But there's one thing this convention bash won't be doing, and that's rocking into the night. Not in Boston.

The city denied its application to let the Red Hot Chili Peppers play until midnight. They have to quit at 11. And they're not the only ones being told they can't go late. Parties around the city are being turned down for requests to go into the early morning during the week of the Democratic National Convention.

Nightclubs like Felt and The Rack asked to stay open later than the city's 2 a.m. bar and restaurant curfew and were denied, as were Stephanie's on Newbury Street and Jacques in Bay Village. Several North End cafes, hoping to serve cappuccino to sleepy delegates after hours were also told no.

In a city that sprang from Puritan roots, even John F. Kerry apparently doesn't have the juice to keep a celebration going. A request to let a party in his honor at Avalon continue until 3 a.m. was denied.

http://www.boston.com/news/politics/conventions/articles/2004/07/12/parties_to_end_early_for_conventioneers/

[fairfaxvadem]

1. Killjoys....

Shoulda gone to the Big Apple, baby.