If by “iconic” you mean ghetto as hell on weekends, you have hit the nail squarely on the head.

You know why I go to the Majestic? Because I love getting wanded, frisked, and interrogated on the legitimacy of my legitimate driver’s license.

And by “go” I mean “don’t go.”

“it's like somewhere in New York or Vegas," General Manager Joseph Abrams said.”

YEAH RIGHT! You’re not even in the small ball park buddy. I think he meant “it’s somewhere like Compton or Watts.” This place has to be the most ghetto establishment in a 4 state radius. If you don’t think so now, just wait until summer.

What makes it so ghetto? I have only been there once but it seemed pretty much like any of the small hip hop clubs I’ve been to in Minneapolis and Chicago?

^^^ You must have gone there on a good night then. Every time we have been there you feel like you need to leave anything with value in your car. I am not saying this is a bad thing, the ghetto crowd is what the owners are targeting. If that’s what they want, that’s what they’ll get. I just hope they have excellent duck and cover skillz when the inevitable gun fire starts to erupt.

Oh, I see. By ghetto you mean containing people that scare you. I would imagine you are referring to non-whites. See, that doesn’t bother me so much. I assumed that you weren’t an ignorant punk and were talking about the furnishings, lighting, music choice, etc. Good luck adapting to your new surroundings. If you can’t handle it you can always run back to the burbs or Iowa or whatever.

Man Madison is white-bread

Whoever began their post with “Oh, I see.” To put it bluntly, you are wrong. I don’t see the security staff only screening black people in the Majestic’s line, and there are plenty of white people in its line, so please keep your race card in your back pocket.

I’m not going to frequent places where the preferred dress is baggy pants and Phat Farm coats. Simple as that. I have no problem if you bitch about how preppy Paul’s Club is, so long as you don’t assume only white people drink there or think that by preppy you mean “white.”

To try to boil the term “ghetto” down to anyone who isn’t white is lunacy. If a black man is wearing Banana Republic khakis and a J. Crew sweater, he is dressing preppy. It has nothing to do with race.

Black people don’t make me uncomfortable, and neither do people whose fashion sense is different from mine. That being said, I’d rather drink with a different crowd. I’m sure those more into the hip-hop scene feel the same way, that’s why they congregate at the Majestic while I drink at the Great Dane.

Ghetto does not mean black. It is a broad term used to describe all colors. The term ghetto means having to go through or get wanded by metal detectors at a bar no matter what color your skin is. Only ghetto people feel the need to carry a weapon into a place where you drink and have a good time. If you go to say Wando’s your chances of getting shot are almost nill, your chances of getting shot at or around the Majestic are much greater thus the metal detectors. That is solely because of the type of people that go there, black, white, yellow, pink, orange, etc. Don’t be so ignorant, think before you speak.

You are assuming that these people will steal your stuff and shoot at you based on the way that they dress? That smacks of prejudice and makes an easy proxy for blatant racism. Lets not forget that rich frat boys and drunk cowboys and angry punk rockers and paranoid yuppies and ghetto hip hop fans are all equally likely to pull some violent shit when drinking. Its not like the lame meat market Sconny bars on University and Lake are free of security, violence and people who dress funny.

If you think metal detectors make a place ghetto then you need to get out of Madison a little bit more.

“Its not like the lame meat market Sconny bars on University and Lake are free of security, violence and people who dress funny.” Answer this. When is the last time there has been a shooting at a downtown Madison bar when it was NOT hip-hop night?

“If you think metal detectors make a place ghetto then you need to get out of Madison a little bit more.”

I’m from New York. And yes, the first sign that a place is turning ghetto is the installation of metal detectors. If this was a common thing then why doesn’t the Vintage have ‘em or Brats or Wando’s the list goes on and on. You have no point.

“Lets not forget that rich frat boys and drunk cowboys and angry punk rockers and paranoid yuppies and ghetto hip hop fans are all equally likely to pull some violent shit when drinking.”

That is a completely false statement. You know it, I know it, everyone that reads this knows it. The difference is some of us will admit it. READ THE PAPERS, THE MOST VIOLENT ACTS HAPPEN AROUND HIP-HOP NIGHTS. WHAT MORE PROOF DO YOU NEED? The next time there is a shooting at Paul’s club come back and post, then maybe you will have some validity.