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Washington Street club says this time it's really serious about stopping all the violence associated with it

FeltFelt in the light of day.The Boston Licensing Board held hearings today on two incidents involving women getting beaten up at Felt, although neither its owners nor its lawyer attended the session.

Instead, the club was represented by a manager who'd only been on the job for a week - after he was rehired after he quit earlier this year.

"This is not helpful," board Chairman Michael Connolly said. Also, although the last time the club was before the board, it said it was looking to sell its license - which was one of its arguments for asking for leniency then - the owners have decided to reorganize and keep the club open under the old/new manager.

In contrast to club officials, Boston Police detectives did attend.

Det. Richard Chin told the board that on June 12, a woman reported she was walking down the stairs with her girlfriends when three women behind her made a sarcastic remark about her and then grabbed her from behind and started punching her in the face. As she lay on the stairs, they stole her purse and cellphone and tried to steal her shoes before fleeing, he said. He said the woman showed up at District A-1 around 8:50 that morning with a swollen face and other evidence of a beatdown and that she told him bouncers refused to help and simply told her "to go home."

In a second incident, around 3 a.m. on Aug. 13, a female bartender made the mistake of letting in a guy she'd been dating as she helped clean up the place after closing: Police say they got into a fight over a cell-phone charger and he wound up slamming her head against a table, causing a concussion and bleeding. According to a police report, the manager at the time gave her a couple of shots of liquor for the pain and agreed to take her to the hospital - but only after telling her to say she had fallen down behind the bar and hit her head. The woman required four staples in her scalp to stop the bleeding, police say; the ex-beau was tracked down and arrested on a charge of assault and battery.

The old/new manager said that the owners are now committed to cleaning up the place and that one of his first acts was to get rid of all but one employee. He said he could not comment about either of the incidents raised today since he was not employed by Felt at the time.

The licensing board will decide on Thursday what, if anything, to do.

The club has been before the board a number of times in recent years, ranging from allegations a man raped an unconscious woman to brawling in a parking lot across the street.

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Or do they know where you live?

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and the name of the club is??

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Sorry for leaving it out of the top; was just a dumb oversight, nothing intentional.

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I had to go all the way to the bottom of the post to see that this was about Felt.

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And I just assumed it was about Felt, before I got past the headline.

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They just dropped tens of millions next door, and are going to be filling the upper floors of the Paramount with students day and night. Felt is not the kind of disaster they want as a neighbor. The current idea of rebranding it as "Sin" will probably raise a few eyebrows with the folks over at 180 Tremont as well.

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Don't forget, they dropped tens of millions after Menino threw an enormous hissy fit over student housing, and supported that stupid occupancy law. What'd they get for it? Being declared the least safe campus in the country by Tina Brown's HuffPo wannabe.

The best way to shut down Felt is to have people eat there. The one time I had a meal there, the food was overpriced and lacking in execution. Never again.

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I'm surprised. The few times I've been, I've thought Felt was boring (and its pool tables & cues lousy) but no more of a magnet for trouble than your average bar.

Am I just clueless? Is Felt shadier than average?

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I know the people involved; the owners and the old/new manager.

He quit because some of the then management were morons (inside joke that only some people will get) but seriously he quit because they would not let him do his job; To create and maintain a safe, fun place for customers to visit and people to work.

Now that the moron (sorry had to do it again...) has been bought out and the old/new management has been brought back.

It again will be a fun, safe club that is considerate of its neighbors and its place in the community.

I have no doubt of this....

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haha.. goddamned morons!

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The licensing board voted today to have the club shut for two days for each incident.

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