Talked to a guy tonight, that I'd originally met pre-Covid scouting bands to fund in Bloomington. He's a singer. Old school R&B guy.
He said he played a lot at this place called The Fairfax, down by Lake Monroe, that this local operator had bought and fixed up last year. Unfortunately, after dumping a decent amount of money into the place to fix it up, the guy went political. As a southside music fan, I hated this. Guy was booking cool bands, working to make the place a cool roadhouse on the south side, and then opined...
Fairfax Bar & Grill's owner said the statement was in response to certain customers voicing opinions against the transgender community.
indianapublicmedia.org
Made national news, place got blackballed by "lakies" and those that just don't want political BS, and after what seemed like a decent summer, closed down "for the winter" in December.
I'd hoped it was temporary, but talking to this guy tonight, sounds like another permanent shutdown.....after they'd just fixed the place up.
Just dumb "woke" business decision.
Guy runs a successful southside brewhouse I"ve mentioned before in another thread. Popped in there the other night, and he had removed the BLM mural they had since 2020.
Kinda pissed he ****ed up the Fairfax like that unnecessarily, but maybe the Porthole guys will buy it and make it right.