Lincoln Theatre has announced that they will be becoming a private club and begin serving liquor. An odd move for such a large venue. Ever been to Local 506 and have to wait in the "no membership" line, with tickets in hand? Lincoln could be worse.
You can sign up as a member by joining their mailing list.
More information over at Triangle Music on the venue banning smoking and more.
LOL - I’m not too terribly much of a source, just putting online what they emailed to their existing list.
In my experience, I don’t really see it as too much of an odd move, really. If nothing else, it could definitely be beneficial for sales… especially when you consider non-beer drinkers like myself have always had to settle for… well, having nothing to spend money on after the ticket 
if ALE ever starts cracking down on these membership clubs half of the bars in raleigh will go out of business. note that i think the liquor laws in this state are ridiculous, i’m just saying that i have yet to see one of these clubs follow the letter of the law (which again is a dumb letter).
It’s not worth the trouble for pathetic selection of music that comes through there. Wish that Raleigh had a bigger, better venue that drew bigger, better music!
I hope this helps The Lincoln with their bottom line. Hopefully this will help them get some technical upgrades and be able to draw some better acts to Raleigh.
As far as the A.L.E. cracking down on anything, maybe they should take a look inward and keep track of there assault weapons.
Lovely ALE laws. Food to liquor sales have to be a certain ratio or above to not have to be a membership club. And most music venues in this state don’t sell food. So they have to have proof of some form of membership. The Brewery makes you sign a list for members versus non-members. That drags things down exponentially. That place is also a death trap but that’s another story.
Isn’t the other rule about memberships that you can’t hand them out until 3 days after they are applied for? I’m guessing this is another rule that will be flouted unless Lincoln wants to go out of business. Seems like the ‘members only’ rules are only enforced today at ‘undesirable’ locations (gay, black, etc). Also seems unfair to the out-of-towners that the city so desperately seems to be inviting. Is it not time to ask the legislature to get their heads out of their collective asses and send this law into history?
Excellent insight smitty.
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