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diff --git a/content/posts/2025/how-we-went-from-underground-to-legal-and-why/index.md b/content/posts/2025/how-we-went-from-underground-to-legal-and-why/index.md index ee2947c..eb20520 100644 --- a/content/posts/2025/how-we-went-from-underground-to-legal-and-why/index.md +++ b/content/posts/2025/how-we-went-from-underground-to-legal-and-why/index.md @@ -1,18 +1,17 @@ --- title: "How we went from underground to legal (and why)" -slug: how-we-went-from-underground-to-legal-and-why pubDate: 2025-08-15T16:00:00.000Z updatedDate: 2026-04-05T14:29:29.000Z draft: false excerpt: "Someone asked me in August: “So just no more DIY raves then?” Yeah. One word. No qualifiers. No “maybe when things cool down” or “we’ll see how the case plays … Read more" categories: - - { name: Updates, slug: updates } + - Updates tags: - - { name: format-opinion, slug: format-opinion } - - { name: legal, slug: legal } - - { name: nyc, slug: nyc } - - { name: tone-philosophical, slug: tone-philosophical } - - { name: venues, slug: venues } + - format-opinion + - legal + - nyc + - tone-philosophical + - venues featured: src: https://cdn.slist.net/posts/how-we-went-from-underground-to-legal-and-why/cover.png alt: "Split image showing contrast between underground warehouse and professional legal venue"content: rewrite image URLs from slist.net/wp-content to cdn.slist.net/posts/<slug>/
diff --git a/content/posts/2025/how-we-went-from-underground-to-legal-and-why/index.md b/content/posts/2025/how-we-went-from-underground-to-legal-and-why/index.md index ccb1d48..ee2947c 100644 --- a/content/posts/2025/how-we-went-from-underground-to-legal-and-why/index.md +++ b/content/posts/2025/how-we-went-from-underground-to-legal-and-why/index.md @@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ tags: - { name: tone-philosophical, slug: tone-philosophical } - { name: venues, slug: venues } featured: - src: https://slist.net/wp-content/uploads/ai_69d203ce0db2a9.25860604.png + src: https://cdn.slist.net/posts/how-we-went-from-underground-to-legal-and-why/cover.png alt: "Split image showing contrast between underground warehouse and professional legal venue" legacy_wp_id: 15853 ---fix(web): point upload URLs at slist.net (cdn.slist.net not wired up yet)
diff --git a/content/posts/2025/how-we-went-from-underground-to-legal-and-why/index.md b/content/posts/2025/how-we-went-from-underground-to-legal-and-why/index.md index 5de6046..ccb1d48 100644 --- a/content/posts/2025/how-we-went-from-underground-to-legal-and-why/index.md +++ b/content/posts/2025/how-we-went-from-underground-to-legal-and-why/index.md @@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ tags: - { name: tone-philosophical, slug: tone-philosophical } - { name: venues, slug: venues } featured: - src: https://cdn.slist.net/ai_69d203ce0db2a9.25860604.png + src: https://slist.net/wp-content/uploads/ai_69d203ce0db2a9.25860604.png alt: "Split image showing contrast between underground warehouse and professional legal venue" legacy_wp_id: 15853 ---feat(web): visually mirror slist.net blog (index + single post)
diff --git a/content/posts/2025/how-we-went-from-underground-to-legal-and-why/index.md b/content/posts/2025/how-we-went-from-underground-to-legal-and-why/index.md index 8978827..5de6046 100644 --- a/content/posts/2025/how-we-went-from-underground-to-legal-and-why/index.md +++ b/content/posts/2025/how-we-went-from-underground-to-legal-and-why/index.md @@ -4,6 +4,18 @@ slug: how-we-went-from-underground-to-legal-and-why pubDate: 2025-08-15T16:00:00.000Z updatedDate: 2026-04-05T14:29:29.000Z draft: false +excerpt: "Someone asked me in August: “So just no more DIY raves then?” Yeah. One word. No qualifiers. No “maybe when things cool down” or “we’ll see how the case plays … Read more" +categories: + - { name: Updates, slug: updates } +tags: + - { name: format-opinion, slug: format-opinion } + - { name: legal, slug: legal } + - { name: nyc, slug: nyc } + - { name: tone-philosophical, slug: tone-philosophical } + - { name: venues, slug: venues } +featured: + src: https://cdn.slist.net/ai_69d203ce0db2a9.25860604.png + alt: "Split image showing contrast between underground warehouse and professional legal venue" legacy_wp_id: 15853 --- Someone asked me in August: “So just no more DIY raves then?”feat(web): full posts+pages sync, browseable UI, curated pages allowlist
diff --git a/content/posts/2025/how-we-went-from-underground-to-legal-and-why/index.md b/content/posts/2025/how-we-went-from-underground-to-legal-and-why/index.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..8978827 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/posts/2025/how-we-went-from-underground-to-legal-and-why/index.md @@ -0,0 +1,37 @@ +--- +title: "How we went from underground to legal (and why)" +slug: how-we-went-from-underground-to-legal-and-why +pubDate: 2025-08-15T16:00:00.000Z +updatedDate: 2026-04-05T14:29:29.000Z +draft: false +legacy_wp_id: 15853 +--- +Someone asked me in August: “So just no more DIY raves then?” + +Yeah. + +One word. No qualifiers. No “maybe when things cool down” or “we’ll see how the case plays out.” The DIY era is over. It ended on July 12, 2025, two hours into our 37th event, when a coordinated enforcement operation shut us down, put me in handcuffs, and left us with felony charges and $25,000 in building violations for a property we don’t own. + +* * * + +We’d been operating as underground event promoters for a year and a half. And for most of that time, it worked. SoHo loft parties. Warehouse sessions in Bushwick. 12-hour marathons at spaces that existed in the gray area between legal and not-quite. The community grew because those spaces felt real. No corporate overlay. No venue manager telling you the vibe was wrong. Just a room, a sound system, and a door. + +But we got too big to be that ignorant. That’s the sentence I keep coming back to. Not too big to be underground — too big to pretend the risks weren’t compounding. When you’re pulling 500-700 people to a 12-hour event, you’re not running a house party anymore. You’re running a business inside a building you don’t control, with fire code responsibilities you can’t verify, occupancy limits you can’t enforce, and a legal exposure that grows with every ticket sold. + +The arrest made it clear: the risk model was broken. I never anticipated trouble beyond a sound violation. Getting charged with a felony because a vendor brought in substances I didn’t authorize — that wasn’t in the spreadsheet. Neither was $25,000 in FDNY fines for building code violations on a building I don’t lease. The gap between what I thought could go wrong and what actually went wrong was the entire operating model. + +* * * +Diff truncated (44 lines total). View full commit on GitHub →
