Councilors Lift Limit on Bar's Music
The East Providence City Council removes a stipulation on the entertainment license for Rockin' Times that it can't play music after 11:30 pm; it was playing later anyway without being cited.
The Rockin’ Times bar on Waterman Avenue can now play music until 12:30 am – a situation that has been going in for many years there anyway. The East Providence City Council removed on Tuesday night a stipulation on the bar’s entertainment license to cut off music at 11:30 pm – the only tavern in that part of the city with that restriction, according to the bar’s attorney, Robert Brady. The bar’s owner, Phil Rigi, apparently was unaware of the 11:30 pm restriction and was playing music until the later time since he purchased the bar about 15 years ago. He learned of the restriction, said Brady, a month or so ago when the bar was asked to appear at a “show-cause” hearing on its liquor license that was put off. “He wants to continue as he …
