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Add Radio Perfecto to the growing list of Morningside establishments to bite the dust. Signs (right) have been hanging outside the bar announcing the bar's "vacation" since early July.

But what brought about the covert demise of Radio Perfecto? If the enraged graffiti poetry on the sign is any indication, it was a conspiracy involving President Bush and grocery stores, obviously. Our informant/photographer has dutifully transcribed this startling revelation:

"You insulted / Pres Bush / Now you are bankrupt" "Oh. So _that's_ what / happened to the / rest of the country!" and "This place had an insulting caricature / of the president behind the bar for years. / What business idiots. I guess we will get / another grocery now."

Except despite this conspiracy theorist's horrible poetry, which foretold of "another grocery", it looks like Radio Perfecto's old space will now be home to a Southern home cooking restaurant, a self-described "taste of home in the heart of the city."

It's called Haakon's Hall and we have details (plus their advertisements) after the jump.

On December 19, two days before potentially returning Resident Advisors had to submit their applications for the 2008-2009 school year, rising junior and senior RAs received an email from Dean Kromm, Director of Residential Programs, detailing changes to their duties. Specifically, when on-duty, they must be closer to campus at all times and cannot be in the subway.

The rationale provided by administrators, according to several current RAs, is that after the Radio Perfecto shooting, RAs should be available immediately to talk to their residents and can never be more than a ten minute walk from their residential area or building and cannot be on the subway at all. Kris Alspach, CC '09 and Wien RA, wondered what they, as RAs, could do in a situation like that of the Radio Perfecto shooting. "They're turning us into police officers. They're making our responsibility for our jobs greater than our responsibility as students," he said.

Word has it a man was shot and killed at Radio Perfecto earlier this evening. Some serious shit definitely transpired: as Bwog passed the bar at 118th and Amsterdam at around 3:45 AM it spotted about a half-dozen police cars, an ambulance, and a camera crew; the block had been cordoned off with police tape and the victim's body had been taken outside. As the restaurant is across the street from Schermerhorn and only two blocks from Plimpton, Bwog is pretty rattled--sources at the crime scene said that this was a shooting death, but we'll have more details as they emerge.

Eyewitness account after the jump.