City license officials moved to shut down underground venues on obscenity grounds.

Evidence

One week into the EPI’s run, a scandal erupted across the street. Having served a summons on the Tek for showing films of “sexual immorality, lewdness, perversion and homosexuality” (unnamed but almost certainly Scorpio Rising and Warhol’s first attempted commercial feature and first real hit, My Hustler), the city license commissioner issued the Bridge with a show cause order citing the use of “obscene language” and the presence of minors in a midnight performance of José Rodríguez-Soltero’s “film-stage” piece LBJ. — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now, 855

Categorization

• XREF: Adds ammo for the reader’s thesis about illegality as a condition of avant-garde density — the police/licensing pressure here is exactly the illegality that framed the scene.