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Lee Perlman
The Mid-County MEMO
Ismet Dzananovic, originally from Bosnia, has bought Wired, becoming the sports bar’s fourth owner in four years. “I don’t want to change things suddenly and alienate the customers,” he told the Hazelwood Neighborhood Association last month. However, he says he intends to eliminate the dance floor, introduce some “European” items such as cabbage rolls and stuffed peppers to the menu, and change the name to Asterisks.
The bar at 11340 N.E. Halsey St. has not been a haven of stability in recent years. As Scott Detweiler’s Eight Balls of Fire, it was a popular dancing place - and a frequent source of complaints to the police and Oregon Liquor Control Commission of fighting, drunkenness and rowdy behavior. The next owner, Phuong Truong, changed the name to New Star, and nearly lost her license after a fight in which a patron was hit with a pool cue and no one called the police.
Things seemed to calm down under newest owner Jeff Jones, who renamed it, Wired. According to Hazelwood president Arlene Kimura, since Jones took over the police have been called only seven times, and on three of those occasions the problem was an alarm sounding for no reason.
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