Creative Loafing provides an update on the Charlotte’s attempt to regulate entertainment and noise at restaurants and bars near single-family homes. And there’s good news: the city’s latest proposed regulations are much less arbitrary and self defeating. Gone are attempts to somehow distinguish between bars, nightclubs, and restaurants that serve alcohol — they are all treated the same now, as they should be. And the city would no longer limit what sorts of entertainment activities like trivia and karaoke that alcohol-serving establishments could offer indoors. One obvious problem remains though with the proposed new regulations: alcohol-serving establishments within 400 feet of single-family housing — condos and apartments don’t count, which is another change for the better — would have to turnoff outside TVs at 11:00pm, regardless of whether anyone in those houses could even hear them.