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Boozeless Strip Clubs, Marijuana Ruins DNA and No More Flavor Ciggies
It seems Detroit is intent on turning Motor City strip clubs into burlesque halls for the straight-edges. In the spirit of the blue law, the Detroit City Council is cracking down on strip clubs by proposing to ban alcohol from the clubs. They also want to stop lap dancing and make dancers wear pasties. What’s the point?
Attorney Richard Mack who is a member of Perfecting Church and other pastors are working with Scott Bergthold, an attorney from Tennessee who has been shutting down strip clubs nationwide. In addition to the pasties rule and liquor ban, the clubs will be required to keep dancers 6 feet from the patrons and the dancers must be on stage at all times. The stage itself must be 18 inches from the ground.
Strip club owners are worried that their places will go out of business without liquor. Mack is hoping that happens. Boobs remain boobs and lonely men will remain lonely. Strip clubs in Detroit, however, may not remain any longer.
See the full article from “Digital City”
We’ll come momentarily to Obama’s discovery that it’s not all fun being president, but first a bulletin on regime-change for co-editor Cockburn. Though the U.S. Constitution seemingly blocks my path at this time, I have taken the first necessary step in my own quest for the White House by becoming a citizen of the United States at approximately 10 am, Pacific time, last Wednesday, June 17, in the Paramount Theater in Oakland, California.
To my immediate left in the vast and splendid deco theater was a Moroccan, to my right a Salvadoran and around us 956 other candidates for citizenship from 98 countries, each holding a small specimen of the flag that was about to become our standard. All of us had sworn early that day that since our final, successful interview with immigration officials we had not become prostitutes or members of the Communist Party. Inductees to U.S. nation-hood were downstairs; relatives and friends were up in the balcony, including CounterPuncher and friend Scott Handleman, attorney at law. I was determined to start out on the right path. What is more American than to have a lawyer nearby?
See the full article from “CounterPunch”
Domingos celebrated staging, which premiered in Los Angeles in 2006, updates the classic with art deco costumes and sets. The timeless story of a conflicted courtesan, her devoted lover and his disapproving father translates flawlessly to the exuberant Roaring Twenties. 2009 marks the 150th anniversary of the first performance of Verdis La Traviata in the city of San Francisco.
See the full article from “PlaybillArts”
We’ll come momentarily to Obama’s discovery that it’s not all fun being president, but first a word about your correspondent. Though the US Constitution seemingly blocks my path at this time, I took the first necessary step in my own quest for the White House by becoming a citizen of the United States at approximately 10am, Pacific time, on Wednesday, June 17, in the Paramount Theater in Oakland, California.
To my immediate left in the vast art deco theater was a Moroccan, to my right a Salvadoran and around us another 956 candidates for citizenship from 98 countries, all of us holding a small specimen of the flag that was about to become our standard. All of us had sworn that since our final, successful interview with immigration officials, we had not become prostitutes or members of the Communist Party.
See the full article from “First Post”
For example, one might say, “I saw a person who received services from the court who was able to really turn their life around, and I could tell that she was happy and wanted to be there.” This may be true or it may not be — it is simply the subjective opinion of the person reporting the event. What is more telling is whether the specific legal and social outcomes that were set for the individual were met, and whether the resulting change in behavior affected the community.
According to the original needs assessment, completed in 2008, which set for the plan for the CJC, the purpose of the court was to address problems such as “drug dealing, aggressive panhandling, graffiti, prostitution and public urination.” The court’s representatives promised that it would be a change-agent in the Tenderloin, which has long been perceived a containment zone for crime. A community poll revealed that the top complaint involved “drug dealing, and drug and alcohol abuse.” The court was to provide “leadership and a coherent approach to coordination of service delivery … within the justice system.”
Dave Cummings: the oldest American in porn
By Juliette Tang
69-year-old Dave Cummings, the oldest active porn star in America, has filmed over 500 movies and performed over 1,200 sex scenes in his 15-year career in the adult entertainment industry. He swears he doesn’t use Viagra, and when he’s not filming hardcore sex scenes in movies like Screw My Wife Please 32: And Make Her Sweat Like A Pig, Dave works as an educator and speaker, offering online classes on getting into the porn industry. Dave will be giving a seminar at the Cybernet Expo (1500 Van Ness) on June 27 called “Producing and Directing Adult Videos with Dave Cummings,” and spoke with the SFBG about sex, life, and his career in ‘old man porn’.
San Francisco Bay Guardian: First of all, congratulations on being 69! You are at arguably the most apropos numerical age for doing pornography and not many porn stars stay in the game long enough to get there.
According to AdultVest, a planned afternoon appearance by the iPorn bikini girls on their horse-drawn carriage was abruptly cancelled when the San Francisco Police Department tried to revoke the carriage company’s license, even though a permit was supposedly granted. Later on that night, officials from the Gold Club removed all iPorn banners, balloons and bikinis from the club citing pressure that was placed on them by an unknown group. Sure!
Despite what anyone may think about the iPorn app or pornography in general, the Adult Entertainment industry is a multi-billion dollar business and it is regulated. That’s right, they pay taxes, employ people and issue benefits. The industry also has a communicable disease control centre called the Adult Industry Medical or AIM clinic. So this iPorn app on iPhone is just another way for this industry or any other industry to exploit their business for profit.
Naturally, we are so inundated with porn in our pop up ads, our spam folders, and our Google searches (an unfiltered image search for something as innocent as “cucumber” will get you porn on the first page), it becomes the accepted standard that porn will be an immutable fact that as long as the Internet exists and that we will be entitled to free, or at least accessible, cyberporn until the end days. Unless we’re in the business of making internet porn ourselves, we don’t often think of the business or entrepreneurial aspects involved behind the scenes, or the planning and development it takes to get even the most basic of adult websites off the ground. But adult entertainment, as with any other profession, is a part of an industry (albeit one that is on the fringe of the mainstream) that relies on a complicated network of people who work together and interact as a part of a larger market. And, like all professions, adult entertainment is privy to a phenomenon known as the “Expo”.
The arrival of the adult-oriented business sparked a groundswell of concern by area residents, who pushed county leaders to adopt an ordinance restricting the location of exotic entertainment.
I told (the commission) they couldnt do it, Bentley recalled. They said they wanted to do it anyway.
The countys exotic entertainment ordinance was on the books until last year when it was successfully challenged in circuit court by a bring your own beverage strip club that opened in the Bunker Hill area.
Existing state law prohibits counties that have planning commissions, like Berkeley, from restricting the location of strip clubs.
The countys 2004 ordinance, meanwhile, prohibited strip clubs, bookstores, movie theaters and arcades and other businesses classified as exotic entertainment establishments from locating within 2,000 feet of a church, school, public recreation area, lodging businesses, a primarily residential area or within 2,000 feet of another such adult business.
She returned home but ran away again and got involved with other pimps, who tutored her in the business. By the age of 12, she was a regular on the streets of Oakland.
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She was soon in another city, selling herself on the street – on the track, as she calls it – the stretch of street where she routinely worked. She gave her earnings to the pimp, who would often beat her.
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But the pimp became more violent. He once threatened her as they spoke by cell phone.
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Lee says child prostitution has changed in some ways over the decades. Most teenagers on the street now carry cell phones, and their pimps advertise on the Internet sites like Craigslist. But she says the abuse is the same as it was decades ago.
She says law enforcement agencies want to help, but the children are caught between two conflicting needs: to prosecute the pimps, using the children as witnesses, and to find a safe haven for the children.
