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If you remember, Alex Shoumatoff set out last year to help his Harvard roommate Jock Hooper do a smear job on the Bohemian Club, which is a kind of resort home for many San Francisco luminaries, and not all of them male. Hooper was someone described as a “disgruntled former member” of the exclusive gentlemen’s club that is favored by the business elite, former presidents, international leaders, and men who enjoy music, wine and song, and ok, I know at least two women who’ve recently been there (with their boyfriends). The club’s lightened up a lot over the years.
Judge Diana Becton Smith said a gag order prevents the Contra Costa County District Attorney and Public Defender’s Office — which is representing the boy — from discussing the case with the media.
Police said at least two students happened upon the attack. One student alerted an adult, while another physically interceded. Neither police nor school officials gave a reason for why the students weren’t in class at the time. The girl had previously complained to school officials that the boy sexually harassed her, according to police.
The West Contra Costa school district officials placed Portola Principal Denise Van Hook and Vice Principal Matthew Burnham on paid administrative for four days while they launched their still ongoing investigation into both the incident and campus security.
Students are now required to have an adult escort when they leave class for a restroom break or other business. The school had already hired a
Judge Diana Becton Smith said a gag order prevents the Contra Costa County District Attorney and Public Defender’s Office — which is representing the boy — from discussing the case with the media.
Police said at least two students happened upon the attack. One student alerted an adult, while another physically interceded. Neither police nor school officials gave a reason for why the students weren’t in class at the time. The girl had previously complained to school officials that the boy sexually harassed her, according to police.
The West Contra Costa school district officials placed Portola Principal Denise Van Hook and Vice Principal Matthew Burnham on paid administrative for four days while they launched their still ongoing investigation into both the incident and campus security.
Students are now required to have an adult escort when they leave class for a restroom break or other business. The school had already hired a
Benicia Old Town Theatre Group has announced it seeks a director for its spring production of “The Great American Trailer Park Musical.”
The musical is a comic fable about women in a Florida trailer park and their no-account men, adultery, strippers, murderous ex-beaus, Costco and the Ice Capades. The score combines country blues, boogie-woogie, and disco.
The cast includes five women and two men.
Open auditions will be Jan. 23 and 24. Performances will be weekends in April and May.
Reply to beniciatheatregroup@mac.com for an appointment time and directions to Historic B.D.E.S. Hall, 140 West J St., Benicia.
The stages of San Francisco
By: Janos Gereben
Special to The ExaminerDecember 30, 2009
Luis Alfaro “re-dreams” the Oedipus story in the world premiere of “Oedipus el Rey” at the Magic Theatre. (Courtesy photo)
SAN FRANCISCO
— The always-inviting live theater scene in San Francisco begins the new decade with plentiful world premieres — some offerings are adaptations of classics, while others are brand-new tales:
Sharon Gless
The co-star of TV’s “Cagney & Lacey” leads the cast of Jane Prowse’s “A Round-Heeled Woman” based on the best-selling memoir by Jane Juska. It’s a world premiere in the reactivated Theater Artaud. Called both funny and heartbreaking, the story is about encounters resulting from a personals ad in the New York Review of Books, soliciting sex and/or conversations about Trollope.
Jan. 5-Feb. 7, $20-$50; Z Space at Theater Artaud, 450 Florida St., S.F., (800) 838-3006, www.zspace.org
San Francisco has become one of the largest financial centers for human trafficking, and furthermore human trafficking has grown into an 8 billion dollar international business. Mayor Gavin Newsom is quoted as saying “It makes me sick to my stomach.” “Girls are being forced to come to this country their families back home are threatened and they are being raped repeatedly over and over.”
Every year women are lured into the United States with the promise of a modeling or acting career only to be forced into prostitution and extorted for money. According to US Department of Justice statistics? between 14,500 and 17,500 people fall victim to trafficking yearly. 50% of those victims are children, and 46% of those victims are trafficked into prostitution and the others are force into industrial, agricultural, or other industries. The statistics also cited that the East Asia/Pacific Region is the largest source of the trafficking in people to the US yearly.
See the full article from “Examiner.com”
Lara Hata
The skewered and barbecued meats are an example of Japanese pub food.
Where:2491 Mission (at 21st St.)Details:681-7150, www.nombesf.com. Izakaya menu 6-11 p.m. Sun.- Mon., Wed.-Sat. Street-food menu 11 p.m.-2 a.m. Fri.-Sat. Closed Tue. Wheelchair accessible. Muni: 14, 14L, 49. Noise level: moderate. Subject(s): John Birdsall on Nombe
Saturday, just shy of midnight, and the squat sandwich board on the Mission Street sidewalk bears a wrinkled paper sign advertising street-food ramen. Like a strip club barker, Gil Payne is standing in front of Nombe’s inset double storefront, looking like he’s trying to drum up a little business. He’s a big guy, with the nervous energy of a man anxious to move product. “We got ramen,” he says. “You can have a street-food portion out here for 4 bucks, or sit inside where it’s warm for 8.”
See the full article from “SF Weekly”
Vacaville Police continued the fight against prostitution in the city last week, arresting a day spa employee suspected of the act.
Hui Cha Kim, 55, was arrested Dec. 24 in connection to soliciting a sex act and was booked into Solano County Jail, making it the sixth arrest related to prostitution in the last three months.
As part of an ongoing effort to reduce prostitution in Vacaville, detectives from the department’s Investigative Services Division conducted an undercover sting operation at the Green Spa, 129 Peabody Road.
Police recently concluded a three-month investigation into alleged prostitution activities in the city, resulting in the arrest of six people.
The first incident led to the arrest of an employee on suspicion of solicitation of prostitution in October after a sting at a Merchant Street massage parlor.
Vacaville Police continued the fight against prostitution in the city last week, arresting a day spa employee suspected of the act.
Hui Cha Kim, 55, was arrested Dec. 24 in connection to soliciting a sex act and was booked into Solano County Jail, making it the sixth arrest related to prostitution in the last three months.
As part of an ongoing effort to reduce prostitution in Vacaville, detectives from the department’s Investigative Services Division conducted an undercover sting operation at the Green Spa, 129 Peabody Road.
Police recently concluded a three-month investigation into alleged prostitution activities in the city, resulting in the arrest of six people.
The first incident led to the arrest of an employee on suspicion of solicitation of prostitution in October after a sting at a Merchant Street massage parlor.
By Paul T. RosynskyOakland Tribune
Posted: 12/28/2009 03:58:00 PM PST
Updated: 12/28/2009 05:21:57 PM PST
OAKLAND — Two years after serving time in prison for raping a woman, John Parquet struck again in 1994, raping and then strangling a 46-year-old prostitute behind an abandoned house in East Oakland, a prosecutor argued Monday.
Police could not link anyone to the killing.
Eight months later Parquet sexually assaulted a woman he was about to rape when police found the pair in the backyard of an abandoned house.
Parquet was carted off to prison again and continued to pass through the revolving door for various parole violations until 2005, when police and prosecutors, checking DNA on cold cases, found Parquet’s DNA matched that of the DNA found on the body of the prostitute, Lowanda Jackson.
