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San Francisco Was Once Lovingly Called ‘The Smut Capital of America’
Were you aware that the birth of hardcore pornography happened right here in San Francisco? Feel proud, kids. During the brief period of 1968 to 1972, the barriers fell for both strip clubs and porn theaters, and a boomlet occurred right in this very city in which theaters began flipping over into porn palaces one after another.
A new documentary short, Smut Capital of America, by local filmmakers Michael Stabile and Ben Leon explores this subject, and features interviews with John Waters, and a number of porn people from back in the day.
Stabile spoke with the Guardian this week, and you can watch a clip here. If you’d like to help them in their quest to raise money to cover the cost of all the terrific archival footage they’ve dug up, which will be used in a future feature-length documentary as well, feel free right here. Were you also aware that Senator Dianne Feinstein began her political ca …
See the full article from “SFist”
Launching today, Assassin’s Creed: Project Legacy is a Clan Wars-inspired social RPG playable on Facebook. Players will have a unique assassin profile, complete with skills and abilities. Will you be an assassin who specializes in open conflict or political intrigue? Will you stick to the shadows or trust in your knowledge to protect you? Each assassin unlocks a linear set of Mafia Wars-style missions that have unique, sometimes random rewards and require specific prerequisites. You might go on an extortion mission that requires you buy a fancy gift, but that mission might garner you a courtesan you can use for a later mission. Later, more dramatic missions might require you to have a number of soldiers or warhorses in your retinue. As you gather items and landmarks on Facebook, you’ll unlock those items in the console versions of the games. And as you complete missions in the console version, you’ll open up new missions on Facebook. It’s all part of what Early calls “the virtuous cycle.”
Arrest of wanted parolee leads to teenager’s prostitution case
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CONCORD — Officers searching over the weekend for a wanted parolee uncovered a scheme involving the alleged prostitution of a teenage Vacaville runaway, police said.
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Investigators determined that the girl was a ward of the
Alameda County Superior Court and had also been reported as a runaway from Vacaville. Further questioning led them to believe Jackson was employing the girl as a prostitute, and Jackson was then arrested.
Police later executed a search warrant at the home, in connection with the alleged prostitution.
Cano and Jackson were booked into Contra Costa County Jail on suspicion of contributing to the delinquency of a minor, possessing methamphetamine, possession of obscene material, unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor, solicitation of prostitution, pandering for prostitution, human trafficking of a subject under 18, and lewd and lascivious acts with a child.
9/29/10 – The Livingston County Sheriff’s Department is clearing up controversial rumors surrounding the “Easy Riders Rodeo Tour” held this past August. The Sheriff’s Department has been involved with the event that’s held at the Fowlerville Fairgrounds since its inception nearly two decades ago. The department is responsible for on-site security while internal security is run by the promoters, who all typically have a military background. The Village of Fowlerville Police Department recently issued a report saying the event brings threats and the likelihood of violence to the area as well as other criminal activity including drugs and rumors of prostitution. Sheriff Bob Bezotte tells WHMI that as for incidents at this years event, which ran from Thursday to Sunday, two people were arrested – one for felonious assault with a knife and a separate domestic assault. Dispatch took a total of 33 incident reports, the most serious of which were three stolen motorcycles, two reports of damage to motorcycles, larceny from a vehicl …
See the full article from “WHMI”
I pull into a section of town that I’m told is referred to as the “Tendernob” (an area of the city between the affluent Nob Hill to the north and the much seedier Tenderloin to the south).
I meet up with HSU psychology graduate Nathan Whittington, who manages a four-story, 20-plus-unit apartment building on the accurately addressed 666 O’Farrell. The location is pretty close to tourist-friendly Union Square
but is shady nonetheless. A couple of blocks south, the homeless population is so aggressive they make the hardest Eureka bums appear saintly.
”I’m always having to kick drug dealers, users and prostitutes out of here,” Whittington said pointing to the alley next to his building, which is littered with condoms, graffiti, the occasional syringe and other unmentionables. “You can’t even imagine what I see here at 3 in the morning.”
P.M. Bay Area Buzz: Two held in East Bay teen prostitution scheme; Woman accused of vandalizing luxury cars
By George KellyContra Costa Times
Posted: 09/28/2010 04:25:00 PM PDT
Updated: 09/28/2010 04:28:52 PM PDT
Here are the hot stories in the Bay Area for Tuesday, September 28, 2010:
Two men held in teen prostitution scheme in Concord
Police officers searching during the weekend for a wanted parolee uncovered what Concord authorities said was a scheme involving the prostitution of a teenage runaway.
Mario Cano, 33, of Concord, was wanted for violating parole, and officers tracked him to a home in the 1600 block of Donaldson Court about midnight Saturday.
They found and arrested Cano, whom court records show has an extensive criminal history of mostly drug offenses that also includes burglary and theft. He had been paroled following an August conviction for drug possession.
Alejandro Hernandez Rivera, 24, of Vallejo, began researching the value of Neff’s golden flute in the days before he robbed and strangled the 66-year-old
retired Bank of America executive, deputy district attorney Harold Jewett said Monday in his opening statement. Rivera is charged with murder, arson, burglary and robbery. He faces life in prison without the possibility of parole if convicted. His attorney, deputy public defender Mike Kelly, chose not to give an opening statement and declined to comment on Rivera’s defense.
Neff was gay and previously had long-term partners, but the nature of his relationships in the months before his 2008 death were more transitory, prosecutors said. The relationships were not purely sexual, however, as Neff was cordial to his lovers and liked to cook for them, Jewett said.
He said Neff met Rivera in early 2008 through Rivera’s Craigslist ad for
erotic massage services, and the two began an ongoing sexual relationship in exchange for money.
Two men held in teen prostitution scheme in Concord
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CONCORD — Police officers searching during the weekend for a wanted parolee uncovered what Concord authorities said was a scheme involving the prostitution of a teenage runaway.
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Investigators determined that the girl was a ward of the Alameda County Superior Court and had also been reported as a runaway from Vacaville. Further questioning led them to believe Jackson was employing the girl as a prostitute. Jackson was then arrested.
Police later executed a search warrant at the home, in connection with the suspected prostitution.
Cano and Jackson were booked into Contra Costa County Jail on suspicion of contributing to the delinquency of a minor, possessing methamphetamine, possession of obscene material, unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor, solicitation of prostitution, pandering for prostitution, human trafficking of a subject under 18, and lewd and lascivious acts with a child.
30 year old Melissa Petro is from Bedford, Ohio. She bared her soul describing every detail of the life she used to have when she was an alleged hooker, stripper and her infamous escapades with a Mexican woman who told her all about the sex business, who took her into her house and took care of her. Being taken care of was something that her heart cherished, her father abandoned her mother, brother and herself when she was a senior in High School. She never saw him again.
By age 19 and living in Mexico, she found out that her gorgeous childhood friend was working at a strip club in the U.S. while she was a student in Oxaca, getting naked in front of strangers was not an idea that had crossed her mind, but then again picturing her utterly sexy friend stripping and having men drool and idolize her, just like (her friend) when both were growi …
While everyone can agree that no one wants to be homeless and those who live on the streets suffer from serious mental or physical problems, the aggressiveness of panhandlers has become a serious safety concern to many. One of the biggest complaints heard by Joe D’Alessandro, head of the San Francisco Convention and Visitor’s Bureau, is that tourists get accosted as soon as they leave the safety of their hotels, and it’s not just the tourists who are being harassed.
One of the worst areas in the downtown district has historically been the 6th and 7th Street corridors. The area has traditionally been the home of pawn shops, adult book stores and single room occupancy hotels. From the 1970s through the late 1990s, the area had become a magnet for drug dealers and prostitutes. Over the last few years, legitimate businesses have come into the area, reclaiming vacant stores in an effort to change the neighborhood. The revitalization of the area looked as if it would change an otherwise bad neighborho …
See the full article from “Examiner.com”
