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The new chief has to set a tone that extends to the whole department, added Leah Weitz of the Bernal Heights Neighborhood Center.
“I’m looking for a chief who can train officers to step out of the door with a lot of integrity and who will know they’re part of the community,” she said.
Anyone taking charge of the department has to be ready for its diversity, including the 200 or so gay, lesbian and transgender officers, said Inspector Kevin Jones, a department veteran.
“For candidates from the inside, it’s not an issue,” he said. “From outside, it is.”
Commissioners heard a barrage of other suggestions, from calls for an end to prostitution arrests and an easing of drug enforcement to concerns about support for the sanctuary city movement and backing for community-based groups that deal with the police.
Bettie Heldring’s assertion (Feb. 18) that all the intelligence agencies said Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction has proven to be false. Age does not make you more insightful, but paying attention does, which is something Heldring doesn’t do.
All these years, our government and its prostitutes in the press told us what a great democracy and U.S. ally Egypt was. Now that the Egyptians have had enough of our despot, our government and its press lackeys all of a sudden got religion and are talking about what a despot Hosni Mubarak is. We now have all these so-called journalists telling us about Egypt and what the people went through. Where were they for all these years? This is proof that our so-called free press is an instrument of the government.
OPENINGS
Fabulation, or The Re-Education of Undine Lorraine Hansberry Theatre comes back with Ellen Sebastian Chang staging the local premiere of Lynn Nottage’s companion piece to her hit “Intimate Apparel.” Margo Hall stars as the tough PR executive who isn’t as self-sufficient as she thought. Previews begin Thursday. Opens Saturday. Through March 27. Southside Theater, Building D, Fort Mason, San Francisco. (415) 345-7575, www.lhtsf.org.
Ruined A brothel serves as an unlikely refuge for the raped and maimed women of Congo in Lynn Nottage’s Pulitzer Prize-winning drama about pain and resilience in war-torn central Africa. Liesl Tommy directs the first of two simultaneous Nottage Bay Area premieres. Previews end Tuesday. Opens Wednesday. Through April 10. Berkeley Rep’s Roda Theatre, 2015 Addison St., Berkeley. (510) 647-2949, www.berkeleyrep.org.
IN PREVIEWS
The Homecoming Artistic Director Carey Perloff returns to the edgily enigmatic world of Harold Pinter with René Augesen in the central role of Ruth, the wife who accompanies her professorial husband on a return to his fractious East End London home and perhaps doesn’t leave. Previews begin Thursday. Opens March 9. Through March 27. American Conservatory Theater, 415 Geary St., San Francisco. (415) 749-2228, www.act-sf.org.
Officers responded to the 800 block of Willow regarding a subject standing near a gas station. Officers contacted a 48-year-old Rodeo man. The man was heavily intoxicated and began taking his clothing off. He was arrested for being Drunk in Public and became agitated and uncooperative. He threatened to harm an officer. After being placed in a patrol car, the man kicked a car door but did not cause damage. He had to be placed in a restraining device and was transported to County Jail. The man was arrested earlier this year for similar charges.
TUESDAY, FEB. 22
Theft
A P. G. & E employee reported someone siphoned gas from a company truck that had been left parked in the 1500 block of Sycamore during the weekend.Warrant Arrest
An officer stopped a vehicle in the 1500 block of Sycamore and arrested a 21-year-old Hercules woman for a prostitution warrant. The woman was transported to County Jail and her car was towed.
See the full article from “Patch.com”
Crazy Horse Gentlemen’s Club on Market Street in San Francisco will host Sensual Springtime from Thursday February 24th through Saturday the 26th, with shows at 9:30 pm and 12:30 am. The San Francisco gentleman’s club features starlets Sunny Leone and Teagan Presley, who were both named to Maxim’s Top 12 Female Porn Stars list in 2010.
Sunny Leone has lived a fulfilling life. The Indo-Canadian pornographic actress was raised as a Sikh but shed her traditional garb for secondary school, where she comfortably slipped into a Catholic schoolgirl uniform.
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About Crazy Horse: The World Famous Crazy Horse is a gentleman’s club that specializes in San Francisco adult entertainment. The Crazy Horse is a top spot to host a Bay Area bachelor party, and a tempting way to spice up an average night in the City.
See the full article from “San Francisco Chronicle (press release)”
The Crazy Horse Gentleman’s Club will host Sensual Springtime, featuring two of Maxim’s top female porn stars of 2010. Sunny Leone and Teagan Presley have unique professional backgrounds and talents, but are coming together for one weekend only at the San Francisco strip club.
See the full article from “Benzinga”
An assistant San Francisco Patrol
Special Police officer is facing administrative charges that he picked up a
prostitute and was hanging out in an area known for prostitution. The San
Francisco Police Department is recommending that the Police Commission revoke
the officer’s appointment.
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By “knowingly associated with
a known prostitute,” Ortega “engaged in conduct that reflects
discredit upon the department and evidences a lack of character,”
violating department rules, the charges state.
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By knowingly visiting Diva’s,
“which is located in an area known for prostitution and patronized by
prostitutes, [Ortega] engaged in conduct unbecoming” an assistant patrol
special officer, the filing says.
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In addition, Byard said, Ortega,
“has charges pending for visiting a place where prostitutes are known to
be. This could also cover many ‘pickup’ joints in San Francisco.
[Rivera] is a friend of his.”
… My first memory of hearing about Gypsy Rose Lee was when I was about five or six. I remember seeing the movie âGypsyâ on TV, and I was so embarrassed when Natalie Wood began to strip,â says Strom.
âThen when I was a little older, in about 1968, the real Gypsy Rose Lee had her own TV talk show on Channel 7 in San Francisco. I watched it when it was on very early in the morning before I went to school, and thought, Iâve seen her movie!â
Lee had begun working in Vaudeville as a child. She moved on to Burlesque shows and Broadway with the Ziegfield Follies by 1936, then on to Hollywood.
Though she signed with 20th Century Fox, Strom says that the Catholic League of Decency and Hayes (censorship) office decreed that a stripper could not be in the movies. Still, she refused to become a victim. She took a series of roles in âBâ movies under her given name, Louise Hovick.
Dr. Hardee says kids learn best through reflecting and interpreting, not just rote memorization.
HARDEE: I actually believe that all children can learn. I actually believe that each student in my class has the potential to be anything they want to be. And I believe it’s my job to get them to see this and then to believe it.
To many of us, this might seem like a simple principle of teaching. But Dr. Hardee says that’s often not the case. She gave me an example of when she first started teaching and many of her colleagues assumed the kids couldn’t excel.
HARDEE: It was one of the kinds of schools that you see on movies. We’re talking drug dealers, prostitutes, condoms on the yard, trash on the yard … You could smell the boys’ bathroom from the front door.
Dr. Hardee says kids learn best through reflecting and interpreting, not just rote memorization.
HARDEE: I actually believe that all children can learn. I actually believe that each student in my class has the potential to be anything they want to be. And I believe it’s my job to get them to see this and then to believe it.
To many of us, this might seem like a simple principle of teaching. But Dr. Hardee says that’s often not the case. She gave me an example of when she first started teaching and many of her colleagues assumed the kids couldn’t excel.
HARDEE: It was one of the kinds of schools that you see on movies. We’re talking drug dealers, prostitutes, condoms on the yard, trash on the yard … You could smell the boys’ bathroom from the front door.
