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Gaines will play the role of Don Quixote (Cervantes) in the production, which is scheduled for Feb. 10-26, 2012, at the Carpenter Performing Arts Center.
Nick DeGruccio will direct.
Man of La Mancha was penned by Mitch Leigh, Joe Darion and Dale Wasserman. The musical, which spawned the standard “The Impossible Dream,” is described as such: “While awaiting a hearing with the Inquisition, Miguel de Cervantes presents a play as his defense in a mock trial for the prisoners. In it, he plays Alonso Quijana, a man who has set his own reality aside and becomes Don Quixote De La Mancha. Assisted by Sancho Panza, Quixote attempts to avoid his mortal enemy, the Enchanter, and woo the serving wench and prostitute, Aldonza, who he takes to be the lady Dulcinea.”
If you’re someone whose understanding of the sex trade is patched together from cable specials like these, with their endless reels of women in miniskirts and fishnets and boots leaning into cars, it’s probably impossible to imagine that sex workers have power or choices. From reading prostitution advertisements online, or from recalling the kind of carnival sideshow pitch you might hear at a strip club, it’s tempting to imagine that sex workers will do whatever men pay them to do, and that sex workers exist to cater to male desire. What sex workers are actually selling is our ability to make our customers think they are getting what they want, and we try to sell that with as little strain on our time and our bodies as possible. You wouldn’t be able to tell this from sex trade ads because it would be incredibly bad marketing, but it’s the illusion around which sex work turns.
See the full article from “The Guardian”
Police said that the female bicyclist had been traveling west on Columbus Avenue in the lane closest to the curb at about 6 p.m. on Sept. 14 when she attempted to navigate around a parked car that blocked her path.
A double-length 8X-Bayshore Express bus was already in the adjacent lane when the cyclist partially entered that lane, police Sgt. Michael Andraychak said.
Her bike’s handlebars made contact with the articulated section of the bus, she fell, and the coach’s rear tire rolled over her left arm, according to Muni’s initial report of the incident.
Muni investigators reviewed surveillance video from a camera outside the nearby Roaring 20s strip club, and that footage indicated that the car had been illegally parked, Muni spokesman Rose said, although it was unclear from the video whether the bicyclist first struck the car or the bus.
Loss: The Bay Area broadcast media (Part I) … There’s a scene from the trailer where Pitt tells his daughter not to listen to the radio or read papers, because the local pundits are calling for his ouster. This never happened, and couldn’t happen, because no one on the radio talks about the A’s*. Seriously, I listen to sports radio between 10 and 20 hours per week including games, and I can’t remember the last time anyone talked about the A’s, much less called for someone’s firing, much less sounded like they really meant it.
*Apologies to new sports station 95.7, which talks about the A’s a little, but didn’t exist in 2002.
Loss: The Bay Area broadcast media (Part II) … There’s a clubhouse reporter in “Moneyball” from Channel 36 (?!?), who is straight out of the Hollywood school of stereotypical catty-mean broadcast interviewers. She storms into the A’s locker room, and starts assaulting a new player with questions like (this is from memory, but it’s not far off) “Is it true you’re into strippers?” and “What about the rumors of rampant drug use?”
The Bay Citizen
Crime Rises in Oakland, and Dim Lights Get Blame
Published: September 23, 2011
By day, True Vine Ministries on Isabella Street in West Oakland serves as a center for Bible study and worship.
By night, the exterior of the pale pink building serves as a backdrop to prostitution and drug dealing that has been allowed to flourish, according to the pastor, Zachary E. Carey, beneath excessively dim streetlights.
After the California Legislature enacted new energy-efficient lighting standards in 2002, many cities followed suit. Among them was Oakland, which imposed restrictions on its 37,000 streetlights.
The ordinance required the city to begin using energy-efficient bulbs, “cap” new lampposts to prevent light from flooding into the sky and maintain lower levels of light to prevent waste and glare, among other measures.
By day, True Vine Ministries on Isabella Street in West Oakland serves as a center for Bible study and worship.
By night, the exterior of the pale pink building serves as a backdrop to prostitution and drug dealing that has been allowed to flourish, according to the pastor, Zachary E. Carey, beneath excessively dim streetlights.
After the California Legislature enacted new energy-efficient lighting standards in 2002, many cities followed suit. Among them was Oakland, which imposed restrictions on its 37,000 streetlights.
The ordinance required the city to begin using energy-efficient bulbs, “cap” new lampposts to prevent light from flooding into the sky and maintain lower levels of light to prevent waste and glare, among other measures.
But Oakland residents are reeling from a crime spike — there have been 85 homicides so far this year, up 25 percent from the comparable period last year. And Carey and his supporters have decided to fight for an exemption to the standards in the flatlands of East and West Oakland, where they claim the star-friendly policy has contributed to the city’s crime problem.
Mission Bowling Club approached Kim with the request to amend the law. “It directly impacts their use,” Kim said of the current restrictions. “We want to make [the rules] consistent with the rest of the city.”
Mission Bowling Club will be across the street from the ODC dance theater, which will open a cafe in October, and near a proposed park at 17th and Folsom streets that the city will begin work on next year. The closest bars are the Rite Spot on the corner of 17th and Folsom and Uptown at 17th and Capp streets. The Stable, just south on Folsom, serves beer and wine.
The 1996 Mission District restrictions were intended to “combat problems within the geographic area that included loitering, littering, drug trafficking, prostitution, public drunkenness, defacement, pedestrian obstructions, and traffic circulation, parking, and noise problems on public streets,” according to the Planning Department.
Muni officials said the accident was one of the more unusual involving their buses.
The crash was caught on tape by surveillance cameras last Wednesday evening outside the Roaring 20s strip club on Broadway Avenue near Columbus Avenue.
The victim’s lawyer is now eying a possible lawsuit against the city.
Laila Brenner, 30, was biking home from her office at nearby Link TV.
That’s when Brenner was attempted to bike around a double parked vehicle in the number three lane, said San Francisco police Sgt. Michael Andraychak.
However, the bicyclist did so, entering a lane that was already occupied by another vehicle which was the Muni bus,” he added.
Police said a surveillance camera outside the Roaring 20s Strip Club recorded Brenner bumping against the bus and then falling to the street.
See the full article from “FoxReno.com”
… When it came out at first, it was thought to be a show that women would really love,” said Vansuch. “But it had universal appeal and it moves along at a good pace. Everybody likes it.”
The topics are — unavoidably — ’80s issues, including women in the workplace. “Nowadays, women are doctors, lawyers, business leaders — and you don’t think anything of it,” said Vansuch. “But it wasn’t so back then.”
“Alice” opens and closes with skits by an all-girl band. In between are skits, solos, lots of humor, and even some pathos.
Vansuch described one scene in which a group of girls go to a male strip club. “It’s hilarious,” she said, “and back then, it was more of a big deal, something new. You see the girls getting all excited as the men strip.”
This weekend, fifteen gorgeous women will compete for $2,000 in prizes and the title of Miss Nude San Francisco 2011 at San Francisco gentlemen’s club Déjà Vu Centerfolds in North Beach. The events begin on Thursday, September 22 with a contestant meet-and-greet starting at 8 pm. AVN award-winning adult film starlet Jayden James will host the Miss Nude San Francisco Kick-Off Party and perform for enthusiastic crowds at 9 pm and 1 am.
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About Centerfolds Centerfolds is more than a San Francisco gentlemen’s club, it is an upscale and couples-friendly club with and attentive staff and talented dancers. Private rooms are available for singles, couples and parties to enjoy alone or with the company of one or more dancers. The club also features banquette booths, private bedrooms, shower shows and a VIP lounge looking over the main stage.
See the full article from “San Francisco Chronicle (press release)”
