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Dontcha just hate it when you’re all revved up to show off the sultry moves you learned in this week’s pole dancing class, but are thwarted because some other hussy (we’re picturing one of the Real Housewives) has gotten to the stripper pole first and refuses to relinquish it? Well, here’s a listing that appears to have taken that vexing hypothetical situation into consideration and come up with a simple solution: two stripper poles! According to the copy, this exotic property hidden behind tall gates and shrubbery on Fairfax Avenue near Waring “can potentially be used as residential or commercial or both” and “can support up to 175 occupancy.” Huh, how ’bout that? The 2,812 square foot building is set up as two units–one a two bedroom, two bath with full kitchen, the other a one bedroom, one bath with kitchenette. Both units feature a plethora of carved wood, arched doorways, and flagstones, and are decked out in a style you might call “Bali-wood Regency” (the property comes furnished). Put on the market just three weeks ago at $1.499 million, it’s already received its first chop and is now asking $1.299 million.
See the full article from “Curbed SF”
Fisherman’s Wharf isn’t as old, but has become one of the top tourist destinations in the United States. It was in 1916 that Castagnola’s opened, preceded by a street-side stand selling crab and crab cocktails. The Alioto family, an important name in local politics, established their crab stand in 1925, and Sabella & LaTorre started in 1927. All these restaurants thrive today, giving a unique character to the waterfront. Yet, as with Chinatown, many of the restaurants that line the water are caught in a time warp and haven’t kept up with the restaurants in other parts of the city.
Sandwiched between these two areas is one of the most vibrant neighborhoods in the city. North Beach was built on landfill in the late 1800s and entirely rebuilt after the 1906 earthquake, but it still contains the oldest street in the city – Grant – and the oldest bar in the city.
The Saloon opened during the Gold Rush. The area quickly became an epicenter for pleasure – think of the Barbary Coast – and includes the Condor Club, which was the first topless bar in the country when it opened in 1964.
Two weeks after the donation project was announced, Milliman said she received hundreds of art supplies from the Hurlbutt Kind Kinders program, a service program for all kindergarteners. “This is just wonderful,” she said.
Milliman said she received everything from crayons, markets, puffy paint, pipe cleaners, fingerpaints and construction paper. “We really have everything my sister can use, it’s great,” she said.
The Oakland school budget, Milliman said, is slim and teachers tend to scrape by, many times relying on help from the public. “Her school is just really, really poor and I know that they can really use it,” Milliman said.
Many of the students at Manzanita are also struggling outside of the classroom. “This area is extremely tough, these kids have really seen everything,” Millman said. “Many children come from backgrounds that have exposed them to drug use, prostitution, gangs and homelessness.
Fisherman’s Wharf isn’t as old, but has become one of the top tourist destinations in the United States. It was in 1916 that Castagnola’s opened, preceded by a street-side stand selling crab and crab cocktails. The Alioto family, an important name in local politics, established their crab stand in 1925, and Sabella & LaTorre started in 1927. All these restaurants thrive today, giving a unique character to the waterfront. Yet, as with Chinatown, many of the restaurants that line the water are caught in a time warp and haven’t kept up with the restaurants in other parts of the city.
Sandwiched between these two areas is one of the most vibrant neighborhoods in the city. North Beach was built on landfill in the late 1800s and entirely rebuilt after the 1906 earthquake, but it still contains the oldest street in the city – Grant – and the oldest bar in the city.
The Saloon opened during the Gold Rush. The area quickly became an epicenter for pleasure – think of the Barbary Coast – and includes the Condor Club, which was the first topless bar in the country when it opened in 1964.
The summit was the beginning of a second phase in the mayor’s plan to reduce violent crime and provide safe neighborhoods fostering hope and opportunity for children and families.
Chief Probation Officer David Muhammad noted that in order for Oakland neighborhoods to become safe we must “fundamentally change” the city. Mayor Jean Quan reiterated the sentiment, saying that Oakland is a “city of dreams, and we need to keep that dream alive.” However, the mayor also acknowledged “unless we change kids’ lives, it doesn’t matter.”
Data gathered by the mayor suggests that the majority of Oakland’s violent crime takes place within 100 distinct city blocks. Located mostly in East and West Oakland along major thoroughfares and historically stricken with “prostitution, high rates of poverty, economically depressed commercial corridors, and numerous open air drug markets,” these blocks account for more than 90 percent of city-wide shootings and homicides.
See the full article from “Laney Tower”
Since 1995, the 3-Division/Wild-Card era, the average ending date has been today, October 27 — and that won’t change if the Cardinals can beat the Rangers tonight and force a Game 7 for tomorrow night. Strangely, the additional round of Playoffs hasn’t changed things nearly as much as did extending the LCS from best-of-5 to best-of-7.
All-time, including those anomalies (1911, ‘18, ‘81 and 2001), the average ending date has been October 16.
October 27, 1275: This is the traditional founding day of the city of Amsterdam, the capital and artistic center of The Netherlands. Home of lax laws regarding prostitution and drug use, Heineken and Amstel Light beers, and the mighty Amsterdamsche Football Club (AFC) Ajax (pronounced “EYE-ax”), founders of “Total Football,” which has given the world Johan Cruijff (sometimes spelled “Cruyff”), Marco van Basten, Frank Rijkaard, Louis van Gaal, Zlatan Ibrahimovich, and Arsenal stars Dennis Bergkamp, Marc Overmars, Nwankwo Kanu and Thomas Vermaelen.
Vallejo police to use ‘Dear John’ letters in prostitution fight
Posted: 10/27/2011 01:01:10 AM PDT
Vallejo has another weapon in its arsenal to fight prostitution — so-called “Dear John” letters to target those looking for love in all the wrong places, a police official said Wednesday.
Vallejo Police Department Lt. Jim O’Connell told citywide neighborhood watch group representatives the city recently got permission from the state to send such letters to help deter prostitution.
O’Connell spoke at the quarterly meeting of the groups organized by Fighting Back Partnership.
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Police obtain identifying information about vehicles they suspect are driven by johns, or prostitution customers, and then send letters to the vehicle owners warning them they’ve been seen.
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Downtown property owner BJ Conrad said she saw eight new prostitutes Wednesday in a span of an hour and 15 minutes after noticing a lull in activity.
A: What characterizes efficiency in the context of cold cases is to triage them and see which cases percolate up to the top. That’s not something I can answer just very quickly. There’s criteria that we utilize, conversations that we have. Actually it’s a collaborative discussion where you’re talking with the police, you’re talking to the crime lab scientist to see you know “Hey, did we look under her fingernails? Did somebody test the rope that she was hung from the tree with?” I can give you an example of the kinds of things that we can do. We had a case in Alameda County that was over 20 years old. And a woman had been raped and sodomized. DNA was in her every orifice. She was a prostitute. The case had been shelved. Twenty years later I’m looking at the most gruesome photographs I have ever seen in my life and I’m thinking, wow. We haven’t figured …
Photos by Eric Arnold
The stretch of Martin Luther King Way running from West Grand Avenue to 580 Freeway lies within one of Oakland’s deadliest neighborhoods, appropriately nicknamed Ghosttown by the local residents. Homeless encampments populate the long dark stretches under the freeway overpasses. Drugs and alcohol are rampant. Dotted with liquors store and abandoned buildings, the neighborhood accumulates the more litter than the majority of the city. Nearby San Pablo Ave is haven for prostitution.
A year ago, CRP made an effort to improve the quality of life in the neighborhood for local residents. The collective painted 5 murals along a four block stretch between 22nd and Sycamore and named the area the Martin Luther King Cultural Corridor in an effort to protect their work from city abatement. The project centered on 25th and MLK. In January 2010, CRP had picked up 7 bags of trash from that corner while birthing the original mural, Oakland Celebrations, depicting Carijama, indigenous and Chinese dancers connected through the wheels of colorful scraper bikes.
This Halloween, the award-winning dancers of Market Street Cinema invite San Franciscans to a party that’s so much fun it’s scary. On Saturday night, October 29th, these lovely ladies will build spooky, sexy excitement as they present: Terror at Market Street Cinema.
“This is the perfect place to celebrate Halloween,” said Axel Sang, representing Market Street Cinema. “A person died here years ago in a freakish accident, and is reported to make sudden appearances late in the evening. You just never know what you’re going to see!”
The party at the San Francisco strip club goes all night, building to a two-hour climax that lasts from the witching hour (midnight) until 5 am. Market Street Cinema’s Halloween celebration will feature a costume contest with valuable prizes, two-for-one alcohol-free St. Pauli Girl beers, and two-for-one table dances.
See the full article from “San Francisco Chronicle (press release)”
