New Orleans Strip Clubs: John Buffalo Mailer Talks New Orleans Through The Eyes Of Strippers (Part I)
March 12, 2010
This week, he published a new ebook titled, Music, Food, and Death – The State Of New Orleans Through The Eyes Of The Strippers. The story paints a vivid and compassionate picture of strippers and service workers trying to rebuild their lives in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
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[John Buffalo Mailer] – I first went to New Orleans when I was eighteen years old. It was my first road trip with a buddy and we set out from New York at midnight, drove through the night, and found ourselves in New Orleans by 10pm. It might as well have been 6:30. The streets were alive with music and drink and incredible food. The whole city seemed like a walking party to our eighteen year old sensibilities. It did not take me more than a couple of days to realize that New Orleans held for me the best of original American culture. After Katrina, as I like so many others watched the devastation and disast …
… 03 “Right Place, Wrong Time,” airing April 25, 2010: Antoine’s gig on Bourbon Street creates tensions at home, as Desiree accuses him of cheating on her with a stripper. Sprung by Toni after harassing the National Guard, Davis attempts to repay the Bernettes by offering piano lessons to their daughter Sophie. After a short visit from her husband Larry, LaDonna visits his brother, a judge, in hopes of getting information on Daymo’s whereabouts. Sonny is irked when Annie is offered a gig playing with pianist Tom McDermott on her birthday. Bummed that he’s been left off the guest list for an NYC benefit concert, Antoine gets toasted – and later arrested. Aroused by a well-endowed mystery woman in Treme, Davis wines and dines Janette and ends up taking her home, again. While Delmond is in New York recording with piano legend Dr. John, Albert finds the body of his tribe’s “wild man” in the ravaged Lower Ninth Ward. (Story by David Simon and David Mills; teleplay by David Mills; directed by Ernest Dickerson.)
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An American student at the New York University Tisch School of the Arts Asia, which is located in Singapore, has won a playwriting contest in the United States with a piece of work that started out as a class assignment.
Josh Billig’s one-act play, Outside Sitka, won the 24th annual Tennessee Williams Literary Festival 2010 Playwriting Contest. The festival is an annual five-day celebration held in New Orleans in late March to honour the late Putlizer Prize-winning playwright Tennessee Williams.
Billig, 28, said his play was conceived during an assignment for a one-act play. He set it in rural Alaska where a couple runs a methamphetamine laboratory.
‘The man wants to quit and start life anew but his partner is a former prostitute so when he wants to clean up, it means she has to return to prostitution,’ he said.
See the full article from “AsiaOne”
New Orleans Adult Entertainment: US Senator David Vitter Should Not Be Reelected, He Should Be Investigated!
March 12, 2010
Especially because U. S. Senator David Vitter is seeking reelection to Congress, he should be made accountable. Also, Vitter’s ‘apology’ to his wife and his god does not translate into ‘end of story’, despite his supporters’ demand that the public overlook what is said to be previous conduct with prostitutes. Certain issues surrounding David Vitter ought not escape contemplation:
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8. Prostitution doesn’t cease to be against the law because of apologizing to spouse and a god. And, it is impossible that some form of racketeering does not occur in order to maintain hush-hush conduct. Thus, Vitter’s office should have been -and still should be search, like convicted former U. S. Congressman, (dollar bill) Bill Jefferson’s. Also, Vitter’s wife, attorney Wendy Vitter’s overlooking her husband’s conduct (she did not carry out her “Lorena Bobbit” threat), conveys she was not much injured by any offense to the Vitter marriage vows (and that’s her business). All the same, it’s not inconceivable that she might receive or has received satisfying ruling from certain irrefutably …
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New Orleans Adult Entertainment: Democrats focus on Vitter
March 12, 2010
Unlike Burr, who is plagued by anemic poll ratings, Vitter’s vulnerability is related to a 2007 prostitution scandal in which his name appeared on the so-called D.C. Madam’s list of clients. His predicament is exacerbated by the presence of a top-tier challenger: Democratic Rep. Charlie Melancon.
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Melancon isn’t likely to overtly raise the prostitution issue, but he is expected to use language tailored to female voters that will subtly remind them of Vitter’s infidelity, according to campaign aides. Among other things, the incumbent’s vote against confirming Hillary Clinton as secretary of state may be revisited as part of that effort. Vitter was one of only two senators to vote against the nomination. “I would deem him on probation right now,” said Carville, assessing Vitter’s vulnerability among female voters. “If he gets hit with a second thing — which can happen in these campaigns — there’s going to be no great reluctance to unleash. And the voters are more prone to believe it.” Longtime political operative …
New Orleans Escorts: Nation and World – March 12, 2010
March 12, 2010
The report by New Orleans Inspector General E.R. Quatrevaux took aim at both city officials and Broomfield, Colo.-based MWH Americas Inc. The report, first made public Thursday by The Times-Picayune, said the recovery from the catastrophic 2005 hurricane had been hurt by the flawed contract.
MWH was hired in December 2007 to manage the massive rebuilding of city infrastructure after Katrina. As of February, MWH had been paid $29 million for its work, the report said.
La. man arrested, faces child prostitution charges
ATLANTA, Ga. (AP) — Federal agents have arrested a Louisiana man accused of taking two minors from Atlanta to Birmingham for prostitution.
Authorities indicted 25-year-old Dmarcus Antwain Ward, of Minden, last week, on charges of sex trafficking of minors and transporting them for the purposes of prostitution.
First Look Studios have announced the US DVD and Blu-ray Disc release of Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans on 6th April 2010. In this film directed by Werner Herzog, Nicolas Cage plays a rogue detective who is as devoted to his job as he is at scoring drugs — while playing fast and loose with the law. He wields his badge as often as he wields his gun in order to get his way. In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina he becomes a high-functioning addict who is a deeply intuitive, fearless detective reigning over the beautiful ruins of New Orleans with authority and abandon. Complicating his tumultuous life is the prostitute he loves (played by Eva Mendes). Together they descend into their own world marked by desire, compulsion, and conscience.
New Orleans Escorts: Big Easy Money
March 11, 2010
Although this isn’t exactly corruption, per se, U.S. Rep. Bob Livingston—who harangued President Clinton for immoral sex with an intern—had just been elected Speaker of the House when it emerged he’d had his own affairs. The successor in his House seat, David Vitter, availed himself occasionally of prostitutes run by the famous D.C. Madam; today, he is a U.S. senator. Another statewide office with a history of sleaze is the insurance commissioner, whose three consecutive occupants got, in turn, 25 years in 1991 for influence-peddling; 41 months in 1993 for selling $80,000 worth of insurance licenses; and six months in 2001 for lying to an FBI agent. The head of the Louisiana Film Commission took $60,000 in bribes. In the Statehouse, where congressmen voted to more than double their salary in 2008, the Senate Ethics Committee chairman himself will stand trial shortly for income-tax evasion; the sponsor of a new ethics bill is accused of taking legal fees from companies doing business with a state univer …
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New Orleans Escorts: Rewriting Madams back into Herstory
March 11, 2010
Law-makers were unable and perhaps unwillingly to quell the rancor of New Orleans red light district. Sidney Story was the politician who wrote the legislation to delegate a section of the city where lewd women could live and work. Al Rose’s book goes on to explain that the legislation by the City Council did not “legalize” prostitution per say. But, it did allow for the section of the city around Basin Street to be a contained center of lascivious practice. Outside of the parameters set by legislation, prostitution was not allowed. Probably to his dismay, the red light district of New Orleans would be called Storyville after Sidney Story. Storyville is the first and only example of a legally sanctioned section of a city in the United States that was permitted for such activities to take place within it’s boundaries. Storyville would see the rise and fall of successful madame’s such as Hattie Hamilton, Kate Townsend, Minnie HaHa, Josie Arlington, and Emma Johnson. Rose’s book credits Kate Townsend with adding the element of luxury to sporting houses in Storyville.
New Orleans Escorts: Rewriting Madams back into Herstory
March 11, 2010
Law-makers were unable and perhaps unwillingly to quell the rancor of New Orleans red light district. Sidney Story was the politician who wrote the legislation to delegate a section of the city where lewd women could live and work. Al Rose’s book goes on to explain that the legislation by the City Council did not “legalize” prostitution per say. But, it did allow for the section of the city around Basin Street to be a contained center of lascivious practice. Outside of the parameters set by legislation, prostitution was not allowed. Probably to his dismay, the red light district of New Orleans would be called Storyville after Sidney Story. Storyville is the first and only example of a legally sanctioned section of a city in the United States that was permitted for such activities to take place within it’s boundaries. Storyville would see the rise and fall of successful madame’s such as Hattie Hamilton, Kate Townsend, Minnie HaHa, Josie Arlington, and Emma Johnson. Rose’s book credits Kate Townsend with adding the element of luxury to sporting houses in Storyville.