House Dems on track for vote on $940B health billHouse Democrats say they are on track for a Sunday vote on a $940 billion health care bill that will expand coverage to millions. The Number 2 Democrat in the House said the health care package will also reduce the federal deficit by more than $100 billion over its first 10 years – and more than $1 trillion in the second decade… Read More
Cops: Men shot at prostitute after learning she was a he
Police say two men are behind bars after shooting at a man in women’s clothes. It reportedly happened after a sexual encounter. Cops responding to a call of shots fired in Alexandria, Louisiana, say two men were trying to shoot a prostitute who had just performed oral sex acts on them for cash …Read More
New Orleans Strip Clubs: Adam (Pacman) Jones Is Talented, But Is Detroit Up For The Risk?
March 19, 2010
In 2008 Jones was traded to the cowboys where he was actually assigned body guards who were more like baby sitters in charge of keeping Jones out of trouble. He managed to find a way into trouble though, getting into a fight with one of the bodyguard/baby sitters in a hotel in October of 2008. The police were called, but no arrests were made in what sounded like a drunken fight between the pair. Jones was immediately suspended again, this time for 4 games in 2008. He returned for 2 games in the end of the season but missed much of the late season with a neck injury. After the season in Dallas, he was released from the Cowboys after allegations that he may have been involved in a shooting near a strip club in Las Vegas surfaced.
House Dems on track for vote on $940B health billHouse Democrats say they are on track for a Sunday vote on a $940 billion health care bill that will expand coverage to millions. The Number 2 Democrat in the House said the health care package will also reduce the federal deficit by more than $100 billion over its first 10 years – and more than $1 trillion in the second decade… Read More
Cops: Men shot at prostitute after learning she was a he
Police say two men are behind bars after shooting at a man in women’s clothes. It reportedly happened after a sexual encounter. Cops responding to a call of shots fired in Alexandria, Louisiana, say two men were trying to shoot a prostitute who had just performed oral sex acts on them for cash …Read More
Born Dec. 28, 1950, in Memphis, Chilton was the preternaturally mature voice of the Box Tops, a Bluff City group that was deeply influenced by the city’s contemporaneous deep soul. Produced by Dan Penn, the group found instantaneous success with a smash version of cleffer Wayne Carson Thompson’s “The Letter,” which roared to No. 1 on the national charts in 1967. Chilton was just 16 when the single hit the top.
The Box Tops toured heavily and notched a handful of lesser hits – including “Cry Like a Baby,” “Neon Rainbow,” “Soul Deep” and “Sweet Cream Ladies,” probably the only chart record of its day about prostitution. But Chilton tired of the grind and the band’s music, and, abandoning the group in 1970 after four albums, he moved to New York to reconsider his career.
See the full article from “Variety”
New Orleans Adult Entertainment: Cops: Mandeville Jr. High student stabs classmate with pen
March 18, 2010
Analyst:”Yes” vote on health care bill could be trouble for local polsThe showdown vote in the U.S House on health care reform may end up with mostly “no” votes among members of the Louisiana Congressional Delegation. Could a “yes” vote be political suicide for a local member of Congress? Political analyst Bernie Pinsonat thinks so …Read More
Nuns urge passage of health bill despite bishops’ oppositionCatholic nuns are urging Congress to pass President Barack Obama’s health care plan, in an unusual public break with bishops who say it would subsidize abortion. Some 60 leaders of religious orders representing 59,000 Catholic nuns Wednesday sent lawmakers a letter urging them to pass the Senate health care bill …Read More
Cops: Men shot at prostitute after learning she was a he
Police say two men are behind bars after shooting at a man in women’s clothes. It reportedly happened after a sexual encounter. Cops responding to a call of shots fired in Alexandria, Louisiana, say two men were trying to shoot a prostitute who had just performed oral sex acts on them for cash …Read More
Hurry to the Ordway Center, where Estelle Parsons, Shannon Cochran and an extraordinary cast of actors are doing mesmerizing work in “August: Osage County,” Tracy Letts’ blistering, withering, hilarious and altogether mesmerizing family tragedy.
The memorable production, which opened Tuesday in St. Paul, has made the Ordway the center of theatrical gravity this week. Staged with maximum potency by Anna Shapiro of Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theatre, where the work was developed, “August: Osage County” deserves all the accolades that have been showered on it, including Tonys (2008 Best Play) and the Pulitzer.
Parsons plays Violet Weston, the pill-popping matriarch of an Oklahoma family that has more secrets than a Washington, D.C., escort service. The play opens with her husband, Beverly (Jon DeVries), interviewing the young American Indian Johnna Montevata (DeLanna Studi) to be a live-in helper.
New Orleans Adult Entertainment: The House of the Setting Sun: A retirement home for sex workers VIDEO
March 17, 2010
Remember the house in New Orleans. The one called the Rising Sun? First of all, there’s a great book called, Chasing the Rising Sun: The Journey of an American Song, about how that song went from the front porches of Appalachia and the Piedmont and the Ozarks, to the stage of The Animals. It’s an excellent book if you’re interested in Americana music.
But that’s not what this story is about. This is about Casa Xochiquetzal (The House of the Beautiful Flowers), a retirement home for prostitutes in Tepito, one of the most danger neighborhoods in Mexico City.
Produced by VICE, and independent media company and Web site in Brooklyn, New York. The house has a minimum age requirement of 60, and can accommodate up to 45 women. It’s a incredibly reserved documentary and I’m not saying we should glorify prostitutes, and I’m not even saying that there is even a lot of new information here (most of the women, though, went into prostitution to care of their children, as opposed to say, drugs.) It’s just an honest, clear view into other people’s lives.
See the full article from “Gather.com”
New Orleans Escorts: In searing Tracy Letts play, Estelle Parsons is a matriarch de triomphe
March 17, 2010
Hurry to the Ordway Center, where Estelle Parsons, Shannon Cochran and an extraordinary cast of actors are doing mesmerizing work in “August: Osage County,” Tracy Letts’ blistering, withering, hilarious and altogether mesmerizing family tragedy.
The memorable production, which opened Tuesday in St. Paul, has made the Ordway the center of theatrical gravity this week. Staged with maximum potency by Anna Shapiro of Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theatre, where the work was developed, “August: Osage County” deserves all the accolades that have been showered on it, including Tonys (2008 Best Play) and the Pulitzer.
Parsons plays Violet Weston, the pill-popping matriarch of an Oklahoma family that has more secrets than a Washington, D.C., escort service. The play opens with her husband, Beverly (Jon DeVries), interviewing the young American Indian Johnna Montevata (DeLanna Studi) to be a live-in helper.
Birmingham residents appeal strip club ruling
The Associated Press
Published: Tuesday, March 16, 2010 at 5:11 p.m.
Last Modified: Tuesday, March 16, 2010 at 5:11 p.m.
The cities of Birmingham, Trussville and a group of citizens have appealed to the Alabama Supreme Court the recent Jefferson County Circuit Court decision that allowed a strip club to operate.
Records show the cities and the Citizens to Protect Derby Parkway filed three separate appeals with the state’s high court on March 11.The 2009 court case in Jefferson County Circuit Court was sparked by the city of Birmingham refusing to issue a club at 2404 Derby Way dance permits and a liquor license transfer.Sensations opened in Birmingham’s Liberty Highlands Neighborhood on Feb. 11. Opponents say the club attracts the wrong type of people to the area.Birmingham lawyer Don Blankenship says Sensations remains open for business.—Information from: The Birmingham News, http://www.al.com/birminghamnews
See the full article from “Daily Comet”
New Orleans Adult Entertainment: The Princess and the Frog:
March 16, 2010
Pedro Almodóvar’s movies are fun to watch for all sorts of reasons, not the least of which is the filmmaker’s ability to recycle Hollywood conventions and make them something entirely fresh. While it would be difficult to mistake his quirky sexual notions and fanciful color palette for those of anyone else, Broken Embraces harkens back to the Hollywood of Douglas Sirk, Otto Preminger, Alfred Hitchcock, Nicholas Ray and James L. Cain.
Their influence not only is felt in the narrative and sets, but also in the face of Penélope Cruz as she mugs her way through a screen test of wigs. One minute, she’s Audrey Hepburn; the next, she’s Marilyn Monroe; or Gloria Grahame; or Simone Signoret. Cruz plays a former prostitute, Lena, who, in desperate need of cash, becomes the live-in mistress of a powerful industrialist. Bored, Lena demands that she be allowed to test for a role in a movie, “Girls and Suitcases.”