New Orleans Strip Clubs: Hurricane Harley motorcycle ride, Shop ’til You Rock and more for Saturday …
July 31, 2010
New Orleans Traditional Jazz Camp for Adults Bourbon Orleans Hotel. The camp is held Sun. through Aug. 6 with guest speakers, tours, private and group lessons, band practices and evening jam sessions with an opportunity to sit in with bands in the French Quarter. Qualifying students will perform at the Satchmo Festival and attend the Louis Armstrong Birthday Party at Preservation Hall. The reeds and piano sections are full. Space open for trumpets, tuba/bass, trombones, drums and vocals. Call 895.0037 or e-mail info@neworleanstradjazzcamp.com for details.
Cripple Creek Theatre Co. Auditions AllWays Theater & Lounge, 2240 St. Claude Ave. Auditions for “The Madwoman of Chaillot” by Jean Giradoux take place, 6-9 Mon.-Tues. By appointment. Write to whelan@cripplecreekplayers.org to schedule an audition. Cold readings only. No monologue needed.
THEATER
Blackbird The Elm Theatre, 220 Julia St., 218.0055. A Gulf War veteran and an ex-stripper cling to each other in hope of escaping their grim lives. Performance at 8. Tickets: $15. Group rates available.
See the full article from “NOLA.com”
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is scheduled to address a throng of rich and powerful men on Friday under the towering redwoods at the Bohemian Grove as the annual encampment along the Russian River in Monte Rio enters its final weekend.
No one other than Bohemian Club members and their guests will hear the governor’s speech, which is — like everything that transpires during the 17-day midsummer enclave — done in absolute privacy.
Plutocrats and powerbrokers, including former presidents, annually flock to the 2,700-acre wooded retreat where neither women, other than grove employees, nor outsiders of either gender are permitted.
“It’s a private gentleman’s club,” club spokesman Sam Singer said. “People are coming to get away from the duties of daily life. They don’t desire to be on the front page of The Press Democrat or The New York Times.
Four employees at a Fat City strip club have booked on charges ranging from prostitution to hustling cocaine, making the establishment the next target in Jefferson Parish’s campaign to reclaim Metairie’s wayward entertainment district.
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The manager of Illusions Gentlemen’s Club, Dan Tornabene, top left, was arrested, as were bar employees Anastasia Brown, top right, Arlisha Dedeaux, bottom left, and Hannah Palmer.
Dan Tornabene, 41, manager of Illusions Gentlemen’s Club, 3551 18th St., Metairie, was taken into custody Thursday along with bar employees Anastasia Brown, 22, of New Orleans, Hannah Palmer, 29, of Ruston and Arlisha Dedeaux, 23, of Metairie, according Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office arrest reports.
Two other men, Steven LaCroix, 38, of Shreveport and Jason Wilson, 29, of New Orleans, were booked on drug-related charges when investigators with the department’s vice squad and narcotics division conducted an undercover operation and served a search warrant at the strip club just after 1:30 a.m.
See the full article from “NOLA.com”
New Orleans Strip Clubs: Rumor: has Chris Paul to NY Knicks been in the works for weeks?
July 23, 2010
HoopsVibe’s Very Quick Call: No doubt about it, Chris Paul to the New York Knicks has been in the works for weeks.
After all, Paul and the New Orleans Hornets couldn’t possibly last. Not in today’s polarized NBA, where a few big spenders dominate and the rest of the league gets the table scraps.
New Orleans as a market can’t generate enough revenue to provide Paul with a supporting cast. And New Orleans’ owner, George Shinn, either lacks the pockets or will to personally pay for talent.
So it wasn’t a if, but a when. When would the point guard tire of small market New Orleans and demand a trade to a major market.
Enter the Knicks.
New York is the media capital of the world. They play in historic Madison Square Gardens. Owner James Dolan has no issue throwing money around like a multi-platinum rapper at the strip club.
Dita von Teese is one of the most versatile entertainers on the planet – an actress, designer, model and even burlesque artist.
Inspired by Betty Grable, Von Teese is well-known for her glamorous appearance and performances which involve the entertainer in a giant martini glass.
Von Teese got her start by performing at strip clubs and posing for photos as a fetish model. Her unique look set her apart from other women.
She appeared in a number magazines and was featured in “Playboy” in 1999, 2001 and 2002.
However, Von Teese is best known for her burlesque routines and the 37-year-old is known as the “queen of burlesque.”
Recently, Von Teese lent her support to the MAC Aids Fund to help raise money and awareness of the disease.
Von Teese has also just been in Vienna to perform at an annual aids charity concert during the World Aids Conference.
See the full article from “CNN (blog)”
Maybe this Earp: Saints for Sinnersis incredibly well written, but I refuse to pat them on the back for giving Wyatt Earp lasers instead of revolvers. Its really not that much more creative than your average Hollywood remake. Lets hope Sam Raimis more creative when making it than they were when coming up with it.
I suppose I shouldnt complain. Its not like Raimi had anything more creative to do. His other potential next project based on World of Warcraft and, since its a video game, we all know how that would have turned out: horribly. At least thats my stance until someone makes one that doesnt suck. So give me Wyatt Earp in the default comic setting, why not. At least itll spare us from sitting through yet another failed video game movie and judging from photos Ive seen of the comic, it contains a lot of naked strippers. Naked strippers is good, isnt it? I guess not every filmmaker can be as creative as Christopher Nolan. The last time Sam Raimi tried to be original, no one bothered to buy a ticket.
See the full article from “Cinema Blend”
Preservation Hall 726 St. Peter St., 522.2841 or 523.8939. Survivors Brass Band, 8.
Snug Harbor 626 Frenchmen St., 949.0696. Spencer Bohren Solo, 8 and 10.
Steamboat Natchez Toulouse Street Wharf at Jax Brewery, 586.8777. Day Cruise with Duke Heitger’s Steamboat Stompers, 11:30 a.m. and 2:30; Dinner Jazz Cruise with the Dukes of Dixieland Jazz Band, 7.
Sweet Lorraine’s 1931 St. Claude Ave., 945.9654. Blues Night featuring Chucky C and Clearly Blue, 9 and 11.
Windsor Court Hotel (Polo Club Lounge) 300 Gravier St., 523.6000. Michael Pellera, 7.
theater
Blackbird The Elm Theatre, 220 Julia St., 218.0055. A Gulf War veteran with severe back pain and a young ex-stripper struggling with drug addiction desperately cling to each other in hope of escaping their grim lives. Performance at 8. Tickets: $15. Group rates available.
See the full article from “NOLA.com”
An ambitious plan is in the works to impose new zoning standards gradually eliminating strip clubs and converting Fat City into a pleasant town center appealing to families, shoppers and diners. It likely won’t be implemented until late this year, but in the meantime, Parish Councilwoman Cynthia Lee-Sheng, whose district includes the neighborhood, is using the parish’s alcohol permit rules to target Fat City bars.
In March, the Parish Council revived a committee that hadn’t met since the 1980s to review the alcohol permit of the Forum Club, a bar at 3208 N. Arnoult Road where sheriff’s deputies made a series of arrests for underage drinking. The council then denied the bar’s permit in April, at Lee-Sheng’s urging.
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The new codes will call for phasing out the district’s remaining strip clubs. They will impose the new standards as businesses change hands and reopen under different formats.
New Orleans Strip Clubs: After the deluge
July 9, 2010
Though the title Treme refers to a specific faubourg — a French word meaning suburb — the show’s locations are varied. They include the French Quarter, where viewers will encounter a young couple busking for tourists; the sleazy bars and strip clubs of Bourbon Street; and the posh Garden District, where a white liberal couple — she is a public interest lawyer and he is an English professor at Tulane University — live with their precocious teenage daughter, who resents being sent to boarding school in Baton Rouge.
According to locals, the lawyer character Toni Bernette (played by Melissa Leo; John Goodman plays her husband) is clearly based on Mary Howell, a well-known veteran defender of civil rights in a city with a reputation for police misconduct and official corruption. It is said all the main fictional characters are based on real people, and the show also features well-known musicians playing themselves, among them jazz legends Kermit Ruffins and Alain Toussaint.
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“Aside from retro burlesque reviews, has live music accompanied a Bourbon Street stripper in decades?”
On a recent afternoon, a steady stream of Vietnamese fishermen, business owners and seafood processor workers cycled through the BP claims office in eastern New Orleans, despite heavy showers outside.
The office averages about 60 visitors a day, says Robert Haviland, a BP community outreach team leader. By 3 p.m., more than 100 claimants had signed in. Eighteen workers and three Vietnamese translators, to help with the jobless fishermen of the nearby Vietnamese community, handle the workload, he says.
Most claims are processed within a few days, Haviland says.
Claims missing documentation or with a questionable basis for compensation are not rejected outright, they’re just kept open, Haviland says. A local strip club owner recently filed a claim asking for compensation because out-of-work fishermen, his main clients, had stopped visiting the club. That claim remains open, he says.
See the full article from “USA Today”