Detroit Adult Entertainment: 3 arrested in Dougall Ave. raid
August 15, 2009 at 1:49 pm | In Detroit adult entertainment | No CommentsCraig said a few minutes later, he saw one man walking backward toward the street from between the houses with his hands on his head. He said he believes three people â two men and a woman â were arrested.
He said he was shaken up by what he saw. âThere are lots of kids in the neighbourhood. Iâm thinking about moving now.â
Another neighbour said she has been noticing strange activity around the house, believed to be a rental property, during the past three months or so.
âWeâve been seeing lots of fancy cars like BMWs driving by, going around the block, and then coming back and stopping,â said the woman, who didnât want her name used.
âThen someone comes out from the house and goes over to the car window and they do something and the car leaves.â She said neighbours suspect that drug or prostitution activity was taking place in the building.
See the full article from “Windsor Star”
Detroit Adult Entertainment: Police arrest three women in Duluth for prostitution
August 15, 2009 at 1:49 pm | In Detroit adult entertainment | No CommentsUndercover officers working around the areas of 100 E. First St. downtown and the 2000 block of West Superior Street in Lincoln Park/West End arrested six people Wednesday, including three women for prostitution.
Investigators from the Duluth Police Department and the Lake Superior Drug and Gang Task Force participated in the arrests. The Police Department said it has planned more plainclothes details in problem areas around the city.
Two of the women, ages 35 and 52, were arrested near the 100 E. First St. area, while a 42-year-old woman was arrested near 2013 W. Superior St.
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“We know they’ve been problem areas,’’ Wick said. “There’s been a lot of police calls to some of these areas and they’ve included prostitution and drugs. The reason they put together this little detail is to try to deal with the issues before getting the calls.’’
Detroit Adult Entertainment: ‘Curious’ pit bull frightens woman
August 15, 2009 at 1:49 pm | In Detroit adult entertainment | No CommentsA pit bull put a scare into a woman and her pet about 8:30 p.m. Saturday, when the dog escaped from a back yard in the 18000 block of Dalby and charged menacingly, according to a report filed with Redford police.
But the pit bull was “just curious,” according to a witness, who said the dog didn’t bark or growl, but sort of looked and sniffed. The woman was “making a big deal over nothing,” said the witness, a neighbor, who grabbed the dog’s collar and returned it to the owner.
The woman and her pet, both Detroit residents, were frightened, but not injured, said police. The pit bull’s owner was cautioned to keep the dog confined.
A 51-year-old man from Brighton was knocked to the ground and robbed shortly before midnight Saturday in the parking lot of La Chambre, an adult entertainment club on Telegraph, near Schoolcraft.
See the full article from “Mirror”
Detroit Adult Entertainment: Cash For Clunkers Faces Possible Suspension
August 15, 2009 at 1:49 pm | In Detroit adult entertainment | No CommentsThe suspension was prompted by squeels from N.A.D.A. (National Auto Dealer’s Association) due to a “poll” they ran questioning dealers about how much money they had “outstanding” through the program. I received this poll. It simply asked how many deals had a dealer completed that had not yet been entered into the C.A.R.S. system. It didn’t ask why!
The “WHY” is partially due to a very slow system; clearly struggling to function with all the participation. However, the REAL reason deals are not already input is because they’re not ready – they’re not complete.
Everyone keeps whining about how tricky the program is and how apparantly it is unfeasible that adult business owners or their staff are capable of taking an extra hour or two in the month that preceeded the activiation of the program, to sit down and read all 136 pages! Really? Oh, please!
See the full article from “BusinessWeek”
Detroit Adult Entertainment: Road trip with my brother Ratso Rizzo
August 15, 2009 at 1:49 pm | In Detroit adult entertainment | No CommentsRoad trip with my brother Ratso Rizzo
Driving down a sweltering memory lane
Peter Kenter, National Post Published: Friday, August 14, 2009
Handout photo
A humid trip to Cleveland was like the final scene in Midnight Cowboy.
Every once in a while I watch Midnight Cowboy, not because of its life-affirming message, but because it’s so grim I can’t turn away. The final minutes in which would-be prostitute Joe Buck (John Voight) carts a dying Ratso Rizzo (Dustin Hoffman) by bus to Florida is played for such pathos it’s almost shameful. Tacky visions of Ratso in some sort of pimp costume, dancing on the beach with girls, is all that keeps them going.
The film dredges up memories of the time my brother and I made the four-hour car trip from London, Ont. to Cleveland around Lake Erie by way of Detroit. We’d dared each other to appear on a long-running Cleveland TV program, The Big Chuck and Li’l John Show, which offered horror movies, eccentric comedy and plenty of opportunities for audience participation. We packed a VCR in the trunk so we could record the program when it ran that night.
Detroit Adult Entertainment: Agent double-o-soul
August 15, 2009 at 1:49 pm | In Detroit adult entertainment | No CommentsThe Davis-Davis connection produced a mature and sophisticated catalog of songs that saw Davis’ musical prowess come to full fruition. Although the thundering mid-tempo dancer “I Must Love You” was his only release as an artist on Groovesville, Davis’ songwriting put that label on the map: he penned “I Don’t Want to Lose You” for Wilson/Mancha and “Chains of Love” — a huge regional hit — for Barnes, while Darryl Banks and Johnnie Taylor cut “I’m the One Who Really Loves You” and Jackie Beavers waxed “I Need My Baby.”
As always, Davis kept a band on the side, his latest a power trio that included himself on drums, Lyman Woodard on organ and Dennis Coffey on guitar. It all started in 1966 at Detroit’s Frolic Show Bar.
“We had the best band in town,” Coffey said in a recent interview. “No one could beat us. All the pimps, all the players, all the judges — everyone would come down. The place was packed every night.”
Detroit Adult Entertainment: Highway stars: Vintage ‘cafe racer’ motorcycles catching on in …
August 15, 2009 at 1:49 pm | In Detroit adult entertainment | No Comments… The coolest thing about these Japanese bikes is the minimalism,” Gilmore says. “These bikes are fun, cheap and interesting; they’re the bikes you want to lean on and learn about.” That sentiment is shared by the Cafe Racer guys, as well as Anthony Garth, a video director who co-founded Royal Oak’s newly formed Sin-A-Munz cafe racer club.
“If you’re getting into it for the first time, I recommend people look at something old and Japanese, maybe 400 to 600 cubic centimeters (CCs) — that’s the size of the engine,” Garth says. “Why spend $25,000 to ride a bike you think is cool when you can spend $800 on a vintage Japanese bike, pimp it out for another $500, and own a bike you can be proud of because you had a part in its completely unique look and feel?”
See the full article from “MLive.com”
Detroit Adult Entertainment: … like a horse
August 15, 2009 at 1:49 pm | In Detroit adult entertainment | No CommentsHe’s living in a tent on his property. Even his basketball team is on a losing streak. His ex-beauty queen ex-wife, Jessica (the mercurial Anne Heche, of all people), who left Ray for a wealthy dermatologist and assumed custody of their two sulky teenagers, expresses his plight most succinctly. “God, you were magical in high school!” she laments. “You were a king! You were beautiful and athletic and talented and smart and popular, and hung. Now you’re just hung.”
Desperate enough to attend one of those cheesy get-rich seminars in a hotel ballroom, Ray runs into former conquest Tanya Skagle (Jane Adams — Miles Crane’s second wife, Mel, on Frasier — who’s doing Emmy-quality work here), a drifty temp proofreader and part-time poet, who challenges him to use his only remaining asset, his monstrous love log, as a means to an end. He scans the back pages of the “Detroit Examiner” (they couldn’t mean our beloved Metro Times, could they?) for research, but quickly realizes he can’t pull it out by himself. He returns to Tanya for advice, and they form Detroit’s unlikeliest male prostitute-pimp partnership.
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