Detroit Strip Clubs: LINCOLN PARK: Judge orders city leaders to approve strip club or risk sanctions
October 13, 2009 at 7:36 pm | In Detroit strip clubs | No CommentsBy Jason Alley
A Larry Flynt Hustler Club is set to open in Lincoln Park pending approval at tonight’s City Council meeting. (Photo by E.L. Conley)
DETROIT — A federal judge scolded Lincoln Park officials Tuesday morning, saying she can’t understand why they continue to stall a strip club from opening in the city.
U.S. District Judge Nancy Edmunds said that if they continue, they could be fined $12,000 a day and be held in contempt of court.
“It’s been inspected up one side and down another,” Edmunds said of a Larry Flynt Hustler Club set to open at John A. Papalas Drive and Outer Drive. “I really don’t understand why it was postponed last week.”
On Thursday, Edmunds ordered four City Council members and a city supervisor to appear before her to explain why they shouldn’t be held in contempt for derailing the Hustler club’s opening.
Detroit Strip Clubs: Lincoln Park council members to OK strip club’s liquor license, attorney says
October 13, 2009 at 7:36 pm | In Detroit strip clubs | No CommentsTuesday, October 13, 2009
Lincoln Park council members to OK strip club’s liquor license, attorney says
Steve Pardo / The Detroit News
The battle between Lincoln Park council members and a controversial strip club will most likely come to an end following tonight’s council meeting, the city’s attorney said today.
City officials are expected to approve the liquor license transfer for the Larry Flynt Hustler Club on the ruling of U.S. District Court Judge Nancy Edmund.
“The judge told the council to go approve it. The whole case should be over now,” said Edward Zelenak, city attorney.
Attorneys for the proposed $4.2 million club at John A. Papalas Drive charged four members of the city council with holding up the opening of the venue. The four were ordered to appear today to explain why they didn’t transfer the liquor license to the club.
Detroit Strip Clubs: Strip club a go-go after agreement reached
October 13, 2009 at 7:36 pm | In Detroit strip clubs | No CommentsLawyers have cleared the way for a controversial strip club to open in Lincoln Park, a city lawyer said today.
After a contentious hearing this morning in federal court, U.S. District Judge Nancy Edmund asked lawyers on both sides to continue talking before she began holding Lincoln Park city council members in contempt for stalling on a liquor license transfer to the new Larry Flynt Hustler Club.
Edward Zelenak, an attorney for the city, said both sides got the matter resolved just before noon.
The $4.2-million Hustler club is at John A. Papalas Drive and Outer Drive in Lincoln Park.
I would suspect they are near opening it, Zelenak said.
Some council members held up the transfer last week even though it has already been approved by the state. Zelenak had also urged council members to approve the license transfer.
Detroit Strip Clubs: Strip club a go-go after agreement reached
October 13, 2009 at 1:49 pm | In Detroit strip clubs | No CommentsLawyers have cleared the way for a controversial strip club to open in Lincoln Park, a city lawyer said today.
After a contentious hearing this morning in federal court, U.S. District Judge Nancy Edmund asked lawyers on both sides to continue talking before she began holding Lincoln Park city council members in contempt for stalling on a liquor license transfer to the new Larry Flynt Hustler Club.
Edward Zelenak, an attorney for the city, said both sides got the matter resolved just before noon.
The $4.2-million Hustler club is at John A. Papalas Drive and Outer Drive in Lincoln Park.
I would suspect they are near opening it, Zelenak said.
Some council members held up the transfer last week even though it has already been approved by the state. Zelenak had also urged council members to approve the license transfer.
Detroit Strip Clubs: Judge: Approve strip club’s liquor license
October 13, 2009 at 1:49 pm | In Detroit strip clubs | No CommentsLawyers have cleared the way for a controversial strip club to open in Lincoln Park, a city lawyer said today.
After a contentious hearing this morning in federal court, U.S. District Judge Nancy Edmund asked lawyers on both sides to continue talking before she began holding Lincoln Park city council members in contempt for stalling on a liquor license transfer to the new Larry Flynt Hustler Club.
Edward Zelenak, an attorney for the city, said both sides got the matter resolved just before noon.
The $4.2-million Hustler club is at John A. Papalas Drive and Outer Drive in Lincoln Park.
I would suspect they are near opening it, Zelenak said.
Some council members held up the transfer last week even though it has already been approved by the state. Zelenak had also urged council members to approve the license transfer.
Detroit Adult Entertainment: GM’s Top Sales Executive Steps Down
October 13, 2009 at 11:13 am | In Detroit adult entertainment | No CommentsOctober 7, 2009, 4:50 pm
G.M.’s Top Sales Executive Steps Down
Paul Sancya/Associated Press Mark LaNeve, vice president of sales in the United States for General Motors, is leaving.
Update | 4:08 p.m.
It might have been less than a decade since rap artists and wide receivers began pimping out their Escalades with flat screens and chrome spinners. But Cadillac’s revival as a luxury brand seems like ages ago. And now the man at the head of that revival is leaving the company.
Mark R. LaNeve, who most recently served as G.M.’s vice president of sales in the United States, will leave the company on Oct. 15. The departure was announced in a conference call by Fritz Henderson, the chief executive of General Motors. Mr. LaNeve will be replaced by Susan Docherty, the general manager of Buick-GMC.
Detroit Adult Entertainment: Cop Shocks
October 13, 2009 at 11:13 am | In Detroit adult entertainment | No CommentsByrnes and I both have a bit about Detroit, but it’s a different Detroit. In my piece Detroit isn’t a place for celebrity fly-ins to slum-it. It’s a distributive function. Detroit drops bodies in streets around North America, though not without a certain macabre grace. Someone’s dropped a body this week in my street by way of illustrating the principle, and done so in the future bike lane. “Bike lanes are musical notation,” I write. “Read them sideways with bodies in bloody bold as the dramatic notes. Let the witless complicity of do-gooder cyclists leaning into their drop handlebars serve as the connecting notes in italics.” My leader-lovin’ friends remain silent. Like I said, I’ll never be able to write for the Times, though my theoretical belief in parallel universes suggests that there is at least a technical possibility of a cosmos in which the journal of record from the island of Manhattan neither pimps for empire nor trades in banalities.
See the full article from “CounterPunch”
Detroit Adult Entertainment: Stepping up
October 13, 2009 at 3:49 am | In Detroit adult entertainment | No CommentsA partnership that began four years ago between the University of Windsor and Glengarry Avenue residents has helped drive drugs and prostitutes from one of Windsor’s most crime-ridden communities, and is now branching out to other troubled neighbourhoods. But it took hard work and lots of moxie.
“I had to have somebody with me for two or three weeks wherever I went because I had death threats,” said Neyrda Ollett, a resident and chairwoman of the Glengarry Neighbourhood Strengthening Committee.
“I had three drug dealers on my floor. I’d sit in the middle of the hallway while everybody was going into their apartments. I found out later this one gentleman, he was afraid of me. He was a tough guy, but he was afraid of me, because I didn’t back away. I’d stand downstairs at the lobby and I wouldn’t let people in.
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“Then we had prostitutes all night long banging on peoples’ doors. We don’t have it anymore.”
See the full article from “Windsor Star”
Detroit Escorts: Joe Hallett commentary: Downtown could end up big loser if casino issue passes
October 13, 2009 at 1:37 am | In Detroit escorts | No Comments… That’s $100,000 that’s not being spent on cars, refrigerators, computers and the necessities of life: food, clothing, banking, savings,” Kindt said. It also won’t be spent at Huntington Park, Nationwide Arena and the Short North’s restaurants and shops.
Casinos adversely hit the wallets of all citizens. Studies presented to Congress project that the cost of legalized gambling to taxpayers is at least $3 for every $1 of theoretical benefit, primarily due to increased crime and addiction.
It is indisputable that with casinos come rises in assaults, rape, robbery, burglary, auto theft, bankruptcies, embezzlements, child abuse, homelessness, drug usage and prostitution. After a 10-year study, researchers at Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology concluded in 2006 that crime increased 8 percent to 10 percent on average after a casino opened in a county — and crime increases continued thereafter.
Detroit Massage Parlors: Downtown Windsor hangs on to party-hardy image
October 13, 2009 at 1:37 am | In Detroit massage parlors | No Comments12:41 a.m. Scores of young people crisscross Ouellette, travelling from bar to bar, shouting, screaming and laughing. Despite the cool temperature, thereâs plenty of bare skin on display. If thereâs a dress code for women tonight, itâs knee-high boots and miniscule dresses.
12:52 a.m. A Hummer limo pulls in front of Koko Pellieâs to drop off a party of women heading inside for a stagette party. Another police car cruises by.
12:56 a.m. A guy urinates in a doorway at the corner of Pelissier and Chatham. Minutes later, another guy upchucks into Pelissier. His buddies shout back to him, âDude! You need to learn how to drink every weekend!â
1:08 a.m. Two men smoke cigarettes outside a massage parlour on Pelissier near Wyandotte. Aside from the tinny dance music emanating weakly from the place, allâs quiet on this front.
See the full article from “Windsor Star”
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