Detroit Strip Clubs: Strip club, police clash; lawsuits fly
April 29, 2010 at 6:25 am | In Detroit strip clubs | No CommentsStrip club, police clash; lawsuits fly
George Hunter and Christine Macdonald / The Detroit News
The paper
Court papers showing Detroit Police agreed to tone down raids and inspections on the All Stars’ strip club before last week’s raid over claims it allowed a 14-year-old with a learning disability to dance topless.
The chase
Club manager Andrew Hutson, 31, faces 20 years in prison on charges of child sexually abusive activity. Police say he allowed the girl to dance under the name “Fantasy” for at least two months.
But two years ago, Hutson won a federal lawsuit against the city that stated police entered the club on Eight Mile and Schaefer repeatedly as “part of an official policy of the city to censor and discourage dance conveying an erotic message, through the detention, groundless arrests, harassment and intimidation of both patrons and employees of All Stars’ by law enforcement officers,” according to the lawsuit. The City Council approved a $7,500 settlement to Hutson last fall.
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Last week’s arrest rekindled the emotional debate about strip clubs in Detroit, which had cooled after the City Council passed ordinances this year banning lap dancing and VIP rooms.
Detroit Escorts: Windsor dancers groove at Caesars
April 28, 2010 at 1:13 pm | In Detroit escorts | No CommentsPaired with professional dancers, the original 12 celebrities rumba-ed and tango-ed on stage in competitions in February, with three couples eliminated after each month’s show.
Tuesday night’s performances included an ’80s-style rumba from Nelson Santos and dance partner Dr. Maria Blass. “I’ve never taken any lessons before, so it’s been a great experience in terms of separating both left feet,” Santos said. “But I’ll do anything for a good cause.”
The professionally staged event, based on popular TV talent competitions such as So You Think You Can Dance and Britain’s Got Talent, didn’t even lack the requisite hard-nosed but humorous British judge. Local financial adviser and British ex-pat Victor Green delivered suitably snarky comments to competitors such as “You’ve got to act like you own the brothel, not like you’re creeping through the brothel.”
See the full article from “Windsor Star”
Detroit Strip Clubs: Man stabbed at Windsor strip club
April 28, 2010 at 1:01 pm | In Detroit strip clubs | No CommentsA man was found stabbed and bleeding in the parking lot of Leopard’s Lounge on Wyandotte Street West early Wednesday morning. (Google)
A man is in serious condition after being stabbed outside a Windsor strip club.
Windsor police said the stabbing happened just after 2 a.m. at Leopard’s Lounge on Wyandotte Street.
The victim was stabbed in the chest and suffered a collapsed lung.
Police tell CBC News there was an argument between him and another man.
No one has been arrested yet.
Leopard’s parking lot was the scene of a murder on July 21, 2009.
Nicholas Ingram, 25, was found stabbed to death outside the club in Windsor’s west end.
Kenyatta Brown is facing a charge of second-degree murder in that death.
See the full article from “CBC.ca”
Detroit Strip Clubs: Google mapping to cover all of Canada
April 28, 2010 at 7:12 am | In Detroit strip clubs | No CommentsThe company wonât be reshooting any of the cities already listed, with the exception of Windsor, Ontario, to help improve the current less-than-immaculate view of the city, which had garbage piling up because of a garbage strike when cameras hit the streets of that city last year. Google didnât announce which cities would be added, but said the list of cities it will be visiting, will be listed starting next week at google.ca/streetview. The site will be updated regularly.
Google will return to Windsor and shoot new photographs of city streets that were filled with garbage and lined with knee-high scrub when Google first came to the city during a protracted city strike last summer. Google said it is expanding the cities in Canada featured in its popular Street View program and that it will return to Windsor after hearing complaints from frustrated city officials. The footage initially shot by Google included images of a murder scene outside a Wyandotte Street strip club. Google removed the offending images after alarm bells were triggered by Ward 2 Coun. Ron Jones.
Detroit Escorts: Bolshoi Revives Grigorovich’s ‘Romeo and Juliet’
April 27, 2010 at 9:13 pm | In Detroit escorts | No CommentsGrigorovich’s “Romeo and Juliet” was preceded at the Bolshoi by the original Russian production, choreographed by Leonid Lavrovsky, which was initially staged at Leningrad’s Kirov (now Mariinsky) Theater in 1940 and brought to the Bolshoi six years later.
The Bolshoi took a third shot at “Romeo and Juliet” in 2003, in what turned out to be one of the brightest and also saddest chapters in modern Bolshoi history. The production was an utterly stunning modern-dress version, jointly concocted by Moldovan choreographer Radu Poklitaru and British director Declan Donnellan. But it lasted for barely more than a year, forced off stage by order of Prokofiev’s heirs, ostensibly because of tampering with the music, but most likely meant as a slap in the face of Poklitaru, who had undertaken, at a theater in Latvia, to turn the heroine of the composer’s ballet “Cinderella” into the housemaid of a brothel.
Detroit Strip Clubs: Detroit Strip Club Reportedly Hires 14-Year-Old Girl
April 27, 2010 at 7:36 pm | In Detroit strip clubs | No CommentsPolice in Detroit have arrested the manager of a topless bar for reportedly hiring a 14-year-old girl as a dancer. The Associated Press has details:
Detroit Strip Clubs: 5 Unforgettable Betty White Moments
April 27, 2010 at 7:36 pm | In Detroit strip clubs | No CommentsAlthough Sandra Bullock and Ryan Reynolds topped the bill on The Proposal,
Betty White owned the movie as the offbeat and
free-spirited Grandma Annie. If you had a grandmother
like Betty White in The Proposal, life would
be a never-ending stream of comedy. Two of the
most memorable Betty White moments ever are
preserved on film in scenes that show Betty
getting busy with a male stripper at a bachelorette
party for Bullock’s reluctant character and
White embracing Native American dance with Sandra
Bullock in one of the best scenes in the movie.
If you haven’t seen the movie yet, White also
plays a hilarious comedic role in the climax.
Rumor has it that Betty White begged the production
to let her do a nude scene since Sandra and
Ryan got buck naked. Told you Betty White is
fearless.
See the full article from “Deadbolt”
Detroit Strip Clubs: Lincoln Park gets 43 liquor licenses
April 27, 2010 at 2:12 am | In Detroit strip clubs | No CommentsLincoln Park, a city of 40,000 people, has 27 liquor licenses in use. The new ones, authorized by the Michigan Liquor Control Commission, could give the city up to 70, dwarfing the 48 permits in use in Royal Oak, which has about 60,000 residents.
Vaslo doesn’t expect all 43 of the new licenses to be used; he thinks 10-20 is realistic. The City Council must approve individual licenses.
“Any tool available that we can use for economic development, we’re going to take it,” Vaslo said. “I’m tired of just standing around (waiting for Lincoln Park’s rebirth).”
But not everyone is toasting the new liquor licenses as the rebirth of Lincoln Park. The Rev. Russell Bone, who led opposition to a strip club that opened at John Papas Drive and Southfield in December, is wary.
Detroit Escorts: Kilpatrick Whistle-Blower Trial Begins
April 26, 2010 at 9:13 pm | In Detroit escorts | No CommentsIf the alleged Manoogian Mansion party is proven to be true, Kilpatrick could face additional charges for giving false testimony during the police officer’s whistle-blower trial, in which he denied the party ever happened.
Davis also filed court documents saying on the first day of Kilpatricks term, he witnessed his boss on the executive protection unit arrange what he believed to be an extra-marital affair by the mayor at a local hotel.
When they came back up on the elevator, they took the mayor right into the room with the two females,” said Davis.
He tells Local 4 he believes the women were prostitutes, brought to the same hotel the Kilpatricks family was staying at that night, to celebrate the election win.
Wow, this man has a lot of nerves. To go in a room with these prostitutes and his wife is right on the same floor, right down the hallway, said Davis. As time passed, I noticed that the behavior continued.
See the full article from “WDIV Detroit”
Detroit Strip Clubs: From the comments: Who’s to blame in case of 14-year-old stripper found at …
April 26, 2010 at 2:36 pm | In Detroit strip clubs | No CommentsFrom the comments: Who’s to blame in case of 14-year-old stripper found at Detroit club?
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Club to blame? “WoW! Even though these kids have bodies that look grown, no excuse, Soon as they open their mouth you immediately get the real. (Look Older, Mind of a Child) it’s obvious, if they(stripper club owners, bars, men in general….) would use the head on their shoulders to think with they would know,” commenter, “Your Voice with Angelo Henderson”
“It’s amazing how almost everyone on here is blaming the parent, what about the club, some of these strip clubs know the ages of these kids and dnt care as long as they get the money and some give them fake id’s just in case they get caught so why yall idiots continue 2 protect these clubs they are going 2 continue 2 pimp or children!” commenter, “Coco, Chase and Mr. Foolish in the Morning.”
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