Detroit Adult Entertainment: Arts & Entertainment : Theater Review
June 17, 2010 at 8:37 pm | In Detroit adult entertainment | No CommentsThus do two of D.C.’s newest theatrical offerings—one a century old, one barely a decade; one presented by the city’s big classics house, the other by a smallish company with a taste for things Irish; one a biting canonical comic drama set in Edwardian England, the other a wistful, warmhearted musical set in the ’60s—grapple with our eternal need to define ourselves by demonizing the outsider, the sinner, the Other. Banned from the stage for years, George Bernard Shaw’s Mrs. Warren’s Profession scandalized London’s critics with its dissection of the economics of prostitution and the moral hypocrisies of English society when it was finally presented in 1902; in New York, it was the police rather than the theater press who responded first, with warrants for disorderly conduct targeting the entire cast of the 1905 U.S. premiere. A Man of No Importance, though its title is an homage to a similarly pointed Oscar Wilde critique of British society—and though its plot pits the Wildean “vices” of aesthetic yearning and homosexu …
Detroit Strip Clubs: Investor tied to Detroit corruption probes sent to prison
June 17, 2010 at 7:36 pm | In Detroit strip clubs | No CommentsA couple of hours after Orecchio gave the check to Greektown businessman Jim Papas, who was hosting a fundraiser for Kilpatrick’s nonprofit, Orecchio was escorted to a room where he met with Kilpatrick and former city treasurer Jeff Beasley, according to FBI interview reports.
When the matter went before the pension board, Kilpatrick “came during the late debate and pressed the (pension) board to approve AA Capital, which they did,” Orecchio told the FBI.
Though the investment was approved, it ultimately did not go through.
Kilpatrick and his father, business consultant Bernard N. Kilpatrick, remain under FBI and grand jury investigation in Detroit.
Illinois Assistant U.S. Attorney Brian Hayes said Orecchio was told to report to prison Sept. 14.
“He’s a guy who was expected to safeguard and invest these funds wisely and instead he did quite the opposite,” Hayes said. “It was a shocking display of greed.”
A Detroit strip club called the Crazy Horse was among the places Orecchio invested money.
Detroit Strip Clubs: Investor lived dual life on plundered cash
June 17, 2010 at 1:49 pm | In Detroit strip clubs | No CommentsThe rest of the time, court records show, he posed as a high-rolling millionaire who drove a Bentley, collected thoroughbred racehorses and traveled on private jets to Las Vegas and tropical islands with his young fiancee, a former dancer whom he met during frequent visits to a Detroit strip club.
His dual life was supported by a seemingly bottomless pool of cash plundered from union pension funds. A University of Notre Dame graduate who earned an MBA from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management, Orecchio pleaded guilty in February to embezzling millions of dollars from a handful of Michigan pension funds through his investment company, Chicago-based AA Capital Partners. He is slated to be sentenced in federal court Thursday.
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Yet the bulk of the money Orecchio embezzled went toward stoking his millionaire image, according to court records. Along the way, he took up with a 27-year-old dancer who worked at Crazy Horse Detroit, a strip club where Orecchio took clients.
Detroit Escorts: Suffragette City
June 17, 2010 at 1:14 pm | In Detroit escorts | No CommentsSuffragette City
George Bernard Shaw’s Mrs. Warren’s Profession speaks with a timeless and, on occasion, starkly insightful voice
For those who tend to think of late Victorian/early Edwardian feminism in terms of the insuppressibly cheerful suffragette mother in Mary Poppins, George Bernard Shaw’s Mrs. Warren’s Profession is something of a revelation. Penned in 1893, the play intelligently proffers and discusses a raft of feminist issues still hotly debated today, including such basics as whether a woman is truly free to define herself without being branded a freak and the more seminar-level issue of whether prostitution is a victimless crime.
Of course, in Shaw’s day these ideas were still largely new, scary and untested and the manner in which he treats them is, perhaps by necessity, didactic by 21st century standards. So, although there is a palpable mother-daughter emotional drama working throughout the play, there is also a great deal of explanatory speech-making. So much so, that at times Mrs. Warren’s Profession feels as if the character …
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Detroit Escorts: Tea Party brews in Milford
June 17, 2010 at 1:14 pm | In Detroit escorts | No CommentsMaking a difference
Featured at the June meeting was Jennifer Helmer, deputy chair of the Michigan Republican Party, and tea party supporter Jim Keena, author of “Insurrection Resurrection” and the soon-to-be released “We’ve Been Had: How Obama Conned Middle Class America.”
Taking a chapter from his second book, Keena shared a PowerPoint presentation on the Association for Community Organizations and Reform Now — commonly known as ACORN — which has made headlines during the past year due to alleged voter fraud and released video footage of ACORN workers giving advice on setting up a prostitution operation. Keena outlined the history and efforts of the 40-year-old group, which he says are based on principles of socialism, and discussed ACORN’s association with President Barack Obama up to and including involvement in the 2008 election.
Detroit Strip Clubs: Investor lived dual life on plundered cash
June 17, 2010 at 8:01 am | In Detroit strip clubs | No CommentsFor four years, John Orecchio spent part of his life as a well-respected banker, husband and devoted father of three young children living in a two-story house with white pillars on a tree-lined Arlington Heights street. The rest of the time, court records show, he posed as a high-rolling millionaire who drove a Bentley, collected thoroughbred racehorses and traveled on private jets to Las Vegas and tropical islands with his young fiancee, a former dancer whom he met during frequent visits to a Detroit strip club.
His dual life was supported by a seemingly bottomless pool of cash plundered from union pension funds. A University of Notre Dame graduate who earned an MBA from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management, Orecchio pleaded guilty in February to embezzling millions of dollars from a handful of Michigan pension funds through his investment company, Chicago-based AA Capital Partners. He is slated to be sentenced in federal court Thursday.
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Yet the bulk of the money Orecchio embezzled went toward stoking his millionaire image, according to court records. Along the way, he took up with a 27-year-old dancer who worked at Crazy Horse Detroit, a strip club where Orecchio took clients.
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