Detroit Strip Clubs: Sexy ads should be censored
March 10, 2010 at 10:13 am | In Detroit strip clubs | No CommentsThen, last week, driving along Dougall Avenue near the train tracks, between Tecumseh and Eugenie streets, is a billboard for a rock station with a naked woman strategically covered with a guitar. Around the city is a similar ad with two naked men with strategic coconuts covering their body parts.
I understand businesses want their ads noticed but they have to understand there are children seeing these ads. This is not lighthearted humour. It is shock factor advertising to get the city talking, at the expense of our children’s innocence.
I am deeply offended that the advertising standards allow this and have filed a complaint there, too. I am disappointed the city can’t censor this type of advertising, like the strip club on Huron Church Road and their suggestive sign. What a wonderful impression Windsor must give the commuters who have to pass through our city regularly or for the first time.
See the full article from “Windsor Star”
Detroit Strip Clubs: 911 transcripts ordered in stripper case
March 9, 2010 at 1:49 pm | In Detroit strip clubs | No CommentsLast Updated: March 09. 2010 7:32AM
911 transcripts ordered in stripper case
Paul Egan / The Detroit News
Detroit — A federal judge on Monday ordered the city of Detroit to hire a contractor to recover and transcribe 911 tapes from around the time of a rumored stripper party at the mayor’s Manoogian Mansion in the fall of 2002.
U.S. Magistrate Judge R. Steven Whalen gave the city 14 days to produce the transcripts, sought in connection with a lawsuit brought by the family of slain exotic dancer Tamara “Strawberry” Greene.
“It needs to get done,” Whalen said of producing the long-sought transcripts.
Greene was shot to death in Detroit on April 30, 2003. According to court records, Greene may have been assaulted at the rumored 2002 party by Carlita Kilpatrick, the wife of former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick.
Detroit Strip Clubs: Start cleaning up our billboard ads
March 9, 2010 at 1:49 pm | In Detroit strip clubs | No CommentsOne would think that Windsor has enough problems with extremely high unemployment, numerous strip bars, escort services, murder, street muggings and the list goes on.
Recently, while driving east on Wyandotte Street near the Walker Road intersection, I couldn’t help but notice a large billboard advertising a local radio station. The images on the board were two nude radio personalities with coconuts strategically placed over their private parts.
I have never seen a billboard advertisement so disgusting on a city street anywhere. I’m wondering what kind of message is being conveyed to our children, tourists, future business leaders looking to perhaps invest when they drive by and see trash like this? If we, in Windsor, are serious about regaining long-term prosperity again, let’s start by, at least, cleaning up our billboard advertisements.
See the full article from “Windsor Star”
Detroit Strip Clubs: Conyers’ sentencing date nears
March 9, 2010 at 1:48 pm | In Detroit strip clubs | No CommentsU.S. District Judge Avern Cohn is to sentence Conyers on Wednesday after she pleaded guilty in June to bribery conspiracy, a five-year felony.
Conyers admitted to taking at least $6,000 in cash in connection with the $1.2 billion sludge contract the Detroit City Council awarded to Synagro Technologies Inc. in 2007, with Conyers casting the deciding vote.
But in a sentencing memorandum unsealed Monday, Assistant U.S. Attorneys Michael Bullotta and Mark Chutkow said evidence at the trial of political consultant Sam Riddle, Conyers’ ex-chief of staff, showed her corruption went far beyond the Synagro deal.
Prosecutors estimated Conyers and Riddle extracted about $69,500 from Synagro, a technology company, a strip club consultant, a real estate developer and a Greektown businessman with matters before the City Council or a city pension fund where Conyers sat as a trustee.
Detroit Strip Clubs: Detroit’s desolate middle makes downsizing tough
March 9, 2010 at 1:48 pm | In Detroit strip clubs | No CommentsShirlee thought about investing another $10,000 in his house. It wouldn’t make a difference. It’s appraised at $2,000.
“The city has gone nuts,” said Bertha Sieg, 69, who has lived on 15th Street for 42 years. “The city needs to start fixing up the neighborhoods and help homeowners who live here and get something done.”
Sieg said she doesn’t care how much the city would offer. She plans on dying in her home.
Lahser-Berg thrives
Closer to the border of Southfield, brick ranches are valued around $70,000. They began springing up in the 1950s in Lahser-Berg.
Two pillars of the neighborhood stand on Burt Road: McKenny, which opened in 1950, and Bethany-Pembroke Chapel. Neighbors organize to fight the sale of drugs at Henry Tuttle Park and problems that spill over from the Penthouse Club topless bar on Eight Mile.
Detroit Strip Clubs: Mike Cox says he’s unable to turn over phone records in Tamara Greene case
March 9, 2010 at 12:12 am | In Detroit strip clubs | No CommentsRegion: City of Detroit, Region: Wayne County ยป
Mike Cox says he’s unable to turn over phone records in Tamara Greene case
March 08, 2010, 6:05PM
Attorney General Mike Cox says he doesn’t know what home phone-service company he used in 2003, and therefore can’t find home phone records related to his investigation of slain stripper Tamara “Strawberry” Greene’s shooting death.
The Detroit News reports that attorney Norman Yatooma wants to review Cox’s phone records from 2003 to see whether they can shed light on Greene’s April 2003 murder. Yatooma represents Greene’s family, who have filed a civil suit alleging that officials blocked an investigation into her death.
Cox investigated whether former Detroit mayor Kwame Kilpatrick held a raucous party at the Manoogian Mansion in 2002, at which Greene was rumored to have danced. But Cox and Michigan State Police ruled that the party never happened.
See the full article from “MLive.com”
Detroit Strip Clubs: Cox tells court he can’t find his home phone records for stripper lawsuit
March 9, 2010 at 12:12 am | In Detroit strip clubs | No CommentsLast Updated: March 08. 2010 7:05PM
Cox tells court he can’t find his home phone records for stripper lawsuit
Paul Egan / The Detroit News
Detroit — Attorney General Mike Cox can’t turn over his home phone records in connection with a lawsuit brought by the family of a slain exotic dancer because he doesn’t remember and can’t find out what phone company he used in 2003, a federal judge was told today.
Norman Yatooma, the attorney for the family of dancer Tamara “Strawberry” Greene, has requested records of phone calls between Cox and four others from around the time in 2003 when Cox investigated a rumored stripper party at the mayor’s Manoogian Mansion that allegedly occurred in the fall of 2002.
Frank Monticello, an attorney for Cox, told U.S. Magistrate Judge R. Steven Whalen that Cox has provided records from his office phone and his personal cell phone.
Detroit Strip Clubs: Stripper suit back in court over city’s slow response in producing records
March 8, 2010 at 5:24 pm | In Detroit strip clubs | No CommentsLast Updated: March 08. 2010 1:12PM
Stripper suit back in court over city’s slow response in producing records
Paul Egan / The Detroit News
Detroit — A federal magistrate judge is to hear arguments today that the family of slain exotic dancer Tamara “Strawberry” Greene should be awarded judgment in their lawsuit because of repeated foot-dragging in producing records by the city of Detroit and former Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick.
“There is clearly a pattern of disregard concerning the city’s duties to gather, preserve and produce relevant evidence to the court and to plaintiffs,” Greene family attorney Norman Yatooma said in a January court filing asking that the city and Kilpatrick be found in default.
The city filed a response to the motion in February, but the response was filed under seal, so its contents are not known.
Detroit Strip Clubs: Last Call Coming Soon To Strip Clubs?
March 5, 2010 at 1:01 am | In Detroit strip clubs | No CommentsLast Call Coming Soon To Strip Clubs?
6:19 PM CST, March 4, 2010
FAST FACTS:
US Court of Appeals refuses to hear challenge to county ordinance
Law would put new restrictions on adult-oriented businesses
County plans to ask judge next week to allow enforcement
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(Memphis 3/4/2010) Big changes could be on the way for area strip clubs.
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First, strip clubs, adult bookstores and adult theaters would have to get a county license. All owners of the establishments and workers would have to be licensed, and pass criminal background checks. The ordinance also lays down the law when it comes to lap dances.
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In 2008 operators of seven Memphis strip clubs sued to block the ordinance, and got an injunction to keep the county from enforcing it. They argue, the laws would, “Unconstitutionally diminish the availability of sexually candid dance performances.”
See the full article from “WREG”
Detroit Strip Clubs: Reasoning Together
March 4, 2010 at 11:25 am | In Detroit strip clubs | No CommentsBut now, a new coalition of atheist organizations is rolling out an introductory campaign this week designed to show that there are probably more non-believers in and around “god’s city” than you might think. And this new umbrella group, the Detroit Area Coalition of Reason, is working diligently to bring together as many of them as possible.
I heard from Ruthe Milan, a coalition organizer, a few weeks ago about the campaign (which features signs like the one pictured above) and was intrigued. I grew even more interested as I watched big-name Detroit ministers try, yet again, to turn city politics into their personal sanctuaries during the debate over Detroit’s strip club ordinances a week or so back. So I reached out to Milan to find out more about the campaign and what the leaders of Detroit CoR hope to bring to public conversations currently dominated by believers.
See the full article from “TIME (blog)”
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