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In June of 2011, I purchased a postcard reproduction of Library After Air Raid (London 1940) (depiction, following page) at Vroman’s Books in Pasadena, California, and for the duration of that year, 12 months that were as hellish and chaotic for me as the events memorialized in the anonymous photographer’s lens from 1940, that postcard was always within arm’s reach; sometimes I employed it as a book mark for books I never finished reading. When I dwelled for seven months in a roach-infested, squalid communal hotel above a seedy strip club in San Francisco’s North Beach district (formerly the infamous Barbary Coast) Library After Air Raid was Scotch-taped to the wall near my mattress.
And now, as I pen these words, the postcard hangs by a magnet on the refrigerator in the mini-kitchenette of my studio apartment in Las Vegas, Nevada. Obviously 2011 was a year of a great many migrations in my life.

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When she was in her 40s, Catherine discovered that shady casino mogul Sam Braun was her biological father—a bit of a conflict for someone tasked with investigating crime in a town built on gaming… but, you know, we don’t choose our families. In Season 7, Sam took a bullet and died in Catherine’s arms.
Catherine’s final two episodes were staid by her usual standards: She was shot in the stomach, had her wound cauterized in a no-tell motel with a friendly whore’s curling iron, went into hiding in the club where she once “worked the pole,” and was betrayed by a childhood friend.
Maybe one day it will be possible for a network procedural to feature a female lead in her 50s who isn’t a former stripper whose husband and father were murdered and whose only child narrowly escaped death. But not yet, apparently.

See the full article from “Slate Magazine (blog)”

It landed her a move back to Broadway, and in two weeks, she was due to start rehearsals for the March 27 opening at Broadhurst Theater of the musical “Rebecca” based on the 1938 Daphne du Maurier novel. But lead producer Ben Sprecher said today that he raised only 80 percent of the necessary $12 million in funding, so he has pulled the plug and postponed it until next season.
Photo: Really Useful Group Lord Andrew Lloyd Webber, Sierra Boggess and Ramin Karimloo at the global launch of Love Never Dies at Her Royal Majesty’s Theater in London on Oct. 8, 2009.
COUNTER INTELLIGENCE
Hot of the grill! Las Vegas will join the national family of Eater Web sites as of Wednesday. Eater.com has city sites in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Miami, Dallas, Houston, Washington, D.C., Seattle, Atlanta and New Orleans. Writer Susan Stapleton will be the editor of Eater Las Vegas and says she wants to show the world that there’s more to Las Vegas than neon, strip clubs, gambling and casinos. “It will be the one-stop shop for all things food and drink in this wonderful city,” she told me.

See the full article from “Las Vegas Weekly (blog)”

It landed her a move back to Broadway, and in two weeks, she was due to start rehearsals for the March 27 opening at Broadhurst Theater of the musical “Rebecca” based on the 1938 Daphne du Maurier novel. But lead producer Ben Sprecher said today that he raised only 80 percent of the necessary $12 million in funding, so he has pulled the plug and postponed it until next season.
COUNTER INTELLIGENCE
Hot of the grill! Las Vegas will join the national family of Eater Web sites as of Wednesday. Eater.com has city sites in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Miami, Dallas, Houston, Washington, D.C., Seattle, Atlanta and New Orleans. Writer Susan Stapleton will be the editor of Eater Las Vegas and says she wants to show the world that there’s more to Las Vegas than neon, strip clubs, gambling and casinos. “It will be the one-stop shop for all things food and drink in this wonderful city,” she told me.

See the full article from “Las Vegas Sun”

As part of his sentence, he will also have to register as a sex offender. He was also ordered to pay $3,046.58 in restitution to the Clark County Social Services, a $25 court administration fee and a $150 DNA fee.
Taft was arrested after police released video surveillance images of a man who was later identified as Taft, according to a police arrest report.
The first reported incident happened about 9 p.m. July 26, 2009, police said.
In that case, a woman told police a man driving a gold four-door vehicle approached her in the parking lot of her apartment complex in the 4200 block of Tropicana Avenue. The man told the woman he was an undercover police officer and showed her a gold badge, according to the arrest report.
Although the woman told the man she wasn’t a prostitute, he told her he needed to take her elsewhere for more questioning and to meet with other officers, so the woman got into his vehicle, the arrest report said.

See the full article from “Las Vegas Sun”

Poor Jacqueline Laurita has been combating rumors that she was once a stripper in Las Vegas since the first season of Real Housewives of New Jersey. In Touch Weekly even claimed to have proof of Jacqueline’s days on the pole, citing sources who remember her working at club called Glitter Gulch. Seriously that is the worst name is strip club history!
Jacqueline’s denial of her past employment seems to be legit as it recently came out that the nefarious Danielle Staub was responsible for starting and circulating the rumors! Backing up Jacqueline’s claims, Tom Murro of Celebrity Magnet discovered some photographic evidence demonstrating that during the time Jacqueline was supposedly flashing her panties at Glitter Gulch, she was actually employed as a child care worker and waitress.

Of course, these IDs don’t exactly prove that Jacqueline did not work in a strip club, they just show she had other, more respectable forms of employment. There is no evidence that Jacqueline was a stripper and there is also no evidence saying she wasn’t, save for her own adamant denials.

See the full article from “Reality Tea”

… WILMINGTON, Del. (CN) – A sandwich shop franchisor wants a Las Vegas outlet to stop using its name, claiming the franchisee let a strip club sell Capriotti’s sandwiches during a happy hour promotion touting “boobs and Bobbies.”

     Capriotti’s says a print ad in the The Las Vegas Weekly called it “a match made in Vegas heaven: boobs and Bobbies, that would be topless dancing at gentlemen’s club Crazy Horse III and the famed Capriotti’s Thanksgiving-in-a-roll sandwich.”

     Capriotti’s also disputes Taylor’s claim, made in response to its termination letter, that this was an unauthorized promotion; Capriotti’s called it a “teaming up” between the franchisee and the strip club.

     Taylor claims that after Capriotti’s notified her of the unauthorized advertising by Crazy Horse III, her franchise immediately complied, and stopped selling sandwiches to the strip club.

See the full article from “Courthouse News Service”

After some uncomfortable jobs as an out-call exotic dancer, complete and utter bimbo Beth Raymer (Hall) decides to follow her big dream of becoming a cocktail waitress in Las Vegas.  When she discovers that’s a union-only job, Beth’s stripper friend Holly (Laura Prepon sporting an atrocious southern accent) hooks up the wayward airhead with Dink (Bruce Willis), a sports gambler who bets on every event in order to change the line and use that to make money somehow.  Beth discovers she has a knack for sports betting because she’s “good with numbers”, but she also develops an attraction to Dink, which puts her in the cross-hairs of Dink’s wife, Tulip (Catherine Zeta-Jones).  The story then turns into an endless cycle of Beth and Dink coming together and pulling apart for sloppy, simplistic motivations.

See the full article from “Collider.com”

Suspect in Calif. serial killings to stand trial
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SAN RAFAEL, Calif. (AP) – A judge ruled Monday that a man accused in the decades-old “Double Initial” serial killings case must stand trial for the murders of four Northern California women whose first and last names began with the same letter.
Joseph Naso, 78, was ordered to trial after a preliminary hearing before Marin County Superior Court Judge Andrew Sweet.
Naso is charged with the murders of Roxene Roggasch, Carmen Colon, Pamela Parsons and Tracy Tafoya, in the 1970s and 1990s. Police said all the victims were working prostitutes who had contact with Naso.
Prosecutors said they discovered DNA matching the profile of Naso on the stockings of Roggasch and under the fingernail of Colon.
Naso was arrested last year, after a probation search of his Reno, Nev., home unearthed photographs, journals and other evidence that authorities said linked him to the slayings.

See the full article from “KVVU Las Vegas”

The action proper starts in Las Vegas as Beth breezes into town after a demoralising stint as a stripper in her Florida hometown of Tallahassee. She meets a couple of like-minded gals sunbathing on a casino roof and upon their recommendation goes to work for Dink, a kindly sports bettor played with an avuncular sense of indulgence by Bruce Willis. It turns out Beth has a knack for placing bets with offshore bookies and is handy at pay-and-collect, which involves muling large wads of cash to and from other gamblers in town. The job is working out well. They’re beating the odds. Beth flirts with Dink and he allows it because she just might be his lucky charm. Then Dink’s prickly trophy wife Tulip (Catherine Zeta-Jones) returns from a cruise.

See the full article from “The Guardian”

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