Archive for January 13, 2010

Manhattan Massage Parlors: Plainfield poised to introduce fee hikes for business licenses

Under the proposed ordinance, fees for copies of municipal certificates of birth, marriage, death and burial all would jump from from $5 to $25. Licenses for retail food establishments that do not offer seating, which are billed on a sliding scale based on square footage, would cost 50 to 90 percent more, depending on the size of the eatery. And licenses for sit-down restaurants, billed on a sliding scale based on number of seats, would double or even triple.
Municipal business licenses must be renewed annually. If a retail food establishment is inspected by the Health Division and rates conditionally satisfactory or unsatisfactory, under the proposed ordinance a reinspection surcharge fee would jump from a flat $40 fee to $100 for a first reinspection, $200 for a second and $500 for a third. The ordinance also would demand annual license renewals for several types of businesses that currently are not required to have them, including self-service laundromats, barber shops, beauty salons and massage parlors.

See the full article from “New Brunswick Home News Tribune”

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Manhattan Strip Clubs: Where Did All the Gay Bars Go?

The boys at gay New York nightlife mag Next Magazine mapped out all the homosexual establishments that closed over the past ten years. This makes us feel sad and old. Click to enlarge.
Remember the trough at The Slide? Strippers at the Gaiety? E at The Roxy? When I used to work at Next Magazine? Oh, the memories. It’s funny that even though most of the gay bars that have closed are in the East Village, West Village, Chelsea, and Hell’s Kitchen, that’s where most of the gay bars are still today. And notice “Hetero Alley” down the East Side. It’s not that they have a thriving gay bar business, it’s that there weren’t any gay bars there in the first place!
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Manhattan Adult Entertainment: Late-night comics pounce on late-night mess at NBC; Kimmel does scathing Leno …

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Manhattan Adult Entertainment: Paterson: Gillibrand first, Ford second

Governor suggests he could “bounce a few left hands” off the SNL crew.
Posted January 13, 2010 11:55 AM
by Mark Silva
It’s been one of those years for New York Gov. David Paterson, who replaced the disgraced former governor of New York, Eliot Spitzer, who was cavorting with call girls.
First the White House tries to talk Paterson out of seeking election this year, then Saturday Night Live makes fun of his blindness, then former Rep. Harold Ford Jr. of Tennessee starts talking about taking on the governor’s appointee for the former Senate seat of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Kirsten Gillibrand, in her bid for election, and then the governor’s teenage son gets picked up for playing dice.
Fifteen-year-old Alex Paterson was taken in for questioning by New York City police after he was allegedly caught playing a game of dice with four friends near his Upper West Side high school. Police said they found a credit card on him that was either lost or stolen. A police official said a juvenile report was issued, a form kept in station houses that police and juvenile officers can refer to if other trouble arises involving the juvenile.

See the full article from “The Swamp (blog)”

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Manhattan Adult Entertainment: Frisky Friendfinder Loses IPO Mojo

Blame it on the recession or our culture’s puritanical underpinnings, but adult entertainment company Friendfinder Networks is having to rein in its IPO. After filing for an IPO a year ago in an effort to raise roughly $460 million, paidContent reports that that company has now filed an amended S-1, which cuts its ambitions in half. As such, Friendfinder is now hoping to sell 20 million shares for $10 to $12, which at midpoint would raise about $220 million.
Underwriters, led by RenCap and Ledgemont Capital Markets, have an option to buy about 3 million shares. When the company originally announced it IPO, most of the money is hoped to raise was earmarked to pay down its debt, related to its $500 million purchase of AdultFriendFinder.com parent Various Inc. in late 2007.

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Manhattan Strip Clubs: Snooki works it ‘Jersey Shore’-style

11:30 AM By Julie Gordon
Little people, stripper poles, man-hunting — it’s all in a night’s work for “Jersey Shore” star Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi. We’ve got the top five Snooki moments from her recent party-hosting gig at Opium at The Seminole Hard Rock in Florida.
5. Despite the unusual-for-Florida 30-degree temperature, Snooki arrived in a micro-miniskirt.
4. Since the men at Opium weren’t sexy enough for Snooki’s taste, she asked her driver to take her to another club at 2 a.m. to “look for more hot guys,” a spy overheard her saying.
3. Snooki didn’t only pay attention to the guys. She “slapped the asses of the waitresses,” our source said.
2. After getting some liquid courage from her good friend Corzo Tequila, Snooki worked a stripper pole for more than an hour.

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Manhattan Strip Clubs: Big Fan–now on DVD

Paul lives with his mom, who yells at him for his middle-of-the-night phone rants, his lack of ambition, his lack of interest in sex with…anyone but himself.   He’s not “normal” like his sister, not successful like his sleazy-lawyer brother. Marcia Jean Kurtz? Inspired casting as the doughball Oswalt’s mother, abrasive, giving as good as she gets from her crude, cranky hardcore sports nut 36 year old son.
Paul can’t afford to get into Giants’ games. He sits and listens or watches them in the parking lot of the stadium. He lives and dies by the Giants, and for those late night blasts into his favorite chat show. His favorite player? That’s QB, Quantrell Bishop, a towering, dreadlocked defensive lineman who is the bane of quarterbacks throughout the league, with or without roid rage.
Paul’s dreams seem to be coming true as the Giants make their playoff run, and by accident, he and pal Sal spy QB gassing up the Escalade in Staten Island. They follow him, blow a wad of cash getting into the same pricey strip club he enters, all in the vain hope of “hanging out” with their hero.

See the full article from “Orlando Sentinel (blog)”

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Manhattan Massage Parlors: Police tie 2005 Bethel home invasion, rape to violent NYC gang

According to several online sources and news stories, Born To Kill was founded by a Vietnamese refugee who came to the U.S. in 1975 and worked as an enforcer for a Chinese street gang, the Flying Dragons, before breaking away and starting his own gang 13 years later.
By the early 1990s Born To Kill, which took its name from a phrase American soldiers had on their helmets during the Vietnam War, was comprised mainly of young Vietnamese men and immigrants from other Southeast Asian countries.
Their illegal activities diminished after 1992, but chapters remain active in New York City and Philadelphia, Bethel police were told by investigators from the NYPD, according to Vu’s arrest warrant affidavit.
“They are supposed to be among the most violent gangs in the city,” Wright said Tuesday.
In a Chinatown massage parlor robbery in 1989, a Born to Kill member shot a customer in the head. A year earlier, the gang killed two members of the Flying Dragons in a turf war, according to The New York Times.

See the full article from “Danbury News Times”

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Manhattan Strip Clubs: The Rising Price of Snooki: A Comparative Analysis of Jersey Shore Appearance Fees

A leaked email from NYU Law’s student listserv reveals a fight to book Snooki at a bargain-basement rate of $2000. As the email battle rages, Snooki’s price rises. A comparative analysis reveals post-bar-brawl Snooki as the show’s fastest-rising moneymaker.
After getting punched in the face on camera, Snooki went from the cheapest Jersey Shore get ($2000) to the priciest ($10,000 at last count). As for the Situation, you’d think being outed as a stripper would increase his asking fee, but he and Pauly D have been cruising at $7500 since December. I only found one data point for J-Woww ($5000) and though Vinny and Ronnie started at the same place ($3500), Ronnie’s fee dropped $500 in January, and he also wasn’t enough to hold a hosting gig on his own—a joint appearance with Sweetheart drew a combined $3000.

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Manhattan Adult Entertainment: Artie Lange: Jack and Coke

Lange sticks to what he knows best here, talking about and making light of his experiences with prostitutes and drugs, impersonating a few sports figures including Mike Tyson, and even providing a hand puppet show he insists will help kids learn a lesson so valuable he repeats it a few times – “If you give a prostitute money to go out and get cocaine, she will not come back.” He tells some stories about gambling in Vegas, bitches about the trials and tribulations of sobriety, and makes plenty of self deprecating jokes about his appearance, his weight, and his addition problems and manages to insult just about everyone he can along the way. He even waxes poetically on the pros of resembling Rosie O’Donnell when trying to find girls to perform oral sex on. There are no sacred cows in Artie’s world – he makes jabs at whites, blacks, Indians, Hispanics and goofs on anything and anyone he sees fit. His discussion of his USO trip to Afghanistan to entertain the troops are amusing and interesting, as they allow him to get a little bit political without straying too far from his roots.

See the full article from “DVD Talk”

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