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The New York Inn near Times Square rents rooms for as low as $69 a night. But you get what you pay for, in this case, drugs, rats and prostitution, according to one TripAdviser reviewer. (Someone should really make a coffee-table book out of these reviews; a lot of them are hilarious!) Here’s one account:
we were greeted on our arrival by a cleaner sitting on our bed smoking and watching tv. the door to our room did not lock properly and could easily be opened by anyone applying force. every morning our bathroom was soaked as the bathroom from the room above us leaked into ours. on one of the days of our trip my boyfriend was offered heroin while we entered the hotel!!!!!!! also we were awoken one night by sex orgy going on which probably involved the prostitutes that line up outside the hotel (in front of the xxx rated porn shops located next to the hotel) if all this does not convince you to not stay here then maybe the fact that we had mice/rats in our room will help change your decision!!!!!

See the full article from “Gothamist”

Spitzer Sounds Off On Love, Paterson, Obama and Democrats
Updated 5:16 PM EST, Thu, Jan 28, 2010
The Love Gov is opening up.
Former New York governor Eliot Spitzer is candidly speaking on an array of topics in sprawling video featured on the website bigthink.com.
And, appropriately, the former politician isn’t just talking about government, he’s also dishing on romance.
Spitzer who resigned  from office in 2008 amid the revelation of a tryst he had with a prostitute, nervously laughed after stating this remark: “The exaltation of first meeting and falling in love is I think everyone that would admit is different than the feelings that you might have after 25 years. When my wife watches this, she may say ‘What are you talking about?’ But it is.”
On the topic of love, Spitzer said, “I don’t think it’s one of these feelings that you sense when you meet somebody and there is a response that is different, and is unique, and is palpable. And that changes over time.”

See the full article from “NBC New York”

… Certain information has been discovered that tends to lend some support to that claim,” Assistant District Attorney Peter Casolaro wrote in a letter to Minor’s defense team.
Cops found the mutilated body of Jeff Locker, 52, slumped behind the wheel of his 2007 Dodge Magnum in East Harlem last July. The victim, a married father with three children, was discovered bound and strangled with seven stab wounds.  Dtectives on the scene believed the brutal nature of the crime screamed foul play.
Soon after the slaying, police arrested Minor, 36, and charged him with first-degree murder. Detectives believed Minor, who was seen on security cameras both inside Locker’s sedan and later using his ATM card, killed Locker for cash. They speculated Locker was en route to a meeting with a prostitute when Minor tortured him for the pin.  

See the full article from “NBC New York”

This is a sport in which owners and front-office executives have mismanaged franchises into financial ruin, but the fall-back plan never changes: The public always wants to believe the worst of the NBA’s players, and they’re given the ammo to validate stereotypes. As much as anything, Arenas and the union gave the commissioner the pulpit to grandstand on gun control when past punishments were arbitrary and modest.
From
with a loaded gun on a team flight, to
playing shoot-‘em-up outside an Indy strip club, Stern never reacted so much to the severity of the transgressions as he did to the severity of the publicity. Stern doesn’t always play to the problems, but the public outcry. He’s a master manipulator of the message and the NBA messengers. Feel free to pound away on players, coaches and executives on NBA.com, but don’t you dare criticize the commissioner and his owners.

See the full article from “Yahoo! Sports”

Although many New Yorkers can call themselves cultural authorities, New York is also home to a select few intellectual authorities: scholars who have devoted their studies to illustrating this often forgotten New York City, and its catalysts for historical change.
The Eye interviewed six of these professors, asking them which landmarks they believed are the most important and compelling—and yet most overlooked—in the recent history of New York.
Roosevelt Island
At one point in time, New York City exported most of its problems to Roosevelt Island, now a cozy off-shore town. The small strip of land in the East River—known first as Blackwell’s Island, then Welfare Island in 1921, and Roosevelt Island in 1973—housed some of the city’s most famous “undesirables” in its penitentiary: Boss Tweed, Mae West, and Billie Holiday, who served a four-month term for prostitution charges.

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ProstitutionThe geography of European prostitution is changing. So says a report by Tampep, a body that supports migrant sex workers in Europe. In 2006, Russia was the most common country of origin for sex workers, followed by Ukraine and Romania. By 2008, the EU had expanded and the new EU member states Romania and Bulgaria were in the top three.
In older EU countries, 70 per cent of prostitutes are migrants, so the effects of the EU’s changing make-up are unsurprising. What is less expected is the report’s take on criminalising prostitutes‘ clients. New to the UK but already in place in Finland and Norway, the report calls such laws “legislation . . . [that] harms the very people it seeks to protect”, by driving parts of the industry underground. As the law is intended to help women who may have been trafficked, the body’s opinion is a significant, if worrying, addition to the debate.

See the full article from “New Statesman”

As Spitzer spoke, audience members penned questions on small note cards collected by moderator Mary Cranston, a lawyer and former chair of the Commonwealth Club board. There were some finance-related questions, but as it turned out, even this genteel audience couldn’t resist inquiring about the scandal. “I have a number of questions around your resignation as governor of New York,” Cranston said. “Obviously it was a difficult circumstance…What advice do you have for young people considering political careers? Although he said he wasn’t the one to give advice, Spitzer warned of risks and temptations inherent in an otherwise noble profession. “Be smarter than I was,” he said.
Cranston didn’t drop the issue. “America loves a rebirth story,” she said. “Will you go back into elected politics?” “Absolutely not on the horizon,” Spitzer said. That was disappointing to Barbara Collins, an East Bay woman interviewed after the event. “He should be back in politics, definitely,” she said. “He’s one of the few who actually went after anybody in power.” As for the prostitution thing, Collins said, “it’s really not anybody’s business but his.”

See the full article from “SF Weekly (blog)”

P & P: We hope so! We’d love to have book signings in LA and SF where people can meet us and some of the people in the book. We’ll keep you posted!
On Friday, April 2, 2010, “Off the Set” will be available in bookstores and online. You can pre-order your copy on Amazon right now. The hardbound fine-art photography book features more than 100 photos, several essays written by the stars themselves, and a foreword written by author, adult filmmaker and sex educator Tristan Taormino. A portion of the sale price of each book will be donated to the Adult Industry Medical Healthcare Foundation (AIM), a non-profit corporation founded in 1998 to care for the physical and emotional needs of people who work in the adult entertainment industry.

See the full article from “San Francisco Chronicle”

Both players will be suspended without pay, a significant punishment in both cases, but more so for Arenas who is in the second year of a six year, $111 million contract and stands to lose roughly $10 million while serving out the suspension.
Arenas and Crittenton’s suspensions rank as the third and fourth longest handed down in league history, behind those of Ron Artest, who was suspended following the infamous player and fan brawl at the Palace in Auburn Hills when he charged into the stands during a game between the Pacers and Pistons and the suspension of former NBA player Latrell Sprewell who was suspended for attempting to choke his head coach PJ Carlesimo during a practice session.  The length of the suspensions exceed, by far, the longest handed down for any weapons violation – a seven game suspension received by then-Pacer guard Stephen Jackson following his plead to a felony criminal recklessness count after discharging a gun outside a strip club in Indianapolis.

See the full article from “DC Sports Box”

Wednesday, the Wizards, now in the hands of the family of late owner Abe Pollin, suggested they’re considering it.
“We’re still exploring all our options,” said team President Ernie Grunfeld. “We haven’t made any decisions up to this point.”
The team issued a statement, saying it supports Stern’s decision, noting the players’ “poor judgment has also violated the trust of our fans and stands in contrast to everything Abe Pollin stood for throughout his life.”
Nevertheless, league and union officials agree the Wizards would have a high bar to clear before an arbitrator and no precedent for voiding a contract in similar cases.
In 2007, Stephen Jackson was suspended for seven games after pleading guilty to felony recklessness after firing his gun in the air to break up a fight outside an Indianapolis strip club.

See the full article from “Los Angeles Times”