Archive for January 22, 2012

Manhattan Adult Entertainment: Agency of the Year: Droga5 New York

The agency created “Vision Labs,” a panel of food, film, art and journalism experts, to reflect on what they most cared about and where Greek culture was heading, and to share their thoughts about how it related to the Athenos brand. “It showed how [Droga5] can be creative in their problem solving,” Ms. Anderson said.
Insights from the panel helped shape the thinking behind Athenos’ “Yiaya” campaign, an edgy multiplatform effort starring a fault-finding Greek granny who goes from calling her granddaughter a prostitute to praising her selection of the more “authentic” Athenos brand. “Yiaya” was a hit. The campaign drew 3 million YouTube views, doubled the brand’s Facebook fans to 200,000 (and growing at a rate of 1,000 a week), and brand awareness overall rose 12%. Sales of Athenos hummus jumped 10% in markets exposed to the campaign.

See the full article from “Creativity”

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Manhattan Adult Entertainment: Sundance 2012: ‘Lay the Favorite’ has loads of laughs

The second comedy in a row from the versatile British veteran director of “Dangerous Liaisons” and “The Crying Game” (after the criminally underrated “Tamara Drew”), this is a hilarious Runyonesque comedy about a young ex-prostitute from Florida (British actress Rebecca Hall in what will hopefully be a breakthrough role) who goes to work for a Las Vegas sports betting operation.

See the full article from “New York Post (blog)”

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Manhattan Strip Clubs: NJ pole dance ruling no big threat to free speech

Club XXXV is shown on Route 35 in Sayreville in a file photo. A New Jersey Supreme Court ruled that the availability of strip clubs in other states can be used as part of an argument for keeping them out of New Jersey towns.
It’s a dilemma for both pole dancers and Supreme Court justices: When a town doesn’t want a strip club in its own backyard, can it force the dollar-bill crowd to move to a neighboring state?
Yes, according to a recent ruling by New Jersey’s highest court. But rest assured: This isn’t as dire for free speech or bachelor parties as it sounds.
The courts have long dealt with this issue by saying there doesn’t have to be a strip club within the boundaries of every single municipality to protect free expression — as long as there’s one reasonably nearby.

See the full article from “The Star-Ledger – NJ.com (blog)”

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Manhattan Strip Clubs: Nude ‘juice bar’ in US struggling to stay open after court ruling against it

Nude ‘juice bar’ in US struggling to stay open after court ruling against it
New York, Sun, 22 Jan 2012
ANI
New York, Jan 22 (ANI): A strip club in the US, which is called ‘juice bar’ because it does not sell booze, is at the centre of a long-running legal battle.
Club 35, where the entertainers are all nude, offers a range of beverages – soda or juice for 5 dollars and Red Bull for 7 dollars – and patrons over 21 can bring their own booze.
The New Jersey borough wants to shut down the X-rated joint in Sayreville, and argues it would not be a hardship because customers could take the Outerbridge Crossing to jiggle joints in Staten Island.
The New Jersey Supreme Court issued a 5-1 ruling this week that the “not in my state” argument was valid. The Club 35’s lawyer vows to appeal all the way to the Supreme Court, but no one at the club Friday seemed too worked up about the decision, New York Daily News reported.

See the full article from “Newstrack India”

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Manhattan Strip Clubs: How To Make A Donut (Shop)

Wow, cleaning. We decided to remove the (ugly) paint and reveal the beautiful original brick wall underneath it and we’re using a totally VOC (Volatile Organic Chemical) free, environmentally friendly stripper. No dangerous chemicals at all.
To apply this stripper we rented a sprayer, though the paste-thick stripper was too much for the machine. We solved this by thinning it with water (since it’s water based) and assigning someone to constantly stir the container. Oy.
After that we laid paper over the stripper and let it set. When we returned to remove the paper it came off of the brick fine, but it turned out that the previous painters had spackled the brick. Double Oy. We’ve probably put about 60 man hours into slowly removing the flecks of paper by hand. (But at least there’s no harmful chemicals in all of this!)

See the full article from “NyackNewsAndViews”

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Manhattan Strip Clubs: Overpriced Dolls. A Rite of Passage?

Lately I’ve been wanting to bottle my daughter. Or freeze her. Or stop feeding her. Whatever it takes to stop her from growing and keep her this age forever.
Nina Bean is super tall for her age. I’m talking the 99th percentile among 6 year-olds for height. In other words, she looks like a 3rd grader.
It’s a challenge to find my girlie girl the dresses and skirts she still loves to wear, let alone anything that isn’t hootchie. All they ever seem to have in her size are skinny jeans, daisy dukes and halter tops. What is up with all the big girl clothes looking like they come with a stripper pole?
Girls today are growing up so fast. Getting cell phones at age 10, wearing make-up at 11, and getting their belly buttons pierced at 13. I am not looking forward to any of it.

See the full article from “Patch.com”

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Manhattan Adult Entertainment: SUNDAY READ: Brooklyn’s ‘Nucky Thompson’ had his own Boardwalk Empire

… Nobody operated in Coney Island unless he got a cut,” said Charles Denson, author of “Coney Island: Lost and Found.” “He was really a dictator.”
Back then, Brighton Beach — which was part of Coney, sitting off the shore of greater Long Island — was home to race tracks, and across the creek, a red-light district in nearby Gravesend called “the Gut” that was a mecca for gambling parlors and opium dens off which politicos like McKane grew fat.
And under McKane, they thrived — to his benefit. In the days before big-time casinos were simply subsidiaries of giant corporations headquartered in Boca Raton, the boss ensured that he got a piece of gambling and its side effects — illegal money-makers like prostitution — by making sure his boys were in charge of everything.

See the full article from “Brooklyn Daily”

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Manhattan Adult Entertainment: "A Steady Rain" @ The Rep StL

The things Denny does are all kinds of wrong, and Collins plays him with passion and nuance. I believe Joey has a finer line to walk in performing a passive-aggressive character, and Reid is more than up to it. If one ignores the incidents and pays attention only to the performances and staging, this is a great play. But there are those words, words and more words. It is an interesting device to have long bits of narrative delivered as both monologue and dialogue to show us what happens and to fully develop unseen characters such as Rhonda, the prostitute, and Connie, the wife Denny has and Joey wants. They outline the low lifes they encounter in their work. They are especially vocal in their assertions that both of them have been passed over for promotion due to minorities receiving preferential treatment, but that’s all just a part of the shit sandwich guys like them have to eat every day.

See the full article from “Vital VOICE”

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Manhattan Adult Entertainment: Comic Arte Lange is one sober Hoboken guy, back in groove getting big laughs …

… When I came out of the daze coming out of rehab, everything came back much quicker than I thought, and I remember coming back to Hoboken and looking at the view and appreciating it with a clear head for the first time,” the Mile Square City resident and former Howard Stern sidekick told The Jersey Journal last week.
“I should be in a (expletive) studio apartment in Newark right now trying to get ready for my job at Applebee’s; instead I’m in a suite still talking to you, and I’m just a (expletive) lucky man. I’m very humbled by everything.”
Off booze, drugs, gambling and prostitutes since leaving rehab last June the first time he attempted recovery for more than eight days Lange says what he’s now experiencing is his fifth second chance at life.

See the full article from “The Jersey Journal – NJ.com”

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Manhattan Adult Entertainment: Obama: Cover Birth Control; 8 Egyptian Women Win

A Massachusetts state court struck down a judge’s ruling that a mentally ill woman must have an abortion against her will and then be sterilized, The Boston Globe reported Jan. 17.
Ivycorp, creators of Ivytalk (a next-generation enterprise messaging network for businesses and organizations), has received an initial $1 million in Series A investment capital from a combination of investors led by the Women’s Venture Capital Fund, reported Marketwatch Jan. 18.
Hundreds protested the recent attacks in Malawi on women wearing pants and miniskirts, reported the Associated Press Jan. 20. While a ban on women wearing pants and miniskirts ended in 1994, some in the country continue to believe that wearing such clothing is a sign of loose morals or prostitution. President Bingu wa Mutharika has ordered any attackers to be arrested.

See the full article from “Women’s eNews”

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