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LISA L. COLANGELOTuesday, January 17, 2012 The operators of a proposed strip club in Long Island City are trying to manufacture community support by donating to local nonprofit groups, opponents charge. A coalition of elected officials, area residents and business owners is ramping up their campaign against Gypsy Rose, which is asking the State Liquor Authority to grant a liquor license at its meeting on Wednesday. Opponents say the club will hurt Long Island City’s resurgence as a family friendly neighborhood. Club owners have sent the State Liquor Authority and Community Board 2 a number of petitions and letters from people who they claim back their venture.
“Their letters of support are just letters from people thanking them for donations to nonprofits or churches,” said Stuart Suna, owner of Silvercup Studios. “They are not from people supporting a strip club.”
Suna joined Assemblywoman Cathy Nolan, City Councilman Jimmy Van Bramer, Community Board 2 Chairman Joseph Conley and others who rallied outside the club on Thursday.
The owners, known as 21 Group Inc., have said the club will be an upscale adult entertainment establishment. They also promised to keep security tight and signage discreet.

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What are you doing tonight? Have any plans? Well, cancel them, right now. Unless you were planning to go to Housing Works. If that was your plan, stick with it. 
Because at Housing Works tonight (126 Crosby Street, 7 p.m.), New York and Longreads are hosting a “Behind the Longreads” panel discussion about some of the magazine’s best recent features. Joining editor-in-chief Adam Moss to talk about their stories will be Wesley Yang (”Paper Tigers”), Dan P. Lee (”Travis the Menace”), and the one and only Intel Jessica (”A Holly Golightly for the Stripper-Embezzlement Age”). Even though something like this could probably command upwards of $1,000 a ticket, it’s all free. So go.
And while we’re on the subject, “Travis the Menace,” which made us tear up on the subway, was just published in the e-book Longreads: Best of 2011.

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The 28th Annual Drama League Benefit Gala: If you’re free February 6 and you’ve got $750 or more to spare (gulp), you are certainly going to be seeing stars at this mega-event honoring the beloved Kristin Chenoweth. Those scheduled to perform include Joel Grey, Laura Benanti, Elaine Paige, Donna Murphy, Cheyenne Jackson, members of the original & current cast of Wicked, and many more. It’s black tie and seriously A-list. Chenoweth is clearly Pop-u-lar.
Broadway Bares 22: The granddaddy of them all, or more specifically the hot daddy of them all, Broadway Bares is back June 17 for another night of burlesque performances from the sexiest dancers and biggest names–all to benefit Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS. Although the theme and guests haven’t been announced yet, tickets are on sale now and range from $60-$750. A special “Stripper Spectacular” package includes a table seat, admission to a private cocktail party at the home of Broadway Bares creator Jerry Mitchell, a backstage tour and more. So start saving your pennies…and your singles.

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How do you prepare for some of those scenes—like when you’re going and you’re slaughtering a bunch of people in a brothel. I mean, what do you think about? I presume you aren’t doing method acting there… Oh, yeah, I went to Turkey and slaughtered a bunch of people in a brothel just to see what it felt like. No, I didn’t do that. Don’t print that. I think—to a certain extent you can’t acknowledge it too much. You gotta just work on why you’re there as a character. And, it that case, Spartacus had a very definite purpose and, also, the added bonus of wanting to save innocent civilians. So slaughter the bad guys—as was the style of the time—and leave the good ones as best you can. The fact that most of them are naked and it’s in super slowmotion is something for the after effects department, you know, the special effects department, to look after.

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On Friday, detectives were checking downtown bars as part of their routine rounds when they walked into El Nuevo Jamos Tavern on Westchester Avenue. Inside, a DJ was playing and patrons were dancing, Lt. James Ladeairous said. The nightspot also had posters advertising upcoming performances by DJs and live bands.
Detectives asked the manager to step outside the bar so they weren’t drowned out by the loud music. When they determined the bar didn’t have a cabaret license, they issued a ticket for violating the village’s license requirement. The manager is a 27-year-old Port Chester man, according to police.
Liquor licenses are governed by state law, but cabaret licenses are issued locally by Port Chester’s village government, Ladeairous said.
Licenses for cabarets and “dance halls” are covered under Chapter 165 of the village code. That section mentions “adverse secondary effects” (noise, property crimes and prostitution among them) associated with some nightclubs, and includes indirect references to the village’s struggles with the Diamond Club, a former adult club that sparked years of protests in the village.

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There are literally hundreds of scathing reviews for these grim hotels but in order to find them, travelers need to click through fourteen pages of higher rated hotels on the site. Travel publications devote a huge amount of space to celebrating the world’s best hotels, but virtually none to condemning the worst ones, so it’s easy to see how inexperienced travelers could be disappointed in New York, America’s most expensive city, where $100 a night doesn’t buy much.
I spent a good deal of time traveling on a budget in the developing world and consider myself to be something of a cheap hotel aficionado. I’ve stayed in hotels frequented by drunks, prostitutes and outright criminals, places with no running water, pit toilets with no doors, filthy mattresses tossed on the floor- places squalid enough to occasionally inhabit my nightmares to this day. But I haven’t stayed in any of these hotels, so please note that these reflections are those of travelers writing on Trip Advisor. And even the worst reviewed places have some defenders. But not many. Per the Trip Advisor ratings, here are the worst among the worst:

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Having determined what was not the cause of this unique skyline, The Observer thought we had figured out was, then, that being the flight of the wealthy north.  But it turns out one very influential urban investigator begged to differ: New Yorker architecture critic and Pullitzer Prize winner Paul Goldberger.
Mr. Goldberger left an unexpected if incisive comment on our article with his own theory about the skyscraper’s northern migration:
This reminds me of the old joke about a sociologist being someone who comes into a new city and studies all the demographic data to predict where the most likely house of prostitution will be, whereas anyone else would just ask a cab driver.  Of course bedrock has nothing to do with skyscraper location and with the fact that Manhattan has two business centers. Neither does the movement of the wealthy. It’s transportation.

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No political party, ethnic group, labor union or industry dominates New York City in the 21st century. The city is neither liberal nor conservative; it’s filled with people who live by their wits and their willingness to put up with the noise, the crowds, and the fast pace of life that defines the city.  Over the past nineteen years, New York has witnessed a 79 percent drop in major crimes, making it the safest large city in the United States — a key reason why more tourists come to the Big Apple than to Orlando or Las Vegas. And Times Square, once known for prostitution and panhandling, is now an all-American urban theme park, filled with dazzling high tech billboards, pedestrian plazas, and national retail stores open 16 hours a day.

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Nominated for six Genie awards, including best picture and best actress for Rachel Weisz, this true story of a sex-trade scandal among UN Peacekeepers and paid U.S. contractors working in Bosnia is such a disturbing slice of life, you wish it weren’t so. Sadly, the idea of mercenaries cashing in on forced prostitution, sexual torture and human trafficking seems a little too easy to swallow. Given the horrific subject matter, director Larysa Kondracki could have wallowed in victim stories, emotional blackmail and one-sided sympathy. Instead, she gives lead actress Weisz room to prove herself as a force of one, and the actress has no problem filling the canvas as a dedicated police officer, mother and reluctant hero. Even the inherent misogyny is handled with a quill instead of a sledgehammer, ensuring every ounce of moral outrage builds honestly within the viewer’s mind. Even when the lines get a little heavy – such as “They are whores of war . . . it ha …

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When I went to the audition, I knew the film was by Steve McQueen. His first film, Hunger, also starring Michael Fassbender, was a huge hit with film fans, so I guess you can say I already trusted him and his vision for my role as “Late Night Lover #1.” When we met, he showed me the script and explained what the film was about. I had a lot of questions about Brandon’s (Fassbender) character development because I was curious about how Steve was going to handle the subject of sex addiction. On the day of the shoot, DeeDee and I wanted to know if our characters were prostitutes. Steve didn’t give a direct answer but he did say something to the effect that we were just normal people living in NYC, and like many people, we sometimes accept money for certain things. This reminded me of some people in fashion who work for free in exchange for expensive clothes and shoes. I know countless stylists who dress lik …

See the full article from “BlackBook Magazine”