Archive for February 22, 2012

Manhattan Strip Clubs: Julie Bowen and Twins Watch the Harlem Globetrotters

Julie Bowen and Twins Watch the Harlem Globetrotters
– Julie Bowen taking her twin boys to the Harlem Globetrotters World Tour at Staples Center in L.A.
– Kim Kardashian working out in Style Firm’s Competitor Tights workout pants at Barry’s Bootcamp in Sherman Oaks, Calif.
– Renee Graziano partying at the birthday party for Big John Gjonbalaj, the owner of Headquarters Gentleman’s club, in NYC.
– Millionaire Matchmaker’s Patti Stanger picking up a few last minute Valentine’s Day gifts at Century 21 Department Store in NYC.
– Joe and Melissa Gorga picking out her Valentine’s Day gift — a fur jacket! — at Schultz Furrier and then heading to dinner at Peter’s in Millburn, New Jersey.
– Madeleine Stowe sipping tea during an interview at the Viceroy Santa Monica.
– Drita D’Avanzo discussing her new clothing line during a lunch at Benjamin Steakhouse in NYC.

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Manhattan Strip Clubs: The Ace Hotel, Portland’s Edgiest and Coolest Hotel

After an afternoon a blur of food carts and still-plentiful-in-Portland record stores, we head for a lie-down of sorts. (Stop your blushing — this is our anniversary.) Emerging refreshed, we head on foot for the happening strip of East Burnside Street — Portland’s equivalent of Bedford Avenue in Williamsburg. We forge on past strip joints and skin flick theatres and tattooed homeless folks with dogs, heading towards the Doug Fir Lounge, a retro-fitted motel with subterranean rock club. (Photo courtesy of Mr and Mrs Smith Hotel Collection)
Here, at this mighty music venue, restaurant, and bar, we buy our new sound-tech friend Joe a drink to salute our boutique break. Over a whiskey, the former Brooklynite reveals Portland has more homeless people and more strip clubs per capita than any other city. “To experience the real Portland, what you gotta do to is go to the Paris Theater,” he urges. “It’s a sex club, but no one will bother you in the couples section. You might have someone at the next table doing it though.” Gulp.

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Manhattan Strip Clubs: Two handfuls of reasons to love the FRIGID New York Festival

FRIGID IS WHERE I DISCOVER AT LEAST ONE GREAT NEW THEATEr ARTIST EVERY YEAR Honest — and often, I find the gems where I least expect them. Best example: “Conversation Storm/Great Hymn of Thanksgiving,” in FRIGID 2008, was the show that introduced Rick Burkhardt to New York. Rick went on to win an Obie for “Three Pianos” (at New York Theatre Workshop) last year. But FRIGID fans saw him first.
FRIGID FEATURES TOP-NOTCH TALENT STRETCHING THEIR WINGS Mac Rogers, stellar award-winning playwright, is starring in a one-man play (not written by him) called “Judge, Yuri and Executioner.” Actress Ching Valdes-Aran, whose credits span decades at La MaMa, Ma-Yi Theatre and other venerable companies, is directing “Breathe, Love, Repeat” — and former Blue Man Group performer John Grady is doing a one-man play called “Fear Factor: Canine Edition.”
FRIGID IS NOT JUST A BUNCH OF SOLO SHOWS
There are plenty of one-person entertainments in the festival, to be sure, but just as many multi-cast efforts. This year, look for “Initium Finis.” by Theatre Reverb, “Drowning Ophelia: A New Rock Musical,” “Missed Connections” (based on Craigslist ads) and “Stripper Lesbians from Rising Sun Performance Company,” among others.

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Manhattan Strip Clubs: Glamour’s Fashion Week Makeover Montage

The eye-catching new cover featured Amanda Seyfried, looking like a deer in Terry Richardson’s flash (though Ellen von Unwerth actually took the picture), posed on a bathroom sink and aiming a cartoonish yellow hair dryer at her pretty head. The magazine swapped its hot-pink type face for the same bright yellow (the color suggests breaking news, editor in chief Cindi Leive told The New York Times) and traded traditional cover lines for the one-word headers typically found across a blog navigation bar (Sex! Shopping! Beauty! Guys! Gossip!).
The Ting Tings played the redesign party, held at the Box last Friday, Fashion Week’s halfway point. The cover girl couldn’t make it, but Krysten Ritter, the Breaking Bad star featured in the magazine’s new entertainment news section, “Obsessed,” looked swanlike in white as she danced in a booth by the stage. Coco Rocha made an appearance, but it was male models who were stationed along the walkway with trays of Champagne.
Upstairs, a topless variant stood beside a stripper pole, sipping water.

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Manhattan Strip Clubs: Zimbio Review – ‘Being Flynn’

Paul Weitz directed Being Flynn and adapted the novel along with Flynn himself. Weitz has worked with De Niro previously, on About A Boy, which De Niro produced, and on Little Fockers. Weitz chose Paul Dano based on Dano’s performance in There Will Be Blood. Dano went head to head with Daniel Day Lewis and Weitz knew the young actor had the guts to hang in with De Niro also. The casting is brilliant and by far the best part of Being Flynn. The story itself doesn’t really show us anything we haven’t seen before, but the entire film stands as an original, which is a giant compliment nowadays.
Nick Flynn (Dano) is unemployed and living in New York, attempting to get by. He loses his girlfriend and moves in with a drug dealer in a former strip club in order to get a roof over his head. One day, Nick gets a call from Jonathan Flynn (De Niro), his estranged father who he hasn’t seen …

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