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The event was held in West Mifflin at the Westwood Golf Club, at which Mr. Risha’s son and Mark Latorre, also a host committee member, are part of the ownership team, according to mortgage records. A business owned by Mr. Latorre owns a West Carson Street building in which the younger Mr. Risha seeks to open a strip club — a proposal that has sparked protests in Pittsburgh’s western neighborhoods.
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Mr. Mervos is a retired West Mifflin coach and administrator, who then worked for and retired from a marketing job with MS Consultants. That Ohio-based engineering firm last year billed $64,434 for survey work on West Mifflin Area schools improvement projects, as a subcontractor to the architect. MS Consultants also has done surveying work on the strip club project, according to a letter on file with the city of Pittsburgh. A political action committee funded by that firm’s executives gave Mr. Corbett’s campaign $1,000 on May 3.
See the full article from “Pittsburgh Post Gazette”
September 5th, 2010
I’ve never been a fan of pop music. It has its place for dancing, out clubbing where the bass is bumping and intoxicated people could care less about what the singer is saying as long as it helps them hook-up. Perry’s new album fits there, throbbing through the speakers in gay bars and strip clubs.
Musically, it’s a decent dance album, I guess. It brings the beats, tinged with ’80s influences which is chic with teens these days. The lead single “California Gurls” is a classic summertime jam, despite (or maybe because of) the rap from Snoop Dogg, who sounds like he thought of the words and phoned it in while driving his kids to soccer practice. I’m sure 10s of thousands of teenagers discovered the magic of grind dancing while hopped up on stolen hooch from mom and dad with this song as the soundtrack. “Firework” sounds like it was picked up out of the trash behind Kanye West’s house, a reject from 808’s And Heartbreaks. “Teenage Dream” pumps the gay bar beat to the extreme, and “ET” offers a new track for strippers tired of the same old Lady GaGa song (Alejandro!).
See the full article from “California Chronicle”
September 3rd, 2010
Since Bill’s in no shape to save the Sookster, Eric’s Ukrainian dancer comes downstairs and Sookie’s like, “I thought you were on Team Eric.” Another Twilight joke?! What the hell? Anna Paquin turns in some of the worst acting I’ve seen on this show as my future stripper wife undoes the lock on her collar. Sookie grabs some silver chains and heads upstairs to find Bill going fisticuffs with Pam. He punches her into the bar only to have her turn around and mace him in the face AGAIN. Homeboy does NOT learn. Sookie rescues him by choking Pam with her silver chains. Bill’s blinded for the time being so Sookie questions Pam. Pam says that Sookie was supposed to be a gift for King Russell, but now that she’s escaped they’ll all die. Sookie leaves Pam with the Ukrainian and leads Bill out the door.
See the full article from “Screen Junkies (blog)”
August 30th, 2010
Public & private lives: A $10,000 settlement reached after a Brownsville Area High School Spanish teacher was wrongly suspended from her job provides a costly tutorial. Ginger D’Amico’s teaching record is unblemished. She broke no law. Yet the school district imposed a 30-day suspension when photos, taken by another teacher, of Ms. D’Amico with a male stripper popped up on the Internet. Despite today’s omnipresent video recorders and camera cell phones, there’s a clear distinction between what employees do on the job and their legal, private, leisure-time activities.
More absentee parenting: Southwest Greensburg is the latest jurisdiction considering a curfew for minors after residents’ complaints about children out and about in the early morning hours. Time was when parents set curfews — and kids obeyed them. Parents who can’t account for their under-18-year-olds after 11 p.m. are seriously out of the loop — if not, themselves, loopy.
See the full article from “Tribune Review”
August 24th, 2010
Crowder was blunt: “The reality is as long as they’re not harming neighbors they should be able do any damn thing they want.”
He did say landowners could settle disagreements in other ways, such as nuisance law. But if there is no growth policy, the threshold that must be met to regulate property uses will undoubtedly be much higher. The question is to what degree?
If overturning the growth policy simply limits the county from implementing new zoning laws that is quite different than scrapping them altogether.
A court will likely decide what exactly should happen if Crowder is successful. The problem is that ruling would follow the petition, which makes a complicated issue even more convoluted. Will medical marijuana dispensaries open up next to schools? What about strip clubs next to churches? How arduous is it to initiate citizen zoning?
See the full article from “Flathead Beacon”
August 20th, 2010
Video – Twilight Sad
Aug 20, 2010
Is there a better way to kick off the weekend than with a brand-new Twilight Sad song and video? How about one that features puppets and strippers?
The Scottish band gives us seven and a half minutes of noise rock with its “The Wrong Car.” The track will be released by FatCat Records Sept. 28 on 12-inch vinyl.
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See the full article from “Aversion”
August 20th, 2010
Her most prominent example was the death threats made to the Danish cartoonist who depicted Mohammed, and the subsequent controversy over “South Park” creators trying to show Mohammed on their Comedy Central show. She said it was wrong they weren’t even allowed to show Mohammed in a “honey bear costume.”
“There’s no reciprocity,” Geller said. “It’s a two-way street. It can’t be only one way. Building a 15-story mega mosque on a building that was destroyed, that’s not outreach.”
She also thinks it is not a fair comparison between the proposed center and the 92nd Street Y because “anyone could walk into a church or synagogue but non-Muslims can’t pray in a mosque.”
Geller argues the building where the Cordoba House is sacred because it was hit by landing gear on Sept. 11, 2001, and doesn’t buy arguments about some of the more seedy buildings in the area desecrating the memory of those killed nine years ago.
“Strip clubs didn’t bring down the towers. It’s faulty logic,” Geller told TPM.
See the full article from “TPMDC (blog)”
August 18th, 2010
When a Fayette County teacher was suspended from her job after another teacher posted photos of her with a male stripper to the Internet, she feared more for her father’s 34-year legacy in the school district than she did for her own career.
“The first thing I thought about was my father, who had been there so long,” said Ginger D’Amico, a Brownsville Area High School Spanish teacher whose father also taught in the district.
“That’s all I could think about,” said D’Amico, referring to her late father, Orlando “Lundy” D’Amico. “My father’s name, drug through the mud.”
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Although D’Amico said the photo depicts her “laughing and pushing” the stripper away, district officials previously said it is suggestive of a sex act. D’Amico said Savini advised her she was suspended — other employees were given letters of reprimand — because she was the only teacher who could be identified in the photos.
See the full article from “Tribune Review”
August 18th, 2010
Brownsville settles with teacher over Facebook photo with stripper
A picture worth $10,000
Wednesday, August 18, 2010
By Paula Reed Ward, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Ginger D’Amico didn’t take the pictures, and she didn’t post them on Facebook.
But her face was the only one clearly identifiable. And she paid the price.
A Spanish teacher in the Brownsville Area School District, she was suspended for 30 days without pay because a photograph of her with a stripper at a colleague’s bachelorette party was posted on the popular social networking website.
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On Dec. 19, the former teacher of the year in Baltimore County, Md., hosted a bachelorette party for a fellow teacher at her home. The group hired a stripper, who was there for 30 minutes.
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She described the picture in question as her “laughing,” and “pushing” the stripper away.
See the full article from “Pittsburgh Post Gazette”
August 18th, 2010
Markoff was arrested in April 2009 on charges of binding, beating and shooting the 26-year-old Brisman with a gun that prosecutors say he later stashed in a hollowed-out anatomy textbook. He became instant tabloid fodder and a cover story in People magazine.
“It has sex, it has enigma, it has the story of a respectable, smart, success-oriented, helpful young man who, without warning, becomes a killer, and that is why people pay attention to it,” said Jack Levin, a professor of sociology and criminology at Northeastern University in Boston who has written books on murder.
Authorities charged him in two other attacks including the armed robbery of a Las Vegas woman at another Boston hotel and the assault of a stripper inside a Rhode Island hotel where authorities found his fingerprints on the wall. The three crimes occurred within a week.
See the full article from “KDKA”
August 17th, 2010
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