I heard he was a fan of Bruce Springsteen. Springsteen’s band includes a guitar player who is clearly shown in undercover videos operating a strip club, using and selling drugs and participating in organized crime activities.
I’m not sure if Breitbart has the unedited videos, but I think there is further investigation needed.
See the full article from “Media Matters for America (blog)”
… Dany Heatley: The former Atlanta Thrasher was charged with vehicular homicide after speeding in his Ferrari caused a one-car crash in Buckhead that killed his passenger and teammate, Dan Snyder. Heatley avoided a trial, largely because alcohol was ruled to not have been a factor and the push for leniency by Snyder’s parents. He was sentenced to three years probation.
♦ Adam “Pacman”Jones: He was represented by attorney Manny Arora, who used to be a part of Garland’s firm. Jones,
This is the second time Ben Roethlisberger is being accused of sexual assault.
the former Tennessee Titan and Dallas Cowboy, was alleged to have been involved in a fight at a Las Vegas strip club that resulted in a shooting and one patron being paralyzed. He faced two felony charges but eventually accepted a plea deal to one charge of conspiracy to commit disorderly conduct, a misdemeanor. He was given a suspended, one-year prison, probation, and ordered to perform 200 hours of community service.
See the full article from “Atlanta Journal Constitution (blog)”
Although he showed much promise as a youngster, Dietrich’s career was temporarily derailed after he was stabbed in December 2005 and nearly died. Dietrich suffered a punctured lung, a punctured heart valve and a severely damaged colon after an altercation with a roommate.
He recovered to fight after a 16-month layoff, scoring a knockout in his first bout back.
Rites said Dietrich, who finished with a 12-1 record as a heavyweight, was getting ready for a March 20 fight against Wes Taylor, the only man to hand him a loss as a professional. Dietrich sparred six rounds on Monday.
“He looked damn good,” Rites said. “He was in shape and doing everything, throwing a lot of combinations.”
But after his session Monday night, Smith said Dietrich went to work as a doorman at a bar on The Block, Baltimore’s collection of strip clubs in the 400 block of Baltimore St.
Several of my friends (and Midnight Sunners) were on a Snuggie bar crawl around the same time as the Hitmen, and said many of the Hitmen crowd were absolutely wasted in the middle of the afternoon, and a few were looking for a fight. Looks like they got one.
But wait, we’re not done yet.
The Fells Point strip club Chubbie’s (pictured, bottom) had its license suspended for a year at a city panel hearing last week. Read the full story here.
Chubbie’s list of offenses seems tame, compared to spots like Suite Ultralounge. But neighborhood residents young and old cried NIMBY, and got Chubbie’s shut down for a year.
I’ve never been in Chubbie’s (though I heard from a friend they can’t be accused of false advertising), but that neighborhood has drastically changed in the past several years, and I can see where the new residents might not be willing to put up with strippers, barkers and late night carousing.
That’s no longer the case, unfortunately. The problems with health care are systemic, mostly owing to overregulation, competition for grant monies and poorly thought-out approaches to privacy in a computerized age. None of these can be dealt with by mandating universal insurance coverage, through medical savings accounts or tax breaks.
Indeed, you know something’s amiss when a stripper named Cynthia Hess (a.k.a. “Chesty Love”), of Green Bay, Wisconsin, can win a $2,088 tax deduction for implants that enlarged her bust size to freak show proportions (size 56FF, that’s 10 pounds per bosom, if you need to know). Yet, in Bethesda, Maryland, Karen Tomasow-Richardson, a federal employee with full coverage under the Federal Government Employee insurance program got only $3,000 of an approximately $90,000 bill for a series of operations that included a combination of emergency bone grafts and implants which staved off infection and, in the end, saved her life.
Liquor license of Fells Point strip bar suspended for 1 year
Chubbies was found guilty of five violations, including serving alcohol after hours
The city liquor board suspended the license of a Fells Point strip club for one year on Thursday, finding the bar guilty of serving alcohol after hours and not closing by its designated time of 1 a.m.
Chubbies, in the 2000 block of Eastern Ave., was found guilty of five violations at a two-hour hearing at City Hall and will begin serving its suspension April 1. The club, which is undergoing renovations, remains closed after shutting down last fall and will get five months credit for time served.
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Residents have since complained about Chubbies, claiming its workers solicit customers on the street, a practice commonly referred to as ‘barking’ and generally reserved to clubs on The Block. Chubbies is one of the few strip clubs not located in the 400 block of Baltimore St.
The Baltimore City Liquor board has suspended the liquor license of a Fells Point strip bar for one year.
The suspension came after a liquor board hearing over charges that owners of Chubbies operated the club later than allowed by their license in July.
The bar has also come under intense criticism by community leaders who said the adult entrainment establishment which had been grandfathered into the Fells Point neighborhood 30 years ago has been a magnet for crime and blight.
Liquor board chairman Stephen Fogleman said the decision was based on community complaints and lack of follow through with the board regarding compliance issues from past violations of thier license, including operating hours.
“The community was upset and that certainly had an impact,” said Fogleman.
The one-year closure will include 5 months of “time served,” reflecting the five month period after the club was shut down July 4th by liquor board investigators. The club reo-opened in December oin weekends.
The killer who provoked one of America’s most famous headlines has been denied parole after 27 years behind bars.
A fatal robbery at a Queens strip club in 1983 prompted the New York Post to blare on its front-page: “Headless Body in Topless Bar”. Charles Dingle, then 23, had been drinking at Herbie’s Bar when he shot the owner, Herbert Cummings, in the head.
He held four women hostage as he binged on alcohol and cocaine, raping one of the exotic dancers. While seaching the bar manager’s handbag, he found a business card showing that she also worked as an undertaker. He ordered her to gouge the bullet out of Mr Cummings’s head so that his gun could not be traced. When she was unable to do so he forced her to decapitate the corpse with a steak knife.
See the full article from “Times Online”
The irony of British playwright Patrick Marber’s play Closer is that no one stays close at all. Instead, the four characters start in solitude, intersect like ricocheting billiard balls, and propel each other back into nearly interstellar loneliness – and in one case into the grave. In a solid staging by Baltimore’s Mobtown Players, most of the pathos and horror of this process, and much of the humor that makes it bearable, are well presented.
Two men and two women couple, trade partners and then trade again before utterly disintegrating. The sad and essentially solitary protagonists are Anna, a photographer (Bobbi Datz), Larry, a dermatologist (Timothy Dillon), Dan, a writer (Brian S. Kraszewski), and Alice, if that is really her name, a stripper (Melissa O’Brien, also known locally as Viola Van Wilde of the neo-burlesque troupe Gilded Lily). Not that we are to take them entirely literally as characters. They are types with only the sketchiest of backstories. They are there not to empathize with or to afford insights into the human condition, at least not beyond the lesson that humanity can be disgusting.
Back in 1983, the Post penned its most famous headline of all time, “Headless Body in Topless Bar,” but to this day the man incarcerated for the humorously described crime claims innocence. For the third time in his 27 years behind bars, Charles Dingle asked for parole, claiming he wasn’t responsible for the blood bath in a Queens strip club, where one man was decapitated, a stripper was raped, and several women were robbed and held hostage. For the third time he was denied. “They expect you to come in and plead guilty and take responsibility for the crime,” he said of the parole board. “I can’t do it because I didn’t do it.” A gruesome flashback follows the break.
At 23, Dingle shot the owner of the strip joint and held four women hostage—raping one and robbing others—all the while drinking heavily and snorting coke, reported the Post. While going through the club manager’s purse, he found a business ca …
See the full article from “Gothamist”