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Around this time of the year, we love to hear industry ghost stories. Here’s one last one, about the Bridge Cafe.
The Bridge Cafe, located in the historic Seaport District, is arguably the oldest restaurant in Manhattan, so it’s not surprising that people would believe a spot like this to be haunted. Ghosts are known for inhabiting spaces that hold violent memories, and with Bridge Cafe’s rowdy history of pirates and prostitution (it was formerly a brothel) it’s no wonder that some think this space is a cesspool for spirits. There have been strange footsteps when no one seems to be around, unexplained smells.
According to their website, the Bridge Cafe has been investigated by Staten Island’s own Eastern Paranormal Investigation Center, however, their investigation was inconclusive. Besides this, there are still rumors that the restaurant, which dates from 1794, harbors spirits. Do let us know if you’ve encountered ghosts at the Bridge Cafe of elsewhere and have a happy Halloween. · All Editions of Haunted New York [~ENY~]

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When I arrived in Chicago in the ‘90s with nothing but flannel in my suitcase, I was in love with Potbelly. To the point that I’d tell friends when I had gone there. I’d crank up my 56k modem to share the news I’d had a Wreck. Sometimes I’d even rave about the place’s décor.
I wasn’t alone in my enthusiasm.
My job then was near North and Clybourn (Note: I was not a prostitute), and, when we couldn’t bear going to Wok’s Up, we’d drive to 2264 North Lincoln to the one and only Potbelly. Co-workers would pile into the car. In a city full of run-of-the-mill sandwich shops, chain or independent, those Potbelly lunches were special. Catching sight of your Potbelly sandwich slowly exiting the conveyor belt oven was the culinary equivalent of a new father getting his first glimpse of his newborn’s head emerging from the birth canal.

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So how did they pull off a legal casino in New York? Well, for starters, they built it around the Aqueduct Racetrack in Ozone Park, Queens. After the attacks of September 11, 2001, New York legalized electronic gambling at racetracks to raise money. To address the “electronic” aspect, Resorts World features robotic dealers instead of human dealers. They’re also emphasizing games like craps, baccarat, and an Asian dice game called sic bo, as opposed to poker and blackjack.
of course, there are potential setbacks. Local businesses fear the establishment will draw crime. Enzo Bellissimo, an auto shop owner who’s been running his business across the street for almost 40 years, told the New York Times, “It is going to create a big mess. Prostitutes. Crime. Gamblers are not going to create new business for us. I don’t want this garbage.”

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Mamet knows how banal our society is, how prejudiced and suggestible our citizens are, how our adversarial justice system is riven with lies and manufactured evidence by both sides, about how money is everything.   He knows that the attorney who is the best entertainer and who can misdirect the jury’s attention like a David Copperfield  is the one who wins regardless of his client’s culpability, e.g., “If the glove don’t fit, you must acquit.”   He knows that 400 years of institutionalized rape of black women during slavery without consequence will out (add the shame of being forced into prostitution by racism and economic desperation).  He knows that the answer to the question, “What can a white man say to a black man about race?” is, tersely and simply, “Nothing.”  He knows that black people distrust white people for very good and long-established reasons.  He knows about the guilt of the whites and the shame of the blacks.  Then he has the white lawyer pronounce and …

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What’s new at the New Museum is that a nude art exhibit in New York City has been reprimanded for having too many naked people participating at the same time. In fact, what was to be the biggest splash in perhaps the popular venue’s history will now be relegated to only one stripper at a time.
So why is only a single nude visitor allowed?
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Apparently, this can’t happen. It is allegedly not a legitimate way to behave in New York, and so now this nude experience is limited. But no worries. You can still go and enjoy if you are so inclined. Just remember: There’s a one stripper at a time limit for this skinny-dipping exhibit now taking place in the Big Apple. Or should we call the nude art happening’s location, the naked city?

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The ‘matchmakers’ justify the events by insisting that all participants are consenting adults and ‘nobody has to do anything they don’t want to’ but critics say the parties are bordering on prostitution.
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Despite denying that they’re encouraging prostitution, organisers say the women are usually aged in their late teens or early twenties and are seeking money to pay for university fees or a more glamorous lifestyle.
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While brushing off similarities to prostitution, 41-year-old Wade said: ‘People may feel obligated, but no one is required to do anything that they don’t want to.’
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Ronald Weitzer, a sociology professor at George Washington University, said: ‘Under the banner of sugar daddy and sugar baby arrangements, a lot of prostitution may be going on.’
Las Vegas lawyer Allen Lichtenstein said the legal parameters of prostitution are clouded.
But Mr Lichtenstein said: ‘Any relationship that is an ongoing one that’s not purely about sex but may have a sexual aspect to it, you can’t really classify as prostitution.’

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In a response posted at http://blog.backpage.com, the company responded to the clergy’s ad by saying: “The religious coalition demanded that we close down our legal, adult classifieds. Neither government officials nor God’s advocates can dictate such arbitrary control of business or speech.”
According to its online response, Village Voice officials agreed to a meeting in New York City with coalition members and offered to pay airfare costs so that all the religious leaders could attend, instead of meeting with four representatives appointed by the coalition.
Isaac Luria, executive director of Groundswell, said coordinating a full coalition meeting – which was first requested 75 days ago – was next to impossible. “Under no circumstances was the clergy coalition going to accept funding for air travel from a site that makes money off these ads,” he said.
Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn, along with seven other Washington mayors, has urged backpage.com to take additional steps to prevent the use of the site to prostitute underage girls.

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Portland Cocktail Week isn’t anywhere close to the scale of the Manhattan Cocktail Classic or the standard-setting Tales of the Cocktail, but what it lacks in size it makes up for in enthusiasm. There’s just something about Portland that drives people to drink, and the intermingling of bartenders from around the country for spirits, seminars, parties, and strippers, seems like it’s always been pre-ordained. And yes, we said strippers. Portland has more strip clubs per capita than any other state in America, and they are as big a part of the drinking scene as craft cocktail bars, dive bars, and pubs (but more on that later). 
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Breast were center stage at Portland Cocktail Week’s closing party “Stripperoke”.  Hosted at Portland’s Devil’s Point strip club, Stripperoke had top bartenders serenading the intoxicated crowd on a stage accompanied by strippers doing what they do best. Stripperoke was an event that showed that no matter what Portland Cocktail Week’s ambitions are, it didn’t take itself too seriously.

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She uses Moth, a 12-year-old girl raised fatherless and without sewage on the Lower East Side, to voice these tragedies. Amid all the problems in Moth’s life, it’s not a lack of wealth, education or class that is the noose around her neck – it’s a lack of love.
McKay’s project here is exploring the ramifications of such an overwhelming lack of love on a young girl in a big city.
“I’d spent my whole life longing for someone to want me – for Mama to say she loved me, or for my father to reappear at the door,” Moth thinks the night after performing her first strip tease. “It seemed unfair that what went on in Miss Everett’s parlour was the kind of wanting I’d get instead. I doubted that I’d be any better off letting God know I was here.”

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In 1984, rock organist and singer Wells Kelly fatally choked on his own vomit on the steps of the London house where he was staying. Kelly was a founding member of the band “Orleans,” who had hits in 1974 with “Dance With Me” and in 1976 with “Still the One.” Kelly later played with Meat Loaf of “Bat Out of Hell” fame.
In 1986, Cy McLean, a hunchback jazz pianist who was Toronto’s first — and for many years only — black bandleader, died in Port McNicoll, Ont. at the age of 70. McLean was born in Sydney, N.S., heading for Toronto to study music as a teenager. He formed Ontario’s first black jazz band in the late 1930’s. After big bands faded in the late ’40s, McLean formed a quartet, which opened Toronto’s Colonial Tavern, later to become the city’s top jazz spot. But by the 1960’s, McLean was reduced to playing behind strippers in the seedy Warwick Hotel. Many famous Canadian jazzmen — including Moe Koffman, Sonny Greenwich and Jack Kane — passed through his groups.

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