The city contends that the modeling studio, which also sells adult videos and novelty items, is in violation of several zoning laws, including operating an adult entertainment business within 500 feet of a residential dwelling district, along with landscaping requirements and sign violations.
Community leaders spoke out at Tuesday’s hearing against Secret Dreams and the clientele they said it brings to the area.
“What we disapproved of was the live entertainment, period. If you look at what’s happened in other situations with live entertainment, things go bad,” said Mike McCormick with the 40 West Business Association.
“One of the things we’re fighting in that area is the prostitution and the issues that we have on Washington Street,” said Patrice Duckett with the New West Coalition. “We feel that bringing in this type of business will only hinder us and the progress we’ve made.”
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INDIANAPOLIS — Little Brownie Bakers, supplier of Girl Scout Cookies to Girl Scouts of Central Indiana, has notified the council that some Lemon Chalet Creme cookies have an “off taste and smell.” A list of lot codes for affected Lemon Chalet Creme cookies is available at the Little Brownie Web site at www.littlebrowniebakers.com.
If customers have bought a package of Lemon Chalet Cremes and the quality does not meet their expectations, they should call Girl Scouts of Central Indiana’s Lemon Chalet Creme hotline at (317) 924-6010.
“Fortunately, this is a taste issue, not a public safety issue,” says Cathy Ritchie, chief operating officer of Girl Scouts of Central Indiana. “If our customers experience any dissatisfaction with Lemon Chalet Cremes, we will exchange the product or offer a refund. Girl Scouts of Central Indiana will also ensure that our Girl Scouts and troop leaders will not bear any financial burden associated with the Lemon Chalet Creme quality issue.”
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Theatre department presents Brecht comedy
The University of Indianapolis Department of Theatre will present two weekends of the Bertolt Brecht classic The Good Person of Szechwan, an intercultural play that blends the author’s fascination with Chinese theatricality, German politics and American detective novels.
Directed by Jennifer Alexander and opening Feb. 19, the fast-moving comedy explores right and wrong in the real world through the tale of Shen Teh, a goodhearted but penniless prostitute. When three gods come to earth in search of a thoroughly good person, they encounter Shen Teh, who offers them shelter.
Rewarded with enough money to open a tobacco shop, “Angel of the Slums” Shen Teh soon becomes so overwhelmed by the demands of people seeking assistance that she invents a male alter ego, “Tobacco King” Shui Ta, to deal ruthlessly with the business of living in an evil world. The play contains adult themes and language. Performances are scheduled for 8 p.m. Feb. 19-20 and 25-27 and 3 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 21, in Esch Hall …
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Lawrence is shown praying prior to the climactic scenes. This conforms to a snatch of verse used in the original film and intoned at the beginning of this update: “Even a man who is pure in heart and says his prayers by night / May become a wolf when the wolfbane blooms and the autumn moon is bright.”
While such fatalism would be objectionable outside a genre so far removed from reality, here the sentiment is merely a passing detail meant to heighten the atmosphere of dread. Overall, despite the histrionics that come with the territory, it’s difficult to resist the old-fashioned — indeed corny — pleasures of “The Wolfman.”
The movie contains frequent episodes of moderately graphic violence, including fleeting images of human entrails, decapitations, and severed limbs; an instance of partial upper female nudity; several references to prostitution; and one use of profane language. The USCCB Office for Film & Broadcasting classification is A-III — adults. The Motion Picture Association of America rating is R — restricted. Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian.
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… Well, congratulations to the world champion New Orleans Saints for winning the Super Bowl. That’s the best thing to happen to New Orleans since George Bush left office.” -Jay Leno
“Did everybody watch the Super Bowl? Everybody’s happy for New Orleans. In fact, FEMA announced plans to congratulate them in about two weeks.” -Jimmy Fallon
“President Obama just held his first monthly bipartisan meeting and said that working together on jobs would be a good place to start. You know where else would have been a good place to start? A year ago.” -Jimmy Fallon
“And just two weeks before he is scheduled to go to Nevada to campaign for Harry Reid, President Obama said Las Vegas is a place of excess that people should not visit during hard times. I guess the president feels if you want to see people cavorting with prostitutes and wasting your money, go to Washington.” -Jay Leno
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Brees is something else entirely. Chalk it up to the magic of football: New Orleanians in the last couple of days have been building a shrine to their beloved quarterback outside the gates of his home. With its heartfelt Sharpie-scrawled sentiments and random totems of life in this particular ‘hood — a six-pack of Abita, the local brew, a Hubig’s pie, a storied New Orleans junk-food staple — you’d think, observing from a distance, that the guy had been the victim of a drive-by, not a Super Bowl MVP.
“How’s the ‘Who Dat’ nation feel tonight?” Brees said as his float stopped at Gallier Hall. “We love you and we won that championship for you.”
A man took a microphone to wish Brees the best, on behalf of all of the fans who have waited 40-plus years for New Orleans to experience this moment. It turned out to be U.S. Sen. David Vitter, the family-values Republican running for reelection here despite the fact that his phone number famously appeared on a prostitution service’s list of clients.
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… ‘But just resist that for one week and then we’ll come back here, and I’ll pay for everyone’s plane ticket. And then I’ll show you around Miami, local style.’ “
It sounds simple, but history has shown time and again that some players can’t resist that temptation, even before the biggest games of their lives.
Two of the most infamous incidents involving Super Bowl players on the eve of the game happened in Miami. In 1989, Cincinnati running back Stanley Wilson was caught using cocaine on the night before the game, his third offense under the NFL’s drug policy, which got him banned from the league. Ten years later, Atlanta safety Eugene Robinson was arrested by an undercover police officer for soliciting a prostitute on the night before the game — on the same day that he had been awarded the Bart Starr Award for his high moral character.
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he scene? It is equal parts electronic orgy and all-you-can-eat buffet. Football is a gluttonous and insatiable beast, and here is one of the places it gets fed. Radio row, unlike anything you’ll see anywhere else in sports, at feeding time. Table after table of prostitutes and pimps, merging for money and filing the business transaction under something close to love. People get hurt sometimes in this kind of relationship. You can see them as the shells of what used to be Bill Romanowski and Nate Newton limp so very slowly from interview to interview, still selling.
It is in the cavernous Fort Lauderdale Convention Center. The Who is being interviewed upstairs somewhere. Queen Latifah is on all the TVs, being asked questions and answering with the sound down. The Cowhead Show, whatever that is, is broadcasting live on something called (obviously!) 102 The Bone.
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Now the Saints are going to the Super Bowl®. Governor Jindal proclaimed this week Who Dat Nation Week, and Who Dat t-shirts are flying off the shelves in New Orleans as well as in Florida, where the Big Game® will be played.
The NFL, in its capacity as agent for the member teams, sent out cease and desist letters in both locales, asserting ownership by the Saints of, among other trademarks, Who Dat.
Mistake. Seemingly every elected official in New Orleans defended the shirt sellers culminating with Sen. David Vitter (R-La.) (yes, that Senator Vitter) who wrote the NFL to indicate that he was printing up his own “Who Dat say we can’t print WHO Dat” shirts.
Practice pointer: try to avoid situations where an alleged patron of prostitutes can take a holier-than-thou stance with regard to your client.
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The woman told investigators she took this to mean that he was suggesting that she perform a sexual favor in return for him not arresting her. The woman refused, responding, “I don’t have to have sex to stay out of jail.”
She then claimed that the officer drove her to a secluded industrial area near downtown and raped her. The woman says Harris threw $12 at her after the alleged incident, then drove her to the 900 block of North Tuxedo Street at her request and dropped her off.
Later the same day a different officer arrested the woman on an outstanding warrant near a Rural and 10th Street gas station. Officer Harris served as back up.
While waiting in Officer Harris’ cruiser for a transport wagon, Harris reportedly said to her “I know you’re not going to tell on me.” He also said no one would ever believe her because she was a prostitute, and added, “I know every address you have and I’ll come for you.”
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