Archive for September, 2009

Tampa Strip Clubs: The List: Every event worth listing Thurs., Sept. 17 – Wed., Sept. 23

Tuesday, September 15th, 2009

BELLY DANCING Pink Palace, 3316 Webber St., Sarasota (587-6385 or southfloridabellydancers.com). Bethsheba Almah teaches beginning belly dancing classes at her Pink Palace noon-1 p.m. Sun. and 6-7 p.m. Mon. and Wed., and an advanced class 7-8 p.m. Mon. and Wed. Enrollment is $15 per class or $120 per eight weeks. Almah also leads a free class at Ringling College of Art and Design 9-10 p.m. every Wed. and a lesson at Anna Maria Community Center 1-2 p.m. every Sat., which costs $12 for center members and $15 for nonmembers. Almah also performs at Pegasus Greek Family Restaurant every Fri. and Sat. evening. Call for times.
CHAMPIONS MIXED MARTIAL ARTS 1980 First St., Bradenton (758-2857). Professional instruction for children ages 6-15 is available in everything from kickboxing to wrestling and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. Call for more information.
CHERRY BLOSSOM EXOTIC POLE DANCING LESSONS Rosemary Court, 810 Central Ave., Sarasota (224-0110). Get in shape while channeling your inner stripper at these classes. Call for dates, times and enrollment fees.

See the full article from “Creative Loafing Sarasota”

Tampa Adult Entertainment: Olbermann’s “Special Comment” on Joe ‘You lie!’ Wilson: ‘You’ve …

Saturday, September 12th, 2009

And finally, as promised, a Special Comment about the shout of “You Lie” during the presidential address to the joint session of Congress last night on the matter of health care reform.
The 43rd president of the United States lied the nation into the war, lied 4,343 of his fellow citizens to death in that war, lied about upholding the constitution, and lied about Weapons of Mass Destruction.
He lied about how he reacted to Al-Qaeda before 9/11 and he lied about how he reacted to Al-Qaeda after 9/11.
He lied about getting Bin Laden, and he lied about not getting Bin Laden.
He lied about nation-building in Iraq, lied about the appearance of new buildings **in** the nation **of** Iraq, and lied about embassy buildings in nations like Iraq.
He lied about trailers with mobile weapons labs in them, and he lied about trailers with Cuban prostitutes in them.

See the full article from “Raw Story”

Tampa Strip Clubs: Cowboys’ quiet offseason a good thing

Friday, September 11th, 2009

You see as much as I’ve grown to enjoy stories about high-profile wide receivers stabbing teammates in the neck with scissors, ex-defensive linemen being busted with dope stashes the size of small linebackers and conspiracy theories involving double top secret quarteback-tight end play drawing sessions, I actually find it refreshing to see team a that’s underachieved mightily over the past decade for once focus most of their energy on football.
Sure, the Cowboys still made a few offseason headlines.
The collapse of the team’s indoor facility raised some eyebrows. The opening of Jerry World and the discovery of Jones’ low-hanging, punt-blocking mega jumbo screen spawned some columns. And the cutting of reality TV show winner Jesse Holley even made the news.
But the vast majority of stories written on the Cowboys since the beginning of training camp have been about what’s happening on the field rather than in the locker room or in a strip club, which is an awfully nice change of pace.

See the full article from “Abilene Reporter-News”

Tampa Escorts: AP Top News at 11:53 pm EDT – September 10

Thursday, September 10th, 2009

TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) — The ailing Lockerbie bomber looked weak and pale, sitting in a wheelchair, as he was visited by a group of African parliamentarians Wednesday in a rare appearance in the hospital where he is being treated for prostate cancer. Abdel Baset al-Megrahi appeared for only five minutes and did not speak during the visit in the Tripoli Medical Center. Dressed in hospital scrubs, he wore a surgical mask over his mouth and nose and a traditional embroidered cap.
Suspect in slayings well-known in his neighborhood
MILWAUKEE (AP) – Walter Ellis was anything but unknown in his north side neighborhood in Milwaukee – a mix of condemned and run-down houses with some nicer, newer homes. Even as the bodies of suspected prostitutes began turning up in garbage bins and abandoned buildings near his home, the stocky Ellis had regular – sometimes violent, often friendly – interaction with neighbors and family, and more than a dozen run-ins with police.

See the full article from “KMPH Fox 26″

Tampa Adult Entertainment: AP News in Brief

Tuesday, September 8th, 2009

… We need every single one of you to develop your talents, skills and intellect so you can help solve our most difficult problems,” Obama said. “If you don’t do that – if you quit on school – you’re not just quitting on yourself, you’re quitting on your country.”
The White House posted Obama’s remarks on its Web site Monday.
The president was to deliver the talk at Wakefield High School in Arlington, Va., a Washington suburb. The speech will be broadcast live on C-SPAN and on the White House Web site.
Milwaukee police: Man’s DNA found on 9 slain women, but past didn’t point to such violence
MILWAUKEE (AP) – A Milwaukee man authorities say is linked by DNA to the slayings of nine women since 1986 had shown angry tendencies in the past, but nothing that suggested he was responsible for deaths that terrorized local prostitutes for more than two decades, police said.

See the full article from “IdahoStatesman.com”

Tampa Adult Entertainment: Simple answers to the US education crisis don’t exist

Tuesday, September 8th, 2009

Lesson No. 3: Adding insult to incompetence, too many teachers pass the buck and insist that some of their students don’t do as well as others because they come from a culture that doesn’t value education and from parents with misplaced priorities.
After a recent column in which I knocked teachers for resisting accountability, a reader in Indiana wrote: “Even the very best teacher cannot make up for bad parenting. Too many minority schools are full of students of single parent homes … the children are just a source of welfare income … the culture in many minority communities other than some Mexican and Asian communities is to devalue education. A community that values thugs, pimps, hos, gangsta rap, drug dealers, gangs, etc. produces children alienated from school and any authority. And the mass media glorifies these things while giving short shift (sic) to education other than to do your type of obnoxious whining about it is all the teachers’ fault.”

See the full article from “Stockton Record”

Tampa Adult Entertainment: Commissioner White marches through missteps

Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009

In 2001, White filed to run for Tampa City Council District 5. He proved an able fundraiser, raising $60,000 before the March 2003 election. He came out on top in the four-person race and faced his aunt, Bernadine White-King, in a runoff.
Three months after taking office, White unsuccessfully pushed to give city council members a 23 percent pay raise, from $28,974 to $35,600. He quit his job at St. Pete Jeep-Chrysler a month after making the proposal. He later took a job as security director for Rooms To Go in Tampa.
White made few headlines during his three years on the council, but he was appreciated by some East Tampa neighborhood leaders.
“We were trying to get prostitutes off several corners and get a house shut down where there were drugs,” said Gladys Jackson of the Rainbow Heights neighborhood. White “went to the police. He helped us get that shut down,” she said.

See the full article from “Brandon News and Tribune”

Tampa Adult Entertainment: A starring role in annals of sleaze

Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009

In the annals of alibis, Jack Ruby would have been more believable if he had argued he was home alone watching Bonanza when he shot Lee Harvey Oswald live on national television.
But there was Kevin White, the Stud Muffin of Kennedy Boulevard, taking the stand during the trial and insisting that — tut-tut, harrumph-harrumph — he had no licentious intentions himself toward young Ms. Ogden during a very creepy weekend trip to Atlanta shortly after the aide had entered into White’s employ. None at all! Perish the thought!
Why he was simply attempting to pimp her out to facilitate a dangerous coo-coo-ca-choo liaison between his employee and C. Blythe Andrews, the aging and infirm publisher of the Florida Sentinel Bulletin, who also happens to be a long-time, but soon-to-end, political supporter of the commissioner.

See the full article from “Tampabay.com”

Tampa Adult Entertainment: Mopping up Commissioner White’s sexual discrimination mess: Should …

Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009

Mopping up Commissioner White’s sexual discrimination mess: Should taxpayers pick up the tab?
By Sue Carlton, Times Columnist In Print: Friday, August 28, 2009
And you thought the messy part was over after those salacious allegations played out in court about the married elected official begging the much younger employee for a kiss.
It’s about to get messier.
Last week a federal jury handed down a big, fat we-don’t-buy-it to Hillsborough Commissioner and Democrat Kevin White in a sex discrimination case filed by his then-aide, who was 22. The jury was less than impressed with White’s defense that he wasn’t repeatedly hitting on Alyssa Ogden, just setting her up with this politically powerful elderly guy he knew. (Or, as a juror later put it, “pimping.”)
The jury did not buy that her firing was more about incompetence than noncompliance.

See the full article from “Tampabay.com”

Tampa Adult Entertainment: Clearwater mayor agrees to ‘pimp’ map

Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009

Clearwater mayor agrees to ‘pimp‘ map
CLEARWATER The Dolph Map Company made the city of Clearwater an offer it couldnt refuse.
If the city and the Clearwater Regional Chamber of Commerce would help the Fort Lauderdale-based company sell advertising in the 10,000 Clearwater street maps it plans to print, the company would give the city and the chamber 4,000 of those maps to distribute at no cost to visitors.
The remaining maps will be given to the advertisers, along with a countertop display rack, for free distribution to their customers.
Area businesses can take advantage of this unique opportunity to promote their businesses by participating in the Business Showcase Directory of the map, says the letter that Dolph asked Mayor Frank Hibbard to sign in exchange for the free maps.
Any problems with me pimping a map? Hibbard asked his City Council colleagues at their most recent work session.

See the full article from “Tampa Bay Newspapers”