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2011
at the mayor. We can’t decide if that is supposed to me strippers are for Dean in the hopes that he lightens up the five-year-old law considered onerous on strip clubs in Nashville.
Let’s say it does mean that. Supporters of altering the strip club law have chattered that may be one way of reigniting economic development. Attorney and former Metro Council member Adam Dread said recently that conventions have bypassed Nashville because the strip clubs aren’t what they used to be. Of course, tourism officials are reluctant to acknowledge that. Given the slump in convention and tourism business and the need to fill a new convention center, there’s a mild argument that amending the law could help bring more convention business. Obviously, that wouldn’t be the preferred sales point but one of the more subtle ones.
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07
2011
In the show Price stars in, The John Denver Story, he sings those and many other songs, and talks the audience through Denver’s life. It’s not acting, exactly, but it is storytelling, and that’s what appealed to him. ”I don’t feel as if I’m trying to become John. I just do the songs as if I were singing my own.”
Price doesn’t present as a man with a big ego – he comes across as quiet and quite reflective – but he’s had his brush with stardom and perhaps such an experience leaves its scars, both good and bad.
He knew from his first gig, aged eight, that music was his calling. By 11, he was playing solo in nightclubs in Brisbane – ”I’d be in a dressing room and a stripper would walk past … I just loved it” – and at 18 he moved to Sydney. For a decade, he trod the usual route of sleeping on friends’ couches, playing in bands and struggling to make a name before finally cracking it. Big time.
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2011
published Sunday, July 3rd, 2011
Stripper and congressman—inside story
When Ginger Lee, a Nashville stripper whose real name is Candice Raines, became a fan of former New York Congressman Anthony Weiner, she thought she was doing her part by supporting his stance on health care reform and women’s right to choose.
Instead, the 28-year-old former porn actress got swept up in Weiner’s cyber scandal.
Raines’ decision to follow the congressman on Twitter led to sexual innuendo-laced emails from him and made her a key figure in ending Weiner’s promising political career.
After the story broke in late May, she went into hiding to avoid the media that had camped out at her Tennessee home and hounded her.
In her first interview since Weiner’s resignation, Raines said her sole purpose for connecting with the congressman was to support his political stance on issues she cared about and that much of her blogging about him was taken out of context. She said her own troubles with obtaining health insurance because of chronic mental illness she’s had since a teenager — she once said she has paranoid schizophrenia — triggered the interaction with the former congressman. Raines also has lupus.
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07
2011
In the show Price stars in, The John Denver Story, he sings those and many other songs, and talks the audience through Denver’s life. It’s not acting, exactly, but it is storytelling, and that’s what appealed to him. ”I don’t feel as if I’m trying to become John. I just do the songs as if I were singing my own.”
Price doesn’t present as a man with a big ego – he comes across as quiet and quite reflective – but he’s had his brush with stardom and perhaps such an experience leaves its scars, both good and bad.
He knew from his first gig, aged eight, that music was his calling. By 11, he was playing solo in nightclubs in Brisbane – ”I’d be in a dressing room and a stripper would walk past … I just loved it” – and at 18 he moved to Sydney. For a decade, he trod the usual route of sleeping on friends’ couches, playing in bands and struggling to make a name before finally cracking it. Big time.
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06
2011
Junker was fired earlier this year after an internal investigation uncovered apparently illegal campaign contributions by staff and lavish spending by him on parties and a night at a strip club.
Shelton, 62, agreed to a four-year contract with a base salary of $455,000 and incentives. Junker had an annual salary of about $600,000 plus a substantial list of perks.
“The Fiesta Bowl is an Arizona treasure, and as a native Arizonan I am excited about the opportunity to lead this wonderful organization,” Shelton said in the news release announcing his hiring. “I have spent my entire career in higher education and I care passionately about UA. But there always comes a point in life where you feel that it is time to try something new. I am looking forward to helping the bowl rebuild and achieve even greater heights.”
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The probe also uncovered lavish spending, including $33,000 for a birthday bash for Junker in Pebble Beach, Calif., $13,000 for a wedding for Junker’s top aide and even a $1,200 trip to a Phoenix strip club.
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2011
Next, I would have to say Cee-Lo had a big wow factor has he appeared to perform on a decked out bedazzled studded piano and black 70 inspired looking suit spinning up and down in every direction and upside down at one point. It was hard to concentrate on his singing, due to his crazy entrance. Still, he killed his performance and had our attention with his crowd favorite song “Forget You.”
On the other hand, the wierdest surprise came in the form of a lip-singing Britney Spears. This pop diva came up from the floor to join Rihanna for her performance “S&M” on a stripper pole equipped with diamond handcuffs. To finish things off with a bang the two had a pillow fight and a kiss. ( Does this ring a bell Madonna/ Britney MTV performance?)
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05
2011
The Bowl Championship Series presidential oversight committee, which made the decision Wednesday, also attached several other conditions as it let the Fiesta Bowl remain part of the system for deciding college football’s national champion. They included steps to strengthen the Fiesta Bowl’s board along with greater supervision of executives to make sure the problems are not repeated, according to materials obtained by The Associated Press.
Gould launched his committee’s staff review of lawmaker’s financial disclosure reports and other documents after the Fiesta Bowl released an internal report in March.
The report detailed a wide array of improper spending by bowl officials, questionable gifts to curry favor from public officials and illegal reimbursement of some bowl personnel for campaign contributions to politicians.
The Fiesta Bowl report detailed about $45,000 in reimbursements to employees for political donations, an apparent violation of federal and state laws. It also revealed lavish and inappropriate spending, such as $33,000 for a Pebble Beach, Calif., birthday bash for then-CEO and President John Junker, $13,000 for the wedding and honeymoon of an aide, and a $1,200 strip club tab for Junker and two others. Junker has been fired.
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05
2011
The BCS presidential oversight committee imposed the penalty Wednesday in the wake of a scandal at the Arizona-based game that included apparently illegal campaign contributions from staff and lavish spending by the former CEO on parties and a night at a strip club.
Under the ruling, the Fiesta Bowl can remain part of the system for deciding college football’s national champion, though in addition to the fine it also must meet certain BCS demands such as strengthening the Fiesta Bowl’s board and imposing greater supervision over bowl executives.
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A recent internal report by the Fiesta Bowl detailed about $45,000 in reimbursements to employees for political donations, an apparent violation of federal and state laws. It also revealed inappropriate spending, such as $33,000 for a Pebble Beach, Calif., birthday bash for then-CEO and President John Junker, $13,000 for the wedding and honeymoon of an aide, and a $1,200 strip club tab for Junker and two others. Junker has been fired.
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04
2011
While Jones and her attorney, Tim Potter of Dickson, tried to convince Trauger that she played a minor role in the fraud, the preponderance of evidence did not hold in her favor. Entered into testimony by the U.S. Attorney’s office was grand jury testimony originally given by a woman named Lea Evans. Evans was not on hand today and the government said that they were unable to locate her.
Evans worked with Jones for Park at Park Capital Management group on two occasions. She had told the grand jury that Jones had admitted to her at some point in 2004 that fraud was taking place at the company and she was involved in it.
Park, who was brought in from the federal prison in Millington to corroborate the testimony and establish that Jones was intricately involved in the fraud, was asked to identify Evans for Trauger. He testified that Evans was a stripper he met at Déjà Vu and that he had sometimes done cocaine with her.
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04
2011
For prostitutes looking to get drug free and off the streets, the Magdalene program in Nashville, Tenn., provides a model for healing. Magdalene offers housing, therapy and a self-sustaining small business that allows the women it serves to make money and gain respect.
That business is Thistle Farms, and the recovering women who run it make body care products by hand and paper made of thistle.
If you open the door at Thistle Farms and ask a woman about becoming a prostitute, you hear about a world of pain.
There’s Nina Phillips, who turned her first trick at 13 years old when she was a dancer at a gentleman’s club in Atlanta. And Tara Adcock, whose mother left when she was 5. Adcock started stripping at a club in Nashville at 17 using a fake ID. Valerie Williams, who before coming to Magdalene, would be on a crack high for sometimes 5 or 6 days straight.
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