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It’s Verdi’s most accessible opera, containing some of his most admired music. While the tragic plot is fairly routine – a variation on boy meets girl, boy loses girl, girl dies – the music is often soaring.
Harrisburg Symphony Orchestra’s concert version of the 19th century work took wing Saturday night at The Forum, as Maestro Stuart Malina and the orchestra accompanied a cascade of fine voices. Malina even sang a small part from his podium just before intermission.
The opera, which runs more than two hours with one intermission, will be repeated at 3 p.m. today in The Forum.
The star of the show is soprano Inna Dukach, who convincingly inhabits the role of Parisian courtesan Violetta Valery, even in this concert version of Verdi’s opera. She reeled in all of the notes, seemingly without effort, carrying nearly the entire second half of the first act in moving fashion.
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It’s Verdi’s most accessible opera, containing some of his most admired music. While the tragic plot is fairly routine – a variation on boy meets girl, boy loses girl, girl dies – the music is often soaring.
Harrisburg Symphony Orchestra’s concert version of the 19th century work took wing Saturday night at The Forum, as Maestro Stuart Malina and the orchestra accompanied a cascade of fine voices. Malina even sang a small part from his podium just before intermission.
The opera, which runs more than two hours with one intermission, will be repeated at 3 p.m. today in The Forum.
The star of the show is soprano Inna Dukach, who convincingly inhabits the role of Parisian courtesan Violetta Valery, even in this concert version of Verdi’s opera. She reeled in all of the notes, seemingly without effort, carrying nearly the entire second half of the first act in moving fashion.
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… Photo : Photo: Ken Howard/Metropolitan Opera) A scene from Act I of Verdi’s “La Traviata” with Diana Damrau as Violetta.
For years, Diana Damrau has dazzled Met audiences in virtually everything she has performed. She had a historic run performing Pamina and the Queen of the Night in Mozart’s “Die Zauberflöte” and wowed audiences at her debut as Zerbinetta in Richard Strauss’ “Ariadne auf Naxos.” In recent years, the German soprano has debuted resonant interpretations of “Lucia Di Lammermoor” and “Le Comte Ory” that have solidified her status as one of the top sopranos on the Met roster. This season she has risen to a newer challenge and what seems to be a major turning point in her career. On Monday March 18, Damrau showcased a tremendously successful portrayal of the iconic courtesan Violetta Valery in Verdi’s “La Traviata.”
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THE key witness in the case against two men charged with the murder of male prostitute Shane Chartres-Abbott made deliberately false statements to police, a court has been told.
A source close to the rapper said Wayne “drank too much sizzurp to get a better high,” according to the magazine.
“He needs rehab but he’s not close to death or anything. He’s fine and just coming down off the high,” the source told US Weekly.
The highly addictive narcotic also known as “purple drank,” “lean,” “syrup,” “barre” and “purple jelly,” is popular among rappers, according to Wikipedia. It is prepared with cough syrup , fruit flavored sodas and hard candies such as jolly ranchers “to add flavor.”
According to the Hollywood Reporter, Wayne is a long time user of the drug and has written multiple lyrics about it.
The drug is highly addictive and can be deadly. Rapper Pimp C reportedly died in 2008 of a cough-syrup overdose, according to the L.A. County Coroner’s office.
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Three employees of Deidra’s Health Salon on the Post Road have been charged with prostitution, and police said the arrest of the…
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Three employees of Deidra’s Health Salon on the Post Road have been charged with prostitution, and police said the arrest of the…
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A resolution calling for a presidential pardon for former world heavyweight champion Jack Johnson is sponsored by U.S. Rep. Peter King and Sen. John McCain, both Republicans. They have sponsored the same measure in previous Congresses. Democratic Sens. Harry Reid of Nevada and William “Mo” Cowan of Massachusetts have signed on as cosponsors this year.
Jack Johnson won the championship in Reno on July 4, 1910 (“The great black hope,” RN&R, July 10, 2010), and held it until 1915. His lifestyle of white women and fast cars was offensive to whites in that era—77 African-Americans were lynched the year Johnson won the championship—and the Mann Act, which was enacted nine days before the Reno fight, was used to convict him of taking a woman across state lines for immoral purposes. The prosecution was a misuse of the law, which was passed to deal with prostitution, not consensual relationships. The prosecutors, judge and jurors were all white.
CARSON CITY — Nevada teens caught with cigarettes or other tobacco products would be subject to fines and possible juvenile court under a bill heard Thursday in the Senate Judiciary Committee. Sen. James Settelmeyer, R-Minden, said while state law makes it illegal for people under 18 to buy tobacco, there’s nothing prohibiting underage possession as there is with alcohol. SB177 is designed to change that. By Sandra Chereb.
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LAS VEGAS — The family of a cab driver killed in a fiery crash following a shooting on the Las Vegas Strip has filed a damages lawsuit against the accused shooter. A civil lawsuit filed Tuesday on behalf of Michael Boldon’s son and estate names Ammar Harris, the self-described pimp held in Los Angeles following his arrest in the Feb. 21 incident. By Ken Ritter.
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Woman seeks $1M in suicide with Nev. trooper’s gun Updated 3:45 pm, Thursday, March 7, 2013
RENO, Nev. (AP) — The state of Nevada is being sued for negligence by a woman whose car was hijacked by a drug-trafficking suspect from Florida who killed himself with a state trooper’s shotgun after a chase on U.S. Interstate 80 east of Reno.
Devin Peterson, 22, a felon from Jacksonville, Fla., on probation for carrying a concealed weapon, managed to escape with the trooper’s cruiser during a traffic stop and search for drugs on Jan. 28.
Officers in pursuit shot out his tires near the exit for the Mustang Ranch brothel. Peterson then ordered Coates out of her car at gunpoint. He eventually crashed her Pontiac Grand Prix near Fernley 30 miles east of Reno before shooting himself in the chest.
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Prostitution sting results in 8 males cited for solicitation
RENO — On Tuesday, February 5, 2013 detectives from the Regional Street Enforcement Team conducted an undercover prostitution operation targeting people attempting to hire a female posing as a prostitute on West 4
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All eight men were contacted and issued misdemeanor citations for solicitation for prostitution. The pre-designated bail/fine for solicitation for prostitution is $500.00. Subjects cited/arrested for solicitation for prostitution are also required to submit to blood testing for sexually transmitted diseases.
The Regional Street Enforcement Team would like to remind subjects’ considering engaging in acts of prostitution that prostitution is illegal in Washoe County and Clark County. There are other significant risks associated with engaging in acts of illegal prostitution to include the spread of sexually transmitted disease and a greater risk of being victimized during a robbery or fraud by an associate of the prostitute.
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NO Juliette Binoche, no movie. That is the simple verdict on Elles, a softcore sashay through the seedy student prostitution scene in present-day Paris.
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… McCullum) will not be extradited (to California) until he’s done with his local charges,” said Debra Robinson, a Washoe Sheriff’s support specialist. Bakersfield police released details of the case Friday but have not disclosed how old the juvenile victim was, what led to McCullum’s arrest or the status of the girl following McCullum’s detention. Reno Police Department Lt. William Rulla confirmed that McCullum was arrested Tuesday by Reno police. Police are still looking for Shanell Smith, 19, of Reno, Nev., who allegedly lured the victim to a local market where McCullum was waiting on Jan. 8. Police said McCullum had sex with the girl at an area motel and that he and Smith offered to take her to school the next day but instead headed north on Highway 99. The victim was taken to Reno where she was forced to participate in prostitution and pose for nude pictures, according to police. The girl tried to escape more than once, but McCullum assaulted …
A source tells E! that the pair isn’t engaged. You don’t say! I don’t think this pair will ever walk down the aisle, but stranger things have happened. I will say that if they do, we won’t hear about it via E!–they’ll be keeping mum on their next kash kow of a Kardashian wedding! Kim did take to her blog after the whirlwind trip to Rome and Florence, writing, “What a romantic weekend! One I’ll never forget.”
Kim then tweeted the above photograph from 2008 for Throwback Thursday, thus proving to us all that she and ‘Ye were friends first. She tweeted the Star Wars themed photo with the caption, “Throwback Thursday me & Yeezy 2008.” The girl loves a skimpy costume, does she not?
If Kanye does decide to put a ring on it, he has the blessing of pimp momager Kris Jenner. She tells the same site, “Kanye’s such a great guy, that if anything along those lines would happen, he’s already a part of our family. We adore him and think they make an amazing couple. We just want them to be happy.”
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Verdi aficionados will not feel shortchanged; the performance will feature all of La Traviata except for Act II, Scene I—amounting to 85 percent of the full libretto, says Lumpkin. But in that scene’s place will be one plucked from Camille, a contemporary take on the Dumas story by the late British playwright Pam Gems. A full production of Camille preceded Traviata in this year’s Fringe Festival lineup. Tonight’s one-time only opera–stage play hybrid will constitute a grand finale in the festival’s telling of the story of the tragic complications of the mid-19th-century love affair of a courtesan dying of consumption and a country nobleman. “The Gems play was in the small black box theater,” says Lumpkin. “With Traviata we bust the doors open and go down to the big house.”
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Lyric Opera marks Verdi bicentennial with ‘Simon Boccanegra’ By WYNNE DELACOMA October 24, 2012 6:12PM
Thomas Hampson stars in the title role of Giuseppe Verdi’s “Simon Boccanegra” at the Civic Opera House. | Stacie Scott ~ Sun-Times Media
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Verdi has created two of opera’s most memorable tragic heroines — Violetta, the doomed young courtesan of “La traviata,” and Aida, the enslaved Ethiopian princess who dies for love in the opera that bears her name.
But it’s mostly a man’s world in “Simon Boccanegra,” the sumptuous Verdi opera about a 14th-century Italian doge. It’s one of two Verdi works that Lyric Opera of Chicago is presenting this season, to coincide with the bicentennial of the composer’s birth in 2013.
In Francesco Zambello’s version of La Traviata, the main character – courtesan Violetta – recalls all her life as she prepares to die. Already on her deathbed, she rediscovers true love, which is impossible in a society divided into classes. Even though Zambello’s version doesn’t differ much from Verdi’s, set to a libretto based on La Dame Aux Camelias by Alexandre Dumas fils, she looks at the opera from a contemporary angle.
Apparently, Francesca Zambello knows what she is doing. Her first visit to Moscow was while she was still a student, in 1976. La Traviata is her third Bolshoi production. Even though Zambello’s La Traviata has seen successful premiers in various countries, Francesco was nervous before the Moscow premiere. The Bolshoi Theatre was among the first to stage La Traviata, five years after it suffered a humiliating failure in Venice. Since then the Bolshoi put on a variety of La Traviata interpretations but the opera has been missing from the Bolshoi repertoire the last 12 years.
But for the last five months, the Sun Valley neighborhood had enjoyed a respite from the scantily clad prostitutes and their aggressive pimps after LAPD conducted two successful stings and increased bicycle patrols.
Community members also began coordinating monthly neighborhood walks at night down the boulevard in an attempt to take back their streets.
“Grandmas were walking around with their grandkids in strollers,” said Cindy Sower, owner of Sun Valley Equipment Rentals. “You’d see a group of cross-country runners from the nearby school run around here. It was amazing.”
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Evans said officers go after prostitutes on a daily basis with an emphasis on trying to arrest pimps, who often drop off the prostitutes on the street corners. Stings like the one on Thursday aimed at johns also combat the problem on the demand side.
Dayana Gonzalez,18, gets into a pickup truck in a way that suggested to LAPD officers that she may be soliciting for prostitution. The man driving the pickup truck drove Gonzalez around the block, and returned her to the same location 5 minutes later. He left the scene before officers could detain him. LAPD conducted a prostitution sting near the intersection of Lankershim Boulevard and San Fernando Road on Thursday, Oct. 4, 2012.
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Ann Romney to Visit Reno for Rally
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BREAKING NEWS: IRS Building Case Against Leading Escort ServiceBREAKING NEWS: IRS Building Case Against Leading Escort ServiceUpdated: Friday, October 5 2012 5:54 PM EDT2012-10-05 21:54:29 GMTLAS VEGAS — A criminal complaint unsealed in federal court Friday afternoon could represent the first wave of a law enforcement assault on the lucrative escort service industry in Las Vegas. InternalMore>>A criminal complaint unsealed in federal court Friday afternoon could represent the first wave of a law enforcement assault on the lucrative escort service industry in Las Vegas.More>>
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But for the last five months, the Sun Valley neighborhood had enjoyed a respite from the scantily clad prostitutes and their aggressive pimps after LAPD conducted two successful stings and increased bicycle patrols.
Community members also began coordinating monthly neighborhood walks at night down the boulevard in an attempt to take back their streets.
“Grandmas were walking around with their grandkids in strollers,” said Cindy Sower, owner of Sun Valley Equipment Rentals. “You’d see a group of cross-country runners from the nearby school run around here. It was amazing.”
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Evans said officers go after prostitutes on a daily basis with an emphasis on trying to arrest pimps, who often drop off the prostitutes on the street corners. Stings like the one on Thursday aimed at johns also combat the problem on the demand side.
Wolf Shop SnapshotBeginning Aug. 27 and ending Sept. 9 The Wolf Shop Snapshot contest encourages students to attend events and show their school spirit by taking a picture of themselves at each event. Students will then post the pictures on the Nevada Wolf Shop’s Facebook page. The student who completes the most Wolf Shop Snapshots will win great prizes.
Tuesday, Aug. 28 Nevada Living Learning Community Grand Opening Celebration4-6 p.m., Nevada Living Learning Community Residence Hall Courtyard Attendees will get a peek at the classrooms and living areas in this unique building. Food, fun and a short dedication ceremony will officially open the Nevada Living Learning Community.
Wednesday, Aug. 29 Register-to-Vote BarbequeNoon-1 p.m., Gateway Plaza Students can register to vote and grab a free burger during this event hosted by ASUN’s Department of Legislative Affairs, helping students become more active citizens.
Wolf-it-Down Pancake Breakfast
11:30 p.m.-1 a.m., The Quad
During this traditional welcome event, students will enjoy a late-night pancake extravaganza and live music while mingling with fellow students. Students can catch a ride from the residence halls to the Quad from the Campus Escort Service.
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According to the Associated Press, the baby’s parents, Lorena Vizina, 23, and Justin Robinson, 25, were booked Sunday into Washoe County Jail on suspicion of child abuse. Each parent was being held on $20,000 bail. Court documents showed that the couple told detectives they were both addicted to methamphetamine and heroin.
Vizina and Robinson had earlier been evicted from their apartment on Yori Avenue and had been packing Saturday, reported the Reno Gazette-Journal. That afternoon, Vizina had picked up the child from her parents’ home, where she had been staying for the previous 10 days. Before Vizina left for her Saturday night shift at a local escort service, she said that she and Robinson smoked heroin in front of their daughter, according to an affidavit. She then left the little girl in her father’s care. The child’s mother told investigators she can’t “function” without the drug.
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Baby girl who swallowed heroin left lying on floor ’shaking and rolling her eyes’ by drug addict parents One-year-old was ’shaking and rolling her eyes’ after putting the substance in her mouth in Reno, Nevada, U.S.Father waited 45 minutes before eventually seeking help Mother was out working for an escort service when the incident occurred By Kerry Mcdermott PUBLISHED: 03:43 EST, 18 July 2012 | UPDATED: 10:21 EST, 18 July 2012 Comments (0) Share The drug-addicted parents of a one-year-old girl who ingested heroin left within her reach have been jailed.The baby was reported to be shaking and rolling her eyes after putting the substance in her mouth while left briefly unattended at her home, but her father Justin Robinson, 25, waited 45 minutes before finally taking the infant to her grandparents’ house and asking them: ‘Does she look okay?’.The child, who by then was ‘unresponsive and had blue lips and skin’, was taken to a hospital in Reno, Nevada, U.S., on Saturday night, according to the …
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Ex-Sands exec alleges prostitution in Macau sites
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Street corridor in downtown Reno and individuals conducting human trafficking/sexual exploitation using internet websites to arrange prostitutions transactions. Undercover detectives utilized rooms in a south Reno hotel and a downtown Reno hotel for the internet portion of the operation. As a result of the two day operation the following individuals were arrested or issued citations for the accompanying charges: The investigations culminated with the arrest of two men who were commercially sexually exploiting women. 27-year-old Kareem Hall Two was arrested and charged with Pandering an Adult. 29-year-old Dhakwan Said Muhammad was arrested and charged with Pandering an Adult, Pandering a Juvenile, Possession of a Controlled Substance – Marijuana, Possession of a Controlled Substance for sales. A recently purchased Cadillac and several thousand dollars were seized from the men as proceeds related to the prostitution transactions. As a result of the pandering arrests, a 17 year old female was recovered as a victim of exploitation. The following were arrested for solicitation: June 21, 2012 Marquisha Latasha Shirley 2-28-82 Solicitation for Prosti …
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Nation’s brainiacs headed to Reno Leah Garchik Updated 04:01 a.m., Friday, June 22, 2012
This year’s annual gathering of American Mensa, themed the End of Time, will be July 4 through 8 at the Silver Legacy resort casino in Reno. The 64-page program describes a series of formal events and colloquia on social gaming – and probably informal ones on the slot machines – as well as presentations like “Let’s Talk Poker” and “What It Takes to Run a Brothel in Storey County,” along with many other enticing choices of activities:
– “Speed-Talking: The Ultimate Annual Gathering Icebreaker,” in which “you and your partner talk for one minute until she yells ‘Stop.’ “
– “Charades With a Twist – a PORNO Twist!”
– “Why They Toss Your Screenwriting Masterpiece.”
– “Debate Room: Date Rape. Is the whole concept of ‘date rape’ almost a fad? … This session is a moderated debate between attendees. Join the fun …”
They testified that those instructions included blinding Ben Novack Jr. – his eyes were slashed with a utility knife – and bashing 86-year-old Bernice Novack in the teeth with a plumber’s wrench.
The killers also testified that Narcy Novack identified her husband to them in advance by stroking his hair in a restaurant as they watched.
They said that on the day of Ben Novack’s killing, Narcy Novack called Veliz, who said: “Well, she’s ready. Let’s go.” One said that when they got to the Hilton hotel in Rye Brook, N.Y., where Ben Novack’s company was running an Amway convention, Narcy Novack motioned them into her room, directed them to her sleeping husband, gave them a pillow to muffle his screams and questioned them afterward to make sure he had been blinded.
One key witness was Rebecca Bliss, a former prostitute and porn actress, who said she was having an affair with Ben Novack when he was killed.
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Relatives in New York state had already assumed that she had died at the hands of Gary Ridgway, just like dozens of prostitutes who worked in the Seattle area in the early 1980s.
But it wasn’t until April that Major’s cousin called the King County Sheriff’s Office after seeing a Lifetime channel movie about Ridgway, who was dubbed the Green River Killer because he dumped some of his victims in or along a river that runs through King County.
It was the first time anyone from the missing woman’s family had reached out to law enforcement, sheriff’s Detective Tom Jensen told The Seattle Times (http://bit.ly/LvpQXM).
“He knew his cousin had come out here in ‘82,” said Jensen, a longtime member of the Green River Task Force. “He said she was involved in prostitution and she disappeared.”
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RENO — Police have arrested a man for allegedly forcing a pair of teens from Carson City into prostitution and also having sexual intercourse with them.
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RENO — Police have arrested a man for allegedly forcing a pair of teens into prostitution and also having sexual intercourse with them
On Thursday, Officers of the Reno Police Department and Detectives of the Regional Street Enforcement team (SET) received information in regards to two female juveniles believed to be prostituting in the Reno area. The two girls, ages 12 and 14 were located and placed with Child Protective Services. The two girls from Carson City, Nevada had been brought to Reno by an adult male. While in Reno, the adult male assisted the 14 year old in the solicitation of prostitution, by bringing them male customers. The adult male directly benefited monetarily by their activities. The investigation also revealed that the adult male had sexual intercourse with both girls. The adult male, identified as 23-year-old Hugo Sanchez, was located and booked into the Washoe County Sheriff’s Office jail. Sanchez has been charged with Pandering and Statutory Sexual Seduction.
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NYC mayor: Not always obvious who’s a prostitute
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The bill is intended to stop cabbies from knowingly driving prostitutes to meet their johns. One provision of the bill would enlist drivers to help steer prostitutes away from illegal activities.
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The women said they fear that if the bill becomes law, cabbies will be afraid to pick up women wearing short skirts or spike heels. “They don’t even know who is a prostitute or not!” said Diana Estrada, who wears shorts or miniskirts to her bartender job.
An apparently sympathetic Bloomberg told Gambling, “If I were a young lady and I dressed in a sporty way … and there’s nothing wrong with that – maybe it’s not appropriate to go to the workplace, but at night sometimes sure, why not – I would not want somebody thinking that I’m a prostitute.”
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By ALICIA A. CALDWELLAssociated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) – Secret Service agents and officers have been accused of involvement with prostitutes, leaking sensitive information, publishing pornography, sexual assault, illegal wiretaps, improper use of weapons and drunken behavior, according to internal government reports reviewed by The Associated Press on Friday. It wasn’t immediately clear how many of the accusations turned out to be true.
The new disclosures of so many serious accusations since 2004 lend weight to concerns expressed by Congress that the Secret Service prostitution scandal in April in Colombia exposed a culture of misconduct within the agency. Secret Service Director Mark Sullivan apologized for the incident during a hearing in May but insisted that what happened in Colombia was an isolated case.
A leading senator who has been investigating the Colombia scandal, Susan Collins, R-Maine, said some of the accusations appeared legitimate and that “adds to my concern about apparent misconduct by some of the personnel of this vital law enforcement agency.”
“The key question is whether these incidents indicate a l …
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CARSON CITY, Nev., June 5, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ — Dennis Hof, the flamboyant owner of The BunnyRanch in Carson City, Nevada, and star of HBO’s hit series “Cathouse,” has returned to America after traveling to England to speak at the prestigious Oxford University on the subject of legalized prostitution.
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Dennis Hof is available for interviews concerning his speech at Oxford University, his efforts to open a BunnyRanch in London, and his take on what the city is doing to prepare for the wave of sex trafficking that is set to accompany The Summer Olympics when it comes to England in July. We have high quality video footage of Dennis’ speech at Oxford available for television outlets, and we can also provide a copy of the formal letter that Dennis wrote to London Mayor Boris Johnson requesting a temporary brothel permit that ignited a firestorm of controversy all across England.
159 years later, history has definitively come down on the side of Verdi. His tragic story of the life and death of Violetta, a courtesan who finds and loses love, before reconciling with her lover on her death bed, is now one of the most performed, and most popular, of all time.
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If you have any preconceptions about what sort of singer she is because of this, forget them. Zekri displayed the range, control and timbre of an accomplished and experienced soprano, worthy of any great opera stage. She showed not only that she had the technical ability of singing one of the great operatic lead roles, but that she could fill that role with emotion. She incarnated the young and passionate Violetta wonderfully, making the courtesan seductive, elegant and vulnerable.
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Even if an operatic king was not killed, censors expected that he be depicted in a positive light. Hence, the libertine and prostitute-loving Francis I of Victor Hugo’s Le roi s’amuse had to be demoted from King of France in the novel to Duke of Mantua in Rigoletto. And this ruler is not murdered by the assassin his jester has hired—in a tragic turn of events, Rigoletto’s daughter Gilda is killed instead. Had these changes not been made, Rigoletto would never have been staged in Venice (a city whose censor was not even the most severe) on March 11, 1851.
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La Traviata, which premiered in Venice in 1853, was initially a failure more for the vocal shortcomings (and heft) of Fanny Salvini Donatelli who played Violetta. Its story of a pleasure-loving courtesan who takes up with one young man passed muster in Venice but was regarded as scandalous elsewhere. Censors in Bologna and Rome insisted that the opera be called Violetta and made the title character much more winsome and conventionally virtuous. And less interesting!
Two years after Jackson knocked on his door, Joseph Naso is awaiting trial on charges of murdering four women – all prostitutes, all strangled to death. Those killings are unusual in their own right as they appear to follow the plot of an Agatha Christie novel, The ABC Murders, in which the initial letter of the victims’ first and last names were the same.
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The other victims were also prostitutes found naked and strangled. None were named on the list, but all were tied to it by the places at which they died. Naso has been charged with their murders in part on the basis of DNA evidence found on the stockings used to murder Roggasch. He was also found to be in possession of newspaper articles about the killings of two of the other women.
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Yet there are reasons for caution. The only DNA evidence from the New York murders does not match Naso’s. They are also very different kinds of victims: schoolgirls in New York, prostitutes in California.
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Spanish Springs Fire Victims IdentifiedSpanish Springs Fire Victims IdentifiedWashoe County authorities have identified two people killed in a weekend house fire that’s being investigated as a homicide. Deputies say 57-year-old Pamela Grund and 61-year-old Harry Grund were foundMore >>The Washoe County Sheriff’s Office has identified the bodies found in a home in Spanish Springs last weekend. More >>
Secret Service Boss: ‘I Apologize’ for Behavior
Secret Service Boss: ‘I Apologize’ for Behavior
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Secret Service Director Mark Sullivan has apologized for the conduct of employees caught up on a Colombia prostitution scandal. Sullivan is testifying at a Senate hearing for the first time since the
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Secret Service Director Mark Sullivan has apologized for the conduct of employees caught up on a Colombia prostitution scandal.More >>
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Secret Service Boss: ‘I Apologize’ for Behavior
Secret Service Boss: ‘I Apologize’ for Behavior
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Secret Service Director Mark Sullivan has apologized for the conduct of employees caught up on a Colombia prostitution scandal. Sullivan is testifying at a Senate hearing for the first time since the
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Secret Service Director Mark Sullivan has apologized for the conduct of employees caught up on a Colombia prostitution scandal.More >>
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WASHINGTON (AP) – The Justice Department inspector general’s office was investigating possible misconduct by two or more Drug Enforcement Administration agents in Colombia unrelated to the Secret Service incident with prostitutes at a Cartagena hotel, federal officials said Monday.
The probe began based on information provided by the Secret Service, the DEA said. The agency is making its employees available to be interviewed by investigators with the office of the Justice Department inspector general, the DEA said.
Sen. Susan Collins of Maine, the top Republican on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, said in a statement that she had been briefed about the involvement of two or more DEA agents on May 4 but was asked to withhold public comment until the agents could be taken out of Colombia and questioned.
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In the Secret Service probe, investigators have interviewed the Colombia prostitute at the center of the affair, Dania Londono Suarez. She said a dispute over payment led to the April 12 incident becoming public.
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Prostitution is legal in Colombia.
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2 men arrested for bringing women to Reno to prostitute
RENO — Two Fresno men have been arrested after it was revealed that they brought two women to Reno and forced them into prostitution.
On Wednesday, The Regional Street Enforcement Team (SET) received information in regard to two young women that had been brought to Reno for the sole purpose of prostitution. These two women, 21 and 23 years of age, were brought to Reno from their hometowns of Fresno, California.
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The two men, who are brothers and also from Fresno, California befriended these young woman in Fresno and drove them to Reno specifically for the purpose of having them prostitute.
Prior to Reno, these men also took them to several different cities in California for the same purpose of prostitution. Both men, 23-year-old Joe Goldsmith and 25-year-old Maurice Goldsmith, directly benefited monetarily as a result of these activities.
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Adam Scott, 26, is charged in an indictment returned by the grand jury on May 9, 2012 with two counts of assault with a deadly weapon and two counts of use of a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence. In a second indictment returned the same day, Scott is charged with one count of illegal transportation of a minor for prostitution and two counts of sex trafficking of a minor or with force, fraud, or coercion.
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According to the indictment filed in the sex trafficking case, on about July 31, 2010, Scott knowingly transported a minor from California to Nevada with the intent that the victim engage in prostitution and between July 31 and August 11, 2010, Scott knowingly used force, fraud, and coercion to cause the minor victim to engage in sex acts. Scott is also charged with using force, fraud, and coercion to cause a second victim to engage in sex acts between August 11 and August 14, 2011.
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Bar service and hors d’oeuvres were on offer during intermission, bringing the event one step closer to creating that sense of occasion.
Of course, the production itself was the central draw, but the opportunity to mix and mingle with other opera lovers and discuss the relative merits of the current production enhanced the experience.
Willy Decker’s minimalist production dispensed with extravagant theatrical elements; the spare set and modern costumes focused the attention on the intense emotion of the piece.
Love in its multiplicity of expressions was the theme: the sensuality of physical love, the playfulness of conjugal love, the suffocating love of a pater familias, the self-sacrificing love of the deeply devoted.
Violetta Valery, performed by Natalie Dessay, is a courtesan whose joie de vivre is a mask for a woman dying before her time.
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Official Won’t Meet With Prostitute In Secret Service Case
Official Won’t Meet With Prostitute In Secret Service Case
WASHINGTON (AP) – The chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee is refusing to meet with a Colombian prostitute involved in the U.S. Secret Service scandal. Rep. Peter King tells CNN that
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WASHINGTON (AP) – The chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee is refusing to meet with a Colombian prostitute involved in the U.S. Secret Service scandal. Rep. Peter King tells CNN thatMore >>
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… I’m trying to educate them,” said one delegate who submitted to a taped interview but then declined to give her name. “They better be a lot less noisy than they were at the February [county] convention, because I’m going to have some head on head arguments with them if they’re as noisy as they were in February. They were obnoxious. They were deceitful. And at the central committee meeting they cheated. They took flyers and claimed that every name on that flyer was a central committee member. Well, they weren’t. Fifteen of them were Ron Paul people … claiming that they were incumbents to help them get reelected.”
She said Paul’s positions in favor of drug legalization, legal prostitution and reduced military activity are “completely opposite to the Republican platform. They’re libertarians.” A delegate seated next to her compared Paul to Ross Perot.
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Woman Injured By Bullet Fragments After ConfrontationWoman Injured By Bullet Fragments After ConfrontationUpdated: Saturday, May 5 2012 3:57 PM EDT2012-05-05 19:57:42 GMTReno Police are looking for a man who allegedly shot at pedestrians and injured a woman early Saturday morning. Police say it happened on South Center Street around 3:40 a.m. A woman and her male friendMore >>Police say it happened on South Center Street Saturday around 3:40 a.m.More >>
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Cougar’s paws sawed off after struck by carCougar’s paws sawed off after struck by carAuthorities in California say someone sawed off the paws of a mountain lion as apparent souvenirs after it was struck and killed by a car.More >>
Court says IRS has 3 years in tax shelter caseCourt says IRS has 3 years in tax shelter caseThe Supreme Court has ruled that the Internal Revenue Service has only three years to impose additional taxes in a tax shelter case, instead of six years like the government wanted.More >>
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Court says IRS has 3 years in tax shelter caseCourt says IRS has 3 years in tax shelter caseThe Supreme Court has ruled that the Internal Revenue Service has only three years to impose additional taxes in a tax shelter case, instead of six years like the government wanted.More >>
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… I’d clean house,” Romney told radio host Laura Ingraham. “The right thing to do is to remove people who have violated the public trust and have put their play time and their personal interests ahead of the interests of the nation.”
Among key Republicans on Capitol Hill, there was support for Sullivan and deference to his investigation – a recognition by some in Congress that the scandal needs no spinning and that any congressional action must have credibility with voters.
It’s about national security, Republicans say. But there’s no question the hubbub also is about illicit sex, a topic not eagerly discussed by a long list of lawmakers who have transgressed in that department.
Louisiana Republican Sen. David Vitter, for example, admitted in 2007 to a “serious sin” after his telephone number had appeared in the records of a Washington-area escort service that authorities said was a front for prostitution. Vitter, a member of the Armed Services Committee, won re-election in 2010.
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A prosecutor says the women, along with ringleader Eva Perez, told investors they had a contract with a dairy to sell milk exclusively to Disneyland and promised a huge return. More than 30 people invested. Perez was previously sentenced to 10 years in prison and was ordered to pay more than $1 million in restitution.
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Australian woman charged with bribery in LA
LOS ANGELES (AP) – An Australian woman suspected of prostitution is facing federal bribery charges in Los Angeles, where authorities allege she tried to pay off a pair of U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents if she wasn’t deported.
Leyna Le has been charged with one count of bribery and could face up to 15 years in prison if convicted. She is expected to make a court appearance Monday.
An affidavit says the 41-year-old woman was stopped Friday at Los Angeles International Airport by customs agents after they learned she had previously been arrested for investigation of prostitution.
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When I had a radio show, I would periodically interview prostitutes from Nevada, where they conduct their business legally. No Julia Roberts-like Pretty Woman there, either: glazed eyes, bad bleach jobs, too much silicone, faces hard beyond their years, and bad boyfriends, greedy bosses and kids at home they were trying to support.
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The Secret Service agents (and, apparently, military personnel) who brought as many as 21 “escorts” back to their hotel were not coming home from a nice dinner with women who expected payment unbeknown to them. At least one of the stops that night was the Pley Club, a striptease/brothel joint whose owner told reporters that if the men had met the women there, there would have been no debate as to price — because they would have charged “the gringos” at the bar before they left. The fight was not about whether the man involved was willing to pay; it was about how much. He thought the woman was worth $30. She had a higher estimate of her worth.
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A government official briefed on the Secret Service investigation says the agency has implicated a 12th employee in the prostitution scandal. The employee has been placed on administrative leave.
The official says two more agents are resigning Friday and another has been fired. The official spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss an ongoing investigation.
Friday’s developments would make six Secret Service employees forced out of the agency. Two supervisors and another employee were forced out earlier this week.
Meanwhile, a White House official says President Barack Obama has been briefed by the director of the Secret Service on the investigation into the agency’s prostitution scandal.
The official said Obama was briefed in person by Secret Service Director Mark Sullivan Friday afternoon in the Oval Office.
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The service members were staying in the same Colombian hotel as 11 Secret Service employees who are under investigation for alleged misconduct involving prostitutes. (AP)
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Brothel Employee Headed To Prison
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RENO, Nev. (AP) — A former worker at the former Mustang Ranch brothel outside of Reno has been sentenced to two to five years in prison for elder exploitation, embezzlement and theft.
Calling the case “horrific,” Washoe District Judge Janet Berry rejected Sharnel Silvey’s plea for probation. Prosecutors say Silvey was the caretaker for a 70-year-old Reno man who looked like a concentration camp victim when he died on his couch in his own excrement in 2008.
Silvey cleaned out his bank account of $18,000 and spent the money on herself.
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The woman then locked herself in the bathroom and later took a cab to St. Marys Hospital in Hobart, Ind., and then was later transported to St. Margarets Hospital in Chicago. The woman told police she had taken a photo of the suspect on her camera. No arrest had been made as of April 16.
Man seeking prostitute robbed
A 36-year-old man who thought he was he was meeting a prostitute at the Congress Hotel, 520 S. Michigan Ave., was the victim of a strong armed robbery Saturday, April 14, after a woman and a man pushed their way into his room and robbed him of about $250 and a debit card.
The man, from Toledo, Ill., told police he had arranged to meet the prostitute in the lobby of the hotel at 2:15 p.m. April 14 through the website backpage.com and when he didnt see her he returned to his room. When he went to put his key in the room door, a man and a woman pushed his from behind and pinned him on the bed before robbing him.
It’s based on the real-life story of the relationship between the young Alexandre Dumas (the son of the “Three Musketeers” author) and the even younger Marie Duplessix. Though the premiere of the opera used 18th century costumes and sets, many people in that first audience must have known the story was contemporary. Dumas was still alive, and Marie, a courtesan (basically, a kept woman) in the demimonde of Paris, had died of tuberculosis only six years earlier, at age 23.
Verdi’s ‘fallen woman’ stands up
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OPERA REVIEW LA TRAVIATAMetropolitan Opera, Lincoln Center; 212-362-6000. Next performance tomorrow, other shows through May 2.
An understudy saved the show at the Met’s “La Traviata” Friday night, but no star was born.
Jumping into the role of Violetta, the self-sacrificing courtesan in Verdi’s tragedy, was Hei-Kyung Hong, after soprano Natalie Dessay called in sick late Thursday night.
At first it sounded ominously like the Korean soprano had caught whatever sidelined the star, her voice breathy and feeble through the whole first act. She recovered, though, in time for the heroine’s last-act aria “Addio del passato,” floating a shimmering strand of melody into the hushed auditorium.
The 52-year-old singer also threw herself passionately into Willy Decker’s demanding production, whirling around the stage atop a sofa borne by chorus boys.
The dominant aspects of stage director Willy Decker’s production are a curved white wall, a huge clock that symbolizes Violetta’s dwindling time on Earth and a hovering figure who could be the grim reaper (he becomes the doctor in the final act).
PREVIEW La Traviata What: The Metropolitan Opera presents a live, high-definition telecast of Verdi’s opera, with Natalie Dessay, Matthew Polenzani and Dmitri Hvorostovsky. Fabio Luisi conducts. When: 1 p.m. Saturday. Encore presentation at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, May 2. Where: Severance Stadium 14, 3492 Mayfield Road, Cleveland Heights; Cinemark 24 Valley View, 6001 Canal Road; Cinemark Strongsville, Westfield SouthPark, 500 Southpark Center; Crocker Park Stadium 16, 30147 Detroit Road, Westlake; Hudson Cinema 10, 5339 Darrow Road. Tickets: $24; $22, seniors; $18, children. Go to tinyurl.com/72yfrpt.
There are moments when the clock is covered up to signify time stopping, as Violetta and Alfredo bask in their love. But like a timepiece ticking away, the decline of the consumptive courtesan — “the strayed one” of the opera’s title — is inevitable.
A postcard from the edge of Wikipedia, the young British playwright Matt Charman’s Regrets is a tidy little wax museum of tropes and types from the American fifties. The mysterious young Caleb (Ansel Elgort) is waiting out the six weeks of Nevada residency required for a “Reno divorce” in a remote campground colonized by oddballs and castaways, most of them male: Secretive, war-wounded writer Ben (Brian Hutchison) is the leader, lovelorn Queens weakling Alvin (Richard Topol) is the nebbish, and Gerald (Lucas Caleb Rooney) is the resident racist, sexist meathead. Adriane Lenox drops in as the campground’s black proprietor (and shadow-owner, in defiance of separate-but-unequal state law), and so does the anime-eyed Gilmore Girls vet Alexis Bledel as a would-be prostitute looking for any ticket out of town. I Love Lucy is discussed, “the war” and the N-word pepper all palaver, and right on schedule, the House Un-American Activities Committee comes acallin’, and we half expect an A-bomb to go off in the background to complete the Ike-er …
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What is peculiar about Mr. Charman’s drama, which opened at City Center Stage 1 on Tuesday night in a Manhattan Theater Club production directed by Carolyn Cantor, is that the play might almost have been written in 1954, so definitively antique is its architecture.
True, the plot hinges on the Red Scare that was then perceived as a virulent menace to the country’s ideals, and few playwrights of the time would have dared to tackle the nefarious ways of the House Un-American Activities Committee head-on.
But in most respects — the cut-and-dried characters, the smooth exposition, the carefully timed revelation of secrets, the heartfelt moral conclusion — the play feels like something pulled from the files of a Broadway producer’s office from the middle of the last century. It even numbers among its characters a prostitute with a sweet, unsullied soul, a stereotype you definitely don’t expect to encounter in a contemporary drama.
Two Arrested, Four Cited in Reno Prostitution Sting
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Reno Police say Two men were arrested and four others were cited in a prostitution operation in downtown Reno Friday.
Police say the sting conducted by the Regional Street Enforcement Team (SET) focused on the customers. Police say it’s all in an attempt to reduce violence against women and decrease the overall demand for prostitution.
Police say 39-year old Salvador Rodriguez-Castillo and 50-year old Jack Robinson (both pictured on right) were arrested on misdemeanor charges of solicitation for prostitution.
Four others were issued misdemeanor citations for the same charges, including 23-year old Colton Kochampanasken, 43-year old Felipe Vargas, 68-year old William Thurman and 58-year old Chris Grellman.
If you have information related to illegal prostitution in the Reno or Sparks areas, you’re being asked to call SET at 334-3065 or Secret Witness at 322-4900. You can text your tip to 847-411.
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A prostitution operation in downtown Reno put on by a police task force team resulted in the arrest of 6 would-be customers. On Friday, the Regional Street Enforcement Team (SET) conducted a prostitution operation in Downtown Reno. This particular operation focused on the customers. Targeting male customers has been determined to reduce violence against women and decreases the overall demand for prostitution. 40-year-old Salvador Rodriguez-Castillo and 50-year-old Jack Robinson were arrested on Misdemeanor charges of Solicitation for Prostitution. 23-year-old Colton Kochampanasken, 43-year-old Felipe Vargas, 69-year-old William Thurman and 58-year-old Chris Grellman were issued Misdemeanor citations for Solicitation for Prostitution. The Regional Street Enforcement Team is comprised of Detectives from the Reno Police Department, Sparks Police Department, and the University of Nevada at Reno – Police Services. Anyone with information related to illegal prostitution in Reno or Sparks is encouraged to call the Regional Street Enforcement Team at (775) 334-3065, Secret Witness at (775) 322-4900 or www.secretwitness.com, or text the tip to 847411 (TIP 411) keyword-SW.
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It all started Tuesday morning when Nicki retweeted a DJ Drama message urging fans to tune into DJ Clue’s show later that evening to hear the world premiere of Minaj and 2 Chainz’s Roman Reloaded collaboration, “Beez in the Trap.” But Clue didn’t get a chance to drop the exclusive as it hit the Internet hours before his show went on air. Flex then took credit for playing spoiler by hacking into DJ Clue’s email and lifting the track.
Clue quickly hit Twitter to refute Flex’s account, ending his note with the hashtag #CompulsiveLiar.”
Whatever the order of events, Nicki’s “Beez in the Trap” single clearly came out on top. The ’80s-inspired track is a departure from “Right by My Side,” the R&B duet that Minaj and Chris Brown released earlier on Tuesday. Instead, “Beez” finds the Harajuku Barbie once again taking aim at unnamed rap chicks. “Bitches ain’t sh– and they ain’t sayin’ nothin’,” she boasts on over a sparse drum track. Underground favorite 2 Chainz doesn’t compromise a thing spitting alongside the multiplatinum rapper. He drops a charismatic 16-bar verse where he goes on about his Lexus LS 450, True Religion jeans and his pimp ways.
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Flint envisions using the Kings Inn as a red light district for downtown Reno.
Some question with a Catholic Church one block away and a satellite campus for UNR just a half a block from there would the location stop the concept dead in its tracks.
Even in these economic times though, it’s tough to envision any local commissioner or councilman backing such a measure–even when finances are part of the proposition.
“We need to do things to make it a town people want to come back to. And I’m going to be hung in effigy tonight for saying this, but the truth is that’s something we could do to bring people back,” says Flint
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He pictures a board—much like the Gaming Control Board—to regulate prostitution in a red light district in both Clark County and the city of Las Vegas.
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He said he believes his experience as a small-business owner with more than 40 brothel employees would prove helpful on the commission. His operation along Interstate 80 includes buildings once part of his Wild Horse Ranch bordello as well as the former Mustang Ranch main building once owned by Joe Conforte.
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later approved an expansion of his separate Mustang Ranch license that allowed him to reoccupy the former Wild Horse buildings and to continue operations in Conforte’s former Mustang Ranch main building. The Mustang Ranch name now is used for both houses of prostitution.
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when prostitution was illegal. In 1971, it became the state’s first legal brothel and led to a movement that legalized prostitution in 12 of Nevada’s 17 counties.
RENO, Nev. — Touting his experience as a small-business owner, Mustang Ranch brothel owner Lance Gilman is running for Storey County commissioner.
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Gilman says he believes his experience as a small business owner with over 40 employees at his brothel will prove helpful on the commission.
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However, Gillman spokesman Rich Crombie said commissioners later approved an expansion of his separate Mustang Ranch license that allowed him to reoccupy the former Wild Horse buildings and to continue operations in Conforte’s former Mustang Ranch main building. The Mustang Ranch name now is used for both houses of prostitution.
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Conforte took over the Mustang Ranch in 1967 when prostitution was illegal. In 1971, it became the state’s first legal brothel and led to a movement that legalized prostitution in 12 of Nevada’s 17 counties.
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SUN VALLEY, LOS ANGELES (KABC) — Neighbors and businesses say prostitution in Sun Valley has become a serious problem, and police are cracking down in response.
Just after 1 p.m. Wednesday, LAPD officers from the Foothill Division stopped a woman on San Fernando Boulevard just north of Lankershim in Sun Valley. They say they warned her that the actions they observed, her pacing up and down the block, were consistent with a streetwalking prostitute. They warned her to leave the area before they arrested her for loitering for the purposes of prostitution.
Foothill Division police say for years they had failed to crack a thriving prostitution business operating in the Sun Valley area. That is until they say a massive sting operation last Wednesday netted multiple arrests of prostitutes, pimps and customers.
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Business owners on an industrial strip in the northeast San Fernando Valley have been noticing more of them over the last year and a half – a parade of scantily-clad women offering up their services to men in cars.
Prostitution along Lankershim Boulevard in Sun Valley, long a known hub, has picked up, mirroring a national trend that experts say was sparked by the nation’s slumping economy.
“They’re dropped off in carloads – six to seven at a time,” said Cindy Sower, owner of Sun Valley Equipment Rentals. “You see them walking – they’re practically naked.
“In 14 years, it’s never been like it is now.”
A study by Cornell University in 2010 said that prostitution tends to go up during tough economic times as more people walk the streets looking for opportunities to make money. Some rings have even have turned to using abandoned foreclosures as houses of prostitution, the report said.
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Nevada’s infamous Moonlite BunnyRanch brothel in Carson City allegedly has a plan for Rush Limbaugh to take advantage of his now-ubiquitous comments about Georgetown law student Sandra Fluke. Ranch owner Dennis Hof told Reno’s KRNV-TV that he is willing to sponsor $1 million in advertising on the talker’s show to “let him redeem himself by being nice to legal prostitutes…Now is his chance to fix things. If he comes out now and supports the BunnyRanch and real prostitutes, legal prostitution, it might make him look good.”
On the website (you’ll have to do your own Google search for that one) – which promotes itself as a destination for “Sexy Girls, Great Drinks and Fine Cigars Since 1955” - Hof writes, “Let’s show Rush what real legal prostitutes are, if he’s so enamored by using the term. Now that dozens and dozens of sponsors have left the show, we are ready to advertise. It’s a perfect fit for someone who so flippantly uses the word(s) ‘slut’ and ‘prostitute.’ If Rush turns us down, then instead of talking about real prostitutes, he would rather call innocent college women prostitutes. The nerve of him!”
The Los Angeles Police Department conducted its largest undercover prostitution sting yet on Lankershim Boulevard in Sun Valley on Wednesday, arresting at least 16 men, including an on-duty county employee. About 80 LAPD detectives and officers took part in the sting along Lankershim Boulevard, which involved arresting johns who propositioned undercover female officers. The 20-hour sting was scheduled to end at midnight on Wednesday. Among those arrested was Mark Anthony Moton, who works at the Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services, according to LAPD Capt. Joseph Hiltner. Moton was driving a county car at the time, Hiltner said. DCFS spokesman Armand Montiel declined comment on the department
employee arrest. Moton could not be reached for comment. The area around Lankershim Boulevard and Neenach Street is one of the most heavily trafficked areas for prostitution in the San Fernando Valley. The LAPD frequently uses undercover stings along a commercial stretch of Lankershim that hosts family-owned shops. Business owners recently have stepped up their co …
Former IRS agent sentenced for pimping Eureka teen
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A U.S. District Court judge in Nevada sentenced a former Internal Revenue Service agent to two years in prison for driving an 18-year-old Eureka woman to Reno where he put her to work as a prostitute.
Kemp Shiffer, 59, of Reno, who was a lead criminal investigator for the IRS, was also sentenced Monday to 10 years of supervised release and 250 hours of community service work, according to a U.S. Department of Justice press release. Shiffer was arrested in August and pleaded guilty in November to one count of transporting an individual in interstate commerce for purposes of prostitution.
Shiffer was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Howard D. McKibben, according to the press release. He also agreed to forfeit a 2006 Mercedes Benz,
an iPhone, a computer and various cameras.
… A man of the people who lived his life for the people,” Sandoval said. He said his former law partner and colleague had a rare mix of “courage, conviction and kindness” and could “light up a room with dignity, class and the common touch.”
“His impact has touched every man, woman and child in Nevada and it will be felt for generations,” Sandoval said.
Bryan, who served in the Legislature with Raggio, said he often used humor to help diffuse tense situations.
Raggio became a Washoe County assistant district attorney in 1952, a year after receiving his law degree. His political career was launched six years later when he was elected the county’s top prosecutor. Raggio took on Nevada brothel owner Joe Conforte, and in 1959, had Conforte’s Triangle River Ranch burned to the ground as a public nuisance.
A U.S. District Court judge in Nevada sentenced a former Internal Revenue Service agent to two years in prison for driving an 18-year-old Eureka woman to Reno where he put her to work as a prostitute.
Kemp Shiffer, 59, of Reno, who was a lead criminal investigator for the IRS, was also sentenced Monday to 10 years of supervised release and 250 hours of community service work, according to a U.S. Department of Justice press release. Shiffer was arrested in August and pleaded guilty in November to one count of transporting an individual in interstate commerce for purposes of prostitution.
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According to the plea agreement filed on July 25, 2011, Shiffer transported a woman, identified in court papers as CM, from Eureka to Nevada with the intent that CM would engage in prostitution. According to the Department of Justice, Shiffer engaged in coercive conduct to compel CM to engage in prostitution and was the organizer, leader, manager and supervisor of the criminal activity. Another participant, identified in court papers as EH, helped recruit and transport CM from California to Nevada, according to the press release.
Mayer will direct an opera for the first time. He will work with his regular set designer, Christine Jones, and costume designer, Susan Hilferty, and a cast that includes Diana Damrau as Gilda, Piotr Beczala as the Duke of Mantua and Zeljko Lucic in the title role.
A casino replaces the Duke’s palace. An elevator will be used instead of a ladder against the garden wall. A seedy sex club on the outskirts of town stands for the inn. There will be electric lights resembling the neon of The Strip.
In Mayer’s mind, the Duke is akin to Frank Sinatra, surrounded by Sammy Davis Jr. and Jackie Gleason — although not literally those stars.
“Vegas was always the locus of a decadent society. Women were always showgirls or cigarette girls or prostitutes. It really was a man’s world, a man’s playpen,” Mayer said. “It was about drinking, drugs and power and money gone wild. And it all started to fall into place.”
FOLLOWING last December’s visit with Puccini’s Madama Butterfly, the Ukrainian National Opera of Kharkiv return to the City Hall next Wednesday with another weepie, Verdi’s La Traviata, although it doesn’t have the same in your face melodramatic yanking at the heart-strings.
Anyone who saw Butterfly will realise Traviata is another Ellen Kent production for Derek Block Promotions, the two along with La Bohéme also being toured but not coming to Sheffield, having reportedly cost £25,000 for the costumes alone.
“I try to make my operas engaging and sometimes I get carried away with interesting additions but with these there is no spin – just the drama and the beauty. I honestly think they are the best I have ever done,” says Ellen.
Maria Tsonina, born in Chisinau, usually Ellen’s favourite East European operatic destination in Moldova, plays the doomed courtesan Violetta who finds true love then sacrifices it to save the family face of her lover, Alfredo, sung by Andriy Perfilov.
In addition to four decades in the Nevada legislature, he volunteered to serve in the Armed Forces during World War II. He enlisted in the Navy at 17, but the war ended before he graduated from officer training school.
When he finished his service he attended the University of Nevada, Reno then went on to law school in California.
But he continued his services as a U.S. Marine Corps and U.S. Navy reservist.
And he dedicated 18 years to the Washoe County District Attorney’s office, including three terms as D.A., before becoming a state legislator.
He rooted out corruption wherever it lived – and for Bill there was no place more corrupt than Joe Conforte’s illegal brothel, the Triangle River Ranch.
Bill’s feud with Joe Conforte was Nevada legend. But Bill got the last word.
Conforte spent 22 months in prison for trying to bribe Bill. And in 1965 Bill had Conforte’s brothel burned to the ground for being a public nuisance.
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The only transcendent part of watching the Oscars, for me, was realizing that two of the three winners for best adapted screenplay are former bit players on “Reno 911!,” the “COPS”-inspired Comedy Central sketch show (I’m a fan). Groundlings improv troupe alumni Nat Faxon and Jim Rash — along with writer-director Alexander Payne — won for adapting “The Descendants.” They didn’t utter a word onstage, but honored their own sketch-comedy bonafides by promptly striking an Angelina pose.Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon and Jim Rash strike a pose on stage. (Mark J. Terrill/AP)
On “Reno,” Faxon played a recurring character who dresses up as a milkshake and Rash (most recently known for playing the dean of students on the NBC sitcom “Community”) regularly appeared as Andrew, the jibber-jabbering prostitution entrepreneur.
Sunday night’s telecast was a regular “Reno” reunion: Wendi McLendon-Covey, who played the bosomy Deputy Clementine Johnson for six seasons, presented the short-film awards with her “Bridesmaids”co-stars, which included Groundlings alumnae Melissa McCarthy and Kristen Wiig (who, as co-w …
Before his career as a state senator and fire chief began, Farr served three years in WWII, earning two purple hearts. He digs up old memories he brought home from Germany, including a Nazi flag and soldier’s knife. And even though our conversation often shifted to war tales, it always went right back to stories about his friend.
His favorite dates back to March 23, 1960 when he received a phone call from Raggio.
“He says I’d like you to bring a fire engine and meet me at the corner of B Street and Pyramid (Way).”
From there Raggio, Farr and other local officials drove out to Joe Conforte’s notorious Triangle Ranch Brothel. Raggio told Farr it was going to be set on fire.
“What are you going to do, what’s going on? He says we have a court order from the judge of Storey County to abate this nuisance by burning.”
Farr and Raggio cleared out the brothel, then burned it to the ground. Raggio made himself out to sound like a legend, but Farr says he exaggerated the truth a bit.
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Why do we support legalizing prostitution?
That’s easy … we believe in individual liberty and the primacy of the free market, and the last time we checked prostitution was an honest way to make a living (unlike, say, being a politician). Also, prostitutes are employed – whether you like what they do or not – and hence far less likely to be a drain on your tax dollars.
Anyway, back in 2007 we noted that a group of the Moonlite Bunnies were “Hookin’ for Ron Paul.” Guess what … they still are. In fact one of them, 25-year-old Cami Parker, is so enamored by Paul’s support for individual liberty (and states’ rights) that she puts 10 percent of her weekly earnings into a Ron Paul donation box located at the brothel.
See the full article from “FITSNews”
1. It’s La Traviata! You have a famous consumptive courtesan who loves drinking, dancing, and parties! There are forbidden loves, celebrations and an extended death scene, AND it’s based on a real Parisian courtesan. One of the best loved and most performed operas of all time, I think Guiseppe Verdi’s opera is the ultimately classic opera. This is the kind of show that I used to think of when I thought “opera”. The last two years attending Opera San Jose’s performances have shown that opera comes in all sorts of flavors: Comedy, Tragedy, Romance, familiar and unfamiliar, etc. But La Traviata is all about beautiful arias and a tragic love story. It’s romantic, it’s tragic, it will bring tears to your eyes at the end. But until that moment it will also be a luscious feast for your eyes and your ears.
Greg Ferraro, a longtime family friend, said Raggio died of respiratory illness around 10 p.m. PST Thursday while vacationing with his wife, Dale, in Sydney, Australia.
“They were planning on going on a cruise,” Ferraro said.
Funeral arrangements were pending.
A second-generation Nevadan, Raggio was born in Reno on Oct. 30, 1926. He married his high school sweetheart, Dorothy Brigman, who died in 1998. He married his second wife, Dale Checket, in 2004. Raggio is also survived by two daughters, Leslie Righetti and Tracy Chew. A son, Mark, died in 2004.
Raggio became a Washoe County assistant district attorney in 1952, a year after receiving his law degree.
His political career was launched six years later when he was elected the county’s top prosecutor. Raggio took on infamous Nevada brothel boss Joe Conforte, and in 1959 had Conforte’s Triangle River Ranch on the outskirts of town burned to the ground as a public nuisance.
See the full article from “The Republic”
In replacing a traditional Otto Schenk production that dates from 1989, Mayer will direct an opera for the first time. He will work with his regular set designer, Christine Jones, and costume designer, Susan Hilferty, and a cast that includes Diana Damrau as Gilda, Piotr Beczala as the Duke of Mantua and Zeljko Lucic in the title role.
A casino replaces the Duke’s palace. An elevator will be used instead of a ladder against the garden wall. A seedy sex club on the outskirts of town stands for the inn. There will be electric lights resembling neon of The Strip.
In Mayer’s mind, the Duke is akin to Frank Sinatra, surrounded by Sammy Davis Jr. and Jackie Gleason – although not literally those stars.
“Vegas was always the locus of a decadent society. Women were always showgirls or cigarette girls or prostitutes. It really was a man’s world, a man’s playpen,” Mayer said. “It was about drinking, drugs and power and money gone wild. And it all started to fall into place.”
New Campaign Launched In Nevada To Combat Human Trafficking
Submitted by Nevada News Bureau on Wed, 02/22/2012 – 4:23pm
CARSON CITY – A new campaign aimed at helping truck drivers and truck stop employees become more aware of how to identify and alert authorities to instances of underage children being forced into acts of prostitution was announced today by two Nevada organizations.
The Nevada Trucking Association and the Nevada Petroleum Marketers Association said the campaign will use materials developed by a national organization, Truckers Against Trafficking, to help truck drivers and truck stop employees combat incidents of human trafficking.
“The Nevada Trucking Association and its members are sickened by the evils of human trafficking,” said Chief Executive Officer Paul Enos. “Truckers are the eyes and ears of our highways and truck stops, so we are asking truckers to notify the authorities when they see signs of these activities.”
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Gerodias who is regarded as one of the country’s most awarded soprano is essaying Verdi’s fascinating titular heroine named Violetta, the doomed courtesan who fights for love while she also battles tuberculosis. The New York – educated artist will play the role on March 3 at the CCP Main Theater while on March 2 and 4, the title role will be performed by Korean soprano Yun-Kyoung Yi.
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La Traviata (literally means the fallen woman), an opera in three acts, is a tragic story of a beautiful but doomed prostitute. The production is best remembered for the widely performed Libiamo ne’lieti calici (The Drinking Song), Addio Passato, and Sempre Libera. Composed by Verdi and set to an Italian libretto by Francesco Maria Piave, it debuted on March 6, 1853 at the La Fenice Opera House in Venice. The opera was said to have failed at its premiere. Audiences of the time rejected the opera’s modern setting, preferring period costume, and the cast members were, for one reason or another, incapable of performing their roles.
TC: The mind immediately goes probably to the bedroom, I’d imagine. The topic of sex is not something you talk about. It makes people shy. But that’s something I want to bring to the table. Helping people feel more comfortable and normalizing sex in general (is what I want to do) because that’s an issue in our culture.
JL: What kinds of things do students learn in your class?
TC: It ranges from learning about origins of feelings in regards toward sexuality. It ranges from culture to culture so we talk about things such as religion and sexuality, culture and sexuality. We move from that to talking about gender and gender roles, and everything from reproduction and pregnancy to sexually transmitted infections to fetishes to BDSM. At the very end of class, we go on a field trip to the Moonlite Bunny Ranch so that they can actually see what the legalized process of prostitution is like in Nevada.
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The Reno lawyer for a retired IRS agent who pleaded guilty to a prostitution-related charge says he needs more time to prepare for sentencing of the man who once investigated brothels in Nevada and wanted to open one himself.
U.S. District Judge Howard McKibben agreed to postpone the sentencing scheduled Tuesday until March 7 for Kemp Shiffer.
The 58-year-old Shiffer plead guilty in November to transporting a California woman across state lines to commit prostitution.
Shiffer once led the IRS investigation that shut down the Mustang Ranch and caused brothel owner Joe Conforte to flee to Brazil in the 1990s. He later formed a partnership with his lawyer David Houston to open a brothel west of Fallon but Churchill County denied the permit in 2006 for the proposed Petticoat Junction.
There was already an extra edge to the performance with the announcement that tenor Leonardo Capalbo was a last-minute, unrehearsed replacement in the role of Alfredo. Yet the Italian-American threw himself into it with an amazing, instinctive passion. For once, it was perfectly possible to believe in the all-consuming nature of Alfredo and Violetta’s love, with Joyce El-Khoury also making a strong company debut. Every clinch felt if their lives depended on it.
Evoking Tissot and 1880s Paris, Tanya McCallin’s set managed to be both sumptuous and understated. It at first appears monochrome until the eye adjusts to the beautiful gradations of dark tone: charcoal, midnight blue, and Violetta’s first dress the deepest possible purple velvet. It is to Jones’s huge credit that she brings comparable tonal colouring to the WNO orchestra’s playing; making things sound so fresh and immediate in such a familiar opera shows a remarkable musical perception. Even the Gypsy music, where McVicar goes for the frisson factor by adding a transgender performer to the dance troupe, carried the brittle brilliance of the world the courtesan Violetta had wanted so desperately to escape.
See the full article from “The Guardian”
They talk reverently about the Constitution and carry books written by Murray Rothbard and Ludwig von Mises. If they are under the influence, it is of the Austrian School of economics.
Paul’s permissive view of marijuana, said Alexis Neel, 20, is “just like a bonus added on top.”
For months, Paul’s followers have been organizing in Nevada, and as the campaign for the Republican presidential nomination shifted here ahead of Saturday’s caucuses, the range of his appeal showed. Across town from the Grand Sierra Resort and Casino, where the candidate spoke Thursday evening, college students were putting on their Paul T-shirts and pins. A member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was phoning people in his Las Vegas precinct, and at the Moonlite Bunny Ranch, the famous brothel, prostitutes were collecting tips for a political action committee that supports Paul.
Nev. Caucuses Offer State a Rare Say in Nomination
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RENO, Nev. (AP) — With its 24-hour casino gambling, legalized prostitution and drive-through wedding chapels, Nevada seems anything but conventional. When it comes to voting in presidential elections, it’s as mainstream as it gets.
Nevada hasn’t made much of a difference in selecting the nominee for president or on national politics in general. State officials are hoping that Saturday’s Republican caucuses change that.
Some analysts think Nevada is more representative of the U.S. than other early voting states because of its diverse population. While two-thirds of its population is white, 27 percent is Hispanic, 8 percent is black and 7 percent is Asian.
Faced with poor turnout and high costs for its presidential primary in 1996, Nevada moved to a caucus system with voting in March. In 2008, the caucuses moved to January.
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LAKE DISTRICT, ENGLAND, February 07, 2012 /24-7PressRelease/ — People spending time in Cumbria next month will have an opportunity to enjoy a performance of Guiseppe Verdi’s classic opera La Traviata.
The Sands Centre in Carlisle is due to stage a new production of the 1853 work, featuring sopranos Rosa Lee Thomas and Elena Dee.
Taking place at 19:30 GMT on Sunday March 4th, the performance will be delivered in Italian with English subtitles and promises to be a memorable occasion for opera fans.
With highlights such as Libiamo ne’ lieti calici (The Drinking Song) and Violetta’s aria Addio Del Passato, La Traviata is a tale of passion and decadence that remains one of the world’s most popular operas.
Set in 19th century Paris, it tells the tragic story of doomed courtesan Violetta and her young lover Alfredo.
… TRAVPR.COM) UK – February 6th, 2012 – People spending time in Cumbria next month will have an opportunity to enjoy a performance of Guiseppe Verdi’s classic opera La Traviata.
The Sands Centre in Carlisle is due to stage a new production of the 1853 work, featuring sopranos Rosa Lee Thomas and Elena Dee.
Taking place at 19:30 GMT on Sunday March 4th, the performance will be delivered in Italian with English subtitles and promises to be a memorable occasion for opera fans.
With highlights such as Libiamo ne’ lieti calici (The Drinking Song) and Violetta’s aria Addio Del Passato, La Traviata is a tale of passion and decadence that remains one of the world’s most popular operas.
Set in 19th century Paris, it tells the tragic story of doomed courtesan Violetta and her young lover Alfredo.
Prostitution along Lankershim Boulevard in Sun Valley threatens businesses
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Muds Classic Parts & Restoration Sales Manager Jonathan Rojas sees prostitutes at work almost every day outside the Lankershim Boulevard business. Last year, LAPD reported 164 arrests for prostitution in the area. (Hans Gutknecht/Staff Photographer)
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Groups of prostitutes are driven in vans from other parts of the city, and
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“It’s a revolving door,” said Ayelle Neiman, a deputy city attorney. Prostitutes arrested in the area quickly return, she said, brazenly violating their probation.
Sixty percent of Neiman’s workload is devoted to prostitution, but budget cuts in her department make it difficult to devote more time and resources to creatively tackle the issue.
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Sun Valley Equipment Rentals owner Cindy Sower is fed up with the prostitution problem near her business on Lankershim Boulevard in Sun Valley. She recalls when businesses were proud to operate there. (Hans Gutknecht/Staff Photographer)
Nev. caucuses offer state a rare say in nomination
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By MARTIN GRIFFITH
Associated Press
RENO, Nev. (AP) – With its 24-hour casino gambling, legalized prostitution and drive-through wedding chapels, Nevada seems anything but conventional. When it comes to voting in presidential elections, it’s as mainstream as it gets.
Nevada hasn’t made much of a difference in selecting the nominee for president or on national politics in general. State officials are hoping that Saturday’s Republican caucuses change that.
Some analysts think Nevada is more representative of the U.S. than other early voting states because of its diverse population. While two-thirds of its population is white, 27% is Hispanic, 8% is black and 7% is Asian.
Faced with poor turnout and high costs for its presidential primary in 1996, Nevada moved to a caucus system with voting in March. In 2008, the caucuses moved to January.
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So what motivated the throngs of people and press to show up Thursday: Perhaps it was the rumor that Paul would appear with ladies of the night from the Bunny Ranch, an infamous brothel in Nevada. Earlier this week, several of the bunnies announced they are backing Paul in Saturday’s Republican caucuses. Their caucus push was, perhaps appropriately, called “Pimpin for Paul.”
Dozens of photographers showed up—prompting a Paul aide to issue a strict warning against rushing the stage. Meanwhile, the press riser was packed, with; some reporters—including this one—from the press corps taking a brief respite from covering Mitt Romney, who happened to be staying in the hotel.
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While reporters were disappointed not to see the spectacle of Paul appearing with a bevy of prostitutes, the audience didn’t seem to care. As the congressman took the stage with his wife and granddaughter, virtually every person in the room leaped to their feet, screaming in delight.
They talk reverently about the Constitution and carry books written by Murray Rothbard and Ludwig von Mises. If they are under the influence, it is of the Austrian School of economics.
Paul’s permissive view of marijuana, said Alexis Neel, 20, is “just like a bonus added on top.”
For months, Paul’s followers have been organizing in Nevada, and as the campaign for the Republican presidential nomination shifted here ahead of Saturday’s caucuses, the range of his appeal showed. Across town from the Grand Sierra Resort and Casino, where the candidate spoke Thursday evening, college students were putting on their Paul T-shirts and pins. A member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was phoning people in his Las Vegas precinct, and at the Moonlite Bunny Ranch, the famous brothel, prostitutes were collecting tips for a political action committee that supports Paul.
Nev. brothel ‘pimpin’ for Paul’
Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul shakes hands with supporters on primary election day at the Webster School polling location in Manchester, New Hampshire on January 10, 2012. UPI/Matthew Healey
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CARSON CITY, Nev., Feb. 2 (UPI) — Prostitutes working at a Nevada brothel said they are planning to show their support for Republican presidential contender Ron Paul during the Nevada caucuses.
The girls at the Moonlite Bunny Ranch, near Carson City, said they plan to caucus for Paul during Saturday’s event and they have a donation box for the libertarian Texas congressman in the parlor of the brothel, the Los Angeles Times reported Thursday.
Cami Parker, 25, who works at the brothel, said she is “pimpin’ for Paul” because of his positions on individual liberties and states’ rights. She said 10 percent of her weekly earnings go toward the Paul campaign.
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Lacy Atkins / The Chronicle Ron Paul is circled by enthusiastic supporters after he speaks at a rally to launches his campaign for the Nevada caucus, Tuesday January 31, 2012. “We’ve only gotten started, we will send our time in the caucus states,” said Paul.
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Feb. 2 (Bloomberg) — A poker player helped rent a billboard, a Mormon spreads the word at root beer socials and prostitutes at a famous brothel turn tricks and donate their customers’ tips — all for Ron Paul.
The 76-year-old, 12-term Texas Republican congressman is banking on a big showing at the Feb. 4 Nevada caucuses to boost his third presidential primary bid. His message of personal liberty, states’ rights and low taxes resonates with voters in the state, where prostitution is legal, gambling is widespread and the foreclosure rate has been the highest in the nation for five years, according to RealtyTrac.
A poker player helped rent a billboard, a Mormon spreads the word at root beer socials and prostitutes at a famous brothel turn tricks and donate their customers’ tips — all for Ron Paul.
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Naso, who is representing himself, has pleaded not guilty to murdering four reputed prostitutes:
Roxene Roggasch, 18, dumped outside Fairfax in 1977; Carmen Colon, 22, found near Port Costa in 1978; Pamela Parsons, 38, found in Yuba County in 1993; and Tracy Tafoya, 31, found in Yuba County in 1994. Roggasch was strangled with panty hose that contained the DNA of Naso’s wife, according to court documents.
Naso was identified as the suspect after a 2010 probation search at his Reno home revealed a vast collection of photographs of dead or unconscious women in various states of undress, incriminating writings, sadistic magazines and diaries describing sex crimes, authorities said.
Other witnesses Thursday included Richard Tafoya, who was married to Tracy Tafoya. Occasionally breaking down in tears, Tafoya described how his wife was a drug addict who earned money by prostitution, and how he had not heard from her for a week or two before learning she was killed.
Naso, who is representing himself, has pleaded not guilty to murdering four reputed prostitutes:
Roxene Roggasch, 18, dumped outside Fairfax in 1977; Carmen Colon, 22, found near Port Costa in 1978; Pamela Parsons, 38, found in Yuba County in 1993; and Tracy Tafoya, 31, found in Yuba County in 1994. Roggasch was strangled with panty hose that contained the DNA of Naso’s wife, according to court documents.
Naso was identified as the suspect after a 2010 probation search at his Reno home revealed a vast collection of photographs of dead or unconscious women in various states of undress, incriminating writings, sadistic magazines and diaries describing sex crimes, authorities said.
Other witnesses Thursday included Richard Tafoya, who was married to Tracy Tafoya. Occasionally breaking down in tears, Tafoya described how his wife was a drug addict who earned money by prostitution, and how he had not heard from her for a week or two before learning she was killed.
Breaking
Accused serial killer says “rape” was euphemism in journal
By Jessica Mullins
Published: Thursday, January 12, 2012 4:32 PM PST
Three days into preliminary hearings for accused serial killer Joseph Naso, things were getting testy in the courtroom.
Naso, who is representing himself, had Marin County Superior Court Judge Andrew Sweet continuously asking him to clarify questions, ask one question at a time and not interrupt the witness. The 78-year-old Reno resident is charged with killing four reputed prostitutes between 1977 and 1994, including Roxene Roggasch, an 18-year-old Oakland resident body was found in the area of White’s Hill near Fairfax on Jan. 10, 1977. Another victim, Carmen Colon, a 22-year-old East Bay resident, was found in 1978 near Port Costa in Contra Costa County.
All victims have name with double initials. The two other victims; Pamela Parsons, 38, and Tracy Tafoya, 31; were found in Yuba County in the 1990s.
Sex crime diary was found at Naso home, officer testifies
Posted: 01/11/2012 01:45:25 PM PST
A 23-page diary that described sexual assaults against women and girls was found on the dining room table at Joseph Naso’s home in Reno, a probation officer testified Wednesday morning.
Officer David LeBaker said one journal entry appeared to detail the sexual molestation of a 14-year-old girl on a Greyhound bus in Kansas. Another entry contained phrases such as “wouldn’t listen” and “took her into the woods,” he said.
LeBaker, a probation officer with the Nevada Department of Public Safety, was one of the agents involved in the 2010 probation search that allegedly linked Naso to the murders of four reputed prostitutes in the 1970s and 1990s. LeBaker said he called in police investigators when he discovered the diary.
… We thought real closely about supporting [Newt] Gingrich — because he’s a cheater — and we like cheaters,” said Hof, who gained celebrity status thanks to HBO’s “Cathouse” documentary and series featuring his business. Nevada allows counties to license brothels.
A lot of the women supported Barack Obama in 2008, but then he signed a bill allowing for human consumption of wild horses and “the girls don’t want any part of Obama,” Hof said.
Hof said the ranch “decided to go with the guy that’s more about state’s rights — and that’s Ron Paul.”
During January, he said he was offering a special — two bunnies for the price of one, the Web site said. All a client has to do is come by and say “I’m pimping for Paul.”
See the full article from “UPI.com”
Officer: Accused serial killer Naso kept macabre photos
By Gary KleinMarin Inedpendent Journal
Posted: 01/10/2012 06:59:54 AM PST
Updated: 01/10/2012 08:11:02 PM PST
Alleged serial killer Joseph Naso cross-examined his first prosecution witness Tuesday, accusing him of perjury and suggesting he was biased against Italians.
Naso, defending himself in Marin Superior Court against charges he murdered four women, attacked the credibility of his former probation officer, Roger Jacobs of the Nevada Department of Public Safety.
It was Jacobs’ search of the Naso home in Reno that revealed a trove of evidence that prosecutors say links him to the slaying of four reputed prostitutes in the 1970s and ’90s. Under questioning from prosecutor Dori Ahana, Jacobs testified about finding a stash of photographs in Naso’s work room that showed naked and half-naked women, some apparently unconscious or possibly dead.
Officer: Accused serial killer Naso kept macabre photos
By Gary KleinMarin Inedpendent Journal
Posted: 01/10/2012 06:59:54 AM PST
Updated: 01/10/2012 08:11:02 PM PST
Alleged serial killer Joseph Naso cross-examined his first prosecution witness Tuesday, accusing him of perjury and suggesting he was biased against Italians.
Naso, defending himself in Marin Superior Court against charges he murdered four women, attacked the credibility of his former probation officer, Roger Jacobs of the Nevada Department of Public Safety.
It was Jacobs’ search of the Naso home in Reno that revealed a trove of evidence that prosecutors say links him to the slaying of four reputed prostitutes in the 1970s and ’90s. Under questioning from prosecutor Dori Ahana, Jacobs testified about finding a stash of photographs in Naso’s work room that showed naked and half-naked women, some apparently unconscious or possibly dead.
Around 11 p.m., police said he left a threatening note and ammunition with an employee at the Wild Orchid on South Virginia Street before running off.
About 15 minutes later, someone shot into the parking lot of Fantasy Girls, striking seven unoccupied vehicles.
Roughly a half-hour later, police said Bennett allegedly broke into the Spice House on Spokane Street, where he set several fires and shot bullets inside the closed business.
Bennett told the Gazette-Journal that he is guilty of all the crimes and that “Jesus” spoke to him through and directed all of his violence, which caused no injuries.
He said he targeted strip clubs and Reno motels because “people should be home with their families on Christmas and at church, not at the strip clubs,” and he wants motel managers to know he doesn’t approve of drug and prostitution activity he says goes on there.
RENO, Nev.—Rare items reflecting the shadier side of Nevada’s past have been sold at an auction in Reno, with Mustang Ranch brothel memorabilia and a copy of the state’s original “Black Book” fetching several thousand dollars.
The Mustang Ranch keepsakes included nude, autographed photos of the working women at the infamous bordello taken in the 1970s and 1980s and went for $3,000 Wednesday to a buyer that auction organizers would only identify as an “institution of higher learning.”
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Harrah’s Reno hotel-casino maître de Gordon Churchward, who had an arrangement with former brothel owner Joe Conforte in the 1970s to send casino patrons to the bordello in return for free passes to it.
The collection includes calendars and more than 200 photos featuring the prostitutes, as well as menus, matchbooks and business cards from Nevada’s first legal house of prostitution. Nevada is the only state with legalized prostitution.
Before leaving Reno, they wrote to the Reno Gazette-Journal thanking the city for the support and for the ability to think of Reno as a second home.
Many people are quick to notice Reno’s faults before appreciating everything it has to offer. Yeah, there are the bums and downtown regulars who look like something off PeopleofWalmart.com, yet what harm are they really?
The bums aren’t building homeless empires like those of San Francisco, and they help clean the cans out of the yard after a party.
Stop acting like the bars, slots and prostitutes are all that Reno has to offer. If you missed the hundreds of balloons in the morning sky in September or the hundreds of Santas running the streets in December, you’re not seeing the community that Reno is holding together.
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The 11-page book includes mobster Sam Giancana, whose presence at Frank Sinatra’s Cal-Neva hotel-casino at Lake Tahoe prompted revocation of the singer’s gambling license in the early 1960s.
The book was made by the Nevada Gaming Commission about 1960, and was owned by the state’s first gambling officer.
“It represents the first effort to keep illegal people out of Nevada casinos. It’s a big step in the way we did business in Nevada,” Holabird said, adding the book is expected to fetch up to $5,000.
Also drawing interest is a unique $50 gold coin struck during the California Gold Rush. It’s estimated to be worth from $135,000 to $175,000.
“It’s the best piece in the auction,” Holabird said. “It’s one of the first $50 gold coins Augustus Humbert struck when he was appointed U.S. assayer in San Francisco in 1851.”
Also up for auction are collections of Old West photos and Mustang Ranch brothel memorabilia.
The 11-page book includes mobster Sam Giancana, whose presence at Frank Sinatra’s Cal-Neva hotel-casino at Lake Tahoe prompted revocation of the singer’s gambling license in the early 1960s.
The book was made by the Nevada Gaming Commission about 1960, and was owned by the state’s first gambling officer.
“It represents the first effort to keep illegal people out of Nevada casinos. It’s a big step in the way we did business in Nevada,” Holabird said, adding the book is expected to fetch up to $5,000.
Also drawing interest is a unique $50 gold coin struck during the California Gold Rush. It’s estimated to be worth from $135,000 to $175,000.
“It’s the best piece in the auction,” Holabird said. “It’s one of the first $50 gold coins Augustus Humbert struck when he was appointed U.S. assayer in San Francisco in 1851.”
Also up for auction are collections of Old West photos and Mustang Ranch brothel memorabilia
Archer also borrowed heavily from bulky scrapbooks that had been kept by Raggio’s mother dating back to his teenage years. And he interviewed 60 people and included their critical comments.
“He made it clear he didn’t want any control,” Archer said of Raggio. “I talked to people from both sides, both parties.”
Archer remembers a scrapbook clipping that described the piano recital a young Raggio gave at Dayton High School in 1940.
“I asked him if he remembered what he played. Without hesitation he said. ‘The Isle of Capri was the song I played.’ After 65 years he still could remember it.”
Besides Raggio’s Senate years, the biography outlines his 18 years with the Washoe County district attorney’s office and his run-ins with Mustang Ranch brothel owner Joe Conforte that led to Conforte’s imprisonment.
See the full article from “The Republic”
VIRGINIA CITY, Nev. — Nevada has one less brothel after Storey County commissioners revoked the license of the Wild Horse Ranch outside Reno for violating a financial ordinance.
Owner Lance Gilman tells the Reno-Gazette Journal (http://on.rgj.com/w57rSz ) that Tuesday’s decision put about 30 people out of work.
Gilman says he hopes to reopen in about three weeks if he gets permission to combine with another brothel he owns next door.
Commissioners ruled that Gilman violated a county ordinance by taking on a silent ownership partner in the business.
Gilman says he hopes to reopen in about three weeks if he gets permission to combine with another brothel he owns next door.
Commission Chairman Bob Kershaw said revoking the license probably helps Gilman get out of a draining business deal.
At the hearing, commissioners praised Gilman for his charitable contributions to county.
See the full article from “The Republic”
Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2011 | 3:52 p.m.
A retired IRS agent who once investigated fugitive Nevada brothel boss Joe Conforte has pleaded guilty to transporting a California woman across state lines to commit prostitution.
The U.S. attorney’s office says 58-year-old Kemp Shiffer entered his plea Wednesday in federal court in Reno. He faces up to 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine when sentenced Feb. 14.
Authorities say he also agreed to forfeit a 2006 Mercedes Benz, an IPhone, computer and cameras.
Shiffer was first arrested in August by a regional law enforcement team in Reno investigating online escort advertisements. He was indicted by a federal grand jury the following month.
In 2006, Shiffer was a financial backer for a proposed brothel in Churchill County. County commissioners denied permits for the project.
Ex-IRS agent pleads guilty to prostitution charge
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RENO, Nev.—A retired IRS agent who once investigated a fugitive Nevada brothel boss and was partners in a failed rural Nevada bordello venture pleaded guilty Wednesday to transporting a California woman across state lines to commit prostitution.
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“for the purpose of prostitution.”
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Shiffer had been a veteran agent assigned to the IRS criminal division where he had been the lead investigator into fugitive brothel owner Joe Conforte. His investigation led to indictments being issued against Conforte—which caused him to flee to Brazil—and the closing of the infamous Mustang Ranch. The brothel has since moved and re-opened under new management.
In 2006, Shiffer was one of three financial backers for a proposed brothel in Churchill County called Nevada Petticoat Junction. Other backers were Shiffer’s lawyer, David Houston, and John Kirsch. Houston represents Shiffer in the federal criminal case and appeared with him in court Wednesday.
Father knows best
Verdi’s ever-popular opera La Traviata has special associations for opera star Michael Lewis, who helps Michael Magnusson look beyond its hit tunes to discover more musical treasures time for Opera Australia’s production opening next week.
Everyone knows the story of Verdi’s most popular opera La Traviata. Nice, respectable boy Alfredo Germont falls in love with the nice but far from respectable courtesan Violetta Valery. Courtesans were independent, ‘amoral’ women who provided upper-class men with – ahem – ‘companionship’ in return for luxuries. A kind of high-class prostitute.
Based on Alexandre Dumas’s scandalous memoir of his real-life affair with a courtesan, the opera was badly received at the time of its premiere in 1853.
Critics praised the music but condemned the “foul and hideous horrors” in its representation of immoral lifestyles. Even Verdi predicted “priests would be terrified of seeing on stage the sort of things they do themselves at night on the quiet”.
See the full article from “Gay News Network (press release) (blog)”
But what is that so fascinates people with this story? The fallen woman is a recurring theme from biblical times. Our obsession with ‘the good whore’ resounds throughout popular culture, from Dickens to Hollywood. It is no coincidence that Moulin Rouge is an almost exact replica of the popular opera. Try to find the Baron, the courtesan unwilling to fall in love, the young poet, the sacrifice; even the elephant love medley is there, as is the climactic scene when the young man unknowing of his lover’s sacrifice publicly humiliates her (with almost exactly the same wording). Maybe it is a slightly sadistic trait of humanity to cheer on the underdog, and especially to take pleasure in seeing this underdog claim the higher ground. Regardless, if you enjoy classical opera, this is definitely a must see. Viva Verdi!
The Associated Press
Friday, Sept. 23, 2011 | 11:04 a.m.
Police in Reno police say seven people received misdemeanor citations during a downtown prostitution sweep this week.
Officials say the sweep Wednesday focused on prostitution customers.
The five men cited on suspicion of solicitation for prostitution were identified as 34-year old Cordell Huynh (HEWN’), 54-year-old Tyrone Clark, 30-year-old Enrique Garibay, 40-year-old Javier Mora and 41-year-old Robin Vasquez-Estrada.
Reno police also say they cited 29-year-old Lisa Brown and 18-year-old Alicia Nelson on suspicion of solicitation for prostitution.
The enforcement team that worked on the sweep included Reno, Sparks and the University of Nevada, Reno police officers.
Judge Andrew Sweet approved Naso’s motion to unshackle his left hand to allow him to write during court proceedings. The order applies up to his Jan. 10 preliminary hearing.
Sweet said the issue can be revisited then, and if the Marin County District Attorney’s Office wants Naso shackled it can file a motion to do so.
Naso’s next hearing is Oct. 11.
The Reno man is accused of murdering four prostitutes in the 1970s and 1990s throughout Northern California: Roxene Roggasch, Carmen Colon, Pamela Parsons and Tracy Tafoya. He has pleaded not guilty.
Authorities around the country are also looking at Naso as a suspect in more cold cases.
Authorities said Naso kept a numbered list of 10 women — including the four prostitutes he is charged with killing — and news clippings of the crimes in a safety deposit box.
See the full article from “FoxReno.com”
Last year the FBI conducted a three-day sweep, cracking down on child trafficking and prostitution nationwide. The Las Vegas Review-Journal reported the FBI identified more than 60 children and 99 pimps, including one child located in Las Vegas. Almost 100 children were identified as being forced into sexual servitude in Las Vegas in 2010.
Even in Reno, trafficking and forced prostitution is a serious concern. Shortly after the FBI sting in Las Vegas, KOLO Channel 8 reported a similar sting by the Reno Police Department, uncovering two girls from Sacramento, ages 14 and 15. Just this summer KRNV Channel 4 reported a former IRS agent and UNR teacher was illegally transporting a teen girl to Reno so that she could become a prostitute.
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We need to increase penalties for pimps and others exploiting humans for their own personal gains. I sponsored AB 380 in 2009, which now allows the court to impose substantial fines of up to $500,000 on any person convicted of pandering or of prostitution of a child.
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Once a veteran agent assigned to the IRS criminal division, Shiffer was the lead investigator into fugitive brothel owner Joe Conforte, who fled to Brazil after being indicted.
See the full article from “The Republic”
RENO, Nev. — Police in Reno police say seven people received misdemeanor citations during a downtown prostitution sweep this week.
See the full article from “The Republic”
Campus Escort Service (www.unr.edu/escort) begins fall-semester service on Thursday, Aug. 25. Initial hours of operation will be 7 p.m. – 1 a.m., seven days a week. Starting Monday, Nov. 7, hours of operation will be 5 p.m. – 1 a.m. This service provides safe transportation via van to any location on or within a 2-mile radius of the main campus in Reno. For more information or to request the service, contact Campus Escort Services at 775-742-6808.
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All of the phones have a button that, when pushed, sets off a highly visible blue strobe light and places an immediate call to the regional 911 dispatch center. Additionally, at the request of the student government, the tower-style phones on the main campus in Reno include a second button that places a call to the ASUN Campus Escort Service. This allows a convenient way to schedule a safe ride during the services’ hours of operation. The Campus Escort Service offers walking and driving escort services during the fall and spring semesters.
In 2006, Levitt was named one of Time magazine’s “100 People Who Shape Our World,” and in 2004, he was awarded the John Bates Clark Medal by the American Economic Association, awarded to the most influential economist under the age of 40.
Freakonomics now has its own blog and radio show, and in January 2010, Freakonomics: The Movie by filmmaker Chad Troutwine was first released on iTunes, becoming an instant success. The film jumped to the top of iTunes’ documentary film category and spent months in the Top 30 ranking of all films, just above the blockbuster, Avatar.
Levitt and Dubner have been guests on numerous popular broadcasts, including appearances on NPR and The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. In 2009, the two followed up Freakonomics with SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance, further exploring how real-life stories affect our ever-changing world.
RENO, Nev. (AP) – A former Internal Revenue Service agent charged with coercing an 18-year-old woman to work as a prostitute for him in Reno was a lead investigator into fugitive Nevada brothel boss Joe Conforte.
The Reno Gazette-Journal reports (http://bit.ly/qFPzL5 ) Saturday that 58-year-old Kemp Shiffer more recently was also a partner in a proposal to open a bordello in Churchill County, but that business was rejected by county officials.
Shiffer was arrested Wednesday night by detectives in the regional Street Enforcement Team who were investigating online escort advertisements. He was no longer in jail on Friday.
Officials say Shiffer resigned from the IRS amid accusations from a decade ago that he used his position and badge to recruit prostitutes. The Reno Gazette-Journal reports no charges were filed in that case.
Ex-Reno IRS Agent Arrested on Prostitution Charge
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RENO, Nev. (AP) — A 58-year-old former IRS agent has been arrested on charges of coercing a woman to leave California and become a prostitute in Reno.
Reno police say Kemp Shiffer was arrested Wednesday by detectives investigating online escort advertisements.
Officials say Shiffer had resigned from the IRS amid accusations from a decade ago that he used his position and badge to recruit prostitutes. The Reno Gazette-Journal reports no charges were filed in that case.
Police allege that Shiffer had driven to Eureka, Calif., to pick up an 18-year-old woman so he could profit from her prostitution activities.
Shiffer was not at the Washoe County jail as of Friday afternoon.
Reno police are still investigating the case.
See the full article from “KTVN”
Ex-Reno IRS Agent Arrested on Prostitution Charge
Posted: 10:38 am PDT August 8, 2011
RENO, Nev. (AP) A 58-year-old former IRS agent has been arrested on charges of coercing a woman to leave California and become a prostitute in Reno.
Reno police say Kemp Shiffer was arrested Wednesday by detectives investigating online escort advertisements.
Officials say Shiffer had resigned from the IRS amid accusations from a decade ago that he used his position and badge to recruit prostitutes. The Reno Gazette-Journal reports no charges were filed in that case.
Police allege that Shiffer had driven to Eureka, Calif., to pick up an 18-year-old woman so he could profit from her prostitution activities.
Shiffer was not at the Washoe County jail as of Friday afternoon.
Reno police are still investigating the case.
See the full article from “FoxReno.com”
Posted: 3:46 PM Aug 5, 2011
Former IRS Agent Accused of Using His Badge for Prostitution Recruitment
A Reno man is suspected of using his IRS agent status to recruit young women into the illegal prostitution ring.
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RENO, Nev. — A 58-year-old former IRS agent has been arrested on charges of coercing a woman to leave California and become a prostitute in Reno.
See the full article from “The Republic”
… AP) — A 58-year-old former IRS agent has been arrested on charges of coercing a woman to leave California and become a prostitute in Reno. Reno police say Kemp Shiffer was arrested Wednesday by detectives investigating online escort advertisements.
… AP) — A 58-year-old former IRS agent has been arrested on charges of coercing a woman to leave California and become a prostitute in Reno. Reno police say Kemp Shiffer was arrested Wednesday by detectives investigating online escort advertisements.
See the full article from “Ct Post”
Updated: 11:10 AM Aug 5, 2011
Former IRS Agent Accused of Using His Badge for Prostitution Recruitment
A Reno man is suspected of using his IRS agent status to recruit young women into the illegal prostitution ring.
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11:07 AM Aug 5, 2011
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RENO – An investigation by a Reno Police Department task team has resulted in the arrest of a man on illegal prostitution charges.
On August 3rd, 2011, The Regional Street Enforcement Team conducted an investigation into illegal prostitution in the Reno/Sparks area. This particular investigation targeted on-line escort service ads. During the investigation, Detectives learned that Mr. Shiffer had driven to Eureka, California where he picked up an eighteen year old female. He then brought her back to Reno where it is alleged that he coerced her into prostitution for the purpose of obtaining money from her.
The Regional Street Enforcement Team is continuing it’s investigation into Mr. Shiffer’s dealings with illegal prostitution in this area. Mr. Shiffer retired from the United States Internal Revenue Service several years ago. Detectives have learned that approximately ten years ago, Mr. Shiffer may have been utilizing his IRS Agent badge in the furtherance of his dealings in illegal prostitution
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From the backstreets of Reno to the forefront of the eyes of the Pearson Foundation, Jarell Green has come a long way. The University of Nevada, Reno nursing major recently received the title of National Fellow of the Pearson Prize for Higher Education, a distinguishing prize awarded to just 20 students nationwide who have demonstrated leadership in community service.
“The honor is amazing,” Green said. “I don’t know how to explain it.”
In order to receive the title, Green had to complete multiple essays, collect a letter of recommendation and create a YouTube video about his contributions to the community.
“This title is huge,” he said. “Many of the other videos were by people from institutions such as Harvard and Yale. To be in the same category as them is unbelievable.”
The honor serves as for a reminder of just how far Green has come. He recalled where his journey began nearly 21 years ago, and reminisced on his long, hard struggle.
“I grew up with my mom in the Reno housing projects until middle school,” he recalled. “There were drugs, gangs and prostitution.”
Reno Authorities Shut Down Ponderosa Lodge
Posted: 11:03 am PDT July 22, 2011
Authorities in Reno have shut down a rundown, budget motel in the Fourth Street corridor east of downtown.
Reno police, fire, health, social service and other officials joined in the motel interdiction sweep Wednesday at the Ponderosa Lodge.
Police say the $20-a-night motel has established a reputation for criminal activity including drug sales and prostitution. They say motel residents also have complained about health and safety issues ranging from fire hazards to rodents and plumbing problems.
City housing officials condemned three of the 50 motel units. Police also made three arrests on outstanding warrants.
See the full article from “FoxReno.com”
Synopsis
Amongst the most popular of Verdi’s operas, La traviata – the touching story of the self-sacrificing courtesan of the title – has long been one of the most consistently loved of all operas across the world. Verdi’s music is instantly appealing, with a wealth of famous melodies that allow operatic voices to soar and thrill.
The traditional style of Richard Eyre’s production for La Traviata for The Royal Opera in Bob Crowley’s period designs has made this particular staging acclaimed and popular every time it returns. It is an opera that sweeps everyone along from the lively opening party and the instantly recognizable and tuneful toast to indulgence, through dramatic confrontations both private and public, and to the most heart-rending of tragic endings.
This Royal Opera House Season for La Traviata there are fabulous casts to hear in the central roles of Violetta, her young lover Alfredo and his father Germont in a company that has the Royal Opera Chorus and dancers to bring alive the indulgent social whirl of 19th-century Paris.
Police say the $20-a-night motel has established a reputation for criminal activity including drug sales and prostitution. They say motel residents also have complained about health and safety issues ranging from fire hazards to rodents and plumbing problems.
See the full article from “The Republic”
Many performances of Verdi’s “La Traviata” wind up focusing on Violetta, the Parisian courtesan whose brief spell of happiness runs aground on the twin shoals of bourgeois morality and tuberculosis. She is, after all, the most interesting figure in the opera, as well as its most challenging vocal assignment.
But it’s still unusual to hear a Violetta take charge of an evening as completely and thrillingly as soprano Rebecca Davis did in Tuesday’s performance by the Festival Opera.
The performance at the Dean Lesher Center for the Arts in Walnut Creek was otherwise a mildly rewarding affair, offering a pleasant but rarely memorable account of Verdi’s great mid-period tragedy. But as soon as Davis began to sing, the sparks began to fly.
Davis, a former resident artist with Opera San Jose who made an impressive appearance in the Merola Opera Program last summer, boasts a big, vibrant sound that she keeps under superb control, as well as pinpoint technical command and a wealth of vocal coloration. Her voice is muscular enough to tackle the most daunting displays of power, but tenderly lyrical in more intimate passages.
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Now, on Kindle or in printed form, Sam Bauman’s newest novel.
“Confessions of a Paper Pimp” is a story about winding up working for a men’s magazine, complete with gatefolds, and being put on trial for pornography.
Silver Oak Golf & Events Center Nestled in northwest Carson City, our 18 scenic holes wind through the Sierra Foothills and the Silver Oak residential community. Spread out over 160 acres, this eighteen-hole public golf course features five sets of tees making Silver Oak enjoyable for golfers of all ages and skill levels. In April of 2005, Silver Oak opened its brand new clubhouse featuring a golf shop, locker rooms, restaurant, banquet facilities, Silver Oak Homes sales office and more. A beautiful practice facility includes a driving range, practice bunker and putting green. The Course The Par-71 layout is 6,564 yards from the tournament tees. We are located just 25 minutes south of Reno and 30 minutes from Lake Tahoe. Dramatic elevation changes on the opening nine holes produce …
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The tape that Jennifer Lopez wished would never see the light of day has sparked a full-on bidding war among several porn studios.
It has been reported that Lopez’s ex-husband Ojani Noa is receiving bids for the sales of the tape, which feature a bit of spanking and booty shots, reports TMZ.
Lopez was filmed on her honeymoon in 1997, and it was only ruled last week that an L.A. judge decided that the ‘American Idol’ judge did not have grounds to block the sale.
While the ‘On The Floor’ singer isn’t seen actually having sex, that hasn’t stopped Red Light District, YouPorn.com and PornHub.com bidding for the tape.
No deal has been made but it is thought that the bids remain at the $40,000 range.
See the full article from “TaleTela”
The Jennifer Lopez sex-tape has ignited an all out porn war!
Some big porn studios have been trying to out-bid each other to get their hands on the 1997 honeymoon tape starring Lopez and her then husband, Ojani Noa.
YouPorn.com, Red Light District, and PornHub.com are all bidding to get the rights to the ‘Idol’ judge’s tape.
The bids are in the $40,000 range which may seem a bit of low, but the reason being that there is actually no real sex on the tape.
Apparently, the tape features some spanking and booty shots.
Last week an LA judge ruled J.Lo had no case in blocking the release of the tape, which now allows for the tape to be sold.
Welcome to the club of celebrities with sex tapes and nudes, Jennifer.
Author’s note: What follows is the first of several articles on long-distance driving, mainly coast-to-coast, a trip I’ve taken about 30 times (that is, each way) over the past 40 years. It is mainly a summary of adventures, misadventures, and tips on how to go, where to go, how both to plan and to improvise, and how to avoid trouble along the way. And it is also a manifesto on why you might want to spend all that money to get there slower when the plane does it faster and cheaper.
Part 1: Wheel of Misfortune
It is the hour when all the Ps are out on patrol: prostitutes, pimps, prowlers, pickpockets, ponces, posers, and perps, as well as police in their big cruisers. I envision the whole backstreet caravan like a lineup of blazing sevens on a slot machine.
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CARSON CITY – Nevada ranks 6th among the states in a new index generated by the Mercatus Center called “Freedom in the 50 States, An Index of Personal and Economic Freedom.” The study by Jason Sorens and William Ruger, released earlier this week, comprehensively ranks the states on their public policies that affect individual freedoms in the economic, social, and personal spheres. It updates, expands, and improves upon an inaugural 2009 Freedom in the 50 States study. The new edition includes more policy variables, such as bans on trans fats and the audio recording of police, and improved existing measures such as those asset-forfeiture rules.
State Freedom Rankings Top 10
New Hampshire was ranked first in the study, with New York coming in last.
Nevada earned 16th place in terms of economic freedom, and 3rd for personal freedom, to give it the 6th place ranking overall.
Of Nevada, the study says: “Nevada starts out with the obvious advantages of the most liberal gaming regime in the country (but an Internet-gaming ban) and local-option prostitution. On fiscal policy the state is better than average, but in less visible ways, since spending and taxation are only slightly better than average.”
See the full article from “Carson Now”
The Pony Express operated for less than two years, from April 3, 1860, to late 1861. Riders switched to fresh horses every 10 to 15 miles, handing off to a new rider every 75 miles or so to complete the route.
The route west out of St. Joseph mostly followed the Oregon Trail from Kansas through what is now Nebraska and Wyoming. From there, it largely followed what is now U.S. Interstate 80 into Utah before veering south toward U.S. Highway 50 into Nevada and on to Sacramento.
In Nevada, the trail passes through the property of the Moonlite Bunnyranch, a legal brothel where the local chapter of a historical society placed a marker and plaque in recognition of the route in 2002.
“If the Bunnyranch had been here on the Pony Express Trail 150 years ago,” brothel owner Dennis Hof said at the dedication, “it would probably have added a day or two to the trip.”
See the full article from “FoxReno.com”
Beginning June 2, 2011, the Spice channel (103) on Sirius XM will launch a new weekly series, LIVE! At The Mustang Ranch. The show will air for two hours and will broadcast live from the world famous and fully legal Mustang Ranch brothel outside Reno Nevada. The regular time slot for the show will be Thursday’s at 8:00 PM Eastern.
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Host Jamie Wylde became a “working girl” at The Mustang Ranch during its rambunctious, rowdy early days before Joe Conforte fled the country. She was one of the first Mustang Ladies to open the brothel in its current location and has a rich history with the multi-million dollar property. In addition to hosting LIVE! At The Mustang Ranch, Jamie is the gatekeeper for any ladies interested in working at the brothel; selecting, interviewing and ultimately recommending (or not) prospective courtesans to Madam Susan Austin.
The Pony Express operated for less than two years, from April 3, 1860, to late 1861. Riders switched to fresh horses every 10 to 15 miles, handing off to a new rider every 75 miles or so to complete the route.
The route west out of St. Joseph mostly followed the Oregon Trail from Kansas through what is now Nebraska and Wyoming. From there, it largely followed what is now U.S. Interstate 80 into Utah before veering south toward U.S. Highway 50 into Nevada and on to Sacramento.
In Nevada, the trail passes through the property of the Moonlite Bunnyranch, a legal brothel where the local chapter of a historical society placed a marker and plaque in recognition of the route in 2002.
“If the Bunnyranch had been here on the Pony Express Trail 150 years ago,” brothel owner Dennis Hof said at the dedication, “it would probably have added a day or two to the trip.”
See the full article from “StandardNet”
The Pony Express operated for less than two years, from April 3, 1860, to late 1861. Riders switched to fresh horses every 10 to 15 miles, handing off to a new rider every 75 miles or so to complete the route.
The route west out of St. Joseph mostly followed the Oregon Trail from Kansas through what is now Nebraska and Wyoming. From there, it largely followed what is now U.S. Interstate 80 into Utah before veering south toward U.S. Highway 50 into Nevada and on to Sacramento.
In Nevada, the trail passes through the property of the Moonlite Bunnyranch, a legal brothel where the local chapter of a historical society placed a marker and plaque in recognition of the route in 2002.
“If the Bunnyranch had been here on the Pony Express Trail 150 years ago,” brothel owner Dennis Hof said at the dedication, “it would probably have added a day or two to the trip.”
The Pony Express operated for less than two years, from April 3, 1860, to late 1861. Riders switched to fresh horses every 10 to 15 miles, handing off to a new rider every 75 miles or so to complete the route.
The route west out of St. Joseph mostly followed the Oregon Trail from Kansas through what is now Nebraska and Wyoming. From there, it largely followed what is now U.S. Interstate 80 into Utah before veering south toward U.S. Highway 50 into Nevada and on to Sacramento.
In Nevada, the trail passes through the property of the Moonlite Bunnyranch, a legal brothel where the local chapter of a historical society placed a marker and plaque in recognition of the route in 2002.
“If the Bunnyranch had been here on the Pony Express Trail 150 years ago,” brothel owner Dennis Hof said at the dedication, “it would probably have added a day or two to the trip.”
The Pony Express operated for less than two years, from April 3, 1860, to late 1861. Riders switched to fresh horses every 10 to 15 miles, handing off to a new rider every 75 miles or so to complete the route.
The route west out of St. Joseph mostly followed the Oregon Trail from Kansas through what is now Nebraska and Wyoming. From there, it largely followed what is now U.S. Interstate 80 into Utah before veering south toward U.S. Highway 50 into Nevada and on to Sacramento.
In Nevada, the trail passes through the property of the Moonlite Bunnyranch, a legal brothel where the local chapter of a historical society placed a marker and plaque in recognition of the route in 2002.
“If the Bunnyranch had been here on the Pony Express Trail 150 years ago,” brothel owner Dennis Hof said at the dedication, “it would probably have added a day or two to the trip.”
The Pony Express operated for less than two years, from April 3, 1860, to late 1861. Riders switched to fresh horses every 10 to 15 miles, handing off to a new rider every 75 miles or so to complete the route.
The route west out of St. Joseph mostly followed the Oregon Trail from Kansas through what is now Nebraska and Wyoming. From there, it largely followed what is now U.S. Interstate 80 into Utah before veering south toward U.S. Highway 50 into Nevada and on to Sacramento.
In Nevada, the trail passes through the property of the Moonlite Bunnyranch, a legal brothel where the local chapter of a historical society placed a marker and plaque in recognition of the route in 2002.
“If the Bunnyranch had been here on the Pony Express Trail 150 years ago,” brothel owner Dennis Hof said at the dedication, “it would probably have added a day or two to the trip.”
Brothel Industry Falls Short in Desire to Pay State Taxes
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CARSON CITY After decades of pleading, Nevadas legal brothel industry was about to get its wish of paying taxes, giving prostitution the legitimacy that comes with contributing to the states bank account.
But new taxes proposed by Democrats appear to be dead, or at least on life support, and so too the chance for the state to tax the willing and able brothel industry.
Nevada is the only state with legal prostitution, but it has a somewhat awkward relationship with its industry.
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The reasons are understandable. Anytime prostitution is brought up, it attracts a media frenzy drowning out the serious work theyre doing. Also, some politicians have said, the brothel money would somehow stain the good, clean dollars used to pay for schools and safety net (from the wholesome casino and construction industries).
See the full article from “FoxReno.com”
… Volunteer to help someone less fortunate. Volunteer opportunities abound in the Truckee Meadows. Amber Lynn Dobson’s group, We Care Volunteers, is a great one that can be found at the Record Street homeless complex Monday through Thursday at 6 p.m. The Holland Project can also always use some volunteer help.
• Go to Burning Man. It’s not just for hippies. The sprawling, eclectic annual art festival is just a couple of hours’ drive north from Reno in the Black Rock Desert every summer. It offers a diverse array of experiences, some of them amazing, some of them detestable, all of them memorable. www.burningman.com.
• Take an old-fashioned photo. Of all the tacky, touristy things to do in Virginia City, none creates quite as perfect a memento. Dress up like an old cowboy, a Civil War soldier or a brothel girl. A bunch of places in V.C. offer the dress-up fun; we recommend Silver Sadie’s Old Fashioned Photos, 116 S C St., Virginia City.
CARSON CITY – A bill allowing victims of sex trafficking to clear their criminal records of prostitution-related crimes in order to get a fresh start in life was signed into law today by Gov. Brian Sandoval. Assembly Bill 6 is the most recent effort by Assemblyman John Hambrick, R-Las Vegas, to combat the illegal sex trade in Nevada that frequently involves underage children. “I am humbled by the support shown for the victims of sex trafficking,” Hambrick said. “It is a serious problem for our community and our country, and I’m proud that we have taken a step to help the victims who were not only forced into the sex trade but had to bear the burden of being convicted of prostitution.”
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According to Nevada law, it is a crime for anyone to engage in prostitution outside of a licensed Nevada brothel; however, AB6 will give Nevada courts the ability to vacate a judgment if the person was a victim of sex trafficking or involuntary servitude.
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Now, on Kindle or in printed form, Sam Bauman’s newest novel.
“Confessions of a Paper Pimp” is a story about winding up working for a men’s magazine, complete with gatefolds, and being put on trial for pornography.
Three Tools for Better Car Buying The excitement—and anxiety—of shopping for a new car! One thing’s for sure: we all want to get the best deal on the vehicle and the loan. Greater Nevada Credit Union offers free online tools to help you do that.Tool #1: The Simple Car Loan CalculatorHow much can you afford? Use our online calculators to enter how much you want to borrow, the term and interest rate. We’ll quickly calculate your monthly payments and the total interest you’ll pay. Tip: Greater Nevada offers competitive financing options to consumers throughout northern Nevada. View our current loan rates.Tool #2: The Easy Online Loan ApplicationApplying for a loan before you start shopping helps you focus on vehicles in a certain price range, and it gives you more negotiating p …
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Now, on Kindle or in printed form, Sam Bauman’s newest novel.
“Confessions of a Paper Pimp” is a story about winding up working for a men’s magazine, complete with gatefolds, and being put on trial for pornography.
Three Tools for Better Car Buying The excitement—and anxiety—of shopping for a new car! One thing’s for sure: we all want to get the best deal on the vehicle and the loan. Greater Nevada Credit Union offers free online tools to help you do that.Tool #1: The Simple Car Loan CalculatorHow much can you afford? Use our online calculators to enter how much you want to borrow, the term and interest rate. We’ll quickly calculate your monthly payments and the total interest you’ll pay. Tip: Greater Nevada offers competitive financing options to consumers throughout northern Nevada. View our current loan rates.Tool #2: The Easy Online Loan ApplicationApplying for a loan before you start shopping helps you focus on vehicles in a certain price range, and it gives you more negotiating p …
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Now, on Kindle or in printed form, Sam Bauman’s newest novel.
“Confessions of a Paper Pimp” is a story about winding up working for a men’s magazine, complete with gatefolds, and being put on trial for pornography.
Three Tools for Better Car Buying The excitement—and anxiety—of shopping for a new car! One thing’s for sure: we all want to get the best deal on the vehicle and the loan. Greater Nevada Credit Union offers free online tools to help you do that.Tool #1: The Simple Car Loan CalculatorHow much can you afford? Use our online calculators to enter how much you want to borrow, the term and interest rate. We’ll quickly calculate your monthly payments and the total interest you’ll pay. Tip: Greater Nevada offers competitive financing options to consumers throughout northern Nevada. View our current loan rates.Tool #2: The Easy Online Loan ApplicationApplying for a loan before you start shopping helps you focus on vehicles in a certain price range, and it gives you more negotiating p …
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Naso has yet to enter a plea to the murder charges, and a Marin County, Calif., judge on Friday agreed to let him represent himself in court proceedings.
Naso had never been charged with a violent crime until his recent arrest, but he appears to have had a long-held fixation on lingerie and bondage. He was arrested for stealing 30 pairs of women’s underwear and bras at an Oakland, Calif., department store in 1995, and a former neighbor found him dumping stacks of bondage pornography in the trash outside his San Francisco apartment in 1981.
Investigators think that Naso, who lived for a time in New York state, may be tied to other disappearances and unsolved killings across the United States. He is believed to have targeted prostitutes, whom he strangled, dumping their bodies in rural areas.
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On Tuesday, Assembly Judiciary will consider three bills dealing with drunken driving offenses, while the Assembly Ways and Means and Senate Finance committees hold a joint meeting to close budgets for the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency and Department of Conservation and Natural Resources. Senate Judiciary will hear testimony on AB273 that deals with foreclosures and short sales, while Assembly Natural Resources, Agriculture and Mining will discuss bills dealing with cruelty to animals and trapping of fur-bearing animals.
Legislative Operations and Elections committees in both the Senate and Assembly are expected to hold hearings on reapportionment. Democrats and Republicans released their proposed maps for realigning state voting districts Thursday, and legislative leaders said hearings would be scheduled this week, though the hearings were not immediately posted on the advance legislative calendar.
On Wednesday, Assembly Judiciary takes up bills governing parole. Senate Judiciary considers AB6, which would allow victims of sex trafficking and forced prostitution to have criminal prostitution convictions removed from their records.
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On Tuesday, Assembly Judiciary will consider three bills dealing with drunken driving offenses, while the Assembly Ways and Means and Senate Finance committees hold a joint meeting to close budgets for the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency and Department of Conservation and Natural Resources. Senate Judiciary will hear testimony on AB273 that deals with foreclosures and short sales, while Assembly Natural Resources, Agriculture and Mining will discuss bills dealing with cruelty to animals and trapping of fur-bearing animals.
Legislative Operations and Elections committees in both the Senate and Assembly are expected to hold hearings on reapportionment. Democrats and Republicans released their proposed maps for realigning state voting districts Thursday, and legislative leaders said hearings would be scheduled this week, though the hearings were not immediately posted on the advance legislative calendar.
On Wednesday, Assembly Judiciary takes up bills governing parole. Senate Judiciary considers AB6, which would allow victims of sex trafficking and forced prostitution to have criminal prostitution convictions removed from their records.
Jonathan Miller’s version of La Traviata is Verdi without the vulgarity
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La Traviata, the famous tale of the courtesan Violetta’s doomed love affair with upper-class Alfredo, is often thought of as one of Giuseppe Verdi’s grandest operas—an over-the-top tragedy amid Paris salons. But legendary opera and theatre director, author, and physician Jonathan Miller is attracted to the classic for opposite reasons. He spurns productions that take the work to excess.
“All the people in Traviata are negligible, forgettable people, but that’s what makes interesting art: making the negligible considerable—making the forgettable totally memorable. That’s what it’s all about. Otherwise, it’s not worth doing,” says Miller, who’s bringing his production from New York’s Glimmerglass Opera to Vancouver Opera audiences this week. Meeting with the Straig …
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Bruce said Verdi’s attraction to the story of “Traviata,” based on a novel by Alexandre Dumas (son of the novelist Dumas), was inspired in part by Verdi’s indignation at the way Strepponi was treated.
“He wanted to skewer the bourgeois,” Bruce said. “He needed to write a piece that would speak to the people of the day about the crimes they were committing, implicitly or explicitly.”
At the center of “La Traviata” is a classic stock character — the “tart with a heart,” comparable to women from Mary Magdalene to Dulcinea in “Man of La Mancha.” (In “Pretty Woman,” it’s no coincidence that Richard Gere takes Julia Roberts to see a production of “Traviata.”)
Violetta Valery, sung by a soprano, is a courtesan who accepts luxurious favors from men, but sacrifices all of her possessions for a life with Alfredo, who has admired her for a year.
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Bruce said Verdi’s attraction to the story of “Traviata,” based on a novel by Alexandre Dumas (son of the novelist Dumas), was inspired in part by Verdi’s indignation at the way Strepponi was treated.
“He wanted to skewer the bourgeois,” Bruce said. “He needed to write a piece that would speak to the people of the day about the crimes they were committing, implicitly or explicitly.”
At the center of “La Traviata” is a classic stock character — the “tart with a heart,” comparable to women from Mary Magdalene to Dulcinea in “Man of La Mancha.” (In “Pretty Woman,” it’s no coincidence that Richard Gere takes Julia Roberts to see a production of “Traviata.”)
Violetta Valery, sung by a soprano, is a courtesan who accepts luxurious favors from men, but sacrifices all of her possessions for a life with Alfredo, who has admired her for a year.
… Fluoride: We have fluoride in the water in Clark County. Yet despite dentists’ best efforts, fluoride is still a nonstarter in Washoe County and Carson City. Last session a bill to mandate fluoride up north died but not before a lot of people testified about a government/corporate conspiracy to poison their water. In the end, lawmakers voted against it, citing the cost. No legislator introduced a fluoride bill this session.
• Brothels: The legal brothels in Nevada’s rural counties weren’t an issue on lawmakers’ radar until Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid visited the Legislature and called for an end to legalized prostitution. He said they hurt Nevada’s image and efforts to diversify its economy. “Working girls” and a pimp came to the Legislature to offer their opposition, but the idea found no traction.
The search also uncovered evidence that helped link him to the Northern California killings, said Nevada authorities, who soon after launched a task force to look into cold cases possibly connected to Naso.
Investigators say Naso was a professional photographer who often traveled the country for work and may have killed in other states.
‘We think there are others out there we haven’t discovered yet,’ Chris Perry, acting director of the Nevada Department of Public Safety, told reporters Tuesday.
‘Typically when you are talking about a person who has killed more than once, this doesn’t stop.’
Naso was being held without bail Tuesday in Marin County. He may be facing the death penalty.
The first victim was Roxene Roggasch, whose body was found in Fairfax in Marin County in 1977.
According to news archives, investigators interviewed a prostitute at the time who claimed her pimp kidnapped, tortured and killed the 18-year-old Roggasch. No one was ever arrested.
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… I literally was so afraid of Sen. Bill Raggio that I avoided coming to the Senate chamber, because in many ways I was awestruck by his presence, his knowledge and command of the process, and his ability to get $20 out of everybody that he met,” Horsford said.
Raggio was known for “borrowing” $20 from colleagues and anyone else he could convince to hand over the cash.
“Sen. Bill Raggio is a true statesman,” Horsford said. “He loves his party, but he puts the state of Nevada before his party. He is a true statesman in that he has always looked out for the future of our state, providing great vision and leadership during difficult times.”
Sen. Mike McGinness, R-Fallon, who was selected to take over as minority leader from Raggio, said the former lawmaker also spent 18 years of public service in the Washoe County District Attorney’s office.
McGinness noted that Raggio had a “burning passion” for the job, a reference to Raggio’s burning of an illegal brothel east of Reno in 1960 while district attorney.
Law would help sex trafficking victims start over
Associated Press – April 6, 2011 12:35 PM ET
CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) – A bill pending in the Nevada Legislature seeks to allow sex trafficking victims to expunge prostitution convictions from their records.
Assemblyman John Hambrick of Las Vegas told the Assembly Committee of the Judiciary Wednesday that these convictions pop up on background checks and often keep victims from landing employment elsewhere.
Hambrick says this amounts to re-victimization and that AB6 would allow victims to reclaim some degree of normalcy.
Supporters say AB6 provides an essential tool for rehabilitation and is similar to laws being considered in Illinois and Maryland as well as to one New York enacted last year.
AB6 does not require a new hearing or new evidence. Victims would have to petition the court to clear the convictions.
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Law would help sex trafficking victims start over
Page Last Updated: Wednesday April 6, 2011 2:03pm PDT
CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) — A bill pending in the Nevada Legislature seeks to allow sex trafficking victims to expunge prostitution convictions from their records.
Assemblyman John Hambrick of Las Vegas told the Assembly Committee of the Judiciary Wednesday that these convictions pop upon background checks and often keep victims from landing employment elsewhere.
Hambrick says this amounts to re-victimization and that AB6 would allow victims to reclaim some degree of normalcy.
Supporters say AB6 provides an essential tool for rehabilitation and is similar to laws being considered in Illinois and Maryland as well as to one New York enacted last year.
AB6 does not require a new hearing or new evidence. Victims would have to petition the court to clear the convictions.
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Law Would Help Sex Trafficking Victims Start Over
Posted: 3:02 pm PDT April 6, 2011
CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) A bill pending in the Nevada Legislature seeks to allow sex trafficking victims to expunge prostitution convictions from their records.
Assemblyman John Hambrick of Las Vegas told the Assembly Committee of the Judiciary Wednesday that these convictions pop up on background checks and often keep victims from landing employment elsewhere.
Hambrick says this amounts to re-victimization and that AB6 would allow victims to reclaim some degree of normalcy.
Supporters say AB6 provides an essential tool for rehabilitation and is similar to laws being considered in Illinois and Maryland as well as to one New York enacted last year.
AB6 does not require a new hearing or new evidence. Victims would have to petition the court to clear the convictions.
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Published: Friday, March 25, 2011 10:40 AM PDT
CARSON CITY — Nearly 1,000 college students from across the state rallied in the snow in front of the Capitol and Legislative Building on Monday to protest Gov. Brian Sandoval’s plan to cut state support to higher education by more than $160 million.
University of Nevada, Reno band members played “Home Means Nevada.” Students hoisted dozens of placards calling for the end of cuts, and protesters shouted slogans such as “Hey, Hey, Ho, Ho, These Budget Cuts Have Got To Go” in a rally that lasted more than four hours.
One Western Nevada College student, Layrie Corley of Carson City, even held a “Hey it’s OK, I can always be a prostitute” sign and said legislators and Sandoval have the power to decide her future.
Senatorial arguments should be focused more on the value of a program than on the means of payment, Rodriguez said. However, senators should make sure their ideas are in compliance with senate statutes, she said.
“Any time you have any idea, one of the first things the senate should ask themselves is, ‘Does this program fit within our rules?’” she said.
Although Bottoset is a student cadet, he will not patrol on Fridays or for ASUN-sponsored events and will abstain from voting on the bill. ASUN senators often support bills that affect organizations or groups the senators are part of, Bottoset said.
“Everything we do could be called ‘conflict of interest,’” he said.
Sen. Ann Newsome proposed merging Student Cadets with the Campus Escort Service, which would eliminate any conflict over paying non-ASUN wages. The Campus Escort program used to patrol parking lots but had to stop after the organization switched operations from Parking Services to ASUN, Rodriguez said.
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Senator Harry Reid Calls For Outlawing Prostitution In Nevada
(Carson City, NV) – Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is calling for an end to legalized prostitution in his home state.
In a speech before a joint session of the State Legislature today, Reid said prostitution discourages businesses from moving to Nevada.
Reid told lawmakers outlawing the practice would create jobs and make Nevada more competitive in the global economy.
At least one brothel owner showed up at the Legislature for the speech.
According to the “Las Vegas Sun,” outspoken brothel owner Dennis Hof was accompanied by eight workers from his business near Carson City.
The paper didn’t say if they managed to get seats.
Nevada legislators’ reactions to Reid speech mixed
By Guy Clifton gclifton@rgj.com
February 22, 2011
None of Washoe Countys legislative delegation considered U.S. Sen. Harry Reids call to end legalized prostitution in Nevada much of a priority, in a session where the budget shortfall dominates all other topics.
But they did find other parts of Reids address to a joint session of the Legislature on Tuesday more agreeable.
Maybe someone who was listening will introduce a bill (to outlaw legalized prostitution). I dont know, said Sen. Greg Brower, R-Reno. But we have so many challenges that were working on every day in an effort to get this state back on track economically through job creation and education reform and getting the budget balanced. Those are really the priorities of this session.
They need to stand down, said Lance Gilman owner of the Wild Horse and Mustang Ranch brothels in Storey County. It is one thing for Harry Reid to say we ought to outlaw brothels. It is quite another for our Legislature to decided to take up a bill. If that happens then it is a whole different scenario.
Assemblyman Ira Hansen, R-Sparks, said he would like to see the brothels outlawed but said Reid is focused on the wrong problem with prostitution.
If youve ever been down on the Strip in Vegas, jeez, my wife and my children are walking along and people are stopping them and handing them brochures on escort services with pictures and everything, Hansen said. Start in your own county first, Senator. Take care of your own sickness first before you start telling everybody else how to deal with it.
… He used to swim in the pools at the cat houses,” Hof said. “Has he forgotten his roots?”
Brooke Taylor has worked at the Moonlight Bunny Ranch for more than five years, and says Reid’s plan is wrong.
“Prostitution is everywhere,” Taylor said. “He should be proud of how we have cleaned up the industry and represent it the way we do, not ashamed of us.”
Hof pointed out the problems with illegal prostitution in Clark County, and said criminalizing prostitution in Nevada would simply drive the problem onto the streets where it would be unsafe for both prostitutes and their customers.
“You have 11, 12, 13-year-old girls out there, with pimps controlling them,” he said. “Do you want it that way, or my way? It’s not going away. The sex business is not going away.”
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Senator Reid: Nevada should not be known as “the last place where prostitution is still legal”
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Storey County does a lot of things right. It’s the home of the Tahoe-Reno Industrial Center, which is the largest of its kind in the country. But one of the businessmen in that meeting told me he simply couldn’t believe that one of the biggest businesses in the county he was considering for his new home is legal prostitution. I’ve talked to families who feel the same way – parents who don’t want their children to look out of a school bus and see a brothel. Or to live in a state with the wrong kind of red lights.
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We should do everything we can to make sure the world holds Nevada in the same high regard you and I do. If we want to attract business to Nevada that puts people back to work, the time has come for us to outlaw prostitution.
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Reid to Address Nevada Lawmakers
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CARSON CITY, Nev. — U.S. Sen. Harry Reid will address state lawmakers while members of Nevada’s brothel industry are preparing to defend their industry from what they believe will be an attack on the world’s oldest profession.
The Democratic Senate Majority Leader will address a joint session of the Senate and Assembly at 11 a.m. Tuesday in Carson City.
Reid aides would not reveal details of the senator’s speech or comment on reports that it will reference Nevada’s legal bordellos as being bad for the state’s image.
But lobbyists and brothel owners say they plan to be in Carson City to defend the industry. In 2009, bordellos suggested taxing the legal sex trade as a way to raise state revenue. The bill died in committee.
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CARSON CITY — Sen. Harry Reid called for “an adult conversation” about prostitution in Nevada, saying it is an impediment to economic development because it discourages businesses from moving here, according to prepared remarks delivered to the state Legislature this morning.
“Nevada needs to be known as the first place for innovation and investment – not as the last place where prostitution is still legal,” he said….
Dennis Hof, a flamboyant brothel owner, showed up at the Legislature about 90 minutes before Reid was scheduled to speak. Hof was accompanied by eight working girls from his brothel outside Carson City.
“Harry Reid will have to pry the cat house keys from my cold dead hands,” he told the media.
CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) — U.S. Sen. Harry Reid took aim at the world’s oldest profession, telling state lawmakers the time has come to have an adult conversation about Nevada’s legal sex trade if the state hopes to succeed in the 21st Century.
The Democratic Senate Majority Leader’s comments Monday before a joint session of the Nevada Legislature came as owners, lobbyists and working girls for Nevada’s brothel industry looked on from the gallery.Reid said if Nevada is serious about attracting businesses to the state, “the time has come for us to outlaw prostitution.”Reid also took issue with term limits imposed by voters in the late 1990s. Reid called the 12-year limit “destructive,” and urged lawmakers to get the issue before voters again to consider repeal it. Tags: Your Comments
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RGJ Editorial: 101 years after his Reno fight, Johnson should be pardoned
February 21, 2011
In July 2010, a movement to win a pardon for one of the greatest American prizefighters in history, Jack Johnson, the world’s first black heavyweight champion, appeared to be gaining momentum.
That was especially true in the Truckee Meadows, where, 100 years earlier, Johnson won perhaps his most famous fight, the “Great White Hope” match, in a makeshift ring on East Fourth Street in Reno.
Three years after winning that fight, Johnson was convicted of violating the infamous Mann Act, which barred the transportation of women across state lines “for the purpose of prostitution or debauchery, or for any other immoral purpose,” and was sentenced to prison.
On the eve of the centennial of the Reno fight, U.S. Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., and U.S. Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., asked President Barack Obama to pardon Johnson. Regrettably, the U.S. Department of Justice declined to make a recommendation to the president on the request and Obama chose, without comment, not to honor the plea.
… D.P. Properties purchased the first 200 acres in the park and called it the Patrick Business Park,” Gilman said. “It was down at the other intersection. We have USA Parkway, but back to the west is Patrick. I believe the first building they put up was San Mar, which was a distributor of T-shirts and monogrammed clothing.
“Shortly thereafter, they did a building for Dell Computers — they were out here, but they have left — but that was the second business out here. After that, they sold a large piece of property — somewhere in the neighborhood of 70 acres — to Royal Sierra Extrusions, and they manufactured plastic mullions for residences.”
Mullions are vertical structural elements, which divide adjacent window units.
Gilman also independently owns Wild Horse Adult Resort and Spa and the World Famous Brothel, and his partners own the majority of the land at TRIC. The group has sold acreage to different companies. After purchase, the companies have covenants, conditions and restrictions, as well as design guidelines that govern the entire park.
I have lived in Reno for a couple of decades now. In all this time, I’ve interacted with many people who hate this town — and it really bums me out.
Being from Reno is unlike being from anywhere else. It has a unique atmosphere, interesting history and a rich culture. It’s also a pretty unusual place.
First of all, the state of Nevada is awfully interesting. It is known around the world for a mystique that is 2 percent “Wild West” appeal, 29 percent rampant gambling and all the rest because of legal prostitution and brothels.
The landscape surrounding Reno is very “Wild West.” There is so much open land in Nevada that it takes forever to get to any big cities, but it will be an attractive and peaceful drive as long as you don’t cross into any other states.
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Verdi’s tragic tale of courtesan Violetta Valery is brought to life on the stage of London’s Royal Opera House – and on a movie screen near you. La Traviata (or, “the Fallen Woman,”) stars beloved American soprano Renée Fleming in the title role, with tenor Joseph Calleja as her lover Alfredo and bass Thomas Hampson as Germont.
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In this love story, courtesan Violetta Valery meets a new admirer, Alfredo Germont, who confesses his love. Trouble brews when Alfredo’s father demands that she renounce his son since the scandal of Alfredo’s affair has threatened his own daughter’s engagement. Violetta resists but eventually agrees, not wanting any harm to come to Alfredo or his family. Despite her undying love, she leaves word to Alfredo that she no longer loves him, in an effort to help him move on. Back in Paris, Alfredo denounces his former love cruelly, and months later, Violetta, deathly ill with tuberculosis, has only days to live. Alfredo and his father become contrite when they learn the truth about Violetta’s selfless love, but it may already be too late to ask her forgiveness.
Verdi’s tragic tale of courtesan Violetta Valery is brought to life on the stage of London’s Royal Opera House – and on a movie screen near you. La Traviata (or, “the Fallen Woman,”) stars beloved American soprano Renée Fleming in the title role, with tenor Joseph Calleja as her lover Alfredo and bass Thomas Hampson as Germont.
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In this love story, courtesan Violetta Valery meets a new admirer, Alfredo Germont, who confesses his love. Trouble brews when Alfredo’s father demands that she renounce his son since the scandal of Alfredo’s affair has threatened his own daughter’s engagement. Violetta resists but eventually agrees, not wanting any harm to come to Alfredo or his family. Despite her undying love, she leaves word to Alfredo that she no longer loves him, in an effort to help him move on. Back in Paris, Alfredo denounces his former love cruelly, and months later, Violetta, deathly ill with tuberculosis, has only days to live. Alfredo and his father become contrite when they learn the truth about Violetta’s selfless love, but it may already be too late to ask her forgiveness.
Infamous Former Mustang Ranch Brothel Owner Tells All in Book
Posted: 10:21 am PST February 4, 2011
Joe Conforte, the former owner of the Mustang Ranch brothel a few miles east of Reno, has produced his autobiography as an ebook, his publisher has announced.
Titled Breaks, Brains & Balls: the story of Nevadas fabulous Mustang Ranch the 464-page book details Conforte’s adventurous life from his birth into the poverty of a Sicilian fishing village to a life of luxury in Rio De Janeiro.
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Conforte, one of the most outrageous characters ever to emerge from the American West, presided over the infamous brothel for nearly 30 years. He served prison terms for extortion and tax violations, but he made it the biggest, brightest and most famous operation of its kind in the USA, if not the world. In 1971 he received the first legal brothel license ever issued in America.
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Joe Conforte, the former owner of the Mustang Ranch brothel a few miles east of Reno, has produced his autobiography as an ebook, his publisher has announced.
Titled “Breaks, Brains & Balls: the story of Nevada’s fabulous Mustang Ranch” the 464-page book details Conforte’s adventurous life from his birth into the poverty of a Sicilian fishing village to a life of luxury in Rio De Janeiro.
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Conforte, one of the most outrageous characters ever to emerge from the American West, presided over the infamous brothel for nearly 30 years. He served prison terms for extortion and tax violations, but he made it the biggest, brightest and most famous operation of its kind in the USA, if not the world. In 1971 he received the first legal brothel license ever issued in America.
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… Fidelio is one of the greatest works for the operatic stage,” Freud says, “and one of the most elusive because of its structural challenges. It’s a strange hybrid — in the early scenes, singspiel and comic dialogue, then evolving into melodrama and, finally, into oratorio. But to mention any of those forms doesn’t convey the work’s emotional and metaphysical power.”
Premiered in 1853,
La Traviata
remains one of the world’s best-loved and most-produced operas, the most popular of all Verdi’s classics. Based on the Alexandre Dumás novel
La dame aux Camélias,
the romantic tragedy centers on glamorous courtesan Violetta Valéry, bedeviled by consumption. She finds love with Alfredo Germont, but is persuaded to give him up for the sake of his family’s reputation, concealing her true motives so Alfredo believes she is merely returning to her reckless adventuring.
Frank and Jerry Lee Flannigan, who abruptly ditch their Reno motel after Jerry Lee drunkenly kills a boy on a bicycle in a hit-and-run. The two are case studies in hard luck: their mother died when they were 14 and 16, respectively; their father is an ex-con deadbeat; neither finished high school. Frank has had just one girlfriend, motel neighbor Annie, whose mother is an abusive prostitute. An innocent simpleton, Jerry Lee is left feeling suicidal after the accident, despite his younger brother’s efforts (à la Of Mice and Men’s Lenny and George) to console him: “It was real quiet, the way he cried,” says Frank, “like he was whimpering.” On returning to Reno, an eventual reckoning awaits them. Vlautin’s coiled, poetically matter-of-fact prose calls to mind S.E. Hinton—a writer well-acquainted with male misfit protagonists seeking redemption, no matter how destructive.
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In a gritty debut, Vlautin explores a few weeks in the broken lives of two working-class brothers, Frank and Jerry Lee Flannigan, who abruptly ditch their Reno motel after Jerry Lee drunkenly kills a boy on a bicycle in a hit-and-run. The two are case studies in hard luck: their mother died when they were 14 and 16, respectively; their father is an ex-con deadbeat; neither finished high school. Frank has had just one girlfriend, motel neighbor Annie, whose mother is an abusive prostitute. An innocent simpleton, Jerry Lee is left feeling suicidal after the accident, despite his younger brother’s efforts (à la Of Mice and Men’s Lenny and George) to console him: “It was real quiet, the way he cried,” says Frank, “like he was whimpering.” On returning to Reno, an eventual reckoning awaits them.
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In a gritty debut, Vlautin explores a few weeks in the broken lives of two working-class brothers, Frank and Jerry Lee Flannigan, who abruptly ditch their Reno motel after Jerry Lee drunkenly kills a boy on a bicycle in a hit-and-run. The two are case studies in hard luck: their mother died when they were 14 and 16, respectively; their father is an ex-con deadbeat; neither finished high school. Frank has had just one girlfriend, motel neighbor Annie, whose mother is an abusive prostitute. An innocent simpleton, Jerry Lee is left feeling suicidal after the accident, despite his younger brother’s efforts (à la Of Mice and Men’s Lenny and George) to console him: “It was real quiet, the way he cried,” says Frank, “like he was whimpering.” On returning to Reno, an eventual reckoning awaits them. Vlautin’s coiled, poetically matter-of-fact prose calls to mind S.E. Hinton—a writer well-acquainted with male misfit protagonists seeking redemption, no matter how destructive. Despite the bleak story and its inevitably tragic ending, Vlautin, who plays in the alt-country band Richmond Fontaine, transmits a quiet sense of resilience and hopefulness.
… Tosca’ (Friday and Tuesday) If dull and uneven, with flashes of insight, is preferable to frustrating, then the Metropolitan Opera’s current revival of Puccini’s “Tosca,” created last season by the Swiss director Luc Bondy and newly revised by him, is a marked improvement over its initial run, when it was vociferously booed on opening night. In her first Met performances of the title role, the inspiring soprano Sondra Radvanovsky finds credible motivations for Mr. Bondy’s unorthodox notions. Marcelo Álvarez is Cavaradossi, and Falk Struckmann steals scenes as a leering, ogling Scarpia. Marco Armiliato conducts. At 8 p.m., Metropolitan Opera House, Lincoln Center , (212) 362-6000, metopera.org; $25 to $420. (Steve Smith)20110120
★ ‘La Traviata’
(Saturday and Wednesday) The German director Willy Decker’s production of Verdi’s “Traviata,” the hot ticket of the 2005 Salzburg Festival, has come to the Met. This is a modern-dress, boldly spare staging that strips away the opera’s period trappings to focus on the ill-fated lovers. The vocally lustrous and sensual soprano Marina Poplavskaya captures both the defiance and vulnerary of the courtesan Violetta. The tenor Matthew Polenzani is a vocally elegant and wholesome Alfredo, helplessly attracted to the dying Violetta. Gianandrea Noseda conducts. At 8 p.m.,
One of those high-profile cases was Raggio’s long-running feud with brothel owner Joe Conforte.
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Retiring state Sen. Bill Raggio, fourth from left, makes a point during a morning klatch at the Gold-n-Silver Inn Thursday Jan. 13, 2011. From left are Pete Fundis, Ron Mestre, Dale Raggio, Raggio, Buck Johnson and Jim Thornton. (Marilyn Newton / RGJ)
Bill Raggio timeline
October 1926: Born in Reno1944: Graduates from Reno High School1944-46: Serves in U.S. Naval Reserve, U.S. Marine Corps Reserve, achieving rank of second lieutenant.1948: Graduates from University of Nevada1951: Receives law degrees from the Hastings College of Law in San Francisco and Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California, Berkeley.1952: Earns appointment as the assistant district attorney for Washoe County. It is a position he would hold until 1958.1958: Political career begins as Raggio is elected as the Washoe County district attorney.1959: Has the Triangle River Ranch brothel, run by legendary brothel boss Joe Conforte, burned to the ground near Wadsworth as …
Last week’s sold-out performance in the gilt concert hall of the Vienna Musikverein was repeatedly interrupted by tumultuous applause and brava calls, despite small signs of wear in Gruberova’s lower registers and intonation.
The fact that she makes her love affair with Pavol Breslik in the role of Alfredo totally believable — even though the Slovak tenor is about half her age — attests to her magnificent dramatic and vocal skills.
“La Gruberova was in total control of events and breathed life into the role; with just a few gestures, glances and with her amazement-creating voice,” wrote the daily Muenchner Merkur, of her Munich appearance.
Gruberova never looked back from those first performances in Banska Bystrica. The courtesan with the heart of gold who sacrifices her love for honor and dies in the arms of her paramour became one of her signature roles, performed in Vienna, Barcelona, New York, Venice, Munich and Tokyo under Carlos Kleiber, Giuseppe Sinopoli and other conducting greats.
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Bill Raggio: A life of public service
January 6, 2011
October 1926: Born in Reno
1944: Graduates from Reno High School.
1944-46: Serves in U.S. Naval Reserve, U.S. Marine Corps Reserve.
1948: Graduates from University of Nevada
1951: Receives law degree from the Hastings College of Law at the University of California, Berkeley.
1952: Earns appointment as the assistant district attorney for Washoe County. It is a position he would hold until 1958.
1959: Has the Triangle River Ranch brothel, run by legendary brothel boss Joe Conforte, burned to the ground near Wadsworth as a public nuisance. As the district attorney, Raggio has Conforte arrested on many occasions when Conforte entered Reno. Conforte tries to extort Raggio, but Raggio records the attempt, and Conforte is forced to serve 22 months in prison.
October 1926: Born in Reno1944: Graduates from Reno High School1944-46: Serves in U.S. Naval Reserve, U.S. Marine Corps Reserve, achieving rank of second lieutenant.1948: Graduates from University of Nevada1951: Receives law degree from the Hastings College of Law at the University of California, Berkeley.
1952: Earns appointment as the assistant district attorney for Washoe County. It is a position he would hold until 1958.
1958: Political career begins as Raggio is elected as the Washoe County district attorney.
1959: Has the Triangle River Ranch brothel, run by legendary brothel boss Joe Conforte, burned to the ground near Wadsworth as a public nuisance. As the district attorney, Raggio has Conforte arrested on many occasions when Conforte entered Reno. Conforte tries to extort Raggio, but Raggio records the attempt, and Conforte is forced to serve 22 months in prison.
Last week’s sold-out performance in the gilt concert hall of the Vienna Musikverein was repeatedly interrupted by tumultuous applause and brava calls, despite small signs of wear in Gruberova’s lower registers and intonation.
The fact that she makes her love affair with Pavol Breslik in the role of Alfredo totally believable – even though the Slovak tenor is about half her age – attests to her magnificent dramatic and vocal skills.
“La Gruberova was in total control of events and breathed life into the role; with just a few gestures, glances and with her amazement-creating voice,” wrote the daily Muenchner Merkur, of her Munich appearance.
Gruberova never looked back from those first performances in Banska Bystrica. The courtesan with the heart of gold who sacrifices her love for honor and dies in the arms of her paramour became one of her signature roles, performed in Vienna, Barcelona, New York, Venice, Munich and Tokyo under Carlos Kleiber, Giuseppe Sinopoli and other conducting greats.
See the full article from “WFIE-TV”
The Regional Street Enforcement Team arrested three women and cited three more Tuesday in a prostitution sting in Reno.
Undercover officers arrested or cited the women after responding to advertisements on the internet, Sgt. Mac Venzon said. The women met the officers at a predetermined motel room, and were either cited or arrested for the misdemeanor crime of soliciting for the purposes of prostitution.
Arrested in the sting were Rochele Wilson, 22, Erika Foster, 20, and Cheri Langham, 33. Cited were Kerra Valdez-Graham, 18, Ealentina Valdez, 24, and Kharla Huff, 31.
Anyone with information regarding prostitution related crimes is encouraged to call the SET Team offices at 334-3065, or Secret Witness at 322-4900.
Sunday, December 05, 2010
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Diocese of Reno sued over man’s retaliation claim
By MARTIN GRIFFITH/Associated Press
Published: Sunday, December 5, 2010 10:58 PM MST
RENO, Nev. — A man suing the Diocese of Reno claims his termination as lay administrator was in retaliation for reporting alleged violations over a federal grant to restore the oldest active Catholic church in Nevada.
Nick Nicosia contends his 2009 firing at St. Mary’s in the Mountains church in Virginia City violated the retaliation provision of the False Claims Act, which is designed to combat fraud by government contractors.
Nicosia’s federal court complaint says a $500 donation from former Mustang Ranch brothel owner Joe Conforte to the church project was among concerns he voiced about a $500,000 grant from the National Park Service.
The first thing you should know about us is that the state’s name is pronounced “Ne-VA-da,” not “Ne-VAH-da.” “A” as in “apple,” not as in “father.” Anyone who tells you otherwise is full of it and has never been here — please ignore them (I’m looking at you, Chris Fowler!). It’s astounding to think how much time the average Nevadan spends in a year screaming at their TV “It’s Ne-VA-da!” whenever someone screws it up, and as sad as it may sound, it’s as much a part of our state as legalized gambling.
Truth be told, Lee Corso is only the second-dumbest person in this picture
Which leads me to another misconception to clear up: prostitution. Most of our state’s population is in either Las Vegas or Reno, and it’s illegal in both places. Only if you drive out to the rural counties will you find actual brothels.
Reno police arrested three women for prostitution in the downtown area during the first week of December, officials announced Sunday.
The Reno Police Department’s Downtown Enforcement Team also made one arrest during the week for a misdemeanor warrant, Sgt Mike Lessman said.
Plain clothes operations in the downtown corridor targeting illegal activity will continue throughout the coming winter months, Lessman said.
Diocese of Reno sued over man’s retaliation claim
The Associated Press
Sunday, Dec. 5, 2010 | 11:37 a.m.
A man suing the Diocese of Reno claims his termination as lay administrator was in retaliation for reporting alleged violations over a federal grant to restore the oldest active Catholic church in Nevada.
Nick Nicosia contends his 2009 firing at St. Mary’s in the Mountains church in Virginia City violated the retaliation provision of the False Claims Act, which is designed to combat fraud by government contractors.
Nicosia’s federal court complaint says a $500 donation from former Mustang Ranch brothel owner Joe Conforte to the church project was among concerns he voiced about a $500,000 grant from the National Park Service.
He alleges the diocese accepted the money from Conforte even though federal rules prohibit matching-funds donations under such grants from fugitives. Conforte fled to Brazil in 1991 to avoid prosecution on tax-evasion charges.
… I feel good in providing a safe environment for these people,” Reno police officer Scott Johnson said. “When we are done today, we won’t walk away and leave them.”
With fewer police officers on the force, Johnson said that Police Chief Steve Pitts has given new orders for police officers to do more problem solving than arresting and re-arresting the same people.
With that in mind, the sweep at the Crest Inn had been planned for weeks.
At least seven elementary school children live in the motel, school officials said, and residents had complained to police that they were afraid to be outside because of prostitutes and drug dealers in the parking lot.
Police said they had anticipated several arrests for prostitution after making six arrests there since summer. But no such arrests were made Wednesday.
During those operations, officers received information from individuals voicing concerns that there were health and safety issues at the motel and the residents were afraid of the environment at and around the motel. In addition, the amounts of calls for service, the nature of incidents officers have encountered, drug sales, prostitution, and criminal activity in and around the hotel led to needing and developing todays sweep.
Todays sweep resulted in following:
One arrest for Possession of Marijuana (Brackenridge, Robert – date of birth 10/26/49) One citation for Possession of Marijuana and Paraphernalia One citation for Convicted Person Failure to Register Several code enforcement violations such as inadequate heating One room deemed uninhabitable due to unsafe electrical issues ***
Reno police and other government agencies descended on the Crest Inn Motel at West Fourth and Ralston streets this morning to investigate illegal drug sales, prostitution and other criminal activities.
Reno police and other government agencies paid a visit to the Crest Inn Motel Wednesday morning, responding to complaints about illegal drug sales, prostitution and other crimes.
A city spokeswoman told KOLO 8 News Now that today’s investigation is the result of on-going surveillance over the last six months. The effort was prompted by complaints from motel residents.
There has been at least one arrest. City code enforcement officers are reportedly finding many building violations as well.
See the full article from “KOLO”
Story of Air Force Amber’s new life as a prostitute at the world famous Love Ranch Brothel Airs Tonight @ 10pm In Los Angeles
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CARSON CITY, NV—KCAL TV Channel 9 in Los Angeles will feature a special report tonight, November 8 at 10pm PST, about an Iraq war hero who returned to the U.S. to begin a new life as a legal prostitute at Dennis Hof’s world famous Love Ranch legal brothel in Carson City, Nevada.
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Last week, the women of the Love Ranch were featured on a CBS-TV special report, and recently the Love Ranch was also highlighted on the cover of the LA Weekly, examining the lives and fortunes of a number of prostitutes who toil at the brothel to support their families, fund higher education, and pay their bills.
The film is loosely based on the story of Joe and Sally Conforte, former owners of the Mustang Ranch brothel, located just outside Reno, NV. Because of the fascinating subject matter and the talented filmmakers dealing with it, Love Ranch has moments, just not enough of them.
Joe Pesci in his first leading role in more than 10 years is likable playing Conforte-like brothel owner Charlie Bontempo, and Mirren is outstanding as his wife/madam, Grace. The main problem is writer Mark Jacobsons script, a soapy affair that relies heavily on melodrama and doesnt sell the character relationships aggressively enough.
Thats important because despite the gritty brothel setting Love Ranch is a character drama at heart. It considers what happens when a bruising boxer named Armando Bruza (Sergio Peris-Mencheta) falls in love with Grace.
CARSON CITY, Nev.—CBS-TV news will feature a special report on Dennis Hof’s world-famous Love Ranch brothel tonight, Monday, Nov. 1, as part of its regular 11 p.m. PDT Channel 2 broadcast. The segment’s debut comes after CBS reporters spent weeks filming and interviewing the “working girls” of the Love Ranch, both onsite at the Carson City, Nev., location, as well as throughout Southern California.
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The CBS report comes just weeks after the Love Ranch brothel was featured on the cover of the LA Weekly, in a article that examined the lives and fortunes of a number of prostitutes who work at the brothel, supporting their families, funding their education and paying their bills.
The CBS feature will likewise provide an in-depth look at the variety and diversity of today’s legal sex workers, who range from college students to grandmothers, from bored soccer moms to out-of-work executives, from exhibitionists to pregnant newlyweds. CBS also interviewed working girls’ family members and brothel staffers, as well as Love Ranch’s owner, bordello baron Dennis Hof, who also owns the Moonlite Bunny Ranch, located nearby.
We all have our opinions about the best people, places, and businesses in the Reno / Tahoe area, but the Reno News & Review takes the question to the community. With the RN&R 15th Annual Best of Northern Nevada reader poll, you can see what about 4,200 fellow residents think are the best of the best in our neck of the woods. I’m not sure of there are any print copies still floating around, but the online version has everything that was on paper.
Being that respondents are self-selecting and, by RN&R’s own admission, the poll is more of a popularity contest than a scientific sampling. Even so, it’s fun to see the top choices in each category and dozens of sub-categories. With so many choices, you will find some pretty off-beat stuff that could be considered characteristic of Nevada’s quirkiness. For example, check out the best cheap liquor store, adult-themed store, place to get pierced, cheap motel, pawn shop, tattoo parlor, brothel, wedding chapel, place to buy play …
Former Diocese of Reno employee claims fraud in Virginia City church renovation
By Martha Bellisle mbellisle@rgj.com
October 30, 2010
A former employee with the Diocese of Reno has filed a federal lawsuit claiming he was fired for objecting to and reporting allegedly illegal and fraudulent acts by diocese officials relating to a federal grant to refurbish a historic Catholic church in Virginia City.
Among Carmen “Nick” Nicosia’s concerns was a $500 donation to the church project by Joe Conforte, former owner of the Mustang Ranch brothel and now in exile in Brazil after fleeing tax-evasion charges, the suit said.
Nicosia said the money was laundered through Conforte’s lawyer, Virgil Bucchianeri.
Bucchianeri did not return phone messages. Brother Matthew Cunningham, chancellor of the Diocese of Reno, said he could not discuss Nicosia’s case because it was a personnel issue. And Bishop Randolph Calvo said the claims were “entirely false.”
… The point is that no individual can say ‘I didn’t know [how to use the spray],’” Drabkin said. “We want to help would-be-victims, not create problems.”
CUPD officers carry pepper spray, but they are required to undergo extensive training and learn to continue fighting after being sprayed. Zoner said she is also concerned that students will deploy pepper spray on CUPD officers.
Zoner said that students have a lot of resources to defend themselves, some which are as simple as not going out while impaired by alcohol. CUPD also offers Rape Aggression Defense courses, which teach women to fight attackers. The courses cost $10 and are given three or four nights a week; Zoner says attendance for the classes is usually minimal.
The blue light escort service is also significantly underutilized, she said. There were only 25 escorts last month.
See the full article from “Cornell University The Cornell Daily Sun”
Some ads are indirect. One in New Mexico almost requires program notes to follow the cast of characters.
GOP gubernatorial candidate Susana Martinez, a county district attorney, ran one ad targeting a teacher who appeared in an earlier National Education Association ad critical of her candidacy. Turns out, Martinez’s office had prosecuted the teacher’s husband, now serving a 23-year sentence on a kidnapping charge. Martinez put those facts into her own ad. The NEA ad “looks different now, doesn’t it,” Martinez says into the camera.
In Louisiana, Democratic Rep. Charlie Melancon, eager to boost his flagging effort to unseat Republican Sen. David Vitter, aired a rare two-minute ad, filmed in the style of a docudrama, that recounts the discovery of Vitter’s phone number in the logs of a Washington, D.C., escort service.
See the full article from “NPR”
Reid’s economic campaign is partially based on what he has accomplished for Nevada, despite the recession — green job creation with geothermal projects in Northern Nevada, saving CityCenter and gaming jobs in Las Vegas, plus obtaining federal construction money for airport and road projects in Reno and Carson City.
Reid told and retold in Reno last week his story of poverty as a youth. He wanted voters to know that he understands what it is like to struggle.
“My father worked hard.” Reid said of his father’s mining jobs in the dusty Southern Nevada town of Searchlight. “Sometimes he didn’t get paid. People gave him bounced checks. I wrote about it in my book. My mom took in wash from the houses of prostitution in Searchlight. I can remember we never went to the doctor. It was tough. I didn’t realize it then, but it was tough.”
This type of increasing investments in spatial technologies is purported to encompass much more than GPS-enabled social-networking tools like Facebook (News – Alert) Places or FourSquare, or visualization and navigation-related services such as Google Earth or MapQuest. There are also software under development that will help users predict the places their friends are more likely to visit in the future by keeping a record of their past movements.
Pomfret emphasized that at present it would only take minutes for an iPhone user to capture a video, broadcast it on YouTube (News – Alert), notify friends about the video on Facebook and Twitter—and even post a link to a GPS-enabled digital map of the site where the video was shot—the national security implications are obvious. One can bet that intelligence agencies across the globe are closely looking at these issues.
Pomfret explained that though there are certain laws that prevent unlawful intrusion of privacy these geo-location trends are not going to be shaped by the law alone. For example Craiglist recently pulled down its Adults-Only section after receiving reports that it is also being used for human trafficking and prostitution.
See the full article from “TMCnet”
The Reno police department’s Downtown Enforcement Team made several prostitution and aggressive panhandling arrests during the first week of September, officials said.
Plain-clothes officers arrested three people and handed out five misdemeanor citations to people for soliciting sex, Sgt. Mike Lessman said.
Officers also arrested eight people on misdemeanor charges for aggressive panhandling, and arrested two other people for misdemeanor violations.
The Reno police department’s Downtown Enforcement Team made several prostitution and aggressive panhandling arrests during the first week of September, officials said.
Plain-clothes officers arrested three people and handed out five misdemeanor citations to people for soliciting sex, Sgt. Mike Lessman said. Officers also arrested eight people on misdemeanor charges for aggressive panhandling, and arrested two other people for misdemeanor violations.
“The quality of life and the safety of our residents, business people and tourists in the downtown area is a primary concern for DET officers,” Lessman said.
NV woman pleads not guilty to exploiting elderly
Associated Press – August 25, 2010 6:15 PM ET
RENO, Nev. (AP) – A March trial date has been set in Reno for a former Nevada brothel madam charged with stealing from an ill, elderly man and draining his bank account after he died.
Forty-2-year-old Sharnel Silvey pleaded not guilty Tuesday to charges of theft, embezzlement and elder exploitation.
She remains free on bail pending trial.
According to court records, Silvey had power of attorney for 70-year-old Lawrence Gunderson. She found him dead in his apartment on Nov. 18, but instead of reporting his death, authorities say she cashed a $10,000 check to herself and used his account to go shopping and pay off a car loan.
In all, investigators allege she bilked him out of more than $75,000.
See the full article from “KTVN”
Their characters, Charlie and Grace Bontempo, are based on Joe Conforte and his wife, Sally Burgess, who ran Nevada’s first legal brothel in the ’70s.
“True-life” stories always are dangerous source material for films; paradoxically, they often feel more formulaic and less convincing than fiction.
At first, director Taylor Hackford (who’s Mirren’s husband) avoids any such pitfalls by patiently establishing a vivid sense of the characters, their conflicts and the incredible tension built into their fragile prosperity.
Charlie lords it over his dusty desert empire like a little Napoleon, even building a guard tower inspired by his time in prison. Meanwhile, Grace stalks through her life like a wounded jungle cat, alert to threats both physical and metaphorical. She has found a way to exert some power in a world dominated by men and violence.
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Seriously – spoiler alert, spoiler alert – after all that, the moral of the story is that she learned how to be happy being a madam at a classy brothel? If only the filmmakers had committed to pure fiction, these performances might have meant something more.
Your Politics News exclusive report: Pimp paid for first Harry Reid campaign, former manager says; takes lie detector to prove claims
Political website obtains new polygraph results confirming claims by former U.S. Senator Harry Reid manager that a Reno brothel owner lined politician’s pockets with illegal campaign money.
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LAS VEGAS, Nev. / The political website YourPoliticsNews.com (www.yourpoliticsnews.com) reports in an article posted today that it has obtained a polygraph recently taken by Sen. Harry Reid’s former campaign manager that confirms his claims that Reid illegally accepted campaign money from a Reno brothel owner.
In what was clearly a calculated political move intended to preempt what he expected would be a torrent of attacks on his own credibility, Donald Williams conceded that he took a polygraph and planned to go public “sometime soon” with claims that his former boss took illegal cash from a brothel owner to fund his political campaign, YourPoliticsNews.com reports.
The political website YourPoliticsNews.com (www.yourpoliticsnews.com) reports in an article posted today that it has obtained a polygraph recently taken by Sen. Harry Reid’s former campaign manager that confirms his claims that Reid illegally accepted campaign money from a Reno brothel owner.
In what was clearly a calculated political move intended to preempt what he expected would be a torrent of attacks on his own credibility, Donald Williams conceded that he took a polygraph and planned to go public “sometime soon” with claims that his former boss took illegal cash from a brothel owner to fund his political campaign, YourPoliticsNews.com reports.
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The Reid-Conforte relationship began when Reid asked his campaign manager to meet the brothel owner, Williams said. The Mustang Ranch operator was known in political circles as a tracker of Nevada’s races and generous donor.
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Williams recalled a panicked Reid phoned him and requested he meet with the brothel owner again. The evening ended with Williams helping Conforte count $10,000 in his double-wide trailer at the Mustang Ranch. Conforte had earmarked every dollar for Reid.
See the full article from “Benzinga”
Pack track athlete arrested for prostitution
Staff reports
August 14, 2010
A member of the Nevada track and field team has been arrested on charges of prostitution, and has been dismissed from the team.
Jackae Bridges, a redshirt freshman who ran sprints and competed in jumping events last season, was arrested Aug. 4 during a sting operation, the Reno Police Department said.
Nevada spokeswoman Rhonda Lundin said Bridges was suspended immediately after the arrest and then dismissed from the team on Friday. Lundin said no other athletes were cited in the sting.
Athletic director Cary Groth is on vacation this week and not available for comment.
Bridges, who was on partial scholarship, attended Mater Dei Catholic High School in Chula Vista, Calif., where she also played basketball and volleyball. She was the track and field team MVP and team captain for three years.
Appeals panel upholds ban on Nevada brothel ads
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Prostitution is illegal in Clark and Washoe counties which include Las Vegas and Reno and three other Nevada counties. Ten Nevada counties authorize prostitution by local ordinance.
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“This state has had restrictions on brothel advertising for 40 years,” she said in a written statement. “Nevada should have the right to have reasonable limitations on this type of activity.”
The 9th Circuit panel in March reversed a ruling by U.S. District Court Judge James Mahan in Nevada that two 1979 state laws prohibiting brothel advertising in counties where prostitution is illegal were overly broad and unconstitutional.
The laws also prohibit brothel advertising in theaters and on streets and public highways.
The 9th Circuit noted in its ruling that Nevada was unique among states because it has a “nuanced boundary,” rather than total criminalization of prostitution.
A federal appeals court has upheld a Nevada law that bars legal brothels in Nevada from advertising in Las Vegas, Reno and other places where prostitution is illegal.
See the full article from “6abc.com”
Their characters, Charlie and Grace Bontempo, are based on Joe Conforte and his wife, Sally Burgess, who ran Nevada’s first legal brothel in the ’70s.
“True-life” stories always are dangerous source material for films; paradoxically, they often feel more formulaic and less convincing than fiction.
At first, director Taylor Hackford (who’s Mirren’s husband) avoids any such pitfalls by patiently establishing a vivid sense of the characters, their conflicts and the incredible tension built into their fragile prosperity.
Charlie lords it over his dusty desert empire like a little Napoleon, even building a guard tower inspired by his time in prison. Meanwhile, Grace stalks through her life like a wounded jungle cat, alert to threats both physical and metaphorical. She has found a way to exert some power in a world dominated by men and violence.
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Seriously – spoiler alert, spoiler alert – after all that, the moral of the story is that she learned how to be happy being a madam at a classy brothel? If only the filmmakers had committed to pure fiction, these performances might have meant something more.
Youre on the right track, said Darrell Clifton, police district advisory chairman and Circus-Circus security director, told police commanders. Im excited to see the results.
With the Palladio now sharing the Truckee River with bars and restaurants on both sides of the river, Galloway said hes having trouble sleeping at night. Hed like to see the downtown police bike officers disperse the crowd after the music ends at 11 p.m. The other night, he said 50 people lingered at the outdoor bars on the bottom floor of the condominium building.
Galloway stressed that protecting downtown residents should be considered just as important as protecting tourists. He said Palladio residents pay more taxes than Circus Circus to support the downtown police district.Other complaints registered this week:
Brock Maylath, a St. Marys Medical Center executive, pointed out a new corner on West Fourth Street frequentedly by prostitutes in the morning.
That’s what you need to run in an ad, remind voters that she wants to take their beer away. Harry will win in a landslide! I personally don’t understnad how a state that makes most of it’s revenue off of gambling and prostitution could embrace anyone on the right.
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Monday, July 19, 2010 03:17 PM ET @ fightthetheocracy! Just remind voters she supports prohibition… Reid will win in a landslide! I don’t understand how a state that makes most of it’s money off of gambling can even listen to anyone on the right. –—fightthetheocracy! Correct me if I’m wrong, but aren’t Nevadans more libertarian than liberal? Although libertarians are known to be laissez-faire on social issues, it’s their laissez-faire stance on economic issues (e.g., privatizing things like public education, etc.) which makes them right-wing. For example, I think Nevada doesn’t have a state income tax. That being said, Harry Reid is an impressive figure: a liberal Mormon, pro-life Dem, representing a state with legalized prostitution. —vasumurti Read vasumurti’s other letters Permalink Flag
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No longer content to play a role only in Bible Belt politics, the Almighty has entered the fray in Republican Sharron Angle’s bid to unseat Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid in Nevada.
So far, there’s no word on God’s positions on legalized gambling and prostitution, but he is weighing in on abortion and school choice. (Surely I jest.)
Reno police are seeking the driver of a sedan that ran over a 44-year-old bicyclist Wednesday at a Sixth Street gas station after an argument about the victim’s girlfriend.
Police said the suspect tried to solicit the victim’s 32-year-old girlfriend for prostitution about 2 a.m. at the Golden Gate Gas Station in the 1400 block of East Sixth Street. The victim was on his bike, and his girlfriend was walking beside him when a motorist asked the woman to get into his car.
The bicyclist exchanged words with the driver before the couple walked to the gas station. Police said the driver pulled up to the woman at the gas station and again yelled for her to come with him, prompting another confrontation.
Police said the motorist drove around the gas pumps and accelerated into the victim, who was treated for brain injuries and a broken pelvis at Renown Regional Medical Center.
HARRY REID JOINS MALE BROTHEL
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The Shady Lady Ranch is located 31 miles north North of Beatty, and their motto is “a Gem in the High Desert.” In January of this year, The Shady Lady hired the 25-year-old “Markus,” Nevada’s first male prostitute. Markus, a former porn actor said he didn’t “discriminate based on race, color, creed, ethnicity, or skin tone.” He did leave out gender. The 71-year-old liberal Reid said he would not prevent any registered voter from using his services. He also said that his experience ramming bills through Congress would help him get in the mood for the job.
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Senator Reid will be working at the Shady Lady during the August recess. Bobbi Davis, who co-owns the brothel with her husband, said that Senator Reid has already booked thirty-three clients. Reid, who will be going by the name Phil Buster when at the ranch, has already been trained by his co-workers – Rio, Angel, Veronica and Sadie.
Reno-area extras get to see themselves and their vehicles in screening of Mustang Ranch film
By Carla Roccapriore croccapriore@rgj.com
July 13, 2010
Hoping to get a glimpse of themselves or their classic vehicles on the silver screen, hundreds of people lined up Monday evening in downtown Reno for a Century Riverside 12 screening of “Love Ranch,” a film based on events in the lives of former owners of the Mustang Ranch brothel.
Between 300 and 700 extras were cast, along with about 300 vehicles made between 1955 and 1982, said Toni Suttie, of Reno-based Integrity Casting.
She said pay for extras ranged from $108 to $1,000 per day, depending on the role. Owners of vehicles used between from $60 and $90 per day.
Director Taylor Hackford said the extras, along with their period attire and vehicles, were important in the film.
Considering the massive budget deficit wouldn’t it be smart for our federal government to force the most profitable industry in the world to start paying their fair share of taxes? Exxon paid billions in taxes around the world last year to foreign countries, yet not one penny in US taxes. It’s time to stop subsidizing this most profitable industry to the tune of $45 billion per year, time for Americans to belly up to the bar and pay more for gas just like the rest of the world. Sorry evangelical christian lunatic fringers but we do not have the god given right to cheap gas.
Time for Scary Sharry to stop overreacting and to start telling the truth. But then Scary Sharry is too stpuid to know the real truth, she’s just another clueless wannabe-blond prostitute for the big piggy oil companies who are funding her campaign. If it were up to Scary Sharry all of those people and businesses in the oil slimed Gulf red states that are being destroyed economically would have to pull themselves up by their own bootstraps and clean up BP Oil’s mess themselves at their own cost.
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It did not help that Johnson – a renowned athlete in the bedroom as well as the ring – publicly boasted of his preference for white women, three of whom he married. He was also in the habit of taunting white men with regard to his sexual prowess and his affluence.
Predictably, barely two years later, America’s so-called moral majority exacted their revenge. Johnson was arrested and charged with ‘transporting a woman across state lines for immoral purposes’.
It’s a knockout: Johnson (right) stands over Jeffries 100 years ago this week
The female in question was a prostitute who was suspected of being paid to give evidence against him and he was sentenced to one year and a day in jail, even though the Mann Act under which he was convicted had not passed into law at the time of the alleged offence.
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He made his first appearance here before he won the championship, performing on stage at the Star Theater at the intersection N. 3rd and W. Wells Streets. It was also one of Johnson’s first stops after he won the title, and then he showed an altruistic side that surprised his detractors.
“Now that you’re champ, I suppose you’ll want a couple thousand dollars,” theater manager Frank Trottman said to Johnson, whom he’d paid $500 the first time around.
“No sir. I don’t forget my friends,” replied Jack. “You were kind to me when I was broke. Now that I’m back here, I’ll work for you for the same money — $500.”
Four days after the Jeffries fight, it was reported that Johnson was headed here “to see his wife’s relatives, who live on Sixth Street.” The reference was to Belle Schreiber, who was not Johnson’s wife but one of his mistresses and a prostitute whose father was a Milwaukee policeman.
It is probably just a coincidence, but last week also saw the release of “Love Ranch,” the new Taylor Hackford film based on the complicated relationship between a pair of Reno’s leading civic lights, brothel proprietors Joe and Sally Conforte, and the late Argentine heavyweight Oscar Bonavena.
The real-life Bonavena twice went the distance with Joe Frazier (including a 1966 split decision he probably should have won) and came within a minute of lasting 15 rounds with Muhammad Ali. Bonavena met his end, at 33, when he was shot to death at the Mustang Ranch in 1976. A few months earlier he had to climb off the canvas to outpoint journeyman Billy Joyner in Reno in what would be his final fight.
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In truth it isn’t about boxing any more than it is about prostitution. Set just outside Reno, the film is a barely-fictionalized version of the 1970s love triangle between the Confortes and Bonavena. The boxing scenes appear to have been choreographed with the “Rocky” movies in mind; the apparent logic is that anyone who believed those represented actual boxing will fall for it again.
As for Johnson, the search for the great White Hope began and would culminate when Jesse Willard would finally defeated and aged Johnson in Havana in 1915.
For next 22 years, African-Americans were kept from competing for the title. (In the 1920’s, African-American Harry Willis nearly got to fight Jack Dempsey but a key lost and back door politics kept the fight from happening.)
The justice system targeted Johnson as they attempted to use the Mann Act, for transporting women across state line for immoral purposes.
His girlfriend at the time, Lucille Cameron, was a prostitute and thus he was “guilty of transporting her for immoral purposes”
But Ms. Cameron refused to cooperate and later married Johnson. (Later another prostitute that Johnson frequented testified against him. As for Cameron, she would later marry Johnson.)
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It was 100 years ago, on a searingly hot Fourth of July, that America’s first black heavyweight champion, Jack Johnson, stopped Jim Jeffries in the 15th round of their highly anticipated bout. At the time, it was “The Fight of the Century.” Today, it serves as a painful reminder of this country’s ugly racial history.
To white America, Johnson couldn’t have been less popular. He flouted many of that era’s social conventions. He consorted with prostitutes, married white women and spoke his mind when African Americans were expected to be subservient and deferential. He was also a superlative fighter, blessed with so much quickness and skill that in his prime nobody could touch him.
“It’s hard to say why he’s not more of an icon,” said Tommy Lane, 23, who with his brother, Terry, 27, is organizing Reno’s anniversary celebration of the fight this weekend. “He paved the way for so many African American athletes and success stories.”
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It was 100 years ago, on a searingly hot Fourth of July, that America’s first black heavyweight champion, Jack Johnson, stopped Jim Jeffries in the 15th round of their highly anticipated bout. At the time, it was “The Fight of the Century.” Today, it serves as a painful reminder of this country’s ugly racial history.
To white America, Johnson couldn’t have been less popular. He flouted many of that era’s social conventions. He consorted with prostitutes, married white women and spoke his mind when African Americans were expected to be subservient and deferential. He was also a superlative fighter, blessed with so much quickness and skill that in his prime nobody could touch him.
“It’s hard to say why he’s not more of an icon,” said Tommy Lane, 23, who with his brother, Terry, 27, is organizing Reno’s anniversary celebration of the fight this weekend. “He paved the way for so many African American athletes and success stories.”
Through what is largely a coincidence of timing, Reno will also be getting its share of mostly unwelcome publicity over the next few weeks, as the setting for Love Ranch, the Taylor Hackford film starring Joe Pesci and Dame Helen Mirren as “Charlie and Grace Bontempo”, barely- fictionalised representations of Joe and Sally Conforte, who four decades ago operated what was at the time America’s largest and most celebrated legal brothel.
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The brothel owner had calculated that having Bonavena train on his property would provide publicity for the Mustang Ranch. Bonavena, who got his nightly pick of the litter in return, viewed it as a pretty good deal, and the arrangement worked fine until the boxer’s wandering eye settled upon his manager-of- record, who happened to be the madam, and to be Joe’s wife.
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How did director Taylor Hackford (”An Officer and a Gentleman,” “Ray”) get Dame Helen Mirren (Oscar-winner for “The Queen”) agree to appear in his film, “Love Ranch,” the story of Reno’s first legal brothel? It helped that she is his wife. But, as he told me in this interview, she had turned him down six or seven times when he’d asked her to appear in his movies. This time, though, he had what it took to get her to agree, a role of such range and force that she found it irresistible. In this film she plays Grace, a madam since she was 20, tough and cynical. And then she meets someone who opens her to feelings she never imagined she was capable of.
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I love boxing. I’ve always been a boxing fan. I was the co-filmmaker on “When We Were Kings.” This film is about the flesh business, selling flesh both in a brothel an …
Why wonder how this happened? It just has. Mr. Helen Mirren, Taylor Hackford, the director of such so-so entertainments as “Ray,’’ takes his time getting us nowhere in particular. We’re in 1976 Nevada, where prostitution is perfectly legal, and Mirren and Pesci play Grace and Charlie Bontempo. They run the Love Ranch, which appears to be based on the soapy story of the Mustang Ranch, the state’s first licensed brothel. Grace keeps the books. Charlie beds the staff (well, he doesn’t use a bed exactly). He sinks some of their money into Armando Bruza (Sergio Peris-Mencheta), a boxer eager for a rematch against Muhammad Ali. Judging from Bruza’s performance during a terribly staged fight sequence, Ali could simply have phoned in his left hooks from the set of “The Greatest.’’
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Felipe Ramos, a Totonac Indian pastor, then a professor at the Totonac Bible Center near Villa Juarez in Puebla state, had led the evangelistic and church-planting efforts of the school. In a decade they had started about a dozen preaching points.
Pastor Felipe recalls: “In 1975, we had the idea of putting a program in Totonaco on the radio, even though at that time it was forbidden to broadcast Christian programs. So we called the program the Totonaco Cultural Hour. It was only 15 minutes, but the people accepted it. In every Totonac village, they played the program at highest volume.
“While the drunks were in the cantinas dancing with the prostitutes, they all became very quiet when we got to the spiritual reflection. Some even cried, because they realized their own serious problem and the situation they would eventually face if they did not accept Christ as Savior. Many witches and witchdoctors accepted Christ.
… Love Ranch” opens with a New Year’s Eve party. It’s 1976, and legal prostitution is booming outside Reno. The celebration introduces us to the players behind the brothel. Charlie Botempo (Joe Pesci, “Goodfellas”) is the face of the empire, and his wife Grace (Helen Mirren, “The Queen”) acts as madam and bookkeeper. The prostitutes include loudmouth Mallory (Taryn Manning, “Hustle and Flow”) and new girl Christina (Scout Taylor-Compton, “Obsessed”).
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More attention should have been paid to the prostitutes. Giving them backstories might have generated drama, and the mixture of love and jealousy between them is more interesting than the Charlie and Grace plotline. It’s a shame Taylor-Compton and Manning are wasted on a handful of segues.
It’s usually a bad sign when a film ends with a lengthy voiceover, but that’s what “Love Ranch” needs to wrap up. When it finally does, the forgettable characters are unlikely to leave much of an impression, despite such a talented director and cast. Who thought a movie about a brothel could be so dull?
It’s painful to watch strong actors flailing and exerting themselves in service to a weak script. But that’s what Love Ranch is: two hours of watching Oscar winners Helen Mirren and Joe Pesci huff and puff, trying to breathe life into this sad, sour enterprise.
Set in mid-1970s Reno, Love Ranch has a throwback feel to the kind of boxing dramas that starred people like Joan Crawford and John Garfield in the 1940s. The tough broad in the bad marriage with the low-life hustler falls for the unlikely hunk of a boxer. You get the picture.
Except in this version, directed by Taylor Hackford from a florid Mark Jacobson script, it’s also an age thing – and it’s set against the hard-dollar environment of legalized prostitution, at a brothel outside Reno.
It would be his last fight on U.S. soil until his federal prison term at Leavenworth penitentiary in 1920.
Soon after beating Flynn on July 4th, Johnson purchased his “Cafe de Champion” in Chicago.
After that, 1912 rolled snake eyes for the champ.
His wife, white divorcee Etta Duryea, shot herself in the head with a revolver in September, distraught that Johnson was an abusive womanizer and because news of her shameful marriage had made it back to her high-society circles of Brooklyn, according to Unforgiveable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson, a documentary by Ken Burns.
Legal trouble
In November, Johnson was indicted by a federal grand jury on questionable charges that he had broken the new White-Slave Traffic Act, which prohibits taking women across state lines for illegal purposes, such as prostitution.
Helen Mirren shines in tawdry brothel tale
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LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) – One can’t make up characters like this: Joe Conforte, who owned the first legal brothel in the U.S., the Mustang Ranch outside Reno, Nev.; his wife, Sally Burgess Conforte, daughter of a prostitute; or world-class Argentine boxer Oscar Bonavena, shot dead at that ranch in 1976, allegedly for having an affair with Sally. Then again, why would one want to?
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Whether these are strong enough to attract adult viewers curious to see Mirren as a brothel queen is unlikely. The film seems like one of those cable television films that looks at bizarre-but-true news stories in greater and often fictional detail. So perhaps the film will play better in the living room.
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Give the film credit for showing that life in a brothel — in this case, trailers and prefabbed buildings stuck out in the Nevada desert — is anything but glamorous or sexy. It looks like work, drudge work for tired prostitutes, who look at times like characters in a zombie movie.
And then there’s Louisiana, where for the first time since a major sex scandal, Sen. David Vitter (R) will have to face the voters. For the time being, he remains solidly ahead. If you believe the Republican firm Magellan strategies, he leads Democrat Charlie Melancon by 20 points. But a Democratic PPP poll due out tomorrow has Vitter up by only 9 (46-37). And that’s before the Democrats have taken aim at Vitter’s troubled past.
In a sneak preview for TPM of the Democrats’ strategy, a Louisiana strategist says Dems and their surrogates will both directly remind voters of Vitter’s transgressions, and use that history, along with his voting record, to dominate the female vote.
“I think you’ll see Democrats and outside groups, including disaffected Republicans, members of the Tea Party movement, reminding folks about Vitter’s scandal,” the Democratic strategist told me.
The revelation that Vitter had frequented prostitutes came at the best (or least harmful) possible time for him, years before his next election. But once voters are reminded of the details, Democrats hope they’ll be able to capitalize, particularly with women.
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Sparks fly as heroes collide in Baldacci territory
“Deliver Us From Evil,” by David Baldacci. Grand Central Publishing, $27.99
Sunday, June 13, 2010
By Karen Carlin, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
The evil in the title of David Baldacci’s latest thriller is no mere exaggeration. Evan Waller is a wealthy Canadian businessman who seems perfectly legitimate on the surface, but his business is selling whatever brings in top dollar, even if it is selling teen girls into prostitution.
His next prospective venture concerns selling nuclear material to terrorists, bringing him to the attention of operative Shaw (just Shaw) and the unofficial international intelligence agency he works for. He has one shot at getting at the heavily guarded Waller when he is on holiday in France.
But Shaw isn’t the only one eager to find Waller. Also on his trail is Reggie Campion and her partners, who are part of a secret vigilante group intent on grabbing war criminals who have slipped under the law.
Silvey is the former madam of the Mustang Ranch brothel. In 2007, she formed A Scarlet Covering, to help sex industry workers address substance abuse issues, and help them lead productive lives.
The range of Silveys associates through her organization, A Scarlet Covering, ranges from state politicians to local court programs and regional police teams. First Lady Dawn Gibbons sits on the organizations board and hosted a February fund-raiser at the Governors mansion and had Silvey as a call-in guest on her radio show last month.
Silvey also works with Reno Municipal Courts specialty prostitution court, Hosana Home and Step 2 womens drug and alcohol rehabilitation program. Silvey also provides outreach to prostitutes who are arrested by detectives in the regional Street Enforcement Team, and has ridden with the officers during several stings.
… I just think that people are becoming more tolerant on certain issues, and I don’t think Nevadans by and large believe you should get rid of Medicare or that we should have a nuclear dump site here, as Sharron Angle has said,” Rogich said. “People in this state would view those things as radical. … I am supportive of the tea party movement, but I don’t think getting rid of incumbents for incumbents’ sake is the right answer.”
Herzik agreed, noting that Reid’s easiest re-election bid came in 2004 against anti-gay-marriage activist Richard Ziser. He also said that Reid “won’t have to push very hard to find some very controversial conservative statements” that Angle has made over the years.
“She’s said she’s anti-Social Security, anti-Medicare, even anti-alcohol,” Herzik said. “The latter one may seem like no big deal, but we’re one of the highest-drinking states in the nation. She’s a social conservative in a state built on gambling. We have legal prostitution, the bars never close. And now, Sharron Angle rolls out of the primary with maybe 40 percent of the GOP vote. That doesn’t bode well.”
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… I just think that people are becoming more tolerant on certain issues, and I don’t think Nevadans by and large believe you should get rid of Medicare or that we should have a nuclear dump site here, as Sharron Angle has said,” Rogich said. “People in this state would view those things as radical. … I am supportive of the tea party movement, but I don’t think getting rid of incumbents for incumbents’ sake is the right answer.”
Herzik agrees, noting that Reid’s easiest re-election bid came in 2004 against anti-gay-marriage activist Richard Ziser. He also said that Reid “won’t have to push very hard to find some very controversial conservative statements” that Angle has made over the years.
“She’s said she’s anti-Social Security, anti-Medicare, even anti-alcohol,” Herzik said. “The latter one may seem like no big deal, but we’re one of the highest-drinking states in the nation. She’s a social conservative in a state built on gambling. We have legal prostitution, the bars never close. And now, Sharron Angle rolls out of the primary with maybe 40 percent of the GOP vote. That doesn’t bode well.”
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LADY GAGA has come under fire for mimicking a murder scene onstage during a performance in Britain on Wednesday (02Jun10), as the U.K. comes to te rms with two separate killing sprees.
The Poker Face hitmaker revisited her shocking performance from last ye ar’s (09) MTV Video Music Awards at a show in Manchester, England when sh e pretended to be brutally attacked by her male dancers, before falling t o the floor covered in fake blood.
The shocking imagery came on the day cab driver Derrick Bird went on th e rampage in Cumbria, England – shooting 12 people dead and leaving 11 ot hers injured, before killing himself.
The carnage happened just days after PhD student Stephen Griffiths was charged with murdering three prostitutes in Bradford, North-East England.
Michael Blackmon and Wendolyn WardThe incident reportedly took place at the Petro truck stop near Reno and Martin Luther King avenues.
By Charles Bassett, NEWS 9
OKLAHOMA CITY — Earlier this week a couple was accused of trying to prostitute one of their children at a truck stop. The couple was jailed, and the children put in state custody. But, the district attorney says it was all one big mistake.
The couple had six children, and it appeared they got locked out of their SUV at the truck stop. When they tried to get the door open, that’s where the confusion started.
It happened Saturday night at the Petro truck stop near Reno and Martin Luther King avenues. Michael Blackmon and Wendolyn Ward were pulled over after leaving the truck stop and charged with transportation for prostitution.
The disappearance and death of Brianna Denison sparked outrage in the northern Nevada community, and fear among students and staff at the University of Nevada, Reno located just one block from the home where the 19-year-old woman was taken.
UNR police say to this day they continue to try to make the campus even safer.
Even though the kidnapping and murder of Denison did not happen on the UNR campus, the crimes hit too close to home for UNR police.
“We understood the anxiety that was going on amongst parents, students, faculty and staff,” said UNR Assistant Police Chief Todd Renwick. “And we knew we had to do all we could to calm those fears.”
UNR police already had an active campus escort service and police cadets who walked with students who would otherwise walk alone at night. Ongoing self-defense classes were filled with frightened students and staff members. And police spread another message, too:
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OKLAHOMA CITY — Members of the ACLU went to the State Capitol and spoke out against Oklahoma lawmakers who are trying to push similar legislation recently passed in Arizona. If the measure passes, law enforcement would have the right to question a person’s citizenship and demand documentation if they believe they’re an illegal alien. Those against the measure say it’s a clear cut case of racial profiling.
“You’ve heard driving while black, you’ve heard of flying while Muslim and now we are looking at the prospect of breathing while brown,” said Chuck Thornton with the ACLU.
But state representatives say they’re just trying to protect our borders and claim the Federal government passed similar laws nearly 50 years ago.
“You have illegal aliens that are contributing to all sorts of problems in this country ranging from crime and gangs and drugs and whole sale illegal alien prostitution rings,” said State Representative Randy Terrill from Moore.
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California is telling Arizona to legalize pot smoking to bring an end to their border drug smuggling problem and make a few extra billions in taxes. Plus Arizona could make billions more from illegal aliens driving while pot high. Don’t worry about traffic deaths, millions of illegal aliens are on the way to replace them and they all have (Free Health Care wink-wink) thanks to President Obama.
California may consider cutting Arizona some slack if they legalize what Obama’s old group Acorn started (with American tax dollars) and that is prostitution of illegal alien women and children. That would end Arizona being the sex slave trafficking capital of the world. It would also bring in a few billion dollars extra in taxes from Californian citizens being (re-authorized) back in Arizona state to conduct business, wink-wink.
… We want to drive day labor away,” says Republican Rep. John Kavanagh, one of the law’s sponsors.
An estimated 100,000 illegal immigrants have left Arizona in the past two years as it cracked down on illegal immigration and its economy was especially hard hit by the Great Recession. A Department of Homeland Security report on illegal immigrants estimates Arizona’s illegal immigrant population peaked in 2008 at 560,000, and a year later dipped to 460,000.
The law’s supporters hope the departure of illegal immigrants will help dismantle part of the underground economy here and create jobs for thousands of legal residents in a state with a 9.6 percent unemployment rate.
Kavanagh says day labor is generally off the books, and that deprives the state of much-needed tax dollars. “We’ll never eliminate it, just like laws against street prostitution,” he says. “But we can greatly reduce the prevalence.”
According to the Sydney Daily Telegraph, Melbourne filmmaker Justin Sisely has spent more than a year recruiting virgins willing to auction themselves on camera and has decided to move the event to Nevada because he could face prostitution charges in Australia.
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George Flint, lobbyist for many of Nevada’s brothels, said “bringing women across state lines” for prostitution could put Sisely in violation of the Mann Act. Flint, a wedding chapel owner in Reno and lobbyist for the Nevada Brothel Owners Association, said the federal law prohibits taking women across state lines for prostitution.
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Flint said as far as he knows Sisley has not contacted any Nevada brothels, which are located in rural counties that have legalized prostitution. Prostitution is illegal in Clark and Washoe counties, the state’s population centers.
Sisley says males would also be auctioned off, but Flint said based on the recent experience of the state’s first male prostitute, that would be a “flop.” The male prostitute had “four customers in five weeks and one was a journalist from New York” who was only there for a story, he said.
Phillips, who worked at the Moonlite Bunny Ranch near Carson City, Nevada, as a prostitute, was featured on the HBO series Cathouse, which followed the goings on at the brothel.
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Colleges Against Cancer prepares for Relay For Life
Eighth annual event expects 25 teams and more than 200 participants this year with $12,000 goal
By Corey Hermanson
Mirror Guest Writer
Published: Friday, April 23, 2010
Updated: Thursday, April 22, 2010
If you see a band of cross-dressing men sprinting across Sioux Falls Saturday night soliciting strangers for money, do not immediately call Campus Safety reporting some odd sort of prostitution ring.
The runners will be men from select American Cancer Society (ACS) Relay For Life teams recruited to dress in womens’ clothing and competing for the most donations in one hour. Contestants will be free to roam Sioux Falls and raise cash for cancer. The winner will be crowned Ms. Relay at a 1 a.m. ceremony, and is the newest addition to a packed Relay For Life activity lineup.
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Confident that Biela was his man following an interview, DNA ultimately linked him to the Denison case and the women’s rapes. Wygnanski arrested him on a warrant Nov. 25, 2008. Biela faces the death penalty in a trial scheduled for next month.
“That case had a huge toll,” Wygnanski said of the Denison investigation. “To finally make an arrest was a career highlight, knowing no one else would be hurt.”
His efforts beyond investigation and arrest did not go unnoticed by his supervisor, Sgt. Chuck Lovitt. He nominated Wygnanski for the Pioneer in Victim’s Services Award that will be presented to him April 21 during a ceremony by the Victim’s Rights Alliance. Lovitt wrote to the Alliance that Wygnanski took a drug-addicted prostitute, who was nearly beaten to death by her pimp, and helped her gain control of her life. Wygnanski secured clothing donations, counseling resources and job interviews for the woman — none of which he is required to do.
Democrats and Republicans in Carson City, including Gov. Jim Gibbons, made nice in the 26th special legislative session while kicking a can of worms down the road toward a fishing hole filled with piranhas.
The fishing hole in this analogy is a stand-in for the 2011-12 state budget, the can of worms for swooning revenues and the piranhas for rampant anti-tax sentiment among voters and business interests.
Lawmakers and the governor agreed on an $870 million fix that won’t. A mish-mash of fees, cuts and sleights-of-hand, the special session work product made the budget balance on paper but leaves officials pinned under a massive paperweight.
Regarding taxes and fees, representatives for the hardest and softest assets stepped up while others resembled a herd of deer in headlights. The hard asset mining industry helped (though it remains under-taxed); the softer brothel industry tried in hopes of further legitimizing itself and spreading sex service work’s footprint.
Whether because of America’s sagging economy or the surge in drug cartel-fueled violence in Mexico, more Reno college students plan to stay closer to home as spring break starts today on many campuses, said the director of the Associated Students of the University of Nevada.
Even travel industry representatives who used to come on campus to push hot destinations and to paper the campus with posters have backed off this year, said Sandy Rodriguez, ASUN director.
“This has been a very atypical year,” she said. “Usually, companies will send travel agents, mainly from Mexico and Florida, but those companies have been almost nonexistent this year.”
As UNR students go on spring break, some other universities around the country are warning college students to be wary if they’re headed for Mexico after the U.S. State Department issued a travel alert on Feb. 22.
The alert didn’t advise spring breakers not to go to Mexico but urged them to take such common-sense precautions like avoiding areas of prostitution and drug dealing.
Whether due to Americas sagging economy or the surge in drug cartel-fueled violence in Mexico, more Reno college students plan to stay closer to home as spring break starts Saturday on many campuses, the director of the Associated Students of the University of Nevada said.
Even travel industry representatives who used to come on campus to push hot destinations and to paper the campus with posters have backed off this year, said Sandy Rodriguez, ASUN director.
This has been a very atypical year, she said. Usually companies will send travel agents, mainly from Mexico and Florida, but those companies have been almost non-existent this year.
As UNR students go on spring break, some other universities around the country are warning college students to be wary if theyre headed for Mexico after the U.S. State Department issued a travel alert on Feb. 22.
The alert didnt advise spring breakers not to go to Mexico but urged them to take such common-sense precautions as avoiding areas of prostitution and drug dealing.
Federal court says Nevada can limit brothel ads
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The 9th Circuit panel reversed a ruling by U.S. District Court Judge James Mahan in Nevada that two 1979 state laws prohibiting brothel advertising in counties where prostitution is illegal were overly broad and unconstitutional.
The laws also prohibit brothel advertising in theaters and on streets and public highways.
The 9th Circuit noted in its ruling that Nevada was unique among states because it has a “nuanced boundary,” rather than total criminalization of prostitution.
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It’s a violation of the First Amendment for the state to restrict advertising by a legal industry, and it’s wrong for a court to make exceptions because the state doesn’t want to have it advertised that legalized prostitution exists, Lichtenstein said.
Masto called free speech “perhaps our most cherished right.” But Nevada has had restrictions on brothel advertising for 40 years, and the state should have the right to have reasonable limitations, she said.
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Hess wants the exit renamed “Hafed,” which is the name of a nearby railroad area. Hess writes it should be renamed because the old Mustang Ranch brothel is no longer at the Mustang exit. It’s now operated in a different location off the Patrick exit a few miles east. “The Mustang label was only put there because of the Mustang Ranch,” Hess writes in his letter, “which no longer exists in that area.”
“That’s factually incorrect,” says local businessman Troy Regas, “I even have a map here from 1957.” His map shows a Mustang exit off old highway 40.
State transportation officials confirm the name and date are accurate.
Joe Conforte bought the brothel a decade later- and named it the Mustang Ranch. “So this was named Mustang well before he ever came here.”
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Sutcliffe, who has served almost all his sentence at Broadmoor Hospital, is applying for a decision on how long he must serve before he can go free.
It was reported last year he had been making good progress and a down-grading of his security risk was under consideration.
In the hearing at London’s High Court today, his barrister, Nicholas Bowen QC, said fresh medical evidence indicates Sutcliffe’s responsibility for his crimes was “diminished” by his paranoid schizophrenia.
The barrister added there was evidence that Sutcliffe believed he was “on a mission from God” after a “psychotic experience” in the 1960s when he heard a voice speaking to him from a gravestone.
An “unsatisfactory experience” with a prostitute two years later, in 1969, set him off on his killing spree. He started off killing prostitutes but the deaths later appeared to be random.
Sutcliffe, who has spent all but three years of his sentence inside Broadmoor high-security hospital, does not feature on a Home Office list of 35 prisoners serving “whole life” sentences, and applied to the High Court to determine whether he should be added to that list or given a finite prison term.
Mr Justice Mitting ruled yesterday that Sutcliffe was entitled to a hearing to set his tariff, likely to take place later this year. A decision to give the serial killer a limited term “for retribution and deterrence” would eventually allow him to seek a parole hearing to decide whether he was fit for release.
The High Court in London heard that Sutcliffe, who claimed he was on a “mission from God” to kill prostitutes, had enjoyed “very considerable success” during his treatment after he was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia. The Ripper, in fact, targeted at least 10 women who were not sex workers, including his youngest victim, 16-year-old Jayne MacDonald.
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Nevada’s Brian Sandoval officially files for gubernatorial run
Former federal judge and Nevada attorney general Brian Sandoval officially filed to run for governor Monday in Carson City, saying that he was against the new tax the special session of the Legislature placed on mining, supports moving the Legislature to annual sessions of 60 days and would consider taxing Nevadas brothel industry if he is elected.
I would consider it, Sandoval said about taxing brothels, obviously uncomfortable with the question. I would look into it. I understand it is something that comes up every session but I dont know how far it has gotten.
About annual sessions of the Legislature, Sandoval said, I am on record for having supported that because this state has grown and is getting more complex. And perhaps with the way the economy can change is such a short time, annual sessions might be a good idea. But that is something that the public would have to approve as well.
An “unsatisfactory experience” with a prostitute two years later, in 1969, set him off on his killing spree.
He started off killing prostitutes but the deaths later appeared to be random.
Mr Bowen argued that Sutcliffe was suffering from an “abnormality of mind” at the time.
Psychiatrists treating Sutcliffe are also unanimous in their view that he was wrongly convicted of 13 murders, the High Court heard today.
Dr Kevin Murray, who has been in charge of treating Sutcliffe since 2001, said in a 2006 report that Sutcliffe should have been allowed to plead guilty to manslaughter, rather than murder.
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Prosecutors argued Sutcliffe “knew jolly well” that six of his victims were not prostitutes and that his account of hearing voices in the graveyard was just an attempt to dupe psychiatrists.
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But Gibbons spent Friday in marathon meetings with legislative leaders, playing an active role in negotiating a compromise.
“Three days ago, he was calling us names; now, he’s sitting around the table negotiating,” Buckley said.
Meanwhile, Horsford delivered an impassioned floor speech challenging the state’s leading industries to play a greater role in preserving essential government services.
“The question simply is, why aren’t corporations paying their fair share?” Horsford said. “The question is why should the state subsidize your cost of doing business?
“Casino operators, manufacturers, truckers: Nevada taxpayers should not be paying the bill for you to make money.”
But Horsford found only two industries willing to step forward with a contribution: mining and prostitution. The state’s legal brothels have long wanted to pay a state tax to increase their legitimacy.
Kellisons aunt, Glenda Marchant, said Kellison had six brothers and that his death has caused his family extreme grief. We are lost without him, she said through tears. Its so sad. He was such a young gentleman who was taken away from us so young.
Julian had earlier pleaded guilty to first-degree murder, attempted robbery with a deadly weapon and grand larceny. Authorities credit a witness for Julians capture after she called police after he used her bathroom to change out of his bloody clothing and said he may have killed a man in a fight.
Kellison and his friend had traveled to Reno from Fresno, Calif., so his friend could purchase the rifle at a weekend gun show, Greco said. The pair had met Julian through another man they picked up that day to drink alcohol and find prostitutes.
… I think about him every single day,” Winkle said. “I didn’t know Hudson, but I am sure he was an amazing person, and he deserved to live.”
Washoe District Judge Steven Elliott sentenced her on June 4, 2009 to five years in prison, with parole possible after two years. On June 10, 2009, her family drove her to the Florence McClure Women’s Correctional Center, a medium-security facility just outside Las Vegas.
After a routine search, officials gave her a blue uniform, socks, underwear, bedsheets, a block of lye soap and some shampoo and conditioner, and led her to an “intake pod” that consisted of 12 cells, each containing 10 to 11 inmates.
Winkle’s mother, Carol Ortiz, said she worried endlessly after dropping off her 20-year-old daughter, knowing she was locked in a big cell with prostitutes, drug dealers, women of all ages.
While serving as the Nevada Appeal’s police reporter, I had heard stories about Brister’s take-no-backtalk attitude.
Visiting recently with Brister, who retired in 1995, she recalled pulling over a man who was speeding in a school zone. The man got out of his car, used some choice words at her and poked his finger into her chest. She said she grabbed his arm and “took him down onto the ground.”
Another time, the 98-pound Brister flipped a 6-foot-tall bartender back over the bar during a confrontation in the establishment where a patron had been threatening others with a knife.
The story Brister likes to tell is about the time she pulled over a limo leaving Carson High School bearing then-brothel baron Joe Conforte of Mustang Ranch fame and two teenage girls.
For the past month, York, a Reno divorce and family law attorney, has been hosting the hourlong show each Saturday morning and touched on topics including sex, divorce, relationships and even the legal brothel industry.
“It’s a forum for people to get free legal advice,” York said of her self-titled show, which began airing Jan. 9 on KBZZ the Buzz 1270 AM. “This show is racier than your standard legal-question show. … It’s informative but entertaining and fun as well.”
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The Jan. 16 episode brought in as a guest Susan Austin, the co-owner and operator of the World Famous Mustang Ranch brothel and the Wild Horse Resort and Spa in Storey County.
The show included an honest discussion about legal prostitutes and issues in the news including a male gigolo at a brothel in Southern Nevada.
Reno Municipal Judge Jim Van Winkle said he will seek another term in Department 3 after 14 years in the job.
In 2001, he established the first DUI/drug court in the city and recently developed a specialty court dealing with prostitution.
Van Winkle is on the board of governors of the American Judges Association, president-elect of the Nevada Judges of Limited Jurisdiction and a member of the Judicial Council of the State of Nevada.
He is a past president and current board member of Keep Truckee Meadows Beautiful, a member and past president of the Reno Sunrise Rotary Club and is on the board of directors for Northern Nevada International Center.
Van Winkle and Ellen, his wife of 36 years, have two children.
Candidates file March 1-12 for the June 8 primary election.
Ms. Dixon urged members of Lo-Salem, whose church is near an outdoor basketball facility, to go out and get to know the young people who shoot hoops during the warm months. They could take them bottled water, she said. They should stay and talk to the young people, she said. If church members are filled with Jesus Christ, she said, that essence ”will come out of your pores” to the young people, Ms. Dixon said.
”Dont expect sinners to knock down your [church] doors,” she said. ”Jesus said, Go and make disciples.
”Are we willing to step out of our pulpits and out of our pews and make a real and practical difference in the lives of the gang bangers across the street, the alcoholic next door, and the prostitute we drive by, in order to draw them to Christ, teach them how to use their skills to make legal money and show them how to be real fathers and real mothers to their children?”
Reno man pleads guilty in California man’s death
Posted: 01/14/2010 04:27:19 PM PST
Updated: 01/14/2010 04:27:19 PM PST
RENO, Nev.—A Reno man has pleaded guilty to first-degree murder in the death of a 22-year-old California man.
Quincy Ray Solomon Julian also pleaded guilty Thursday to attempted robbery with the use of a deadly weapon and grand larceny.
Donnie Kellison of Fresno, Calif., was bludgeoned to death in August 2008 at a motel in Reno.
Police have said Julian and Kellison were left alone when two other men they were with went to look for prostitutes. Police have said Julian fatally beat Kellison with a rifle that belonged to another man because he wanted to sell it for drug money.
Sentencing is set for Feb. 16. The 31-year-old Julian faces a possible sentence of life in prison without parole.
She served Thanksgiving dinner to 40 women who work at Diamond Dolls and Fantasy Girls strip clubs; served dinner, decorated a Christmas tree and delivered gifts to women at the Big 4 Ranch brothel in Ely with members of the Strip Church in Las Vegas. She also has been working two days a month with Judge James Van Winkel in Reno Municipal Court with women arrested for solicitation, a misdemeanor in Nevada.
“We want them to know that we’re here,” Silvey said. “This is an avenue for us to let them know that we support them, regardless of what they’re doing. Society has rejected them and considered them an outcast.”
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“We’ve never really had any type of treatment program or any type of suspended sentence that we could offer to women in the prostitution trade,” he said. “I think it’s a good program because we don’t like to just put people in jail. It is more satisfying, professionally, if you can give incentive to change.”
Onetime Nevada Brothel Could Become Conservationists Oasis
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Legalized prostitution, as it turns out, has made this parcel particularly promising to conservationists because it essentially kept development at bay, improving the chances of restoring the flora and fauna.
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For years the brothel was run by Joe Conforte, an ambitious cigar-smoking Sicilian who had already served time for extortion and tax evasion. He bought the 420-acre Mustang Ranch site in 1967, and lobbied to make prostitution legal. Storey County in Nevada obliged in 1971. Built to resemble a prison, complete with guard towers, the Mustang Ranch was a gritty survivor. It endured an arson fire, soggy conditions and the murder of a boxer, Oscar Bonavena. A movie version, starring Joe Pesci as Mr. Conforte and Helen Mirren as his wife, Sally, was recently filmed and scheduled for release next year.
Brooke Phillips was a blonde prostitute, turned reality star. The blonde beauty was found dead and burned almost beyond recognition reports RadarOnline.com from a gunshot wound , she was also pregnant and the baby was due in the Spring.
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Hof fondly recalls that Brooke Phillips who worked under the name of “Hayden Brooks” as the Miss Congeniality of his brothel. ”She had a great personality. Everybody loved her and she loved playing Scrabble with the girls. She was just the best.”
Phillips was not the only victim, there were four bodies found in the Oklahoma City building on Monday. However, of the four victim it was revealed by the medical examiner that yet another Moonlite Bunny Ranch worker/prostitute was also pregnant, her name was Millie Barrera. Both Barrera and Phillips were shot to death before the one story brick building was set on fire. The two unborn babies have now been added to the list of murders.
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By Ranjan BhaduriOKLAHOMA CITY, Nov. 14, (THAINDIAN NEWS) According to the sources, Brooke Phillips, known to her fans by, “Hayden Brooks”, is suspected to be a victim of an Oklahoma fire, that reportedly claimed four lives. Phillips, 21, was a fan favorite on HBO’s reality show, ‘CatHouse’ based on a brothel in Carson City, Nevada, the ‘Moonlite Bunny Ranch’.
The owner of the brothel, Dennia Hof, said that Phillips had left the brothel after being employed for 2 years, when she came to know of her pregnancy. Hof also said, that he had talked to her 10 days ago after which she was unreachable. This was when Phillips’ relatives and friends suspected that she had been one of the fire victims. Phillips is also said to have had trouble with her ex-boyfriend, because of which she had to move into the brothel.
Ian Gregor, a spokesman for the Federal Aviation Administration, said the Aerospatiale AS350 went down about 2 a.m. near Doyle, Calif., a small town in Lassen County about 45 miles northwest of Reno, CNN reported. The helicopter operated by Mountain Life Flight was based in Susanville, also in Lassen County.
The helicopter burst into flames when it crashed, and the impact and fire gutted it, Gregor said. The cause of the crash had not been determined late Saturday.
Gregor said the three crew members were the only people on board.
2 women killed in Oklahoma were pregnant
OKLAHOMA CITY, Nov. 14 (UPI) — At least two of the four people whose bodies were found after an Oklahoma City house fire were pregnant women who died of gunshots, officials say.
The Oklahoma Medical Examiner’s Office said Friday the women had been identified as Millie Barrera, 22, and Brooke Phillips, 21, The Oklahoman reported. Phillips had recently been a prostitute at a legal Nevada brothel, the Moonlite Bunny Ranch near Carson City, and appeared in an HBO show about the brothel.
Around the corner from Strega on Reno’s “Cal Ave” is St. James Infirmary. Named after an American folksong of anonymous origin, “St. James Infirmary Blues” is about a sailor who loses his life to prostitutes and booze. A neighborhood bar with a diverse crowd, St. James is dark, moody, hip, yet unpretentious. White leatherette booths line the perimeter and one large wall is entirely plastered with black and white photos of 1950-60s personalities. A giant white neon sign that says “Society” in scripty letters is a piece of Reno nostalgia and the old Society dry cleaners. The joint also features a black and white photo booth, cushy barstools and a padded barfront (makes marathon sessions at the bar easy on the knees), a large rooftop patio and house drinks are unusual but oh-so-tasty. Try the Moscow Mule, Holly Go-Lightly and the Jefferson.
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5. Criminalization of the Poor To ‘clean out’ the poor and undesirables, Olympic host cities routinely begin a campaign to criminalize the poor. In Vancouver, the city has launched Project Civil City and new by-laws to criminalize begging for money, sleeping outdoors, etc. It has also included hundreds of thousands of dollars for increased private security (i.e., the Downtown Ambassadors). New garbage canisters on streets make it more difficult for the poor to gather recyclables, and new benches make it impossible to lay down. These measures fit with government plans to remove poor downtown residents to mental institutions, “detox centers” on former military bases, and the ‘fly-back’ scheme by police to return persons wanted on warrants in other provinces. This is nothing less than a process of social cleansing!
6. Impact on Women
Events such as the Olympics draw hundreds of thousands of spectators and cause large increases in prostitution and trafficking of women. In Vancouver, over 68 women are missing and/or murd …
A corner of the ballroom erupted. Champagne bottles popped. Women shrieked. Men whooped.In another corner, the Anchorage Organizing Committee director stared into space. His wife sobbed. Six million dollars down the drain.In the two Olympics before, Anchorage had won the USOC vote only to be rejected by the IOC.A seething Anchorage committee member said the USOC would regret the decision. His city, he said, was the only candidate that had a shot. Nagano, Japan, was a cinch to host the 1998 Winter Games. And he was right.
But Salt Lake won the 2002 Games – and nearly lost them. A bribery scandal nearly killed the deal. Members of the Salt Lake organizing committee was caught handing out gifts, cash payments and other benefits (prostitutes, college tuition, free medical care, sweet real estate deals) in exchange for IOC votes.
I am getting really revved up to toss in my idea for a Pahrump ‘brand’ and count a cool $500.
It can’t be that difficult.
We’ve got so much to choose from.
How about “Where brothels still flourish”? Can’t you just see the billboards? I want the photography contract…
OK, how about “Pahrump: Gateway to Beatty”?
Now here’s an idea: “Pahrump: Almost Amargosa Valley.”
One suggestion has been “Pahrump: Prison, Prostitutes and Protestors — We’ve got’em, you don’t.”
Another is “Pahrump: Valley of Contention.”
What we could do, of course, is the obvious and make Death Valley, to which we are by far the nearest sizable community, our “brand.”
But that would be too easy, and worse yet, it would be promoting a place in California. “OMG,” as they say online.
In 2007, he was banned from the Florida Panhandle for three years after pleading no contest to one count of felony child abuse and two misdemeanor prostitution charges Wednesday in Bay County Court.
The tax indictment had alleged that Francis transferred more than $15 million from an offshore bank account to a brokerage account in Irvine, Calif., held in the name of Rothwell Limited, a Cayman Islands corporation, that Francis controlled.
Francis allegedly reported taxable income of $13.9 million for 2002 and paid $3.5 million in taxes but “in truth and fact, he then and there knew well and believed that he had omitted additional income”, according to the indictment. In 2003, Francis paid $351,727 in taxes, reporting a taxable income of about $1.16 million.
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In March, 2008, Francis pleaded no contest to one count of felony child abuse and two misdemeanor prostitution charges in Bay County Court, Florida. He also pleaded no contest to two additional child abuse counts on behalf of his company, Mantra Films.
… allow constables to cite individuals who fail to register their vehicles after residing in Nevada for 60 days. As an incentive, constables will receive $100 for each person they catch driving without Nevada license plates. The present law requires a person to purchase Nevada license plates when he gets a driver’s license.
• allow judges to assign criminal defendants to treatment programs if they have committed a crime to feed a gambling addiction. During a hearing on the bill, Douglas Crawford, a Las Vegas attorney who was suspended because of compulsive gambling problems, testified: “Compulsive gambling impacts bad check cases, it impacts cases in family court, it impacts domestic violence cases and all of these cases could benefit by early intervention and treatment.”
• increase the penalty for soliciting a child for prostitution from a misdemeanor to a felony.
In the 1960s, a film starring Burt Lancaster was made about one of them, a prisoner known as the Birdman of Alcatraz, who raised and studied budgies while incarcerated.
The film portrayed Robert Stroud, who published more than one book on the health of budgies from the prison, as a misunderstood gentle human being. In fact, Stroud was incontinently violent inside prison and out.
His first killing was of a barman who wouldn’t pay the prostitute for whom Stroud acted as pimp. He took the dead man’s wallet as payment for the woman’s services. In prison, he killed again, and was soirrationally and unpredictably dangerous that he served the last 17 years of his life in solitary. The story of his fascination with budgies tends to be told as an indicator that even at that late stage of his life, he, the most emotionally barren of men, could be humanised by contact with animals.
To participate, children (and their adult escort) should register between 8 and 8:30 a.m. at the Truckee Airport EAA Chapter house, located at 10356 Truckee Airport Road, Truckee, CA 96161. All Pilots are volunteers and are not compensated in any way for this great educational experience. To date, over 1.5 Million youngsters worldwide have experienced the thrill of flight as Young Eagles. Here at Truckee, volunteer pilots have flown over 1000 Eagles since 1994.
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Following Jaycee Lee Dugard’s reappearance last week after 18 years missing, police focused on Garrido in connection to the slayings of several prostitutes in the late 1990s in Pittsburg and Bay Point.
Pittsburg police Lt. Brian Addington said after four days of searching Garrido’s house, backyard and a neighbor’s yard on Walnut Avenue, they found no clear link to the murders of Lisa Norrell, 15, Jessica Frederick, 24, and Rachel Cruise, 32.
“We did not locate any evidence to connect Phillip and (his wife) Nancy Garrido to Pittsburg’s unsolved cases,” Addington said.
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Meantime, Pittsburg police are continuing to investigate the unsolved prostitute murder cases and expressed hope that the extensive media coverage of the Garrido search would renew the public’s interest in the cases and bring fresh leads to the investigation.
David John Miele, 49, was booked into the Washoe County Jail on Tuesday on suspicion of being under the influence of a controlled substance. The booking occurred after Miele was hospitalized Monday afternoon.
Police said Miele was a youth counselor for Teen Challenge International, a Christian-based residential program for adolescents suffering from drug addiction, abuse or who are gang members. After his arrest, police said a supervisor came to the scene to retrieve the work van and fired Miele on the spot.
According to officers, they responded to the Everybodys Inn motel at 1756 E. Fourth St., on a report that a man, identified as Miele, who was outside yelling and falling down. He was in the company of a known prostitute, police said, and allegedly had recent injection marks on his body. Miele reportedly told officers he had taken meth and heroin.
… No evidence Garrido killed prostitues’
Updated: 04:47, Thursday September 3, 2009
US police say they’ve found no evidence to link kidnapping suspect Phillip Garrido to a series of unsolved prostitute murders.
Police began searching Garrido’s home in Antioch east of San Francisco four days ago, after he was arrested for the 1991 abduction of 11-year-old schoolgirl Jaycee Dugard who was discovered alive last week.
Garrido and his wife Nancy Garrido have pleaded not guilty to kidnapping, false imprisonment and rape.
Police now say they’ve found no evidence to link Garrido to a string of murders involving prostitutes during the 1990s.
Garrido had himself been released after serving 10 years of a 50-year sentence for a kidnapping and rape in 1976.
During his 1977 trial, Garrido reportedly told the court he prowled residential neighbourhoods as a peeping tom and had strong rape desires.
According to court documents, he also admitted leering at girls as young as seven and 10, and said he exposed himself to some of them.
Police are continuing their search for possible links to unsolved crimes at Garrido’s home.
Garrido’s father has said he believes his son is guilty of the murders of several prostitutes in the 1990s.
‘He was a sex addict, that was his problem,’ the New York Post quotes Manuel Garrido as saying.
‘I believe my son killed the prostitutes,’ the 87-year-old told the newspaper.
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The tents were obscured by a 6-foot tall privacy fence and trees and behind a garage several feet from the back of the Garrido’s back property line.
Dugard has two children, ages 11 and 15, who were fathered by Garrido.
In the case against Garridos, Solomon said they need to thoroughly collect evidence because they “need to find out if he is involved in any of these other cases and anything they find there may help them in any of these cases he may be involved in or suspected of committing.”
The sheriff said evidence collected at the Garrido residence in El Dorado County could provide evidence and clues to crimes in Contra Costa County as well as other counties in northern California.
Law enforcement officials are investigating the possibility he is linked to the death of prostitutes and other kidnapped victims in the area although no evidence collected at this point indicates his involvement.
Garrido and his wife, Nancy, were charged last week with abducting Dugard. Once Dugard’s identity was confirmed and authorities learned more about Garrido — his conviction for the kidnap and rape of a South Lake Tahoe woman in 1976
— several law enforcement agencies launched a four-day search of the Garridos’ ramshackle property in Antioch for possible links to a string of homicides in the 1990s.
During the 18 years she was missing, Dugard and two daughters Garrido fathered with her lived behind his Antioch home in a motley collection of tents and sheds.
The search, which included the use of cadaver dogs, turned up a small bone fragment on property next to Garrido’s that he had access to.
But police ended their search late Monday, saying they had turned up no links to the prostitute homicides.
Held by Garrido for almost eight hours, she admitted: “I thought I was dead.”
Mrs Hall told King she has since “blocked most of the rape out of my head”.
But she recounted her rescue, adding: “A policeman saved me.
“Phillip had lost the key to the mini-warehouse in my car and he had jimmied it with my crowbar.
“The policeman noticed this and banged on the door.”
Writing on a blog for Larry King Live, Mrs Hall said: “My heart goes out to Jaycee and her family.
“The only thing I can think of worse than what happened to me, is it happening to my child.
“I can’t imagine what Jaycee is going through. He had me for eight hours. He had her for 18 years.”
Police suspected Garrido was linked to a string of prostitute murders in the 1990s.
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Following Jaycee Lee Dugard’s reappearance last week after 18 years missing, Pittsburg police focused on Garrido in connection to the slayings of prostitutes in the 1990s.
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19-year-old Brianna Denison was abducted from a friend’s house near the University of Nevada in January 2008. Her body was found a few weeks later in a southeast Reno business field.
That November police arrested James Biela in connection with her kidnapping, rape and murder. Investigators say DNA links him to the crimes. (He’s also charged in two other sexual assaults on and near the UNR campus.)
Biela’s trial starts next February 22nd.
The Bring Bri Justice Foundation’s mission statement has changed as the criminal case changed with an arrest. UNR’s Campus Escort Service gets help from the Foundation giving students the opportunity to get a safe ride where they need to go instead of walking in the dark. “We live in a great community; I can’t reiterate that enough. I believe this community wants what the Bring Bri Justice Foundation wants and that’s safety for people in our community,” says Brianna’s aunt Lauren Denison.
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We’ll miss Dangle’s homoerotic flair and short-shorts, as well as Deputy Wiegel’s (Keri Kenney-Silver) childlike, mildly-racist, schizophrenic antics. We’ll never forget Deputy Jones (Cedric Yarbrough), who valiantly fought off Dangle’s sexual advances (except maybe that one time) and managed to hold the anchor as the one sane member of the cast – while bearing the brunt of the racial jokes. And of course, there’s Deputy Raineesha Williams (Niecy Nash), the perpetually man-hungry endomorph who played up the “soul sister” angle at every given opportunity.
Nor can we ever forget Terry (Nick Swardson). Perhaps the single best character in the history of television, Terry was the flamboyantly gay male prostitute (who happens to have a record deal and a private jet) that the Reno police force would encounter in every third episode or so. A perpetual “fifth Beatle” to the central cast, Terry’s on-screen antics brought the hardest laughs of any bit on the show, and he will be sorely missed.
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The show ran for six seasons and aired 88 episodes. Lt. Dangle’s short-shorts will be sorely missed, as will Terry the wheeled male prostitute.
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… An 18-year-old prep cook from Carson City was arrested at 5:20 p.m. Monday in the 1600 block of East Long Street on suspicion of first-offense domestic battery. His girlfriend allegedly claimed he kneed her in the chest. He reportedly claimed he was trying to restrain her from hitting him. Bail was set at $3,132.
• A 24-year-old Folsom, Calif., woman was arrested at 1:39 p.m. Tuesday in the 700 block of North Carson Street on suspicion of disorderly conduct, drunk in public and prostitution, all misdemeanors. Bail was set at $1,831. Police allegedly found “several condoms, two bags full of health and beauty products, card keys from several Motel 6 in Sacramento and in Nevada … a spiral notebook with men’s and women’s numbers in it … two backpacks and a purse.” According to the report, the woman had several text messages on her phone including one soliciting oral sex for $20. Another asked, “How much for half,” and another requested photos.
The woman, an executive VIP casino host at Harrah’s at the time, said in the lawsuit that Roethlisberger lured her to his room under false pretenses and raped her during a celebrity golf tournament this past summer. She’s seeking a minimum of $490,000 plus punitive damages. The suit filed in Reno this past week also accuses Harrah’s officials of covering up the alleged assault and going to great lengths to silence her after she says she reported it the next day to the hotel’s security chief.
Roethlisberger, 27, said Thursday the allegations are “reckless and false.”
“I would never, ever force myself on a woman,” he said, and vowed to fight the claim in the courts.
Harrah’s officials refused to comment.
Scott Freeman, a Reno defense lawyer whose clients have included the infamous Mustang Ranch brothel, said it is “highly unlikely” she will prevail in what shapes up as a he-said, she-said case like the one involving NBA star Kobe Bryant.
Attorneys for Phoenix Coyotes owner Jerry Moyes have apologized for what they say was a mistake that led to the public filing of information that should have been confidential. A response filed in U.S. Bankruptcy Court says attorney Peter Sorensen had intended to file the document under seal as confidential but failed to do so. The Moyes response says Sorensen realized his mistake after about an hour when a reporter called to ask about the material. The material was then removed from the public record.
Motor sports
Former Indianapolis 500 winner Gil de Ferran is ready to get out of the cockpit and back into the IndyCar Series but as an owner, not a driver. The 41-year-old said he will retire as driver of his American Le Mans Series team at the end of the season, so he can focus on the business side of his de Ferran Motorsports program.
FIA president Max Mosley settled a lawsuit with the publisher of Germany’s largest newspaper, Bild, over reports that he played sex games involving a Nazi theme with prostitutes.
Published: July 9th, 2009 12:30 EST
Is “Hoe” License Plate In Bad Taste?
“A Las Vegas man won a courtroom battle Wednesday with the Nevada Department of Motor Vehicles over his `HOE` license plate, which the agency tried to cancel on grounds that he was using a slang reference to prostitutes.
The high court said the DMV based its opposition to William Junge`s plate on definitions found in the Web-based Urban Dictionary, which includes user contributions. Justices ruled that the contributed definitions `do not always reflect generally accepted definitions for words.`
Junge, whose case was pursued by the American Civil Liberties Union of Nevada, said he got the `HOE` plate in 1999 for his Chevy Tahoe, after being told `TAHOE` wasn`t available.” The Associated Press
A “hoe” is a garden tool similar to a rake, “ho” on the other hand is slang for “whore.”