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Saturday, August 8th, 2009
County, strip club feud spills into court
By: William C. Flook
Examiner Staff Writer
August 6, 2009
Paper Moon, a Springfield strip club that has operated under Fairfax County’s microscope since it opened a year ago, is asking a judge to reverse the county’s recent crackdown on it.
As one of only two gentleman’s clubs in Fairfax, Paper Moon’s activities have been the subject of extraordinary scrutiny by authorities, who in December cited the club for a handful of parking and occupancy violations. The county has told the Amherst Avenue establishment to correct the problems or shut its doors.
Some neighbors and revitalization groups are hoping for the latter outcome. They see Paper Moon’s presence as a hindrance to economic development in an area desperately in need of it. Lee District Supervisor Jeff McKay, a longtime critic of Paper Moon, denied it was being singled out, however.
“I don’t care what kind of business they’re operating; if they’re in violation of our county codes and ordinances, then they deserve to be in court,” McKay said. “There are laws in our county, and if you break them, we ought to be taking you to task for them.”
The contention stems from the club’s peculiar legal situation. Its predecessor, the Dauphine Steakhouse, was grandfathered as a “commercial nudity establishment” when the use was prohibited in the area in 1980. Paper Moon inherited that exception — but, because it must retain Dauphine’s exact footprint, the club is not allowed to expand in any way.
Paper Moon, in a circuit court filing challenging the Fairfax County Board of Zoning Appeals, says the citations are unwarranted. County authorities say the building exceeded maximum occupancy of 104. The club claims it can legally hold twice as many people.
Paper Moon is the only business on its lot but is only allowed a limited area in which its patrons can park. McKay said inspectors found patrons parking in spaces outside that area — spaces designated for tenants that have since closed up shop — resulting in another citation.
Paper Moon has kept a low profile as a business and has maintained the “curb appeal” of the property, said Nancy-Jo Manney, executive director of the Greater Springfield Chamber of Commerce.
“Is it a desired business in the community? No, it is not,” she said.
Officials with the business in Springfield and at the chain’s headquarters in Richmond did not return calls for comment.
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Saturday, August 8th, 2009
Strip club expansion uncertain, but it certainly doesn’t fit in
MIKE HENDRICKS COMMENTARY
Will the Crossroads district become home to yet another strip club?
Or are the folks who run the “Totally Nude” juice bar, aka Temptations, toying with City Hall by putting up a sign on the vacant building next door that seems to promise another sexually oriented business on Grand Boulevard?
No answers so far, as the lawyer representing the business — or businesses — hasn’t made it clear to city officials — or returned reporters’ phone calls.
But say this for that bright yellow awning at 1515 Grand Blvd.: You can’t miss it.
Not with “Barely Legal” in big, black letters just a block or so from the Sprint Center.
“When you put up a sign like that, it raises eyebrows,” said inspector Derrick Lloyd in the city’s Planning and Development Department.
Eyebrows and hackles both.
“It’s absolutely frustrating to the (neighboring) property owners,” said David Morris, president of the Crossroads Merchants Association.
From the parks board to the Regulated Industries Division, there’s no lack of interest at City Hall.
“So far, no one has applied for a license to operate any kind of a business there,” said regulated industries chief Gary Majors.
But concerns about the sign — and what it might portend — have city lawyers mining the municipal code for answers to whether the “Barely Legal” sign is itself legal.
“We don’t think it is,” said Denise Phillips at the Department of Parks and Recreation, which regulates the city’s boulevard system.
As the awning juts into the public right of way, it might be in violation of the city code governing boulevards, she said.
Or not, depending on whether the awning was there before Grand became part of the boulevard system in 1988.
Meanwhile, city lawyers are trying to determine how the sign ordinance applies while Lloyd and his crew keep an eye out for permit violations.
“We’ve been by there every day,” he said.
Of course, none of this would be at issue had the City Council done the smart thing in 2008 and allowed Temptations to expand into the building next door.
Class the place up a bit — that was the idea. Get a liquor license, which would mean no more nude entertainment. Dancers would have to wear pasties at the very least.
Therefore, Crossroads merchants might have said goodbye forever to the “Totally Nude” sign, which is not at all in keeping with the area’s ever-so-trendy image. In September, an international TV audience will be watching as some of the top bicycle racers in the world zip past in the Tour of Missouri.
But no. The council caved to pressure from prudes who felt the expansion would lead to more sexually oriented businesses.
Yeah, well, that sure worked out swell now, didn’t it?
“I was for it,” Morris said. “It was certainly better than what we’ve got now.”
Which is barely legal — or not.
To reach Mike Hendricks, call 816-234-7708 or send e-mail to mhendricks@kcstar.com.
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Saturday, August 8th, 2009
Incident At Vernon Strip Club Leaves Man In Critical Condition
By DAVID OWENS
The Hartford Courant
12:04 PM EDT, August 7, 2009
VERNON — – Detectives are investigating an assault outside a Windsor Avenue strip club that has left a man in critical condition at Hartford Hospital.
A Vernon police officer was patrolling the area along Route 83 when he saw several people fighting in the parking lot at Kahoots. People scattered and the officer found two injured men on the ground, Sgt. Dan Moore said.
One refused medical treatment. The other suffered serious head injuries and was taken to Rockville General Hospital, then flown to Hartford Hospital. He remains in critical condition. His name was not released.
“We’re actively investigating and we do have a suspect,” Moore said.
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Saturday, August 8th, 2009
Judge rules patrons can’t bring liquor to Sayreville strip club
by Aliyah Shahid/For The Star-Ledger
Friday August 07, 2009, 11:46 AM
SAYREVILLE — Patrons of a Sayreville strip club should plan on leaving their beer and wine at home, now that a Superior Court judge has dismissed an injunction he issued last month allowing the practice to continue.
‘Attendants at Yankee Stadium or Giants Stadium will be the same if beer is served or not. People are going for the game, not for the food or liquor.” — Superior Court Judge Glenn Berman
The injunction was placed on an ordinance Sayreville passed last month, prohibiting establishments without liquor licenses — except restaurants — from allowing customers to bring their own alcohol.
Greg Vella, an attorney representing 35 Club, also known as XXXV Gentleman’s Club, on Route 35, said the rule is discriminatory and singles out XXXV because of the risque nature of the business.
Middlesex County Superior Court Judge Glenn Berman, sitting in New Brunswick, ruled today that Club 35 did not demonstrate that it would be significantly harmed because of the BYOB ordinance. He said patrons go to such clubs for entertainment, not necessarily because they can bring their own beer or wine. He drew similarities between patrons at a strip club and those at a baseball game.
“Attendants at Yankee Stadium or Giants Stadium will be the same if beer is served or not,” said Berman. “People are going for the game, not for the food or liquor.”
The law, which took effect shortly after its unanimous passage on July 13, also limits the amount of alcohol customers may bring to a restaurant (enough for three people). In addition, restaurants may not charge an admission fee, membership fee, cover, corkage, or service charge. And, restaurants may not advertise that they are BYOB.
The new law also defines a restaurant as “having an adequate kitchen,” “served at tables by a restaurant employee” and “customers are provided an individual menu.”
Vella argued that XXXV has had no problems since they’ve been BYOB for two years, and that the law is subjective and an abuse of police power because officers will determine what an adequate restaurant entails.
“There’s no rational connection,” said Vella, who argued that the borough should either permit or ban all establishments that have BYOB. “It creates different classes of competition and a different class of citizens. It’s unfair competition.”
Gregory Bevelock, an attorney representing Sayreville, said the ordinance was created because the borough had problems with owners who abandoned their liquor licenses, which were in danger of being revoked and operated as BYOB establishments instead. Problems, like noise and violence, have persisted.
Bevelock also said there is no evidence that XXXV would be hurt financially because of the ordinance, and that competition is fair because the patrons of restaurants and strip clubs are not the same.
“This is based on the nonsensical notion that an all-nude dance club competes with restaurants,” said Bevelock.
Jeff Bertrand, the borough’s business administrator said the ordinance was not created to single out any particular establishment, and that some municipalities, including Wall Township and Rahway have similar ordinances.
The club is currently in litigation for allegedly violating a zoning law that states the club isn’t allowed to operate within 1,000 feet of homes or public parks.
The court will reconvene in October, when there will be a trial to determine if the ordinance is valid or not, said Vella. Until then, BYOB will be illegal at XXXV.
“We’re disappointed,” said Vella. “But, we’ll continue to fight this.”
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Saturday, August 8th, 2009
Tucson Region
Suspect named in killing at strip club
By Phil Villarreal
arizona daily star
Tucson, Arizona | Published: 08.08.2009
Tucson police have obtained an arrest warrant for a man suspected in the killing of David H. Tyne outside the Candy Store strip club July 30.
Police are looking for Andre “Dre” Lightsey-Copeland, 28. Copeland is 5 feet 10 inches tall, weighs 150 pounds and has brown hair and eyes. He’s considered armed and dangerous, police said.
On July 30 at 5:02 p.m., police say a man confronted Tyne inside the strip club, on South Craycroft Road near East 22nd Street. One man lured Tyne outside where the other man was waiting, and Tyne was shot. He was taken to University Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead.
One of the men drove away in a white 2005 Chevrolet Impala with Arizona license plate AFW2356 while the other man fled on foot.
Anyone who spots Copeland or the vehicle should call 911 or 88-CRIME.
Contact reporter Phil Villarreal at 573-4130 or pvillarreal@azstarnet.com
Tucson police have obtained an arrest warrant for a man suspected in the killing of David H. Tyne outside the Candy Store strip club July 30.
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Saturday, August 8th, 2009
Air workers in calendar stripper row
By Stephen Moyes 22/12/2008
Fun Stories to read from the past
Airport staff were banned from making a nude charity calendar because bosses thought it might put off potential buyers of Gatwick.
The fundraiser for children with cerebral palsy was to feature 40 men posing for raunchy shots round the site.
It had won the backing of the managing director.
But just as workers were ready to strip, the new director of communications banned the shoot as he felt it was inappropriate.
Calendar organiser Alan Skinner was told bad press could affect the airport’s sale.
The BAA security guard said: “I’ve no idea how a calendar with workers raising funds for charity would influence this. If anything it would have shown we’re a forward thinking company. I’m sure we’d have sold hundreds.”
BAA Gatwick replied: “The idea showed real creativity, but the calendar boys theme was felt inappropriate in a work situation. It is important we work hard to protect the airport’s reputation.”
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Saturday, August 8th, 2009
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
Detroit strip clubs face booze ban
Attorney says Detroit’s threat to end liquor sales if dancers don’t cover up is all-out war
Detroit –Detroit may soon deliver an ultimatum to its strip clubs: Cover up or no booze.
The City Council on Wednesday is set to weigh a broad crackdown that would ban alcohol at clubs with topless dancing. The new rules also would stop lap dancing, close VIP rooms and force dancers to wear opaque pasties — even at dry clubs.
The rules are certain to reignite debate over the city’s 31 topless bars, and owners are vowing a fight.
“The city of Detroit has now decided they want an all-out war,” said Michael Donaldson, an attorney for All Stars and the Penthouse Club. “They cannot win. They are being totally stupid.”
But city staffers point to state and national court cases that support the legality of an alcohol ban. Richard Mack, an attorney and member of Perfecting Church, said the city must reject its status as Michigan’s strip club capital and home to 31 of the state’s 81 topless bars.
“Our goal is to do all we can within the law to root them out,” Mack said. “We don’t want the city of Detroit to be the dumping ground for lascivious behavior.”
The crackdown stems from a court battle in which a federal judge in 2007 struck down Detroit’s regulations on where clubs could open and ordered them rewritten. City staffers have recast the laws, but they have added tougher restrictions elsewhere — such as the alcohol ban. Pastors and community leaders have pushed for the changes and persuaded the council to get advice from Scott Bergthold, a Tennessee attorney who has worked nationwide to shut clubs down.
Here are some of the proposed changes:
• Alcohol can’t be served at any existing or new topless clubs. Once the City Council passes the change, existing clubs would have until their license expires, which is renewed every year, or the anniversary of the date the law was passed, to comply. A Michigan Liquor Control Commission official said Monday it’s up to the city to set those restrictions on the liquor licenses.
• Dancers would have to be 6 feet from patrons and on a stage at all times. A stage must be at least 18 inches off the floor in a room of at least 600 feet. That requirement likely would stop clubs from letting customers interact with dancers in smaller rooms, often called VIP areas.
• Dancers would also have to wear pasties..
Several council members did not return calls Monday on whether they would support the proposals. And Mayor Dave Bing’s staff said he hasn’t seen the proposals.
Rob Katzman, owner of the Toy Chest Bar and Grille, said the potential changes would put nearly all of the clubs out of business.
“You could not operate,” said Katzman, who argued that most clubs cause no problems. “You just wonder what the motivation is.”
But Mack argued the clubs lower property values and increase crime.
“Whenever they want to do their dirt, they come into the city and then return to their white picket-fenced suburban communities,” Mack said. “We want the same white picket-fenced communities.”
U.S. District Judge Julian Cook ordered the city to rewrite its rules, finding they gave city officials too much power to deny new clubs and didn’t address how long they had to act on applications. Under the old rules, clubs had to meet 15 broad criteria — including claims they wouldn’t reduce nearby property values — before the city signed on.
Cook ordered the city to revise its rules “forthwith.”
But the city has repeatedly delayed doing so. All the while, the council and mayor’s office have frozen transfers of liquor licenses that would allow clubs to open. The city is facing at least five recent federal lawsuits over its laws governing adult businesses.
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Saturday, August 8th, 2009
CU student aims to open topless café in Boulder
By Amy Bounds (Contact)
Monday, July 6, 2009
BOULDER, Colo. — Boulder’s Dan Kennedy wants to open a coffee shop — but instead of competing with the likes of Starbucks by offering specialty drinks, he wants to steam up basic coffee and pre-packaged pastries with topless waitresses.
He’s looking to open a shop in August, one day a week in the morning.
Kennedy — who said he will be a sophomore at the University of Colorado in the fall after transferring from Whitman College in Washington — has placed ads on Craigslist for bouncers and women willing to work topless, saying he’s interviewing three women and three potential bouncers Friday. He’s offering to pay the women $80 to $100 for a morning.
But he said he’s still researching the steps he needs to make the cafe legal. He also needs a location. His ideal spot would be a conference room at CU, though he’s also looking on University Hill.
By offering only drip coffee and prepackaged food, he said, “There’s no license and no regulations.”
But, CU spokesman Bronson Hilliard said, there are strict regulations governing businesses on campus — plus a student code of conduct that would prohibit operating an adult business at the university.
He said students can rent conference rooms for “normal campus activities,” such as study groups. Bottom line, he said, a topless coffee shop “is not going to be allowed.”
“This is a half-baked idea,” he said.
Kennedy said CU students are a big part of his target audience, and he’s considering charging a $12 cover fee to avoid attracting a crowd just looking to ogle the waitresses.
His job listing for the bouncer says the employee “will be checking IDs to make sure they are 18 plus. Making sure topless girls feel safe and no inappropriate behavior from customers.”
He acknowledged that some people likely will object to his risque business venture.
“It’s probably going to cause a pretty big stir,” he said.
A controversial topless coffee shop in a rural Maine town drew national attention — and was burned down in June by an arsonist after just four months in business. Before the fire, the owner had received 150 applications for 10 positions.
Locally, a strip club off the Pearl Street Mall that opened in late 2007 drew concerns from zoning and building-code officials soon after it opened. The city recently looked into ways to regulate adult businesses before they opened, but the Boulder City Council has yet to agree to any changes.
The city’s options include using zoning rules to limit where such establishments could open. Some cities, for example, forbid strip clubs from doing business within 1,500 feet of a church, school, child-care center, park or other adults-only venue.
The city could decide to issue licenses to strip clubs instead, a process that could resemble the way liquor licenses are handed out now.
Mayor Matt Appelbaum said it may be worth looking at the zoning regulations and giving the community a chance to offer feedback.
“Our regulations don’t really preclude these businesses,” he said. “There clearly are locations where they are not appropriate.”
City Councilwoman Susan Osborne said she doesn’t want the council to spend time on the issue, adding that she hasn’t seen much of a market for strip clubs and similar adult businesses in Boulder.
“There are so many big things going on right now,” she said. “This would just be a distraction.”
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Monday, July 27th, 2009
Ah, baseball.
America’s pastime. Cracker Jack. Cold beer. Hot dogs.
And body glitter?
That’s the upshot of a decision issued Friday by a King County Superior Court judge, who cleared the way for a proposed Déjà Vu strip club — adult cabaret in the court’s parlance — near Safeco Field.
Stripper’s pole meets foul pole.
Over the objections of the Seattle Mariners and the public utility that operates the field, Judge John Erlick found that the City of Seattle did not err in permitting the proposed First Avenue club.
Erlick rejected the Mariners assertion that the City Council meant to keep strip clubs at least 800 feet away from “areas where children congregate” or sports arenas. That language is absent from the city ordinance drafted after Seattle’s wholesale ban on new strip clubs was rejected as unconstitutional.
“If (the council) had intended to require dispersion from all places where children tend to congregate, it would have specifically included that language,” Erlick said Friday. “This court refuses to read words into the ordinance which do not exist in the plain language.”
During an earlier hearing, attorneys for the Mariners argued that the city had erred in permitting the club because Safeco should be considered a park or open space. One area the Mariners pointed to was a park is primarily used for bus parking; another is private property that may be developed in the future.
The proposed Déjà Vu would be on First Avenue South just south of Safeco Field, about 400 feet from the main home-plate entrance. The rear door of the club would be about 120 feet from a parking garage plaza where school buses frequently drop off students attending games.
Opponents of the club will decide in coming days whether to appeal Erlick’s ruling, said Bart Waldman, Mariners executive vice president for governmental affairs.
“We’re obviously disappointed,” Waldman said. “For now, we’re just going to absorb the opinion.”
Lauding the ruling, Peter Buck, attorney for the club owners, said the Mariners’ moralizing throughout the legal proceeding strained credulity.
Buck dismissed the Mariners’ assertions that children would be harmed by the strip club as specious.
Buck noted that a Déjà Vu club across First Avenue from Pike Place Market has done little to discourage or offend tourists there. And, like all Washington state strip clubs, the proposed facility will not serve alcohol.
The Mariners, however, do at Safeco Field.
“The Mariners mainly made a moral pitch, that this facility would be harmful to children,” Buck said. “If they were really worried about children, they’d clean up their own act.”
Erlick’s ruling marked the first serious test of the 4-year-old restrictions on where strip clubs can be. Buck praised it as showing that business owners can get a fair shake, regardless of the business they’re in.
“It means that an operation such as my client’s can rely on the law as it is written,” Buck said. “This law isn’t about someone’s moral values.”
The Mariners have 30 days to file an appeal. If the team doesn’t appeal, Buck said the club will likely open in six months.
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Monday, July 27th, 2009
Boulder’s Dan Kennedy wants to open a coffee shop — but instead of competing with the likes of Starbucks by offering specialty drinks, he wants to steam up basic coffee and pre-packaged pastries with topless waitresses.
He’s looking to open a shop in August, one day a week in the morning.
Kennedy — who said he will be a sophomore at the University of Colorado in the fall after transferring from Whitman College in Washington — has placed ads on Craigslist for bouncers and women willing to work topless, saying he’s interviewing three women and three potential bouncers Friday. He’s offering to pay the women $80 to $100 for a morning.
But he said he’s still researching the steps he needs to make the cafe legal. He also needs a location. His ideal spot would be a conference room at CU, though he’s also looking on University Hill.
By offering only drip coffee and prepackaged food, he said, “There’s no license and no regulations.”
But, CU spokesman Bronson Hilliard said, there are strict regulations governing businesses on campus — plus a student code of conduct that would prohibit operating an adult business at the university.
He said students can rent conference rooms for “normal campus activities,” such as study groups. Bottom line, he said, a topless coffee shop “is not going to be allowed.”
“This is a half-baked idea,” he said.
Kennedy said CU students are a big part of his target audience, and he’s considering charging a $12 cover fee to avoid attracting a crowd just looking to ogle the waitresses.
His job listing for the bouncer says the employee “will be checking IDs to make sure they are 18 plus. Making sure topless girls feel safe and no inappropriate behavior from customers.”
He acknowledged that some people likely will object to his risque business venture.
“It’s probably going to cause a pretty big stir,” he said.
A controversial topless coffee shop in a rural Maine town drew national attention — and was burned down in June by an arsonist after just four months in business. Before the fire, the owner had received 150 applications for 10 positions.
Locally, a strip club off the Pearl Street Mall that opened in late 2007 drew concerns from zoning and building-code officials soon after it opened. The city recently looked into ways to regulate adult businesses before they opened, but the Boulder City Council has yet to agree to any changes.
The city’s options include using zoning rules to limit where such establishments could open. Some cities, for example, forbid strip clubs from doing business within 1,500 feet of a church, school, child-care center, park or other adults-only venue.
The city could decide to issue licenses to strip clubs instead, a process that could resemble the way liquor licenses are handed out now.
Mayor Matt Appelbaum said it may be worth looking at the zoning regulations and giving the community a chance to offer feedback.
“Our regulations don’t really preclude these businesses,” he said. “There clearly are locations where they are not appropriate.”
City Councilwoman Susan Osborne said she doesn’t want the council to spend time on the issue, adding that she hasn’t seen much of a market for strip clubs and similar adult businesses in Boulder.
“There are so many big things going on right now,” she said. “This would just be a distraction.”
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