San Jose Strip Clubs: Are Bikini Baristas ‘Bad Feminists?’

In the Pacific Northwest, where all coffee entrepreneurial hustles, including this one, seem to start, the Trib says there have been reports of servers flashing customers for bigger tips and customers doing the same for better thrills. Not in Fremont, the owner and servers insist. “They don’t make you feel like a stripper,” says another bikinista, Rosanne Ortiz.
Which, even if they did, might not be such a terrible thing, according to a new study from the University of Leeds, right across the channel from Ms. Bruni.
Most British lap dancers surveyed said they chose to work in that, uh, position, because they earn more. They are “motivated by career and economic choices, not coercion,” the report says. One in four has a college degree.

We might consider that a “student/stripper” category on the resume. And just when it seemed the whole Madonna/Whore cultural thing had been beaten into hackneyed obscurity by more realistically complex formulations about women.

See the full article from “San Francisco Chronicle (blog)”

San Jose Strip Clubs: Contra Costa Times, Walnut Creek, Calif., Tony Hicks column

Or maybe she needs to show she can act like someone who isn’t Jennifer Aniston.
Time to get crazy
As perhaps the most famous single woman in the United States, she seems drawn to scripts that aren’t a big stretch. Lots of actors play, essentially, the same person movie after movie and remain successful. But unlike Aniston, their movies survive in theaters longer than the Titanic lasted after hitting the iceberg.
She obviously has to step outside her comfort zone. Maybe she should learn karate and call Quentin Tarantino. This is no joke. Or learn how to shoot and swear and call Robert Rodriguez.
She needs to dissociate herself with romance of any kind. Is it too late to play a serial killer? A stripper? An evil middle-aged executive woman? How about a serial-killing evil high-powered executive woman who strips on weekends?

See the full article from “California Chronicle”

San Jose Strip Clubs: Contra Costa Times, Walnut Creek, Calif., Tony Hicks column

Or maybe she needs to show she can act like someone who isn’t Jennifer Aniston.
Time to get crazy
As perhaps the most famous single woman in the United States, she seems drawn to scripts that aren’t a big stretch. Lots of actors play, essentially, the same person movie after movie and remain successful. But unlike Aniston, their movies survive in theaters longer than the Titanic lasted after hitting the iceberg.
She obviously has to step outside her comfort zone. Maybe she should learn karate and call Quentin Tarantino. This is no joke. Or learn how to shoot and swear and call Robert Rodriguez.
She needs to dissociate herself with romance of any kind. Is it too late to play a serial killer? A stripper? An evil middle-aged executive woman? How about a serial-killing evil high-powered executive woman who strips on weekends?

See the full article from “Trading Markets (press release)”

San Jose Escorts: Fisher: Woman’s massage services were not appreciated in Los Gatos

… I don’t do that, I do massage only,” says Hu, mortified that anyone would think the business she and her husband opened last year was a front for prostitution. “I’m a good girl.”
A good girl and a good massage therapist, according to her clients. But not, apparently, a good enough businessperson to pass muster in Los Gatos.
While the police sting turned up no hanky-panky, it did uncover some code violations. On an April afternoon, the police burst into Relaxing Massage and hauled Hu’s husband, David Jie, to jail while she and their 6-year-old daughter watched in horror. The town yanked their permit and now Hu and Jie face losing their business and their reputations.

But Town Attorney Michael Martello says if the cops are particularly tough on massage parlors, it’s because the industry is rife with prostitution and unlicensed operators.

See the full article from “San Jose Mercury News”

San Jose Adult Entertainment: Man Crashes Into Tree After Fleeing from Prostitution Sting

The man who reportedly crashed Wednesday at the intersection of West Las Positas Boulevard and Hacienda Drive was being questioned in a prostitution sting.

See the full article from “Patch”

San Jose Escorts: Fisher: Woman’s massage services were not appreciated in Los Gatos

… I don’t do that, I do massage only,” says Hu, mortified that anyone would think the business she and her husband opened last year was a front for prostitution. “I’m a good girl.”
A good girl and a good massage therapist, according to her clients. But not, apparently, a good enough businessperson to pass muster in Los Gatos.
While the police sting turned up no hanky-panky, it did uncover some code violations. On an April afternoon, the police burst into Relaxing Massage and hauled Hu’s husband, David Jie, to jail while she and their 6-year-old daughter watched in horror. The town yanked their permit and now Hu and Jie face losing their business and their reputations.

But Town Attorney Michael Martello says if the cops are particularly tough on massage parlors, it’s because the industry is rife with prostitution and unlicensed operators.

See the full article from “San Jose Mercury News”

San Jose Strip Clubs: Baristas in bikinis perk up Fremont coffee business

Martinez drives to the shop from his Castro Valley home every weekday before 5:30 a.m. to brew the first cup of coffee before retreating to his nearby truck where he spends most of the day with an eye on the shop.
He’s hoping to open three more bikini barista establishments in the next two years and, although his first shop is just breaking even, he thinks each of them can eventually net $10,000 to $15,000 a month.
“It’s going to literally go through the roof,” he said.
The shops have encountered some issues in the Northwest. There have been news reports of baristas flashing customers for bigger tips and customers exposing themselves to baristas.
Martinez and the baristas said none of that has happened at the Fremont shop, which has cameras on the baristas and the drivers.
“They say ‘Hi,’ they get their coffee, and they’re gone,” barista Rosanna Ortiz said. “They don’t make you feel like a stripper.”

See the full article from “San Jose Mercury News”

San Jose Strip Clubs: Baristas in bikinis perk up Fremont coffee business

Martinez drives to the shop from his Castro Valley home every weekday before 5:30 a.m. to brew the first cup of coffee before retreating to his nearby truck where he spends most of the day with an eye on the shop.
He’s hoping to open three more bikini barista establishments in the next two years and, although his first shop is just breaking even, he thinks each of them can eventually net $10,000 to $15,000 a month.
“It’s going to literally go through the roof,” he said.
The shops have encountered some issues in the Northwest. There have been news reports of baristas flashing customers for bigger tips and customers exposing themselves to baristas.
Martinez and the baristas said none of that has happened at the Fremont shop, which has cameras on the baristas and the drivers.
“They say ‘Hi,’ they get their coffee, and they’re gone,” barista Rosanna Ortiz said. “They don’t make you feel like a stripper.”

See the full article from “Contra Costa Times”

San Jose Strip Clubs: Internal Affairs: It’s a family affair in Sunnyvale school board race

On the other hand, Judy Nadler, a government ethics expert at Santa Clara University’s Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, found the situation “troubling.” She wondered how the school district would be able to police the family’s compliance.
“If you live with someone, trust me, the decisions that you’re making and the discussions you’re having become part of your everyday life,” said the former Santa Clara mayor. “It’s not as if you turn off your trustee role when you go home.”
Team San Jose supports Pink Poodle “… sort of
“Have you ever been to a strip club that let you hose down a fully nude nubile in a shower tub only inches in front of you?”
Nope? Neither has IA, but that didn’t stop the folks at Team San Jose, the beleaguered nonprofit that runs the city’s convention center and several downtown theaters, from listing a visit to “the lovely ladies of the Pink Poodle gentleman’s club” as a top recommendation on the group’s website, www.sanjose.org.

See the full article from “San Jose Mercury News”

San Jose Strip Clubs: Where are you? A rundown of Facebook’s Places

To prevent that, go to your privacy settings page. Then click “Edit your settings” under “Applications and Websites” in the lower left corner. Look for an “Edit Settings” box next to “Info accessible through your friends.” Click it, and uncheck the box next to “Places I check in to.”
8. One more thing on friends
Your friends are hopefully considerate, upstanding, sharp-as-a-tack Facebook citizens. They wouldn’t tag embarrassing photos of you without your permission — so that someone clicking through your profile could pull up images of that wild night with the lampshade on your head and your tie … well, never mind.
So it follows that they, hopefully, won’t check you in to a strip club when you both should be at church, just to be funny. And if they do, maybe it’s time to take out those pruning shears.

See the full article from “Bloomington Pantagraph”

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