San Jose Strip Clubs: It’ll Be Tops at the New Mt. Madonna Inn

The Mt. Madonna Inn closed for good a couple of years back. The owner staved off foreclosure for a time. Sterling Pacific Financial, with an office on Freedom Boulevard, gained control of the property last year.
Fischer gave Watsonville Patch a tour of the currently empty building a recent afternoon.
The cavernous restaurant looks like something out of The Godfather. Black leather booths ring the top level of the Mt. Madonna Inn. Wrought iron railings separate sections of the dining room and every seat has breathtaking view of the Pajaro Valley and Monterey Bay.
There’s a stage and two dance floors in the bar area. That same railing surrounds one dance area—which is sunken below the level of the main floor—but is bent in toward the dancing space, likely from years of people leaning against it to watch the action.
“When we finally got into clean it up, there was a stripper pole on the stage,” Fischer said.

See the full article from “Patch.com”

San Jose Strip Clubs: Google Changes Privacy Policy to Pave Way for Bold New Platform

… When I try to find places on Google Maps, it keeps giving me directions to cat houses and massage parlors and strip clubs. I use Adsense on my blog. But now, all the ads are for penis pills, inflatable sex dolls and Dustin Diamond movies. The Google SS guy who follows me around is constantly trying to solicit prostitutes with weird fetishes for me. Keeps saying it’s a good match based on my frequent searches for ‘football.’ Then there’s what happened this morning. I wanted to read about how Rick Santorum was doing against Gingrich and Romney. But Google won’t pull up those results. Instead, it pesters me with, ‘Did you mean anal lubricant and new gang rape mitts?’ I sell landscaping tools. Just guess what Google suggests when I try to find a deal on hoes or seed sacks. Yeah, it’s ridiculous, but at least I don’t have Yahoo employees outside my house begging for change or Facebook’s Timeline.”

See the full article from “Evening Transcript (satire)”

San Jose Strip Clubs: Kodak’s miserable moment

To say that Kodak “missed” a few things is to understate the decades of blunder that lead to today’s banruptct filing. With a portfolio of valuable film processes and digital patents, this is a Kodak Moment for the asset strippers who would do well if they can to sell Kodak for the value of its IP, or intellectual property and other assets

See the full article from “The Next Silicon Valley”

San Jose Strip Clubs: PHS’ Pet Project for the Holidays

Of course, there were a few tasteless comments which we expected, and Hooman asked to keep the, ahem, dog parts. I gave him a small package and told him not to open it until he was back at the studio (I placed two kiwis inside).
We all had fun. More importantly, Hooman and Alice were great partners and helped us bring an important message to a new audience. Still, we do have boundaries.
A local pole dance instructor wanted to hold a fundraiser for our shelter animals. In less than the amount of time it would take an exotic dancer to shimmy down a pole, we said thanks but no thanks.
Had we gone forward, I could have had a field day on taglines and themes. 
Lap Dances for Lap Cats. Push-Ups for Pups.
We could have turned the stripper poles into big scratching posts and had the dancers paint whiskers on their faces. 

See the full article from “Patch.com”

San Jose Strip Clubs: Offshore city idea floated to help Silicon Valley

Take Blueseed, a new startup in California that’s floating the idea of an offshore city that can house 1,000 skilled, non-U.S. tech workers in international waters.
According to a USA Today article, the ship would be close enough to Silicon Valley for ocean dwellers (who would pay $1,200 a month) to hop a quick ferry over to meet with potential Silicon Valley employers.
Considering the prices of real estate in that area, $1,200 is a bargain. And the views would have to be amazing.
The company’s founder is hoping find investors that will pony up $10 million to build the floating city. Seems like he could get an old cruise ship a lot cheaper; those ships already have lots of rooms, casinos and bars. There’d have to be a strip club or two as well, since I figure the population of Blueseed will be 90 percent male.

See the full article from “Atlanta Journal Constitution (blog)”

San Jose Strip Clubs: Two Broadway buildings sold

The Saratoga Shoe Depot building on Broadway sold for $2 million Friday morning and the multi-story Broadway building at the corner of Spring Street sold for $1 million.
Both sales took place during foreclosure auctions in the lobby of Saratoga County Court. Tom Newkirk of the Saratoga National Golf Club purchased the Shoe Depot property at 385 Broadway. He told me that he plans to lease the space to local merchants.
Scott Grodsky of Long Island, the owner of Mama Mia’s Pizza & Cafe in Saratoga Springs, bought 322-328 Broadway, a three-story building with an old theater that is rough shape. He said that he planned to open a strip club. He joked. He says he will renovate an upstairs apartment for his family and go from there. The new owners take control of the properties in 30 days.

See the full article from “Albany Times Union (blog)”

San Jose Strip Clubs: Siri, Sexism, and Silicon Valley

That Siri gives responses for blowjobs and strippers — but can’t return a query about birth control — has everything to do with the fact that Apple (and Silicon Valley writ large) is a place dominated by men and their preferences. In all likelihood, Siri was developed and optimized by a team of all dudes or mostly dudes. And while they made sure to include things that were gender-neutral (like mental health services), there was no effort to approach Siri from the perspective of a woman user. Indeed, reproductive health is a classic male blind spot — it’s women who are “supposed” carry the responsibility for contraceptives. Men, in general, get a pass. The problem with Siri isn’t that the programmers hate women, it’s that they weren’t even on the radar.

See the full article from “The American Prospect”

San Jose Strip Clubs: Review: Smuin Ballet unstuffs the showman’s bag for classical and pop …

Michael Smuin, who straddled popular and classical dance like a guy riding two ponies, knew the pulse of his audience and exactly how to quicken it. He wasn’t averse to tricks — in fact, he loved them — and so, in most cases, do the company’s audiences. At heart, he was a hoofer with ballet training, a tapper in tights. Since his death in 2007, it has become clear that his former muse and now artistic director of the company, Celia Fushille, is one, too.
In “The Christmas Ballet,” which opened last weekend at the Lesher Center for the Arts in Walnut Creek and moves to Mountain View this weekend before heading over to Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Dec. 14-24, is the company’s holiday answer to the traditional
“Nutcracker.” In the two-hour program, Smuin Ballet displays almost everything in the showman’s bag, from tapping Christmas trees that get the ax in the last instant and cloggers performing stiff-armed jigs to elegant dancers in sleek white costumes moving in simple garland formations. Oh, and don’t forget the stripper in red or the hula girls.

See the full article from “San Jose Mercury News”

San Jose Strip Clubs: Cleaning Up for Coming Generations

In his op-ed piece (”It’s Not the Radium Advisory Board, “Nov. 11) Richard Bangert declares my article about the Radium Advisory Board’s (RAB) cutback an “insult,” that I “ridicule,” “instill fear and distrust,” use “the word radium four times … because [it] sounds more frightening” and that I “irresponsibly state that Alameda ‘will eventually inherit a brownfi eld.’”
I suggest he re-read my piece and attend more carefully to actual meaning. Meanwhile, I agree that the board is not named after radium, or any of the other contaminants at Alameda Point.
These contaminants include arsenic, benzene, caustic cleaners, cadmium, chloroform, chromium, copper, cyanide, dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT), the organochlorine pesticide DDx, degreasers, diesels, dioxin, fuels, gasoline, industrial solvents, inert and unexploded ordnance.
Also included among the contaminants are lead, machine oils, medical waste, mercury, naphthalene, nickel, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), paints and strippers, pesticides, polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB), radionuclides, silver, semi-volatile organic compounds (SVOCs), toluene, trichloroethylene (TCE), total petroleum hydrocarbons (TPH), vinyl chloride, volatile organic compounds (VOCs), xylene and zinc.

See the full article from “Alameda Sun”

San Jose Strip Clubs: 2 arrested in slaying of Newark police detective

The Associated Press
PATERSON, N.J. —
Authorities have arrested two people in the slaying of an off-duty Newark police detective who was gunned down earlier this week during a robbery in Paterson.
Detective Michael Morgan was killed early Monday outside a nightclub where he was celebrating a friend’s birthday.
Officials say the 32-year-old was walking a dancer from a gentleman’s club to her car when they were confronted by an armed robber. Police say Morgan was shot once in the torso after he reached for his weapon, which was found under his body.
Morgan had worked for the Newark Police Department since 2005. He had just been promoted from the narcotics and gang unit to special investigations.
Prosecutors say the two arrested are a man and his girlfriend. Both face felony murder, robbery and weapons charges.

See the full article from “KTVU San Francisco”

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