San Jose Strip Clubs: Restaurants rising: Up in arms over Tolbert’s noise law
Opponents of the ordinance suggest that the City already went too far when, in 2008, it created a citywide ban on over-75 decibel noise. By the following summer, several City Councilors were wringing their hands in frustration when they realized that they’d inadvertently banned African drumming on the Downtown Mall.
The problem for such places as the Corner— and particularly downtown Belmont, which has witnessed a renaissance in the past decade— is that some residents of the surrounding houses claim to have moved in before the hijinx began.
And what hijinx. On a letter bearing the names of 15 Belmontians, resident Kimber Hawkey recently sent city officials photographs of women at Bel Rio adorned only in panties and pasties.
Scenes from a Christmas show at Bel Rio restaurant that outraged some Belmontians.PHOTOS BY LARS LARSEN
So Charlottesville finally gets a strip club? Well, according to those who viewed the show, curvaceous females were evident, but the Christmas night performance— orchestrated by musician Christian Breeden— was built more on satire than titillation.