Posts tagged as ‘whores’
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Pretty Much Everything That Makes Amsterdam Fun to Ride a Bike In An Endless Circle Disappears This Year
Peeps, this is Charlie Geerts, “Porno-King”. Charlie Geerts, the Peeps.In an effort to clean up Amsterdam’s Red Light District, the Dutch government has planned to eradicate the criminal activity it believes is the result of having sex and drug related establishments. This includes shutting down many of its sex theaters and coffeeshops all over the Red Light area by using tax dollars to push out property owners as well as their businesses. Charles Geerts has already been forced to sell 18 of his properties back to the government who will in turn rent out the space to fashion designers and art galleries. Although most people agree there are aspects of the Red Light District should be changed (like the rights of prostitutes), there are some who think the way the government is going about it the wrong way:
[Will Boef, local advocate] also thinks local ‘porno king” Charles Geerts didn’t sell his properties to the council on an entirely voluntary basis:
“They made it as difficult as possible for him, so that he ultimately caved in.”
The Amsterdam authorities purchased eighteen properties from Charles Geerts – a well-known figure in the local sex industry – and now plan to put fashion designers into them.
It’s a most welcome development for the two designers behind the ‘And Beyond’ label. One of them, Jolanda van de Broek, explains,“We’re getting the space to do what we want in stimulating and creative surroundings.”
The And Beyond duo is part of a group of fifteen fashion designers who are taking part in the Red Light Fashion Amsterdam project, set up by the city council and fashion recruitment and ‘matchmakers’ HTNK. Under the scheme, the designers will get the use of the premises for a year, and only have to pay for gas, water and electricity; no rent.
Wim Boef reacts thus:
“Nice initiative, but still strange that these properties have been bought with taxpayers’ money and that the designers get to use them for a year for mere peanuts. While other business people in the Red Light district have to struggle to pay their rent.”Come July, the smoking ban will take affect, making it illegal to smoke indoor at public establishments such as bars, cafés, and may even cover coffeeshops. There is still some confusion on whether or not places that create a separate smoking and buying area for marajuana will be able to keep their smoking customers, or if the ban will go so far as to disallow the drug (which is commonly mixed with tobacco to make a joint) to be smoked at all.
Magic Mushrooms were banned last year, but by the looks of things (as in I still see them in shops) the ban has not formally been put into use.
More information on the whole story here.
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A Conversation With Mok
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Clothes Before Ho’s
“From 19 January 2008, and running throughout the year, sixteen former prostitution establishments in the city’s infamous Red Light Distict will be transformed into exciting spaces for fashion creation and display. Rather than women plying their trade under red lights, sixteen top fashion designers from Amsterdam will be given the opportunity to showcase their latest creations in these windows, reaching a large and varied audience in one of the most well known city-areas of the world. With this project the City of Amsterdam underlines its strategy to turn around the image of the Red Light District, which will become a bustling cultural habitat, attracting fresh visitors to a hotspot of creativity.” From Iamsterdam.com
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A Conversation With Mok About Being Back Out on the Dating Scene
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I Love It When You Call Me Big Poppa
Open auditions for the role of Christopher Wallace in the upcoming Notorious BIG film will be held since the only person Hollywood could cough up to play the deceased rap star was Forest Whitaker (“Dude, Ghost Dog?”) and he was too old to play the part. The film, called “Notorious”, has been in the works for seven years and since they still haven’t been able to find one, classically-trained, African American actor in the whole of Los Angeles, they are looking to the greater public to fill in these shoes.
This means you can in fact be the next Daniel Radcliffe, playing the role of some one else’s lifetime, only to continue your career at a West End Play showing your bare backside to your close family, friends, and a couple a horses. Hollywood – it’s a regular, old dream factory over here.
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A Conversation With Mok
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Back By Popular Demand
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Another Conversation with Jen
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The Time Difference Makes it Hard to Talk to Jen Sometimes
