- The Christmas spirit is alive and well in Manhattan. No,
not at Rockefeller Center, where the ice skating rink is open for business and
one of the gaudiest Christmas trees in the world is standing tall and welcoming
visitors to New York City. Not at Radio City Music Hall, where the Rockettes
are cranking out quality holiday entertainment. It’s not even at the Macy’s on
34th Street, where scenes from “Miracle on 34th Street” were filmed. No, the
true and potent spirit of the season can be found at 61 W. 37th Street, where a window display
by a caring business is showing one and all the kind of love the world needs
this holiday season, more than it ever has. That address is home to Vivid
Cabaret, which is exactly what its name suggests it to be, a strip club. So
what can a place where drug-addled skanks/down-on-their-luck young ladies
working their way through law school ply their trade of getting undressed for
lecherous losers who jam $1 bills into their G-strings do to remind the world
about the reason for the season? How about unveil a display mixing holiday
images and colors with strippers clad in Christmas-themed outfits? “It’s a
small window, but it will certainly warm many hearts,” Vivid manager Shaun
Kevlin said of what’s heating up the window at his midtown club. Of course,
this being a public setting and all, the strippers won't be showing anything
they shouldn’t be, but their mere presence should be enough to lift the spirits
of many Christmas shoppers passing through Manhattan………..
- Bill Corgan is an arrogant ass. This is not news. The Smashing Pumpkins
frontman is narcissistic and pompous, and though he crafts some quality
mainstream rock and has for two decades, he clearly believes his sh*t smells
like strawberry ice cream when it comes to his professional life. So hearing
that he showed up for an interview to promote the Pumpkins’ new album and dismissed
fellow rockers Pearl Jam as "derivative" and Foo Fighters as
undeveloped sounds like about par for the course. The comments came during a
promotional appearance for his band’s new album, “Monuments to an Elegy,” and
included Corgan’s claim that he "can out write" all other rock songwriters of his
generation. "I think the work speaks for itself," Corgan said. "I
know [Pearl Jam] have a tremendous fan base, and they should, they're a great
band, but I'm a Beatles guy, I'm a Stones guy, I'm a Kinks guy. To me a lot of
other bands don't have the work." Why Pearl Jam should have a fan base doesn’t
seem so obvious if one subscribes to Corgan’s line of thought, as he said it
was a "mystery" how Eddie Vedder and Co. have maintained their top
status "because I just don't get it." He then claimed that Nirvana
and Smashing Pumpkins were in their own class among their 1990s alt-rock peers.
“I think if you stack my songs up, Cobain's songs up, and that band's songs,
they just don’t have the songs," Corgan added. Sadly, the only guy Corgan
felt like complimenting here is deceased, but he seems to have disdain for
praising his living rivals………
- Riot Watch! Riot Watch! It was International Human Rights Day
and for one of the world’s most controlling nations, that was a reason to rise
up and stage an aborted demonstration that saw law enforcement come busting in
and shutting down the fun. Cuban police rained righteous disapproval down on a
demonstration by about 30 dissidents in central Havana, taking some of them away
in cars. By now, everyone knows that this demonstration is going to happen because
it’s a tradition upheld by the opposition group Ladies in White. "I am a
patriot who wants all rights for Cuba without any restrictions," demonstrator
Agustin Lopez shouted while police removed him from the demonstration.
Lopez and other protestors resisted The Man and were shoved inside patrol
cars before being whisked away from the scene. Yet not everyone gets the reason
for the protest and in and of itself, that proves why such displays continue to
be necessary in a place where the government reigns with an iron fist no matter
who is technically in power at the moment. "I don't know why they say they
are fighting for human rights here," said retired teacher Miriam Pascual,
Why? Because you don’t really have any, M., even if you’re a big fan of the communist
country's health and education systems. As always in Cuba, the government didn’t
bother to provide any details about how many dissidents it detained or what its
plans for them is. Stay secretive and grossly unfair, Cuba…….
- It’s amazing how the worst start in franchise history can
turn teammates into potential celebrity boxing opponents in the locker room
after a game. The New York Knicks
have lost nine games in a row, they’re an astounding 4-19 and competing more
for the worst record in the NBA than they are on the court and their star
player is (allegedly) threatening to beat the holy hell out of one of his
younger teammates. Carmelo Anthony, who is claiming he may need knee surgery
soon, is clearly at full speed when it comes to his ability to rage at second-year
teammate Tim Hardaway Jr. The Knickerbockers were speeding toward their fifth
straight loss last week against Brooklyn when Hardaway barked, "Get the
rebound!" The target of his remark seemed to be one of the best players in
the league, Anthony, who approached Hardaway on the way down the court and used
an expletive to ask Hardaway who he thought he was talking to. An established
veteran star dressing down a younger player should have been enough, but
Anthony reportedly chased that with another expletive informing Hardaway he was
going to beat him up when they got into the locker room after the game. Sadly,
that fight never happened and it’s sad because it would have been the most
entertaining and competitive thing any Knicks player has done this season. The
team is rife with discord and disdain for one another and multiple sources have
said players are unhappy with first-year coach Derek Fisher's insistence on
running the triangle offense. The friction between Anthony and Hardaway
reportedly stems from each one’s belief that the other shoots too much and
doesn't care about defense. Ironically, both are right………
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