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And some, like Ryan, with a personal stake in a downtown that has been promoted for years as rising or about to turn a corner arent sure downtown Bremerton will ever live up to the hype.
Under former Mayor Cary Bozemans leadership, change was the buzzword. In 2002, he rolled out a six-year plan for the area, which led to a facelift that included the ferry tunnel, a marina and the Harborside Fountain Park. The Seattle Times in 2004 declared the town was on the brink of prosperity and in 2008 named Gorst home to Kitsap Countys only strip club a neighborhood of the week for its real estate potential. A $38,500 contract agreement in 2008 between the city and Seattle-based public relations firm Nyhus Communications further fueled the interest surrounding Bremertons revival, with images of the Harborside parks fountain popping up everywhere, even on police cars.

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And some, like Ryan, with a personal stake in a downtown that has been promoted for years as “rising” or about to turn a corner aren’t sure downtown Bremerton will ever live up to the hype.
Under former Mayor Cary Bozeman’s leadership, change was the buzzword. In 2002, he rolled out a six-year plan for the area, which led to a facelift that included the ferry tunnel, a marina and the Harborside Fountain Park. The Seattle Times in 2004 declared the town was on the “brink of prosperity” and in 2008 named Gorst — home to Kitsap County’s only strip club — a “neighborhood of the week” for its real estate potential. A $38,500 contract agreement in 2008 between the city and Seattle-based public relations firm Nyhus Communications further fueled the interest surrounding Bremerton’s “revival,” with images of the Harborside park’s fountain popping up everywhere, even on police cars.

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Ways to Celebrate Bumbershoot, #5
People in the Park, 1976 Bumbershoot Poster by Jacob Lawrence, courtesy of One Reel
In honor of its 40th anniversary, Bumbershoot rolled out a list of 40 ways you can help celebrate. They’ve been going on all summer, which means you missed out. It’s never too late to party, though, so we’re here to suggest 5 last-minute ways to participate.
The festival later known as Bumbershoot started in 1971, before most of us were born. It was a very different era.
The first article with the moniker Bumbershoot in the Seattle Times ran in 1973 on the entertainment pages. It was right next to ads for strip clubs as well as porn films at Bellevue’s drive-in movie theater.
Another Bumbershoot Festival ‘73 article discussed grants dispensed by a number of arts organizations. Unity, a performance by black artists, received the kingly sum of $1000 in state and federal funds. But the article goes on to describe $1000 from Allied Arts to young director Karl Kr …

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Colacurcio Partners Sued; Ex-Strip Club Pal Says They Asked Him to Help Pay Crime Fine
​The blowback from the Frank Colacurcio Sr. racketeering case continues to spread with yet another lawsuit, this one filed by a former part-owner of Honey’s, the Everett-area strip property turned over to the government as part of a plea-bargained settlement. Phil McKibben says he was screwed over by his four partners including Frank Colacurcio Jr. Never indicted, McKibben says he got nothing in return for the club and was even told to pay $145,000 as part of his partners’ plea. He didn’t.
McKibben is suing Leroy Christiansen, David Ebert and Steven Fueston, partners of late stripper king Colacurcio Sr. The three pleaded guilty to racketeering and prostitution charges in connection with their operation of Honey’s, Rick’s in Lake City, and two other Colacurcio clubs. They received probation in return for forfeiting the four club properties, worth $4.5 million, to the U.S.

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Once, I don’t remember why, but it must have been something about our catching our first King, so large it seemed like we’d scored some floppy sea monster, the fishermen were nice to us. Oh boy, we’re finally accepted! We’re good, good buddies with the natives now! In fact, we felt so accepted, we blew off fishing that day and walked up to a bar with a couple of T’Klinkits.
It ended up being a nightmare because we landed in a strip club (how could I not have guessed?) where one women was gyrating on the bar, another swung from a trapeze. After an hour of trying to appear as if the strippers were the most interesting floorshow, the fishermen the most riveting conversationalists, I got so drunk I ended up on my knees in the ladies’ room.

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The play is a one man show written and performed by the previously mentioned bouncer Ron Richardson. Well, maybe one man show isn’t fair, it also features Kirsten Lauzon, but she spent the entirety of the play back lit behind a wide screen slithering her shadow like nobody’s business. But she let’s her body do the talking, whereas Ron uses a series of confessional style stories in outlining his eight years spent at the self described “Temple of Poon.” And they’re pretty juicy little tales.
Act One is, of course, background on his life, a quick snapshot on an 18 year old from Walla Walla who’s five item bucketlist included working at a strip club. We learn about the club, the owners and operations who drive the place, but where things get really interesting is when he talks about the girls. Funny and realistic without ever falling into the easy cliches of sex workers, he brings the ladies to life in a hilarious and heartfelt way that allows them be at once sexual volcanoes and human beings. Big ups to that, it’s no easy feat and was appreciated.

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Published: Thursday, August 26, 2010
MARYSVILLE
Put a quick stop to bikini baristas
Women of the city of Marysville and men with integrity and morals who don’t have to stoop to going to stripper stands: Since when is it OK to have coffee stands on our main street for the sexual stimulation of men? This does not belong in Marysville and why are we putting up with it?
We shouldn’t condone prostitution; these girls are prostituting their bodies — don’t kid yourself. They’re barely dressed for one purpose — to physically stimulate men. Where do these men go after getting worked up from being teased by scantily dressed girls wanting a big tip?
The stand also has a huge picture of a woman wearing nothing but a postage stamp for a bathing suit. What does that say about Marysville? I moved to Marysville for the police department, clean streets and quiet shopping centers. Marysville has one of the finest police departments I have ever seen. We don’t want to invite the kind of trouble that happened in Everett and I have seen a level of men hanging around the espresso stand that I wouldn’t want in my home.

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The iconic strip club on First Avenue in Seattle remains shuttered after 27 years of exotic dances and peep shows.
But it looks like the Lusty Lady might have one more dance in her, this time at the Little Red Studio on Dexter Avenue North.
That’s where a play by John Longenbaugh and Ron Richardson will soon finish up a two-weekend run. “My Time With the Lady” tells a story many of the Lusty Lady’s patrons probably never considered — about the guy who mopped her floors.
That guy was Richardson.
For several years in the late ’80s and early ’90s, Richardson acted as a cashier, doorman, bouncer and janitor at the Lusty Lady. He made sure patrons obeyed the club’s rules, and he mopped the floors after peep shows were over.
Richardson’s time at the club coincided with a period of change along First Avenue. What was once a hub for topless bars and brothels was becoming more upscale and gentrified.

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On Sept. 11, Le Monde’s famous headline was “We’re All Americans Now,” and the parallel domestic sense was that we were all New Yorkers. Now, Manhattan — the site of the deadliest terror attack — is the only place in America whose residents think building a mosque and cultural center two blocks away is a great idea.
The gap between the Manhattan elites and the rest of the country has returned, deep as ever, and the fact that the Manhattanites are keepers of the central symbolic site is actually now an irritant to the relationship. The nation sees ground zero and the surrounding blocks as “hallowed.” Many of the locals have been inured to the horror of the site by walking and driving past it for a decade. They see off-track betting parlors, strip clubs and a giant, endless construction site, and roll their eyes at the fuss.

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