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Orange County Strip Clubs: The W Hollywood Hotel & Residences: An urban complexity
January 29, 2010 | Leave a Comment
Those suites and the rest of the hotel rooms, designed by the Portland, Ore., firms Designstudio Ltd. and Architropolis, offer what their chief designer, Sharilyn Olson Rigdon, calls a mixture of “Barbarella”-style Hollywood and 1960s L.A. Modern. Like the condominiums, they are most notable for the remarkable views they offer of the Hollywood Hills and [...]
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Orange County Adult Entertainment: Ex-Broadcom CEO Cleared of Selling Drugs
January 29, 2010 | Leave a Comment
The Business Insider cites U.S. District Judge Cormac J. Carney as saying:“From the evidence … as well as what’s been attained from the pretrial services, it does seem that you had a serious drug problem…You paid dearly for that. You lost your marriage, you lost your job, your reputation has been tarnished, but from what [...]
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Orange County Adult Entertainment: Busted: Orange County cops nab 350 prostitutes, drug dealers
January 29, 2010 | Leave a Comment
Busted: Orange County cops nab 350 prostitutes, drug dealersBy WFTVWFTV Staff WriterORLANDO — In a one-week major crime sweep across Orange County, agents arrested 350 accused drug dealers and prostitutes.The city of Orlando says Parramore is the biggest problem area. Some days there are street-level dealers on every corner and officers say that has [...]
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Orange County Adult Entertainment: Broadcom’s Nicholas Walks on Felony Narcotics Charges
January 29, 2010 | Leave a Comment
Broadcom (News – Alert) Corp.’s co-founder and former CEO, Henry T. Nicholas III, walked out of U.S. District Judge Cormac J. Carney’s courtroom a free man Thursday, as prosecutors’ allegations of prostitutes and drug stashes were thrown out.…The federal grand jury indictment handed down in June 2008, according to the Los Angeles Times, listed “three properties [...]
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Orange County Adult Entertainment: Broadcom founder cleared of drugs charges
January 29, 2010 | Leave a Comment
Henry T. Nicholas III, co-founder and former chief executive of chipmaker Broadcom, has been cleared of any wrongdoing after a Federal court judge yesterday threw out a series of drugs charges against him, according to widespread reports.Judge Cormac J. Carney dismissed the drugs distribution charges at the request of prosecutors, just [...]
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Orange County Adult Entertainment: Ex-Broadcom boss beats drugs orgy charges
January 29, 2010 | Leave a Comment
Ex-Broadcom boss beats drugs orgy chargesWhite lines blow awayHenry T Nicholas III, the billionaire co-founder of Broadcom, has been cleared of drugs charges by a federal judge.The US government alleged that as CEO, Nicholas’ life was a non-stop party of cocaine, ecstasy, meth, valium, marijuana and prostitutes, which he distributed among friends and business partners.A [...]
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Orange County Strip Clubs: A Strip Club Is One Thing, but a Pharmacy Would Ruin the Neighborhood
January 29, 2010 | Leave a Comment
It seems the council members, like the legislators who decree drug-free, gun-free, and sex-offender-free zones, could not be bothered to consult a map and figure out the practical implications of these arbitrary rules. Not only are they inviting litigation; they are blithely interfering with the lives of patients who use [...]
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Orange County Strip Clubs: The W Hollywood Hotel & Residences: An urban complexity
January 29, 2010 | Leave a Comment
Those suites and the rest of the hotel rooms, designed by the Portland, Ore., firms Designstudio Ltd. and Architropolis, offer what their chief designer, Sharilyn Olson Rigdon, calls a mixture of “Barbarella”-style Hollywood and 1960s L.A. Modern. Like the condominiums, they are most notable for the remarkable views they offer of the Hollywood Hills and [...]
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Orange County Strip Clubs: Steve Buscemi on dead-end trip to "Las Vegas"
January 29, 2010 | Leave a Comment
The film’s framing device is the best part: Buscemi’s jittery John, who apparently has been through a life-threatening ordeal, chats up the counter girl in a convenience store near the Vegas strip. He’s more human ghoul than smooth operator, and there’s an endearing vulnerability behind his frantic energy. But the story of how John got [...]
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Orange County Strip Clubs: Social Code Satisfied – A Top Story This Week
January 29, 2010 | Leave a Comment
… Satisfied” debuts this week on the Active Rock radio charts at #87 thanks to radio stations jumping on board everyday and additions to such prestigious outlets as Music Choice and AOL Radio. The song has been receiving early airplay in Canada well before today’s impact date in the U.S., and already reached the [...]