Unhappy Ending for Local MasseusesUpdated 8:15 AM PST, Sat, Nov 27, 2010Six people have been arrested on prostitution-related charges at a massage parlor in Vista, San Diego County Sheriff’s officials said.The owner of Asia ACU Pressure, Suhua Qiu, 47, was cited for allowing unlicensed masseuses, unlawful advertisement and having locks and peepholes on massage room doors, [...]
… Ruined” opened off-Broadway in 2009, and went on to win the Pulitzer Prize for Drama (as well as many other awards). I wanted to read the script immediately after to see how playwright Lynn Nottage achieved the richness in character, pacing, and exposition about a very complicated war (the ongoing war in the Democratic [...]
… As soon as you walked into the building, you just felt the love,” says Alicia, recalling the first time she attended the church. “You just felt the music, and I think that’s one thing that just kept me so close, that I wanted more of that.”Alicia is originally from California’s Central Valley. Because of [...]
The Ukiyo-e woodblock artists carved their intricate images into boards of fine-grained cherry wood. Companies employed a bevy of artisans to carve separate wooden blocks to print each color. They also used a marketing strategy of publishing many Ukiyo-e prints in installments, and the circulating prints became important by influencing travel plans, clothing designs and [...]
Saturday and Sunday: With opening week behind us, it is the perfect time to head over to Mandell Weiss Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse for Ruined.Theater and performing arts guru Pat Launer said Ruined manages to bring the distant jungles of equatorial Africa into our midst, scorching them into our minds and hearts. Launer said the [...]
6 arrested at San Diego Co. massage parlorPosted: 11/26/2010 05:14:53 PM PSTUpdated: 11/26/2010 05:14:53 PM PSTVISTA, Calif.—San Diego County Sheriff’s officials have arrested six people on prostitution-related charges at a massage parlor in Vista.Sgt. Joe Mata said Friday that the owner of Asia ACU Pressure, 47-year-old Suhua Qiu, was cited for allowing unlicensed masseuses, unlawful advertisement and [...]
L.A. NOWSouthern California — this just inSix arrested at Asian massage parlor in VistaNovember 26, 2010 | 4:13
pmSix people were arrested on prostitution-related charges after an undercover investigation at the Asian ACU Pressure massage parlor in Vista in northern San Diego County, the Sheriff’s Department said Friday.In June 2009, 27 Chinese nationals were arrested after [...]
To her surprise, Elena was taken to a hotel parking lot in National City where men pick up prostitutes.…Means said it’s the prostitutes who take all the risk, and the gangs get all the rewards.“With drug sales and gun running, it is the gang members themselves who take the risk of getting caught and punished. [...]
It made perfect sense. The bar itself is a resurrection of the 1948 Til-Two Club, complete with checkerboard flooring, a mock-up of the original sign, and black booths where Beauty Bar’s hair chairs used to be. Owner Mick Rossler of Tower Bar is in the process of unearthing the small glass windows out front and [...]
Into the red-light district of New Orleans, circa 1917, comes Butch “Cobra” Brown, a newly minted dreamer who’s given up on his prizefighting past, taken up the trumpet and plans on becoming the best horn player on the planet, never mind the Big Easy. What goes down on his quest is anything but easy, and [...]
