LONDON – German brothel owners are fighting the economic downturn with special offers, including “flat-rate sex” promotions. Based on all-you-can-eat restaurants, the brothels are offering customers the chance to sleep with as many prostitutes as they like for a single fee. The owners [...]
LONDON – Veteran actress Helen Mirren’s director husband Taylor Hackford has been appointed as the president of the Directors Guild of America. The Oscar winning director has stepped into the shoes of Michael Apted to represent the union for film and TV directors across the U.S. after being voted by his fellow members at [...]
The visit also marked 125 years since the formation of The Sisters of the Community of the Resurrection of Our Lord, based in Grahamstown, South Africa, which was established by two missionaries from London in 1884.The connection between the religious order and the borough has continued for more than 60 years, since the Sisters [...]
Camden Council U-turn over burlesque licensing plansPublished Thursday 30 July 2009 at 13:24 by Lalayn BaluchBurlesque performers are celebrating after Camden Council backtracked on plans to licence them in the same way as strippers and lap dancers.In May, the London authority caused outcry among artists and local venue owners – such as Alex Proud of [...]
Indo-ASIAN NEWS SERVICE LONDON – It hasn’t been a brilliant week for Lakshmi Niwas Mittal. First the chairman and main owner of steelmaker ArcelorMittal was reported to have put his ‘Summer Palace’, an 11-bedroom mansion set over an acre of land in north London, for rent. Then his company reported losses for [...]
LONDON (AP) – More than two dozen burlesque performers in London turned out yesterday to protest being classified alongside strippers and lap dancers as “adult entertainers.” Protesters in high heels, stockings and bustiers marched to Camden Council, which governs a large chunk of central London. One organizer says being forced to [...]
In 2002 Indobrit, a quarterly magazine for British Asians, was launched at the Cinnamon Club in Westminster. London’s media world turned out to celebrate with 35-year-old Farah Damji, the editor. But what should have cemented Damji’s return to London after almost a decade in New York was short-lived. Three years later, and ten pages on [...]
The demonstration followed Camden Council’s decision to class burlesque performances as part of the adult entertainment industry.Venues must now apply for an updated licence usually associated with lap dancing clubs, which could involve fees and has led to some performances being cancelled.The women, dressed in full burlesque costume, set out from the Covent Garden branch [...]
David Bedella, who won the 2004 Beset Actor Olivier Award for creating the role of Satan/Warm-up Man in Jerry Springer the Opera, is returning to the role of Frank ‘n’ Furter for a new U.K. tour of Richard O’Brien’s cult 1973 musical The Rocky Horror Show, beginning performances at London’s Wimbledon Theatre from Sept. [...]
MORE than 100 burlesque dancers have taken to the streets of London in protest at one borough’s decision to class them alongside strippers and lap dancers.Camden council has banned clubs from hosting the glamorous performances, in which women remove some – but not all – of their clothes unless they apply for an adult entertainment [...]