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Many would argue that what makes any Beer Week successful is the focus that the events bring to the local breweries, bars, and people that make it happen year-round.
With the rich Philadelphia fabric of brewers, distributors, and bar owners, it makes sense that it has grown to such an overwhelming size. Over the course of June 3 – June 12, nearly 1,000 events are scheduled to take place around the region.
The diversity of the scheduled events nearly guarantees that anyone who likes to drink beer outside of their own living room will be able to find a venue hosting an event to their liking. The 2011 PBW calendar includes events at numerous prototypical Philly bars, high-end restaurants, a cruise terminal, a strip club, a cemetery, a gay bar, a wine bar, a martini bar, and a grocery store.

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Despite needing $100 million to complete the project, organizers of the Ground Zero Mosque say they’re only projected to raise $7.5 million in 2011. The Post reports that while Park51, which is still waiting for their tax-exempt status from the IRS, plans to raise $15 million in 2012, at this rate it will take a good decade before anyone can picket the actual site of the mosque (presumably after they support the local strip club). Guess that Burlington Coat Factory cash never came through.
After the organization’s plans drew ire from citizens, talking heads, and a Saudi prince, who either claimed that it was some sort of terrorist front/conspiracy, and/or that it is disrespectful to those who lost their lives on 9/11 (including the Muslims that did?), Park51 announced that the mosque itself would be managed by an independent non-profit group called PrayerSpace. But as the Post reports, “there is no record that an organization named PrayerSpace has been incorporated in New York.” Maybe because they know they can procrastinate until 2020?

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WEST CHESTER TWP., Butler County — A 62-year-old man was arrested Friday evening after a standoff with the West Chester Twp. SWAT unit.
According to West Chester Twp. police Capt. Brian Rebholz, officers were investigating an online advertisement for an escort service operating at 8233 Meeting Street, apartment 111, in the Union Station apartment complex.
Deciding that the service was a sex-for-hire operation, officers took a female into custody at about 5:30 p.m., Rebholz said. West Chester Twp. resident Richard McNally, who police think operated the service, barricaded himself in a bedroom closet, according to Rebholz.
Officers on the scene contacted the West Chester Twp. SWAT unit for assistance, and McNally reportedly was apprehended without incident.
McNally was charged with promoting prostitution, obstructing official business and inducing panic. No charges have been filed against the female.

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… They take what they learned and work in a clinical environment,” Mullen said. “We have clients with different wants and needs. Students get to utilize all skills in the classroom here at the clinic.”
Any member of the community can call the school and schedule a one-hour massage for $35 by calling (215) 412-4121.
Students in the program are also taught other core curriculums of massage like Swedish massage, deep tissue, aromatherapy, reiki and Shiatsu.
Students are also taught animal massage, infant massage and acupressure.
“It’s a detailed, anatomy, physiology and pathology course,” Mullen said. “Even with something like acupressure, it is an Eastern theory and some don’t understand it. But you are asked about it on the boards.”
Beware: don’t refer to the business as “massage parlor.”And get rid of the stigma of massage as a luxury.

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West Chester man arrested in prostitution raid
Updated 7:22 PM Saturday, May 28, 2011
WEST CHESTER TWP. — A 62-year-old man was arrested Friday evening after a standoff with the West Chester SWAT unit.
According to West Chester Twp. police Capt. Brian Rebholz, plain clothes officers were investigating an online advertisement for an escort service operating at 8233 Meeting Street, apartment 111, in the Union Station apartment complex off Fountains Boulevard.
After confirming the service was actually a sex-for-hire operation, officers took a female prostitute into custody at around 5:30 p.m.
West Chester Twp. resident Richard McNally, who police believed was operating the escort service, barricaded himself in a bedroom closet. It was later determined that he had actually gained access to the attic from the closet.
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McNally was been charged with promoting prostitution, obstructing official business and inducing panic.

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A Camden woman has admitted that she was part of a fraud that netted more than $77,000 by stealing checks from the mail.Johanna Fraticelli, 29, appeared Thursday in U.S. District Court before Judge Joseph Rodriguez and pleaded guilty to theft of government funds.In recent months, three others have pleaded guilty as well. Fraticelli and the others admitted they were part of a plan in which tax refunds, Social Security checks, and other government checks were stolen from mail trucks or mailboxes between November 2009 and March 2010.
Authorities said Fraticelli used false identifications to cash the checks. The group also recruited others, including prostitutes and drug addicts, to carry out the scheme. – Barbara Boyer

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Miss Saigon, now at the Walnut Street Theatre, was written by the Les Miz guys, Alain Boubil and Claude-Michel Schonberg, in collaboration with Richard Maltby Jr. It’s a knockoff of Puccini’s Madama Butterfly, transposed from Japan to Vietnam.The opera was itself a knockoff of a play by David Belasco, which was a knockoff of story by Philadelphian John Luther Long. For more than a hundred years this basic plot has been wildly popular. It goes like this:A young Asian woman and an American soldier fall in love. When he ships out, he leaves her behind, not knowing she is pregnant. Several years later he returns, with his blond American wife, to find she has been faithful to their love. To provide her son with a good life, she kills herself so the soldier will take the boy home with him.
Miss Saigon is about betrayal, personal and political. We watch Kim (Melinda Chua) forced into prostitution and sold for the night to Chris …

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Somehow, he has become the face of the lockout.
Here is a small example:
Wednesday afternoon, ESPN.com put up a blog post with the headline, “Poll: Reasonable price for Kevin Kolb.” The post was actually a promotional vehicle for another story on the site, which also went live Wednesday. Its headline was, “Kevin Kolb worth the risk for Cardinals.” Accompanying that story was a shorter item with the headline, “Potential Kolb Suitors.”
(For the record, the odds listed were 2-1 for Arizona, 10-1 for Seattle, 100-1 for Miami and 1,000-1 for Cleveland.)
But back to the blog post, which was really just there to pimp the story. It also was accompanied by another Kolb item. This one was the aforementioned poll: “How much should Seattle or Arizona pay for Kevin Kolb?”

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And then there are ways in which Brown’s rhetorical and artistic strategy is completely Martian. To protect the identities of the prostitutes he’s seen, he draws them all from behind, framed pretty much the same way, altering identifying features or covering their faces with word balloons. That would make sense if he were, say, photographing them–but he’s drawing them, and it’d be easy enough for him to represent their faces in ways that wouldn’t identify them. (It’s a basic fact of cartooning that if you can see a character’s face, that makes him or her more “real”; avoiding drawing the prostitutes’ faces dehumanizes them in effect.) Brown isn’t obligated to tell these women’s stories–he’s speaking for himself and not for them, and it’s rarer to hear a john’s point of view than a sex worker’s, anyhow. But turning them into faceless bodies is a peculiar way of demonstrating his concern for them.

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From Road Trip to The Hangover to Due Date, director Todd Phillips has served as a cartographer of male passages (and rites of passage). For him, Stu, Phil and Alan represent the three flavors of guy: Stu is vanilla and sweet with a streak of recklessness; Phil is bitter chocolate with a kick; Alan is a double dip of tutti-frutti.
While these characters were amusing the first time around, Phillips and his screenwriters don’t bring much new to the party. The first Hangover succeeded precisely because the characters were unfamiliar and unexpected. In the sequel, familiarity is comforting, but it is also the enemy of surprise.
Because in Phillips’ Bangkok-and-bull story, almost everybody in Thailand is either a Buddhist monk or a sex worker; the movie gives off the stale odor of cultural stereotyping.

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