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Celebrate 50 Years of the Playboy Bunny

 Playboy Bunny
Tara McPherson
Oil on Linen – 48″ x 48″
©2010 Tara McPherson

Exhibit Information
Playboy Redux
Contemporary Artists Interpret the Iconic Playboy Bunny
August 27 – September 12, 2010

Opening Reception
Friday, August 27, 2010, 7-10PM
At our new gallery location: 2780 N Lincoln Ave, Chicago

About The Exhibit
Playboy Enterprises in collaboration with The Warhol Museum (Pittsburgh) invited over 20 contemporary and street artists to reinterpret the iconic Playboy Bunny in celebration of the opening of the first Playboy Club in Chicago 50 years ago in 1960. Known at that time for her satin bunny suit, cotton tail and rabbit ears, the Playboy Bunny served cocktails and glamour in equal doses. Many luminaries once worked as Bunnies, including Deborah Harry, Gloria Steinem and Lauren Hutton. For Playboy Redux: Contemporary Artists Interpret the Iconic Playboy Bunny, artists were asked to create a new look for the Bunny, a veritable makeover to create the Bunny of the future. The selected artists have presented a number of new takes on this iconic image, and works ranges range in medium including photography, painting, sculpture, drawing and video.

Playboy Redux was originally shown at The Warhol Museum in March-June, 2010. Rotofugi Gallery is proud to now exhibit and sell these works along with some new additions.

This project is part of Playboy’s year-long 50th Anniversary celebration of the Playboy Club and Playboy Bunny. The exhibit is curated by Aaron Baker, Ned West and Rotofugi Gallery.

Participating Artists
Featuring Josh ‘Shag’ Agle, Jennybird Alcantara, Scott Anderson, Glenn Barr, Gary Baseman, Tim Biskup, R. Black, Ain Cocke, Brian Ewing, Brendan Fernandes, Rod Filbrandt, Jeremy Fish, Mike Giant, Ludovica Gioscia, Ken Keirns, Jeremiah Ketner, Jeremy Kost, Frank Kozik, Travis Lampe, Bob Masse, Tara McPherson, Hiroki Otsuka, Lisa Petrucci, Mark ‘Atomos’ Pilon, Bonni Reid, Isabel Samaras, Seth Scriver, Andrew Schoultz, Steve Seeley, Jeremy Tinder, Michelle Valigura, Saya Woolfalk and O Zhang.

PLAYBOY, BUNNY and Rabbit Head Design are all marks of Playboy, ©2010 Playboy.

Tuesday, August 24 At 9:30pm
Wasted Space At The Hard Rock Hotel In Las Vegas, NV

Three of the very biggest stars in adult are descending next Tuesday, August 24th, 2010, onto Hard Rock Hotel to host the Official Exotic Dancer Awards After Party.  Teagan Presley, who hosted this party last year with record-breaking numbers, this year is joined by mega stars Jenna Haze and Lisa Ann.

“Lisa and Jenna are two of my favorite girls to work with.  I worked with Lisa in FemmeCore in a super hot domination scene, and with Jenna in the soon-to-be famous morgue scene in D2.” Presley adds, “I already know these girls love to fuck, and I know they both know how to party.  This Tuesday we are gonna end summer with a bang at Wasted Space!”

All three stars will be participating in the award show, and all have done very well at this show in previous years.  Teagan, Jenna and Lisa are all represented by A-List Features for feature dancing, and the after-party is cosponsored by A-List.

The party begins after the Award Show ends, and attendees with badges or tickets to the Awards get free admission.  Doors open at 9:30PM on Tuesday, 8/24.  VIP tables are available in very limited quantities.  For more info or for VIP information, email CoryAr@hrhvegas.com or call (702) 400-4285.

*** Watch the TEASER! ***

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVyoxCS61Po

September 3-25 2010
Fridays, 10pm & Saturdays, 10pm & midnight
$15 Advance Tix
http://vaudezilla.com/biglebowskiburlesque.htm
Greenhouse Theatre
2257 N Lincoln Av
Chicago IL

Sponsored by
Oomphotography

“Rollin’ Outta Here Naked: A Big Lebowski Burlesque” is a nationally-recognized, critically-acclaimed, box-office smash hit that will be remounting in September 2010. Don’t be out of your element! Join Vaudezilla Productions for an epic variety show featuring your favorite Bums, Achievers, and What-Have-You from the classic Coen Brothers film.

So slip on your favorite jellies, grab the ringer, mix a White Russian, and head on down to Greenhouse Theatre this September for a night of sexy fun that not even Jackie Treehorn can beat!

And be sure to get your tickets NOW, because we sold out every single show last year. This is going to be one hot ticket, so don’t look for a handout, man! Go out and achieve anyway!

Starring: Red Hot Annie, Maria May I, Donna Touch, Trixie Sparx, and Viva La Muerte, with Logan Conner returning as The Dude. Expect over $200 in gifts/prizes given out at every performance, courtesy of sponsors such as Foxy Goat and more! Plus Vaudezilla’s infamous swag bags to the first 60 people into the theatre each night!

Vaudezilla’s is also proud to announce that portions of “Rollin’ Outta Here Naked: A Big Lebowski Burlesque” will be appearing with Lebowski Fest Chicago. Details to follow!

The Dude: Logan Conner
Maude: Red Hot Annie
Jesus: Maria May I
Bunny: Donna Touch
Nihilist: Trixie Sparx
Jackie Treehorn: Viva La Muerte
Walter: Paul Backer
Brandt: Jason Schoenbeck
The Stranger/Marty the Landlord/Burkholter: Dick Dijon
Mr. Lebowski: Matt Leuck
Knox Harrington (Video Artist): Kyle Greer
Donny: Tom Foolery

Bowling Showgirls:
Barrett All, Walk Away Renee, Caitie Cruel, Holly Moon, Jackie Brown, Maria Kelly, Lily LaFleur, Operetta Nicoletta, Paprika Ame

from www.lasvegasweekly.com – Standing on a dais behind a lectern, Amanda Brooks [pictured], 34, looks taller than 5 feet, 7 inches. A black skirt hugs her hips, a pair of glasses frames her face, and a slight Texas drawl wraps around her words.

Brooks is poised, articulate and yes, sexy. As she leans into the microphone she launches into a discussion about sex laws and the police treatment of sex workers in Hong Kong, Singapore and Australia, places that have quasi-legal and legal arrangements regarding prostitution. Her delivery, and the depth of her knowledge, is impressive.

Brooks has been a sex worker most of her adult life. She is an escort, an activist, a frequent media commentator and the author of The Internet Escort’s Handbook, a series of resource guides for women interested in escort work. In July 2008, tired of reading books about sex work that were not written by sex workers, Brooks got the idea to travel the world to learn more about sex work in different legal and cultural settings. She packed up her house in Las Vegas, moved her things into storage and embarked on a journey that has made her part world traveler, part amateur anthropologist.

Fresh from a 20-hour flight from Singapore, Brooks was one of more than 275 people — sex worker rights advocates, health-care practitioners, sex educators, legal experts and academic researchers from across the globe — who gathered in Las Vegas last week for the fourth Desiree Alliance Conference, “Working Sex: Power, Practice and Politics.”

The Desiree Alliance Conference www.desireealliance.org/conference is the only recurring event of its kind in North America — a conference organized by and for sex workers. “The goal of the conference has always been to create a forum where sex workers have a voice and to bring diverse groups together to recognize commonalities,” said Susan Lopez, co-founder of the Desiree Alliance and chairwoman of this year’s conference.

For five days, conference attendees, including prostitutes, Internet escorts, strippers, web models, telephone sex operators and professional dominatrixes, people of various ages, genders, and walks of life working in both the legal and illegal sex trades, networked and attended workshops designed with their professional and personal needs in mind.

Almost anything a sex worker might want to know about professional development, harm-reduction, sex worker organizing and public policy was there for the taking. How to screen clients? Check. Manage finances? Check. Safeguard personal privacy? Check. Internet advertising? Outreach services? Legal issues? Check, check, check.

Since the start of the sex workers rights movement in the United States in the 1970s, one of its biggest priorities has been to advocate for the decriminalization of prostitution and to humanize the experience of sex workers. Sex worker rights advocates contend that criminalizing prostitution (the dominant legal model in the United States, with the exception of Nevada’s legalized brothel system) does more harm than good: It fosters violence, stigma and misunderstanding; forces prostitution underground, which makes it difficult for workers to seek legal redress for nonpayment of services or workplace violations; is costly and selectively enforced, disproportionately targeting street workers and members of already disenfranchised communities.

According to Lopez, all people should find common cause with the sex worker rights movement. “At the very least sex worker rights are about the oppression of women. Despite diversity within the sex worker rights movement, the word ‘prostitute’ is still associated with women. And women, especially women of color, are the most frequently arrested and prosecuted.”

Adult film star Nina Hartley wondered aloud during her keynote address what it would it be like if sex workers could make a living without the fear of arrest, and if the stigma surrounding sex work, which keeps many sex workers in the closet, was eradicated. Hartley argued that it is essential for sex workers to organize in order to provide for themselves what other sectors of society fail to offer, including supportive health-care and legal services.

Brooks knows first-hand what it is like to be part of an outlaw culture defined by myths and stereotypes. A native of Texas, she started stripping in college (she holds dual degrees in English and photography). Several years later, at the age of 26, she began working as an Internet escort. Not only did sex work put good money in her pocket, but it allowed her to be part of a world that had fascinated her since childhood, a world filled with the kinds of adventurous and free-spirited women she had previously only read about in books and magazines.

When Brooks started escort work she felt she had found the ideal job. She was successful, happy and well compensated. But she also found that there was a lack of resources available that answered the kinds of questions she had about escort work. Over time, she learned how to screen clients, develop effective marketing strategies, cultivate a work persona and maintain her sexual health and personal safety, information that would eventually become the basis for The Internet Escort’s Handbook — a series intended, she writes, to “encourage escorts to be smart in what they do and do it well.”

Paige, a transgender sex worker from Texas who holds a graduate degree from a prestigious university, had searched in vain to find resources about how to do online escort work safely and ethically. Discovering The Internet Escort’s Handbook was a revelation. “I immediately bought the first book and devoured it in a morning,” she told me. “The book made it possible for me to avoid dangerous mistakes I might have otherwise made.”

Although The Internet Escort’s Handbook was written for a heterosexual female audience, it offered Paige the kind of “how to” guide she was looking for. “It was a perspective you would expect to find in an introduction-to-business course.” But more than this, she said, it presented sex work as a valid choice and a legitimate business. In a society where sex workers are often reviled, Brooks’ nonjudgmental and affirming message was empowering.

Brooks, like many people I spoke with last week, has found inspiration, support and a community of like-minded people in the sex worker rights movement. “My relationship with the movement,” Brooks told me, “is one that I treasure.” It has given her access to information, a network to learn from and entry into other activist organizations around the world.

What would she say, I asked, to people who might be quick to dismiss her experience as a white, educated, middle-class sex worker as the exception rather than the rule?

“I am not,” she responded, shaking her head. “If that’s what they think, they haven’t talked to women. I have.”

It is this point, perhaps more than any other, that goes to the heart of the sex worker rights movement: Sex workers must have the chance to speak for themselves, to humanize sex work and to have a place at the proverbial table when it comes to policy decisions and academic research that affect their lives and their livelihoods.

As Hartley summed up, “There is a need to listen to women’s voices and stories in order to make sex workers’ lives better and safer.”

Warsaw, Ohio, just got way more interesting than it has any right to be: A local strip club recently launched an all-out offensive against the town menace, the New Beginnings Ministries Church.

Sources say that for the past four years Pastor Bill Dunfee has been harassing Tommy George and his Foxhole strip joint. What’s worse is that Dunfee and his ilk are a full seven country miles from the private business, yet bother to show up every weekend to block traffic, take photos of customers’ license plates to upload to their shaming site and just generally condemn and insult George.

“Tom George is a parasite, a man without judgment,” Dunfee told the local press. “The word of Jesus Christ says you cannot share territory with the devil.”

What happened to love thy neighbor, pastor? George himself believes in an eye for an eye, so he set up shop outside the church on days of worship — with his strippers in tow.

Gina Hughes, one of the exotic dancers, is married with six little ones, says she makes $2,000 a week and complained of being called a “homewrecker and a whore” — neither of which she actually is. She agrees with George that the goons at New Beginnings are hypocrites, and their offers of “salvation” are not wanted.

So, she and the other girls set up their lawn chairs in front of the church carrying signs bearing slogans about Pastor Dunfee — although they have stopped short of insulting and humiliating the churchgoers. Instead, they sit there in bikinis and eat hamburgers and accept the praises of their many fans.

Check out this YouTube video of the protest in action:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSQroatjdTA&feature=player_embedded

 Day-and-Date Release, as well as continuous updates prior to the release at the exclusive website for the movie, Alice-2010.com
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Los Angeles, CA – The highly anticipated Erica McLean movie Alice, a re-imagining of the classic tale of Alice in Wonderland, will be released through Metro’s Cal Vista feature line on August 24th, 2010. Alice stars the incredible Sunny Lane who portrays the starring character, in what is sure to open many eyes to her incredible acting ability.
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“It’s so amazing to bring the fairy tale to life with Alice,” says Sunny Lane.  “Erica really knows how to capture the sexual essence of the characters and the story.  So come with me to Wonderland!  To my fans, if you want to see me do a lot of scenes, this is the movie to purchase.  I’m in three scenes, and their all going to leave you with both heads happy.”
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“I want to thank Cal Vista for making Clive’s passion come to life,” says Erica McLean. “Clive would be thrilled with how his dream has turned into reality. He loved the magic Sunny makes in front of the camera, and with the vision of Cal Vista, Alice is going to excite everyone the world over.”
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Alice stars Evan Stone, Aiden Starr, Andy San Dimas, April Flores, Katie St. Ives, Kimberly Kane, CJ Wright, Michael Pacino, Otto Bauer, and Seth Gamble. There is a special cameo appearance by Nicki Hunter. The movie was written by the late Clive McLean, and director Erica McLean.
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The movie illustrates Alice’s adventure in Wonderland as she and her friends try to gain access to “The Hole,” Wonderland’s most popular night club. Along the way Alice is met by many of the classic characters including The Mad Hatter (played by Evan Stone), The Queen of Hearts (April Flores), The White Rabbit (Andy San Dimas), The Mouse (Katie St. Ives), The Caterpillar (Otto Bauer), Dweedle Dum (Aiden Starr) and others.

The website Alice-2010.com contains exclusive content from the movie, trailers, exclusive photos, behind-the-scenes footage, news and upcoming promotions, and promotional downloads.
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An accompanying music video for the song “Yeah I”, performed by Dirt & Bank, serves as the title track for the movie, and features cast members Sunny Lane, Andy San Dimas, and April Flores with the hip-hop artists.
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A private release party in Hollywood and promotional tour schedule for Sunny Lane are in the works, as well as press screenings, mainstream advertising, and social media marketing that will give opportunities for fans to win exclusive prizes.

Photographer Tyler Shields transformed Lindsay Lohan into the vulnerable Linda Lovelace for her upcoming film ‘Inferno: A Linda Lovelace Story.’

Shot back in May, Lohan strips down in a candid shoot and opens up about the role, in which she plays the late porn star. ‘Inferno’ director Matthew Wilder, who shoot this footage, admits Lohan had the ability “to go in and out of very extreme emotions in a blink.”

In the film, Lohan’s character is forced into prostitution by her husband, Chuck Traynor. Lohan admits his appeal was “dark and mysterious and rough, and different from anything she had experienced in life. Girls like that kind of stuff.”

Lohan admits Lovelace was just as “an innocent girl who got trafficked into a situation.”

The film will resume production in mid-November, following Lohan’s release from UCLA rehab center.

Ahh, Miss Bardot, timeless beauty. But very recently yours truly came across the follwing image, obviously shot in the 1960’s before the almighty toe became fashsionable in the 70’s. Being a preteen in the 1970’s I was young and mesmerized by the tight jeans and older girls at school and teh roller rink sporting CT. And I couldn’t be happier, it’s made a comeback – az

Brigitte Anne-Marie Bardot  born 28 September 1934) is a French actress, animal rights activist, fashion model, and singer. In her early life Bardot was an aspiring ballet dancer.

 She started her acting career in 1952 and after appearing in 16 films became world-famous due to her role in the controversial film And God Created Woman. During her career in show business Bardot starred in 48 films, performed in numerous musical shows, and recorded 80 songs. After her retirement from the entertainment industry in 1973, Bardot established herself as an animal rights activist. During the 1990s she became outspoken due to her criticism of immigration, race-mixing, some aspects of homosexuality and Islam in France, and has been fined five times for “inciting racial hatred”.

Tila Tequila has finally succumbed to her destiny and signed on the dotted line to appear in an adult film.

( SPIKE.com) In probably the least shocking celebrity news of the year, gossip blog Radar Online is reporting that reality television personality Tila Tequila has agreed to star in “an XXX-rated film that will have a major distributor.”

Ms. Tequila’s has had trouble staying in the public eye of late and can no longer capitalize on her fleeting fame. She has not appeared in a reality television show since 2008 and her recent attempt at a music career didn’t exactly go to plan. All she really has left is the adult film biz, and, let’s face it, this career trajectory was always on the cards.

This is a homecoming of sorts for the 28-year-old and not the first time she’ll be paid to work sans clothes. Before she became a reality television star the Internet entrepreneur had done a bunch of nude modeling for Playboy. In 2002 she was named Playboy’s Cyber Girl of the Month.

Radar says she “inked this deal hoping that she’ll make millions off the sale of it.” It hasn’t taken long for Tila to show off her new wealth, even if she hasn’t actually earned it yet. Recently she purchased a “baby blue Lamborghini.”  Sounds like a sensible decision. Definitely something an adult film star would do!