Jul 02, 2012
D.C. Strip Club Gets Reality Show Treatment
A strip club in Northeast D.C. is the focus of a new reality show.
Cornell Jones, the director of the nonprofit which is being sued by the city for allegedly using grant funds designed to help people with HIV/AIDS to help build a strip club, is quite the character. So perhaps we shouldn’t be surprised that he’s channeling his displeasure with the city’s lawsuit into legal action of his own.
Cornell Jones, director of the nonprofit group which is being sued by the city for using city grant funds designed to help people with HIV/AIDS to help build a strip club, certainly has some opinions on the matter — some incredibly homophobic ones.
A few weeks ago, an audit of the District’s Department of Health showed that the city had not applied proper oversight on a $10 million grant program designed to benefit HIV/AIDS residential services. Turns out that at least some of that money was allegedly spent on building a strip club.
Jun 26, 2011
The Sunday Morning Post
Good morning, Washington. It’s a somber Sunday. A cultural celebration in the District turned violent yesterday when one man was fatally shot and three other people were wounded at the Caribbean Carnival near Gresham Place and Georgia Avenue NW. NBC Washington reports that there were at least two shooters.
Nov 11, 2007
Week Around the -Ists
Fun Fun Fun Fest 2007 Recap from Super!Alright! on Vimeo. Austinist attended a town hall meeting about proposed noise ordinances that could undermine the city’s future as the Live Music Capital of the World, and lamented the possible loss of Texas’s only feminist bookstore. Throughout the week, they interviewed a bunch of indie fashion designers and D-I-Y websites—Etsy, Ornamental Things, 31 Corn Lane, and Aorta Designs—for the upcoming Stitch Fashion Show. They also did…