Lastly, although prostitution is legal in Amsterdam, the city’s famous “Red Light District” might just be moved…if the city’s first female mayor has any say in it. In an interview with Bloomberg Mayor Femke Halsema bemoaned how Amsterdam’s prostitutes are often besieged by drunken tourists, as the current 370 windows of 86 brothels exist right up alongside the rowdy clubs and late-night bars of the area (something that amazed me as well when I visit thge city for the first time a few years ago).
Halsema would like to take the brothels outside of the district, in, what she says, is “an effort to ease congestion and revive the historic central zones.”

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On a cold Tuesday night, Brooklyn Bowl played host to some hot holiday cheer in the form of JD McPherson who headlined, […]

Giving with the lights, cookies, the Menorah candles, gift exchanging (and returning) and celebrating the Nguzo Saba, being your faithful servant in all things naughty (and a little nice) I figured I could give forth on some adult gift ideas. So grab a spiced nog, spin your dreidel put the last touches on your tree and …below are some ideas for what to give your lover/friend/spouse or just friend-with-benefits for this 2018 holidaze season.

Whether we grow bored easier in the modern world because of constant Instagramming or if indeed there is just that much new and cool stuff coming at us all the time, the fact of the matter is that everybody, no matter their business or ‘influencer’ potential, is always thinking of new ways to do what they do.
Who would have thought this cultural paradigm would trickle down into the porn world…but it does. And it did most recently with two ladies I happened to talk to, Nadya Nabakova (known now as Bunny Colby) and Lindsey Leigh.

Opening is the flicking acoustic guitar and big stomping, “Look In Her Eyes,” a song about men and women looking and working one another over. “Hole In My Heart” an even faster rocker, complete with horns, is about Rod losing his love to “Some Russian guy” while “Farewell,” the song that follows, and “Didn’t I,” are ballads about regret of different types. “Farewell,” about Rod’s running buddy Ewan Dawson and “Didn’t I,” a mid-tempo heart-wrenching tune about his daughter’s drug addiction.

Jerry Miller’s bass and some slide from Linden Evans gets us into the swaying easy tempo of “Out for a Surf,” Laura Paragano’s warble-of-a-first-tune from her 10-song, Strange Curses. This San Francisco-based singer-songwriter brings an easy songwriting grace to her surf/by the way of blues/by the way of indie sound. With the expert sublte players behind her it becomes apparent from the get go that Paragano makes the most of her personality voice and slightly off-center, yet strong songwriting.

Avey Raquel My Heart Away (GKM/ Avery Raquel) One thing I like to pride myself on is my transparency. When we get […]

We glisten right into the mystical jangle of a single-string instrumental in “Maand,” the first track of Mah-Ze-Tar’s self-titled debut release. In these 9 tracks, all based on a specific Indian Raga, we get a mix of traditional Indian sounds with newer technologies, as well as Maz singing in Hindi, Farsi, and English while bringing in vocal textures based on syllables of the ancient Indian Dhrupad tradition.

A loud distorted guitar opens the first tune rockin’ tune here, “Fake Love.” With Mason Jones’ taunting vocals and the rest of the boys-Dawson Tucker playing guitar and bass, Derrick Stephen on drums and percussion and Dominic Valenti playing guitar-we get sucked in quick and hard to Atlanta alt. rock group Nocturnal Animals’ Writing On The Walls.