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Jay Allen Sanford

Jay Allen Sanford is a Reader contributor. See staff page for published articles.

Nudie Bar Opens Across Street from Chula Vista’s Bayfront

It's usually very difficult to get an "adult entertainment” and “cabaret/theater" permit approved in San Diego, other than in locales grandfathered by permits dating back 25 years or more. When Deja Vu Showgirls operator Harry Mohney wanted to open a new nudie "booth" operation on Barnett, near the airport, he was only able to do so by capitalizing on his longstanding "Jolar" nudie club near College and University (which in the late 70s/early 80s was located on Broadway) and an existing permit that had covered the Barnett locale's previous operators, a nudie "photo studio." Judging from Welty's quote, if his permits were issue based on describing the operation as "entertainment" and "cabaret/theater," MINUS the word "adult" with "entertainment," that's a blatant attempt to avoid being overseen by the city vice department. And any "adult entertainment" establishment with strippers must be overseen by vice, AND have the girls apply for and be granted a license by the city (which requires a police-run "orientation" class and criminal background check for all dancers). That said, tho, a "cabaret/theater" application SHOULD have been a dead giveaway as to the nature of the operation. That's the key phrase that all local strip clubs apply and operate under, and virtually no other business would apply thusly, at least since the demise of of burlesque theaters in San Diego (the last burlesque "cabaret" in SD, the Hollywood Burlesque theater downtown, was converted to the legit Off Broadway Theater in the 70s, tho it later became an x-rated moviehouse). Not to mention the business NAME, with “Showgirls” being an infamously dead giveaway as to the intended nature of the operation… This Reader feature “Battle of the Peeps” details the city’s strip club and peep show history – http://www.sandiegoreader.com/weblogs/bands/2008/… While this one covers “Before it Was the Gaslamp” downtown, including the history of the (quite famous, in its day) Hollywood Burlesque cabaret - http://www.sandiegoreader.com/weblogs/bands/2008/…
— October 8, 2012 10:41 p.m.

Shepard Fairey's Graphic Activities

Worth noting is that SD's Black Market art crew had already been around a long time before Fairey's brief association with them, dating way back to punk concert flyers of the '80s and the locally-published Black Market magazine. Local cartoon legend Marc Rude did a lot of work with Black Market before his untimely passing (http://www.blackmarketmagazine.com/Rude/Rude_Abou…). BM honcho Carl Schneider even worked for Rock 'N' Roll Comics, at its latterday Miramar office in the mid 1990s. Tho Fairey's use of pre-existing images to build "new" graphics should usually be covered by "fair use" doctrines, due to the number of changes he applies to the source material to recast ala Warhol's infamous soup cans, it's a shame that truly innovative artists like Marc Rude are all-but overlooked and forgotten, while derivative so-sos like Fairey does guest spots on TV shows like the Simpsons.
— October 3, 2012 12:37 p.m.

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