CYBERSPACE — In response to calls for greater transparency and criticism asserting that the organization’s relationship with certain branches of the US government is too cozy, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has retained the services of...

CYBERSPACE – What do Paris Hilton, Hezbollah, refinancing, cancer, hurricane Katrina, the World Cup, Carisoprodol, and Borat have in common? According to Google, all are among the top search terms and hot search trends of 2006.Google’s year-end Zeitgeist report, released Tuesday,...

COLUMBUS, OH — A day before the Los Angeles fashion runway was set to overflow with super slender Victoria’s Secret supermodels, Playboy.com launched its “The Real Women of Victoria’s Secret” feature.Although each featured beautiful women in various...

RICHMOND, VA — In a ruling issued December 15th, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit upheld a North Carolina law banning nude dancing, “simulated” sexual activity, and “fondling” of certain body parts in the state’s strip clubs.The case, Carandola v. Fox,...

MEADOWBROOK, IL — It wasn’t the carbohydrate police that objected to last week’s entertainment at The Palace Tavern, it was the real police.In a bold new move designed to motivate couch potatoes to action, Rhonda Cato, owner of The Palace Tavern in Meadowbrook,...

SAN FRANCISCO, CA – This wasn’t part of the blueprint for Blueprint Ventures; over the weekend of December 9 – 10th, the company’s website was taken over by a hacker, who seized control of Blueprint’s domain and posted links to porn sites in place of the firm’s corporate...

USA — With the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s inspection of K-Beech Inc. last week, the total number of known 2257 records inspections performed to date has reached nine.The first inspections came in late July, with FBI visits to the Chatsworth, CA offices of Diabolic...

MANITOU SPRINGS, CO — What’s the difference between an anatomically correct sculpture of a dog and an anatomically correct sculpture of a human? That’s one of the questions that Manitou Springs, CO is struggling with these days, in part because a 10-year-old...

MEMPHIS, TN – Ralph Lunati’s troubles with the law run back nearly as far as his connections to the world of adult entertainment.Lunati, these days the owner of strip clubs in Tennessee, California, Florida, South Carolina, and Maine, got his start with swingers clubs, one of...

NORTHAMPTON, MA — Now that the weather is cooler, so are the tempers in Northampton, MA — at least where it comes to the newest Capital Video and its front window.Last summer, when the Rhode Island-based store announced that it planned to open one of its shops in the...