Word: bordello
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...prospectus filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission notes that at the 27-year-old bordello, situated on two adjacent sites near Reno, more than 100 "independent contractors" generated $917,000 in profits last year on ^ $5.4 million in revenues. By selling shares for $20 apiece, the group plans to raise $23.3 million, $18 million of which would go to buying the ranch from its current owners, Joseph and Sally Conforte. Under its new ownership, the firm could function much like any other publicly held company. Except that its method of making money is not legal in any state besides...
Another team of developers, Shirley and Alan Kahana, is renovating El Pasaje, a historic building once known as the best bordello in the Southeast. It was also home to the Cherokee Club, a famous hangout for cigar magnates and their friends, which over the years played host to such renowned lovers of the leaf as Teddy Roosevelt, Grover Cleveland and Winston Churchill. The Kahanas have restored the magnificent ballroom on the second floor and are converting the "gentlemen's hotel" portion into office space...
Gabriel Garcia Marquez's new novel, Love in the Time of the Cholera, however, shows us in a humorous yet poignant way that true love is still possible. The Colombian author considers several types of love--from innocent love, to bordello love, to frustrated love, to dying love--but each form of the emotion manages to last for a lifetime...
...onetime auto mechanic who grew up in Andover, Mass., Leno began his comedy career playing strip clubs in Boston. Among his earliest gigs were a bordello in Dorchester, Mass., and a club called the Mineshaft, where audience members wore miner's hats with flashlights on top ("Performing there was like being interrogated by the police," he recalls). Leno eventually graduated to the big time, and in recent years has played a grueling 300 road dates a year, besides making frequent guest appearances with Letterman...
Enshrined on Broadway as The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas but known to customers from far beyond tiny La Grange as the Chicken Ranch, the most familiar bordello in the U.S. has been out of business since 1973. But now La Grange (pop. 3,768) is clucking over plans by Houston Contractor Todd Hoffman to erect a museum on the site and hold a "Chicken Fest," featuring big-name entertainers and a barbecue cookoff with a $40,000 first prize. Mayor Charlie Jungmichel has called Hoffman's proposal a "slap in the face to the people of our county...