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Plaxico Burress couldn't wriggle out of jail time for accidentally shooting himself in the leg with an unlicensed handgun in a New York City nightclub last November. But the former New York Giants wide receiver's personal fortune will help him on one score. Burress has retained the services of a "prisoner consultant" to advise him on "what to expect while incarcerated, and how to use his period of confinement as productively as possible," as his attorney, Benjamin Brafman, told the New York Post. To get a sense of what Burress's counseling sessions might be like, TIME caught...
Grubman, Lizzie •claim by that roman à clef by former employee of - which features a drunken or drugged publicist angrily backing her car into a crowd outside a nightclub - "isn't about...
...tabloid journalists from Britain's Daily Express broke the news that Biggs was hiding out in Rio de Janeiro. Scotland Yard's subsequent efforts to extradite him were foiled after Biggs fathered a child, Michael, with Raimunda de Castro, a nightclub dancer and alleged prostitute; Brazilian law protected the parents of Brazilian citizens. And while Biggs could not legally work in Brazil, he was able to live freely and profit from coffee mugs and T shirts branded with his name and image. (TIME flashback 1981: "Biggs Bagged...
...rock gods must have been smiling when, in 2001, Zac and Ethan Holtzman met Chhom Nimol at a nightclub in Long Beach, California's Little Phnom Penh. Inspired by cassette tapes Ethan hauled home from a backpacking trip to Southeast Asia, the American brothers had set about the rather quixotic task of forming a Khmer rock band. They'd learned a couple of songs, but needed a singer to give them life. They found one that day in Chhom, a recent émigré with a knockout voice. Dengue Fever, that singular, strange and wonderful ensemble, was born...
...that two Peace Corps volunteers were "severely beaten" outside a pub after a confrontation with Dayar Mongol members. (Erdenebileg denies his group's involvement.) One 25-year-old American living in Ulan Bator, who didn't wish to be named, said he was accosted by neo-Nazis at a nightclub for cavorting with a Mongolian woman. "After they showed a swastika, my initial thought was, This isn't going to be a normal fight," he says. "They wanted to send a message." That message, delivered by spray paint or fists, translates...