Today’s Gazette reports that Capital Video’s Amazing.net porn shop at 135 King Street will open on Monday. To conform with city ordinances, it will contain 998 square feet of “adult-themed items”, down from a potential 6,000+ square feet in their original plans in late June 2006.The store’s 20 proposed viewing booths were heaved over the side […]
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Today’s Gazette reports that its parent company, Newspapers of New England, is acquiring the Valley Advocate. Now is a good time to ask NNE to start on the right foot and drop the Advocate’s sex ads. Here is a sample letter: Mr. Tom BrownPresident and CEONewspapers of New England, Inc.One Monitor DriveConcord, NH 03302Dear Mr. Brown:Congratulations on […]
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The Republican reports yesterday that Capital Video’s Amazing.net porn shop on King Street is set to open soon. Northampton Building Commissioner Anthony L. Patillo issued a certificate of occupancy. Patillo expects to return to the store this coming week to verify that its stock conforms to the city’s adult-use zoning laws. These laws specify that Capital […]
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We encourage folks to turn out for Northampton’s Fourth Annual Mayor Higgins’ Hot Chocolate Run on December 1. The proceeds will benefit Safe Passage, which serves women, children and families affected by domestic violence.Choose from a 5K Road Race or a two-mile walk through downtown Northampton. The event begins at The People’s Institute, 38 Gothic Street. Start […]
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When adult enterprises bring crime and blight to their environs, this is called secondary effects. Castaway Lounge, a strip club in Whately, just added to our region’s experience with secondary effects on Friday. Today’s Gazette reports: Nicholas J. Turco, 31, of Mount Holly, and Lief J. Olson, 27, of Windsor, have both been charged with […]
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The Republican checked in with Capital Video on the status of their porn shop at 135 King Street, still undergoing renovations. The newspaper reports today: Lesley S. Rich, a lawyer for the video store, said there “was a lot of utility work on the building” that contractors needed permits for. “It’s a little slow,” he said. […]
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Mike Kirby and Lu Stone are residents of Summer Street with a full-on view of Capital Video’s prospective King Street porn shop. In January they appealed the Northampton Planning Board’s approval of Capital Video’s site plan. While not a party to this appeal, NoPornNorthampton publicized it with a press release: The goal of the couple’s […]
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Men’s Resource Center for Change invites the public to a screening of Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats & Rhymes. Showtime is this Sunday night, June 3, 7pm at Northampton’s Academy of Music. The screening will benefit VOICE MALE: The Magazine of the Men’s Resource Center for Change. It will include remarks and Q&A with director Byron Hurt. […]
Today’s Gazette reports on the status of Capital Video’s planned porn shop at 135 King Street in Northampton, and comments on the issues surrounding Capital Video’s shop in Springfield at Apremont Triangle. The Northampton store will open in June or early July. Capital Video says construction issues have delayed them at their Northampton site. Meanwhile, […]
Massachusetts legislators heard testimony about peoples’ encounters with porn at a hearing on March 16, 1992. This account appears in In Harm’s Way: The Pornography Civil Rights Hearings (p.406-407). Testimony of S I live in Northampton, Massachusetts. The first incident I’d like to talk about is representative of many incidents that I experienced by the […]