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By Rich Heldenfels
Beacon Journal staff writer
POSTED: 03:08 p.m. EST, Nov 06, 2009
Booted to Court. Local man Yusuf Evans is taking the notorious Akron stripper-boot case to The People's Court on Monday.
The series, airing locally at 11 a.m. weekdays on WBNX (Channel 55), will address Evans' complaint that in 2008 a stripper kicked him in the face at the XTC nightclub, breaking his nose.
According to a show, a club representative insisted ''that the incident never happened in their establishment.''
Evans sued the club and an unnamed dancer in January in Summit County Common Pleas Court, seeking $25,000 in damages. The suit was dismissed in May — around the time the TV appearance was taped.
The case generated global headlines and much chatter among weird-news fans.
In other People's Court news, rev up your Dustin Hoffman impressions. Former host Joseph A. Wapner will make a special appearance on the show on Friday to mark his 90th birthday. Wapner will get his own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame the day before.
Coal Country on TV. The documentary Coal Country, produced by Akron's Mari-Lynn Evans, will air at 8 p.m. Nov. 14 on Discovery's Planet Green channel. (That's 156 on Time Warner Cable in Akron.) It will be part of Planet Green's Reel Impact documentary series.
The film, which had its Ohio premiere at Akron's Civic Theatre in September, looks not only at the coal industry but also at its impact on West Virginia communities.
Coal Country Music, a companion CD, will be available on Tuesday. It includes songs by John Prine, Kathy Mattea, Tom T. Hall, Jean Ritchie, the Klezmatics, Willie Nelson and others.
God Must Have Had a Slow Day. In the latest war of words between Lindsay Lohan and her father, Michael, People.com quotes Michael thus: ''God is taking her entire career away from her. Because she's forsaken everything he's given her and she's done nothing but misuse all the gifts she's given.''
I think her upbringing also might have had just a little to do with her behavior.
And No One Asked, What Pier? Regrettheerror.com picked up this one from the Los Angeles Times: ''Minnesota Vikings quarterback Brett Favre was quoted as saying, 'It didn't seem weird until I got in near the pier,' talking about his return to Lambeau Field in Green Bay, Wis. What he said was, 'It didn't seem weird until I got in near De Pere,' which is a town between Appleton and Green Bay.''
Rich Heldenfels writes about popular culture for the Beacon Journal, in the HeldenFiles Online blog at http://heldenfels.ohio.com, on Facebook and on Twitter. Some items here appeared in a different form in the online column. He can be reached at 330-996-3582 and rheldenfels@thebeaconjournal.com.
Booted to Court. Local man Yusuf Evans is taking the notorious Akron stripper-boot case to The People's Court on Monday.
The series, airing locally at 11 a.m. weekdays on WBNX (Channel 55), will address Evans' complaint that in 2008 a stripper kicked him in the face at the XTC nightclub, breaking his nose.
According to a show, a club representative insisted ''that the incident never happened in their establishment.''
Evans sued the club and an unnamed dancer in January in Summit County Common Pleas Court, seeking $25,000 in damages. The suit was dismissed in May — around the time the TV appearance was taped.
The case generated global headlines and much chatter among weird-news fans.
In other People's Court news, rev up your Dustin Hoffman impressions. Former host Joseph A. Wapner will make a special appearance on the show on Friday to mark his 90th birthday. Wapner will get his own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame the day before.
Coal Country on TV. The documentary Coal Country, produced by Akron's Mari-Lynn Evans, will air at 8 p.m. Nov. 14 on Discovery's Planet Green channel. (That's 156 on Time Warner Cable in Akron.) It will be part of Planet Green's Reel Impact documentary series.
The film, which had its Ohio premiere at Akron's Civic Theatre in September, looks not only at the coal industry but also at its impact on West Virginia communities.
Coal Country Music, a companion CD, will be available on Tuesday. It includes songs by John Prine, Kathy Mattea, Tom T. Hall, Jean Ritchie, the Klezmatics, Willie Nelson and others.
God Must Have Had a Slow Day. In the latest war of words between Lindsay Lohan and her father, Michael, People.com quotes Michael thus: ''God is taking her entire career away from her. Because she's forsaken everything he's given her and she's done nothing but misuse all the gifts she's given.''
I think her upbringing also might have had just a little to do with her behavior.
And No One Asked, What Pier? Regrettheerror.com picked up this one from the Los Angeles Times: ''Minnesota Vikings quarterback Brett Favre was quoted as saying, 'It didn't seem weird until I got in near the pier,' talking about his return to Lambeau Field in Green Bay, Wis. What he said was, 'It didn't seem weird until I got in near De Pere,' which is a town between Appleton and Green Bay.''
Rich Heldenfels writes about popular culture for the Beacon Journal, in the HeldenFiles Online blog at http://heldenfels.ohio.com, on Facebook and on Twitter. Some items here appeared in a different form in the online column. He can be reached at 330-996-3582 and rheldenfels@thebeaconjournal.com.
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Akron, OH
Posted 06:33 PM, 11/06/2009
hmm
Akron, OH
Posted 06:33 PM, 11/06/2009
Thanks for telling us nearly FIVE HOURS after the show's over. lol
Glad Akron is always represented so gloriously on the national stage.
Akron, Oh
Posted 07:31 AM, 11/07/2009
Vanilla.....Monday the 9th @ 11 AM.
