Aaron Amos
07-03-2002, 09:47 PM
For those who are interested in going to this place in Utah. I first heard about this at exmormon.org www.exmormon.org
Too Much to Bare: Club Staging Last Nude Show
Wednesday, July 3, 2002
BY KARYN HSIAO
THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE
SOUTH SALT LAKE -- It's official. Paradise Adult Entertainment will be the first casualty of the nude-dancing debate that has engaged this community for more than a year.
Tonight "will be our last show," said Paradise DJ Zoneiy, aka Gregory Butcher, who blames the city for the club's closure. "I honestly don't see why [nude dancing] is wrong, and I don't see why South Salt Lake is such a stickler about this."
The closing of Paradise leaves two clubs -- American Bush and Leather & Lace -- trying to stay open under the city's new sexually oriented business ordinance banning nudity.
The clubs are currently operating without valid business licenses, said Andrew McCullough, the Orem attorney representing all three clubs.
Continuing its battle to stay in business, Leather & Lace filed a complaint against South Salt Lake in 3rd District Court last week, claiming the city unjustly refused to grant the dance club a new modeling business license.
McCullough filed a similar complaint for American Bush in May, when it was denied a sexually oriented business license.
South Salt Lake attorney Dave Carlson maintains that an established pattern of breaking the law is grounds for the city's refusal of the new licenses.
"We have refrained from enforcing our ordinance until we felt comfortable the clubs have had a chance to comply with it," Carlson said in a phone interview last month. "But it appears to the city that they did not want to follow the law."
The city's ordinance was upheld as constitutional by state and federal rulings late last year.
McCullough says the clubs are appealing those rulings, arguing that nude dancing is covered under the dancers' First Amendment rights.
"This is definitely a constitutional lawsuit, and we will take it all the way," said McCullough. "I filed a brief to the Utah Supreme Court [Monday], and the federal brief is coming along just fine."
The litigation could take two to three years, McCullough said. In the meantime, he says, both American Bush and Leather & Lace will "modify operations" to be in compliance with the city's business ordinance.
"The city has to grant temporary business licenses while the litigation is still pending," McCullough said.
Carlson says the city will do nothing "hasty" and is waiting for an official court order before directly shutting down the two remaining clubs.
khsiao@sltrib.com
http://www.sltrib.com/07032002/utah/750575.htm
Too Much to Bare: Club Staging Last Nude Show
Wednesday, July 3, 2002
BY KARYN HSIAO
THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE
SOUTH SALT LAKE -- It's official. Paradise Adult Entertainment will be the first casualty of the nude-dancing debate that has engaged this community for more than a year.
Tonight "will be our last show," said Paradise DJ Zoneiy, aka Gregory Butcher, who blames the city for the club's closure. "I honestly don't see why [nude dancing] is wrong, and I don't see why South Salt Lake is such a stickler about this."
The closing of Paradise leaves two clubs -- American Bush and Leather & Lace -- trying to stay open under the city's new sexually oriented business ordinance banning nudity.
The clubs are currently operating without valid business licenses, said Andrew McCullough, the Orem attorney representing all three clubs.
Continuing its battle to stay in business, Leather & Lace filed a complaint against South Salt Lake in 3rd District Court last week, claiming the city unjustly refused to grant the dance club a new modeling business license.
McCullough filed a similar complaint for American Bush in May, when it was denied a sexually oriented business license.
South Salt Lake attorney Dave Carlson maintains that an established pattern of breaking the law is grounds for the city's refusal of the new licenses.
"We have refrained from enforcing our ordinance until we felt comfortable the clubs have had a chance to comply with it," Carlson said in a phone interview last month. "But it appears to the city that they did not want to follow the law."
The city's ordinance was upheld as constitutional by state and federal rulings late last year.
McCullough says the clubs are appealing those rulings, arguing that nude dancing is covered under the dancers' First Amendment rights.
"This is definitely a constitutional lawsuit, and we will take it all the way," said McCullough. "I filed a brief to the Utah Supreme Court [Monday], and the federal brief is coming along just fine."
The litigation could take two to three years, McCullough said. In the meantime, he says, both American Bush and Leather & Lace will "modify operations" to be in compliance with the city's business ordinance.
"The city has to grant temporary business licenses while the litigation is still pending," McCullough said.
Carlson says the city will do nothing "hasty" and is waiting for an official court order before directly shutting down the two remaining clubs.
khsiao@sltrib.com
http://www.sltrib.com/07032002/utah/750575.htm