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HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE Get Your Hands On These For Christmas

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OUTING THE OCCUPY MOVEMENT What’s The Deal Here?

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PULL THE PLUG AND JET Kreayshawn Has Set A New Standard

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IN THE CROSSHAIRS Mastodon Takes Aim At The Conventional

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A SECOND CHANCE AT A FIRST IMPRESSION Dia Frampton and “The Voice”

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THE LEGEND AND THE LENS Photographer David Drebin Captures Manny Pacquiao

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THE BLOG AND THE BROTHEL Bethany St. James Writes and Rides

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LAST NAME : CAPONE An Intimate Look at The Infamous Family Name

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SKINNIE SCENE A Look Back at What You May Have Missed

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“Be Thankful for what you got”

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I really make no bare bones about it - most everything sucks. This is often the page I utilize to vent my frustration with the fucking nonsense that usually plagues my life. The egos, the bimbos, the scene –ugh. But having spent the year wading through the garbage, you manage to acknowledge something very special – you only know what is shit because you experience the best in contrast. The economy is in the shitter. The current field of presidential candidates looks like a collection of carnies. The government is passing legislation that spits in the face of the US Constitution. The Dodgers are still owned by Frank McCourt and something called The Kardashians collect more revenue in one year than most teachers, doctors, and civil servants will make their entire lives – but the fact that I can share this kind of frustration with those closest to me and you folks is really a blessing.

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When things really get bad – friends and family. I love you guys. Merry Christmas…

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An interview with the voices of

occupy Wall

street There’s A Reason To Be Pissed

Words By Jasen T. Davis

On June 1st, 2011 in a courtroom in Miami, Florida, Bank of America agreed to pay $410 million in damages as part of a class action lawsuit filed against the corporation and a dozen other financial institutions on behalf of thirteen million current and former customers.

million, a massive conglomeration of state and federal law enforcement, including whatever private investigators the banks had ready to rumble, would go to work in seconds to find us and put us in jail so long that when you got out, everyone around you would have cybernetic limbs.

When a customer would deposit a check into their account and then make a purchase based on the funds available, Bank of America was found guilty of manipulating the deposits (which was referred to as “debit re-sequencing”) so that the purchases would hit the acounts first, resulting in customers paying the banks billions in overdraft fees.

The highly-publicized Wall Street bailout was another example of this quiet collusion between the government and financial institutions. While our taxdollars went to banks that had lost our money on deals they knew were rotten, the same bankers served no jail time, awarded themselves larges bonuses of our tax dollars, and donated the rest to politicians who would serve their interests, including preventing the creation and enforcement of laws that would eliminate their corrupt behavior.

$410 million in damages is nothing to laugh but the real joke is that thousands of people, flesh-and-blood customers, went through the frustration of losing money because of unregulated account manipulations. While the banks reaped profits many times over, people who couldn’t afford it lost money that could have gone to paying for groceries, gasoline or other bills. Since then other banks, like JPMorgan Chase, CitiGroup and Wells Fargo, but compared to the amount the banks are estimated to have made from the scheme, which went back so far many debit account users simple could not be identified, the investment was worth it. I’d pay $410 million to make billions in profits years beforehand. While the story did go public, what’s important is that if you, your mother, your best friend or I went into a bank (or somehow hacked their computers) and stole $410

As two decades of recession, anemic recover, recession, repeat roll by, many Americans lost faith in local politics. With voter registration and participation at an all-time low, there was a general feeling that no matter who you voted for, nothing was going to change. The Occupy Wall Street protest movement, also known as the 99% Movement, is a political group that is not part of either political party, but is instead based on a platform of fiscal responsibility for Wall Street and civic responsibility to the politicians who helped put America in the poor house. I interviewed Kanene Ayo Holder, 32, who is a press representative for Occupy Wall Street’s New York City’s General Assembly People of Color Working Group, about the future of Occupy and what she think the movement means for America.

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According to recent polls by CNN and MSNBC, a majority of the American public are in favor of the Occupy movement. Why do you think this is?

law that protected low-income housing, into a foreclosed home and also on 12/12 when many ports on the west coast will be shut down to raise awareness of Goldman Sachs anti-union profiteering.

An increasing number of Americans, myself included are experiencing an American nightmare and have lost hope in the American Dream. A recent poll conducted by MetLife found that “3 in 4 Baby Boomers, many nearing retirement, lack an adequate safety net. Also more Americans say they are working harder than their parents did at their age and a third will take a job they are overqualified for.” Record foreclosures, unemployment, lack of healthcare and over 15 million children impoverished children in the same America that bailed out Wall Street instead of main street has awakened the sleeping giant of dissent.

I think our movement will continue to lead by example, showing alternatives to corporate forces. We will empower local farms, credit unions, and others to DIY. Provide healthcare, education, housing, etc to each other without profiteering middlemen.

People can no longer keep up appearances because too many are struggling to put food on their tables and maintain a roof over their heads while other get millions in bonuses. The 1% percent, after years of trial and error have finally perfected and shoved the recipe for the bitterest slice of reality down the throats of the 99% and we are tired of gagging and choking. The 1% are forcing even the most apathetic into action. Most of the major news media have ignored the massive Occupy protests, including the march on Brooklyn bridge last month that involved more than 20,000 people. Do you believe that in spite of the blackout you are still getting the message across to the public, or is there still a lot of work to do? During the OWS midnight raid, not only was there a media blackout, several reporters were arrested. What message does that send to journalism majors and schoolchildren across this nation that are learning about the Bill of Rights and the Pledge of Allegiance? Despite transparent attempts to obfuscate OWS, we have and will continue to prevail, because the truth cannot be silenced and you can’t evict an idea whose time has come. We (the 99%) are currently CNN’s number 6 most popular story of 2011 and there are countless articles and public intellectuals including Nobel Prize economist Paul Krugman noting that the occupy movement has transformed the national and congressional dialog about income inequality. Public relations experts including Frank Luntz are starting to consult with conservatives and corporations and offering damage control tool-kits to deal with the 99% meme and maintain their customers and voters. Despite attempts to distort, discredit and delegitimize OWS, we have spread like dandelion seeds. Thanks to social media, camera phones, cardboard signs and courage we are occupying hearts and minds both at home and abroad. Now that most of the Occupy camps are getting broken up across the nation, what do you believe has to happen next? Necessity is the mother of invention and we are not fair-weather occupiers.This is a peaceful and protracted struggled to recalibrate income inequality and hence all of our efforts will involve highlighting corruption, exploitation and viable solutions. OWS is both global and local hence we are centralized and mobilized around the country because injustice anywhere is injustice everywhere. We will continue to codify fact sheets, conduct teach-ins and boycotts entities that cripple both Americans and our global community. Examples include 12/6 when Occupy will help get a family that was evicted due to NY’s governor repealing a

Will Occupy have to become political to survive? If so, should the movement join a political party, become a political party, or something else entirely? The OWS movement is non-partisan yet proactive with three main purposes including awareness about issues of corruption and political compromise due to corporate forces, advocacy for the victims of our failed system and lastly accountability for whoever is in office. We want our government, from the president, to the halls of congress and our local officials to be preoccupied with serving the people they were sworn and elected to serve. One or several OWS candidates occupying our government won’t stop the hemorrhaging of jobs, homes, health benefits, pension plans, etc. At times, based on a specific issue, a person urges people to call their representative to say yes or no to one specific bill. This tactic has mostly been reactive, but OWS is charting a new trajectory for our government regardless of ideology or political affiliation.We feel the needs of the people must be addressed. I think this system is tone-deaf and broken. We are making our message loud and clear. What is one constructive criticism you might have for the Occupy movement? Since OWS is fueled by the fierce urgency of NOW, we are strapped for time. Although this movement is only almost three months old, we are under intense scrutiny as we help lift the weight of the world’s problems. Harry Belafonte recently referred to us as “…change agents of the 21st century” and also noted (in his gentle and husky voice) that we were like a baby, just learning to crawl and continue to take strides in the right direction.We know that as Martin Luther King stated “The ark of the universe is long, but bends towards justice”, and hence ultimately whatever we do and say will impact and change the course of history. Do you think the Occupy movement could merge with the Tea Party, or is that impossible, given the financial ties the Tea Party has to the Republican Party’s corporate sponsors and the Koch brothers? This is an ideological war. It behooves people to be critical instead of passive and question rather than accept the status quo and henchmen of doom. We Americans can no longer take comfort in being the arbiters and models of democracy. We must begin to re-examine our relationships to the systems that keep us mired in misery. The 1% play with peoples’ emotions by convincing them to downplay and fear OWS by trying to kill the messenger and the message while simultaneously providing a platform for others to be loud and wrong at the same time. Especially now when it’s blatantly apparent that our democracy is bought and sold, we would never seek allies in those who finance the mockery of democracy.

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baby-Kreay Meet Kreayshawn, America’s Newest Next Big Thing

It’s 10am in California and I’m on speakerphone with Kreayshawn, indie pop culture’s new hip hop icon.

“I don’t know I just had this like nightmare… I’ve never been on a tour bus…. “. Currently she’s doing press for her upcoming tour with Neon Indian. It will be her first time touring in a full-size tour bus. “I’m kinda scared to go on it. I had a tour bus nightmare. We were on the tour bus and one of our friends or some one that was like, on the bus, we didn’t really know him, he was on the bus with us and like stole the bus and was driving all crazy in the mountains and I was scared…I was like stuck on it”.

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For those unfamiliar, Kreayshawn is a 22-year old rapper from the bay area (more specifically Oakland) who is, theoretically, getting ready to drop one of the most anticipated records of 2012. Even well into the buzz of her smash street single she’s still getting used to her fame. Since “Gucci Gucci” made her a household name she’s purchased a new car and a new apartment in Hollywood, but she’s still somewhat amazed by her own success “Yesterday it was cool I was like oh shit. I never really wanted an ipad but I thought about it and it was like, I can just go get one”. Born Natassia Zolot, Kreaysahwn is the Russian American daughter of Elka Zolot, a punk musician (Google The Trashwomen if you’d like to meet Baby Kreay’s mama). She dropped out of high school and focused her attention on her video camera

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I had a tour bus nightmare. We “ were on the tour bus and one of our

friends or some one that was like, on the bus, we didn’t really know him, he was on the bus with us and like stole the bus and was driving all crazy in the mountains and I was scared… I was like stuck on it

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and eventually won a scholarship to the Berkeley Digital film Institute. In between classes she made money as a maintenance worker for the city and found her place in the bay area’s growing ‘hyphy’ scene. “A lot of people think people in the bay are crazy weirdos, but I was the perfect age in the hyphy movement”.With the likes of Mac Dre and E-40 pumping through her headphones Kreayshawn began directing videos for underground artists including Lil B. Somewhere amongst her travels in the hyphy scene she decided to try her hand at music. So in 2010, alongside Dj Woogie, Kreayshawn released Kittys X Choppas and its subsequent single/self-directed video “Bumpin Bumpin”. In 2011, with the help of Dj Two Stacks, Kreay released her second single titled “Gucci Gucci” and life changed. The song, which oddly enough sampled her Kittys and Choppas single “Bumpin Bumpin”, called out ‘”basic bitches” who rocked designer duds, and instantly became a cult hit amongst underground club goers and hipsters alike. Shortly after, Kreayshawn was contacted by Columbia Records and inked a 1 million dollar deal with the label to begin work on her new album. Since then however the world has heard very little musically from her aside from a second street single entitled “Rich Whores” and a leaked track featuring Snoop Dogg called “Keep it Craccin”. Granted this doesn’t mean Kreayshawn hasn’t been busy. She was nominated for a best new artist award at the 2011 Video Music Awards, dealt with a ‘nude pics leak’ scandal, and started beef with Rick Ross (yes, the 22 year old student filmmaker started beef with Rick Ross). Her tours do solid numbers, her twitter is highly active, and after years of directing on the independent circuit The Red Hot Chilli Peppers approached her management about directing the band’s video. Yet what’s interesting is that none of these aspects of her marketing machine really match up. Over the summer it was rumored she had shot the video for the Red Hot Chilli Peppers single “The Adventures of Rain dance Maggie”, but as time past it was leaked that the Kreayshawn-cut of the video was being shelved and the group had opted to use another director. Despite the lapse in usable content, Kreayshawn is still undoubtedly famous, but the question is why? It almost doesn’t make sense. She is, until her debut album

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comes out, a one hit wonder. But even that is untrue because “Gucci Gucci” only peaked at #57 on the US charts. Naturally we want to position her as a sort of underground/cult icon, but even that falls short. If the current underground hiphop game is semi-dominated by mixtapes and the accessibility of increasingly new and free material, Kreayshawn is an anomaly to the game. On paper, Kreayshawn is the total package: a part time filmmaker with a hit single. She has an impeccable grasp of online marketing, and a controversial social posture with style to spare. The current cause for concern seems to be that there’s no content. The artist inked a million dollar deal this year based almost entirely around the strength of her debut single “Gucci Gucci”, but if someone like Mac Miller is the underground artist’s ultimate goal (the second independent record to debut at #1 on Billboard) Kreayshawn is doing it all wrong. Her career seems to grow exponentially by NOT releasing material. But is that the real beauty of it? Its not that Kreayshawn isn’t relevant or that she doesn’t deserve to be. It’s just that she seems to occupy the strange pop culture role of “what we don’t know won’t hurt us”. For every person who condemns Kreayshawn’s white-girl rhymes there’s someone else who stands up for her creativity. The public is essentially divided, and neither side is wrong. Currently with no content there can be no opinion. Until her record comes out Kreayshawn is essentially whatever we decide she is. We lack sufficient data to create an assessment. Kreayshawn is essentially the Urban Outfitters version of a pre-2008 Chinese Democracy.Who knows if it’s relevant or not, no one’s even heard it. After explaining her bus nightmare to me Natassia Zolot pauses and changes gears, “Oooooh what if my bus was like the Spice Girls! Have you seen the Spice World tour bus? Oh that’d be so cool. Maybe in a year or two I can get the spice world tour bus ”. Just as in her dream, the Kreayshawn bus speeds its way up the mountain. Who is driving? No one knows him. It’s supposedly some friend of a friend who just got on. Kreayshawn will be performing in San Francisco for New Years Eve and will be releasing her debut album Life With Loopy in 2012.You can currently hear her on the new Juicy J single “U Trippy Mane”.

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Mastodon Takes Aim At The Same Ol’ Shit By Patrick Douglas

If the Beatles got lost in the backwoods of Montana, survived off of eating raw squirrels and contracted rabies from bats all before finding their way back to civilization by riding a group of bull elk out of the forest, they would change their name to Mastodon. It’s true that few rock releases this year have been met with more anticipation than Mastodon’s fifth release, “The Hunter,” and for good reason. Critics and fans alike created a buzz on the Internet leading up to the late September release, helping the album to reach 10th place on the Billboard 200 charts. Despite being called by some the best release of this short decade so far, the band isn’t getting too wrapped up in the hype. “All that really nice stuff is awesome and makes us really happy if critics like it,” said drummer and vocalist Brann Dailor. “At the end of it all, we just have to know that we totally love it and made something that we wanna listen to on a daily basis and we are going to be able to perform live and be excited about.” Having released four other highly successful albums, the men of Mastodon are no strangers to being praised. Dailor is a self-proclaimed perfectionist and admittedly

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feeds off of the negative comments the band gets, even if they’re relatively rare. “You just have hundreds and hundreds of people raving about the album and there’ll be just one bad review and I’ll concentrate on that and get bummed out and sit there and go, ‘That person said many mean things about us and it makes me sad. I don’t know what to do,’” said Dailor. “My wife’s like ‘C’mon, it’ll be OK. Don’t pay attention to that mean man.’ Self loathing artists. That’s why I get up on stage every night.” What set this album apart from the rest in terms of writing and recording was the way they prepared for the studio, Dailor said. This time they didn’t have it all mapped out like they usually do. “It was definitely thrilling because of the fact that we weren’t really 100-percent ready to go into the studio for the first time ever,” said Dailor. “Usually you go into the studio and we’re more than prepared. We play the songs to death and then go in there. We just didn’t have that opportunity.” Dailor went on to explain that the band, knowing that they were hitting the road

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for a six-week tour in June, had to jump into the studio towards the end of April and had to have the new album finished before they left for tour. “We wanted to go into the studio.We knew we didn’t want to go to Europe and play for six weeks and then come back and have to go directly into a rehearsing studio,” he said. “We wanted to go into the studio with the excitement of brand new material that we hadn’t played into the ground.” The resulting record came out sounding like a pleasant mix of Queens of the Stone Age and High On Fire, while still keeping a trademark Mastodon style throughout. As always, the thing that sets Mastodon apart from bands of the same ilk are the vocal contributions of the band. Bassist Troy Sanders, guitarist Brent Hinds and Dailor on drums all share lead vocal duties depending on the particular song, ala The Beatles. Other guitarist Bill Kelliher contributes backing vocals. It’s a collaboration that thrives on respect for one another, explained Dailor. “We dig each other’s voices and we’re a band in the true sense of the word,” he said. “It’s like ‘I think Troy’s voice would sound great here,’ or ‘I think Brent would sound great on this part,’ or ‘Brann, you should sing this, it’s gonna sound good.’ We each audition it and then we come to a conclusion. We’re very diplomatic and there’s no crazy egos involved. Everybody’s really respectful to each other. We don’t really tend to argue that much, so that’s nice. I think a lot of bands have an opposite problem. Each one of us understands that we’re all integral members of the band and we couldn’t do it without one of the other guys.” The diverse arrangements of vocals often produces great harmonies and when mixed with the stoner rock-like guitars makes for a heavy classic rock vibe. “That’s what we listen to, mainly. I guess that’s what we eventually were gonna get around to playing,” said Dailor. The band has also taken pride in offering artistic and unique album covers, another

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ode to the days of vinyl. This time around, they enlisted the help of artist A.J. Fosik who created a wooden sculpture of a three-jawed Minotaur for “The Hunter.” “We are also children of the ‘70s and ’80 so we also suffer from the same wants and desires from our music to have some kind of visual arts to accompany it,” said Dailor. “People used to get together in a room and put a record on and listen to it and pass the cover art around. I don’t know if that happens anymore. I guess if you want people to buy CDs you need to give them something to look at. You can’t be mad that people aren’t buying CDs anymore and get on Photoshop and squeak something out in 20 minutes (for a cover).” The four members of Mastodon look at their collaboration as a brotherhood. Failure is not an option and in-fighting is not something they consider. To do so would jeopardize a magical ride for all four, according to Dailor. “I started playing my drums when I was three or four years old and I haven’t stopped and now it’s my job so it’s like ‘Yay!” said Dailor. “All the other guys feel the same way and there’s no way that you wanna get rid of something like that. It’s such a sacred thing to us and the band and the music and the longevity of the band. If someone has a problem, they say it. Luckily there’s not that many problems.We just all know the score. We’re all really excited and happy that we’re doing something that a lot of people don’t get to do which is play in a band. No one is disrespectful to each other. If a couple of dudes are wasted and say something stupid, obviously the next day, when we wake up, it’s like ‘Hey, sorry about that.’ You move on.” “What we can control is what we dig. As long as we achieve that then everything else is gravy,” he said. “If everyone loves it, it’s awesome. If a bunch of people hate it, that’s too bad. As long as the core guys, the four of us, can maintain and say, ‘We love this,’ and we stand behind it, that’s all we can control and all that really maters. If you come from a place of honesty with your art then that’s gonna resonate with people for the right reasons.”

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first impression Dia Frampton Finds Her Voice

By Ramon Gonzales

If you recognize her face, you aren’t alone. While many folks were only just introduced to Dia Frampton after her appearance on the NBC hit show “The Voice”, there is a solid base of fans that knew her as half of the duo Meg & Dia.The same Meg & Dia that had spent years cutting their teeth as support for bands like Angels & Airwaves, Bayside, and more than a few stints on The summertime punk rock caravan known as the Vans Warped Tour. The same Meg & Dia that signed to Warner Bros. in 2007 and would go on to release teo studio albums under WB and Sire respectively.This was also same Meg & Dia that would come into 2010 with no

label, no money, and recording in their mother’s living room. While “The Voice” did a great job of making this 24 – year old come off as an unassuming children’s book writer with an immaculately delicate voice, there were a few people who knew this was no fluke. Dia Frampton might be soft-spoken, but as success manages to build in momentum, rest assured, dues were paid and then some. In an interview with 93.7 KCLB’s Tyler Russell – Dia talked about her decision to audition for the televisions show. “I initially went on as a way to sort of promote

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Meg & Dia. Maybe if I get on a blind audition people will just google me and see Meg & Dia and that would be awesome. I never ever, ever thought I would get this far in a million years.” Just how far did Dia get. She managed to sing a duet with Miranda Lambert - just the wife of one of the judges in Blake Shelton. No big deal. Dia also managed to just fall short of winner the entire competition by just 2% of the votes. To put things into perspective though, “The Voice” managed to be a ratings bonanza for NBC as millions tuned in each week. Math has never been a strength, but coming up short by just 2% of millions of votes likely equals a whole new set of possibilities for Dia Framption. With the sudden success however, comes bigger decisions. Since 2044 Dia was rooted in her identity as half of Meg & Dia. She continued in to elaborate in the same interview, “It’s been pretty crazy. But if anything does happen as far as a solo carrier goes, which I was not planning, I’m going to bring them (Meg and the rest of the band) and do as much as possible with them.” If Dia sounds different from most modern pop stars it’s probably because she is. While her appearance on television was likely aided by producers to include more

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modern tunes, cue Colbie Callait and Kanye West, Frampton is quick to remind you that her heart is a kin much more to the likes of Tom Petty and The Avett Brothers. Indeed a refreshing a spin on what we typically find from the results of most reality/competition shows. Despite losing the show, Frampton’s voice was quickly resigned to Universal music as downloads of her single “Inventing Shadows” exceeded more than 500,000, a far cry from the living room in St. George Utah. Releasing her solo debut RED, Frampton acknowledges that while her road to stardom was indeed meteoric, it was completely unexpected. “I never expected to go this far. The Voice has pushed everything into a whole new realm.” It’s the same kind of humble disposition that seems to resonate in Frampton’s music and has resulted in her ability in becoming a fan favorite. No matter how she arrived, Dia Frampton had the goods to get there and she has indeed, arrived.

RED from DIA FRAMPTON is available everywhere Dec. 6, 2011 from Universal Republic.

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greatness Renowned Photographer David Drebin Brings Manny Into Focus By Ramon Gonzales

It could be argued that few events in sport have the kind of pageantry and spectacle of professional boxing match. Within the sport there have been many names that have transcended the combat to become some of the world’s most endearing personalities. What probably wouldn’t be argued is where Manny Pacquaio ranks among those same legendary names. Boasting a record of 54 wins, 38 by way of knockout, just three defeats and two draws, the reality is that Pacquaio’s professional record isn’t even the most impressive element to this enigmatic figure. He is a humanitarian and Congressman in the Philippines. He is a father, a husband, and has cultivated a sincere reputation for being one of the most generous celebrity athletes on the planet. He is an 8-time world champion, he has an estimated 300 million fans across the globe, he sings, he acts, and continues to remain undefeated since 2005. And yet, he remains just as determined. In the first ever-authorized book on Manny Pacquaio, revered photographer David Drebin has the opportunity to chronicle the kind of focus it takes to become

one of the world’s most respected and committed athletes in Manny Pacquaio. Early mornings in the gym, long flights, late nights – appearances, fans, heavy bags, Congress meetings, cardio, these are just a few of the many elements that David Drebin soaked in from a very intimate, yet candid perspective. He told us just how the Champ should be seen… Explain how the project developed from infancy to publication. How were you able to convince Mr. Pacquaio to grant the kind of access you had to take such mesmerizing shots? The project developed when I met Todd Duboef the President of Top Rank who purchased one of my most famous photographs “Champion” (the moment after Manny knocked out Ricky Hatton) at Art Basel Miami three years ago. This was the beginning of my relationship with Top Rank and since then I have done the major key art photography for their most notable fights including Pacquiao/Margarito, Pacquiao/Mosely, Pacquiao/Clottey, Pacquiao/Marquez and made my studio shots of Manny during this time and my fan shots at Wild Card Gym and Gyms in New York along with my stadium shots in Dallas and Las Vegas.

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There are 180 images in the book - if you had to select a favorite, which would it be and why? My two favorites are the silhouette of Manny alone dreaming the dream of victory and then the back of the book “Champion” because he tastes victory, the hard work that paid off in the end…From believing it to seeing it.

What do you feel is important that the reader come away knowing after flipping through the pages of the book? I want the reader to understand that they have a piece of history. This is the first-ever authorized photographic book on Manny Pacquiao. From the view of the fan and from the intimate access that we had in making these epic photographs of a modern day iconic superstar, we are able to give people something never seen before. What was your perception of the Champion prior to working with him and how has it changed since then? Anticipation. Reality and reflection are the same on this project. We wanted to make the book,We made the book.The fans love the book. I knew he was humble outside the ring and ferocious inside the ring.We love this duality and contradiction… From Mr. Nice Guy to Mr. Ringmaster.

In going through the book so many times, what do you feel is the one theme that seems to resonate most with you as the photographer? The idea of the book really is that in life your biggest competition is your reflection in the

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mirror. The book really is just “Manny versus Manny”. The opponents come and go but Manny is in competition with his own legacy.

Through the images, what do you hope resonates most with the reader? That you can become whatever it is you would like to become with persistence, patience and ambition no matter where you come from...just like Manny. What is your take on the sport of boxing? How important has Pacquaio been to preserving the integrity of the sport and where do you think he falls in terms of a legacy? I love boxing. The strategy, the grit, the glamour. I love how when a boxer goes into the ring they take the chance of either knocking someone out or being knocked out. High risk. High reward. I also love the spectacle of a great boxing event in a great epic stadium with all the fans and their passion for their heroes in the ring. In terms of legacy, Manny’s work speaks for itself. In terms of your career, how has this project stacked up? What do you walk away with after having put this project together? Nothing like doing a book on the theme of “Guts and Glory”. Manny has both. This has been a very satisfying experience to partner with Manny and Top Rank to roll this book out around the world. WWW.MANYBOXINGBOOK.COM WWW.DAVIDDREBIN.COM

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reasoning From The Brothel To The Blog with Bethany St. James By James Gobee

It’s not common that a journalist’s side job has to do with performing professional fellatio. Actually, I have never heard of that ever being the case, until now. How often do you hear of a legal prostitute being a journalist? Not the legal part, but the journalist part.Allow me to introduce you to Huffington Post blogger,Bethany St.James. Where else than in good ol’ Sin City, well 45 minutes away at least, closer to Death Valley really, just on the outskirts of Pahrump, NV. There you will find Sheri’s Ranch one of Nevada’s legal brothels. Sheri’s Ranch, is a sprawling 33 acre location. It actually is a resort and spa if you want to get technical.

and respectful, that I am offering my body to you, we’re good,” she enlightens.

St. James came upon Sheri’s Ranch just a year and a half ago after having visited every other brothel around. Just when she felt like giving up, she was dazzled by the lavish and amazing oasis that became her last stop.

She has worked in every aspect of the adult entertainment industry and when the “Craig’s List boom”, happened a few years ago, it made it extremely difficult for people like St. James. The sex market was completely over saturated with girls and people willing to do anything for a little bit of money.

“I went to, literally, every brothel in Nevada but some were just hideous. Sheri’s was the last ranch I went to. Now I am spoiled by having really nice working conditions,” she laughed. “It really is breath taking.” It has been a long road for St. James to become the entrepreneur she is today. She is considered an independent contractor for her very own business. The federal government and the state of Nevada have mandated that women that work in brothels, like St. James, have a business license. “My bedroom is my technical office and I am only allowed to discuss pricing in my office,” she said. As an independent contractor each woman is allowed to negotiate their own individual prices for their services and what is and what is not allowed even though St. James admits that she has very few limitations.“As long as someone is kind

St. James has finally found a comfortable place that meets her expectations at Sheri’s Ranch after traveling the country, starting at the age of 16. When she was a child back in Atlanta from where she hails the southern belle’s parents were both involved in the adult industry. Her mom was an actress in adult movies and her dad was the owner of a gentlemen’s club. “I consider myself an industry kid,” St. James said. “There aren’t many of us out there so I like to coin that phrase.”

“It was disturbing to see how much people were willing to sacrifice; their safety, self confidence and that sort of thing plus putting themselves at risk,” St. James said. “I didn’t know anything different.” She did try to maintain a regular job, one that doesn’t involve nudity or a reverse cowgirl position, but she hated it and she was miserable. After seeing the brothels in Nevada, St. James wondered, ‘Why aren’t these legal everywhere?? ’“I mean I don’t support decriminalization at all but legal brothels are such an answer and it really spoke to me,” she said. Being a part of Sheri’s Ranch provided her with the opportunity to learn about the politics and everything that surrounds legalizing prostitution. She quickly developed

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Just because I have sex for money doesn’t “mean that I’m stupid, actually it makes me pretty smart. Women think, ‘How can you have sex for money?? That’s so tacky!’ Why you have it for dinner and drinks, for free. Who’s the stupid one here?

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a true passion for the legalization of brothels, understanding every rule and regulation of legalized prostitution.All of this is in her “Pursuit to Legalize Brothels.” Education is an important thing for St. James. She wants people to understand that she is not advocating decriminalization of prostitution but the legalization of brothels and what it can actually provide to the communities that they are in. All of this might sound like a contradiction, but it isn’t she does not advocate street prostitution, rather prostitution in the controlled environment. “People have an idea that it brings crime out into the community but it is the complete opposite,” St. James explains. “It gives these girls a safe place to go and contain them in and gives them a place to work in. Brothels are the exact opposite of trafficking prostitution. Now you have these girls who are tax paying citizens, they have sheriff’s cards, we know where they are, we are tested once a week and we are putting the spotlight on the people that are breaking the law.” She feels that the spotlight should be focused on drug issues and other street crimes. St. James thinks that people don’t realize that brothels can provide so many other jobs other than the actual prostitute. “We’re talking office staff, landscaping, drivers, janitorial and maintenance jobs. There are so many other jobs that are behind the scenes,” St. James explains. “We would be opening up tons of jobs and especially right now when we are in such an economic crisis where the unemployment rate is out the wazoo.” Business savvy, St. James also recognizes that the state would benefit simply from the taxes received from get from establishments like Sheri’s. “The ranch has to pay taxes, the girls are paying taxes, and people who come in to visit are spending money at the gas stations and the convenient stores. I don’t think the general public sees the bigger picture across the board,” St. James said. “There is a much, much bigger issue than what people realize. We have to change mindset before we change legislation.” St. James is thoroughly interested in politics and the economy. She may not have a college degree but in her case street smarts can take the place of book smarts. “Just because I have sex for money doesn’t mean that I’m stupid, actually it makes me pretty smart,” she said. “Women think, ‘How can you have sex for money?? That’s so tacky!’ Why you have it for dinner and drinks, for free.Who’s the stupid one here? Most of the time you’re not having it protected and being responsible about it and nine times out of ten you’re intoxicated, now who’s stupid?”

and when people started to find out what I did I was looked down upon,” she said. The stereotypes and ridicule she received in college was the same that she endured as a child when people found out what her parents did for a living. “I never realized it was taboo or weird, not until I was eleven or twelve. My friends weren’t able to come over to my house once their parents found out what mine did,” She said. “There was a misconception that there were parties going on all the time and we lived this crazy sexual lifestyle. It was funny when I went over to friend’s house and saw that their lives were far more dysfunctional than mine ever was. I thought, ‘You guys are messed up, not us’.” St. James grew up in a home that embraced open communication. She grew up learning that sex is not bad, but that it comes with a huge responsibility and one must accept whatever the consequence that may come with it.This kind of candor only groomed her pen her perspective, Initially taking to the blog as a means of interaction on the internet, St. James’ voice become one of sincerity and reason, about a subject most people cringe to discuss. “I was really surprised, for lack of a better word, that they wanted to hear what I had to say, it’s very flattering,” she said. The “they” happens to be on the internet’s most frequented news blogs in The Huffington Post. Now a regular contributor, St James has developed an honest reputation in her ability to argue a rational point of view from the place of experience. Everyone loves sex, but in a public form, few people can discuss it and all of the facets the way St James does. “Everyone laughs at me but I would love to have an article in the New York Times,” St, James admits. “I’d love to move over to become a permanent part and have a sex and love column or a political article in there once a week, it would be a dream come true.” Writing for the Huffington Post has been a great forum for her to get her ideas and thoughts out into the public. St. James doesn’t just discuss prostitution, but includes angles like the economy in general, the weight of politics, and displays very real grasp of being socially conscious on a realistic level. The open mind of St. James has allowed her to become what she is today. Sure, she gets laid for a living but seriously, who wouldn’t want to make a living getting laid? Although she clear up one of the common misconceptions of prostitution. “You’re not paying us for the sex,” she divulged. “You’re paying us to go away after.” With the kind of candor, how could you not read what she has to say?

She took a shot at college but overall, her experience was disappointing . “I was putting myself through college with the money I was making in the industry

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Deirdre Marie Capone Explains The Life With The Infamous Last Name

“I’ve been spending the last years of my life as a public benefactor. I’ve given people the light pleasures, shown them a good time. And all I get is abuse.” - Al Capone.

Deirdre Marie Capone was 18 years old when she was fired from a job at an insurance company because of her last name. It wasn’t the first time she had been persecuted for simply sharing the same blood as a man who most considered awful. She was in second grade when her famous uncle Al Capone died and word of her lineage spread like wildfire until no one wanted to be near her for fear of her family. Years later, Deirdre’s two youngest children began to ask about their famous relative while attending college in Chicago and she felt a wave of déjà vu. Would they also have to suffer for the sins of the elders? Would the stories they heard even be true? It was then that Deirdre knew the real story of her famous uncle had to be told. Her book, “Uncle Al Capone: The Untold Story From Inside His Family,” is currently the number four best-selling book on Amazon.com and is creating a buzz from history buffs who can’t seem to turn away from all of the great stories within. “My children were the impetus,” said Deirdre of the genesis of putting the book together. She had been compiling stories from her family since she was 11 years old. “I was afraid to tell them (of their heritage). They would see references to Al Capone that were really derogatory and disrespectful.The Capone DNA is surging in their bodies and it didn’t feel good for them as it never did for me.” Historians have generally picked up facts about her family based on other books and newspaper articles that oftentimes embellished falsehoods, according to Deirdre. She felt it was time to set the records straight and get people to realize that maybe some of the stories put out by the media at the time, might have been embellished somewhat. “I was growing up and I’d read something in the paper that was just not true,” she recalled. “Now, these researchers and the people that are going out and writing these other books … they go back and read old newspaper articles and they’re not accurate. There’s a gang of people out there, a group of people, mostly men, and I call them gangsterologists. They think that they know more about that point in history than anybody else does.”

Words by Patrick Douglas

Deidre pointed out one myth in particular that is presented as fact in many accounts of Al Capone and his youth. “I see so many things stating that Al Capone quit school in the sixth grade. He did not,” she said. “My grandfather (Ralph) had to quit school but all the other siblings graduated high school and some went to college and finishing school and people don’t know that. They were very smart and well educated.” One of Deirdre Capone’s most controversial claims regarding her Uncle Al’s legacy involves his association with the St.Valentine’s Day Massacre in which seven associates of rival Bugs Moran were murdered in Chicago. While he was never convicted of the crime, it’s been long thought that Al Capone was behind the murder, even posing his men as police officers to further cement his alibi. “My family told me the real story about the Valentine’s Day Massacre. I needed to make sure that I had my facts right before I put it in the book. I do have it. I have the newspaper articles. There’s (also) two books out there that do back me up,” said the now 71-year-old Deidre. “The people that committed the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre were policemen and were working in conjunction with some of the top businessmen in Chicago and they did it to point the finger at Al Capone because that was all part of this plot to get rid of him. They wanted Al Capone gone before the World’s Fair was to be in Chicago in 1935.” “They’ll never believe I didn’t plan this whole fuckin’ mess. And to top it off, (they) didn’t even get Moran. That son of a bitch is still walkin’ around Chicago. Ralph, this is a fuckin’ nightmare.Wake me up, will ya?” Al Capone is quoted in the book as saying to his brother after hearing word about the massacre. Al Capone was convicted of tax evasion and sentenced to 11 years in prison and in 1934 was transferred to the newly built and very first maximum security prison, Alcatraz. He served five years on the island in a six-by-nine cell before he was released in 1939. When Deirdre went to the famous island prison for the first time, she cried. “Al Capone should never have been to Alcatraz,” said Deidre, who recalled reading a sign on the ferryboat featuring a quote from the first warden of the prison. “He said ‘Alcatraz was created to incarcerate irredeemable men.’ That was not Al Capone. He was convicted of a white collar crime. For heaven’s sakes, right now

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in our government there are people who owe the government a lot more than Al Capone ever owed and they’ve never even seen a judge. They had him on the outside of the cell block where he could hear people partying on the mainland, having a good time with glasses clinking and here he was not able to get off that island. I don’t know how he did it. I saw that and thought ‘You endured that then I’m going to do whatever I can to let people know the real story about you.’ So that’s what I’m doing.” “Uncle Al,” features sometimes funny anecdotes about the family as well as nuggets of information that people haven’t been exposed to in history books. Deirdre wrote about the time that Al’s older brother Ralph paid a judge $47,000 in fees and owed taxes in pennies, supplied in trucks, just to piss off the man. There’s also the time Al Capone wanted to buy the Cubs from then owner William Wrigley and knowing that the commissioner of baseball wouldn’t approve, he would ask one of his friends, maybe Jack Dempsey or Al Jolson to pose as a fake owner in his stead. Her grandfather, Ralph, recalled a story in which he asked Al how he would acquire the team to which he replied “I’ll make him an offer he can’t refuse.” Then, according to Deirdre, Al Capone planned on buying out Babe Ruth from the Yankees. He even planned on buying Satchel Paige’s contract and making him the first African American to play in the big leagues. Deirdre was seven when Al Capone, the notorious Scarface, died in 1947 from a stroke but she remembers the man vividly. She still recalls the time she fell out of a tree and had the wind knocked out of her and Uncle Al was there to comfort her as she regained composure. Her best memories are of the times the family would get together for meals, an epic adventure that took days to prepare for. “My grandmother, when she would cook, she’d start cooking dinner and planning dinner on Friday,” said Deidre, who included a few Capone family recipes in the book. “To have all the family be together for these dinners every Sunday and when Al would walk in the

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place, the party began. It was like he arrived and the family was whole and complete and that’s the way I felt about him. He was a very important person in the Capone family.” Deirdre was close to her grandfather, Al’s older brother Ralph, and had him and his vast cache of stories until he died when she was 34. He became exceptionally close to Deirdre when her father, Sonny Capone, committed suicide. As she explained, her grandfather felt somewhat responsible for not being there for his son and felt bad for Deirdre for not having a dad. She also had a close relationship with her Aunt Maffie, Al’s sister, for many years after all of the Capone boys had passed. “My grandfather really ran the business and anybody that knows their history of the mob, they know that Ralph Capone actually ran the business,” she said. “At one point, my grandfather told me he was running 300 different businesses. Now what were those businesses? They were alcohol, they were gambling and they were prostitution. All three of those things were what people wanted. There was never anybody that was made to go and gamble at the horses. Nobody was ever made to go and sit down at the speakeasy and have a drink. Nobody forced anybody into a house of prostitution. Those are the things that people wanted. My grandfather and my uncle had this idea that they were providing something and they wanted it to be top quality.” “This country wanted booze and I organized it,” Al Capone is quoted as saying. “Why should I be called a ‘public enemy?’” Deirdre Capone isn’t defensive and doesn’t try to completely exonerate her Uncle Al completely. She acknowledges there were some shady things that happened during the height of the Chicago Outfit gang. Her compelling stories reveal the man as a warm and kind individual who displayed a gentle and protective hand to those he cared about and brutality towards men who weren’t exactly saints. “You need to know the real Al Capone,” she said. “There’s absolutely no person on Earth who can write that book, except me.”

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