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Travis County jurors began deliberating at about 1 p.m. in the drug trial of former Austin police officer Scott Lando after First Assistant District Attorney John Neal argued that in 2006 Lando gave money and drugs to prostitutes and their boyfriends as part of a “a moral, ethical and professional collapse.”
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Pfeifer, who has a lengthy criminal history that includes drug possession, prostitution and burglary, testified that she had unprotected sex with Lando four times in 2006, including in the bed of his pickup. She said he gave her cocaine and Vicodin.
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A second prostitute said that she did not have sex with Lando but that he also brought her to his house in 2006. That woman, Lyndi Tarvin, 31, said that Lando gave her a gold necklace that belonged to his wife, according to prosecutors.

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Lando charged with hiring prostitute while on duty
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While on the stand, Denise Pfeifer admitted to the jury to having been a prostitute. Pfeifer served 10 days in jail after pleading “no contest” and being convicted of prostitution in 2005, a Class B misdemeanor.
Lando’s trial began Tuesday for charges the officer gave Pfeifer cocaine and other drugs in exchange for sex while wearing his badge. Other charges of prostitution, aggravated assault by a public servant and misuse of information are still outstanding.
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Both sides made their opening arguments Tuesday, and the key witness in this trial looks to be the convicted prostitute Lando is accused of giving drugs to in exchange for sex. Lando is facing several charges of prostitution, delivery of a controlled substance and aggravated assault by a public servant for incidents that go back to May 2006.

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Lando charged with hiring prostitute on duty
Updated: Tuesday, 10 Aug 2010, 11:59 AM CDTPublished : Tuesday, 10 Aug 2010, 11:59 AM CDT
AUSTIN (KXAN) – The trial began Tuesday for a former Austin police officer accused of having sex with a hooker while he was on duty.
Both sides made their opening arguments and the key witness in this trial looks to be the prostitute Lando is accused of giving drugs to in exchange for sex.
Scott Michael Lando is facing several charges of prostitution, delivery of a controlled substance, and aggravated assault by a public servant for incidents that go back to May of 2006.
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In their opening arguments, the state says Lando delivered some of those drugs to Denise Pfiefer, the prostitute they say will testify before them that Lando is guilty of giving her the drugs and other items in exchange for sex.

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Austin police investigate fatal stabbing
by JADE MINGUS / KVUE NEWS
kvue.com
Posted on August 4, 2010 at 6:44 AM
Updated
today at 6:32 PM
The parking lot of a gentleman’s club near the Austin Bergstrom International Airport turned into a crime scene early Wednesday morning after a 23-year-old man was fatally stabbed.
APD officers say at 2:10 a.m. a 911 caller reported a large fight in the parking lot of the Landing Strip Men’s Club on U.S. 183 near Highway 71 in Southeast Austin.
Officers say they found a large group of at least 10 or more people when they arrived. One of the men had been stabbed.
“Everybody was in shock. Especially his wife. She was over him and trying to you know make sure he’s okay. She was in shock because he lost a lot of blood,” said Charlie Brown, who went outside the club after hearing screams coming from the parking lot.

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Stabbing at Landing Strip
One man killed during fight
Updated: Wednesday, 04 Aug 2010, 5:41 AM CDTPublished : Wednesday, 04 Aug 2010, 5:36 AM CDT
AUSTIN (KXAN) – Police officers were dispatched to the Landing Strip, a gentlemens club located off of 183 near the Austin Bergstrom International Airport, shortly after 2 Wednesday morning for a fight.
Authorities on the scene said at least ten people were involved in a fight when one man was stabbed.
He was transported to UMC Brackenridge where he was pronounced dead at 2:58a.m. 
Police said there were multiple witnesses to the stabbing and are questioning those involved.  In addition authorities said they have a person of interest they are questioning.
“We’re not to concerned there is a person roaming the streets who may have committed this crime, we have a person of interest,” said Senior Police Officer Dennis Farris.

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Fleeing from her village, she becomes an unlikely picaresque heroine, living by her wits while resisting a seemingly inevitable descent into prostitution. Eventually she winds up in Britain, where she finds a job in a massage parlour and enters into a marriage of convenience with an obliging elderly customer (Geoffrey Hutchings) – but her adventures don’t end there. The writer-director Guo Xiaolu films this chronicle in an unadorned style, as if she and her crew were simply tagging along for the ride; the film flirts with cliche in evoking a familiar modern sensation of drift (an emblematic image: Mei slumped with her backpack by the side of an overpass, watching the cars go by). But Guo’s intelligence is evident in her refusal to portray Mei as either heroic or hateful – and in her division of the story into wryly titled chapters, perhaps a nod to Jean-Luc Godard’s Vivre sa vie (1962).

See the full article from “Brisbane Times”

Photos by Aaron Geiser and Chaz Gordon from aGLIFF’s annual BLOOM fundraiser, which took place last Friday at Action Figure Studios. The evening’s performers included aerialist Agent Red, artist Rob Rough, the Queertastiks, Austin based arts collective Queer Sol, Kings N Things and walker-assisted stripper Granny P.

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The ‘Shattered Dreams’ program is one of the initiatives that all District Representatives in the South Bureau worked just prior to prom and graduation. The graphic, day-long program, where reenactments of DWI collisions are depicted and the focus is on not drinking, is coordinated with the Austin Fire Department and the Texas Department of Public Safety.
In increasing ongoing operations, DR’s from one district will be pulled to assist in other parts of the South Bureau. “Our unit was temporarily located for several weeks to help out with the South Central district. We were assisting with operations targeting street level narcotics, gang activity, weapons and prostitution in south central Austin,” said Officer Zachary LaHood, DR for the southwest sector. ” One of the other things we have been doing is spending about half our time on DR duty and the other half on street response. This has been extremely successful and helps develop cohesiveness in the different units throughout the south bureau,” he added.

See the full article from “Oak Hill Gazette”

Outfest’s standout world premiere is not a feature (yet); it is the 27-minute short film “Fourplay:  San Francisco,” which centers on a transvestite prostitute who is hired to have sex with a paralyzed man.  Though they’re headed to Chicago soon, Kyle Henry and the people behind the “Fourplay” series still consider themselves Austin filmmakers.  Working with a mostly Austin crew, Henry and team are in the process of finishing the four short films that make up their “Fourplay” series.  Each short is set in a different U.S. city (San Francisco, Tampa, Austin, New Haven), and features a different transgressive sex act as the scene on which the characters’ arcs hinge.
Henry and his partner/co-writer Carlos Treviño were inspired by stories their friends and acquaintances told them about their sexual experiences.  In the San Francisco installment, the couple was delighted to create a transvestite character based on their friend, the sex-positive sex worker activist Chloe, staying away from any trans-cliché. When writing the character of Aliya (played by Paul Soileau, who moonlights as performance artist Christeene), the couple was intent not to create another asexual transvestite, so they gave Aliya a very intimate sex scene.

See the full article from “Indie Wire”

On the After Show, when asked about the ending, Kristin and Brody said it was open to viewer interpretation. What was real? What wasn’t? We’ll never know.
As for the rest of the cast, Stephanie Pratt got herself a real biker boyfriend (yes, they actually had “the talk”). “Old soul” Lo Bosworth moved in with her boyfriend and dullsville Audrina Patridge moved into an awesome house on Hermosa Beach, the lucky bitch. Meanwhile, on the After Show, Lauren Conrad returned to pimp her new books, while Holly Montag was subjected to a video montage of just how much her estranged sister has changed, reducing her to tears. The video almost had an “In Memoriam” feel to it, like Heidi Montag is no longer with us. Perhaps she’s not. It does seem like she’s been replaced by a plastic fembot.

See the full article from “Bodog Beat”