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The city of Dublin is offering women's belly dancing classes with 4-week sessions beginning Feb. 23 and Mar. 3. Level 1 class meets 10 to 11 a.m. and level 2 class meets 11 a.m. to noon. Cost is $46 for a 4-week session. Call 556-4500 or visit www.dublinrecguide.com to register. 10-11 a.m. $46
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Events Foothill Grad Night Tickets
Grad Night 2007 tickets are on sale every Tuesday and Thursday on Campus during lunchtime. Tickets are currently selling at $135 per student but hurry before the prices go up! Also see Web site http:/www.pleasanton.k12.ca.us/foothill and look under the Announcements/Activities section for information. $135 For more information, call Judi Palin at 925 426-8602 or e-mail ptownpalins@comcast.net. Foothill Grad Night, Club Sport Pleasanton, Pleasanton Red Cross: Paint the Town Big Time Gala
The American Red Cross Bay Area invites you to Paint the Town Red Big Time, an annual red tie gala benefiting local disaster preparedness and emergency response efforts.
Bringing Internet Content to the TV: The Race Heats Up
Only a few months ago, we reported on a group of companies that were trying to bring Internet content to consumers televisions. The potential market is enormous: According to research firm The Diffusion Group, the number of broadband-enabled televisions will reach 162 million by 2011. So it isn't surprising that this year's Consumer Electronics Show, held in Las Vegas in January, featured a new crop of entrants to this race, as well as new announcements from companies that had previously staked out claims.
Sony Electronics made a splash with its Bravia Internet Video Link, which it announced at CES. Its Internet video-ready televisions can receive streaming broadband video, including high-definition content, via a small optional module easily attached and concealed behind the TV.
This feature will allow most of its new televisions to access free Internet video content from providers such as AOL, Yahoo!, and Grouper, as well as from related companies Sony Pictures Entertainment and Sony BMG Music.
Las Vegas Showgirl
During the late 1980s and the early part of the 1990s Jahna Steele was a Las Vegas showgirl. As a stand-out performer with the Riviera Casino's Crazy Girls' Revue. she was sent to open Crazy Girls in Japan, where she stayed for a year. Steele was voted “Sexiest Showgirl on The Strip" in 1991. The following year, Steele was outed as transsexual on A Current Affair. When her secret was made public, she was asked to leave the show. Although she says it was very painful to lose her entertainment career, Steele is now thankful that after her coming out, she was able to be a role model for other trans women. “I had come to terms with the platform I had been placed on—that of a spokesperson for the transgender community—of which I am very proud." After she lost her showgirl job, Steele toured the talk show circuit in the ‘90s, sharing her story on television programs like Montel, which was, Steele says, more respectful and educational in those days than the exploitive “freakism" shows they've become.
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