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ArtStars* is the TMZ of the Toronto art scene, in the good way: easily digestible, super-short, qualm-less videos about what the city’s self-proclaimed artisans have on offer. Torontoist is teaming up with ArtStars* to bring you one new episode a week (more or less).
Ex-stripper Christian Aldo is a big talker with bigger plans (and swears like a sailor, so be warned)—the painter, sculptor, and figurine-maker, who is the subject of a NFB doc series and moved to Toronto in November, is starting an avant-garde nudie magazine, filming an elaborate sci-fi short film, and launching a new art gallery in a Roncesvalles shoe store. Team Art Stars* dropped by his house party to learn that he’s doing a secret series of guerrilla cardboard spaceships on west-end rooftops in the coming months. You heard it here first. *snap*

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Former Raptor Robertson accused in sex ring Charged in kidnapping of 14-year-old girl Last Updated: Friday, February 26, 2010 | 10:14 PM ET The Associated Press
Former NBA all-star and Toronto Raptor Alvin Robertson has been arrested in Arkansas on charges of sexual assault of a child and sex trafficking.
Robertson is accused of being one of seven people who kidnapped of a 14-year-old girl and forcing her into prostitution, police said.
Rbertson, who lives in San Antonio, Texas, was taken into custody Friday in Bentonville, Ark., said Bexar County sheriff’s deputy Ino Badillo. The charges were contained in the arrest warrant.
Authorities allege the 47-year-old Robertson was part of a ring that kidnapped a girl girl from San Antonio last year and forced her to have sex with clients and to dance at a Corpus Christi strip club.

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JURISPRUDENCE: Former All-Star Alvin Robertson faces sexual assault of a child and sex trafficking charges alleging he was among seven people who kidnapped a 14-year-old girl who was forced into prostitution and made to dance at a strip club, authorities said. Robertson, a former Spur who still lives in San Antonio, Texas, was taken into custody in Bentonville, Ark. An investigation began in April when the girl waved down a police cruiser in Corpus Christi, Texas, and told authorities she had been abducted from San Antonio, Bexar County Sheriff’s Deputy Ino Badillo said. … Heat point guard Carlos Arroyo was charged with resisting arrest after police say he was pulled over for driving suspiciously. The Coral Gables Police Department said a motorcycle officer made several attempts to pull Arroyo over Friday morning.

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SAN ANTONIO – Former Toronto Raptor Alvin Robertson has been charged with sexual assault of a child, trafficking an underage child for purposes of sex and forcing a sexual performance by a child.
The charges were contained in an arrest warrant Friday. Robertson has not been apprehended.
Authorities claim Robertson, 47, who scored the first points in Raptors history when the franchise began play in 1995, star was part of a ring that kidnapped a 14-year-old girl from San Antonio, forced her to have sex with clients and to dance at a Corpus Christi strip club last year.
The girl escaped her alleged captors, prompting an investigation. Seven people have been charged, including Robertson’s girlfriend, and he’s the only one who has not been arrested.
The San Antonio Spurs selected Robertson seventh overall in the 1984 draft. He averaged 14 points over 10 seasons and was voted to four all-star games. He finished his career with Toronto during the 1995-’96 season.

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Call me a traditionalist (though that wouldn’t be fair, since I’ve only been to four Comic-Cons), but taking Comic-Con from San Diego seems like another step toward losing the convention’s intrinsic appeal as a fan-centric event.
Imagine how much control the studios would have if Comic-Con was plopped right in the middle of Los Angeles or down the 5 in Anaheim. Comic-Con is a fan’s event, and it’s already getting too commercial. Putting the event in LA would be like leading lambs to the slaughter.
Las Vegas is a better choice, and it can certainly handle the flow. But Sin City has too many distractions that could take away from the fan events that occur when the convention shuts it doors for the night. And no one wants to see strippers with Dorito-fingerprints on them after relaxing the no-touch rule for a Spider-Man fan from Wisconsin.

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With both Marcus Camby and Chris Bosh being out for tonight’s contest, things got a lot more interesting. In Toronto’s case they take a huge hit offensively as they lose a low post presence and their superstar. Portland however loses the guy that allows them to look like something resembling a defensive unit. You would like to see LaMarcus Aldridge go to work on Toronto’s frontline without Bosh. I’d venture out to say it may be disappointing if he doesn’t. I’m interested to see how Brandon Roy’s hamstring holds up on a back to back. I compared his hamstring to a stripper the other day and then he comes out and drops 28 points on 14 shots. Let’s aim for him continuing to look better and better but I’d be lying if I said I wouldn’t be ok with no setbacks. Andre Miller also should have some opportunities and space to work against Calderon and Jack.  All of this being said, we al …

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Court views video of man’s fatal shooting
Two men charged with slaying outside Yonge strip club
Megan O’Toole, National Post  Published: Friday, February 19, 2010
It happens in a matter of moments: On a grainy security tape played in court yesterday, two men are forcibly thrown out of the Brass Rail strip club on Yonge Street. They walk south and out of the frame.
A security guard emerges, holding up a cellphone; apparently one of the ejected guests left it inside the bar.
There is no sound on the videotape. But moments later, the crowd milling on this stretch of Yonge scatters. The Brass Rail security staff retreat into the bar. Cabs pull away, leaving the normally busy road eerily deserted.
And a man who will later be identified as John O’Keefe lies dead on the sidewalk, having fallen like a stone as a stray bullet entered his brain.

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LICENSE | EMAIL | PRINT | Text Size: S M L XL | REPORT TYPO | SEND YOUR FEEDBACK | Killed passerby’s final moments shown in court Last Updated: Thursday, February 18, 2010 | 11:06 PM ET By David McDougall, CBC News The jury in the trial of two men accused in the shooting death of a passerby outside a Toronto strip club in 2008 was shown dramatic security camera footage of the moments leading up to the victim’s death. John O’Keefe, 42, was shot and killed outside the Brass Rail Strip Club on Yonge Street south of Bloor Street in the early hours of Jan. 12, 2008, as he headed home from a downtown pub. On Thursday, Crown attorneys at the Ontario Superior Court trial presented footage taken from a Brass Rail security camera at about 1:30 a.m. that morning that shows O’Keefe walking outside the club, then crumpling to the ground. Awet Zekarias, 24, and Edward Paredes, 25, have both pleaded not guilty to seco …

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Const. Nick Smilis told court he saw Edward Paredes rack his gun and aim it at the bouncers outside the Brass Rail strip club in the early hours of Jan. 12, 2008, minutes after the gunman and his friend Awet Zekarias were forcefully ejected from the bar.

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Constable Smilis, a young York Region police officer, was off duty and on Yonge Street with friends just after 1 a.m. on Jan. 12, 2008. On Thursday, he told a Superior Court jury how a sidewalk altercation, between bouncers from the Brass Rail strip club and two young men they’d just ejected, ended in a shooting that killed Mr. O’Keefe, an innocent man walking up the street.
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As Constable Smilis crossed Yonge Street, intending to call 911 on his cellphone, he looked back to mentally record the appearance of Mr. Paredes and Mr. Zekarias, still walking south away from the strip club. “That’s when I saw a bouncer exit the Brass Rail,” the officer told court. “He had a silver object in his hand and he kind of raised it up.”

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