Bartenders get their start there,” said Kenzie Jeyne, a Ypsilanti native who has worked at the club for a decade. “Sex work feeds families,” one sign read, a refrain several of the entertainers repeated, comparing their work to any other profession.
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Some of the Déjà Vu dancers holding signs gathered on the sidewalk, most declining to share their full names, reported traveling to other cities or across state lines to continue working while the Ypsilanti club is shut down. “We’re just here to show our support for our home club and hope that the city sees that we want to contribute to, not hinder, the community,” said Lydia Frisinger, its general manager, who rattled off a list of fundraisers and donation drives the business has hosted. Kenzie Jeyne demonstrates a pole dancing hold on a tree just outside Ypsilanti City Hall during a protest held by employees and supporters of the Déjà Vu Showgirls strip club on Friday, Nov. One demonstrator scaled a tree as if it were a pole and held themselves parallel to the ground, mimicking a routine. Meanwhile, some passing cars blared their horns in apparent support as they turned onto Michigan Avenue in front of the government building’s stone façade. “It helps put money back into the community as well,” he said, showing a tattoo on his wrist with the club’s name and area codes for Detroit and Oklahoma City, where the company sent him to work during the pandemic.
1, we’re helping people get back to work,” said Déjà Vu Floor Manager Edward Otis, clad in a black “Vu” beanie and holding a sign that read “We want Ypsi to be grand too.” 19, employees and dancers, past and present, had a simple message: let us do our jobs again in Ypsilanti. Déjà Vu: A timeline of the city’s dueling legal battles with downtown strip club The club, meanwhile, is now attempting to shift the focus toward its workers, who aren’t otherwise involved in the courtroom. Ypsilanti claims that has endangered the club’s already limited ability to operate downtown under current zoning maps and is asking the court to permanently shut it down. The city fired back with a lawsuit of its own in state court in July, accusing the club’s owners of illegal construction without a building permit. That marks the beginning of a bitter war between the two Margaritas over "the Castaway’s" love - a war that will become legend on Calypso and on many other islands in the Caribbean.Déjà Vu kicked them off with a lawsuit filed against Ypsilanti in April in federal court, claiming the city slow-walked consideration of plans to repair and rebuild after a fire damaged its interior last year, while also lobbing accusations about city officials’ motivations. "La Grande" feels that the prophecy of La Maga, her friend and protector, is coming true: “When the sea takes a love, it always gives back a bigger, deeper one”, but who knows if that new love will end up being destined for her sister, "la Bella"? Because inevitably, Margarita "la Bella" also falls under the spell of "the Castaway’s" sensuality, tenderness and joie de vivre. That is how Simon Vargas, who will be known on the island as “the Castaway”, regains consciousness in the arms of a beautiful woman whom he confuses with an angel.Ī wonderful yet peculiar relationship develops between them as of that instant. "La Grande" dives in and pulls the man out of the sea bringing him to safety. There, fate gives her the most extraordinary surprise: the swaying of the waves is carrying a man's body toward the shore. "La Grande" runs to the seashore in an attempt to feel closer to the man she so desperately misses. "La Bella" is sad because she has to say goodbye to Mariano Gonzalez, a modest teacher who has won her heart and is now leaving the island to never return.
"La Grande" is still in mourning, since exactly one year ago the sea took the life of Ernesto Lopez, the man she was going to marry.
However, it turns out that neither of the two Margaritas feel like celebrating today. Everyone calls her that not only because of what is obvious to the eye but also to differentiate her from her older sister, who is equally beautiful and has a similar name: Margarita Luisa, “la Grande” (“the Elder”). This telenovela lasted 80 episodes and was distributed internationally by Venevisión International.Ĭhiquinquirá Delgado and Luis Fernández star as the protagonists.Ĭalypso is a picturesque and prosperous Caribbean island that, on the day of San Salvador - patron saint of the island, crowns the queen of the festivities, who this year is a lovely young woman named Maria Margarita, “la Bella” (“the Beautiful”). Calypso is a Venezuelan telenovela created by César Miguel Rondón and produced by Venevisión in 1999.
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