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...Three inches, three minutes, 3,000 baht ($87)," laughs Goy, a 25-year-old bar girl. Last summer, she and her fellow pole dancers at the Camelot Castle entertained scores of men every night - first in the bar, where they earn a monthly salary, then at the customer's hotel, where they negotiate their own rates. But as cash-strapped travelers turn their backs on Thailand - tourism officials say revenues will plunge 35% this year - the ranks of men cruising Patpong have thinned dramatically. On a recent Wednesday evening, just three tourists watched a visibly disgruntled Goy wiggle around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: From Bangkok to Berlin, Hard Times Hit the Sex Trade | 7/9/2009 | See Source »

...revolted Alabama hunters; Brüno getting belt-whipped - hard - by a nude dominatrix; Brüno in a steel-cage match melting into wet kisses with his opponent while the crowd goes wild - and not in a good way. But even when Brüno is in a hotel room infuriating members of al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades - a situation that needs to be handled with care, especially if the guy handling it is a fey blond who hasn't heard that hot pants went out with Charlie's Angels - you think, Hey, at least they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Brüno's Sacha Baron Cohen: More Than a Comedian | 7/8/2009 | See Source »

...women's march, the Xinjiang capital had been eerily quiet in the wake of Sunday's riots. Large groups of military police were stationed at key intersections on July 6, and only police vehicles, some with smashed windows, moved on the streets. Riot police stood outside the Hoi Tak Hotel as buses full of Hong Kong tourists were loaded in, their visit cut short by the disturbance. (See pictures of Hong Kong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: After Deadly Riots, Ethnic Tensions Heat Up in Urumqi | 7/7/2009 | See Source »

...July 7, hotel staff members were seen taping up windows, and businesses were locking their employees inside in fear of further violence. A 38-year-old Han man surnamed Fu who has lived in Xinjiang all his life said he was accustomed to the discord. "We're used to it already," he said, then pointed to a scar on his arm that he said was the result of a fight with a Uighur man. "They're uncivilized...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: After Deadly Riots, Ethnic Tensions Heat Up in Urumqi | 7/7/2009 | See Source »

...starters, there are now 57 events, and it moved to the Rio [Las Vegas Hotel & Casino] in 2005. They also now play the Final Table in November so it can be on prime-time television. All of these changes were designed to accommodate and capitalize on a bigger field. The first year I did it, we couldn't even fill a table. They had something like 6,800 total entrants for last year's Main Event. In the beginning, it was always a bunch of touring pros in these. Now there are a lot of amateurs, some of whom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Q&A: Poker Legend Doyle Brunson | 7/2/2009 | See Source »

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