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After Planting Roots in Atlanta, The Slutty Vegan Comes Back Home To Baltimore

Slutty Vegan came about  the summer of 2018 by Pinky Cole. A Baltimore native, she ended up planting her roots in Atlanta. Coming to  West End community of Atlanta, they’ve made their mission provide quality vegan meals to communities that would have otherwise never had these options. The philosophy at Slutty Vegan is “VEGANS CAN BE SLUTTY TOO”. They actively seek to dismiss the notion held by many we serve, that vegan food is either too expensive or too bland. View this post on Instagram It’s safe to say @frankski @jadenovah @jrsportbrief from @v103atlanta officially got #SLUTTIFIED . . #sluttyveganatl #slutsofinstagram #vegan #sluttyvegan #slutburger #thesluttytakeover #veganburger #vegantakeover #burgers #atl #atlanta #veganislife #slutnation #slutsonthemove #slutmobile #veganstastebetter #veganislife #sluttified #getsluttified #fortheculture #eatplants #atlshawty #eatplantsyaslut #getslutty A post shared by Slutty Vegan ATL (@sluttyveganatl) on Jan 24, 2019 at 9:23am PST With a team of innovative, visionary, and passionate members Slutty  make it our goal to make every SLUTTY experience as amazing as the first. QuickSilva talked to Founder, Pinky Cole about her journey from the city of Baltimore to Atlanta and having some of the biggest celebrities in Hollywood getting SLUTTY!  

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Teenage Girl Wins $45K Settlement After Being Arrested For Curving An NYC Cop

New York Awards Teen $45k After Wrongful Arrest A Bronx teenager was awarded $45,000 from the city of New York after an NYPD officer arrested her and one of her friends on their way home from school in 2013. Then only 17, the young woman says the cop was throwing some weak lines her way and got upset when she wasn’t quite interested in picking up what he was putting down… Via MailOnline : Natalie Erlich, 19, from the Bronx, won the payout from the city last week and charges stemming from the incident were dropped, according to the New York Post. Erlich, who was 17 at the time, told the newspaper that she was grabbing an after-school snack with two friends in November 2013 when plainclothes officer Jose Peinan and another cop approached them. She said that he tried to strike up a conversation with her by noting that her camouflage hat and his camouflage pants matched, she told the Post. ‘I brushed him off and I laughed,’ she recalled. When she left, the officer followed her and he tried to continue speaking with her. She asked him if he was a cop and he accused her of blowing his cover. A van pulled up and Peinan ordered other officers to take her into custody. When she asked why she was being arrested, he responded: ‘You know why – you’re being a smartass.’ She and a friend were searched and taken to the police station. The two women were charged with Obstruction of Governmental Administration. She was released at 11am the next day. ‘I was scared,’ she told the New York Post. ‘I didn’t know what was going on.’ Erlich filed a lawsuit against Peinan and the city, claiming the cop was ‘angered at having his advances rebuffed’, court documents said. The city agreed to settle and the charges have been dropped. See what being a pervy pedo lands you, Tyga ? Either way, good for her!

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Get Yo’ Money: Chris Dorner Carjacking Victim Sues The City Of Los Angeles For $1 Million In Reward Money

Time to give up some of those stacks Los Angeles . Man Carjacked By Christopher Dorner Sues City Of L.A. According to TMZ The man who was carjacked by cop killer Christopher Dorner hours before he was cornered in a cabin … is suing the city of L.A. for the $1 million reward it offered to the public, but then pulled back over a loophole … TMZ has learned. In the lawsuit, filed today in LA, Richard Heltebrake describes how Dorner pulled a gun on him on Feb. 12, took his truck and then used it during a shootout with law enforcement. Dorner eventually ditched the truck before fleeing to the cabin where he died. Heltebrake says once he was free he used his cell phone to call the San Bernardino Co. Sheriff to report the carjacking and Dorner’s location. Heltebrake believes he’s owed, and indeed filed for, a ton of reward money that was offered — $1 million from the city of L.A., $100k from Riverside County, and $100k each from the cities of Riverside and Irvine. Three of those rewards were for “information leading to the apprehension and capture” of Dorner. Another was for “identification and apprehension.” The language is important because Dorner was not apprehend or captured — but instead police say he died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound inside the burning cabin. As TMZ first reported, L.A. officials were hesitant to pay up — and in the suit, Heltebrake claims all the municipalities denied him any money. Heltebrake wants at least $1 million — as well as an order prohibiting anyone else from getting the reward money. Do you think the city of Los Angeles should pay up? Getty

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How I Made It: ‘Kierna Mayo’ Editorial Director Of Ebony [Video]

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Kush Chronic-les: Some L.A. Medical Yahmean Dispensaries Plan On Stay Open Despite The September 6th Deadline To Close Up Shop

What about all the “patients” that need their “medicine”??? Los Angeles Medicinal Herb Shops Plan On Stay Open Despite City Ban When Los Angeles’ marijuana dispensary ban takes effect Sept. 6, there will still be plenty of pot shops open, and not just in neighboring cities like West Hollywood and Long Beach. After we called several dispensaries this week we found that many in L.A. proper were planning to stick it out, despite the council-enacted prohibition that covers all retail cannabis shops in city limits. Their rationale? -Some said that they were awaiting and even participating in court challenges that essentially question cities’ rights to ban dispensaries. -Some said they hoped an Americans for Save Access voter referendum would overturn the ban and save their stores before they had to be shut down. -Others said they were among the 182 shops that opened before a 2007 city moratorium was enacted and hope to be grandfathered in. -Yet others said they’d stay open until the city sent them a letter expressly telling them it’s time to close. (We reached out to the City Attorney’s office about just such a possible letter but had yet to hear back.) In each case, dispensaries that stay open would be walking on thin ice, as none of these appear to be ironclad legal saviors. Court challenges could take months; the voter referendum will take months. And a City Council proposal to save the pre-2007 dispensaries is being drawn up and studied, but for now the ban is the law. But despite the threat of “the man” some shop plan on thuggin’ it out until they are FORCED to shut down. A representative of a Hollywood dispensary who didn’t want his name used told the Weekly it had yet to hear from the city formally and that “we’re definitely staying open.” The operator of a San Fernando Valley shop told us it is signing on to a lawsuit against the ban. The dispensary will stay open and, he believes, is somewhat safe as a pre-2007 shop. A rep from a shop on Melrose Avenue said she believed “we should be fine” because it was a pre-2007 business. A Koreatown collective operator told us it was taking the situation “day by day.” But at the Hollyweed Dispensary, another pre-2007 shop, operators didn’t plan to take chances. Their long-fought legitimacy was on the line, manager Sunny Simms told the Weekly, and if the city expressly told it to close, it would do so: “We do plan on shutting our doors around Sept 6. We would be liable to lose our business, and we can’t risk that.” They might as well just leave these folks alone, closing these shops isn’t going to stop the kush train from rolling…see what we did there? Image via tumblr Source

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New Jersey Nets Fined $50,000 For Jay-Z’s Illegal Actions

The New Jersey Nets have been fined $50,000 after their minority owner Jay-Z , went in the Kentucky locker room after the Wildcats clinched a Final Four berth. League spokesman Tim Frank confirmed the fine Friday before the Nets played the New York Knicks at the Prudential Center. Click Here To Read The Rest At HipHopWired

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911 Is A Joke: NYPD Cops Investigated For “Ticket Fixing”, Bribery And Larceny

Surprise, surprise… A grand jury probe of an alleged Bronx ticket-fixing scheme focuses on as many as 40 cops, including delegates from the city’s largest police union, sources told the Daily News. More than two dozen cops are being eyed for making summonses disappear in exchange for gifts – a felony – sources said. At least 10 others are being investigated for lesser crimes, including obstructing governmental administration. These cops are suspected of losing tickets that they had “taken care of,” the source said. “Guys are being asked what do they know about cops getting gifts or asking for gifts,” according to one source. “They’re talking about indictments for larceny. They’re talking about indictments for bribery. … It’s not going to be pretty.” At least one high-ranking cop has been called to testify. These cops better get GREAT lawyers, because some of the guys that they locked up can’t WAIT to show them some “hospitality” Source

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Adorableness Alert: Sandra Bullock and Louis!

With her marriage to Jesse James officially finished , Sandra Bullock continues moving forward with her new guy … adorable six-month-old son Louis. In the photo below, the new mother and her adopted son , who hails from the city of New Orleans, prepare for takeoff in Austin, Texas, on Saturday. James and Bullock actually adopted Louis together before his cheating ways were exposed. After they split, both agreed she would raise him alone. Jesse has bought a house in Texas too, however, with the hopes of keeping Sandra in his life for his older kids’ sake. Maybe he’ll see Louis as well? Anyway, everybody together now: Awww …. Sandra Bullock is going to be the best mom .

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L.A will have Cost Cutting Plans Implemented

“There are no easy decisions or simple ways to solve this budget crisis,” Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa said. “But as the CEO of this great city, it is my responsibility to make these difficult, but necessary, decisions to steer the city out of this crisis and onto solid financial ground.” These words came L.A’s mayor who has announced Tuesday for a plan to shut down all city services — except for public safety and revenue-generating positions — twice a week beginning Monday in an effort to solve the city’s budget crisis. Day before this announcement, the Department of Water and Power said that they will not pay the city’s $73 million general fund. City Controller Wendy Greuel said, the city’s general fund will be negative $10 million on May 5 because of this. She called the situation “the most urgent fiscal crisis” in the city’s recent history. She urged the mayor to transfer $90 million from the city’s reserve funds so that she could pay city employees and the city’s bills. L.A will have Cost Cutting Plans Implemented is a post from: Daily World Buzz Continue reading

Shilpa Shetty and Raj Kundra: Married!

Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty and Raj Kundra, a London-based businessman, got married in a “fairy-tale wedding” Sunday afternoon in Khandala, India. Shilpa Shetty, clad in a red-and-gold saree, walked around a holy fire with Kundra in a traditional Hindu ritual that signifies the sacred bond of marriage .

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