T-Shirt Times

BY JENNIFER DAVIS
OF THE JOURNAL STAR
Saturday, March 4, 2006

PEORIA - The City Council will vote Tuesday on paying a former bar owner $163,000 to settle a lawsuit over the banning of wet T-shirt contests.

That amount in damages and attorneys fees is part of a tentative settlement between the city and John Balaco, the former owner of Mulligan’s, who sued the city in 2003 after it banned his bar’s contests.

Balaco’s attorney, Richard Steagall, said Friday his client is satisfied with the proposed deal.

"He thinks it’s a reasonable settlement," Steagall said. "He would have preferred it would’ve been settled at the outset."

Though Balaco could not be reached for direct comment, he previously has said he never intended to get into a lengthy battle with the city.

"I spent tens of thousands of dollars on this case, and it was such a drain and the combination of the city not allowing me to do the contests and the cost of the lawsuit essentially crippled the business," he said in November.

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http://www.pjstar.com/stories/030406/TRI_B957M9N4.057.shtml

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By Laura Parker, USA TODAY
Fri Mar 3, 7:57 AM ET

Ridiculing the Federal Emergency Management Agency is high art in the Gulf Coast areas where Hurricane Katrina hit last year.

Many parade floats in New Orleans’ Mardi Gras were decorated in themes that skewered the relief agency.

George Barisich, president of the United Commercial Fisherman’s Association, has been selling anti-FEMA T-shirts since last fall, a reflection of his frustration with the federal government’s response to the storm that left him homeless and unemployed.

But on Feb. 1, when he handed a shirt to a fellow Katrina victim as he was picking up canned goods at a charity’s relief tent, Barisich found himself in trouble with the government.

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The DIY tee: not dead yet

by Corina Zappia
March 1st, 2006 12:12 PM

Who hasn’t marveled at the waste-not, want-not resourcefulness of transforming old t-shirts into something kitschy and novel? A cozy for your iPod; a makeshift yoga bag; a jaunty pouch, even, to hold all that jaunty pouches need hold. The idea that the Jovi t-shirt you dribbled chili on in 6th grade could be reborn as an ironic groupie halter top was so very appealing—until seeing the umpteenth version of it at places like Urban Outfitters. By the time tee-modification shop Cronick Valentine opened last year, the idea had grown stale.
Or had it? Two new instruction books explore this trend thread by thread: 99 Ways to Cut, Sew, Trim & Tie Your T-shirt Into Something Special and Generation T: 108 Ways to Transform a T-Shirt (both currently available through Amazon.com). A 108 ways? Who knew?

A cursory read of these two books yields some choice suggestions.

Five Final Uses for a Ratty Old T-Shirt:

The punky poncho! According to Generation T, by cutting rectangles out of two large t-shirts and sewing them together with a whipstitch (you’ll have to learn a proper whipstitch), the punk poncho is born. Granted, it might appear as if you arms are straightjacketed to your sides by your McGruff the Crime Dog t-shirt. But with the addition of snappy
fringe—strips cut from remainders of the tee—it reads "Cinco de Mayo nuttiness."

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http://www.villagevoice.com/nyclife/0610,zappia,72364,15.html

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March 01, 2006

Having already spawned bumper stickers, countless late night talk show zingers, and a New Yorker magazine cover, Brokeback Mountain has reached its pop-cultural zenith: the T-shirt market. Spreadshirt.com, an online custom apparel company based in Leipzig, Germany, is offering 14 different Brokeback -inspired sayings and designs, including "Brokeback Riding Club" and "Is that a cattle-prod in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?"

But fans of the Oscar-nominated film aren’t the only ones sporting Brokeback sayings on their backs. The Florida-based Second Coming Clothing Company is selling a T-shirt that depicts queer cowboys as the biblical sinners who worshiped a golden calf at Mt. Sinai. Along with the saying "The Original 10 Commandments, Brokeback on the Mountain," the T-shirt includes a reference to Exodus 32:19, which states, "He saw the calf and the dancing: and Moses’ anger waxed hot, and he cast the tables out of his hands, and broke them beneath the mount."

Second Coming CEO Rick Wade was quoted by South Florida’s CBS4 News as saying, "Our faith in Jesus Christ needs to be taken out of our hearts and worn on the sleeves of our daily walk in life as we witness to others and take an affirmative stand in controversial issues before it is too late."

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http://www.advocate.com/news_detail_ektid26294.asp

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