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BRAVE NEW WORLD SPA
BY FAYE SHALL
THE NEWEST TREND IN SPA CULTURE IS MAKING ITS DEBUT IN THESE
PARTS NEXT MONTH, AND I FOR ONE COULDN’T BE HAPPIER.
Planet Beach Contempo Spa, an American chain of so-called “automated
spas” with more than 400 locations in six countries, is moving
into a storefront at 182 Bedford Highway, the space which previously
housed the luxury spa and salon La Dolce Vita operated by Liza
Innocente, wife of convicted drug dealer Danny (Frank 519, 557, 558).
New Brunswick ex-pat and franchisee Yvette Bavis says the concept
involves high-tech gadgets that customers operate themselves
in private rooms.
“The machines do the work,” she explains.
Want some cellulite smoothed out? Hop into the SlimLine Pod Spa.
Feel like a massage? That’s so last year. Try a Therasage!
You can also have a Saunatox, an Aqua Massage, or any number
of other made-up sounding things. There are also gadgets that whiten
your teeth, give you a facial or a hit of oxygen. Don’t feel up to any of
that? Just kick back in the Cyber-Relax Chair and let your cyberworries
cyber-go away.
Yvette says the business model is more like a gym than a regular
sauna; you pay a monthly rate and go as much or as little as you want.
She’s offering customers who sign up now the rate of $49 per month
for a year. In a few months, that will increase to $79. She’s planning to
open up in mid-February to allow customers to test the gear, with a
grand opening to follow in the coming weeks.
Founded in 1996, the New Orleans-based company is spreading
like wildfire, with 50 locations in Louisiana alone. In Canada, there
are 14 in Alberta and two in Ontario.
To aid in its speedy expansion, the company gives a master
franchisee a territory, and the master recruits other franchisees in the
area. Yvette’s hubby, H&R Block beancounter Michael, is the Maritime
master franchisee.
Yvette says she’s already hired five employees, and anticipates she’ll
need five more when the enterprise is running at full tilt. She says Planet
Beach is only using about half of the 4,000 square feet used by La
Dolce Vita. You’ll likely recall that the Innocentes were evicted from the
space in March of 2009. At the time, landlord Legacy Home Builder
told me the business had racked up rental arrears to the tune of $70,000.
TROUBLE IN KINKSVILLE?
BY AL TERNATIVE
ALTHOUGH I HAVE NOT PERSONALLY EXPERIENCED ANY BLOWBACK
FROM THE FETISH COMMUNITY REGARDING MY PROFILE OF THE MERRY
BAND KNOWN AS THE SOCIETY OF BASTET (FRANK 577), I HAVE
UNEARTHED A BIT OF EVIDENCE WHICH SUGGESTS THE PIECE HAS
CAUSED A BIT OF A RIFT WITHIN THE HALIFAX BDSM POPULACE AS A
WHOLE.
During the course of a lively online discussion about the article
on FetLife.com, a kinkster posting under the handle of Sailor1
angrily announced that he wouldn’t be helping to co-ordinate activities
in the dungeon area of the Everything To Do With Sex Show,
held at the Cunard Centre the weekend of January 29. Sailor1, a
self-described “pansexual” who according to his profile enjoys
candlewax, paddling, and electrotorture, is apparently not a member
of the society, and seems to believe there’s a danger that Bastet
is getting too big for its britches.
Edwin Millar, a Transport Canada senior marine surveyor who
toils out of the Queen Square Building in the City of Flakes, wasn’t
Why do I think
Judy Jetson
would have just
loved getting a
“luminousfacial”
from this gadget,
available at
Planet Beach
Contempo Spa.
interested in talking to me when I found him at work the other day.
“That trash, yeah I read it,” confirmed the Scotsman, adding “I have
nothing to say.”
Back on Fetlife, Sailor1 also reminisces about the last time the
media wrote about the kink community when his “house was fingered
... as it has been again in this article.”
Last time out, I referred to a dispatch that appeared in my organ
way back in 2001, about the BDSM Society of Greater Halifax,
which used to hold meetings on Joffre Street in Dartmouth.
Edwin Gray Millar holds title to an abode on Joffre.
“I don’t need the bullshit that goes with it this time,” writes Sailor1.
While we’re on the topic of reaction to my story, I must pass along
the opinion of a gal who goes by the handle of Mamie. Mamie, a 23year-old
bisexual with multi-coloured hair, wasn’t impressed by the
fact that my organ revealed the identity of one particular kinkster:
“I really feel terrible for the member who got their picture and name
posted without consent. I really am not familiar with legal matters
regarding that, but it does seem very wrong,” she writes.
Incidentally, Mamie’s profile picture, larger than life, features a closeup
of her fellating an organ that is certainly not of the bi-weekly family
variety.
Does Frank Know? atlanticfrank@eastlink.ca
FEBRUARY 16, 2010 ATLANTIC CANADA FRANK 17