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Prompted by City Attorney Dennis Herrera, notorious Tenderloin strip club Pink Diamonds was forced to shut its doors yesterday. According to SFGate, a judge ordered the, eh, burlesque club to officially close for a year and "directed its operator, Damone H. Smith, to pay at least $688,500 in fines after he violated a court agreement to bring the club into compliance with local and state laws." (The club actually ceased operations in early October, but this final nail in the strip pole, a request Herrera made to a SF Superior Court judge on on Sept. 30, made the closure official.)

How could a place so sweet sounding be so violent? When that place operates in the Tenderloin, it's damn easy. And, as he's done before to other heavenly establishments, City Attorney Dennis Herrera wants to shut the place down. According to the CA Office, Herrera moved one step closer yesterday "to shutter the Pink Diamonds nightclub, a notorious public nuisance in the Tenderloin where a brutal June 27, 2009 slaying represented only the worst episode so far in a pattern of lawlessness that has required more than 230 service calls by the San Francisco Police Department in the last six months alone."

Oh boy. We just got work from Dennis Herrera's office that the SF Department of Health will come down hard on over three hundred San Francisco restaurants today, invalidating their food safety certifications. According to the City Attorney's Office, "the San Francisco Department of Public Health (DPH) will be notifying 345 San Francisco restaurants that their certification for food safety managers will no longer be recognized as valid as a result of inappropriate testing and certification procedures." Oops. The City Attorney's Office goes on to say, "Officials from DPH also informed state and county public health authorities throughout California of at least 183 additional restaurants outside of San Francisco whose certifications are similarly affected. Another 78 certifications whose holders list no address have also been identified."

North Beach strip club Heaven, the strip/prostitute club that had City Attorney Dennis Herrera (rightfully) slammed as "a public nuisance, having allegedly violated city codes and having been cited for prostitution," was ordered to cease operations starting today. According to SF Appeal, "In a release sent by his office, Herrera says 'Today's ruling should send a message to other would-be operators of illegal businesses that even Heaven is subject to temporal laws here in San Francisco.... It's regrettable that this business chose to expend so much effort to flout the law rather than to follow it, and that a preliminary injunction was necessary to shut it down.'" Will other strip club that allow whoring (i.e., most all of them) fall like dominoes? Only time will tell. If you recall, the owner of Heaven, Peter Lambertson, says that the only reason his club was targeted was because he didn't pony up freebies to "patrons who identified themselves as off-duty officers asked to be comped on extras" -- i.e., receiving sex for free.