She then got a job as a dancer at Murray's Cabaret Club in Soho where she met Christine Keeler who introduced her to her friend, the well-connected osteopath Stephen Ward, and to an ex-lover, the slum landlord Peter Rachman.

The Comedy Store is a comedy club located in Soho, London, England, opened in 1979 by Don Ward and Peter Rosengard.

Soho Ward is represented by three Labour councillors on Birmingham City Council ; Sybil Spence, Chaman Lal and Dorothy Hargreaves.

* Birmingham City Council Soho Ward

The Soho name has been imitated by other entertainment and restaurant districts such as Soho, Hong Kong ; SoHo, New York ; and Palermo Soho, Buenos Aires.

Soho has fifteen licensed shops and several remaining unlicensed ones.

Islington has several sex businesses ( at least three licensed shops-Private, Adultworld and Soho Original Books-as well as three pornographic cinemas and numerous massage parlors / strip clubs, concentrated on Caledonian Road ).

Earls Court preceded Soho as London's centre of gay nightlife, though the number of businesses aimed mostly at gay men has dwindled to a couple of retail outlets, as Soho and Vauxhall established themselves as the focus of gay nightlife.

In the UK, the fan dance has been used in the finals of the Miss Nude UK 2000 competition and in The Windmill in Soho where it replaced the tradition of nude tableaux and has since been replaced by table dancing.

It has since appeared on several compilation records, including Gospel Greats: 60 Legendary Performances ( The Soho Collection, 2005 ).

Since 1999, it has been held as the Birmingham International Carnival in Perry Barr ( Perry Park ), following a procession from Handsworth's Soho Road.

In 1996 and 1998, the nominated artists exhibited their work at the now-defunct Guggenheim Soho, where a space on the second floor was named the Hugo Boss Gallery in 1996 ; since 2000, only the winning artist has shown his or her work.

García's work in New York has included stints on the Food Network in Soho, Babalu, Patria, and Calle Ocho.

The organisation has a 40 hectare reserve at Park Hall near Minworth and the much smaller Richmond Garden in Soho, Birmingham.

The House of Yes has been performed at Soho Repertory Theatre, at the Maxim Gorki Theater in Berlin and at The Gate Theater in London, where it was published in Plays International.

In London, there is a Chinatown centred around Gerrard Street, Soho, in the West End of central London which has many Chinese restaurants and businesses ; it is mostly a commercial area, most Chinese live in other parts of London, especially north London and Colindale in particular.

Toy camera photography has been widely exhibited at many popular art shows, such as the annual show at the Soho Photo Gallery in the Tribeca neighborhood of New York City.

Since the destruction of World War II, it has relocated to Soho.

After a classical training at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, his career has spanned more than 40 years, and includes theatre roles at the Royal Shakespeare Company and London's Royal National Theatre, as well the West End, the Royal Court, the Bush, and the Soho Poly, plus many tours and pantomimes around the country.

The new play opened October 14, 2010, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and has since been performed in New York ( the Soho Playhouse ), Los Angeles, Philadelphia ( the 2011 NET Festival ) and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania ( the Kelly Strayhorn Theater ) with forthcoming productions in Austin, Texas ( the 2012 Fusebox Festival ), Chicago and Minneapolis.

Her friend, the chef Mark Hix, has named a dish after Webster, ' Webster's Fish Fingers ,' which are on the menu of his Soho restaurant Hix.

They are also very proud of their Strensham services on the M5 which contain a wealth of new brands and included the successful trials of McDonalds, WHSmith and The Hot Food Company ( Restaurant ); this occurred as a result of the 2008 refurbishment and has also given the services a number of unique brands which include Soho Coffee Co, Pizza Hut Express, Subway and Cotton Traders.

Its offices are currently on Lexington Street in Soho, London, and it has a circulation of 44, 750.

The film's working title, The King of Soho, has been trademarked by one of Raymond's sons, for the title of his own biopic of the late mogul, and the producers of the first film decided to change their title.

At Soho, he adopted the latest techniques, branching into silver plate, ormolu and other decorative arts.

In July 1982, the opening of the Batcave in London's Soho provided a prominent meeting point for the emerging scene, which would be briefly labeled " positive punk " by the NME in a special issue with a front cover in early 1983.

It was here that he founded the new headquarters of the Communist League, and got heavily involved with the socialist German Workers ' Educational Society, who held their meetings in Great Windmill Street, Soho, central London's entertainment district.

All the world came to Soho to meet Boulton, Watt or Small, who were acquainted with the leading men of Science throughout Europe and America.

In 1931 he had a painting accepted for display by the Royal Academy and exhibited his work with the so-called " Soho Group ".

The growth of underground culture was facilitated by the emergence of alternative weekly publications like IT ( International Times ) and OZ magazine which featured psychedelic and progressive music together with the counter culture lifestyle, which involved long hair, and the wearing of wild shirts from shops like Mr Fish, Granny Takes a Trip and old military uniforms from Carnaby Street ( Soho ) and Kings Road ( Chelsea ) boutiques.

Several establishments in Soho, London, have associations with well-known, post-war literary and artistic figures, including the Pillars of Hercules, The Colony Room and the Coach and Horses.

( One ticket to the private exhibition, illustrated by Samuel Alkin and printed with ' Admission to see Mr Wedgwood's copy of The Portland Vase, Greek Street, Soho, between 12 o ' clock and 5 ', was bound into the Wedgwood catalogue on view in the Victoria and Albert Museum's British Galleries.

They then appeared at Gossips in Dean Street Soho on Thursday November 3 with Trash Trash Trash and The Stingrays.

Meanwhile the southern part of what became the parish of St. Anne, Soho, was sold by the Crown in parcels in the 16th and 17th centuries, with part going to Robert Sidney, Earl of Leicester.

From the 1930s to the early 1960s, Soho folklore states that the pubs of Soho were packed every night with drunken writers, poets and artists, many of whom never stayed sober long enough to become successful ; and it was also during this period that the Soho pub landlords established themselves.

A detailed mural depicting Soho characters, including writer Dylan Thomas and jazz musician George Melly, is in Broadwick Street, at the junction with Carnaby Street.

* Dean Street is home to the Soho Theatre, and a pub called The French House which was during World War II popular with the French Government-in-exile.

Changes in the law in the 1960s brought about a boom of strip clubs in Soho with " fully nude " dancing and audience participation.

The present-day City of Westminster as an administrative entity with its present boundaries dates from 1965, when the City of Westminster was created from the former area of three metropolitan boroughs: St Marylebone, Paddington, and the smaller Metropolitan Borough of Westminster, which included Soho, Mayfair, St. James's, The Strand, Westminster, Pimlico, Belgravia, and Hyde Park.

* 1802 William Murdoch illuminated the exterior of the Soho Foundry with gas.

Both Watt and Murdoch were probably aware of each other because of their connections with James Boswell, who had made several visits to Watt's workshop at Soho.

Murdoch began his career with Boulton and Watt in the pattern workshop of their Soho Foundry, making patterns for the casting of machine parts.

Some of Murdoch's other minor inventions and experiments were: a machine developed in 1784 or 1785 in Cornwall for drilling wooden pipes, ( in 1810 this was further developed and patented for stone pipes ), a steam cannon which he attempted to use in 1803 to knock down a wall at Soho, a steam gun in the same year which fired 3 cm lead bullets, and machinery to grind and compress peat moss under great pressure to produce a material with " the appearance of the finest Jet ".

In 1798 Murdoch returned to Birmingham to work in the Soho foundry and continued his experiments with gas, as part of which he lit the interior of the Soho main building, although it is likely that it was lit only in part and not ( at this time ) permanently.

Moving to London around 1765, for fear of being " drawn into dissipation ", he set himself up informally as a doctor, befriended the Royal Academician artist Angelika Kauffmann, and began to mix with Italian artists and architects in the coffee houses around Soho.

After suffering a nervous breakdown at the start of the 1960s, he began to recover his old popularity, initially with a season at Peter Cook's satirical Establishment Club in Soho in London.

He also became an active member of the London socialist movement, associating with other leftists at the 1917 Club in Gerrard Street, Soho, which was also frequented by such notables as Ramsay MacDonald, Aldous Huxley, H. G.