"If the headline is big enough, it makes the news big enough"
— Charles Foster Kane in Citizen Kane (1941)
About Archived Stories
The strip club stories above in this column have long term interest, so we have
set up our own links. In some cases, they will be less up to date than the hard-breaking stories in the column to the left. Also, if the news source moves or removes
an article, our link will no longer work.
This page displays live
news feeds about cabaret clubs.
Normally, the news stories are straight journalism written in
fairly objective language. It is not our intention to include
links to actual adult material or to the adult entertainment press.
However, sometimes a link may inadvertently appear which is completely
inappropriate for a general audience. It might cover aspects of
strip clubs and sexual situations more extreme than the cautious
articles on this web site.
If you are easily offended, discretion is advised.
You should look carefully at a headline before
bringing up an item.
Well known search engines select the material. This web site has no control over
the specific items selected and does not review the links before
they first appear.
Many of these searches are based on the term "strip
club." That seems to be the phrase journalists favor for
news stories about topless bars, nude bars, and "sexually
oriented" cabaret clubs of all kinds.
This news display supplements the Houston
Topless Dancer Survey, a 1997 research project which has been
on line since 1998. The news items provide some current perspective
on community battles against strip clubs and problems connected
to the clubs in various places.
Sometimes items appear about club regulatory battles
around the nation. Those items can be very relevant to the Houston
Topless Dancer Survey.
However, most of the strip club news is only loosely
related to the material on this site. In some cases, a search
engine will misfire and bring up a story completely unrelated
to topless bars, nude bars, or sexually oriented businesses.
For example, you might see an article that is about
a paint stripper instead of the kind of stripper who performs
in bars. You might even see a story about an Israeli bombing of
the Gaza Strip; you are unlikely to see a story about a strip
club in the Gaza Strip.
Sometimes a single event making the national news
(such as one involving a celebrity or major gunplay or both) will
dominate the list of strip club news stories. That tends to crowd
out news which would be more relevant to local cabaret club regulatory
battles. If you are doing research on city and state strip club
regulation, we suggest that you monitor these stories for several
weeks or months. Over time, you will notice a large number of
stories about strip club regulation around the country.
At times, the same news
appears more than once. This redundancy is either because the
same story is carried by more than one affiliate of a news service
(such as the Associated Press) or because different search criteria
bring in the same stories. The words used for each a search are
in all capital letters at the beginning of each group of news
items.
The RSS news feeds may occasionally malfunction,
temporarily distorting the appearance of this page. Outages
are common for feeds of this type, so at times there may be
no news items listed.
This page features news about strip clubs, strippers,
close encounters of the regulated kind, and strip club wars
of every kind. Typical topics include battles against strip
clubs, battles between strip clubs, battles inside strip clubs, and the antics, foibles,
and dramas of the strippers themselves.
This page does not
promote either a favorable or unfavorable view of strip clubs . It is only a gathering place for existing news stories. It supplements the Houston Topless Dancer Survey, a 1997 research project.
