This page displays live news feeds about cabaret clubs.

It features current news feeds 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 inside strip clubs, and the antics, foibles, and tragedies of the strippers themselves.

This news display does not exist to promote either a favorable or unfavorable view of topless clubs, nude clubs, or other live adult entertainment businesses.

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. They may cover aspects of strip clubs and sexual situations more extreme than the cautious articles on this web site.

Discretion is advised. If you are easily offended, you should look carefully at a headline and its source before bringing up an item.

Well known search engines select the material. Please realize that The Vasthead has no control over the specific items selected and does not review the links before they 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.

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 seach 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.

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Unless otherwise indicated, all commentary and photography on this site are by Grady McAllister.