san francisco San Francisco's most notorious strip club, The Mitchell Brothers O' Farrell Theater, closes its doors after 51 years Janelle Hessig

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public health Vice wants to bring back indoor smoking sections: "local coffee shop . . . would be a lot cooler" Jennifer Sandlin

music Watch Nathaniel Rateliff cover The Mountain Goats' "Best Ever Death Metal Band in Denton" Jennifer Sandlin

portland Portland loses its jug-shaped strip club Jason Weisberger

Entertainment Topless dancers form first labor union in a decade David Pescovitz

Pilot discovers venomous cobra slithering around the cockpit David Pescovitz

music "Frog on the Floor" is the evolutionary pinnacle of SoCal Pop-Rock Thom Dunn

law Low Rider Culture and "No Cruise Zones" in California. Elías Villoro

Weird Lawyer defending strip club after man killed there also dies at the same strip club David Pescovitz

the beach boys Take a trip through the Los Angeles music scene of the 1960s Bob Knetzger

strippers Bikini-clad woman steps out of firetruck in front of strip club, prompting investigation (video) Carla Sinclair

artists MAD magazine's Sergio Aragonés still at the drawing board at 85 Gareth Branwyn

law The strip club was closed, so three Indiana judges went to White Castle instead and got into a fight. Here's the footage. Rob Beschizza

NSFW Ass code: chess star accused of cheating with vibrating sex toy in anus Rob Beschizza

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sports Seven players from Australian rugby team refuse to play in "pride" version of kit featuring rainbow stripe Rob Beschizza

Comics Listen to a rare flexi-disc record of Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, and the "Voices of Marvel" from 1964 David Pescovitz

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