What Upland, California strip club chain, with venues in the United States, United Kingdom, and Australia, was a member of the L.V.D.A.?
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Las Vegas Dancers Alliance The Las Vegas Dancers Alliance was an organization of adult entertainment workers in Las Vegas founded in 2002 by Andrea Hackett in response to regulations adopted by Clark County, Nevada that criminalized lap dances. It grew to include 1,000 members from strip clubs throughout the Las Vegas valley including Crazy Horse Too, Spearmint Rhinoand many others. Yet despite its size, L.V.D.A. was unable to bring about substantive changes to the law or the adult club industry as a whole. Part of the blame fell on dancers unwilling to participate in rallies, meetings and events. Yet much of it fell on club owners who colluded with local law enforcement to intimidate dancers. Another factor were attacks from the left and a lack of assistance from established unions. The Huffington Post wrote a hit piece on Ms. Hackett at the height of L.V.D.A's influence which the Nevada State Democratic Party linked on their website. Unwilling to alienate their left wing allies, the Teamsters, who had promised to help, rescinded their offer. SEIU followed suit. This spelled the end of L.V.D.A.
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Spearmint Rhino Spearmint Rhino is a chain of strip clubs that operates venues throughout the United States, United Kingdom, and Australia. The club opened in 1989 as a supplement to the existing Peppermint Elephant Restaurant. This first Spearmint Rhino was located in Upland, California.
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Lenny Dee Leonard George DeStoppelaire (January 5, 1923 – February 12, 2006), better known as Lenny Dee, was a virtuoso organist who played many styles of music. His record albums were among the most popular of easy listening and space age pop organists of the 1950s through the early 1970s. His signature hit, "Plantation Boogie", charted as a Top 20 hit in 1955. He also had a gold record with 1970's "Spinning Wheel".
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Sunset Marquis Hotel Sunset Marquis Hotel is a hotel in West Hollywood, Los Angeles County, California. Owned by George Rosenthal, and located at 1200 Alta Loma Road, it is situated just off the Sunset Strip. Described by "Time" as "an old rock-'n'-roll hotel", it is noted for its celebrity clientele, especially rock stars and DJs. Rande Gerber installed a recording studio in the basement of the hotel to attract entertainers. As of October 2014 room rates range from $350 to $2,500 per night.
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Stereo 360 Stereo 360 (or Stereo Three-Sixty) is a Los Angeles, California, band who play hook-heavy guitar power-pop. The quartet are led by Vancouver-born singer-songwriter Shad Hills. Their 2003 record "Enjoy Your Life Poolside" included the college radio hit "California", and the band won best rock song for the track at the 2004 Just Plain Folks Music Awards.  Pixies drummer David Lovering plays a cop/institution security guard in the 2004 video for "Superstar", a track that got a Video of the Year nod from the Music Video Production Association. Their 2003 song "Automatic" will feature in the upcoming music video game "Guitar Rising".
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Father Yod Father Yod or YaHoWha, born James Edward Baker (July 4, 1922 – August 25, 1975), was the American owner of one of the country's first health food restaurants, on the Sunset Strip in Los Angeles. He founded a spiritual commune in the Hollywood Hills known as the Source Family. He was also lead singer of the commune's experimental psychedelic rock band, Ya Ho Wha 13.
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Tom Bergin's Tom Bergin's Tavern is one of the oldest restaurant/bars in continuous operation in Los Angeles, California. Originally opened at 6110 Wilshire Boulevard in 1936 by lawyer Tom Bergin as The Old Horseshoe Tavern it has been at its current location at 840 South Fairfax Avenue, just south of Wilshire, since 1949. In previous years it has also been known as The Old Horseshoe Tavern and Kennel Club as well as Tom Bergin's Horseshoe Tavern and Thoroughbred Club. The restaurant and bar is considered by Angelenos as an institution.
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Los Angeles Apparel Los Angeles Apparel is a manufacturer, designer and distributor of the clothing based in South-Central Los Angeles. The company was founded in 2016 by Dov Charney who is also the founder of American Apparel. Los Angeles Apparel is a vertically integrated manufacturer and currently employs over 350 personnel.
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Freddie Bell Ferdinando Dominick Bello, known as Freddie Bell, (September 29, 1931 – February 10, 2008), was an American musician, whose group, Freddie Bell and the Bellboys, were influential in the development of rock and roll in the 1950s. He was a prominent performer with the group on the Las Vegas Strip in the 1950s and 1960s, and continued to perform in Las Vegas into his later years after the demise of the group.
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Catalina Bar &amp; Grill Catalina Bar & Grill, popularly referred to as Catalina Jazz Club, is a prominent jazz club and restaurant on Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood, Los Angeles, USA, located to the east of Hollywood High School and to the west of the Blessed Sacrament Catholic Church. It regularly hosts live music and according to "Los Angeles Magazine" hosts the "top names in mainstream and contemporary jazz [who] turn up regularly at this intimate supper club". "Jazz for Dummies" cites it as one of the prime jazz venues in Los Angeles. Over the years artists such as Dizzie Gillespie, Art Blakey, McCoy Tyner, Larry Coryell, Chick Corea, Joe Zawinul, Ray Brown, Joe Williams, Arturo Sandoval, Max Roach, Carmen McRae, Betty Carter, Ron Carter, Joe Henderson, Marcus Miller, Benny Carter, Tony Williams, Wynton Marsalis, Branford Marsalis, Joshua Redman, Michael Brecker, Dee Dee Bridgewater, John Pizzarelli, and Jimmy Scott have played at the Catalina.
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H. L. Richardson Hubert Leon "Bill" Richardson (born December 28, 1927) founded Gun Owners of America (GOA) in 1975 and served as a California state senator from 1966–89. He served as the state senate's Republican Caucus Chair for several of these years. He was the unsuccessful Republican candidate for the United States Senate in 1974, having been defeated by incumbent Alan Cranston. He ran for Congress in 1962, and again in 1992, having lost 51-40 percent to the Democrat Vic Fazio, member of the United States House of Representatives from California's 3rd congressional district.
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The Delinquents (group) The Delinquents are a rap group from Oakland, California, composed of two members, Glen Jones a.k.a. G-Stack, Vidal Prevost a.k.a. V-White (formerly known as V-Dal) and Ghost Producer Gregory Turner a.k.a. Lord Gregory(formerly known as G-Black. They were established in July 1991 and were known for their playful brand of gangsta rap. G-Stack is a member of Thizz Entertainment.
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Raymond Revuebar The Raymond Revuebar (1958–2004) was a theatre and strip club at 11 Walker's Court (now The Box Soho), in the heart of London's Soho district. For many years, it was the only venue in London that offered full-frontal, on-stage nudity of the sort commonly seen in other cities in Europe and North America. Its huge brightly lit sign declaring it to be the "World Centre of Erotic Entertainment" made the Revuebar a local landmark.
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Animal Liberation Victoria Animal Liberation Victoria Inc. (ALV) is an independent not-for-profit animal rights organisation operating in Victoria, Australia. Founded in 1978 by Patty Mark, ALV is located in Melbourne and is recognised as a leading animal rights organisation. Its main aims are to abolish the property status of animals, institutionalised animal exploitation and speciesist attitudes and practices; encourage and nurture animal rights education, and endorse the principle of non-violence.
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Cuckoo's Nest (nightclub) The Cuckoo's Nest (1976–1981) was a punk rock nightclub that was located at 1714 Placentia Avenue in Costa Mesa, California. There were often confrontations with the punks from the Cuckoo's Nest and the cowboys from Zubie's, which shared a parking lot. The police were constantly harassing the punks. Club owner Jerry Roach fought a number of court cases in an effort to keep the club alive, and in his 1981 film on the subject Urban Struggle he suggested that perhaps this was the first time that the authorities would stamp out a fad. The club was a hub of the punk rock in California. The club is notable as being home to the first slam pit. Jim trash from the crowd invented the slam dance at the Cuckoo's Nest according to American hardcore. the Bands such as 999 (band), The Ramones, XTC, The Damned, Redd Kross, Black Flag, T.S.O.L., Circle Jerks, the Vandals, Social Distortion, Agent Orange (band), Blondie Chaplin, JFA, David Johansen, uk Squeeze (band), the Adolescents, X (American band), the Go-Go's, The Lords of the New Church, Bad Brains, the Cramps, Iggy Pop, Dead Kennedys, the Dickies, Violent Femmes, Ultravox (with John Foxx), the Motels, the Bangles, the Fabulous Thunderbirds, John Cale, Suicidal Tendencies, Los Lobos, Fear (band), Wall of Voodoo, the Misfits (band), the Knack, the Crowd, The Blasters, 45 Grave, The Weirdos, China White (band), The Minutemen (band), Civil Defense (band), 20/20 (band), Pere Ubu, Suburban Lawns, sub humans, Magazine (band), The Plimsouls, Rubber City Rebels, Berlin (band), Middle Class (band), all played gigs there. The club was memorialized in the Vandals song "Pat Brown", a song about a club goer who actually tried to run the cops into the ground and urban struggle or I want to be a cowboy...couldn't make it as a punker.
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The Smell The Smell is an all-ages, alcohol and drug-free, punk rock/noise/experimental venue in Downtown Los Angeles, California. The Smell, notable for its DIY ethic, is home to many of the area's avant-garde performers and artists. The venue is maintained by Jim Smith, one of the four original organizers of the club, and a number of volunteers.
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Hustler Club The Hustler Club is a series of bars and chain of go-go clubs owned by Hustler magazine publisher Larry Flynt.
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LA Fitness LA Fitness International LLC (doing business as LA Fitness) is an American gym chain with over 700 clubs across the United States and Canada. The company was formed in 1984 and is based in Irvine, California.
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Mitchell Brothers O'Farrell Theatre The Mitchell Brothers O'Farrell Theatre is a striptease club at 895 O'Farrell Street near San Francisco's Tenderloin neighborhood. Opened as an X-rated movie theater by Jim and Artie Mitchell on July 4, 1969, the O'Farrell remains one of America's oldest and most notorious adult-entertainment establishments; by 1980, the nightspot had popularized close-contact lap dancing, which would become the norm in striptease clubs nationwide. Journalist Hunter S. Thompson, a longtime friend of the Mitchells and frequent visitor at the club, claimed to be its night manager in 1985 as part of his research for a book on pornography. He called the O'Farrell "the Carnegie Hall of public sex in America" and "Playboy" magazine praised it as "the place to go in San Francisco!"
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Ciro's Ciro's (later known as Ciro's Le Disc) was a nightclub in West Hollywood, California, at 8433 Sunset Boulevard, on the Sunset Strip, opened in January 1940 by entrepreneur William Wilkerson. Herman Hover took over management of Ciro's in 1942 until it closed its doors in 1957. Hover filed for bankruptcy in 1959, and Ciro's was sold at public auction for $350,000.
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SLS Las Vegas The SLS Hotel & Casino Las Vegas (formerly Sahara Hotel and Casino) is a hotel and casino located on the Las Vegas Strip in Winchester, Nevada. It is owned by Stockbridge Real Estate but is under contract to be purchased by Alex Meruelo and Meruelo Group (owners of the Grand Sierra Resort Hotel & Casino in Reno) with an expected closing date of Q3 2017.
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Victorian Roller Derby League The Victorian Roller Derby League (VRDL or Victoria) is a roller derby league based in Melbourne, in the Australian state of Victoria. Founded in 2007, the VRDL contains four teams: the Dead Ringer Rosies, The Dolls of Hazzard (formally Dolls Au-Go-Go), the Toxic Avengers and the newest team Rock Mobsters. They also feature two teams, the VRDL All Stars, and Queen Bees, who compete in interleague competitions within Australia and internationally. They are the current first place title holders of The Great Southern Slam, and 'A-Team of the Year' for Women's Health's 'I Support Women In Sport' campaign. VDRL is a member of the Women's Flat Track Derby Association (WFTDA), having gained membership in December 2011. As of April 2017, VRDL is the top-ranked team in the WFTDA, following Gotham's run at the top since January 2013.