The print edition of today's Springfield Republican reports: ...a 22-year-old man was shot in the head while sitting at the bar at the Mardi Gras strip club downtown... Police said Colon [the victim] had been involved in a "verbal and physical altercation with several other subjects" in the Mardi Gr...

Today's Springfield Republican reports: Ware selectmen OK written refusal to deny permit to Robbie's Place for nude dancing The selectmen have approved a document defining their board's opposition to a downtown bar's request for a 2009 entertainment permit including nude dancing... The document says...

Today's Gazette assesses the impact of Capital Video's Amazing.net porn shop in Northampton. This shop, at 135 King Street, originally planned to contain 20 viewing booths. Year later, porn store brings scant change to neighborhood [Douglas A.] Kohl [a co-owner of commercial property at 139 King St....

We applaud Springfield officials for not giving up on Apremont Triangle. The Republican reports today that the city is still interested in closing the viewing booths at the Amazing.net porn shop there. The booths are associated with health risks, economic blight, harassment of residents, and prostit...

Congratulations to our friends at Keep Johns Creek Safe. Love Shack, a large porn shop that tried to evade the new city's adult zoning regulations, has decided to close. Owner John Cornetta claims he's losing about $40,000 a month. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports today: “I guess I could s...

Bad news for Springfield's Apremont Triangle last month. Hampden County Superior Court ruled that Capital Video's Amazing.net porn shop there can reopen its viewing booths. One of Charlie Ryan's last acts as the Mayor of Springfield was to deny Capital Video a 2008 entertainment license for these bo...

Congratulations to NO V.I.P. in Berlin, CT. The Connecticut Supreme Court just upheld Berlin's ordinance that requires adult-themed businesses to keep at least 250 feet away from residential zones. Very Intimate Pleasures, an adult toy and video shop, had tried to argue that this ordinance was inval...

Julie Bindel of the Child and Woman Abuse Studies Unit, London Metropolitan University, prepared this report on strip clubs in 2004 for the Glasgow City Council. Beyond the impact on the direct participants, the passages below suggest that strip clubs have "secondary effects" on their surroundings (...

The Burning Times has kindly given us permission to reprint the Fourth Carnival Against Pornography and Prostitution . See the first three carnivals here . Fourth Carnival Against Pornography and Prostitution April 26, 2008 by Debs Hi again everyone, and welcome to the fourth edition of the Carnival...

Here is the full text of Springfield Mayor Charles Ryan's Findings and Decision as transmitted on January 4 to Thomas Lesser, attorney for Capital Video. Mr. Lesser, based in Northampton, is trying to help Capital Video obtain a 2008 entertainment license for the porn viewing booths in its Spri...