BOSTON, MA – David Bertolino, owner of Boston Costume, is being chased out of his longtime location by skyrocketing rents and says this will be his shop’s final Halloween. Bertolino is not getting out of the costume business altogether, though, and he has a new project in mind...

BEAUMONT, TX – Although details are still sketchy at best, what can safely be stated is that the manager of either Sunrise Records, Krazy Kat, or Bare Necessities — if not all three — in Beaumont, TX was probably not expecting what he encountered when he came back to...

SAN FRANCISCO, CA – When organizers first started putting together last week’s Amateur Erotic Film Competition in San Francisco, some confess that they were a little frightened by what prospective contestants might submit.Now that the entries are in, though, the judges find...

NASHVILLE, TN — A recently-discontinued political ad run by the Republican National Committee (RNC) references the fact that Democratic candidate for the Senate Harold Ford attended a Super Bowl party thrown by Playboy in early 2005. In so doing, the ad features a white...

AKRON, OH — Chances are good that Mango’s Nightclub will start checking ID from now on, thanks to recent allegations of rape made by a 17-year-old girl who became drunk while partying with the Girls Gone Wild crew at the Akron night spot.The owner of the club,...

USA — Adults who enjoy attending landed swinger club events in Indiana and New Jersey have lost two of their options, thanks to two recent court decisions.A club in rural Indiana that bills itself as the states oldest is facing $300 per day fines after having been declared...

KENTUCKY — Emily Davis was just having a little fun when she decided it would be a good idea to remove her bra and slip it around her friend’s car antenna. Her friend Tabitha Adams, clearly showing better judgment, disagreed — but since she was driving the car,...

COVINGTON, KY – Ruling that the county’s sexually oriented business licensing and regulation scheme “does not run afoul of (the plaintiffs’) First Amendment and other constitutional concerns,” U.S. District Judge David L. Bunning Monday dismissed a lawsuit challenging portions of...

AKRON, OH — While there may be truth in Oscar Wilde’s observation that it is “better to be talked about than not talked about,” Joe Francis and his ever-controversial Girls Gone Wild crew might want to consider themselves an exception, since so much of...

When exactly did the Religious Right buy all rights to the word “values?” Perhaps more to the point, when did they buy the right to define exactly what is and isn’t a “value?”According to Dictionary.com, a “value” can be a number of...