Gentlemen's club
Summary
A gentlemen's club is a members-only private club of a type originally set up by and for English upper class men in the eighteenth century, and popularised by English upper-middle class men and women in the late nineteenth century. Today, some are more open about the gender and social status of members. Many countries outside the United Kingdom have prominent gentlemen's clubs.In the United States the term gentlemen's club is frequently used as a euphemism for strip clubs, a trend also increasingly common in the United Kingdom, with chains such as Stringfellows and Spearmint Rhino using the term in this way.The original clubs were established in the West End of London.
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BBC Club appoints Pitman’s People for The Television Centre’s Closing Party Celebrations
Pitman’s People are working in association with the BBC Club to manage the theming and staging at the party to be held at the private members club on 27 March 2013. The event will celebrate a moment in time when the BBC Club was founded in 1924. Since then, the BBC Club has been the [.
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Bethany St. James: Sasha Grey -- A Porn Star Dares to Read
A porn star walks into a school. . . it sounds like the beginning to a bad off color joke. But, according to recent news it isn't a joke. It's a true story that has become a media firestorm. Most of us have read, watched or at least stood around the water cooler discussing the latest negativity hype about former porn star Sasha Grey reading to a group of school children.
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PCC a 'self-serving gentleman's club', NUJ chief tells Leveson
Michelle Stanistreet tells inquiry that the Press Complaints Commission and current system of self regulation has 'failed abysmally'.
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James Murdoch in Brooks's brush-off? | Media Monkey
James Murdoch's bid to join exclusive gentleman's club Brooks's seems to have stalled in the wake of the phone-hacking scandal. He applied two years ago but the final stages of his application coincided with his closure of the News of the World and appearance before MPs. The Daily Telegraph, Daily Mail and Independent wonder why his bid has foundered.
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Gotham Gigs: He scored this job
Just don't call it a strip club, says Edward Norwick, manager of Scores. “This is a gentlemen's club,” he insists. After acquiring the brand name two years ago, I. M. Operating Co. revamped the West Side nightspot and took it upscale. The well vodka is Grey Goose, the restaurant is a Robert's Steakhouse, 30 plasma-screen TVs line the walls and two elevated stages feature “female entertainment.
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