Bruce Springsteen, fifth from right, performs with the 17-member Seeger Sessions Band during a concert at Asbury Park’s Paramount Theater in April 2006 in Asbury Park, N.J. (MEL EVANS / AP / File)
In New Orleans, it’s more than Bourbon Street.
It’s more than frat boys tossing beads from second-floor balconies while strippers shake their booties in club doorways along the street below.
New Orleans is more than its ancient French market, or the walk along the Mississippi, or the antique stores along Rue Royal.
It’s more than the fried catfish, or the Po-Boys stuffed with deep-fried oysters that taste too good to be bad for you, or beers so big only a strong woman can carry one with grace.
It’s a mixture of it all, combined with a long history of not quite winning against long odds but never giving up the fight either.

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Covertly observing the cons at work is one of the street’s more popular freak rides. It furnishes the ticket holder with much of the same thrill as watching feeding time at the nearby Aquarium’s shark tank. Great fun, as long as the glass remains intact, and the street sharks don’t see you.
Ironic juxtaposition is the order of the day on the new Bourbon street.  The featured players’ list is extensive. The afore-mentioned Galatoire’s, the sole grande dame restaurant left with its front door directly on Bourbon, is bracketed by bad-taste t-shirt shops and 25-cent peep shows. The restaurant accepts no reservations in the prime downstairs dining room, and still requires much of its clientele to wait in line on the street, thus giving those potential diners a compulsory education at Bourbon U. 
A high-priced “gentlemen’s club”, one of the topless-dancer variety, now sits directly across the street from another old-line cafe. The cafe light-heartedly deals with the new geography by advertising “topless oysters”, the bivalves served on the half-shell.

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3. Clover Grill. A staple of gay life, Clover Grill is open all day and night, serving up breakfast and diner-eats with panache. Where else can you get a burger cooked under a hub cap? Yum!
2. The Country Club. If you crave a big ‘ol gay pool and hot tub party, get wet at the Country Club. Every Friday night, dive in and enjoy the “New Meat” contest, where locals and out-of-towners strip down for a cash prize.
1. Intersection of Bourbon and Saint Ann. A majority of NOLA’s gay nightlife can be found in the French Quarter where Bourbon Street intersects with Saint Ann. The city’s most popular gay bars — Bourbon Pub and Parade and Oz — are located here. Whether you want to dance, play pool in a dive bar, see strippers bare all or play drag bingo, there’s a venue and vice for every taste.

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Few things can get you over hump day better than Matthew McConaughey working out, am I right?
We found the sexy star heading out for his daily workout this morning – unfortunately it wasn’t quite warm enough to necessitate a shirtless jog. Let’s hope the weather heats up, fast!
McConaughey and fiancé Camila Alves are in town promoting Bernie, his latest film with Jack Black.
Matthew recently admitted to doing some research for Speaking of Magic Mike, his upcoming movie with Channing Tatum. The two play male dancers, and hit up a strip club in New Orleans to learn what brings in the dollar bills.
“We met early on and went by one male review strip club in New Orleans, I was there for about an hour. That was enough.”

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Bill to ban spending welfare on booze and strippers
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The full Louisiana House of Representatives is scheduled to debate a bill today that attempts to prevent welfare recipients from using their government benefits on liquor, gambling, or in strip clubs.  Read more…

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Bill to ban spending welfare on booze and strippers
Posted 7 hrs 21 mins ago
The full Louisiana House of Representatives is scheduled to debate a bill today that attempts to prevent welfare recipients from using their government benefits on liquor, gambling, or in strip clubs.  Read more…

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… I’d imagine the fifth circle of hell looks something like Bourbon Street, and that’s not just because of the guy I saw body-painted red and dressed up as the devil. The place smells like a toilet, is filled with people that are either piss drunk or look like they escaped from a freak show and almost every other building is a raunchy strip club.
The most disturbing were the “Unisexx Club” (I don’t even want to know what they mean by “World Famous Sex Acts”) and the “Barely Legal Club” with pictures of girls that look like they are 12 (what exactly is the legal age in New Orleans, anyway?). All the strippers stand outside their establishments trying to lure people inside, including one who was holding a baby in her arms and feeding it milk while trying to entice customers.

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SOME hither, others yon: Former Saints tight end Jeremy Shockey wants a retraction and an apology from NFL Network and the man who outed him as the whistleblower on the Saints bountygate, NFLN analyst Warren Sapp. Shockey, a free agent, hasn’t ruled out taking legal action.
AS THE TEBOW WORLD TURNS: Jimmy Fallon: ” strip club in New York is offering Tim Tebow his first lap dance for free. It’ll be the first time where the customer is the one who keeps yelling ‘No touching.’”…The famous Carnegie Deli in New York has already named a sandwich after Tebow. They should also name one after his throwing motion — the submarine. Or better, yet, maybe they should name one after Mark Sanchez, the Jets starting quarterback, the Po Boy…Could the Kentucky Wildcats beat the NBA Washington Wizards? They couldn’t beat the Wizards if they played 100 games at Rupp Arena…

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There’s a man in a wheel chair with a small, spunky dog on his lap. The man’s head is wrapped with a turquoise cloth and his neck is draped with an orange ruffled scarf.
There’s a 10-piece band wailing on the street corner. They huff into dirty, worn flugelhorns, trombones and trumpets, while another smacks sticks on plastic crates turned to drums. It’s a bombastic, dizzying jazz that the tourists adore.
There’s inebriated people of all ages, slowly floating down the pot-hole ridden street. They bump into one another, dodging bent, outdoor go-go dancers and unbalanced hands grasping tall cups of light beer. Knees give way to jelly-filled bones.
Then there’s some of the Teahan family, donning their crimson and blue.
“It’s taken a little while to get used to,” said Natalie Gates, the sister of senior guard Conner Teahan. “One minute you’re at a strip club and the next minute you’re at a nice restaurant.”

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The entire state of Ohio suffers under some of the most restrictive strip club laws in the country, an unfortunate turn of events for such a densely populated state. OSU alumni are likely to spend more when traveling now that their home clubs are less fun. And they will travel for a lapdance: it’s conventional wisdom among traveling strippers that golfers from Ohio flood the strip clubs of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina every year during golf season. They’re also likely to simply outnumber the other travelers because of the sheer size of the school, the third largest in the country.

The Kansas fan base has three great stripper-friendly characteristics. The school is in the Midwest, so they’re both willing and happy to travel to a party spot; the university is both large and a traditional basketball power; and it’s the alma mater of Jason Sudeikis, who is amazing as a strip club DJ on SNL. The strip clubs in Kansas aren’t awful but they’re not terribly numerous, either. Add it up, and you’ve got a fan base with a great combination of earning power and serious appreciation for friendly naked women.

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