Lusties take over

I missed this story over the weekend, but a fellow Troublemaker alerted me to it: The strippers at the Lusty Lady in San Francisco have taken over the ownership of the business. They became the first unionized strip club in the U.S. in 1995 -- as documented in the film Live Nude Girls Unite! -- and when management threatened early this year to close the joint, the dancers took it over instead, making it a cooperative. Just another reason I love living in San Francisco where, by the way, another employee-owned business, Good Vibrations, is the nation's largest mail-order supplier of sex toys, erotic books and media, and other bedroom-related goods. (Be sure to stop in one of their three attractive retail stores in the Bay Area!)