The city's cyclists may be in the midst of a ticketing blitz, but there could be a solution! Maybe if you create a contraption that would allow you to travel around with a pole-dancing stripper on the back of your bike, then you could ride wherever you please, so long as you don't run into the morality police or insist on bringing a tote bag along for the ride. This recent video below was taken outside of City Hall... and here's an older one where the same cyclist drives the pole dancer right into traffic! more ›

Last month the greeting card designer and pole dancer Jill-Anne opened up her first brick-and-mortar card shop on the Lower East Side. The Allen Street store sells a wide variety of her cards, and like any halfway decent card shop, there's a pole in the middle of the store for pole dancing—or "poling," to use the parlance of our time. CBS 2's Magee Hickey reported from the scene yesterday, where Jill-Anne explained the connection between greeting cards and poling. more ›

Coming up next on America's Got Talent: subway pole dancing! Way to go, America. Remember those girls who took their underground antics to YouTube, showcasing their stripper-esque talents to straphangers and anyone with an internet connection? They're finally getting their big screen debut. more ›

Drum roll, please! The finals of the first annual US Pole Dance Championship were held yesterday at the Bleecker Street theater, where eleven female dancers competed for the coveted top crown. (It seems that not one man was able to shatter the glass heel ceiling to make the finals.) According to Time Out, there were originally 12 women chosen from more than 100 video submissions, but finalist Michula Renee Nunez of California tragically dislocated her elbow while rehearsing. more ›