Hold the phone! The infamous Power Exchange, after closing their Otis Street location and getting chased off of Gough Street with pitchforks, has moved into the Crash Club space at 34 Mason without so much as a klieg light, and apparently the Tenderloin neighborhood folks are planning an all-out assault, according to C.W. Nevius in the Chron. At least for the SRO residents and former alcoholics in the 'hood who have found God, there is no place for a sex club in the Tenderloin. Nevius appears to identify with the righteousness of these folks and takes pleasure in the committee-hearing fight that's brewing, just as he did when the Gough Street people triumphed. But we have to wonder whether city officials are really going to take the code violation murmuring seriously, or if someone is going to acknowledge that the Power Exchange has a right to exist somewhere. more ›

North Beach strip club Heaven, the strip/prostitute club that had City Attorney Dennis Herrera (rightfully) slammed as "a public nuisance, having allegedly violated city codes and having been cited for prostitution," was ordered to cease operations starting today. According to SF Appeal, "In a release sent by his office, Herrera says 'Today's ruling should send a message to other would-be operators of illegal businesses that even Heaven is subject to temporal laws here in San Francisco.... It's regrettable that this business chose to expend so much effort to flout the law rather than to follow it, and that a preliminary injunction was necessary to shut it down.'" Will other strip club that allow whoring (i.e., most all of them) fall like dominoes? Only time will tell. If you recall, the owner of Heaven, Peter Lambertson, says that the only reason his club was targeted was because he didn't pony up freebies to "patrons who identified themselves as off-duty officers asked to be comped on extras" -- i.e., receiving sex for free. more ›