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	Exotic World Burlesque Museum - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Exotic World originated as the private collection of retired exotic dancer Jennie Lee.
		Exotic World also serves as the home office for the Exotic Dancers' League of America trade union, and as the site of the annual Miss Exotic World Pageant.
		Each year a burlesque performer is crowned Miss Exotic World in a contest often referred to as the Miss America of burlesque.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Exotic_World_Burlesque_Museum (636 words)

	Athletes, dancers don't mix - Sports - The Washington Times, America's Newspaper (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Indeed, the accusations of an exotic dancer have caused Duke University to temporarily suspend operations in men's lacrosse, pending the outcome of a police investigation.
		The dancer claims she was hired to perform at an off-campus team party but was pulled into a bathroom, held down, beaten, choked and raped.
		Exotic dancers are so important to the esprit de corps of some teams, it seems, that they should probably be listed in the media guide -- right after the team chaplain and team psychologist.
	washingtontimes.com /sports/20060330-125924-2106r.htm (653 words)

	Exotic World, Helendale, California
		An in-ground pool is the centerpiece of Exotic World's annual beauty pageant (held in April each year).
		While Exotic World visitors are awash in busty, topless imagery, there is a bizarre wholesomeness to the whole operation.
		Exotic World goes one step further -- polished urns preserve the ashes of a few of the all-time greats, properly memorialized among glass cases filled with pasties and G-strings.
	www.roadsideamerica.com /attract/CAHELexotic.html (757 words)

	Exotic World Burlesque Museum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Widely regarded as the "Miss America of Burlesque," this pageant is the most highly respected annual meeting of exotic dancers, both old and new, and attracts top-flight competitors in a variety of shapes, sizes, ethnicities, and ages.
		Once the private residence of famed dancer and founder of the Exotic Dancers' League, Jennie Lee ("The Bazoom Girl"), Exotic World is the only museum in the world exclusively dedicated to preserving the art and artifacts of Burlesque's golden age.
		Every inch of wall space at Exotic World is covered with reminders of the art form's glamorous past, including photographs and playbills, pasties, lip-prints, and even the jewel-encrusted g-strings of such Burlesque luminaries as Sally Rand, Blaze Starr, and Lili St. Cyr.
	www.exoticworldusa.org /2003_release.html (549 words)

	Exotic World Burlesque Museum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Founder of the Exotic Dancers League of North America (1954) and the Exotic Dancer's Hall of Fame and Museum (now Exotic World).
		As President of the Exotic Dancers League, lead pickets of nightclubs that underpaid strippers, including one famous incident that involved the public burning of old G-strings "as a symbol of [our] fight for freedom and expression.
		Prior to the establishment of the Exotic Dancers League, Jennie served as president of the American Guild of Variety Artists (AGVA) -- the same position held by Ronald Reagan.
	www.exoticworldusa.org /hallfame/jennielee.shtml (209 words)

	Huntington Herald (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Dancers are doing "a fabulous, old-fashioned dance" that turns out to be the Electric Slide, and e-mails are going back and forth to Paris.
		While the director is creating a universal platform where it doesn't make any difference what country you're in, what dance is popular or what the mode of communication happens to be, there's something too trite about the direction here that almost mocks rather than heightens Chekhov's work.
		Presented by Big League Theatricals Inc. with a non-Equity cast, the talent was strong enough to bring tears to my eyes.
	www.zwire.com /site/news.cfm?BRD=1346&dept_id=433160&newsid=15423343&PAG=461&rfi=9 (905 words)

	Swedish American Patriotic League History & Centennial Celebrations
		In January 1895, as an outgrowth of the previous year’s activities, the Swedish American Patriotic League was founded as a congress of local Swedish organizations to continue the cooperation and coordination of activities and specifically to annually produce a midsummer celebration for the local Swedes.
		The League was formed to contine the efforts of the committee which produced a Swedish midsummer at the Midwinter Fair held in Golden Gate Park on Monday, May 14, 1894.
		From the beginning the League’s proceedings were known to all through Vestkusten, which exhorted readers to support this second midsummer and complained that some of the League meetings were poorly attended.
	www.sveadal.org /history.html (6688 words)

	Z Bone's Media Bites For 1999
		Her aim was not to create professional exotic dancers, Scotto said, but she went with several as they made their debut at the Castaway Lounge, a bar in rural Whately that features strippers.
		Two topless dancers have won their lawsuit against club owners who improperly classified them as independent contractors and charged them stage fees to perform, a practice that is widespread in California's topless and nude clubs.
		Dancers typically are charged a fee to perform, from $20 to $100 a shift, the lawsuit said.
	www.zbone.com /zone/p-news99.htm (10825 words)

	First Negro Classic Ballet
		By 1951, Janet Collins would become the first fl premiere dancer in the Metropolitan Opera Ballet, and in 1954 the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo would accept its first fl ballerina, Raven Wilkinson (whose acceptance was limited, however, since her fair skin induced most audiences to assume she was Caucasian).
		Along with Ted Crum, many of the dancers Rickard taught were adults who had lacked the opportunity for dance instruction as children.
		With the ballet studio launched and the dancers rapidly displaying mastery of their art, Rickard began to plan the group's first recital.
	www.huntington.org /LibraryDiv/firstnegroballet.html (1613 words)

	Gioseffi.com: Daniela Gioseffi
		Instead of America being forced to face a dramatization of the truths that would save her from corporate crime, she can be diverted to dwell on "The Sopranos" which offers a soap opera with stereotypical characters.
		You can be sure The Jewish Anti-defamation League would not stand for it and would protest roundly--but Italian Americans, in general, may accept the stereotype because they, too, have been sold a "bill of goods" by the Hollywood and television industrialists.
		Perhaps, the power of the exotic characters drawn so sensationally in The Sopranos makes Italian Americans feel that any attention to their style of food, dress, decor, music, is better than none.
	www.italianamericanwriters.com /sopranos.html (2140 words)

	No-Fi "Magazine" goes to the Miss Exotic World Pageant 2005
		Exotic World, and really the whole idea of burlesque, is hard to explain to people.
		Burlesque acts were not the "pole dancers," "lap dancers," or "table dancers" we think of who perform at the local strip club today.
		But after Holly explained to them that the gals who perform at exotic world were actually having fun and doing it out of their own pocket to try to help raise money for Exotic World (which makes most of its funds from the yearly pageant), something finally clicked and they decided to finally join us.
	www.nofimagazine.com /50exoticw1.htm (1653 words)

	Calendar of Events: Celebrate Today
		French dancer Francisquy Hutin danced in the The Deserter.
		The main activities are held at the Washington Monument in Washington, DC.
		The Exotic Dancers League operates the Burlesque Hall of Fame (open daily, free admission) as well as the Miss Exotic World Pageant (in early May).
	www.celebratetoday.com /dancingdays.html (1123 words)

	SALON Daily Clicks: Newsreal
		At Miss Exotic World, the strippers are old enough to be your grandmother, but they still know a thing or two about the erotic arts.
		Today, old-style burlesque is for all commercial purposes defunct, and the dancers of that era either dead or retired.
		When Dixie Evans -- whose striking resemblance to Marilyn Monroe brought her fame and fortune as a stripper in the '50's and '60s -- took over the leadership of the Exotic Dancers League of America in 1991, the organization was washed up.
	archive.salon.com /july97/news/news970709.html (1169 words)

	Girlpower on steel skates - Family Times - The Washington Times, America's Newspaper (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		One of the early leagues in the resurrection of roller derby, formed in 2001, was the TXRD Lonestar Girls from Austin, Texas, which was profiled briefly earlier this year in a reality show on the A&E Television Network.
		The DC Rollergirls, a league that is forming in the District and trying to find a permanent practice rink, is a perfect example of the "all walks of life" aspect of roller derby.
		Bemben and her league mates will take their show on the road in late July and August as Las Vegas hosts RollerCon, a mega-bout that will enable dozens of teams from all over the country to lock elbows and skates.
	www.washtimes.com /familytimes/20060520-101952-5586r_page2.htm (819 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		In an effort to bolster sagging attendance in the second season of Major League Soccer, the MLS rules commitee is evaluating proposed changes that would attract a larger proportion of the american sports public.
		For example, exotic male dancers are now being recruited, and will have a trial period in one of the MLS cities, hoping to bring in the numerous “soccer moms” along with their kids.
		Negotiations with the Disney empire are also under way, so that kids will also be able to wave to their favorite Disney characters and team mascots on the field, and will have a photo opportunity before, during and after each game.
	www.angelfire.com /ma/ugo/Soccer.html (205 words)

	Exotic World in Helendale, California (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Once the private residence of famed dancer Jennie Lee, Exotic World is the only museum in the world dedicated exclusively to preserving the art and artifacts of the golden age of Burlesque.
		While many retired dancers of this era kept their "risqué" pasts quiet -- Jennie Lee, founder of the League of Exotic Dancers and former "Bazoom Girl" (a moniker she earned for effortlessly twirling tassels on both her bosom and behind), decided to buck convention and put her past on display.
		When Jennie fell ill with breast cancer, she and Charlie moved out to an abandoned goat farm in the middle of the Mojave Desert, promptly evicting the farm's four-footed tenants in favor of creating a suitable space for her ever-expanding collection.
	www.bonus.com /contour/legends_america/http@@/www.legendsofamerica.com/CA-ExoticWorld.html (628 words)

	[No title]
		This handsome oriental lady was born of Jewish parents in Constantinople twenty- seven years ago; and, while retaining evidences of her blood, she is in general appearance a fair type of Turkish beauty, and her dress gives an exact idea of the picturesque and gorgeous costume of that nation....
		Restrictive legislation brought immigration to America to a trickle in 1921 and by 1924, the period of mass migration was over.
		During the thirties in America, Zionism was on the rise across the Jewish spectrum.
	www.nyu.edu /classes/tourist/hl.dos (7303 words)

	US (United States of America) News, Updates and Articles - DverCITY Magazine -
		If she were some wealthy man who dressed the way they expected, had five or ten ex-wives and a couple of girlfriends who were models, you can bet there would have been no charges in this case.
		I’m sorry but anyone who feels that they can justify killing innocent people in pursuit of their cause, not least of all children, is mentally unstable.
		Dancers took to the dance floors, and the song went to top the music chart show.
	www.dvercity.com /magazine_US.html (14163 words)

	NOW with Bill Moyers. Transcript. August 27, 2004 \| PBS
		But maybe this isn't an opportunity for the Democrats, yeah, there are two Americas, 50 million voters pledged to the Republicans, 50 million voters pledged to the Democrats.
		KEVIN PHILLIPS: Well, the reason why the two Americas thing is interesting is because you also have two Americas in terms of campaign contribution.
		And they're two Americas that are taking from the same slice of upper bracket America.
	www.pbs.org /now/transcript/transcript335_full.html (7992 words)

	eyestorm - article - Putting on a Show
		The Exotic World Burlesque Museum and Hall of Fame embodies a very different display aesthetic, one from which the artworld might profitably learn a thing or two.
		Maybe it was the natural desert setting, but the dancers' sensational plumage seemed to evoke the visual displays of the animal world, in particular the showy presentations that characterize rituals of mating and aggression.
		A photographic essay on the former dancer's glamorous career adorns a pinwheel encircled by blinking Christmas lights, while a gold cupid stands watch over a gilded urn containing her ashes.
	www.eyestorm.com /feature/ED2n_article.asp?article_id=329&caller=1 (1131 words)

	Aschenbrenner/Katherine Dunham. Chapter 7 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Expertly done, with trained dancers and with a complex understanding of the meaning of the dances, their performances were well received by audiences and critics.
		Her reference to the "native grace" of the Dunham dancers reveals the common misapprehension of the time, that African Americans were "born" dancers, that they did not require the difficult, intensive training that other dancers had to undergo.
		They are dancers and they want to dance." She asserted that productions directed and danced by African Americans were "vitally important to the community," and she cited the tenets of the WPA, insisting that the dancers be given the full benefits of working on a dignified basis.
	www.press.uillinois.edu /epub/books/aschenbrenner/ch7.html (14841 words)

	Java's Bachelor Pad: Jennie Lee
		In 1955, she helped found The Exotic Dancers League of North America (or EDL) and acted as their first president.
		At the time, L.A. dancers were getting less money than other dancers in bigger cities.
		With Lee's death in 1990, the collection was taken over by fellow dancer Dixie Evans, who has done an amazing job of keeping both burlesque's and Jennie Lee's legacies alive.
	javasbachelorpad.com /jennielee.html (345 words)

	The Exotic Dancers Union - Resources re Women, the Labor Movement, and Unions
		This is the story of "the most dangerous woman in America," legendary labor organizer Mother Jones, in her own words.
		Appointed the first woman organizer for the American Federation of Labor in 1892, she went on to be a co-founder of the Women's Trade Union League, formed in 1903 as a cross-class alliance of women workers and their middle- and upper-class allies.
		History of Women in Trade Unions (Women in America: from Colonial Times to the 20th Century) by John B. Andrews.
	www.exoticdancersunion.com (737 words)

	The Branson Theater League - Directory of Theaters and Shows (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Kirby is known for his wonderful exotic animals, including his 850 pound Royal White Bengal Tiger, Branson, an Orange Bengal Tiger, Yellow Leopard, and Black Leopard.
		Kirby recently welcomed the newest addition to his animal family, a soon to be named beautiful, bouncing baby girl with sparkling baby blue eyes and silky, white fur.
		Starring in The Welk Show Final Season are America’s Sweethearts of Song, The Lennon Sisters; Queen of the Honky Tonk Piano, Jo Ann Castle; and Multitalented Songstress Ralna English.
	www.showsinbranson.com /theaters_and_shows.html (3169 words)

	village voice > nyclife > Loitering by Silke Tudor
		The women are the original "Bazoom Girl" Jennie Lee, who started Exotic World and founded the Exotic Dancers' League of America, and Dixie Evans, the "Marilyn Monroe of burlesque," who became both guardian angel and curator of Lee's legacy when the "biggest bust in burlesque" finally succumbed to breast cancer in 1990.
		Situated in Helendale, California, the Exotic World Burlesque Museum and Hall of Fame sits on an abandoned goat farm in the middle of the Mojave Desert a third of the way between Los Angeles and Las Vegas.
		When Dixie appeared, in all her seemingly careless starlet glory with twinkling eyes and silvery hair falling across her shoulders, we knew we were in for one of the great tours of our lives.
	www.villagevoice.com /nyclife/0621,tudor,73297,15.html (1263 words)

	Kauai News & Information: 03/01/2004 - 03/31/2004
		Bruce Kawano, the chairman of USA Boxing Hawaii, which runs the Junior Olympic program in the 50th state, and Hawaii's lone member on the national board of directors for the U.S. Olympic Committee since 1999, is responsible for bringing the two-day event to Maui.
		Hundreds of exotic fruit trees, an acre or two hybrid coffee, and possible taro crops are planned.
		So is the backdrop for the 10th annual healthy food and fund drive of the food bank, again with a goal of gathering 20,000 pounds of food and $20,000 in donations.
	www.summitpacificinc.com /2004_03_01_archive.html (17987 words)

	Vavoom! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Once billed as "the Marilyn Monroe of Burlesque," today she oversees the Exotic World Museum, an oasis of striptease memorabilia amid Helendale's prim lakeside homes, turf farms and alfalfa ranches.
		Today, at clubs like the Velvet Hammer in Los Angeles, the comedy and exotic dances of burlesque ("not lap dances or pole dances) are once again hip — partly because of the craze for Big Band music.
		The Exotic World Museum is just one program of the nonprofit Exotic Dancers League of America.
	www.vvdailypress.com /2001-2003/101350080063518.html (1523 words)

	Stanley Cup Winners (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		In November 1917 in Montréal, the NHL, the major professional ice hockey league, was formed from the National Hockey Association, which had been established in 1909.
		Though Stanley wanted his Cup to be the domain of amateur hockey players, professional leagues would eventually elbow their way in.
		The Cup went to a Ranger victory party at a Manhattan saloon called the Auction House, where it stopped traffic, started parades, and was drunk out of by everyone in sight until the bar was effectively down to backwash (but that probably wouldn't have stopped them).
	www.tmlfever.com /StanleyCupWinners.html (3244 words)

	Kenyon College - Recent Books by Faculty
		In recounting "the most exciting season that major league baseball has ever managed to stage," Browning engages the reader on two levels.
		He is an enthusiast, steeped in the details of unfolding games and the personalities that animate them.
		Historians and frequent collaborators Scott and Rutkoff portray the astonishing array of actors, architects, composers, dancers, musicians, painters, and writers who, during the twentieth century, made New York City the world's cultural capitol.
	www.kenyon.edu /x1544.xml (2687 words)

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