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Sapphire, billed as the world's largest strip club at a cavernous 71,000 sq. ft., opened two years ago with a party attended by Rachel Hunter, Carmen Electra, Dave Navarro and Tommy Lee. It used to be a mega-gym with a regulation basketball court until the owners decided to turn it into a club. "In real estate, the land goes to the highest and best use," explains co-owner Peter Feinstein. Now instead of collecting gym fees, he charges women $60 to $100 a night to sell $20 lap dances, along with the more profitable revenue stream from...
...their pushing laws to make it difficult for new clubs to open. Sapphire, billed as the world's largest strip club at a cavernous 6,600 sq m, opened two years ago with a party attended by Rachel Hunter, Carmen Electra and Tommy Lee. It was a mega-gym until the owners decided to turn it into a club. "In real estate, the land goes to the highest and best use," explains co-owner Peter Feinstein. Now, instead of gym fees, he charges women $60 to $100 a night to sell $20 lap dances, and draws on more profitable revenue...
Romana Kryzanowska weaves her way through Drago's Gym in midtown Manhattan like a mother hen, tending to her clients, teachers and apprentice instructors. The setting could be just about any well-appointed Pilates studio. What's unique is Kryzanowska, a pint-size dynamo who has taught Pilates for the past six decades--and who has just re-leased a four-volume DVD called Romana's Pilates. "I'm old, but I don't feel old," says Kryzanowska, who turned 81 on June...
...DIED. JOE GOLD, 82, founder of both Gold's Gym and World Gym, which helped popularize California's "Muscle Beach" workout culture; in Los Angeles. Gold designed and built the bodybuilding machines for the original Gold's Gym in Venice Beach, which counted Arnold Schwarzenegger among its clients. He sold Gold's Gym in the early 1970s, then opened World Gym in 1977; it now has 300 branches worldwide...
...employed just 33 marshals. Since then, thousands have been hired (the precise number is classified). The government has spent $31 million improving facilities at the Federal Air Marshal Training Academy in Atlantic City, N.J., adding, among other things, mock airplane cockpits and a $400,000 NFL-size gym...