Never tell a lady she is not right body type — the club and its owners are feeling the wrath of social media and some major voices in the world of burlesque
A week after Mardi Gras, it is business as usual in the neon gaudiness of New Orleans’s dive bars and strip clubs. That is, except Lucky Pierre’s. The club recently made a minor change to its regular burlesque lineup and by doing so, unwittingly reaped the wrath of an entire global community.
Set tastefully toward the quieter, residential part of Bourbon street, Lucky Pierre’s opened in late 2013 (you can Google the provenance of the name if you must, but be prepared – it is NSFW). The club is marketed as being a dash above the more sordid end of the market, with aesthetic nods to the city’s history and a focus on burlesque and drag shows. But as it navigated its busy carnival season, a seemingly routine decision to change its flagship show, The Blue Book, was to have seismic effects.
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