Breaking: 2026 EDI lineups and venues announced!
The 11th Annual Exotic Dancer Invitationals return in 2026 with expanded talent, two national competitions and a brand-new mini-title
Palm Harbor, FL — The Exotic Dancer Invitational (EDI), the nation’s premier national feature-dance competition series,...
Breaking: Expo will call the Rio home in 2026!
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: If you think you know the Rio Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, take another look: Their $340-million-dollar renovation was designed to return this iconic venue to its previous glory. In...
Expo recap: The “Other” women making a difference in clubs
From heels to head office, women are taking the lead in adult nightclubs. ED Legal Correspondent, Larry Kaplan, recaps this year’s Expo panel dedicated to those making a difference.
Last year, the ED EXPO...
Expo recap: A safer, smarter environment for entertainers
From his Expo 2025 presentation, security expert Robert Smith offers practical strategies and highlights cultural shifts to protect, empower and retain your club’s most valuable asset.
• Written by Robert Smith
I’ve worked with more than...
EXPO RECAP: REINVENTION = SALVATION
In this abbreviated summary from their Expo 2025 panel session, three industry veterans share how reinvention isn’t optional, but essential, in attracting the next generation of clubgoers.
To kick off this year’s Expo seminar series,...
Arrests made in the murder of Condor club GM
Every business owner or operator in the US has had to dismiss an employee for one reason or another — it’s one of the unfortunate realities of being the “boss.” Sometimes those employees are...
Brett Rossi: Everybody’s All-American
After surviving infamy, fallout and the fantasy machine, feature entertainer Brett Rossi steps back in the spotlight — and into your clubs — on her own terms.
By now, you probably think you know...
Feature travel agent, Vicki Stover, passes away
Vicki Stover of TravelSource, renowned travel agent to feature entertainers for more than three decades, passed away on Monday at the age of 82 following a long and courageous battle with cancer.
For over 30...
What does the Dallas club raid mean for the industry at large?
• story by Angelina Spencer-Crisp, Executive Director of ACE National
When Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Dallas, alongside state and local officials, led a multi-agency operation on September 27, 2025, at Chicas Bonitas Cabaret, headlines once...
Security: Why citizens’ arrest could be your best friend
Robert C. Smith of Nightlife Security Consultants shares the definition and value of performing a citizen’s arrest and why clubs can worry less about legal ramifications.
I enjoy talking to and educating people on scary...
What’s it like to own a club in Norway? Magnus Morland knows
Club operators are often curious about how other clubs, in other cities, run their businesses. What’s it like to have a club in a city like Las Vegas, or Miami, or Dallas? But here’s...
In Conversation: Marcus Bately
Sapphire Las Vegas’ Senior Vice President dives into the club’s recent $10 million renovation and explains the thought process behind the venue’s most significant upgrades.
C alling Sapphire Las Vegas just another adult nightclub...
The smart play
How SmartTab disrupted an industry, improved their product and hired the savviest businesswoman in the game.
Somewhere above the sterile floors of corporate offices and far beyond the velvet-draped VIP rooms of adult nightclubs, one...
EXOTIC DANCER / Don Waitt archive set for Vegas museum!
Over 30 years of ED Publications is on track to be turned into an interactive digital archive, to be displayed at Harry Mohney's Erotic Heritage Museum in Las Vegas. To date, several club owners...





































