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September 26, 2013 - Stripper Lynsie Lee, who works at Casa Diablo, a vegan strip club in Northwest Portland, worked her regular shift Thursday night. Lee has become a bit of a celebrity since a series of direct Twitter messages between her and Cory Booker, the mayor of Newark, N.J. and a U.S. Senate candidate were released. The two apparently began corresponding after both were featured in a documentary called "Follow Friday: The Film".

(Beth Nakamura/The Oregonian)

In a story seemingly found in the "Portlandia" writing room's trash can, Vice's "feminist channel" Broadly reports that two Portland strip clubs -- Acropolis, the place where you eat steak and watch women take their clothes off, and Dusk 'Til Dawn: Casa Diablo 2, the place where you eat vegan food and watch women take their clothes off -- are in an "insane feud."

The story, which is sure to titillate people who love keywords like "stripper" and "vegan," is that vegan and Casa Diablo owner Johnny "Diablo" Zukle decided to open the second location of his vegan strip club "just feet" away from the Acropolis, the strip club owned by Bob Polizos, "a proud carnivore who famously serves $7 ribeyes, and claims to raise some of the cattle himself on a nearby farm."

Now, Polizos has erected a wall between the two businesses and the two owners have taken to Vice's "feminist channel" to hurl insults at one another.

Oh strip clubs. Whatever will you get up to next?!

The article details the rise of both clubs, which basically boils down to the fact that both men wanted to start restaurants but found the financial strain too much and so, to make ends meet, they decided to build stages and stripper poles and pay women to dance on them.

Casa Diablo has been in the news before. Once, in 2013 after an exchange between stripper, Lynsie Lee, and then-mayor of Newark, Cory Booker was made public and once in 2015 when two strippers sued the club for back wages, unlawful deductions and battery.

Ultimately though, the two men can't seem to see eye to eye.

"They're nothing but a whorehouse!" Polizos said about Dusk 'Til Dawn.

"People go over there for $5 steak bites, then they come here for a $500 lap dance," Zukle said about the differences between the clubs.

You can read the whole article from Broadly here.

-- Lizzy Acker

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