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Traffic safety hazards have never been quite as sexy as the Stripper Mobile, the subject of this week's New Times feature. Natalie O'Neill gets to know the pole-dancers and their promoters, looking to make a scene amid a South Florida swamped with Super Bowl-sized sensory overload.That appears to be the...

By Thomas Francis

February 18, 2010

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Traffic safety hazards have never been quite as sexy as the Stripper Mobile, the subject of this week's New Times feature. Natalie O'Neill gets to know the pole-dancers and their promoters, looking to make a scene amid a South Florida swamped with Super Bowl-sized sensory overload.

That appears to be the motif at the Manor, a stationary location where Night Watch's Tara Nieuwesteeg found a batch of bitch martinis and bare abdomens.

John Linn had a hysterically awful dining experience at the buzzy new Todd English joint, Wild Olives in Boca Raton, where snootiness tries to overcome mediocre cuisine.

In the music section, Courtney Hambright gets the hyperactive Protoman to sit still long enough to discuss his brand of hip-hop humility.

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