{"id":1553,"date":"2007-11-22T13:16:18","date_gmt":"2007-11-22T20:04:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=1553"},"modified":"2007-12-05T17:10:59","modified_gmt":"2007-12-05T23:58:59","slug":"burlesque-in-santa-monica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=1553","title":{"rendered":"Burlesque In Santa Monica"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cosmopolitan18.blogspot.com\/\">Cosmopolitan18 blogs<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A late night decision yesterday to hear some live music at a Jazz Club brought us to one of my old stapes, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.harvelles.com\/\">Harvelle&#8217;s in Santa Monica<\/a>, on 4th street near the Promenade.  It was Tuesday night, and it turns out that Tuesday is burlesque night at Harvelle&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>Both my friend and I were were astounded. It wasn&#8217;t quite striptease, but it was girls with G-strings doing splits, walking on the bar, hanging upside down over the young patrons who stiffened in their seats, not knowing where to look and what to do&#8230; <\/p>\n<p>We felt like we had an out of world (or at least out of Santa Monica) experience. And you can have it too. Every Tuesday evenings, from 10pm, at Harvelle&#8217;s.  <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--adsense--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cosmopolitan18 blogs: A late night decision yesterday to hear some live music at a Jazz Club brought us to one of my old stapes, Harvelle&#8217;s in Santa Monica, on 4th street near the Promenade. 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