Pole Cat

OC Weekly- July 5, 2007
The Weekly got the call hours after the issuehit newsstands. A fast-talking man from Newport Beach claimed not only that the gleaming pole on our “Polar Opposites” cover (June 22) was his, but also that he was the inventor of the portable stripper stage pole that was used for our cover photo shoot.

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Lose Pounds On Pole

The Daily Pilot October 12th, 2007
Fitness Instructor Edith Aboul-hosn’s Wednesday night class at Lady of America gym on West Coast Highway in Newport Beach seems like a run-of-the mill workout class as women arrive in shorts and tank tops and begin stretching.

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Wardrobe Malfunctions Inc.

Wall Street Journal Feb. 2, 2007
If there's any development that could cut into this business, it's the growing number of party hosts who want to do it themselves. Platinum Stages of Newport Beach, Calif., a company that sells portable stripper poles that can be installed in living rooms, says sales in the two weeks before the Super Bowl will account for 20% of its $2 million to $3 million in annual revenue. "The people using our products are your basic housewives and moms," says Kim Homuth, the company's director of operations.

Pole dancing helps strip off pounds

by Judy Fortin

CNN Medical Correspondent

CNN.com

ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) -- The lights were turned down low and the music was pulsing as Kimberly Wright made her way toward a 16-foot tall dance pole to do some tricks.

Wright is not an exotic dancer in a strip club. She's a 38-year-old mother of two from Atlanta, Georgia, looking to get in a decent workout.

"It works the abs, oh my goodness, muscles I didn't even know I had," Wright chuckled.

On this night, Wright is among more than a dozen women of all shapes and sizes -- no men allowed -- attending a beginner class at PoleLaTeaz, an Atlanta dance studio owned by Angela Edwards.

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