Friday, September 5, 2008
Dallas’ The Lodge named Best Gentlemen’s Club in America
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The country has learned what Dallas has always known: The Lodge is the best gentlemen’s club in America.
At the annual Gentlemen’s Club Owners Expo in Las Vegas last week, The Lodge was named the Best Overall Club for 2008, the industry’s top honor. The Lodge had been nominated for best club before, and won many regional awards, but this was the first time any Dallas club earned the grand prize.
“This is a real honor for us,” said Dawn Rizos, the owner and CEO, who was named Industry Innovator of the Year in 2006 by the same organization. “And it’s a wonderful tribute to all the great people who dedicate themselves to making The Lodge so unique.”
Rizos accepted the award Wednesday night at a ceremony at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, capping the multi-billion-dollar industry’s annual trade show and convention. In a presentation introducing the nominees, The Lodge was praised for “setting the standard in beauty, class and elegance” in a setting that “looks like it was airlifted from one of the great national parks of the American West.”
The announcer also highlighted The Lodge’s “fabulous cuisine,” its scholarship program for entertainers and the “Lodge Way” of treating customers and staff with individual attention and respect.
“The Lodge sets out every day to reflect integrity, luxury and good taste, while never losing its sense of fun,” he concluded.
“We couldn’t agree more,” Rizos said. “We’re grateful for the recognition, and we’re proud to bring this award home to Dallas.”
The award is on display in the trophy case at The Lodge’s main entrance, along with many other honors won over the years. The club is located at 10530 Spangler Road, just off Northwest Highway and one mile west of I-35. It opens at 11 a.m. weekdays, noon on Saturday and 4 p.m. on Sunday, and closes at 2 a.m. every day.
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AnnMarie Wilson Verified
Why can't we win an award for say.... Best Public Schools, or Best Programs for Alternative Energy, or Most Successful Program to Stop Illiteracy, or Innovative Program Offers Medical Insurance to All Residents...
But no, our claim-to-fame is a fancy strip club.
2 months, 4 weeks ago ( Link to this comment | Suggest removal )
Robert Kelly Verified
cause we don't have any of those, at least not with the word "best" in front of them
2 months, 4 weeks ago ( Link to this comment | Suggest removal )
AnnMarie Wilson Verified
::sigh:: I know Robert, I know.
Terrific marketing ploy for recruiting businesses to relocate here: We can promise you the best strip clubs to entertain your clients in the country!
Unfortunately that's a bit offset by the other issues: under achieving schools (no money), high property taxes, polluted air, extreme traffic congestion, highest teen pregnancy rates...
But boy-howdy, we can sure shake those boobies!
2 months, 4 weeks ago ( Link to this comment | Suggest removal )
Mike Orren Staff
Always have to disclose that this company was born in the Lodge's wine cellar during a poker book signing event.
2 months, 4 weeks ago ( Link to this comment | Suggest removal )
Clay213 Anonymous
"under achieving schools (no money),"
DISD has a budget of over a BILLION. No money?
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AnnMarie Wilson Verified
And how much are teachers paid? How about current text books - the ones that haven't been badly edited? Science, art programs - music, theatre... there always seems to be money for sports though.
My step-daughter left teaching - something she loved - because of never having books or supplies (unless she bought them), no support... nothing.
2 months, 4 weeks ago ( Link to this comment | Suggest removal )
Jason Rice Verified
So maybe if teachers learned to table dance?
Oh, my. The image of any of my teachers from long ago .... oh,ouch! Nevermind, we're doomed.
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Levidog1 Anonymous
I have to say, the Lodge is pretty awesome. And I am female. My husband and I have gone for lunch, and it is such a relaxed, comfortable atmosphere. And I WAS nervous going in there but the waitresses put you right at ease. Not sleazy in the least. The food is actually good, the service great and it's fun. It's lunch with great scenery. Now, how can I add it to my favorites??
2 months, 4 weeks ago ( Link to this comment | Suggest removal )
AnnMarie Wilson Verified
You know, I'd rather go ... to the library, hear some good music.... just about anything then have lunch at a tit-bar.
Sorry. I'm sure I'm sounding like a snob, but considering the shape this city (state) is in, spending money for that just baffles me.
Unemployed just sent another record - and this is what wins awards and is considered an achievement for the city?
I'm a child of the 60's/70's - prude isn't a word I'd use to describe me, but I've seen too many lives destroyed by focusing on the wrong things.
Our priorities around here are pretty bloody screwed up.
2 months, 4 weeks ago ( Link to this comment | Suggest removal )
DC Anonymous
Well, I think a review is in order.
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Jason Rice Verified
DC, I for one can't WAIT to hear your take on it.
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Clay213 Anonymous
AnnMarie Wilson: You act as if the state or city is funding strip clubs. Strip Clubs probably pay quite a large amount of money into the city budget.
Also: 'And how much are teachers paid? How about current text books - the ones that haven't been badly edited?'
Those are allocation issues. Not 'there is no money' issue. Budget is over 1 BILLION.
2 months, 4 weeks ago ( Link to this comment | Suggest removal )
AnnMarie Wilson Verified
I never SAID the city was funding tit-bars.
What I said was: Our priorities are pretty screwed up when we have awards for the best tit-bar in the city.. that rave about that.
We don't have anything else to rave about huh? Guess not - not by the way companies are moving into the area. Not by the way the economy is booming... or retail is way up.. or bankruptcy is down... banks are failing... foreclosures aren't rising... we all have terrific medical insurance and money in the bank. (In case you can tell - that long sentence was pure sarcasm)
Wake Up.
This is not something to be proud of. I'd rather be proud of REAL accomplishments; this is pathetic.
Then again, I'm not in my 20's why should I care? (Need to learn to get rid of those ethics I was raised with) I'll be dead and gone - or moved away - and won't have to worry about the destroyed/ignored city infrastructure - that will be your problem. Infrastructure is not only crumbling streets and curbs or doomed-to-fail Trinity River projects with designer bridges that can't be built because of structural problems - it goes far, far beyond that.
So forget I said anything, go watch the bouncing boobies and drink the over-priced booze while you can...
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Clay213 Anonymous
I don't go to strip clubs.
But I don't need to like them, to know that you sound like a lunatic.
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xdavidwattsx Anonymous
Who cares what the size of DISD's budget is, Clay? Budget vs expenditures and money spent per child are the only numbers semi relevant.
It does cost a sizable chunk of change to educate 150k students.
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Clay213 Anonymous
Who cares what size the budget is?
Uhm. Anyone who pays it should care what the budget is.
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xdavidwattsx Anonymous
Thanks, Captain obvious. That wasn't the point. Way to take it out of context.
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Clay213 Anonymous
Who's taking what out of context.
Someone made a claim that the schools have no money-- they've got a billion dollars worth.
You may think they are using it wrong-- that doesn't mean they should get more-- or that they don't have it.
2 months, 4 weeks ago ( Link to this comment | Suggest removal )
chrisdanger Anonymous
Ann Marie makes a good point: Why doesnt this city or heck, this website make the attempt to better itself by increasing literacy, graduation rates or cleaning up the environment...no, wait, the concepts of hard work, stewardship and volunteerism isnt in the vocabulary of the typical right-leaning mouthbreaters that takes space in this town.
And another thing: Can we cut down on the press releases and try doing a little bit more news gathering in the future...
2 months, 3 weeks ago ( Link to this comment | Suggest removal )
jtmbls Anonymous
Why do we care about the Gentlemen’s Club Owners sitting around in a room patting themselves on the back? And what does it have to do with our city or schools? It’s not like the citizens of Dallas voted on this very important issue. Just a bunch of cheese balls in a banquet room in Vegas. So they think they’re amazing…who cares?
Having said that, it is actually a very nice place. Can’t speak to the food though. Have fun DC!
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Lisa Lawrence Merritt Verified
My review of The Lodge: the best strip club in the Metroplex and the only one I'll go to.
The food is just ok. Drinks are expensive and watered down.
The talent? Up to the Eye of the Beholder. Dancing? Most of the girls can't but that's not what they're being paid for.
I've had some good times in this place.jmho
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Pavel Lishin Verified
I've only been to a few strip clubs, so don't take my word as gospel, but I've yet to come to a single one where the drinks weren't crap. Maybe I didn't tip the waitress enough, or didn't flirt with her enough?
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luniz Anonymous
i say we give AnnMarie Lawrence an award for the most incomprehensible conspiratorial posts on the internets.
although you're on to something...clearly the people in charge in dallas are underfunding schools, in order to force women to work in strip clubs..
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Lisa Lawrence Merritt Verified
I think luniz means AM WILSON.
:)
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