On Saturday nights, the strip clubs fill up. But at Star Garden, a dingy dive bar in North Hollywood advertising topless girls, the real action is outside.
For nearly five months a group of former Star Garden dancers have positioned themselves on the sidewalk on busy nights with picket signs and costumes. They make it hard to enter the bar without first hearing why exactly they believe Star Garden does not deserve your business. They allege it's a workplace plagued by unsafe conditions, a lax attitude toward dangerous patron behavior, and unfair terminations.
The dancers keep a nightly tally on a white board of how many customers they deter; they say they average about an 80% success rate.
