sinclair's Review

I went to City Lights at 19:45 on a Friday night. The club is not far from Fresno Yosemite International. I actually tried to come here the previous night, but was denied entry due to the dress code. I was wearing a muscle shirt because it was 100 degrees in the Central Valley, but you are not allowed in wearing tank tops. You are also not allowed to wear sweatpants, Fresno State Bulldogs gear, or solid red (Bloods) or blue (Crips) clothes. There was a $5 cover. A Sincweiser was $4.75. A Modelo was $6. A glass of soda was $3. The inside is pretty much a giant spaced-out dive bar. The main stage is to the left. It has one stationary pole, and is as large as two Winnebago’s parked side to side. Straight ahead as you enter is the bar. Inside the bar is an island stage with a pole. The right side of the room has four billiard tables and some old arcade machines. The bathroom smelled putrid and had trash all over the floor. The club does not want you using your camera phones, but I did not see any bouncers enforcing it.

Dancers get topless on stage, but cannot work the tip rail topless. They have to put their top back on before they can interact with customers. Dancers also have to wear full bottoms, no thongs are allowed unless they are under the bikini bottoms. I believe these are Fresno County rules as both clubs in the Raisin Capital operate under the same conventions. However, when dancers do come to the tip rail in their bikinis, anything goes. I spanked and felt up dancers as I tipped them. Dancers will give you a Stevie or spread their legs right in front of you. Dancers would dance for two songs on the main stage, then one song on the stage behind the bar. At the main stage, some dancers would rewalk the tip rail after they were done dancing, juicing every PL out of another dollar. At the bar stage, dancers would do a tip walk on any PL’s sitting at the bar. If you want to avoid tip walks, sit at a table.

The lap dances take place along the northwest wall of the club on benches. There is no privacy. Everyone can see you getting a lap dance, and if the club is busy, you will have other guys in very close proximity also getting lappers. The rules here are: no touching the dancers, no grinding, and the dancers have to have at least one foot on the ground at all times. These are pretty strict rules, but there was some leeway. I was able to touch to an extent, just nothing over the top or when the DJ or bouncers were looking. The dancers do some grinding, but do not lock into the same position for minutes at a time or give you a Tampa-style lap dance. The best place to get a lap dance would be as far down the benches as possible away from the DJ booth. I took a dancer back to the corner and discretely rubbed my digits over her covered pussy. Lap dances are $20.