Women over 70 don't just excel at knitting, belote, and baking buttered cakes. Mary Caryl Giltner Serritella, on the other hand, doesn't become one with the leather sofa, but with a metal pole. This ...

Tabitha Vincent is a 23-year-old pole dance instructor from Perth, Australia. While many women would have backed off on ...

Mary Serritella, 71, performs in front of a live audience during the Comedy Pole Show at the Bourbon Room on Sept. 18, in Hollywood, Calif. (Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times) LOS ANGELES — Dressed in ...

Mary Serritella, 71, performs in front of a live audience during the Comedy Pole Show at the Bourbon Room in Hollywood. (Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times) Dressed in 7-inch neon heels and translucent ...

There’s an irony to meeting Armand ‘Mondo’ Duplantis on the 39th floor of his hotel in Tokyo. He seems much more at home up in the air than down on the ground. On Monday, the Swedish pole vaulter ...

Virginia Marshall can do anything except pick herself up from the floor. At least, that’s what she declares one morning in June after completing a dizzying, gravity-defying four-minute routine. The ...

Dressed in 7-inch neon heels and translucent yellow bell-bottoms, Mary Serritella was defying gravity and expectations on a recent Wednesday night at Hollywood's Bourbon Room. Spinning gracefully ...