Remember: Nothing Says, "I'm Here to Help" Like a Lap Dance

In a sign that things may be returning to normal in New Orleans, strip shows are back in the city's famous French Quarter.

Erotic dancers and strippers are entertaining crowds of police, firefighters and military personnel instead of the usual audiences of drunken conventioneers and tourists in Bourbon Street's Deja Vu club, which reopened this week.

It's the first strip joint to resume business, ....

'It's nice to get back to work, and all these men need some entertainment,' Dawn Beasley, 27, a dancer at the club, said on Tuesday night. 'They haven't seen anybody but their buddies for two weeks.'

The crowd hooted and hollered as women peeled off their tops and gyrated, as customers tucked tips into their G-strings....

Only a handful of restaurants and bars in the Quarter have reopened in recent days, serving food and drinks -- usually without charge -- to rescue workers and military who stream through the mostly empty streets. The Deja Vu waived its cover charge, drinks were selling for $3 and a private dance was available for just $1."

And in an effort to provide a little comfort to those who have lost everything, Deja Vu announced that it is now accepting FEMA VISA cards.