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Twice a day at the Enchanted Forest in Ellicott City, Sam Seashole would walk into a room full of cottonmouth snakes, pick one up and milk the venom from its fangs before a rapt audience. There were a ...

In two tenures as a nightclub owner, Sam Lanni has been at the center of a lot of things -- counterculture, controversy, maybe even contretemps. On a recent Tuesday night, Lanni, 51, stood in the ...