Tassel Time Episode One - The Pilot Episode

Tassel Time Podcast Episode One
 

Matt Davis, who you may know from the forums as DecadentGent is a radio production student who was recently directed to create a ten minute segment of a larger radio programme. As a fan of Burlesque, he created a fun chat-show style roundup of the UK […]

Recommended Reading: Girl Show

Girl Show: Into the Canvas World of Bump and Grind
By A. W. Stencell
ECW Press, 2000
This is one of my favorite books about exotic dancing. It isn’t strictly about burlesque–remember, both Little Egypt and Sally Rand started out a fairs!–but there is plenty of burlesque in it.
Stencell describes the evolution of traveling carnivals from World Fairs […]

Burlesque is Nerdy!

I’ve been too busy to keep up with the promise of anything remotely like “Daily Burlesque,” but I am still in the process of editing more amazing interviews…just verrrrry sloooowly.
One of the things I did while working like crazy was to be interviewed myself:
“A lot of burlesque is about being an inappropriate female,” either in […]

Let’s Make A Date

We’ve rounded the corner into fall so it’s time to kick off the 2008 calendar season. OK, maybe it’s a little early, but it’s really never too early to celebrate Dr. Sketchy’s well-drawn ladies. Dr. Sketchy’s 2008 Pinup Calendar features drawings of Michelle L’Amour, Indigo Blue and other burlesque queens by the multi-talented Molly Crabapple, […]

Dita for PETA

As promised, here’s the new PETA ad featuring Dita Von Teese.