Miss Exotic World Pageant Winners!

Did I really think I was going to have time to blog on this wild trip???
I just have to make this post happen, though. Thanks to all the performers, the producers, volunteers, and audience of the show, and congratulations to the winners!
Best Debut

Perle Noire
Image from Perle’s myspace
Best Duo

Jewel of Denial and Kat Bardot
Image from Jewel’s […]

The Candy Gram: Sparkly Devil

In our ongoing Q&A series –”The Candy Gram”– we ask the same quirky questions of burlesque’s various performers. For the next two weeks, until the 2008 Miss Exotic World pageant, we’ll be featuring special editions of The Candy Gram with the burly queens competing in the festivities. If you want to be added to the […]

The Candy Gram: Vivienne VaVoom

In our ongoing Q&A series –”The Candy Gram”– we ask the same quirky questions of burlesque’s various performers. For the next two weeks, until the 2008 Miss Exotic World pageant, we’ll be featuring special editions of The Candy Gram with the burly queens competing in the festivities. If you want to be added to the […]

Kids These Days! A Report from Alpha Psi Ecdysia

Some of my students from upstate are performing in Manhattan Thursday night! Here’s a report on how this came about. I wanted to edit their workshop feedback because I got shy reading it, it was too sweet. But I’m not going to censor the piece because it’s too complimentary, that’s for sure.
Article by Lucida Sans
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Happy Birthday Lili

We’re going to take a short break from our special edition series of The Miss Exotic World Candy Gram interviews to wish a happy birthday to Lili St. Cyr, who was born Marie Frances Van Schaack. To celebrate what would have been her 91st birthday, here’s a short excerpt from Gilded Lili on her birth:
On […]