BY SCOTT STIFFLER | Dirty, dirty, bad Bunny! This “Lady” in name only knew what she was doing when naming her new show Don’t Bring the Kids—and you’ll have your proof of that within the first few seconds of this relentless smorgasbord of scatological humor and sex jokes. Yes, Lady Bunny is back, every Tuesday […]
BY SCOTT STIFFLER | Don’t let the elbow-length gloves, the cat-eye glasses, or the bouffant hairdos pull focus from what’s really going on when The Kinsey Sicks take the stage. Their look may evoke Eisenhower-era cocktail culture throwbacks—but get their liberal dander up, and these ladies are more than ready for a throwdown. And throwdown […]
The enduringly entertaining Pandora Boxx has done much to distinguish herself besides having the distinction of competing on the sophomore season of a little show called RuPaul’s Drag Race. Since then, the Season 2 contestant has returned to RPDR as a Season 1 and 6 All Stars competitor—all the while, racking up credits as an […]
BY MICHAEL MUSTO | Even though a lot of today’s drag queens steer away from punny names, I think it’s important to emphasize those types of appellations because they’re just so damned hilarious, and there’s so much history behind them too. Well, I’ve given you the best such noms de plumage before, and now I’ve […]
BY ELIZABETH ZIMMER | When the all-male Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo was founded in 1974, being gay could get you into lots of trouble. The Stonewall Riots were still fresh in New Yorkers’ memories; the AIDS crisis, which decimated the original company, lay ahead. The male dancers’ portrayals of ballerinas on pointe were […]
Theirs is a friendship decades in the making–or faking? Best not to dive too deeply into the psychological underpinnings of the dynamics involved in a project from drag legends Jackie Beat and Lady Bunny. That said, it’s perfectly legit to wonder what caused the stars to align and create the upcoming December 16-18 performances of […]
On Tuesday, November 29, New York City is the highly appropriate last stop on the nine-city Letters Live/Good Juju tour, in which damn fine divas Peppermint and Jujubee claim their place in the pantheon of post-pandemic live performance events. Highly appropriate how, you ask? Well first of all, after feeding the needs of hungry audiences […]
BY SCOTT STIFFLER | While much of the world spent the pandemic sheltering in place and binging on Netflix in an attempt to stave off madness, innovative (and already insane) Jackie Beat found herself pounding a different drum. The veteran drag queen known for belting out hilariously filthy song parodies while hurling cruel insults at […]
BY MARTY BARRETT | What is the collective term for drag queens: A Sashay? A Tuck? A Flotilla? However the OED defines it, a blindingly brilliant (and occasionally bedazzled) constellation of drag queens descended upon our sprawling city, as RuPaul’s DragCon LA 2022—the event’s 10th in-person iteration—brought sparkle back, May 13-15. Hundreds of drag queens—whether […]
PHOTOS & TEXT BY MARTY BARRETT | RuPaul’s DragCon LA 2022 (May 13-15) was a seismic event—and how appropriate for Pacific Rim-adjacent Los Angeles—that represented a release of all that pent-up COVID claustrophobia in a healing lava rain of drag queens across a grateful downtown LA. The 10th in-person DragCon featured hundreds of vendors, reunions […]