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Entries tagged with 'Burlesque'
Posted Jun. 27, 2008,
Viva La Nipple! A Report from the 2008 Miss Exotic World Pageant of Burlesque
By Melissa Seley
Despite a raid by the Las Vegas Nipple Police (aka The Nevada Gaming Commission), gale-force desert winds and not-so-friendly hosting by the Maloofs’ Palms Resort and Casino’s buff-and-burly management bullies, the 2008 Miss Exotic World Pageant of Burlesque, which took place at the Palms’ multi-acre pool complex on Jun. 7, came off with all the pasty-pretty pizzazz, deeply-lipsticked pouts, rhinestone-bedecked glamour, dainty tilted hats, outrageous platform shoes, sprawling tattoos and bawdy humor one might expect from the world’s #1 classic striptease contest.
Having flocked like birds in their feather boas to The Strip from across the globe to celebrate burlesque’s re-blossoming and to luxuriate in likeminded company, Exotic World-ians were naturally stunned and bummed when the Gaming Commission showed up early on in the four-day-long burlesque convention -- which included a Dr. Sketchy’s Anti-Art Class (a live-model sketching session with burlesque dancers as muses and models), a burlesque poker tournament, a costume and book-signing bazaar, poolside circus, and “Legends Panel” presided over by such stars of the pre-television and pre-Playboy Golden Era of Burlesque as Dixie Evans, Ellion Ness The Untouchable, Tempest Storm, Lodi the Bodi, Dusty O’Hara, Shelli Rae, Tura Santana, Satanz Angel and Baby Candy Caramelo -- to slap a nudity-ban on the lower region of the breast (requiring performers to cover the portion of skin below the nipple with jerry-rigged fishnet covers). Breast-blocking aside, the overall reveling mood remained polite, cheery and lighthearted (a trademark tone of all female-run industries?), though good-naturedly incensed.
Posted May. 9, 2008,
PAPER TV: Catching up with Dita Von Teese
By PAPERMAG Editors
PAPER's Whitney Spaner talks beauty, fashion and feathers with former cover girl Dita Von Teese.
Posted May. 4, 2007,
Tickets for LUCHA VA VOOM go on Sale Saturday!
By Ann Magnuson
Lucha Va Voom, L.A.'s hottest Mexican Masked Wrestling & Saucey Striptrease revue, is back with what may prove to be the wildest, sexiest and sickest theme yet -- QUINCEANERA! After witnessing what the Va Voomers have done to Halloween and Valentine's Day, I can only blush when imagining what might happen when those raspberry, ruffled hoop-skirts get into the wrestling ring! Tickets for this mad and insanely popular event (that willl occur at the trippy Mayan Theater on June 26, 27 & 28) go on sale this Saturday. Get 'em here while they're hot (and still available -- this show ALWAYS sells out - with good reason!)