Today, burlesque is nothing short of an art form. Performers both male and female combine the most explosive aspects of costumery, dance, comedy and theater in a type of live entertainment that, of ...
The queen of the neo-burlesque movement got her start working in a California strip club. Except that she didn't dress or act like the rest of the strippers. Von Teese adopted a 1940s look and set out ...
Earlier this month, Florida settled a lawsuit filed by several LGBTQ rights groups against the law popularly known as “Don’t Say Gay.” The settlement clarifies that the law does not fully prohibit ...
There was a time when New Orleans was more famous for burlesque on Bourbon Street than for its music or food. From the late 1930s until the early 1960s, as many as 50 burlesque shows could be seen on ...
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) -- Blaze Starr, a burlesque icon and stripper whose affair with a 1950s-era Louisiana governor gained notoriety for both parties, died Monday at age 83. Starr's nephew, Earsten ...
Frieda Dewald LaBreche, a burlesque dancer who played Bourbon Street under the name of Wild Cherry beginning in the late 1950s, passed away Wednesday, June 25. She was 79. According to New Orleans ...
Only one of the valley’s museum collections regularly features pasties and G-strings. The Burlesque Hall of Fame at Emergency Arts, 520 E. Fremont St., may have one of the smallest displays among the ...
At 82, Jean Schur did something most women wouldn't do at any age. The great-grandmother of five from Coram went onstage before a live audience in Las Vegas last year and stripped. Her signature fan ...
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