Upcoming: Deconstructing Burlesque at The Kraine Theater on 2/11

This is happening…

Take your beautiful brains and other parts to The Kraine Theater this Tuesday, February 11 at 8PM.  It’ll cost you $20 or bring a friend, it’s 2 for $30…because anything burlesque is always better with friends!  See below for more details.

Deconstructing Burlesque

Tuesday, February 11

The Kraine Theater

85 E 4th Street

New York, NY

Doors: 8PM

Tickets: $20 / 2 for $30

This is a description of the show: A performance of a performance. A burlesque of burlesque. A sentence fragment that is also redundant. See all this and more at a show we are currently describing, as presented by your esteemed professeurs of the evening: Iris Explosion and Jonny Porkpie. Together, we will venture into the land of the semiotic and semi-erotic as we break down the barriers of burlesque itself in the most head-scratching and pants-shaking burlesque show that has ever been described in this Facebook invite. 

Body parts that may or may not be featured in this show: mammary glands covered in subcutaneous adipose tissue, gluteus maximus AND gluteus medius muscles, bipedal extensible struts, reproductive intromittent organs, a human soul. These body parts may or may not be incredibly arousing. 

This is a list of performers who will be performing in the previously described show:

Creamee Stevens
Fancy Feast
Peekaboo Pointe
Peter Aguero
Sizzle Dizzle
Tigger! Boylesque

and the previously aforementioned academicadazzlematicians:

Iris Explosion (NYU '09)
Jonny Porkpie (Brown '96)

With special help from our TA with T&A Dick Jones

The described show begins at 8pm and will require tuition of $20, unless you buy two tuitions, and then they are only $15 each. Tuition payable here: http://www.smarttix.com/show.aspx?showcode=dec211

#whatdatbootydo: The Show at Parkside Lounge on 1/27

Get thy backside down to Parkside Lounge on Monday, January 27 at 8PM for some bootytastic burly-q.  It will cost you $10 or 2 for $15 (bring a friend or three!)  Nina La Voix and the New York School of Burlesque’s mentoring program Driver’s Seat present, #whatdatbootydo: The Show!  See below for more details.

Showing you #whatdatbootydo will be Bombazeen Bean, Brooklyn Irons, Darlinda Just Darlinda, Dottie Dynamo, Essence Revealed and Nina La Voix.  For your go-go delight will be Zoe Ziegfeld.  Iris Ex Plosion will be your hostess.  

It's happening and you should definitely go!  

#whatdatbootydo: The Show

Monday, January 27

Parkside Lounge

317 E Houston Street

New York, NY

Doors: 7:45 PM / Show: 8 PM

Tickets: 1 for $10; 2 for $15

Brown Girls Burlesque at Joe's Pub on June 29

This is happening ...

Brown Girls Burlesque  presents The Dirty Honey Shake
featuring Chicava HoneyChild, Essence Revealed, Sophie Sucre, Calvin Booker, Ricky "Dirty Red" Gordon and Mike Brown
Saturday, June 29
Joe's Pub
245 Lafayette Street
New York, NY
Doors: 11:30
Tickets: $25

Wasabassco Burlesque at City Winery on 4/12

This is happening ...

Wasabassco Burlesque
starring Jenny C'est Quoi, Evelyn Vinyl, Hazel Honeysuckle, Heather Holiday, Medianoche, Nasty Canasta, Natasha King, Poison Ivory, Sapphire Jones, Mischief Molly and Doc Wasabassco
Friday, April 12
City Winery
155 Varick Street
New York, NY
Doors: 11PM / Show: 11:30PM
Tickets: $20

Upcoming: NY Pin Up Club Presents Old Hollywood Burlesque

Cherry La Voix

New York fans of burlesque, the NY Pin Up Club is hosting their monthly burlesque show this Thursday, July 5.  They will be paying tribute to the Hollywood of yesteryear.  Head on down to the Bowery Poetry Club for an evening of shaking, shimmying and in general good old fashioned fun.  Doors are at 7PM, show is at 8PM.  You have to be 17+ to enter, 21+ to drink and it'll cost you $15. 

Scheduled to perform, Sincerely Yours, Cherry La Voix and Jean Willickers.

Don't forget to be extra loud in your appreciation.  It will make the evening even more fun!  

Get there early and get a good seat. 

NY Pin Up Club Burlesque, TONIGHT, May 3

The Alchemist

New York, the NY Pin Up Club is having their monthly show tonight, Thursday, May 3. The shows are always a helluva lot of fun. Join host Brandon Herman as a lovely group of ladies shake and shimmy the night away. The theme, Black and White Burlesque ... the ladies will be performing to songs by the Black Keys and the White Stripes. Scheduled to perform, Baby Blue, Vada James, Little Motown, go-go by The Alchemist and stage kitten Ivory Askew. So, head on down to the Bowery Poetry Club and be extra loud when hoot, holler, applaud and in general enjoy yourself! Doors are at 7PM, show is 8PM and it'll cost you $15.

Corruption At Tammany Hall, 3/15

Corruption happens every Thursday...

Wasabassco Burlesque @ Union Hall & City Winery Tomorrow, 3/10

Two shows, two boroughs, one night ... that's what Wasabassco Burlesque is offering tomorrow, Saturday, March 10.

Tickets for the Union Hall show can be bought HERE. You can get tickets for the City Winery show HERE.

Song of the Day: Cherry La Voix - "Bad Girl"

Last month, I had a chance to check out a sizzlin' performance by Cherry La Voix. One of the songs she performed that evening was "Bad Girl." I'm really diggin' this song! Check out the song HERE and enjoy!

Gig alert: New Yorker's Cherry will be in town raising temperatures at at Gotham Burlesque on Saturday, August 6 at 9:30PM along with a whole host of talented performers. I suggest you buy your tickets now, you won't want to miss it.

Burlesque: At Last... Marshmallows, Bad Girls & Ruby Red Pumps

NY Pin Up Club Burlesque: June 2 @ Bowery Poetry Club, New York, NY

Sometimes, a chick has to let her hair down. What better way to have fun than to take in a burlesque show. So, Thursday night I headed over to the Bowery Poetry Club to hoot 'n' holler and have a good time at the NY Pin Up Club's monthly get together. The show was hosted by the groups leader, the loveable Brandon Herman and with co-hosting duties handled by the adorable saucy, delectable diva Miss Em.

The lovely Desiree DeLovely belted out "At Last" which you can see if you scroll down to the bottom. That tiny little lady has a big voice! It was her first official performance for the group; unofficially, she emerged from the audience a couple of months ago and blew us away. She was great fun to watch and looked to be having a blast onstage. She also made an adorable Dorothy as you can see in the photo below. Everyone should have a pair of ruby red pumps.

Red hot, redhead Cherry La Voix from Ohio also sang and has a great voice as well. Why oh why didn't I turn on my video to catch one of her songs? The two songs she sang were her own compositions. I forgot to ask her if she has any recordings available, shame on me! It was my first time seeing her perform and it was definitely a treat. She makes a really good bad girl as you can see below.

Miss dynamite, Iris Ex Plosion didn't sing but she put on one hell of a show! I'm sure a lot of the gentleman in the audience have a new found fondness for marshmallows now. I certainly won't look at them the same way again. You should have been there! Like her fellow performers, she was great fun to watch. The photo below was just the beginning!

I know you were probably expecting some risqué photos since this was after all a burlesque show. But, if you want to see that, you've got to go to the shows! The first Thursday of every month is always entertaining!

Doc Wasabassco's Burlesque At City Winery This Friday

Ah, nothing like a good dose of saucy fun! I'm talking burlesque folks! New York fans of burlesque are familiar with Wasabassco Burlesque, right? They have regular shows in Manhattan and Brooklyn. This Friday, April 22, City Winery will once again play host to the fun. Doors are at 11PM and it'll cost you $15.

This week's show will star Peekaboo Pointe, BooBess, Flying Fox, Harvest Moon, Matthew Holtzclaw, Ms Tickle, Nasty Canasta, Nikki Le Villain, Ruby Valentine, Sapphire Jones, and Doc Wasabassco. That's a lotta risqué fun for your buck! Grab a date, or not, and head down for a night of fun!

Doc Wasabassco’s BURLESQUE
City Winery 155 Varick St.
(at the corner of Vandam)
SoHo, NYC
Friday April 22 2011
11:30pm/ 11pm doors Admission $15

Tickets: HERE

Yule A Go-Go

When I first saw Yule A Go-Go, my first thought was, after giggling for a moment and thinking all holiday parties should have this (okay, maybe not the party thrown by your great aunt Odessa), "somebody's going to hell!" Because, that's what you say when you run across fun stuff that some folks might consider questionable. And, burlesque dancing in celebration of a religious holiday is well, one of those things that could be considered questionable.

What exactly is Yule A Go-Go you ask? Well, it's a DVD (plus 12 song CD) of 13 chicks doing burlesque (PG-13 rated pasties & g-string sort of stuff) to newly recorded versions of holiday classics in front of the Yule Log. I don't know if this is something other parts of the country air, but, if you're in NY, Channel 11 has a tradition. They air an image of a crackling fireplace while playing holiday music for several hours. Well, Yule A Go-Go is the grown folks version of that.

The DVD comes with a bevy of features including continuous party loop (after several glasses of your drunken uncle's special eggnog nobody will be able to control the replay button on the remote so you gotta let it loop) and the fireplace only option ... that option is for when great aunt Odessa drops by your party with her fruitcake, unannounced!

Check out the video tease below. Then, pick up a copy and have some fun!

Yule A Go-Go The Burlesque Yule Log DVD from Yule A Go-Go on Vimeo.

www.yuleagogo.com
www.myspace.com/yuleagogo