Two years ago, the woman who would become Elle Dorado was a professional figure skater from Long Island visiting New Orleans with her fiancé. They were walking on Decatur Street when a sign ...

While seeking a permanent venue for his critically acclaimed Bustout Burlesque show, producer Rick Delaup is planning a few special showings of America's only authentic 1950s-style nightclub burlesque ...

Foxy Flambeaux, Praline DuPree, Kitty Twist from "Secrets in Lace Presented Bustout Burlesque in The Mystick" presented at the Royal Sonesta Hotel last September. NEW ORLEANS BURLESQUE FESTIVAL What: ...

Pasties come in different sizes. That’s just one fact of the striptease life that Tara Vaughan Tremmel’s learned making a documentary on the history of burlesque. Tremmel, a graduate student in ...

Police arrested the dancer Carol Doda in a San Francisco bar in 1965 and charged her with lewd conduct and indecent exposure. Imagine the scene: a giant white grand piano emerging from the ceiling of ...

DITA LAS VEGAS: A Jubilant Revue began on Thursday at Horseshoe Las Vegas' Jubilee Theater Mark Gray is a journalist of over two decades. He has written about entertainment, sports and crime since ...

PARIS (Reuters) - Mathieu Amalric leads a troupe of veteran burlesque dancers on a rambling road movie through the backwaters of France in "On Tour", his debut as director in the main competition at ...

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