National Treasure
NATIONAL TREASURE: Darla Beauregarde
DARLA BEAUREGARDE ARKANSAS Combining honky tonk with a little whiskey, and definitely a whole lot of funny, this week’s National Treasure is Darla Beauregarde from the gorgeous Arkansas. A burlesque performer with the Honky Tonk Hussies, this dark-haired beauty loves kittens and cookies with equal fervor, and challenges social expectations on the regular. “I feel […]
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TORCHY TABOO GEORGIA A self-confessed Blanche Dubois living a Mata Hari delusion, Torchy Taboo represents Georgia as our National Treasure. With more than 20 years of burlesque experience, legend of burlesque Torchy Taboo combines jazz and Eastern dance as well as classic burlesque in her sizzling performances. A high school boyfriend told her once that […]
read moreNATIONAL TREASURE: The Shanghai Pearl
THE SHANGHAI PEARL WASHINGTON The Tantalizing Temptress from Taipei, Tempestuous Temple of Temptation, and Princess of Pulchritude! The Shanghai Pearl has been dazzling the Northwest as an in demand solo artist as well as burlesque instructor and costume designer. With over-the-top costuming and a serious sense of humor, the Shanghai Pearl constantly contests stereotypes.”I think […]
read moreNATIONAL TREASURE: Lola Spitfire
LOLA SPITFIRE COLORADO We especially love the ladies that heat up the coldest states: Lola Spitfire is not only the founder of Southern Colorado’s first and only burlesque, male burlesque and vaudevillian variety troupe, The Award Winning Peaks and Pasties, she’s also the producer of the Colorado Burlesque Festival. Like her names suggests, Lola Spitfire […]
read moreNATIONAL TREASURE: Bambi Galore
BAMBI GALORE PENNSYLVANIA We love a gal with a sense of weird, and so it’s a natural adoration we have for the self-described chameleon of tease Bambi Galore of Pennsylvania. This statuesque lady straddles the performance art worlds of burlesque and drag, easily moving along the male and female spectrum. “I like to take […]
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MIMI MASHUGA IDAHO We love this gem from the Gem State: Mimi MaShuga is our National Treasure for Idaho. Formerly Ms. Gay Idaho, MaShuga is the femcee and one of the founding members of Boise’s Hot Mess Burlesque, a neo-burlesque troupe that keeps it funny and outrageous. The troupe keeps it outrageous, shaking it and […]
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It may get cold there, but this woman is doing her part to keep things hot in North Dakota! Red Hots Burlesque’s National Treasure is… ANYTIME JONES NORTH DAKOTA Hailing from one of the coldest and definitely the drunkest cities in America, the glamorous and self-described unusual beauty Anytime Jones is one of the pioneering […]
read moreNATIONAL TREASURE: World Famous *BOB*
New York is calling, and we’re tickled pink at our National Treasure! World Famous *BOB* NEW YORK There are few creatures that sparkle as brightly as the New York Doll herself, World Famous *BOB*. Known all over the world as a beautiful blonde bombshell, World Famous *BOB* identifies as gender fluid. In all pink font […]
read moreNATIONAL TREASURE: Paco Fish
Oh, Paco, we’re so excited that you’re our National Treasure! PACO FISH MARYLAND The man, the myth, the Cheeto. Paco Fish may not be based in Maryland anymore, but besides John Waters, this burlesque hero is our favorite export. A winner of king of burlesque titles from the Southern Fried, Carolina, and Southern Exposure Burlesque […]
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Our favorite part of Mondays is chatting with our National Treasures, and we’re always swept away by the retro charm of this guy. BAZUKA JOE ILLINOIS This week we’re putting the burly back in burlyq with the man who calls himself the “Asian Invasion” of burlesque: Bazuka Joe from Chicago, Illinois is the Johnny-next-door of […]
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