San Francisco area burlesque for the week of May 11, 2009

It's a new week dawning here in San Francisco. It's a new day. It's a new life. For me. And I'm feeeeeeling good! Ha ha. One goes to enough burlesque shows and one starts to sing some of the songs which tend to show up in acts. That one is called "Feeling Good," and it's been covered by many recording artists.

And speaking of feeling good, you'll have a several chances to do so at burlesque shows this week. The Hubba Hubba Revue "Big Show" is this Friday, Lily Burana will be appearing with some local burlesque stars on Thursday, plus you've got the monthly Barbary Coast Burlesque and Little Minsky's shows on Wednesday and Thursday, respectively. And look below for more!

• Monday, May 11, 2009: Uptown Hubba Hubba at the Uptown in Oakland, 1928 Telegraph Avenue. Hey! It's Juicy D. Light's birthday celebration, and you're invited! Join Rubenesque Burlesque, Sid Scenic, Vixen Noir, Room For Cream, Wiggy Darlington & Vima Burlesque, Ariyana La Fey, Monifa, Dangerous Curves (with Dangerous Dan!), Kingfish and Eddie, and Zip the What-Is-It?! Doors at 9pm, show at 10:15ish. $5, 21+ w/ID.


• Wednesday, May 13: Barbary Coast Burlesque at Annie's Social Club in San Francisco, 917 Folsom Street. Join Red Hot Burlesque's Dottie Lux as she hosts this month's show, "Springtime Beauties." Featuring performances by Lady Borgia, Miss Mae Western, Lily Le Rouge, Bella Trixx, Kiss Me Kate, Sparkly Devil, and the producer of BCB herself, Bunny Pistol! Show at 8pm. $5, 21+ w/ID.


• Thursday, May 14: Lily Burana and Sugar Shack at Hypnodrome Theatre in SF, 575 10th Street. Please join Green Apple Books and Music for a book signing unlike any other! Lily Burana will be signing and performing with the local superstars of burlesque in a benefit show. Door prizes and a charity raffle (not to mention beer and wine). 7pm to 9pm. Free!


• Also Thursday: Little Minsky's at Club Deluxe in SF, 1511 Haight Street. Little Minsky's is brought to you by Douglas Good (of Cabaret Verdalet), The Flying Fox (burlesque glamour girl) and a few shady characters (we dare not name). Doors at 9pm, show at 10. $5, 21+ w/ID.
  


• Friday, May 15: Red Hots Burlesque at El Rio in San Francisco, 3158 Mission Street. Dottie Lux is calling this show "The Monster." Join host Lady Monster and see the talented performers Vixen Noir, Lady Fantastique, The Cock Ts, Monifa, Dottie Lux, and all the way from NYC, BB Heart! Show at 7:30pm. $5-10 sliding scale, 21+ w/ID.


• Also Friday: Hubba Hubba Revue: Asylum! at DNA Lounge in SF, 375 11th Street. Step inside the Rustbucket County Asylum for the Criminally Insane! Evil Old Dr. Kingfish, & Man-Monster, Brocious Cuzzin, invite you to an INSANELY fun night of MADHOUSE BURLESQUE and CRAZY COMEDY brought to you by the Psexiest Psychos in Psan Francisco! See The Living Dead Girlz, Lady Borgia, Bunny Pistol, Lee Presson, Alotta Boutte, Delilah, The Flying Fox, Citty Rich, Tricksie Treat, Deva Darling, Ginger O'Shea, Calamity Lulu, Madam Chartreuse, Lilly Soleil, Honey Lawless, Gretl von BoomBoom, Miss Balla Fire, Tit4Tat and more! Doors at 9pm, show at 10. NURSE RATCHED DISCOUNT between 9:00-9:30PM, tickets are just $10! $12 advance tickets at http://www.dnalounge.com, otherwise tickets are $10, 21+ w/ID.
  


• Sunday, May 17: Debauchery at White Horse Inn in Oakland. A strip club for queers of all genders, featuring DJ Ryan and a selection of salaciously smoldering strippers! All proceeds benefit Femina Potens! Doors at 7pm, show at 8. $5-15, sliding scale, 21+ w/ID.
  
  

As always, for more information, please check the calendar above. And if you have a burlesque show or information about a show you would like to add to the calendar, please email me at sfbr AT gmx DOT com.

Lily Burana book signing and Sugar Shack in SF on Thursday, May 14, 2009

Lady Satan of Sugar Shack let me know that they're having a combination benefit show and book signing with Lily Burana (http://www.lilyburana.com/) next week at the Hypnodrome on 1oth Street.

Lily Burana is a writer who has published in various publications including The Washington Post, GQ, The New York Times, Self, Glamour, Entertainment Weekly, Details, and others. I remember reading some of her articles!

So she's a former "punk rock stripper," who has fallen in love with a man in uniform and found herself a military wife while her husband is in Iraq. So what does she do to entertain the other wives? Teach them burlesque!

That's the focus of the story of her latest book, I Love a Man in Uniform. She'll be at the Hypnodrome next week signing copies of her book, and there will be a show featuring some of the SF's burlesque stars.

And it's a free event!

Here are the details:

Please join Green Apple Books and Music, when we take a field trip to the fabulous Hypnodrome Theatre on Thursday, May 14th to celebrate the newest book from Strip City’s Lily Burana, entitled I Love a Man in Uniform. This enchanting memoir finds Lily falling head over heels for an enlisted man, and before you can say “Ten-Hut!” she’s hitched and living on West Point while her husband is deployed to Iraq. So how does an ex-erotic dancer stay busy on a military base these days? Well it’s quite simple really! She starts teaching the other wives the lost art of classic burlesque – gulp!

This free event will showcase Lily Burana in a theatrical setting, but she won’t be alone. Joining her for the evening will be San Francisco’s own burlesque superstars performing and offering suggestions for other budding dancers. Door prizes and a charity raffle (not to mention beer and wine) will round out what is certain to be a book-signing like none that you’ve ever been to before.

Slide by The Hypnodrome on Thursday May 14th when high and low cultures collide! There’s plenty of free parking, and it’s the perfect excuse to discover (or hopefully revisit) one of the coolest theatre spaces in the Bay Area. Plus, a signed copy of I Love a Man in Uniform would make the perfect gift for the one that you love.

Event Details:

Lily Burana signing and burlesque benefit show!

Wednesday May 14th 7-9 PM

Hypnodrome Theatre

575 – 10th Street SF CA 94101

http://www.greenapplebooks.com/ or http://www.thrillpeddlers.com for more information

Addition and corrections on May 6, 2009: In my haste to get the posting up, I spelled Lily Burana's name incorrectly. So that was corrected. I also omitted the picture of her book cover, so I added that. I added Sugar Shack's involvement, because many of the event descriptions online, including Lily Burana's blog, list Sugar Shack Burlesque as performing. I'll see if Lady Satan has a lineup, and I'll post it here if she sends it to me. Oh, and the L.A. Times blog, Jacket Copy, has an interesting interview posted online.

First Friday Follies and Sugar Shack for Friday, May 1, 2009

It's the first Friday of the month, so that means it's time for First Friday Follies! As always, it's at the Stork Club near those cool art galleries in Oakland that are open late for the art walk (a.k.a., oakland art murmur, www.oaklandartmurmur.com). So check out some of the galleries before the show, perhaps get a bite to eat at one of the nearby food providers, then get ready for some rockin' burlesque!

First Friday Follies!

Thank you for coming out and making our April show another success and thank you to all of our fabulous performers. Thank you, thank you, thank you! Mark your calendars because another First Friday Follies is just around the corner! That's right... May 1st we'll be back with another exciting show.

Performers include:

s(ASS)y hotbuns!

Sparkly Devil!

debut performance by Sheba!

Musical stylings of The Fucking Buckaroos!

Bootsy La Rue! Debut!

Amateur Hour boylesque!

Matt Holdaway!

Cupcake and Little Eyeful! Pint-sized Princesses!

BB Dahl! Hot-ass pick-up artist!

Margaret France! Our Marvelous Emcee! Margaret has become a variety show unto herself by including singing and awkward dancing in her act. Margaret can drop a one-liner or do the Cabbage Patch in a bunny costume without sacrificing the sincerity and down-to-earth delivery that makes her comedy both really ridiculous and ridiculously real.

It's a whole lotta show, folks! No cover charge as usual, but FEEL FREE TO DONATE! Please!

And Keep Burlesque Alive in Oakland!

The Stork Club
2330 Telegraph Ave., Oakland
Doors 8pm, Show 9pm
No Cover!
21+ w/ID


http://www.myspace.com/firstfridayfollies |
http://www.storkcluboakland.com

Meanwhile, across the Bay in San Francisco, it's time to get in your PJs and get groove to the sounds of some of the coolest DJs and hottest go go dancers in the Yay Area at Sugar Shack!

Sugar Shack! It's a Swingin' 60's Pajama Party!

Shimmy-shaking burlesque, go-go beauties, and enough garage rock, girl-groups and R'n'B to keep you dancin' all night long!

You'll think you died and went to the Playboy Mansion, c. 1966!

60s pajama party inferno! Superwomen shaken & stirred!

Main Room:
Sergio Iglesias (Teenage Dance Craze)
Matt Bonar (1964)
Russell Quann (The Mummies)

Plus burlesque! and more, with:
Lady Satan!
Ruby White!
Sparkly Devil!
Pin Key Lee!
Miss Mae Western!
Honey Lawless!

And a go-go contest with fabulous prize $$$!

Hosted by MC Kingfish of Hubba Hubba Revue!

Go-Go Girls:
Miss Honey Penny
Buzby
Monifah



DNA Lounge (http://www.dnalounge.com)
375 Eleventh Street
San Francisco

9pm - after hours.
21+ with ID.

$10 in street clothes;
$7 in pajamas or before 11pm.
Official Site: http://www.myspace.com/sugarshacksf

Damn! With Red Hots Burlesque happening this same night (prior post), burlesque is burning up the first of May! ;-)

SF Bay Area burlesque for the week of April 27, 2009

Looking over the calendar, this is gonna be one very busy week for all of us fans of burlesque in the San Francisco Bay Area!

From the regular events of Dr. Sketchy's SF, Uptown Hubba Hubba, and Red Hots Burlesque, to the return of Madame Maraschino's House of Burlesque and Swing Goth's Second Anniversary, there's a slew of shows to choose from the whole week through. So check out this listing and add some shows to your calendar!

• Monday, April 27, 2009: Uptown Hubba Hubba at the Uptown in Oakland, 1928 Telegraph Avenue. It's an all-star lineup for the show that bids April adieu! Join your host Mr. Eddie Dane and burlesquers Sparkly Devil, Miss Balla Fire, Madam Chartreuse, Josie Starre, The Riff Ditties Orchestra, Kiss Me Kate, Honey LeBang, and Miss Mae Western! Doors at 9pm, show at 10:15ish. $5, 21+ w/ID.


• Also Monday: Dr. Sketchy's SF at 111 Minna Gallery in San Francisco, 111 Minna Street. Bring your sketchpad and join Devil-Ettes The Glamazon, The Sugar Snap and The Knockout as they model and perform for you! Or you can attend and meet with artist Eric Joyner, creator of the book "Robots and Donuts." It's all good! 7 to 10pm. $10 general, $7 students, free if you hang out at the bar with Eric. 21+ w/ID.


• Tuesday, April 28: Mixed Level World Cabaret Carnaval Class and Open Rehearsal w/Hot Pink Feathers at The Ballet Studio in SF, 128 10th Street. Curious about how the Hot Pink Feathers learn their moves and rehearse them? As part of Bay Area National Dance Week, you can observe a class and a rehearsal for free! Class is from 7:30 to 8:30, rehearsal from 8:30 to 10:30.


• Also Tuesday and Wednesday, April 29: SF Boylesque's Das Kabarett: RECESS-I$-ON at Mama Calizo's Voice Factory in SF, 1519 Mission Street. In a time of budget cuts and global economic crisis, Boylesque is throwing caution to the wind and staging their largest show yet. More dancers, more singers, more musicians, more flesh, more laughs add up to equal more fun for all! Doors at 7:30pm, show at 8. $20-25 tickets at https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/58468. 18 and older only.
  


• Thursday, April 30: Swing Goth 2nd Anniversary w/Lee Presson and the Nails in association with Hubba Hubba Revue at DNA Lounge in SF, 375 11th Street. Swing Goth is celebrating 2 years, and proving that sometimes it takes an anniversary to make the perfect marriage. Lee Presson and the Nails (the only sinister swing band) and Swing Goth are together at last!! Also on the bill: Fromagique (just consider them Swing Cheese) and San Francisco's best new goth band... The Deephearted! Doors at 7:30pm. Tickets are $16 door and $12 in advance at http://www.dnalounge.com/. All ages!
  


• Also Thursday: Intro to World Cabaret Carnaval Dance Class and Expression, Craft and Delight Class w/Hot Pink Feathers at the Ballet Studio in San Francisco, 128 10th Street. Curious about how the Hot Pink Feathers learn their moves and rehearse them? As part of Bay Area National Dance Week, you can observe a class and a dance lab for free! Class is from 7:30 to 8:30, dance lab from 8:30 to 10:30. See http://www.hotpinkfeathers.com for the latest information on class availability.
  


• Friday, May 1: Red Hots Burlesque at El Rio in San Francisco, 3158 Mission Street. Dottie Lux brings you a different show every single week! Each event promises the seductive and spicy, absurd and amusing all from local and visiting talent. Show at 7:30pm. $5-10 sliding scale, 21+ w/ID.


• Also Friday: Sugar Shack at DNA Lounge in SF, 375 11th Street. Join host Kingfish for a Swingin' 60's Pajama Party! Featuring burlesque, go-go beauties, and enough garage rock, girl-groups and R'n'B to keep you dancin' all night long! Starring DJs Sergio Iglesias (Teenage Dance Craze), Matt Bonar (1964), and Russell Quann (The Mummies) in the main room. Plus burlesque and more, with Lady Satan, Ruby White, Runaround Sue, Pin Key Lee and Miss Mae Western! Doors at 9pm, things t'do til late. $10 in street clothes;
  $7 in pajamas or before 11pm, 21+ w/ID.


• Also Friday: First Friday Follies at The Stork Club in Oakland, 2330 Telegraph Avenue. Join that wascally wabbit Margaret France as she hosts another FFF. Featuring sASSy Hotbuns, Sparkly Devil, debut performance by Sheba, musical stylings of The Fucking Buckaroos, debut performance by Bootsy La Rue, and Amateur Hour boylesque, Matt Holdaway, Cupcake and Little Eyeful, and BB Dahl, hot-ass pick-up artist! Doors at 8pm, show at 9. Free, but donations welcome. 21+ w/ID.


• Saturday, May 2: Burlesque n' Brass at Cafe Van Kleef in Oakland, 1621 Telegraph Avenue. The Hot Pink Feathers & Blue Bone Express continue to paint Oakland an new shade of Pink & Blue for our ever hot and happening Burlesque n' Brass show at Cafe Van Kleef! Doors at 8:30pm, show at 9:30. $10, 21+ w/ID.


• Also Saturday: Madame Maraschino Presents House of Burlesque at Bender's Bar and Grill in SF, 806 South Van Ness Avenue. Madame Maraschino Is Back! Presenting the once obsolete and now most anticipated rockin burlesque show... HOUSE OF BURLESQUE! With Mistress BLUE DIEMOND as Seductress of Ceremonies and performances by Lady Monster, Honey Lawless, Ruby White, Miss de Minna, Pin Key Lee, Josie Starr, Riff Ditties Orchestra, Guinevere Q & Douche Magoo with special guests!!! And DJ Chris Cook of KUSF! Doors at 9pm, show at 10. (No word on the cover charge, but it used to be $8.) 21+ w/ID.


• Sunday, May 3: Cabaret de Nude at The Stud in SF, Vixen Noir and Simone de la Getto have teamed up to create GettoNoir Productions, purveyors of lezzi, queer girl and tranny entertainment! This will be the last show until September, as they will be going on hiatus! Doors at 6pm, show at 7:30. $8 bef 7; $10 after, 21+ w/ID.
  
  

As always, for more information, please check the calendar above. And if you have a burlesque show or information about a show you would like to add to the calendar, please email me at sfbr AT gmx DOT com.

Return of Sugar Shack SF: Saturday, January 17, 2009

Without a lot of fanfare, Sugar Shack San Francisco is back! The last show was in August of last year, but they've found a new venue and they're back and better than ever!

This time around, the show is at the Paradise Lounge in SF. Lady Satan, Ruby White, and Sergio Iglesias are back along with guest DJs Tina Boom Boom and Sarah Pedal. Miss Honey Penny and Dottie Lux round out the performers for the evening.

Here is all the info from the producers themselves:

Sugar Shack San Francisco

Calling all movers and shakers,San Francisco’s favorite dance party- Sugar Shack – is back to take San Francisco by storm!

Recent New York transplant, Lady Satan (Sugar Shack (NY), Red Hots Burlesque (NY & SF)) and Los Angeles relocated Ruby White (Lux & Ruby’s Burlesque-A-Go-Go (LA), Red Hots Burlesque (SF)) join forces with DJ extraordinaire, Sergio Iglesias (Teenage Dance Craze, “Best Underground Dance Party”- SF Bay Guardian, Girl Groups) and special guest DJs, to co-produce San Francisco’s favorite new 60s dance party and burlesque show, Sugar Shack. The second West Coast Sugar Shack will feature 60’s themed burlesque performances by the Original Sin herself Lady Satan, the Goddamn Adorable Ruby White, booty shakin’ Miss Honey Penny and our final performer and undeniable emcee of the evening, the ultra-glamorous Dottie Lux (Red Hots Burlesque (NY & SF), School of Shimmy (NY & SF)).

Providing the evening’s soundtrack are resident Sugar Shack DJ, Sergio Iglesias and very special guest DJs Tina Boom Boom (of The Bobbyteens and Trashwomen) and Sarah Pedal (Club Internationale) spinning the best in 60s and 70s, garage, R’n’B and French Ye-Ye until 3AM!

Welcome aboard and fasten your dancing shoes…its going be a smashing ride!



Sugar Shack
Saturday, January 17th 2009
Paradise Lounge
1501 Folsom Street @ 11th
10pm-3am
$5 at the door before 11pm/$7 after 11pm (21+ w/ID)


http://www.myspace.com/sugarshacksf
http://www.paradisesf.com/index.html

San Francisco Bay Area burlesque for the week of August 4, 2008

Yeeee haww! This week features some real bargains, as far as burlesque shows go. On Thursday, the SF Bay Guardian weekly has their free party celebrating their 2008 Best of the Bay winners. Tease-O-Rama is presenting a show, plus there will be a lot of other stuff going on at 1015 Folsom that evening.

Then, Saturday features the long-awaited Sugar Shack SF burlesque show and dance party. This one is only $5. Dancing and burlesque dancers, a winning combination if there ever was one! Hehe.

Also, there are shows available for $5 from Uptown Hubba Hubba and Red Hots Burlesque. And for just a couple of bucks more, you can catch the Hot Pink Feathers and Blue Bone Express on Saturday in Oakland. Woooo!

So grab your boyfriend, girlfriend, husband, wife, best friend, or even worst enemy and head out for a night of affordable fun!

• Monday, August 4: Uptown Hubba Hubba at the Uptown Club in Oakland. Darlinda Just Darlinda guest stars with Lady Satan, Scotty the Blue Bunny, and others! Doors at 9pm, show at 10. $5 cover, 21+ w/ID.


• Thursday, August 7: SF Bay Guardian 2008 Best of the Bay at 1015 Folsom in San Francisco. The Devil-Ettes, Twilight Vixen Revue, Sparkly Devil and Drunkle Sam perform, among others. Doors at 8pm, show at 8:30. Free!


• Friday, August 8: Red Hots Burlesque at El Rio in San Francisco. Dottie Lux brings you a show promising the seductive and spicy, absurd and amusing. Show at 7:30pm. $5-10 sliding scale, 21+ w/ID.


• Saturday, August 9: Burlesque 'N' Brass at Cafe Van Kleef in Oakland. The Hot Pink Feathers and Blue Bone Express perform three sets each. Doors at 8:30pm, show at 9:30. $10, 21+ w/ID.


• Also Saturday: Sugar Shack SF at the Elbo Room in San Francisco. The debut of a burlesque show and dance party brought to you by Lady Satan, Ruby White, DJ Sergio Iglesias, and DJ Matt Bonar. Doors at 10pm, show at 11. $5, 21+ w/ID.

Sugar Shack comes to San Francisco!

It looks like Lady Satan is bringing New York's Sugar Shack Burlesque and Dance Party to the City by the Bay!

According to an interview with Legs Malone in the Valley Advocate, Sugar Shack was founded in New York by RunAround Sue and Lady Satan.

There's not much information it seems, other than that the first show will be August 9, 2008, at the Elbo Room. Oh, there will be girls! Dancing! Go-Go! And mooore! With Sergio Iglesias and MattB providing the tunes.

Looks fun! I'll put out more details as they become available.