Valentine's Day Weekend 2010: San Francisco Burlesque

Instead of listing this weekend's shows individually, I thought that I'd group them all together in one post. After all, what better way to spend an evening on Valentine's Day weekend with one's sweetheart, friends, or other loved ones than at a show featuring burlesque performers?

This Friday evening, February 12, Red Hots Burlesque will be celebrating their two year anniversary! Yes, it was in 2008 that Dottie Lux moved to San Francisco from New York and started her show here. This week, Dottie has some RHB favorite performers, including Alotta Boutté, Kentucky Fried Woman, Ruby Vixen, and also some visiting stars: Alysia Angel of Portland, and The Shanghai Pearl from Seattle. You may remember The Shanghai Pearl from the documentary, "A Wink and a Smile."

Red Hots Burlesque Presents Happy Birthday Red Hots

It has been 2 years since Red Hots crossed the continent to bring SF a new brand of mayhem and madness! If you have been missing the past few weeks you really should kick yourself, but we'll forgive you you're family at El Rio, so go see your sisters, brothers and cousins at RHB this Friday!

This week we have so much beautiful visiting and debut talent mixed with some home town hotties and Red Hots Favorites. Don't miss this fabulous show!

Red Hots Burlesque celebrates TWO years at El Rio and they've been seeing sold out shows since the new year! Enjoy this highly acclaimed show, you know if you miss one week, you'll be kicking yourself! Freaky and filthy film reel brought to you by Val Killmore and DJ Alex BIG Cox brings you tantalizing tunage!

Jukie Sunshine hosts

Performances by:
Alotta Boutte
Dottie Lux
Ruby Vixen
Kentucky Fried Woman
Sugarbush Lane

Very special visiting guests:
Alysia Angel, Portland
Shanghai Pearl, Seattle

!!!!! FEB 12th 730 pm @ El Rio !!!!


More about our visiting and debut performers:

Alysia Angel is lone wolf in a socialite body, a femme whisperer who flags sham-ow on the left. She is currently on tour with her series of books titled "What I Do When You're Not Looking" and really wants to come to your town too. When not writing and hustling, you can find her creeping in alleys and drinking fine whiskey at old timer bars. Alysia is not for the faint of heart.

Jukie Sunshine is San Francisco's "It Girl"!! You may have seen her lovely queer fat femme face and figure performing burlesque in SF and across the country since 2001. This cover girl has graced local mags other and Size Queen, as well as international rags Juxtapoz, Bizarre (UK) and The New Yorker! Perhaps you caught her shaking it on the boob tube on KQED's Spark! or one of her three appearances on Entertainment Tonight. Did you get an eyeful of her photographs taken by Leonard Nimoy (Google it!!)? She is an educator, activist and artist who wants you to love yourself naked in front of the mirror...jukie sunshine!


El Rio
3158 Mission Street, SF
Show at 7:30pm

$5-$10 sliding scale, 21+ w/ID


http://www.redhotsburlesque.com

http://www.elriosf.com

Also happening this weekend is Whipped: QTPOC Recipes for Love, Sex, & Disaster presented by Mangos with Chili. The show is curated and produced by burlesque performer Ms. Cherry Galette, and will be performed on Friday and Saturday, February 12 and 13, at La Peña in Berkeley at 8pm. Whipped will also be performed on Saturday, February 20, at Mama Calizo's Voice Factory in San Francisco.

This will be a variety show featuring music, spoken word, theater, hip hop, dance, burlesque, drag and film about the loves, desires, and disasters of the performers.

Mangos With Chili proudly presents:

WHIPPED: QTPOC RECIPES FOR LOVE, SEX, & DISASTER
the second annual show about the miracles, dreams and cream our hearts make

Friday 2/12 & Saturday 2/13
La Pena, 3105 Shattuck Ave, Berkeley
AND
Saturday 2/20
Mama Calizo's Voice Factory, 1519 Mission St, SF

All shows at 8pm, $10-15 sliding scale

Curated and produced by Ms. Cherry Galette and featuring:

Chan Dynasty
Delicio Del Toro
Gaston Mazo
Juba Kalamka
Kali Boyce aka "TuffNStuff"
Manish Vaidya
Nico Dacumos
Yosimar Reyes

With film by Val Killmore, Indira Allegra, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, the Oakland Queer Brown Youth Brigade and TBA

Valentines exchange to follow show, so get your love notes ready!

Mangos With Chili knows that queer and trans folks of color do love, sex and total disaster like none other! In this special Valentine's Day weekend production QTPOC will tell their true life stories of love, desire and disaster through music, spoken word, theater, hip hop, dance, burlesque, drag and film. Bring a trinket for the altar we'll build to the loves we've lost, known, and are praying for, and come prepared to hear truths you've never heard spoken before but always needed to.

Mangos With Chili is a Bay Area based arts organization committed to showcasing high quality performance of life saving importance by queer and trans artists of color to audiences in the Bay Area and beyond. Founded in 2006 by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha and Ms Cherry Galette, Mangos With Chili features a revolving cast of QTPOC artists and has performed to sold out houses across North America, wowing audiences in world class theaters, underground performance spaces, bars, and campus halls, with their high intensity, breathtaking performance, politics, and storytelling craft, reflecting the lives and stories of queer and trans people of color, while making art that speaks out in resistance to the daily struggles around silence, isolation, homophobia, and violence that QTPOC face.

Mangos With Chili is a fiscally sponsored project of the San Francisco based arts organization CounterPULSE, which provides space and resources for emerging artists and cultural innovators: www.counterpulse.org. Production of Whipped is supported by the Horizons Foundation, the Astraea Foundation, and the generous support of our community of donors.

The show contains material of adult nature. Parental discretion advised. Please refrain from wearing scented products to ensure that audience members and performers with multiple chemical sensitivity can attend.


For more information:
mangos.with.chili@gmail.com
http://mangoswithchili.wordpress.com


http://www.lapena.org

I shall skip over the Rio Carnaval 1940s Dinner, Dance, and Speakeasy event (see previous post), since it is sold out, but if you have tickets already, don't forget!

On Valentine's Day itself, there are two events, perhaps catering to slightly different crowds. The first is Thrillville's Valentine's Beach Party at the Balboa Theater in San Francisco. If you've never been to a Thrillville show, it's a mixture of live entertainment and the screening of a B-movie. Will the Thrill and Monica Tiki Goddess are your hosts, and it's usually a grand time!

On Sunday, there will be two special guests! One is Donna Loren, who is a star of the film being screened, "Beach Blanket Bingo." Also scheduled to perform is the one of a kind star of burlesque and cabaret, San Francisco's own Kitten on the Keys!

BEACH BUNNY ICON DONNA LOREN TO APPEAR IN PERSON
AT THRILLVILLE'S VALENTINE'S BEACH PARTY!

Donna Loren, one of the stars of our movie is making her first public appearance in decades! Special thanks to Siouxzan Perry and Hal Lifson!

She will be performing a medley of beach party tunes, selling CDs and autographed photos!

Beach Blanket Bingo
THRILLVILLE'S VALENTINE'S BEACH PARTY
featuring the greatest beach party flick ever
BEACH BLANKET BINGO (1965)
starring Frankie Avalon & Annette Funicello!

All this plus San Francisco's legendary KITTEN ON THE KEYS live!

Sunday, February 14, 7:30, $10
BALBOA THEATER
3630 Balboa St., Richmond District, San Francisco -
blocks from the beach!


http://www.thrillville.net

http://balboamovies.com

The last burlesque-related event of the weekend will be a late night one on Sunday for all of you club kids out there. It's Sixxteen: A Rock N Roll Niteclub. One of the attractions will be burlesque performances by Lady Satan and Ruby White in the back room! Plus there will be lots of DJs, a photobooth, a kissing booth, and oh, so much more!

IT TOOK SIXXTEEN 3 MONTHS TO RECOVER FROM OUR LAST PARTY!!!
SO WITHOUT FURTHER ADO:

For your pleasure...

SIXXTEEN
A Rock N Roll Niteclub

VALENTINE'S DAY BASH!!!


And WE AIN'T TALKIN' BOUT LOVE here people!!

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In the TOO FAST FOR LOVE FRONT ROOM:

DJs
HOWIE PYRO (DANZIG)
SERGIO IGLESIAS (OOH LA LA)
MISS JENNY (DEAF AND DESTRUCTION)

Photobooth by SF WEEKLY

KISSing Booth by Improperazzi

FOR THOSE ABOUT TO ROCK a fierce outfit: Bama and Maly SALUTE YOU and will be giving away drink tickets!!!

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In the WHOLE LOTTA LOVE BACK ROOM:

HEROES- A KISS TRIBUTE BAND!!!
ALIVE and in FULL make up, ready to Rock N Roll All Nite!!!!

Hosted by LADY BEAR

Burlesque
LADY SATAN & RUBY WHITE (Sugarshack Burlesque!)

Djs:
OMAR (SIXXTEEN)
JENNY (SIXXTEEN)
CHINA G (REBEL GIRL)

Dancing Queens:

RACHEL SOLID GOLD, TERRY T. & MANI
The ladies of The LUSTYLADYSF.COM
And BILLY

Visuals By Vis A Vis

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SLOW DANCES, ROCKET RIDES, GLITTER, CANDY FROM STRANGERS, SURPRISES, STIFF DRINKS SERVED BY ROCKSTARS AND THE BEST ROCK ANTHEMS ALL NITE LONG!!


NOT to be missed!!!!


Sunday, February 14, 2010 at 10:00pm, doors at 9:00pm
Cat Club
1190 Folsom Street
San Francisco, CA

$7, 21+ w/ID


http://www.sfcatclub.com/

And that's the Valentine's Day Weekend 2010 round-up of shows. I'm sure that whichever show you see, you and your loved ones will have a great time.

Happy Valentine's Day! Enjoy your weekend! :-D

San Francisco area burlesque for February 10 to February 16, 2010

It's Valentine's Day week, and there appears to be a ton of burlesque-related events going on starting this week. Plenty of chances to take your sweetie out to a show!

Oh wow! I'd better warm up my fingers and start typing! This could take a while!

• Thursday, February 11: Swinging Chinatown: The Golden Age of Chinese Nightclubs Opening Gala at The Old Mint in San Francisco, 88 5th Street. This rare exhibit features vintage photographs, costumes and memorabilia of the exciting and glamorous days of the Chinese American nightclub scene. The exhibit opens with a glittering cocktail celebration at the Old Mint. Bay Area author and personality Ben Fong-Torres will be the master of ceremonies for the evening that includes a performance by the “Grant Avenue Follies,” a troupe of former nightclub dancers. Trina Robbins, author of "Forbidden City: The Golden Age of Chinese Nightclubs," will be present and signing copies of her book. President of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, David Chiu, will also make opening remarks to commence the exhibit. Opening Night Gala, 6-8pm. Tickets to the Opening Night Gala are $85 per person for SFMHS and CHSA members, $100 for non-members. The exhibition will be open to the public February 12-15 and February 19-21 from 12:00pm to 5:00pm. Admission is $5 for SFMHS and CHSA members, $10 for non-members, $3 for students.


• Also Thursday: Beerlesque at Paradise Lounge in SF, 1501 Folsom Street. Join the Hubba Hubba Revue and Schmaltz Brewing Company for a party celebrating the return of Coney Island Human Blockhead(TM) (Tough-As-Nails Strong Lager). And what's a party without burlesque? Featuring Sister Kate, Honey Lawless, Pin Key Lee, Room for Cream, Madam Chartreuse, Miss Balla Fire, Chi-Kitty & Courtney Crimson, Delilah, Zip the What-Is-It?! & Kingfish & Eddie! Plus special musical guests Renee de la Prade & Vagabondage! 8pm. $8.00 at 8:00, $10.00 at 10:00. 21+ w/ID.


• Also, also Thursday: Little Minsky's Burlesque at Club Deluxe in SF, 1511 Haight St. 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). Featuring Kellita, Sugar la Vie, Lady Monster, and a veritable bevy of beauties and variety of entertainments! Doors at 9pm, show at 10. $5, 21+ w/ID.
  


• Friday, February 12: Red Hots Burlesque at El Rio in San Francisco, 3158 Mission Street. Celebrate the two year anniversary of Red Hots Burlesque! Join Dottie Lux and host Jukie Sunshine for a very special birthday party. With performances by Alotta Boutte, Dottie Lux, Ruby Vixen, Kentucky Fried Woman, and Sugarbush Lane. Show at 7:30pm. $5-10, sliding scale. 21+ w/ID.


• Also Friday: Lucha VaVOOM: From Lucha with Love at The Fillmore in SF, 1805 Geary Boulevard. Mexican Masked Wrestling + Burlesque + Comedy = Lucha VaVOOM. Lucha VaVOOM has come up with world’s most romantic Sexo y Violencia extravaganza yet! Starring burlesque performers Carolina Cerasola, Harvest Moon, Lux LaCroix, Lucy Fur, Ursulina, Karis, Roky Roulette, and wrestlers Hector Garza, Joey Ryan, Cassandro, Dirty Sanchez, L'il Chicken and Mini Kissing Bandit! With Tom Kenny in the commentator's booth! 9pm. $32.50, 18 and older.
  


• Also Friday and Saturday, February 13: Whipped: QTPOC Recipes for Love, Sex, & Disaster at La Pena in Berkeley, 3105 Shattuck Avenue. The second annual show about the miracles, dreams, and cream our hearts make. Mangos With Chili knows that queer and trans folks of color do love, sex, and total disaster like none other! In this special Valentine's Day weekend production QTPOC tell their true life stories of love through music, spoken word, theater, dance, burlesque, drag and video. With Cherry Galette, King TuffNStuff, Delicio Del Toro, Chan Dynasty, a film by Val Killmore, and more. 8pm, $10-15, sliding scale. 21+ w/ID.
  


• Saturday, February 13: Rio Carnaval 1940s Dinner, Dance, and Speakeasy (Sold out) at Dolce Hayes Mansion in San Jose, 200 Edenvale Avenue. Spend the Weekend at the Hayes Mansion with all of your friends and loved one on this Valentines weekend. Start off mingling over drinks in the Presidential Lounge at 3pm, followed by Dinner at 5:30pm, with burlesque from Vienna La Rouge, music by Sara Klotz de Aguilar & DJ Tom LG - with dancing. And an after hours speakeasy with DJ Vinyl music, pool & poker. $75 (Sold out), 21+ w/ID.


• Sunday, February 14: Thrillville's Valentine's Beach Party w/Donna Loren and Kitten on the Keys at Balboa Theater in SF, 3630 Balboa Street. See the classic "Beach Blanket Bingo" (1965). See one of the film's stars, Donna Loren, perform live! See and hear San Francisco's legendary Kitten on the Keys perform live, too! All this at the historic Balboa Theater. 7:30pm. $10.


• Also Sunday: Sixxteen! A RockNRoll Niteclub with Lady Satan and Ruby White at Cat Club in SF, 1190 Folsom Street. Valentine's Day bash with DJs, dancing, and burlesque from Lady Satan and Ruby White. Doors at 9pm, show at 10. $7, 21+ w/ID.
  


• Monday, February 15: Uptown Hubba Hubba at the Uptown in Oakland, 1928 Telegraph Avenue. It's a post V-Day show, and it's Bombshell Betty's Burlesqueteer Night! Starring Bombshell Betty, Red Velvet, Lezzie McFaggerson, Brandi She's a Fine Girl, Tastey Temptress, Vicious Veronica Voom, Sultra Violet, Cherry Chapstick, Fina Fatale, and MJ Paul! With your MCs, Randy & Patina! Live Music by Fromagique! Doors at 9pm, show at 10:15ish. $5, 21+ w/ID.


• Tuesday, February 16: In the Name of Love: Haiti Benefit & Mardi Gras Extravaganza at Red Devil Lounge in SF, 1695 Polk Street. You can raise money for Haiti and celebrate Fat Tuesday in the City by the Bay at the same time! Who dat? Why, it's the Hot Pink Feathers, the HPF All-Star Band, and Eggplant Casino! Oh yeah! This show is part of the "In the Name of Love" series at the Red Devil Lounge. Doors at 8pm, show at 9:30. $10-$20, advanced tickets available at www.reddevillounge.com. 21+ w/ID.
  
  

As always, for more information, please check the calendar above. Also, you may want to check back during the week to see if there are and late additions to this schedule. 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.

San Francisco area burlesque for January 19 to 25, 2010

For the second consecutive week, there's a plethora of burlesque shows from which to choose.

You'll be able to see a Barbary Coast Burlesque show in a new venue, The Hotel Utah, on Wednesday.

Thrillville teams up with Hubba Hubba Revue and the Vicar of Liquor on Thursday for a screening of Shanty Tramp (1967, 35mm) and live burlesque at the 4 Star Theater.

The Flying Fox, and her alter ego Miz Margo, returns from New York to appear in Friday's Red Hots Burlesque and Saturday's Edwardian Ball. The Edwardian World's Faire will also be on Friday at The Regency Ballroom.

The Hot Pink Feathers will be appearing in the Voices of Latin Rock Autism Benefit show on Friday at Bimbo's 365 Club.

On Monday, the Hubba Hubba Revue will return for their weekly Monday night show at the Uptown in Oakland.

So this week is a chance to see burlesque performed in different venues. A great opportunity to check out some familiar faces in new spaces!

• Tuesday, January 19: Dr. Sketchy's SF presents Roller Derby at 111 Minna Gallery in San Francisco, It's on! Here's your chance to draw short skirts, crash helmets, and the Bay.Area.Derby GIRLS. Featuring Jane Hammer, Windigo Jones, and Rough House Rhonda. 7-10pm. $10 general admission, $7 students/teachers with ID. 21+ w/ID.


• Wednesday, January 20: Barbary Coast Burlesque presents Intoxicating Beauties of the Bay at Hotel Utah in SF, 500 4th Street. Barbary Coast Burlesque presents a showcase inspired by Classic Burlesque. Hosted by Virginia Suicide. Stage performance includes Bunny Pistol, Peaches Velour, Honey Lawless, Kiss Me Kate, Bunny Pistol, Mynx D'Meanor, Josie Starre, sASSy Hotbuns. Doors at 8pm, show at 9. $6, 21+ w/ID.


• Thursday, January 21: Thrillville Featuring Hubba Hubba Revue and the Vicar of Liquor at the 4 Star Theater in San Francisco, 2200 Clement Street. Join hosts Will the Thrill and Monica Tiki Goddess as they screen "Shanty Tramp" (1967, 35mm). Then see live burlesque with Hubba Hubba Revue and the Vicar of Liquor! 8pm. $10. "Adults only."
  


• Friday, January 22: Red Hots Burlesque at El Rio in San Francisco, 3158 Mission Street. Join your host Dottie Lux as she presents Virginia Suicide, Honey Penny, The Flying Fox, Lance Armstar, Honey Lawless, Kiss Me Kate and MORE! Show at 7:30pm. $5-10, sliding scale. 21+ w/ID.
  


• Also Friday: Voices of Latin Rock Autism Benefit at Bimbo's 365 Club in San Francisco, 1025 Columbus Avenue. The Hot Pink Feathers will play one of their favorite local venues, Bimbo's 365 Club, this Friday, January 22, to benefit autism research! They're at the top of the show, so don't be late! The show also features Richard Bean and Sapo, Michael Shrieve's Spellbinder, the Latin Jazz Revue, and the Latin Rock Experience. 7:30pm. Tickets are $100 VIP, $75 general admission. 21+ w/ID.


• Also Friday: The Edwardian World's Faire 2010 at The Regency Ballroom in San Francisco, 1300 Van Ness Avenue. Features performances and shopping and other entertainments. Featuring Vagabond Opera, Agent Ribbons, Kinetic Steam Works, Dark Garden Corsetry, Fou Fou HA!, City Circus, Vima Dance Expo, Shovelman, Delachaux, Smoove, Rachel Brice of The Indigo, and Emcee Kingfish of the Hubba Hubba Revue. 8pm to 2am. General Admission (GA) Floor - $26, General Admission (GA) Balcony, also includes Floor - $36. All ages.


• Saturday, January 23: The Edwardian Ball 2010 at The Regency Ballroom in San Francisco, 1300 Van Ness Avenue. Saturday features Edward Gorey tales brought to life on stage by co-hosts and creators Rosin Coven and Vau de Vire Society, plus “Belle of the Ball” Jill Tracy, Miz Margo, Vima Vice Squad, Fou Fou HA!, Delachaux, Kitten On The Keys, ballroom dancing, Edwardian portrait studio and surprise guests. 8pm to 2am. General Admission (GA) Floor - $36. All ages.
  


• Monday, January 25: Uptown Hubba Hubba at the Uptown in Oakland, 1928 Telegraph Avenue. Warm up your winter with Kingfish and Eddie at the Uptown! Featuring Blackhoodygrrl, Red Velvet, Miss Honey Penny, Twinkletoes McGee, Kitty von Quimm, Zip the What-Is-It?! With Jellyfish Kiss Burlesque! Doors at 9pm, show at 10:15ish. $5, 21+ w/ID.
  
  

As always, for more information, please check the calendar above. Also, you may want to check back during the week to see if there are and late additions to this schedule. 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.

Thrillville with Hubba Hubba Revue this Thursday, January 21, 2010

That's right! It's two, two of your favorite things all rolled into one! Hubba Hubba Revue joins forces this Thursday with Will the Thrill and Monica Tiki Goddess of Thrillville and the Vicar of Liquor for a night of film, burlesque, and comedy!

And it all starts at 8pm at the 4 Star Theater in San Francisco. A full evening of entertainment can be yours for just $10! (Popcorn and drinks extra, of course. Ha ha!)

Thrillville featuring "Shanty Tramp (1967)," Hubba Hubba Revue, and the Vicar of Liquor!

Thursday, January 21, 8PM, $10

at the 4 STAR THEATER, 2200 Clement St., 23rd @ Clement, Richmond District, San Francisco

It's the sleaziest slice of Southern sexploitation ever unleashed on decent society...
the immortal, immoral

SHANTY TRAMP (1967, 35mm!)



35mm print courtesy of THE VORTEX ROOM
http://www.myspace.com/thevortexroom

with live burlesque from HUBBA HUBBA REVUE and
the VICAR OF LIQUOR live!

Hosted by Will the Thrill and Monica Tiki Goddess


http://www.thrillville.net

http://www.hubbahubbarevue.com

http://www.hkinsf.com/4star/

Red Hots Burlesque invades Forbidden Island in Alameda on Thursday, July 9, 2009

Yes, it's true. Red Hots Burlesque is coming to Alameda! Dottie Lux often performs in Oakland. I guess she was scouting for a place to land her show!

The spot she's chosen is the Forbidden Island, Alameda's first and only Tiki Lounge (www.forbiddenislandalameda.com). Ooh. Sounds exotic!

According to the website, Forbidden Island hosts "no cover (so to speak)" live burleque shows. So this Thursday it'll be Red Hots Burlesque, with Lady Satan, Ruby White, and Dottie. Val Killmore will be the DJ. Next month will feature Hubba Hubba Revue!

And, hey, lookee! The media/booking contact is Will the Thrill of Thrillville (www.thrillville.net)! In case you haven't heard, the Speakeasy Theatres in Oakland and El Cerrito have closed. Aww. I saw some good shows at those theaters. But Will the Thrill and Monica Tiki Goddess will be taking the show on the road, appearing at the 4 Star Theater on July 23 for a Shatner tribute evening with Twillight Vixen Revue! See the calendar for details. :-)

And you don't have to wait til next Friday to see RHB again, because we're coming to you (if you live in the East Bay)!!! Red Hots are bringing you tropicial tiki titilation at arguably the best Tiki Lounge in the world. Forbidden Island is super cute and has the most extensive tropocal drink menu I have ever seen. Aaaaand they have loads of non-alcoholic drinks that are as tasty as could be. We'll be doing performances through out the night. So row your boat over the bay and come say mahalo to these sexy mamas! Shakin' their coconuts will be Ruby White, Lady Satan, Dottie Lux and bringing you all the radical tunage is Val Killmore.

Thursday, July 9
8pm to 10pm

No cover
21+ w/ID

Forbidden Island
1304 Lincoln Avenue
Alameda, CA


http://www.redhotsburlesque.com/
http://www.forbiddenislandalameda.com/

Heh. Forgot to add in the address, date and time for those who receive the postings without the image.

SF Bay Area burlesque for the week of February 9, 2009

It's Valentine's Day week, and there's a whole lotta shows going on, including one on V-Day itself! So grab your sweetie and head out to a burlesque show and celebrate love and lust the underground, edgy and downright fun San Francisco way!

• Monday, February 9, 2009: Uptown Hubba Hubba at the Uptown in Oakland, 1928 Telegraph Avenue. Heat up your wintry Monday evening with Comrade Tang, Monifa, Francine Dead, sASSy Hotbuns, Chi Chis del Fuego, Virginia Slim, Gretl von BoomBoom! And enjoy the musical talents of The Riff Ditties Orchestra! Doors at 9pm, show at 10ish. $5, 21+ w/ID.
• Wednesday, February 12: Barbary Coast Burlesque at Annie's Social Club in San Francisco. 917 Folsom Street. Join Bunny Pistol and host Mona Lott as they welcome performers Delilah, sASSy Hotbuns, Virgina Slim, Lily Le Rouge, Alotta Boutte, and Miss Mae Western for a night of LOVE, and everything it brings you. Show at 8pm. $5, 21+ w/ID.
• Thursday, February 13: 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 10ish. $5, 21+ w/ID.
• Also Thursday: Thrillville at Cerritos Speakeasy Theater in El Cerrito. Join Will the Thrill and Monica Tiki Goddess for a night of zombies and special musical guest, Kitten on the Keys at THRILLVILLE'S VOODOO VALENTINE'S SHOW! Plus see the film, "SUGAR HILL AND HER ZOMBIE HIT MEN" live from the 70s! Show at 9:15pm. $9, 18+.
• And, also Thursday: Shindig 69 at The Rickshaw Stop in SF. Help celebrate Baby Doe's birthday with the Devil-Ettes, and support the fight against breast cancer, too! Featuring the rockin' tunes of The Cement Gardens (members of The Sermon), DJss Cali Kid (Bardot A Go Go), Sergio Iglesias (Teenage Dance Craze), Otto von Stroheim (Tiki Oasis) Go Go sweethearts The Devil-Ettes, Kitten on the Keys, Kiki Bomb, Kellita, The Riff Ditties Orchestra, Alpenhorn and MUCH MORE! Doors at 8:30pm, show at 9. $10, 21+ w/ID.
• Friday, February 13: Red Hots Burlesque at El Rio in San Francisco, 3158 Mission Street. Red Hots Burlesque School of Shimmy Showcase! Featuring debuts by Kitty von Quimm! Taquine! Honey Monroe! Mrs.Jones! Charlie Angel! Show at 7:30pm. $5-10 sliding scale, 21+ w/ID.
• Saturday, February 14: Spookshow-A-Go-Go: Valentine's Day Massacre at Kimo's in SF, 1351 Polk Street. Gore gore go-go, brutal burlesque, vicious variety, fiendish film and torturous tunes. How romantic! Featuring go-go dancing by Ruby White and Miss Honey Penny to tunes spun by DJ Miz Margo. Also featuring cabaret and burlesque acts Kitten on the Keys, Dottie Lux, Lady Satan, and the Can Can Cannibals! And more! Doors at 9pm, show at 10. $10, 21+ w/ID. See the SFBR special 2-for-1 promo in the Spookshow post!
• Sunday, February 15: The Spirit of Burlesque with Isis Starr at Bombshell Betty Studios in SF, 715 Bryant Street Suite 102. In this never-before-presented workshop, Isis Starr, San Francisco's own Living Legend of Burlesque, presents her unique take on burlesque, covering such topics as finding your Burlesque Queen within and Mystical Burlesque, role playing, stage awareness, mucicality, body positions and lines, stage makeup and costuming, and more! 3 to 5pm. $30 general, $25 Bombshell Betty members.
• Also Sunday: Kitten on the Keys Benefit at Mama Calizo's Voice Factory in SF, 1519 Mission Street. Benefitting Kitten's one woman show, "Does This Piano Make My Ass Look Big?" join Kitten and her very special guest, legendary burlesque star Satan's Angel! Also featuring the Scenic Sisters, Vinsantos, Lady Monster, Diamond Daggers, Honey Lawless, Dottie Lux, Mr. Tinkler, Lady Satan, SF Boylesque, Alotta Boutte, Madam Chartreuse, Kellita, and more! Silent auction of photo shoots, Catherine d'Lish's Fabulous Feathers, and more! 6:30 to 9:30pm. $15 sliding scale.
• And, also Sunday: This IS Your Mom's Burlesque at Amnesia Bar in SF, 853 Valencia Street. Kiss Que C'est and Honey Penny present a burlesque show for our moms and yours! Performances by 3 Sisters Bellydance! Miss Mae Western! Honey Penny! Ruby White! Pin Key Lee! Lady Satan! Bunny Pistol! Juicy D.Light! Buzz B! sASSy Hotbuns! Lucy Bottoms! Music by the Mighty Slim Pickins! 7pm. $10 or $8 if you bring your mum, 21+ w/ID.
• And, finally on Sunday: Debauchery at the White Horse Inn in Oakland, 6555 Telegraph Avenue. A stripclub for queers of all genders! Featuring an enticing selection of salaciously smoldering strippers! Doors at 7pm, show at 8. $5 to $15, 21+ w/ID.

Wow! A whole lotta shows this week! Took me two days to compile this list! :-P

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.