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
SATURDAY FEBRUARY 20
