Sorry it’s belated.  I was sick last week, so I canceled and then canceled the cancel.  And I’m excited to perform with Sweetcheeks!!!

Friday, February 26th 6pm-10pm
UC Berkeley Multicultural Community Center
(near Bancroft & Telegraph)

With the 10th anniversary of our Night of Cultural Resistance, we remember the struggle endured by the third world Liberation Front and their fight to secure our right to exist and thrive on this campus. In the face of budget cuts that overwhelmingly threaten underrepresented minority communities, we gather for this year’s NoCR to make it known that WE SHALL NOT BE MOVED. As we celebrate and experience our Night of Cultural Resistance with music, dance, art, poetry and prose from our various cultures, religions, identities, and intersectionalities, we claim the existence of a space that allows our differing worlds to come together as one within the haven of our very own Multicultural Community Center. NoCR is not only a celebration, but a declaration of our solidarity and resistance. We will plant the roots of our resistance and raise our voices like branches far into the skies and into the night. Join us in this year’s Night of Cultural Resistance.

With performances by:

DJ Jose Arias
Kane Aku
Berkerkeley B-Boys and Girls
Lil Miss Hot Mess
Youth Speaks
Yining Chou
Tavae Samuelu
iDub Collective
Night of Cultural Resistance (NoCR) Alums and more!

Food Vendors!: Fried Bread (from UCB Native American Recruitment & Retention Center) and Tamales (Lucha)

Brought to you by: The Multicultural Community Center and Multicultural Student Development offices (APASD, NAAC, CLSD, Cross-Cultural Student Development, and AASD)

Eternal gratitude to Ed and Ryan for being adorable gay sailors (and kind of last minute too).  Everlasting thanks to Des, Jae, and Philip for lending their nautical wear.  And appreciations forever to Jerry Lee for taking video (as well as to Maura for taking the video Ryan posted on Facebook, which I don’t know how to embed – but it’s basically the same)!

SOME THING was so fun and I’m so excited to have a new weekly AND weekend show to look forward to.

Here’s video:

More photos are after the jump.

Photos below (and the one at the top) are by Shot in the City – you can view more photos from the night on their Facebook album:

There are also some photos up at SF Weekly, but I’m waiting on permission (and bigger images) from the photog.

Stay Tuned!
Thanks to Joie Rey Cohen  (joierey AT gmail.com) for the photo!

Find out what I’ll be doing after the jump…

I’ll be doing a tribute to Bea Arthur, and also in a number in honor of John Hughes!  It’ll be a super fun night!

The Kentucky Fried Woman Show: 2009 Celebrity Death Tribute

This show is also a fundraiser for the 2010 Femme Conference, which will receive 50% of the door!

Saturday, December 5
Doors @ 8:30 and Show @ 9:30pm
Velvet, 3411 MacArthur Blvd, Oakland
$10

Starring:
Simone de la Getto
Lil Miss Hot Mess
Sugarbush Lane
Delicio del Toro
Momma’s Boyz
Lance Armstar
Drew Montana
Dick Damount
Beary Craves
The Dangers
Lyric Styles
Ruby Vixen
Dottie Lux
Gabe Oi

Featuring Co-Femcee, Starr69

Many celebrities passed during 2009…Michael Jackson, Bea Arthur, Patrick Swayze, John Hughes, Mary Travers, Farrah Fawcett, Billy Mays, Natasha Richardson, David Carradine, Ricardo Montalban, Dom Deluise, Walter Cronkite, Les Paul, Ted Kennedy, Jack Kemp, Ed McMahon, John Updike, Billy Powell, Karl Malden, Frank McCourt, Gale Storm, Vern Gosdin, Eunice Kennedy Shriver, Marilyn Chambers, Soupy Sales, DJ AM and many more. This evening of performances will pay homage to those we said goodbye to an 2009. Come out and join us as we give thanks for the memories!

RSVP on Facebook

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Red Hots Burlesque

Friday, Nov 20
7:30pm
El Rio (3158 Mission St.)

Performances by:
Bunny Pistol
Lil Miss Hot Mess
Roderick
Cherry Galette
sASSY Hotbuns
Uni & her Uke

hosted by the lovely Virginia Suicide

Wow!  Brick background.  This is like my middle school fantasy of being a bohemian, a la Rent.

Adding humor to the movement, one jazz-square at a time.

With Nora (center) and Jennifer (left).  Watch out, Wendi: Jennifer tried to tell me she was my #1 fan!

Thanks to Lisa for the photos!

And of course, the other performers!  All the usuals were phenomenal: Raya, Suppositori, Rahni, Garza and Farrokh (whose number really was delightful, especially the twist at the end).  And then there were the vets who really pulled it out.  Oh, and Artist.  Dear, Artist.

Here’s video of our number — I think someone else took video with a more profesh camera, so I’ll post that if/when I see it:

And some backstage photos (I insisted on some cheesy poses):

(the last one is with some CODEPINK friends I met a couple weeks ago.  photo courtesy of Infinity.)

Oh, and I need to share a little Halloween miracle that also proves a point: The Israeli flag you see in the video I found at Thrift Town on Friday afternoon for $3.99.  I was really trying to find a little black and white number to match the one I already had, but was having no luck.  I wanted American and Israeli flags, but I was resigned to making them since I didn’t expect to find an Israeli flag in a day.  Then, on a whim, I looked at the area where there are flags and fabrics.  Lo and behold.  The moral of the story?  At Thrift Town, if you’re really desperate, it will deliver exactly what you need.  I don’t normally endorse brands like this, but I’m serious.  I one time needed a tambourine.  I was in the shoe section and dropped something, and when I bent down to pick it up, there was a tambourine under the shoe rack.  I kid you not.  The other moral?  If there is a God, she’s anti-zionist and wants me to have the props I need.

Anyway…

Later that night, I ditched my imperialist drag for my real costume: Bee Arthur!  (Get it?  Some people got it right away.  Some people never got it.  Two people thought I was Mrs. Doubtfire in a bee costume.)  Ed and Ryan and Julie and Ellie and Jesse had a phenomenal party, though mama drank a little more of her $4 wine than she should’ve.  Oops.  I did, however, walk all the way from the Castro to 18th & Portrero in my new Zara heels (fine, a low heel).

And there are some pictures to prove it, after the jump:

Bobby was some artist whose name I forget, but who did conceptual work involving gold leaf on his face and dead bunnies.

Matt was the Red Death from Poe.  It was creepy in a good way.

Kevin’s costume made me die a little bit inside in the best possible way.  This photo does not in any way capture my joy and ecstasy.

Danyol and Ed were competing Fridas.

Maura is was a nerd.

Apparently Bee Arthur attacked Sweetcheeks, who was dressed as Lil Miss Hot Mess (!) as Little Orphan Annie!

But we still can bee friends.

Iraq Veterans Against the War presents…

MAKE DRAG, NOT WAR!

A Benefit for IVAW and Dialogues Against Militarism!

Halloween! Saturday October 31st
7:30 pm
At Dance Mission Theater
3316 24th St. (at Mission St.), San Francisco

Featuring: Miss Rahni, Garza with Farrokh, Raya Light, Suppositori Spelling & the drag debuts of 15 Iraq veterans! (and Lil Miss Hot Mess!)
Performances by: SF Boylesque and fAction SF
Special Guest: Cindy Sheehan as George W. Bush
Hosted by: Artist Malcolm Drake

This Halloween, join Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW) for a night  showcasing activist drag and dance theater for “Make Drag, Not War”, a
benefit for Dialogues Against Militarism (DAM) and IVAW.  DAM is a group of US war resisters, Iraq and Afghanistan veterans, and anti-militarist
organizers who will travel to Israel/Palestine to show solidarity with Israeli youth refusing to join the military, ex-combatants working for peace, and Palestinians resisting occupation.  The delegation, which includes three of the IVAW members who will perform in the show, will leave the next day.  A dance party to send off the delegation follows the performances.

Buy tickets at www.againstmilitarism.org/buytickets
$15 pre-sale, $20 at the door.

For more information please visit www.againstmilitarism.org and www.ivaw.org