Burlesque Timeline 1866 —Prototypical musical comedy The Black Crook becomes a massive success on Broadway, despite a daunting five-and-a-half-hour length. The show’s chorus of ballerinas [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Apr 12, 2007 Read More
Burlesque Etiquette Say It Like You Mean It! It’s often accepted as gospel truth that one must be silent while in the audience of a great performance. This rule has been [...] Miss Cherry Jubilee \ Apr 12, 2007 Read More
Feature Bella Bella It’s not a "best of," say the women of BellaDonna, Albuquerque’s most traditional burlesque troupe. Best of’s are what you put out before [...] Marisa Demarco \ Apr 12, 2007 Read More BellaDonnas from left to right Henrietta Le Coup, Cookie Fortune, and Cherry Jubilee in their Plan Burlesque From Outer Space costumes during their Sunday rehearsal at the Orpheum Performance Space Downtown. (Tina Larkin)
Feature Hoop Girl September Smith can flip her aerial hoop upside-down, eight feet off the ground, and just hang from it. She can climb strips of [...] Marisa Demarco \ Apr 12, 2007 Read More
Feature Mom Cat Kitty Irreverent builds things: a 6-foot-tall heart, a giant martini glass, a pair of painstakingly handcrafted rhinestone pumps. And a community. Kitty desires [...] Marisa Demarco \ Apr 12, 2007 Read More
Bob's Your Uncle The First (And Possibly Last) Best Of Burque (Bob) Awards For Lifetime Achievement We’ve rolled a plush red carpet out to the curb. The stars of Albuquerque are all dolled up in their finest designer dresses [...] Steven Robert Allen \ Apr 05, 2007 Read More
Eats And Drinks We’re not overstating things when we say life in Albuquerque revolves around eating and drinking. Among the first items of business for settlers [...] Alibi \ Apr 05, 2007 Read More
Music For years we’ve been running the "Best Local Band" category buried somewhere amid the bars and cinemas in the nightlife section of Best [...] Alibi \ Apr 05, 2007 Read More
Shopaholic We’re all consumers. We buy clothes and shoes and used guitars. We need skull-and-crossbones shower curtains and love cute teddy bears with fuzzy [...] Alibi \ Apr 05, 2007 Read More
Life In Burque The title of this section of our annual Best of Burque readers poll seems a bit vague, doesn’t it? "Life in Burque." What [...] Alibi \ Apr 05, 2007 Read More
