September Smith can flip her aerial hoop upside-down, eight feet off the ground, and just hang from it. She can climb strips of [...]

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 [...]

Burlesque past and present is one tale in different shapes. It’s the story of female hustle, of women working with women and, often [...]

JJ Pearls has it down to a formula. For every minute of stage time she sees, $10 leaps from her pocket. "You do [...]

Albuquerque has a working-class, blue-collar reputation that belies its artsy, sensitive soul. You might not know it from all the strip malls and [...]

For this year’s edition of Best of Burque, we decided to do something a wee bit different. As much as we respect the [...]

This year, a new section on the Best of Burque ballot required voters to send in digital photographs for five categories. Here are [...]