So it’s high noon, and I’m stuck in Southern California—literally, stuck—in a dune of sand. I’m traveling solo; my only companions are a dead cell phone and a canteen of drinking water on the verge of ...

Ruth Corwin, who danced on Bourbon Street during the golden age of French Quarter burlesque as “Alouette Leblanc, the Tassel Twirler,” has died in Charleston, S.C. She was 80. Rick Delaup, producer of ...

Dita Von Teese doesn't do sweatpants. In fact, the burlesque star doesn't even own a pair. "I don't have a casual alter-ego. I just don't get it. I don't even know where one would buy something like ...

Steve Pratt learns more about tassel twirling from one of the women who run Club Boudoir, which bills itself as the North-East’s leading burlesque cabaret show. TEN years ago people would have looked ...

The burlesque revival has unleashed a new generation of jiggling vamps -- you know, strutting the stage with puckered red lips, feathers, fishnets and high heels. Well, step aside young'uns. It's time ...

A pole-dancing company is inviting women in Reading to go that bit further in a burlesque course at the Purple Turtle. Polestars is offering a four-week beginners’ course in modern burlesque, ...

Better yet, eschewing mouse and Movable Type, I would transport myself back to North Beach's beatnik days for a paint-stained smock and painfully tight beret. I'd put one over on "the man" by spending ...