#rupauls-drag-race

#rupauls-drag-race

Despite seasonal focus on holiday shopping chaos, things are still looking promising on the Portland music front.There's no shortage of releases to get into, and even a couple of upcoming shows that will warm things up.This week we're stoked about a new project from rapper Milc, new single from Rules., and upcoming shows from epic local twosome Volcanic Pinnacles, Japanese psych rockers TEKE::TEKE, and music-minded drag performers Jinkx Monsoon and BenDeLaCreme.

Despite seasonal focus on holiday shopping chaos, things are still looking promising on the Portland music front.There's no shortage of releases to get into, and even a couple of upcoming shows that will warm things up.This week we're stoked about a new project from rapper Milc, new single from Rules., and upcoming shows from epic local twosome Volcanic Pinnacles, Japanese psych rockers TEKE::TEKE, and music-minded drag performers Jinkx Monsoon and BenDeLaCreme.

Standing in the back parking lot of Station 4, a sprawling LGBTQ dance club in Dallas, I realize this is the first time I've been here while the sun is still out, despite countless visits starting in my late teens.At 8:45 p.m., tucked behind the club, the parking lot is full but weirdly quiet, though I can still hear the bustling throng of people on the Strip, a section of Cedar Springs Road in the city's Oak Lawn neighborhood that's served as the heart of Dallas's LGBTQ nightlife scene for more than four decades.

Drag-A-Thon already sounds pretty incredible.A collaboration between Wildfang and Darcelle XV Showplace, the 48-hour performance will attempt to set a new Guinness World Record for longest drag artist stage show.When the Mercury first broke the story of this historic venture, many performers were yet unconfirmed.

Pride gatherings were poised for a celebratory comeback after a few years of more subdued COVID-era events.Instead, they're taking place at a moment when the LGBTQ+ community faces increasing pressure.Over the past few months, states have passed or proposed bills that limit the rights and visibility of trans people, drag performers and LGBTQ+ youth.

Tens of thousands lined the West Hollywood route Sunday of the WeHo Pride Parade, which brought a lively mix of colorful floats, music and marchers.High spirits reigned at the event, which highlighted a weekend that included an arts festival and a two-day street fair with mariachis, a drag show and the Rams cheerleaders.

Taylor Swift is coming to town for the first time in years.While the songstress evokes a range of reactions in the music-listening public, her return to the city spells big business for Chicago's hospitality scene, poised to sling punny, thematic cocktails and host drag brunch tributes for throngs of adoring adherents.

A general view of the red carpet is pictured at the MTV Movie & TV Awards on June 15, 2019, at the Barker Hangar in Santa Monica, Calif.The first big live awards show to air during the current screenwriters' strike has retreated to a streaming event as the MTV Movie & TV Awards tries to chart a celebratory course through a turbulent Hollywood.

Howard Bragman, a beloved Hollywood publicist who specialized in crisis relations and whose clients included Monica Lewinsky, Cameron Diaz, Ricki Lake, Sharon Osbourne and Chaz Bono, has died at his home in Los Angeles of leukemia.He was 66.
Bragman, who died Saturday, had been diagnosed with leukemia just 10 days ago and was promptly hospitalized, his family said.

Can you hear the "slay" bells ringing?Smuin Contemporary Ballet is kicking off the holidays in San Francisco with The Christmas Ballet, December 14-24 at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts!This annual holiday tradition featuring everything from ballet to tap, jazz, and swing gets a twist with special guest Lady Camden for its annual LGBTQ+ Night performance on Tuesday, December 20.

Since its inception in the mid-1990s, the web has been an interactive place.In 2023, we expect user immersion to be integral to all facets of web design.That includes the technology to empower web users to participate in shaping their own experience of the web - not just in the metaverse or Web3 or whatever turn the digital zeitgeist takes next, but also in small yet meaningful parts of their daily internet use.