Noteworthy in Nola

Harrah’s held the 1st annual festival for Burlesque in NOLA’s history, though we’ve been building up to it for some time, with Bustout Burlesque having gotten a huge following in the city. I’m still recovering from a really nasty bout of post-vacation ickiness, but we did manage to get out to the big Burlesque Queen contest.

If you haven’t seen any of the revival burlesque (and you have a sense of humor about the whole thing) you really should go. Ladies of varying sizes and loads of chutzpah shimming and shaking to va-va-va-voom beats is just too fun.

These were the more demure outfits when they were coming out and awaiting the winner’s announcement:

In the end, it was NOLA’s own Black Pearl who took the crown, and with good reason. She channels Josephine Baker’s wild energy so well:
(fyi- I cut it before it gets too racy- totally PG-13 link)

Next year, there’ll be no creeping crud and we’ll definitely have to check out more of the fest!

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