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Welcome to our debut issue. We’ve got a great show prepared for you! Come back here to see what’s new and updated. Join our Mailing List so we can notify you of new content, special events and discount offers. Check out our table of contents that shows most of the big acts going on here. Just click on an article description and it’s off to the show. Optionally, use our navigation buttons along the bottom of each page to guide you to each page of the issue.

Our Scene Diva profile story each month is about a prominent burlesque performer. This month’s “Scene Diva” is the beautiful Bella Blue, an energetic superstar who has been involved in local burlesque for several years. Bella can be seen everywhere around town and is in high demand around the country. Madame Blue is also a burlesque instructor as well as a professional model. With such a variety of great skills, Bella might as well be a Prophet of Burlesque, she’s so lucrative. Does she ever slow down? We hope not. Updated

Feelin’ Jazz is a profile on one of New Orleans’s hippest venues, Irvin Mayfield’s Jazz Playhouse. Irvin and his manager Laura Bell have been very helpful in support of our publication, and we feel likewise. We love being immersed in the warm jazz and smooth atmosphere of this elegant throwback to the classy music clubs of yesteryear. Doesn’t hurt a bit that it’s located right inside the beautiful Royal Sonesta Hotel in the heart of Bourbon Street.

Spotlight Girl shows off a burlesque dancer up close and personal, so you can get to know who those ladies in the light really are. Since some of you like a great personality and some like good looks, we picked someone sure to give you a full dose of each. This month our Spotlight Girl is Lana Allure of Bustout Burlesque. At five feet one and three-quarter inches of pure dynamite, she’s much more of a knock out than the average man can handle. Updated

Q and A: Rick Delaup of the New Orleans Burlesque Festival is a short interview about the Burlesque Fest coming up soon. Make plans to attend this prestigious event! Updated

Ask Miss Scarlet is a column written by our resident relationship and dating specialist. Miss Scarlet has a BA from UNO in Human Behavior and Sexuality and then went on to The University of Texas to pursue her graduate degree in Social Work. As a complicated woman herself, she’s even a bit more of an expert in the area. Miss Scarlet has counseled hundreds of people all over the country and is now back home in New Orleans, a town, she thinks, is the best place anyone could ever call home.

Lanie’s Place is a fun insider column written by our ingenue-about-town, Lanie Lamarre. You never know where her life will lead, whether it’s a last minute shopping escapade while on a sugar high, or an unrequited uptown romance with Drew Brees. As long as I can catch up with her each month, you’ll get an interesting column to read.

From the Orchestra: Music covers the music scene in burlesque, various musicians in bands and everything else we can think of that’s music related. This issue features an article by DJ Sharky von Tiki, who DJ’s for burlesque troupes - most recently Slow Burn Burlesque. Ronnie Magri, a burlesque musician from the old days, is featured, along with music samples from his burlesque music CD. (Ronnie’s song, “Egyptian Fantasy” is playing on this page load if your browser is mp3 compatible.) Updated

We’ve got art and fiction as well. Hope is a short little noir story that asks the question of anyone who’s ever been in a relationship, “Just how sure are you when you go out of town that things remain secure on the home front?” Our artwork includes an illustration by Ben Passmore every bit as sinister as the story it illustrates.

If you’re wondering who shot the photograph of the Girl in the Martini Glass for our Table of Contents page, check out our photo story Martini Avenue featuring the work of Florida-based photographer Al Abbazia.

Our News section features local and world news about burlesque, including a newsfeed you can follow for more burlesque news from around the world. If you have local burlesque news for us, please let us know so we can personally report on it. We have a section called Closers, which is there to settle you down with fun stuff from the net, humor and miscellaneous bits.

If you like products about burlesque, visit our our Marketplace.

 is your one stop listing of burlesque events for everything happening in the New Orleans burlesque scene. Each listing can be expanded to provide venue maps and phone numbers, websites, and additional information. You can even send reminders to your own computer. Updated

If you want to know what’s going on in the Burlesque Scene around town, you can always click on a button at the bottom of each page called Events. Want to know where to go see burlesque? Click Venues. Who you’re going to see? Click Troupes.

The bottom navigation bar of each page shows all pages of our site, while the top shows major categories.

 
 Suggested Next Stop: Visit our Table of Contents

OUR CAST:

Editor: Jeff Teachworth: Editor and Publisher, Graphic Design, Staff Photographer and Reporter
Director: Rico Barrera: Director and General Manager, Staff Reporter, Corporate Strategy

Consulting Associates:
Lanie Lamarre: Columnist and Associate Reporter, Ken Sharky Braden: Associate Reporter/Photographer, Michael Siu: Associate Photographer

OUR CONTRIBUTING ACTORS:

Columns: Lanie Lamarre - Lanie’s Place, Miss Scarlet - Ask Miss Scarlet, DJ Sharky von Tiki - Music

Photographers: Michael Siu - NOLAPhoto.com, Ken Sharky Braden - BlackSailsPhotography.com, Jian Bastille - JianBastille.com, Robin Walker - RobinWalkerPhoto.com, Al Abbazia - MartiniAvenue.com, Jason Kruppa - Kruppaworks.com, Andreas Koch - AKochPhotography.com, M.Prophet - MProphet.com, Hampton van Meter - hamptonVMphoto.com, Sarah Joann Sparacino, Kimbeaux Welsh, Syndey Byrd - SyndeyByrdPhotography,
Jeff Teachworth - DreamStarOnline.com

Artists: Ben Passmore - Interview with Ben Passmore, Rajan Sedalia - ArtJar.com

If you would like to contribute an article or photo, we would like to talk to you. Please contact us. Thanks for your interest in New Orleans burlesque.

Burlesque Scene is a partnership of Jeff Teachworth and Rico Barrera, and a business entity of Dream Star Photography, LLC. It is published with article updates on a weekly basis, inside a monthly cycle of ad and content rotation. We try to ensure that all of our content and photographs are used with proper permissions. If any concerns please contact our legal department so we can remedy the situation. We answer selected letters about our editorial content on a frequent basis, so please send us your feedback.