Thursday 11/19/2009
The Drag Queen Who Stole Christmas
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Mirror, mirror on the wall, who's the meanest drag queen of them all? Madame X- that's who!
On today's show, from Snow White and the Drag Queen Who Stole X-mas, we have drag queen extraordinaire, Madame X and the show's talented director Tony Lewis!
The campy Christmas tale features Madame x as Ms Grinch who along with Snow White and Seven drag queens re-enact a delicious mash-up of holiday specials and sing some your favorite bastardized holiday classics.
Madame X may not have succeed in stealing Christmas, but she certainly has stolen our hearts.
What's it like sharing a dressing room right downstairs from the stage with seven drag queens? Is it anything like the movie Showgirls? Is Madame X Chicago's answer to Cristal Connors?
Listen as they fill us in on all the wacky hi-jinks in the drag queen scene in Chicago and give us an update on the infamous Lady Vera Parker.
Window Media, the nations' largest publisher of newspapers aimed at a gay and lesbian readership suddenly shut down over the weekend - what happened?
London's Deliciously Fruity Skyline angers gingerbread house architect Curtis Jensen. What has him so upset?
Why emerging musicians write their own names into their song lyrics.
and a British truck driver calls his boss to tell him "I'm in a spot of a bother" after being impaled by an 8ft pole during an accident.
Cristal Connors has voted and asked her friends to vote for us in the People's Choice Podcast Awards!- have you voted today? Go to podcastawards.com and cast your ballot!
Visit out our sponsors:
Steamworks Gym, Sauna and Baths.
Visit Steamwork's website and register to get a discount
on your next visit. Enter "Feast of Fun" on the promo
code field to get the special discount.
Featured Music:
Jackie Beat - JB is the Holiday Ho!: Site
Dirty Sanches: iTunes
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SUBSCRIBE ON: GOOGLE
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Mirror, mirror on the wall, who's the meanest drag queen of them all? Madame X- that's who!
On today's show, from Snow White and the Drag Queen Who Stole X-mas, we have drag queen extraordinaire, Madame X and the show's talented director Tony Lewis!
The campy Christmas tale features Madame x as Ms Grinch who along with Snow White and Seven drag queens re-enact a delicious mash-up of holiday specials and sing some your favorite bastardized holiday classics.
Madame X may not have succeed in stealing Christmas, but she certainly has stolen our hearts.
What's it like sharing a dressing room right downstairs from the stage with seven drag queens? Is it anything like the movie Showgirls? Is Madame X Chicago's answer to Cristal Connors?
Listen as they fill us in on all the wacky hi-jinks in the drag queen scene in Chicago and give us an update on the infamous Lady Vera Parker.
Window Media, the nations' largest publisher of newspapers aimed at a gay and lesbian readership suddenly shut down over the weekend - what happened?
London's Deliciously Fruity Skyline angers gingerbread house architect Curtis Jensen. What has him so upset?
Why emerging musicians write their own names into their song lyrics.
and a British truck driver calls his boss to tell him "I'm in a spot of a bother" after being impaled by an 8ft pole during an accident.
Cristal Connors has voted and asked her friends to vote for us in the People's Choice Podcast Awards!- have you voted today? Go to podcastawards.com and cast your ballot!
Visit out our sponsors:
Steamworks Gym, Sauna and Baths.
Visit Steamwork's website and register to get a discount
on your next visit. Enter "Feast of Fun" on the promo
code field to get the special discount.
Featured Music:
Jackie Beat - JB is the Holiday Ho!: Site
Dirty Sanches: iTunes
RSS FEED | SUBSCRIBE ON iTUNES
SUBSCRIBE ON: GOOGLE
Monday 11/16/2009
Lesbian Icon Terry Galloway
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Deaf since the age of 10, Terry Galloway grew up to be one of the funniest performers of her generation.
Calling herself a "modern medical accident," Terry's hearing loss, vision problems and childhood hallucinations came as result of an experimental antibiotic given to her mother during the Cold War in Germany. As a 10-year-old self-proclaimed "child freak," she acted out her fury at her circumstances by faking her own drowning at a camp for crippled children.
Since then, she's used writing and performance to reveal her queer identity and her silent, quirky world populated by many unforgettable characters.
In Austin, Texas, Terry co-founded the much loved and long-running comedy show, Esther's Follies which was considered for a run on off Broadway by the producers of Saturday Night Live.
Her new memoir, "Mean Little deaf Queer" recounts some of her life's most horrific and funny moments.
She's in Chicago to kick off "Fresh Squeezed" a series of offbeat performance-based events at the Victory Gardens Biograph Theater.
Listen as we talk with Terry about laughing at your disabilities, why embracing failure in your work leads to success and why Hellen Keller is considered an S&M lesbian icon.
* If anyone would like to provide a transcription of this podcast for the hearing impaired we'd happily post it to share with others.
Feast of Fun is thrilled to be nominated for two prizes this year in the People's Choice Podcast Awards! We are nominated for Best GLBT podcast and also for the top category of People's Choice. Please vote everyday until Nov 30.
Featured Book:
Terry Galloway- Mean Little deaf Queer: Amazon
Featured Music:
Gaye Adegbalola - Gaye Without Shame: iTunes | Amazon
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SUBSCRIBE ON: GOOGLE
Deaf since the age of 10, Terry Galloway grew up to be one of the funniest performers of her generation.
Calling herself a "modern medical accident," Terry's hearing loss, vision problems and childhood hallucinations came as result of an experimental antibiotic given to her mother during the Cold War in Germany. As a 10-year-old self-proclaimed "child freak," she acted out her fury at her circumstances by faking her own drowning at a camp for crippled children.
Since then, she's used writing and performance to reveal her queer identity and her silent, quirky world populated by many unforgettable characters.
In Austin, Texas, Terry co-founded the much loved and long-running comedy show, Esther's Follies which was considered for a run on off Broadway by the producers of Saturday Night Live.
Her new memoir, "Mean Little deaf Queer" recounts some of her life's most horrific and funny moments.
She's in Chicago to kick off "Fresh Squeezed" a series of offbeat performance-based events at the Victory Gardens Biograph Theater.
Listen as we talk with Terry about laughing at your disabilities, why embracing failure in your work leads to success and why Hellen Keller is considered an S&M lesbian icon.
* If anyone would like to provide a transcription of this podcast for the hearing impaired we'd happily post it to share with others.
Feast of Fun is thrilled to be nominated for two prizes this year in the People's Choice Podcast Awards! We are nominated for Best GLBT podcast and also for the top category of People's Choice. Please vote everyday until Nov 30.
Featured Book:
Terry Galloway- Mean Little deaf Queer: Amazon
Featured Music:
Gaye Adegbalola - Gaye Without Shame: iTunes | Amazon
RSS FEED | SUBSCRIBE ON iTUNES
SUBSCRIBE ON: GOOGLE
Friday 11/13/2009
Lesbian Performance Artist
Lesbian performance artist Terry Galloway is an icon in the performance world. She is modern medical accident as a result of an experimental antibiotic given to her mother which left her deaf and with poor vision. As a 10-year-old self-proclaimed "child freak," she acted out her fury at her boxy hearing aids and Coke-bottle glasses by faking her own drowning at a camp for crippled children. Ever since, Galloway has used theater and performance to defy and transcend her reality, her queer identity, and her silent, quirky world populated by unforgettable characters.
Anger, fear, and the aftermath of a self-loathing childhood are never far from the surface of her perfomance but they are transformed by humor and become the tools of her daring break-out into a world where danger is compounded by being "deaf, weird, and a woman."
Her largely autobiographical, side-splitting funny and shocking, "Out All Night and Lost My Shoes," is one night only this Sunday Nov 15th at 7:30 PM at Victory Gardens Biograph Theater mainstage, 2433 N. Lincoln Avenue, Chicago.
Terry's show is the first in a series of performances in Victory Garden's "Fresh Squeezed," a Queer Theater Spotlight followed later this season by fellow queer icons Charles Busch and Julie Halston (December 7), and Tim Miller and Holly Hughes (March 15-21, 2010).
Friday 11/13/2009
Need Your Votes to Win Big!
Voting begins today in the People's Choice Podcast Awards! Feast of Fun is thrilled to be nominated for two prizes this year, Best GLBT podcast and the top category of People's Choice.
We are up against the big dogs of podcasting and we're the only GLBT themed podcast in the running for the top category of People's Choice.
Please vote for us in each category once every day until November 30.
We are up against the big dogs of podcasting and we're the only GLBT themed podcast in the running for the top category of People's Choice.
Please vote for us in each category once every day until November 30.
Thursday 11/12/2009
Bertha Mason's Hot Pie!
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At 6'5, 250 pounds, drag queen Bertha Mason towers over her audience in a live comedy cooking show where they help to bake, and then later eat, the tasty treats made on stage. Everybody gets a slice of Bertha's delicious pie. Mmmm!
Michael Bowen, the man behind Bertha Mason is on today's show to talk about what makes this Hausfrau of the Heartland tick. Michael shares with us the story about how Bertha came to life and how he channels all his passions into one career- cooking, comedy and queening it up.
Join Bertha Friday November 13th in Chicago at the Holy Trinity Lutheran Church for a memorable evening of meatloaf, tuna noodle casserole and a rainbow assortment of jell-o salads.
The evening includes cooking lessons, glittery Jesus crafts and the rockin' polka beat of Queer as Polka. Cindy Sunday from the Best Church of God will be on hand to praise the lord and try to stop the kids from eating paste.
Also in the news:
Genetically engineered rabbit parts.
Soon to be extinct cuddly Koala Bears.
Bhopal, India's new tourist attraction.
And video bloggers are taken to task for not talking about marriage equality. What responsibility do famous gays have when it comes to fighting for equal rights?
Visit out our sponsors:
Interactive Male
Interactive Male, the hottest gay chatline in North America announces the winner of the Big Gay Kiss Contest. See the winning video and all the other hot entries at Big Gay Kiss, because a kiss ain't just a kiss.
At 6'5, 250 pounds, drag queen Bertha Mason towers over her audience in a live comedy cooking show where they help to bake, and then later eat, the tasty treats made on stage. Everybody gets a slice of Bertha's delicious pie. Mmmm!
Michael Bowen, the man behind Bertha Mason is on today's show to talk about what makes this Hausfrau of the Heartland tick. Michael shares with us the story about how Bertha came to life and how he channels all his passions into one career- cooking, comedy and queening it up.
Join Bertha Friday November 13th in Chicago at the Holy Trinity Lutheran Church for a memorable evening of meatloaf, tuna noodle casserole and a rainbow assortment of jell-o salads.
The evening includes cooking lessons, glittery Jesus crafts and the rockin' polka beat of Queer as Polka. Cindy Sunday from the Best Church of God will be on hand to praise the lord and try to stop the kids from eating paste.
Also in the news:
Genetically engineered rabbit parts.
Soon to be extinct cuddly Koala Bears.
Bhopal, India's new tourist attraction.
And video bloggers are taken to task for not talking about marriage equality. What responsibility do famous gays have when it comes to fighting for equal rights?
Visit out our sponsors:
Interactive Male
Interactive Male, the hottest gay chatline in North America announces the winner of the Big Gay Kiss Contest. See the winning video and all the other hot entries at Big Gay Kiss, because a kiss ain't just a kiss.
Featured Music:
Baby Teeth- Hustle Beach: iTunes | Amazon
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SUBSCRIBE ON: GOOGLE
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