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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Luxury brands such as Simone Rocha, St Laurent, Dries van Noten and Chanel are accessorising with tassel jewellery this year Tassels are so much fun. Quirky, flirty and swishy, they are a favourite ...

VERDI'S La Traviata must be one of the most often performed of all operas, so the temptation must be great for a director to do something different. In this case, however, it was a temptation that ...