Dealing Dita: Marketing burlesque to the masses
byStrip, strip, hooray Not just the same old grind for Dita Von Teese By Andrea Kennedy She’s played a provocative powder puff prancing inside…
FEBRUARY 2013
Pinup paradise
byGirls, girls, girls! SoHo gallery a pinup paradise By Mary Shustack Photographs by Bob Rozycki Louis Meisel isn’t surprised that for many, the word…
Get your butt in gear
byAnyone looking for an inspirational boost needs only to spend a bit of time with Heidi Michaels. The Katonah-based life and sports-performance coach will…
Let’s Hear It for the Boys
byMale burlesque pays homage with glamour and glitter By Andrea Kennedy They take the stage in full costume and makeup to gyrate for a…
Where everybody knows (more than) your name
byNaked came the student A Yale party proves revealing in more ways than one By Grace Hammerstein So I stood there stark naked, with…
Marilyn, c’est nous
byWhat could there possibly be left to say about Marilyn Monroe? Perhaps no other movie star has been so idolized and dissected by popular…
Babes, broads, bombshells and Hitchcock blondes
byNowhere has the poignant complexity of blondness been more tantalizingly embodied than by the screen sirens of the 20th century. But the Hollywood blonde…
A sensuous woman
byPhotographs by Bob Rozycki If you’re not familiar with Judith Economos’ sensuous work, that may be because she’s more interested in making art than…
Indian art: Danger, curves ahead
byBy Georgette Gouveia For sheer voluptuousness, it’s hard to beat Indian art. Curvaceous goddesses and temple celebrants, sensuous queens, strapping gods, ripped bodhisattvas: They…