12.20.2012

NOIR AND PROUD

I am so honored to announce that I'm Ms. Noir City 2013!
Don't believe me? Don't make me take out my wrench!


As a long-time fan of the genre and lover of the Noir City film festival, it's a dream come true really. Plus, working with monster talents Eddie Muller, Bill Selby, and David Allen to create this poster was an amazing experience. Not only did I get to go "behind the curtain" of the Alameda Naval Air Station's old theater (now Michaan's Auctions screening room) and hang around one of the oldest functioning projectors in the Bay Area, but I learned quite a bit about lighting, posing, and staging from these three masters. 

Consistently, year after year, the Noir City posters are viscerally compelling; they grab you by the guts and sell you on the seamy shadow world we long to escape to. These posters manage to sum up what we love to characterize about the genre, all at once in one astonishing moment. Danger, sex, sweat, escapism, oblivion, Death. We got it. You want suspense? Look at what's about to happen to Eddie's glasses in that poster!

But the honor doesn't stop there. This year's festival line-up, released at last night's Noir City Xmas event, is full of iconic classics, rarities, and surprises (HELLO! 3-D NOIR!) that makes me think this year's festival is the best yet. Listen to me...I'm holding a huge wrench. 

12.04.2012

So Many Shows in December! Catch One if You Can!

Happy holidays and all that junk!
Odessa Lil has a lot going on in December. If you are looking for something to do this month, you came to the right place!

First off, you can ALWAYS watch my weekly burlesque/variety talkshow, Speakeasily, in the archives at http://tradiov.com/sf/category/speakeasily.
Join us on Facebook while you're at it and get updates on the show and neat highlight clips too: http://www.facebook.com/speakeasilyshow.
Additionally, sign up for the newsletter to get even more behind the scenes action: http://eepurl.com/szOEz.

LIVE SHOWS:

12/11: Bombshell Betty's Everyday Bombshell Scholarship Fund Benefit Show
TUESDAY, December 11th
Doors @ 9:00PM, Show @ 9:30PM

Elbo Room
647 Valencia St in SF
21+ w/ valid ID

Celebrate the Holidays with the Burlesqueteers! It’s nice to be naughty and our performers will warm you up for the Winter with their acts of talent, beauty, and sensuality. Santa would approve! You will also be supporting the Everyday Bombshell™ Scholarship Fund.

HOSTED BY: Odessa Lil, your *thwack!* Mistress of Ceremonies!

Featuring burlesque performances by:
Bombshell Betty! Bella D! Belle Phenomene! Cleo Torres! Dolly Dior! Jayne Minx! Red Delicious! Ruby Cosmic! Savage Rose! Sindee Rose! Trixie Fou Laurant! Valhalla Voom! Violet Streak! Yve Jobs!

$10 - General admission
$35 - Table for two (includes general admission)

For VIP tables and presale tickets, go to: http://www.bombshellbetty.net/products/dec-elbo

12/21: Diva or Die Burlesque
Friday, December 21st
9pm
The Exit Theatre
156 Eddy Street

December is just around the corner! Already tired of the holiday season, Christmas decorations, and shopping? Well, plan ahead and get your tickets to the next DIVA or Die Burlesque! Also, the show is at the end of the Mayan calendar, so, please come join us for our special end of the show ritual to hold off the end of the world until the next millenium!

Get your tickets now for this amazing show at the wonderful Exit Theatre, before you miss out!!

Our show features the one and only Odessa Lil as MC!
Our talented and beautiful performers include:
Tasty Temptress! Elyse Elaine! Dangerous Delilah! Sgt. Die Weiss! Rosey Booticelli! Laura Borealis! IfNWhendy! Red Velvet! Red Delicious! CoCo Jewelle! and more!!

Come strip away your inhibitions in this intimate little theater!

Get your tickets in advance, as they sell out quickly! Go to: http://www.theexit.org/divafest/tickets/

12/22: Hubba Hubba Revue's CHRISTMAS-HANUKKAH SPECTACULAR
Yep, Odessa lil is taking it all off for the holidays...
Saturday, December 22nd
NNER MISSION (formerly CELLspace)
2050 Bryant Street
$15 ALL NIGHT
21 & Up w/valid ID
DOORS, Go-Go's & DJ STARR at 9:00PM

ADVANCE TICKETS ONLINE at...
http://www.inticketing.com/events/hubbahubba

Get ready for a super-sized SATURDAY NIGHT stocking-stuffer, starring...

THE TWILIGHT VIXEN REVUE!
The Sizzling Sirens (Sacramento, CA)!
Sailor St. Claire (Seattle, WA)!
Raphaele Daubois!
Szandora LaVey!
Odessa Lil!
Casey Castille!
Mercy Beaucoup!
Honey Lawless!
Gigi D'Flower!
Pickles Kintaro!
Miss Balla Fire!
Lady Satan!
Bunny Pistol!
Rosalynn LaRoux
Gorilla X!
& The Hubba Hubba Go-Go Elves!

hosted by Kingfish & Sparkly Devil!

plus! JUMP, JIVE & ROLL with musical guests
LOST DOG FOUND!
http://www.lostdogfound.com/

11.06.2012


Odessa Lil & Szandora LaVey.

Time for more Speakeasily HIGHLIGT CLIPS!

Check out the bewitching Szandora LaVey interview in which she discusses her time on the Tyra Banks Show and so much more!
http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/26605481/highlight/302103

AND see her hula hoop number here:
http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/26605481/highlight/302102

10.30.2012

Speakeasily, Thursday 11/1!

This Thursday: Speakeasily streams LIVE from 5- 6 PST!

We have your Day of the Dead tagged and bagged with special guests Szandora LaVeyMcPuzo & Trotsky, and Honey LawlessWatch live and call in OR catch it later in the archives!

Live:
http://tradiov.com/sf

Archives:
http://tradiov.com/sf/category/speakeasily/


10.26.2012

Watch Speakeasily Episode 4 Online! Spookeasily?

Watch our special Halloween episode of Speakeasily in which we delve into psychics, serial killers, channeling the dead, and the backwoods of Pacifica! Scary sexy! 

With The Indra, Raya Light, Dorian Faust, and SAssyhot Buns!


Video streaming by Ustream

10.19.2012

Watch Speakeasily Episode 3 Online!

Guests Masquerotica's Scott Levkoff, Red Velvet, IfNWhendy, and Trixie Fou Laurant talk about the burning issues of our time: shoe fetishists, pubic hair, prop comedy, and puppets:


Video streaming by Ustream

10.16.2012

SPEAKEASILY, 10/18



This Thursday! Speakeasily, the Bay Area’s Burlesque Talk Show, streams LIVE from 5- 6pm on TradioV San Francisco.
Tune in for special guests Scott Levkoff, Red Velvet, IfNWhendy, and Trixie Fou Laurant!
Watch live and call in: http://tradiov.com/sf/
OR catch it later in the archives: http://tradiov.com/sf/category/speakeasily/

10.08.2012

SPEAKEASILY, Thursday 10/11


Thursday, 10/11: The 2nd episode of Speakeasily, the Bay Area’s Burlesque Talk Show, streams LIVE from 5- 6pm on TradioV San Francisco.
It’s TV, it’s internet, it Pickles Kintaro, Kingfish, Kiss Me Kate, and Odessa Lil, your mistress of ceremonies.
(You can also tune in later and watch it in the archives.)

10.06.2012

Speakeasily, Episode 1

Check out the first episode of SPEAKEASILY, the Bay Area's Burlesque Talk Show, with Odessa Lil, your Mistress of Ceremonies (that's me!).

My guests were Casey Castille, Comrade Tang, and Lady Satan and they were fabulous! We talked about bad burlesque names, the '90s, Shelley Duvall's teeth and so much more.

Video streaming by Ustream
AND if you just need a quick fix, here is a short highlight of Lady Satan's number, taped live in the studio! FIERCE!

http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/25923069/highlight/296732

10.02.2012


Odessa Lil, your Mistress of Ceremonies, brings you behind the curtain so you can get up close and personal with the Bay Area’s most provocative burlesque, variety, and drag performers. She uncovers everything you want to know about the glitz and glam but are afraid to ask…and you never know what will be revealed!

STARTS OCTOBER 4th on TradioV!
Watch it streaming live at 5pm on TradioV with our special guests Lady Satan, Comrade Tang, and Casey Castille!
http://tradiov.com/sf


Join us on Facebook, NOW:
http://www.facebook.com/speakeasilyshow
Twitter too:
https://twitter.com/SpeakeasilyShow

 

9.06.2012

Odessa Lil in September! (And then some)

Hey, Mister! You want shows? I got shows.


Tuesday, September 11th: 
All Kinds of Sexy™ Burlesque Benefit Show at the Elbo Room!

Enjoy and evening of naughty bedtime stories and nighty-night burlesue, pillow fights and sleepover shenanigans BURLESQUETEER STYLE! This show will knock your socks off, AND it is a benefit for BOMBSHELL BETTY'S Everyday Bombshell™ Scholarship Fund.

HOSTED BY ODESSA LIL, Mistress of Ceremonies
With performances by:
 - Bombshell Betty! - Belle Phenomene! - Candy Pie! - Chardonnay Sweet! - Cleo Torres! - Coco Jewelle! - If-N-Whendy! - Lily Shagswell! - Lolita LaBella! - Red Velvet! - Savage Rose! - Sindee Rose! - Scarlett Black! - Tawdri Mynx! - Trixie Fou Laurant! - and MORE!

SPECIAL APPEARANCE by: Lynn Ruth Miller, The Stripping Granny!
Including graduates from Burlesquercise!® classes, including:
INTRO TO BURLESQUERCISE®, INTENSIVE I, BURLESQUE INTENSIVE II, CARDIO CAN-CAN WITH RED VELVET, SHOWGIRL CHORUS 

Doors @ 9:00PM, Show @ 9:30PM

Elbo Room
647 Valencia St in SF
21+ w/ valid ID

 More info and pre-sale links here: http://www.bombshellbetty.net/products/sept-elbo

Sunday, September 16th: 
Odessa Lil and MicroDisco host the 2012 FRINGE FESTIVAL CLOSING PARTY
Only for Fringe Fest participants!

Friday, September 28th: 
DIVA OR DIE BURLESQUE

Come out and see DIVA or Die Burlesque's new show!
Featuring the MC Odessa Lil
With performances by:
IfnWhendy Darling, Red-Velvet Dancer, Bunny Von Tail, Erzulie Rose, Pretty Pretty Please, and special appearance from the Bohemian Brethren!
Come strip away your inhibitions in this intimate theater!

These tickets sell out SUPER fast so get them in advance at: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/241441

Right now, there's only 15 seats left!

OCTOBER YOU SAY?
Why yes...there's a shit-ton of fun that month too!

Monday, October 22nd: 
FISHNET FOLLIES at the UPTOWN in Oakland! 

October 19th - 31st: 
HALLOWEEN -- THE BALLAD OF MICHELLE MYERS 
Yep, Odessa Lil's alter ego Audra Wolfmann will once again take the stage as Mrs. Skerritt!

 This fall we answer the age-old question: What happens when you mashup your favorite slasher movies with the scariest television show of all time...The Facts of Life! San Francisco's original horror musical, HALLOWEEN: The Ballad of Michele Myers!, returns for a second murder spree: “Mrs. Skerritt chaperons 4 school ‘girls’ up to the lake for a fun-filled Halloween dance over at the boys’ camp. But someone also invited crazed tranny killer Michele Myers to crash the party! Watch her slash through her victims to a disco beat! Dos-i-do and try to evade her bloody gaze! Rock out with your cock out and it just might get snipped! Shriek in horror at her unmasking! Freddy, Jason, and Michael scared your breathless…now it’s HER TURN!”

CounterPulse
1310 Mission Street
San Francisco, CA 94103 (at 9th Street in SoMa)

TICKETS: $20 Advance/ $25 Door
http://michelemyers2012.eventbrite.com/

 Be sure to LIKE Michele Myers for further details and info: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Michele-Myers/226488244141128?ref=ts

8.08.2012

Al-Stravaganza

Calling all Al Heads! It's time to bust out the checkered Vans and don the aloha shirts for what couldweird al al-stravaganza possibly be the first ever all Weird Al-themed burlesque show. Seems overdue, right? Well, finally Mr. Yankovic is getting his due on Monday, August 13th at Oakland's Uptown as The Hubba Hubba Revue and Pickles Kintaro present The Al-Stravaganza!

It doesn't matter if you are a "My Bologna" purist or just "White and Nerdy;" the hits will be dropping as fast as the clothes at this burlesque bonanza. And make sure you dress for success to enter the Weird Al look-a-like contest! Can you believe that you get all this quality entertainment for just $5! Cheap!

Hosted By Weird Kingfish & Weird "Kevin" Hancock
With: Honey Lawless,Pickles Kintaro, Lady Satan, Odessa Lil, Lola Martinet, Pearl E. Gates, Mistress Marla Spanks, and JD Limelight.

Doors 9PM -- Show 10:15PM
21 & Up w/ID

THE UPTOWN CLUB
1928 Telegraph Ave, Oakland (just 1 block from 19th Street BART!)

Here are some of Al's finest moments in no particular order, so says the Amoeblog!

7.31.2012


Odessa Lil & Cerebreau.
Hubba Hubba Revue, 7.19.12.
Mike Lloyd (www.shutterstopphotography.com)




Odessa Lil to MC
DIVA OR DIE BURLESQUE
August 10th!

Come out and see DIVA or Die Burlesque’s new show!

Featuring:
Mistress of Ceremonies Odessa Lil
IfnWhendy Darling
Red-Velvet Dancer
Laika Fox
Cherry Chapstick
Cheeky Sweets
Ada Lavender
Vadge of Honor
and Pretty Pretty Please!

Come strip away your inhibitions in this intimate theater!
Get your tickets in advance at: http://www.theexit.org/divafest/tickets/
This little theater sells out fast! Buy your tickets early so you don’t miss out!

7.12.2012

Odessa Lil to MC:

DIVA OR DIE BURLESQUE
Friday, July 20th
The Exit Theatre (156 Eddy Street, San Francisco, CA)

Come out and see DIVA or Die Burlesque's new show!
Featuring:
Mistress of Ceremonies Odessa Lil
IfnWhendy Darling
Red-Velvet Dancer
Laura Borealis
Lezzie Mcfagerson
Tasty Temptress!

Come strip away your inhibitions in this intimate theater!

Get your tickets in advance at: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/241441

This little theater sells out fast! Buy your tickets early so you don't miss out!

7.03.2012

ODESSA LIL TO MC
MONDAY, July 9th :
Hubba Hubba welcomes Mynx d'Meanor & her FISHNET FOLLIES CLASSIC BURLESQUE REVUE! Come see this stellar showcase of sultry, sassy students from Fishnet Follies' own Academy of Tease!
Comrad Tang!
Jet Noir!
Velvet Nyx!
Sweet Belize!
The Fishnet Follies Chorus Girls!
and the creator of Fishnet Follies, MYNX d'MEANOR!
with special guest MISTRESS (*thwak!*) of Ceremonies, ODESSA LIL!

All for just *FIVE BUCKS!*
Doors 9PM -- Show 10:15PM
21+

THE UPTOWN CLUB
1928 Telegraph Ave, Oakland
(just 1 block from 19th Street BART!)

6.19.2012

Odessa Lil to MC BAXTALO DROM: Friday, June 22nd!


Baxtalo Drom
Friday June 22, 2012
Amnesia Music Hall
853 Valencia st, SF
9pm - 2am
$10

Join us at the campfire this month and bring your jug of moonshine... We're celebrating summer in the city with a jug band, hand made instruments, and lovely ladies. Come on down to the Amnesia Music Hall for Baxtalo Drom, San Francisco's cozy night of vaudevillian entertainment inspired by all things Balkan and bein' on the road...

Shaking the floor boards loose....

THE CRUX
A carnival plague brining you old new songs wandering in from a tradition of highways, aching over tongues and strings with enlightenment letters and convict soup!
http://www.thecruxmusic.com/
facebook.com/The.Crux.Music

SHOVELMAN
A junk-yard beatnik, a shovel guitar wielding surrealist folk superhero!
shovelman.com

Bring on the dancing girls...

ORCHID BELLYDANCE
These award-winning dancers will be shakin' and shimmin' all the way from San Jose!
orchiddance.com
http://vimeo.com/9149422

A mistress of ceremonies...

ODESSA LIL
Just your average turn-of-the-century wondering domme!
http://www.audrawolfmann.net/Odessalil.html

Come early, and stay late! Dress tight and get loose. And try your luck at the Lucky Road Show... where fortunes and told and made!

6.05.2012

Photos of Odessa Lil from DivaFest 2012, by RJ Johnson!




5.13.2012

Odessa Lil to MC...

DIVA or Die Burlesque

Friday, May 18th!

Exit Cafe
156 Eddy Street
San Francisco, CA 94102

Modern burlesque featuring Mistress of Ceremonies Odessa Lil with If-N-Whendy, Red Velvet, Lolly Gagger, Pearl E. Gates, Laura Borealis, Lezzie McFaggerson, Cherry Chapstick, Cheeky Sweets, and Tornado Supertrouble.
Part of DIVAfest 2012, a festival dedicated to work by women artists.



5.10.2012


New photo of me in outer space! Dig it.
Photo: Paul Pratt
Makeup Artist: Melanie Paulina
Help/Advice/Direction/Equipment: Rob

4.28.2012

MOHOLY GROUND MAGAZINE ANNOUNCES THE RELEASE OF ISSUE 4 & RELEASE PARTY



Photography journal Moholy Ground Magazine celebrates their 4th issue with a release party at Photobooth in San Francisco on Saturday, May 19th!

The Moholy Ground Project, Inc. is proud to announce that on May 19, 2012, they will release the forth issue of Moholy Ground Magazine, a journal of photography that creates unique opportunities for artists from the San Francisco Bay Area to gain exposure, experience, and present significant new work in a stunning print format. Issue 4 features the photography of Nicholas Albrecht along with Todd Sanchioni, Jaime Beechum, Ryan Chard Smith, Mike Narciso, Jeff McElroy, and Scott Finsthwait. 

The Moholy Ground Project will celebrate the release the fourth issue with a FREE reception on May 19th from 6pm – 11pm at San Francisco’s most happening photo studio and supply shop, Photobooth, located in the heart of the Mission! Issues of Moholy Ground Magazine will be available for purchase while you sip wine and peruse the work of the magazine’s featured photographers. Musical guests for the night include Matt Pankuch and Meridians, as well as DJs Boom Bostic and Gabuchan.

More about Moholy Ground Magazine:
Committed to stimulating critical discourse as well as documenting and fostering connections within the contemporary arts, Moholy Ground Magazine features the work of emerging photographers along with informative essays, interviews, and articles. The journal focuses on photography designed to explore the contemporary possibilities of the medium while publishing compelling and authentic images about the people and places in the Bay Area. 

Issue 1 of Moholy Ground Magazine hit the stands in May of 2010 and features the work of Gabriel Wheeler, Leo Docuyanan, Amal Mongia, and John Coyne.

Issue 2 launched in January of 2011 with a 10-day exhibit at Root Division in San Francisco where work was displayed from the issue’s featured photographers Trevor Traynor, Unnikrishnan Raveendranathan, Josie Ramondetta, Scott Walker, Scott MacDonald, and Richard H. Hart.

Issue 3 showcases the photography of Troy “Lost America” Paiva, Sonia Savio, Austin McManus, Travis Jensen, and Michael Shindler and coincided with a spectacular week-long show of the featured photographers at Photobooth.



San Francisco’s Westerfeld Mansion or the “Russian Embassy.”


HOUSE OF LEGENDS
A Documentary About a Legendary San Francisco Mansion, 123 Years in the Making.

Some know San Francisco’s Westerfeld Mansion as the “Russian Embassy,” the site of an infamous brothel run by Czarist Russians in the 1920s. Some know it as a ramshackle boarding house for Fillmore district jazz performers of the 1950s. Most remember it as the magical crash pad of 1960’s counterculture luminaries that inspired Tom Wolfe, Janis Joplin, Ken Kesey, Anton LaVey, Bobby Beausoleil, and Kenneth Anger alike to fly their freak flag from the turrets of this Victorian palace.

F is for Fake Pictures brings you House of Legends, a feature-length documentary directed by Mat Dara that explores the making of a legend by investigating the history and the myths behind San Francisco's Historical Landmark #135. 123 years in the making, the old Westerfeld Mansion has a brilliant story to tell through many of its famous, infamous, and colorful inhabitants and visitors over the past 12 generations.

House of Legends features interviews with former tenants, visitors, and experts such as Fayette Hauser (photographer and original member/costumer of gender-bending 1960’s troupe The Cockettes), Charles Fracchia (San Francisco Historian and co-founder of Rolling Stone Magazine), John Handy (Grammy-nominated jazz legend of the Fillmore), current owner James Siegel, and so many more!

House of Legends is currently in production and is the only film to date that focuses on this historic mansion. House of Legends is currently raising production funds and needs your help to reach completion. Please visit our Indiegogo Campaign at http://www.houseoflegendsmovie.com/ to be part of the unique project.

This is an opportunity to connect with and preserve a cultural landmark by making a financial pledge that will directly contribute to immortalizing one of San Francisco's most fabulous landmarks. Fundraising ends May 2nd, so please visit http://www.houseoflegendsmovie.com/ today!

3.24.2012

HOW TO DANCE GOTH

I am happy to have been part of this educational video...

 
How to Dance Goth from APBS on Vimeo.

Made & conceived by the amazing Lara Miranda, Joyce Tang, and Jim Kingfish Sweeney (starring Balla Fiya, Mynx d'Meanor, DJ Fact50, and ME) and lit by one Brett Stillo, this video debuted at Hubba Hubba Revue's Goth Show, March 22nd, 2012 at the DNA Lounge.

It was also the day that I unilaterally decided was DRACULA DAY (#DraculaDay, HA!) and terrorized everyone in internet land with these words of wisdom...

If at first you don't succeed...it means Dracula has.


An apple a day...is useless against Dracula.

A bird in the hand...is one Dracula will eat.

A Penny saved...is one Dracula will take.

Be it ever so humble...there's no place you can hide from Dracula.

Two wrongs don't make a right...they make Dracula.

You can lead a horse to water...but you can't hide from Dracula.

Early to bed early to rise...and you'll totally miss Dracula.

You can't get blood from a stone...but Dracula can get stoned from blood.

If the shoe fits...run Dracula's after you.

The pen is mightier than the sword...but it still won't stop Dracula.

Life is just a bowl of cherries. Dracula has no use for cherries.

If life gives you lemons...make lemonade because you need something to drink while you're hiding from Dracula.

A wise man once said...stay the fuck away from Dracula.

Every dog has its day. Dracula can turn into a wolf. Take that dogs.

Curiosity killed the cat...Dracula killed my whole village.

3.02.2012


Mix Masterpiece Yoshi's San Francisco

Tuesday, March 13, 2012 10:00pm - 1:30am
Yoshi's San Francisco
1330 Fillmore St.
FREE!
Full Info HERE!
Reply on Facebook HERE!

Yoshi's San Francisco is hosting a multi-media extravaganza of talented Bay Area artists. These cutting-edge artists will have their fresh work on display and some for sale. It is FREE to the public with proper DJs and drink specials to boot. Old Russian Embassy House of Legends San Francisco Matthew Dara

Here's the superstar line-up!

Video: 
House of Legends: The Old Russian Embassy 
Footage from the documentary by Matthew Dara Alavi

Souls of Splendor
Trailer and clips from the short film by Audra Wolfmann & Desmond MillerSouls of Splendor San Francisco Desmond Miller Audra Wolfmann

Painting and drawing:
Jeff Bostic

Michelle Guintu

Grace Cooper

Photography
Gabriel Wheeler
Jeff Bostic

Trevor Traynor

Moholy Ground Project

Fashion
The Indra Millinery 

Jewerly
Friedasophie

Also, Tiffany Eng will be on hand with Performance art/photo booth called "Who do you think you are?" It is your chance to be the art that night too!
The Indra Millinery
DJs BoomBostic (the host for the evening) and special guest ESAU will be spinning tasty tunes all night! 

1.31.2012

My Amoeba Music "What's In My Bag" Interview with Eddie Muller of Noir City and The Film Noir Foundation.