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''There's an air of mystery and danger to the Black Party,'' says Jamin Ruhren. ''I think that maybe that got to me, not realizing that a lot of it's just theater.'' Ruhren had never been to New York's Black Party before last year, when he hosted it as his towering drag alter-ego Acid Betty. Of course, there are mysterious and dangerous things happening at Saint At Large's legendary leather/fetish party, which has attracted upwards of 5,000 revelers annually going on ...[more]

Clublife: A Perfect 10

DC Kings, the country's longest-running drag king troupe, celebrates a decade of performance

Published on March 4, 2010, 2:57am

In 1996, Kendra Kuliga won a drag king contest she entered on a dare from a friend. ''A panel of femme judges gave me 10s across the board,'' says Kuliga. ''From then on I was addicted.'' Addicted is an understatement. For 10 years, Kuliga has served as the producer and director of the DC Kings, billed as the world's longest-running drag king troupe. Kuliga, who performs as Ken Vegas, originally started the group as the Chaos Drag Kings, named after ...[more]

Clublife: San Francisco Beat

A regular at gay clubs around the world, Jamie J. Sanchez is set to make his Town debut next Saturday

Published on February 24, 2010, 11:01pm

Jamie J. Sanchez remembers when he first wanted to become a club DJ. He was all of 17 -- a minor with major dreams. ''I had a gay uncle who took me to my first gay bar,'' Sanchez explains. When the DJ in the Phoenix bar played Madonna's ''Vogue,'' ''everybody went mental. I just saw the crowd's reaction, and saw the DJ having fun, and I thought, I want to do that. And so I went up and met the ...[more]