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Sasha Velour in "The Big Reveal Live Show!" (Greg Endries)
Posted inOn Stage

Jewish drag superstar ready to sashay into Bay Area for her ‘Big Reveal’

Sue Barnett 2025 by Sue Barnett May 21, 2025June 6, 2025

Sasha Velour is one of the most imaginative drag stars working today. Known for her fantastical, multimedia shows, she’s a storyteller at heart whose theatrical performances routinely surprise and move […]

Shalita Corndog and Mina J’Moi lead drag bingo on Purim at Congregation Sha'ar Zahav. (Photo/Courtesy Rabbi Mychal Copeland)
Posted inLocal Voice

Why my synagogue hosted a drag story hour for Purim

9mugmychalcopeland by Rabbi Mychal Copeland April 4, 2023April 5, 2023
"Drag gave me a space to let out this other side of myself," says Brock Uhl, whose drag persona is named Anastasia.
Posted inOn Stage

Pleasanton teen Brock Uhl (AKA ‘Anastasia’) brings drag shows to suburban East Bay

Andrew Esensten by Andrew Esensten May 24, 2022May 27, 2022
Drag brunch is now a monthly event at Solomon's Deli in Sacramento.
Posted inOrganic Epicure

Solomon’s Deli does drag; Schlok’s Bagels goes brick-and-mortar; etc.

Alix Wall by Alix Wall April 12, 2021May 7, 2021
Mama De La Smallah performs at a 2019 Tel Aviv Pride event for her drag house, WERK, at the Desire Club in South Tel Aviv. (Photo/JTA-Laura E. Adkins)
Posted inPride, Culture, On Stage, Holidays, Jewish Life

Meet a 20 year-old IDF combat soldier, drag queen and political activist

Laura E. Adkins by JTA and Laura E. Adkins June 28, 2019June 28, 2019
The Kinsey Sicks (Photo/Courtesy Maurice Molyneaux)
Posted inOn Stage

From age of AIDS to age of Trump, S.F. drag troupe turns 25

Laura Pall by Laura Paull October 2, 2018October 3, 2018
Singer Jeanette Lewicki (Photo/Courtesy Jewish Community Library)
Posted inArt, Culture, On Stage, Theater

Local singer brings to life cross-dressing Yiddish vaudevillian

by Hannah Rubin January 10, 2017March 23, 2018

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