Catching up with … Laura Albert

SFGate.com – Aidin Vaziri, Chronicle Staff Writer

Laura Albert has a picture of Borat pinned to her office wall. It’s perfect. Like comedian Sacha Baron Cohen, the 43-year-old San Francisco novelist invented an outrageous character to grab the world…

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Dame Edna: Why the fuss?

News.BBC.co.uk – By Simon Hancock – BBC News Magazine

Barry Humphries, the man behind the butterfly glasses of Dame Edna Everage, turns 75 this week. But what is it about the lilac-haired international “gigastar” that has proven so enduring?

Dam…

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Antony and the Johnsons

EyeWeekly.com – By Sarah Liss

In his own quietly reverent way, Antony Hegarty is a subcultural superhero. At another time, he could’ve been cast as some sort of sideshow freak, a towering soft-spoken fellow with a penchant for fuzzy sweaters and gen…

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The Queen of Hearts

BangkokPost.com – By: Yanapon Musiket

Love-advice columnist Plernpiss Kidtheungkhun talks about her special abilities in the love arena, both for her and others.

When blinded by love, many choose to talk it out with their best friends or family m…

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That’s no lady!

Philly.com – By Melissa Dribben – Inquirer Staff Writer

Shady Pines is momentarily out of sass. The 7-foot beauty, in black vinyl gown, fishnet stockings and studded leather choker, retreats to a chair on stage at the Gershman Y.

She has spent th…

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Flirty and dirty with Jose Sarria

SGN.org- by Scott Rice – SGN Contributing Writer

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: The Imperial Sovereign Court’s Widow Norton

You may call him The Nightingale of Montgomery Street. You may call him Empress José I, The Widow Norton. And you may call him simpl…

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