Since leaving architecture behind, Ana Lee Kage has combined her love for creating unique clothing with a long-running love for drag to stand out as both a performer and a creator.
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Performance & Theatre
Orange wigs, campy performances and cheekbones cut so sharp they could slice you open if you get too close: Drag performer and artist
Taylor Anne is all of these things and more. Known onstage as
Poppycock Visqueen, a performance from Anne promises professional-grade vocals and a playful commentary on femininity. If you’re lucky enough, you may even witness a gravity-defying death drop or two.
Photo: Bonneville Jones
Growing up in our own Happy Valley, Poppycock was always drawn to the spotlight. They joined the performance community at the ripe age of 4 and went on to study commercial music at
Events
What better way to bring in the heat of 2021 than with Marrlo Suzzanne & The Galaxy Band serving up a raucous night of ‘70s-throwbacks? Ask any attendee of the most recent drag show held at the
Metro Music Hall and you’ll find out just how great of a way it was. Held the evenings of April 30 and May 1, these performances were the beginning of the light at the end of this long (long) tunnel of quarantine.
Long before the show began, it was clear that the masked-up and social distance–minded crowd was eager to shake loose their quarantine stiffness and lose themselves to the rhythms of the night. Tickets for the event were sold in bundles of four–ten, making each group within the audience a tight community each one in fierce competition to show the room exactly who knew how to have the best time.
It s Whatever
It s Whatever, released Nov. 30, is quite the apathetic title for an EP that opens by yanking the listener into a fast-flowing cascade of anxieties, worries and the general nag on one s mind that comes when you care deeply for those around you. At least that seems to be what King Ronin Da Scholar is fixating on in the opening track Intro, where he raps about the mutual frustrations of trying to get control of his own life while helping out his people, too. And while this track flows without much in the way of Ronin s never-wavering rhymes, in the next track, M.A.N.I.A, a more chaotic side leaps out as he expresses something of the overconfident zeal that is a signature of actually suffering from or rather riding the high of mania. But the important thing is that in the song, Ronin uses it as an inspiration to spit his bars with an impressive viciousness. When gasping about the come-down, his squeaking wheezes suggest that maybe he never will, that maybe up high is