Le Fête Fatale no.8 / Dr. Sketchy's Berlin no.15 / Site News

Tonight Lola la Voix will be partying here:



Dr. Sketchy's Anti Art School Berlin is amongst the sponsors for this event, by the way...

And speaking of Dr. Sketchy's Anti Art School Berlin...

Next Saturday afternoon, on April 30th, I will be co-hosting this:


FRIENDS! FANS! BOHEMIANS!

Dr Sketchy Berlin proudly presents a true legend of the German Burlesque Scene

TALLULAH - "The Ivory Woman" - FREEWAY

+ Special Guest MOTHER THERESA

Again we’ll be offering the usual 3-hour Life Drawing Extravaganza with two extraordinary models, drinks, our ever-popular drawing competitions and grrrrrreat prizes! (Don't forget your Art supplies)

When? April 30th 2011 2:30-5:30pm (doors open 2:00pm)
Where? At the WHITE TRASH FAST FOOD RESTAURANT Schönhauser Allee 6-7
How much? Just measly 10 euro! (Tickets at the door)

The flyer doesn't indicate this at all, but April 30th will be our CAVE WOMAN SESSION! Ooga ooga! And DJ U.F.O. Hawaii (aka Künstler Treu) will be spinning the tunes. ...Mildred and I will be saying a bit more about this very soon. ;)

And now for the promised site news:

Unfortunately the www.mildredlovesyou.com domain still remains offline to date, but the new alternative address is taking up the slack until things return to normal (and beyond too - for safety's sake).

In more pleasant news, Mildred and I will be updating again at last tomorrow with a nice Easter Greeting...

...And I know I promised a cooperative drawing with a good buddy as a new Extra Goody soonish in my last blog post, but time didn't allow. So it'll have to wait until after the Easter-Greeting Extra Goody. ;)

Hugs + kisses,
LaLaVox
www.mildredlovesyou.com aka
www.lalavoxbox.com/mildredlovesyou.html
The LaLaVox Doodle Diary (updated more or less daily)

My Kingdom for a Grand...

...And by that I mean a grand piano! There will be no grand piano, nor even any piano at all, but rather a mere keyboard, provided by Asphalt for the Let's Misbehave party on the 22nd after all, and Miss Erna Aloisia Pachulke has decided that under these conditions it would be better to stick strictly to her bilingual split-personality MC-ing and save the songs that she and Lola la Voix have been working on together for performance at some later date.

Lola la Voix will be at the party anyway of course, in the audience, enjoying performances by Mama Ulita and The Queensgang Orchestra ect, and looking forward to future appearances with Miss Erna Aloisia Pachulke (and assorted other planned stuff). We hope to see you there!

And here's a quick overview-reminder of October's Event Cornucopia!

La Fête Fatale No.7 at Goya
Friday night, Oct. 15th


Pinky's Peepshow at Bassy Club
(Schönheitstanz Berlin Burlesque Night
- with special guest, Lorelei Vanora)
- Wednesday night, Oct. 20th


Let's Misbehave at Asphalt
+ Salon Kokett at CCCP
Friday night, Oct.22nd



Dr. Sketchy's Anti Art School Berlin No.10 at White Trash
Saturday afternoon, Oct.23rd


Bohème Sauvage No.45 at Heimathafen Neukölln im Saalbau
Saturday night, Oct.30th


Hugs + kisses,

LaLaVox
www.mildredlovesyou.com
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Photos by Nina Zimmermann and Schell Photo Design / Lifestyle Portrait

October's Party Cornucopia!

(Dr. Sketchy's Berlin / La Fête Fatale / Pinky's Peepshow /
Let's Misbehave / Salon Kokett / Bohème Sauvage)

Well, now! Dr. Sketchy's Anti Art School Berlin really had a fabulous time as the closing event for The Big Draw Berlin festival last night. The Grüner Salon was an elegant and very comfy venue, Marlene von Steenvag was dazzling and lovely - as a model and as a performer, the organizers and staff were friendly and enthusiastic, our DJ, Dr. Hirschfeld, was as fabulous as always, Anne Smith was, as ever, a sweet and delightful burlesque roadie/clean-up girl, and our audience was great! We went away smiling once again! =)

And now for those additional October event dates I promised. My alter egos and I are busy girls this month... ;)

Event no.1: First off, a reminder that it's La Fête Fatale time again. They already spread their mad decadence in Hamburg for the first time on the 8th, and now it's home to Berlin again on Friday the 15th - at Goya this time around!



Event no.2: Lorelei Vanora will be making another Pinky's Peepshow appearance at the Bassy Club on October 20th (a Wednesday, as always); this time around as a special guest of the Schönheitstanz studio here in Berlin. Lady Lou will be presenting another one of her Burlesque School Graduation events (Schönheitstanz Berlin Burlesque Night); with Betty Redcherry (newcomer), Lilly Tiger (performer), and Amber Vanilla (newcomer).



Here's the Pinky's Peepshow flyer itself. Unfortunately, due to a little info-sanfu, my name (LaLaVox) ended up making it onto the flyer...


...But of course it's actually my alter-ego, Lorelei Vanora who will be performing. ;)


Events no.3 + 4: Two days later, on Friday, October 22nd, you will have to choose between The Roaring Twenties and more burlesque. In the Roaring Twenties corner will be the premiere of the Let's Misbehave party (a Josephine Baker Tribute) at Asphalt. In the Burlesque corner will be another lovely Salon Kokett evening at CCCP.

My personal choice for the evening will be The Roaring Twenties, since my alter ego, Lola la Voix will be making an appearance at Let's Misbehave. The fabulous and delightful Miss Erna Aloisia Pachulke will be the conférencière for the evening, and she's invited Lola la Voix to sing a couple of numbers with her!





Event no. 5: A reminder not to forget that we'll be back at White Trash Fast Food again for a regular Dr. Sketchy's Anti Art School Berlin session on the afternoon of Saturday, October 23rd! Dr. Sketchy's #10 - our Halloween Special - starring Lady Lou (La Fête Fatale and Schönheitstanz) and Mitzi Metzger (La Fête Fatale)! Meet us there for lots of gruesome Halloween drawing fun!!!



When?
October 23th 2010 2:30-5:30pm (doors open 2:00pm)
Where?
At the WHITE TRASH FAST FOOD RESTAURANT Schönhauser Allee 6-7
How much?
Just measly 10 Euros! (Tickets at the door)

Event no. 6: And last but not least, Bohème Sauvage No.45, on October 30th, to finish up a fabulous month of glamorous Fall events!



We hope to see you there!

Hugs + kisses,

LaLaVox
www.mildredlovesyou.com
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Dr. Sketchy's Berlin No. 9 + Info Roundup

Dr. Sketchy's Anti Art School Berlin No. 9
will be featuring none other than Berlin-based
dancerwritersingerperformanceartist,
MAD KATE (of Kamakazi Queens and Bonaparte)
and her husbandbestfriendmuseinspirationpartnerincrime,
fashion designer and DJ, JUANOFAKIND!



When?
Saturday, August 28th, 2010 - 2:00-5:00pm
(doors open 1:30pm)
Where?
At the White Trash Fast Food Restaurant
Schönhauser Allee 6-7, Berlin, Germany
How much?
Just measly 10 Euros!
(Tickets at the door)

And as you know, it often happens that our Dr. Sketchy's Berlin afternoons are followed by an evening of either La Fête Fatale or Bohème Sauvage. This time around it's Bohème Sauvage again; No.44 to be exact:



And the next La Fête Fatale No.7 has been announced in the meantime as well. Hold onto your hats, Hamburg, because La Fête Fatale isn't just a Berlin event anymore! Put October 8th (for Hamburg) and October 15th (for Berlin) in your calenders, folks!



Something I never got around to mentioning here was our Dr. Sketchy's Berlin Meets the Direktorinhaus event last week. It was so well publicized elsewhere however, and the turn-out was so good, that I'm finding it very easy to forgive myself for this.



105 People attended our first “out of house” session at the elegant Direktorenhaus Art Space in Mitte - which makes it our biggest event so far! (It couldn't have hurt that it was also our only free event so far... ;-))

Special thanks to Clare Molloy, Nicole, and all of the other lovely people at the Direktorinhaus, to our rockstar models Clea Cutthroat (of Bonaparte and Eat Lipstick) and Megan Goddard, to our musical butterflies Operalesque (Johanna Blackstone + Rachel von Hindman), and to all of you who flocked to us in such great numbers, and then drew and drew and drew some more, squished in together with us in those two beautiful rooms!

The Direktorinhaus has promised us a selection of some of the photos they took during the course of the evening, but in the meantime we have a selection of what our organizer (and my co-host) Johnny "Mulholland" Fitz (aka Matthias Pflügner) has been calling his "crappy" (and what I would call his "fun") snapshots to peruse. Please click this fetching shot of The Mysterious Bucket-Headed Woman to be whisked off to his Flickr gallery of these...




Hugs + kisses,

LaLaVox
www.mildredlovesyou.com
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Dr. Sketchy Berlin no.7 (Mermaid Time!)

NEWS FLASH!!! - DR. SKETCHY'S ANTI ART SCHOOL BERLIN No.7 tomorrow at the White Trash Fast Food Diamond Lounge from 2:30pm to 5:30pm!!! (Doors open at 2:00pm)

More info can be found at www.drsketchy-berlin.de of course...

...LaLaVox here again, as always. Here's tomorrow's line-up...


CLEA "Underwater Love" CUTTHROAT
FEZ "The Drowned Dandy" WRECKER
& LORELEI VANORA - The Singing Mermaid

I usually co-moderate these Dr. Sketchy's Anti Art School Berlin wing-dings (and absolutely love doing it, I might add), but like Superman and Clark Kent, Lorelei Vanora and LaLaVox never can seem to manage to be in the same place at the same time. Because of this odd fact of nature, Anne Smith (who has spun tunes for us on occasions when DJane Strangelove couldn't be with us) will have to fill in for me. And what a lovely co-moderator she will be! :)

Lorelei Vanora's "look" has had a bit of an update, by the way, thanks to the ever delightful and wonderful Hedoluxe, and this update will see its stage premiere tomorrow! Big fat hugs and kisses of gratitude to Hedo! *muwah!*

And since I still haven't managed to get those little photo-collage photo-gallery-previews that I like doing up for no.4, no.5, + no.6 yet (anyone think I might actually manage to get to those by no.7?), I thought I'd do a little run-down of all of the Dr. Sketchy Berlins in this series so far - with links to each of the galleries (click the pix) - in descending order from last to first. Here we go...

Dr. Sketchy Berlin No.6 / March 20th 2010
starring Miss Julietta la Doll and Marz Star!


Dr. Sketchy Berlin No.5 / February 20th 2010
starring Nelly Farouche and Marlene von Steenvag!


Dr. Sketchy Berlin No.4 / January 16th 2010
starring Joey Love, Golden Treasure,
and secret special guest, Hedoluxe!



Dr. Sketchy Berlin No.3 / December 12th, 2009 - The X-mas Special
starring Xarah von den Vielenregen und Marnie Van Helsing!


Dr. Sketchy Berlin No.2 / November 14th 2009
starring Clea Cutthroat and Lola von Dage!


Dr. Sketchy Berlin No.1 / Premiere - 10. Oktober 2009
starring Tronicat la Miez
and secret special guest, Hedoluxe!



It's fun for me to see all of the Dr. Sketchy's Anti Art School Berlin flyer-pix together like that. :) And Lorelei Vanora is already all excited about tomorrow! ;) We hope to see you there! =D

By the way...

After an afternoon spent drawing mad sea creatures with us, you can put on your fancy 1920s duds and step out for an extravagant evening of vintage charm at BOHÈME SAUVAGE No.42 at the Meistersaal here in Berlin. A wonderful time will be had by all!


And here's something to make a note of in your calender for May 12th. Le Fete Fatale's One-Year Anniversary - LA FÊTE FATALE No.6 - The Carney Cult of Hoochie Cooch! - at the Bassy Club!


Hugs + kisses!

LaLaVox
www.mildredlovesyou.com

[update: added Aug.6th,2010]
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[edit: March 28th, 2011]
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Saturday's Berlin Burlesque Double Feature

We didn't actually plan this. Maybe I should lie and say that we did. But no, really - it just very serendipitously came about that not only did the latest editions of Dr. Sketchy's Anti Art Berlin and La Fête Fatale end up being planned for the same Saturday (tomorrow, in other words), it just happens to be round number 5 for each of us as well.

And to celebrate this happy accident The Secret Seduction Society will be offering a 3-Euro discount off the door price for La Fête Fatale no.5 to all of our paying guests at our Dr. Sketchy's afternoon of life-drawing mayhem!

All of the whens and wheres and model/performer-details can be found at these links:

Dr. Sketchy's Anti Art School Berlin no.5


La Fête Fatale no.5 - House of Haunted Hollywood


We hope you'll join us there!

By the way... Sorry about not posting about Dr. Sketchy no.4 yet. It's not because it wasn't wonderful though! We had another fabulously fun afternoon with our models and audience (I'm always on a total high after our drawing sessions together)! I simply haven't had the time to get to it. But I'll be posting about both no.4 + no.5 together then when I return - along with the typical mini-preview of some of the wonderful photos from the photo gallery.

Hugs + kisses,

LaLaVox
www.mildredlovesyou.com
[edit: March 28th, 2011]
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Dr. Sketchy's Anti Art School Berlin, Dec. 2009 + Dr. Sketchy NYC Holiday Greeting!

I very much enjoyed co-hosting another Dr. Sketchy's Anti Art School Berlin with our Master of Ceremonies, Matthias Pflügner last week on Saturday, December 12th. It was the 3rd in this series and our Xmas Special. DJane Strangelove was with us once again, and our models this time around were burlesque dancer, fire eater, and fetish model Xarah von den Vielenregen and Lucky Diva pin-up clothing designer Marnie van Helsing! We giggled a lot, they giggled a lot, and a good time was had by all. :)

Here's a peek at some of the pix from this time around...


Click this sneak peek collection to be whisked off to the official gallery to see more. :)

And don't miss Dr. Sketchy's Anti Art School Berlin #4 on January 16th, 2010! Our models will be Hamburg's darling and delightful Golden Treasure, and the ever-so flamboyant and fantastic Joey Love (aka Jochen Kronier - who guest starred in Mildred Loves Pin-Ups # 34)! Also, a little birdie has told me that Hedoluxe (Dr. Sketchy Hamburg host - who guest starred in Mildred Loves Pin-Ups #32) will be joining us once again as well! =)

And the mother of all Dr. Sketchy branches (which number around 100 world wide in the meantime), Dr. Sketchy's Anti Art School New York (invented for our drawing pleasure by one Molly Crabapple), has just had its 4th anniversary. Here's a little video holiday greeting to celebrate the occasion:

A Dr. Sketchy holiday 2009 from Spooky K on Vimeo.

Happy Holidays from Dr. Sketchy's!
Music by The Two Man Gentlemen Band
Dr. Sketchy's Animation by Smo
Video by Keith Jenson

In other Dr. Sketchy news, Matthias and I were at Le Fete Fatale's Holy Night of Naughty & Nice party last night got to meet Lorigami of Dr. Sketchy's Anti Art School Atlanta. As brief as our introduction was, it was fun to meet a fellow Southerner (I grew up in Jackson and Vicksburg, Mississippi, USA, and Mildred hails from New Orleans) who's name also begins with "L", who's also a Gemini, and who is also involved with a Dr. Sketchy's branch. ;)


As for the Fete Fatale party last night, it was mad, bad fun and I can't wait to see the photos; especially of their gorgeous Naughty and Nice Angels, Marz Star and Lady Lou! I'm also curious to see how the photo of Anne and myself sitting on Santa Swine's knees turned out! ;)

Stay tuned for more!
Hugs + Kisses,

LaLaVox
www.mildredlovesyou.com
[edit: March 28th, 2011]
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