Taking inspiration from Bettie Page and 1950s pinups, Lower East Side bar Nurse Bettie hosts twice-weekly burlesque shows on Wednesday and Thursday nights. Last Thursday (4/11), Julie Tease, ...

In the Depression-era days of Gypsy Rose Lee, burlesque dancing was about as naughty, and as nude, as it got in public. The emphasis was on the tease more than the strip, until Playboy and harder-core ...

These days, burlesque is a term as abused as a stripper’s feet at the end of a night in clear heels. Oops, that was a bad comparison — especially because, dammit ...

The queen of the neo-burlesque movement got her start working in a California strip club. Except that she didn't dress or act like the rest of the strippers. Von Teese adopted a 1940s look and set out ...

A popular artform is making a comeback, and the town of Jim Thorpe is excited to showcase it. "Right now the resurgence of neo-burlesque is quite hot," said Tara Kubas, producer of the first Jim ...

From the Bible to the Torah, from Dr. Seuss to the Brothers Grimm, if you can print it, they can strip to it. A busty troupe of literary-minded show girls have learned art’s most important lesson — if ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) -- Blaze Starr, a burlesque icon and stripper whose affair with a 1950s-era Louisiana governor gained notoriety for both parties, died Monday at age 83. Starr's nephew, Earsten ...