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Shea Couleé
Jaren Kyei Merrell (born February 8, 1989), known professionally as Shea Couleé, is an American drag queen, singer, rapper, actor, podcaster, and fixture of the Chicago nightlife scene. Born in Warsaw, Indiana, they began their drag career in 2012. In 2017, Couleé achieved international fame after competing on season nine of ''RuPaul's Drag Race'', placing in the top four. In 2020, Couleé won the fifth season of ''RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars''. Couleé later returned to compete on the all-winners seventh season of ''RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars'' in 2022, once again placing in the top four. In 2016, Couleé co-produced, directed, wrote, and starred in ''Lipstick City''. In 2017, Couleé released their debut EP, '' Couleé-D'', along with accompanying music videos. Since then, Couleé has continued their musical career, starred in their web series, podcast, and has embarked on domestic and international tours, including Werq the World, Haters Roast, and A Drag Queen Chr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
RuPaul's DragCon LA
RuPaul's DragCon LA is an annual Trade fair, expo of Drag (clothing), drag culture held in Los Angeles billed as a "convention that celebrates 'the art of drag, queer culture and self-expression for all'", which debuted in 2015. Its sister event is RuPaul's DragCon NYC started in 2017, and is considered the "world's largest celebration of drag culture." The event is an outgrowth of the internationally successful ''RuPaul's Drag Race'', which generated ''Drag Race Thailand'', ''RuPaul's Drag Race UK'', ''RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars,'' and Chile's ''The Switch Drag Race''. ''RuPaul's Drag Race and'' the DragCons come from World of Wonder (company), World of Wonder Entertainment (WOW), a production company based in Los Angeles. At RuPaul's DragCon LA, past List of RuPaul's Drag Race contestants, ''RuPaul's Drag Race'' contestants and other well-known drag artists meet with fans, take pictures, sign autographs, and sometimes perform or take part in a discussion panel, as well as s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Variety (magazine)
''Variety'' is an American trade magazine owned by Penske Media Corporation. It was founded by Sime Silverman in New York City in 1905 as a weekly newspaper reporting on theater and vaudeville. In 1933, ''Daily Variety'' was launched, based in Los Angeles, to cover the film industry, motion-picture industry. ''Variety'' website features entertainment news, reviews, box office results, plus a credits database, production charts and film calendar. History Founding ''Variety'' has been published since December 16, 1905, when it was launched by Sime Silverman as a weekly periodical covering theater and vaudeville, with its headquarters in New York City. Silverman had been fired by ''The Morning Telegraph'' in 1905 for panning an act which had taken out an advert for $50. He subsequently decided to start his own publication that, he said, would "not be influenced by advertising." With a loan of $1,500 from his father-in-law, he launched ''Variety'' as publisher and editor. In additi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shea Couleé At RuPaul's Dragcon 2017 By Dvsross
O'Shea, Shea is an Irish surname that is also used in some countries as a gender neutral given name. Shea may refer to: People Surname A–H * Brek Shea (born 1990), American soccer player * Charles W. Shea (1921–1994), United States Army officer * Cornelius Shea (1872–1929), American labor leader and crime boss * Danny Shea (footballer) (1887–1960), English footballer * Dave Shea (broadcaster) (born ''c.'' 1950), in American hockey * Dorothy Shea, American diplomat * Dorothy Shea (librarian) (1941–2024), Australian librarian * Eric Shea (born 1960), American actor * Francis Shea (other) * Gilbert Shea (1928–2020), American amateur tennis player * George Beverly Shea (1909–2013), Canadian-American singer-songwriter * Gerald Shea (other) * Gwyn Shea (born 1937), American politician in Texas * H. James Shea, Jr. (c. 1940-1970), American politician J * Jack Shea (speed skater) (1910–2002), American speed skater * Jack Shea (footballer) (1927� ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Winter's Tale
''The Winter's Tale'' is a play by William Shakespeare originally published in the First Folio of 1623. Although it was grouped among the comedies, many modern editors have relabelled the play as one of Shakespeare's late romances. Some critics consider it to be one of Shakespeare's "Shakespearean problem play, problem plays" because the first three acts are filled with intense psychological drama, while the last two acts are comic and supply a happy ending. The play has been intermittently popular, having been revived in productions and adaptations by some of the leading theatre practitioners in Shakespeare's plays#Performance history, Shakespearean performance history. In the mid-18th century, after a long interval without major performances, David Garrick premiered his adaptation ''Florizel and Perdita'' (first performed in 1753 and published in 1756). ''The Winter's Tale'' was revived again in the 19th century, when the fourth "pastoral" act was widely popular. In the seco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
YouTube
YouTube is an American social media and online video sharing platform owned by Google. YouTube was founded on February 14, 2005, by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim who were three former employees of PayPal. Headquartered in San Bruno, California, it is the second-most-visited website in the world, after Google Search. In January 2024, YouTube had more than 2.7billion monthly active users, who collectively watched more than one billion hours of videos every day. , videos were being uploaded to the platform at a rate of more than 500 hours of content per minute, and , there were approximately 14.8billion videos in total. On November 13, 2006, YouTube was purchased by Google for $1.65 billion (equivalent to $ billion in ). Google expanded YouTube's business model of generating revenue from advertisements alone, to offering paid content such as movies and exclusive content produced by and for YouTube. It also offers YouTube Premium, a paid subs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hey Qween!
''Hey Qween!'' is a talk show series hosted by Jonny McGovern, first broadcast on YouTube from 2014 to 2021, then revived on WOW Presents Plus in 2024. The first eight seasons were co-hosted by Lady Red Couture prior to her death in 2020. A blend of "gay web series" and LGBTQ talk show, ''Hey Qween!'' often features List of Drag Race contestants, contestants from ''RuPaul's Drag Race'' as guests. History Before her death, the series was co-hosted by Lady Red Couture. Many contestants from ''RuPaul's Drag Race'' have appeared on the show, including Alexis Mateo, Cynthia Lee Fontaine, Dax ExclamationPoint, Honey Davenport, Mo Heart, Nina Bo'nina Brown, Ongina, and The Vixen (drag queen), The Vixen. Dita Von Teese has also appeared on the show. 2014–2021: YouTube The series began airing in 2014 on YouTube. Various Drag (entertainment), drag entertainers, including ''RuPaul's Drag Race'' alumni would appear as the guests on the show, usually talking about their drag career. 2024: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
InStyle
''InStyle'' is an American monthly women's fashion magazine founded in 1994. It was published in the United States by Dotdash Meredith, and started originally as a brand extension of ''People (magazine), People'' before carving out its own identity. In February 2022, it was announced that InStyle would cease print publications and move to a digital-only format. Description The magazines content included beauty, fashion, home, entertaining, philanthropy, celebrity lifestyles, feminism, and human-interest stories. In 2018, ''InStyle'' became the first major fashion magazine to ban photography of and advertisements featuring fur. The ban on fur intended to showcase the animal cruelty necessary to produce fur garments, and to encourage others to refrain from fur consumption. The organization PETA was supportive of the editorial change. Dotdash Meredith, the media group that acquired InStyle in 2021, announced that they would be terminating the publication's print issues. InStyle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Plainfield, Illinois
Plainfield is a village (Illinois), village in Will County, Illinois, Will and Kendall County, Illinois, Kendall counties in the U.S. state of Illinois. The population was 44,762 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. It is part of the Chicago metropolitan area. The village includes land in Will County's Plainfield Township, Will County, Illinois, Plainfield and Wheatland Township, Will County, Illinois, Wheatland townships, as well as Na-Au-Say Township, Kendall County, Illinois, Na-Au-Say and Oswego Township, Kendall County, Illinois, Oswego townships in Kendall County. With the growth in the Chicago suburbs in the 1990s and 2000s, the village has seen a population increase from 4,500 in 1990 to nearly 45,000 in 2020. It is midway between the cities of Naperville, Illinois, Naperville and Joliet, Illinois, Joliet in Chicago's collar counties. The village has established a community Preservation Commission and historic preservation ordinance. It is the home of the Lake ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Drag Queen Christmas
A Drag Queen Christmas is a 2017-2019 drag tour featuring alumni of ''RuPaul's Drag Race''. History The "Return to Order" campaign, led by the American Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family and Property, sought to end the series and cancel a scheduled December 2019 performance at Folly Theatre in Kansas City, Missouri. The campaign gathered 13,000 signatures. Scheduled performers were Aja, Chi Chi DeVayne, Eureka O'Hara, Farrah Moan, Kim Chi, Latrice Royale, Sasha Velour, and Shea Couleé, with Trinity the Tuck hosting. Tour dates * November 26, 2017 – Lincoln Theatre, Washington, D.C. * November 27, 2017 – Dominion Arts Center, Richmond * December 10, 2017 – Buckhead Theatre, Atlanta * December 15, 2017 – Orpheum Theatre, Wichita, Kansas * November 14, 2018 – State Theater, Portland, Maine * November 25, 2018 – Detroit * November 30, 2018 – St. Louis * December 7, 2018 – Denver, Colorado * December 22, 2018 – House of Blues, Houston, Texas * Novemb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Haters Roast
The Haters Roast is a drag comedy tour featuring ''RuPaul's Drag Race'' contestants, organized by Murray & Peter Present. Tour performances consist of the rotating cast of drag queens "reading", or playfully insulting, their fellow castmates, celebrities and peers. One member of the cast usually plays the role of host, introducing the performers each night. In March 2019, Trinity the Tuck left the tour as a sign of solidarity after Monét X Change was removed for missing a stop to participate in the music video for Madonna Madonna Louise Ciccone ( ; born August 16, 1958) is an American singer, songwriter, record producer, and actress. Referred to as the "Queen of Pop", she has been recognized for her continual reinvention and versatility in music production, ...'s " God Control". Tour dates Notes References RuPaul's Drag Race Drag events {{LGBT-event-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Werq The World
The Werq the World tour is an ongoing tour featuring drag queens from ''RuPaul's Drag Race''. The tour, created by Brandon Voss, is produced by Voss Events in collaboration with VH1 and World of Wonder. It is known for its large-scale shows on stages with jumbotron screens, which give performances a concert-style feel. History Werq the World was forced to reschedule its October 2017 stop in Houston due to the devastation caused by Hurricane Harvey. The tour returned to that city on February 7, 2018, with the queens making a donation to the Montrose Center's LGBTQ Hurricane Harvey Relief Fund. The donation was matched by Voss Events. In May 2019, World of Wonder debuted ''Werq the World'', a 10-episode docuseries directed by Jasper Rischen. It presents behind-the-scenes looks at the lives of the performers who were on the 2018 European leg of the tour, with each episode profiling a different queen. A second season of the docuseries started streaming in June 2020. The spring ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Web Series
A web series (also known as webseries, short-form series, and web show) is a series of short scripted or non-scripted online videos, generally in episodic form, released on the Internet (i.e. World Wide Web), which first emerged in the late 1990s and became more prominent in the early 2000s. A single instance of a web series program can be called an episode or a webisode. The scale of a web series is small and a typical episode can be anywhere from three to fifteen minutes in length. Web series are distributed online on video sharing websites and apps, such as YouTube, Vimeo and TikTok, and can be watched on devices such as smartphones, tablets, desktops, laptops, and Smart TVs (or television sets connected to the Internet with a media streaming device). They can also be released on social media platforms. Because of the nature of the Internet, a web series may be interactive and immersive. Web series are classified as new media. Web series are different from streaming ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
