Dan Collins

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• Posted Interview: Bebe from RuPaul's Drag Race to LAist
  With so many fantastic queens competing to be the winner of RuPaul's Drag Race, very few fans expected BeBe Zaraha Benet, the Minneapolis queen born in Cameroon, to beat out experienced veterans of runways, cabarets, and the Vegas stage to take the throne. BeBe speaks to us from a phone at the airport as she and her manager dash to Los Angeles for tonight's Real Fruit tour stop at the Eleven.
• Posted Interview: Tammie Brown of RuPaul's Drag Race to LAist
  Tammie Brown was eliminated in episode 2 of “RuPaul’s Drag Race,” but that didn’t stop her from turning sour grapes into the sweet champagne of success. She will be performing alongside Drag Race winner BeBe Zahara Benet at tonight’s Real Fruit Tour stop at Eleven Restaurant and Bar.
• Posted This Valentine's Day, the Pink Underwear Group says 'Drink Up!' to LAist
  In the wake of the violence against women in Mangalore, India two weeks ago, where single women out for a nice night were attacked by members of an unapologetically reactionary group called the Sri Ram Sena, an organization called "A Consortium of Pub-going, Loose and Forward Women" based in New Delhi did the only logical thing they could do to retaliate--form a Facebook group, and call for all Indian women, and women all around...
• Commented on AP Alleges Iconic Shepard Fairey Poster Infringes Copyright
  P.S. John Williams' ripping off Mahler shouldn't get him sued, either, but it does make him a crappy composer. Whereas the 1812 Overture, which copies directly a snippet of the Bastillion, is making a deliberate reference and in effect making...
• Commented on AP Alleges Iconic Shepard Fairey Poster Infringes Copyright
  IMHO, Fairey has a nasty history of making tons of money from other people's art and designs. I don't necessarily think he broke the law here, but he's not a hero and he's not much of an artist. Artist Mark...