drag
What a Drag! Another open mic?
Café Kino
28 Jan 2026
House of Boussé is a trans-forward drag house and they have an open mic in Café Kino that is strange, wonderful, inscrutable, delightful. It feels a little bit culty but like, in a good way.
Drag can be a funny thing to try to define. The open mic is for any short form performance art by trans+ artists. I’ve seen comedy, music, horror, historical, and genre-defining what-is-its on What a Drag’s small stage and personally, I’m ready for more.
Last Wednesday of the month, check at:
What a Drag! (IG)
Café Kino is at:
Accessibility note: the performance is in the basement down some steep steps.
Recommended if you like:
- Drag
- Trans rights AND trans wrongs
- In-jokes
Hairspray
2007
19 Jan 2026
watched
Fun watch! Some cool songs, mood-elevating dance scenes, and some real stars in “what are you doing here?” parts, who actually pull it all together.
We have Christopher Walken as a joke-shop owner dad, Michelle Pfeiffer as the evil (former beauty) queen and, yeah, John Travolta in drag?
If you search for “Travolta Hairspray” google suggests asking why’d he do it? And I guess that was sort of my question. He’s a weird pick, for sure. And it’s for sure a brave move for him. But the really surprising bit is that he kinda knocks it out of the park!? Kinda!?
My favourite scene was her and Christopher Walken singing about how much they love each other even though they’re a pair of old farts. Actually touching, but then I’m an old fart.
The Guardian had a two star review, proving once and for all they’re a bunch of fuddy-duddies who hate fun.
Recommended if you like:
- That gay shit (in that it's very camp, there’s no gay characters)
- Audio-visual Caffeine
- Children’s book level civil rights stories