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Photo Credit: Scott Shuster As I entered the LVBC studio, I saw about 15 female students filling up the seats as New York City's Jo Weldon lectured. The topic they came to learn was two-fold. One: How to Be Prepared for Press, Producers, and Festival Applications was available during the first segment and Two: Striptease Expertise for the latter half which is billed as Weldon's signature class. An amazingly low rate of $30 was asked for the two classes combined, or $20 taken separately. The award-winning founder of the New York School of Burlesque, Weldon has written the first known 'how to' book on Burlesque entitled The Burlesque Handbook [HarperCollins/ItBooks 2010]. Widely recognized as a leading expert in today's modern world of Strip Tease and Burlesque, this is Weldon's first time teaching at any Vegas studio. The students were varied: young, old, tall, thin, heavy, casual, to fixed-up pin-ups, just proving Burlesque and Weldon's w

A Debut Album Event Review of Melody Sweets  "Burlesque in the Black" The highly anticipated debut album show was built up with adverts in Las Vegas over several weeks and each major paper in town had done their preview. The star had just released her debut album of originals after well over a year of success as the headliner in what has been voted "Best Show" many times over. The show is a turn-of-the century tribute with live singing and strip tease by Sweets, and world-class acrobatics at-close-range, combined with wild and inappropriate humor by Host the Gazillionaire and Side-kick Sock Puppet Queen Penny Pibbets. Flesh and skill are what holds the show together as well as more up-close views of  aerials than any Cirque show ever offered. The unabashed sexiness that Sweets exudes for Absinthe is obviously the natural resting place for the artist in her own original music. The release party and show began with a video intro where co-star

Ali Shaheed Muhammad of A Tribe Called Quest  at Body English Nightclub Afterhours Hard Rock Hotel Photo by Erik Kabik The Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Hosted the AVN Awards Show Jesse Jane, Kayden Kross, Riley Steele, Stoya, Selena Rose, Brett Rossi, Emily Addison and Taylor Vixen were some of those on hand. The AVN Awards Show celebrated its 30th Anniversary. Asa Akiraand and Jesse Jane hosted the night and gave out awards including “Best Amateur Release,” “Best Art Direction,” “Best Makeup”. Following the awards, stars flooded Hard Rock Hotel & Casino’s nightclubs where they drank and danced the night away. All the clubs were hoppin' and a special appearance by Ali Shaheed Muhammad of A Tribe Called Quest was only one of the highlights of the festivities. Melody Sweets Releases Music Video Premier via Vegas Seven Absinthe star and singer Melody Sweets just through her album release party and local rag Vegas Seven has launched her world premier music v

I encountered Mark Giovo while on assignment photographing Ann Marie's 90th birthday party at the world famous old style Vegas Italian restaurant "Casa Di Amore". The unassuming restaurant is hidden way off-strip on East Tropicana. The 150 or so capacity dinner house has a small stage and sound system as well as more seating at the bar, where you can also take in dinner. This particular night was full of about 100 guests for the birthday party, and there was also a just-married couple who chose to spend their night at Casa Di Amore. I was so busy with the party photography that only part of me was focused on the singer on stage backed by the house drummer Clyde Dual and keyboardist Ronnie Payne. The singer in question? Mark Giovi. Mark is disabled, (his left arm is shorter than his right) but you only notice it for about the first 15 seconds of seeing him. After that, all you'll ever notice is his boyish good looks (at age 44) and that voice. Possessing th

We're hard at work editing and finalizing the amazing 25 or so articles and interviews for the Best of Frankie Tease Magazine Vol. 2 . Do us one favor and tell all your friends about the candid and spectacular interviews with today's stage stars who've come through Vegas during July - Dec. of 2012, which will be in the book. What a half year it's been! Here is a couple teaser photos from the multi-part Reverend Horton Heat interview and show review, which will be featured in the new eBook "Best of Frankie Tease Magazine Vol.2". Enjoy, and thanks for your understanding as we scurry to deadline. The Reverend Horton Heat is a trio out of Dallas, Texas, that tours through the U.S. constantly. They play all types of music, but mainly Rockabilly. Photo by Frankie Tease. Pictured: L- Jim Heath (aka Reverend Horton Heat), C- Scott Churilla, R- Jimbo Wallace.

Melody Sweets has had music featured on MTV, VH1, A&E and National Geographic on hit shows such as Celebrity Fit Club and PUNK’D. She is also the first performer in the history of burlesque to have produced, written and starred in her own music video for “Slice of Heaven.” A lover of the arts, Melody Sweets has had the privilege of performing for and collaborating with such acclaimed artists including STING, Björk, Moby, Alice Cooper, The Bravery, Marc Jacobs, Fergie of the Black Eyed Peas, Adriana Lima and Harvey Keitel." Since 2011 fans and tourists in Vegas have enjoyed the starring role Melody Sweets plays in the top-notch production Absinthe. As promised during my 2012 interview with her (in Best of Frankie Tease Magazine Vol.1 eBook) the star has brought an entire album of her original brand of music to us entitled "Burlesque in the Black" . Enchanted by her voice and style, many fanatic fans have been waiting more than a year as the artist worked t