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...picked on, you keep your mouth shut. Yes, this is bingo, the game of blue-haired grandmas and church-basement fundraisers, but a drag queen is a drag queen, and if in between N-36 and I-18 your table is being rowdy, she'll be rowdy right back. "Straight guys, calm down, this isn't Bennigan's," sassed Ginger, a short blonde in a black dress slit up to the waist, on a recent Wednesday night. My friends and I were at Lips, a Manhattan restaurant that turns into a bingo parlor midweek with drag queens - those over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Drag Queens Took Over Bingo | 5/2/2007 | See Source »

...Ginger took turns calling numbers with Yvonne, the establishment's owner, who in a short straight wig and long velvet jacket, had a Louise Brooks vibe - a sharp contrast to the beehive hairdos and animal-print outfits of Lips' other waitresses, who looked to have come straight from the set of a John Waters movie. Ginger and Yvonne's cutting back-and-forth of mostly unprintable comments about Clay Aiken, Michael Jackson, and Weight Watchers spared neither each other nor the bingo players. When the first winner went to the front of the room to get her card verified...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Drag Queens Took Over Bingo | 5/2/2007 | See Source »

...Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, drag queens dressed as nuns, hosted the Brigade's first gay bingo (the game's original name), and the line wrapped around the block. The charity quickly scheduled more. In the beginning, the crowd was almost entirely gay, but slowly straight people started showing up - good news for the Brigade, now part of the Lifelong AIDS Alliance, which was eager to expand its donor base...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Drag Queens Took Over Bingo | 5/2/2007 | See Source »

...Crimson (18-18) took its third straight from the Huskies (21-14), the 2007 Beanpot champs, thanks especially to contributions from three of its six seniors. Senior Jason Brown, getting a rare start, held the potent Northeastern offense to three runs in 5 1/3 innings, and classmates Brendan Byrne and Andrew Casey contributed two hits apiece in what was likely their final collegiate outing—as of press time, Harvard was still trying to schedule an additional non-conference matchup for some time this week...

Author: By Jonathan Lehman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Crimson Wins In Season Finale | 5/1/2007 | See Source »

After being shut down by junior starter Shelly Madick for twelve straight innings, Dartmouth got something done off her, just as it looked like its postseason hopes would...

Author: By Ted Kirby, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Earns Championship Date | 5/1/2007 | See Source »

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