{"id":38984,"date":"2016-09-19T20:59:33","date_gmt":"2016-09-20T00:59:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/?p=38984"},"modified":"2016-09-19T20:59:33","modified_gmt":"2016-09-20T00:59:33","slug":"nyc-drag-palace-lips-celebrates-20-years-of-doin-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/?p=38984","title":{"rendered":"NYC Drag Palace &#8220;Lips&#8221; Celebrates 20 Years of Doin&#8217; Shows!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/?attachment_id=38992\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-38992\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-38992\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/IMG_5680-e1474329209318-560x452.jpg\" alt=\"img_5680\" width=\"560\" height=\"452\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/IMG_5680-e1474329209318-560x452.jpg 560w, https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/IMG_5680-e1474329209318.jpg 650w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Many-a-queen has gotten her start at the iconic <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lipsnyc.com\/\"><strong>Lips<\/strong><\/a> restaurant\/drag revue in NYC, including <em>RuPaul&#8217;s Drag Race<\/em> winner <strong>Violet Chachki, <a href=\"http:\/\/jessevolt.com\/\">Jesse Volt <\/a><\/strong>(above),<strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/dalitanyc\/\">Gusty Winds<\/a><\/strong>,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/frankiecocktailfioravonti\"><strong> Frankie Cocktail<\/strong><\/a>, and<strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/evangeline.lawrence?fref=ts\">Evangeline Lawrence<\/a><\/strong>&#8230;and there&#8217;s been lots of cheater brands that have <em>tried<\/em> to cash-in on their success. But there&#8217;s nothing like the original\u00a0drag show palace, restaurant and dining extravaganza (and hen party haven). It all started as one small restaurant in the West Village (currently located on E. 56th St) that looked like the inside of a drag queen\u2019s jewelry box&#8230;now you can lick your lips as well in\u00a0Atlanta, Fort Lauderdale, San Diego and Chicago. Next month is their 20th anniversary, and all the girls (including many of the originals) will be coming out to show love for the legendary venue that launched their careers, and party to the groovy tunes of DJ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/official_lady_bunny\/\"><strong>Lady Bunny<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWe\u2019re not surprised by the enormous success of Lips,\u201d explains <strong>Yvonne\u00a0Lame<\/strong>\u2019,\u00a0 the visionary who co-founded NYC&#8217;s only true LaCage Drag Show along with investors <strong>Michael Pacca<\/strong>, <strong>Paul Galluccio<\/strong> and <strong>Robert DeBenedictis<\/strong>.\u00a0 \u201cFans love the uniqueness of the Lips experience.\u00a0 We are more than a stage show because our performers are the waitresses too.\u00a0 The interaction is unparalleled, the access unequaled, and that&#8217;s what makes Lips special.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TiXmG137PLY\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many-a-queen has gotten her start at the iconic Lips restaurant\/drag revue in NYC, including RuPaul&#8217;s Drag Race winner Violet Chachki, Jesse Volt (above),\u00a0Gusty Winds, Frankie Cocktail, and\u00a0Evangeline Lawrence&#8230;and there&#8217;s been lots of cheater brands that have tried to cash-in on their success. But there&#8217;s nothing like the original\u00a0drag show palace, restaurant and dining extravaganza (and [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[6710,1543,517,6714,6713,6712,6711,6587,6716,58,6717,6718,4414,6715],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38984"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38984"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38995,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38984\/revisions\/38995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}