Because this planet's the only one we've got for the time being, you can never really celebrate Earth Day enough. But there's no rule that says you have to be all self-righteous and earnest or even new-agey about paying homage to Gaia. It's okay to have fun, too, and that's the reason for tonight's installment of Voodoo Comedy Playhouse's bimonthly French Quarter Follies burlesque show, which will be dedicated to Mother Earth and all her earthy faeries, sprites and wood creatures.

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T.L. Gallegos

Cora Vette gets a little manic for Reefer Mania.

There are a lot of marijuana-related goings-on tomorrow, what with it being 4/20 and all, but this event looks like a definite hit. Burlycute, the burlesque production company run by Cora Vette (aka Reyna Von Vett), happens to be booked on the third Friday of every month at Bar Standard, and Vette also happens to have put together a marijuana-related show called Reefer Mania a couple of years ago. So the stars were definitely aligned for the third edition of the pot-burlesque extravaganza, which is almost entirely new this year.

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For the third year running, burlesque queen Cora Vette (aka Reyna Von Vett) is hosting the Too Sexy for the Stock Show burlesque extravaganza to provide a counterbalance to all that good, clean, wholesome fun.

Photographer Emily Driskill brought back these photos from the January 11 show at Bar Standard. (There's a second show on Wednesday, January 18.) If you're feeling NSFW'y, scroll down for photos. Yeehaw!

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T.L. Gallegos

Don't mind Ms. P. Cocque over there on the left ...

Burlesque emcee Cora Vette has been shaking up Denver with her Burlycute darlings for some time now, hosting shows at an array of locations and featuring stripping zombies, a marijuana-centric show and this season's Naughty Noel. But she's got a new idea now: Weekly boylesque nights at the Compound, aptly dubbed "Cora Vette's Hot Rods." The inaugural run launches on Sunday, and as a gift to our readers, Cora was kind enough to share some serious eye candy with us. (Everyone, say "thank you" to Cora.)

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Queen of Burlesque 2010 Coco Lectric

How does a burlesque emcee extraordinaire celebrate her birthday? If you're Cora Vette -- aka Reyna Von Vett -- then you bring in Coco Lectric, the star of the Texas burlesque scene (and the 2010 Queen of Burlesque), a dusky beauty whose red-feather-boa routine turned the heads of the judges at the New Orleans Burlesque Festival. "This is going to be the fan-danciest, most gorgeous show we've done," notes Vette.

Coco Lectric will stick around town to teach a class on Friday, too. For those who need a little more incentive, there's a larger image of the divine Coco below -- wearing much less than that gorgeous gold gown.

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T.L. Gallegos

Cora Vette

Like a zombie from the grave, a good burlesque emcee is impossible to keep down, and Cora Vette is a superb burlesque emcee. So it was inevitable that she'd be bringing back last year's smash hit Zombielesque! for another run. Changing locations from Bender's Tavern to Bar Standard -- and dates from once-a-month-on-Thursday to every-week-on-Wednesday -- the inaugural Humpday Burlesque last week brought in the biggest crowd Burlycute has ever seen. (See the slide show here.)

"It was awesome," Vette confirms. And the next two shows are bound to be even more awesome.

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Cora Vette. Rawr!

Bender's has been a good home to the BurlyCute crew on and off for the past several years -- but there are big changes ahead for the burlesque darlings headed by emcee and chanteuse Cora Vette (aka Reyna Von Vett). Instead of their monthly Thursday-night shows at Bender's, the crew is moving to weekly Wednesday nights at Bar Standard for the appropriately named "Cora Vette's Humpday Burlesque Show!"

The opening night for this shift is October 12; although there will be themes every month, the shows will be different each week. Vivienne VaVoom, Eve Harmony, Lily D'Lovely and Ms. P. Cocque will shed their clothes weekly, and there will also be special burlesque and boylesque guest stars every week.

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By now, you've no doubt seen the cover of Jenn Wohletz's Kink of the Jungle: A field guide to Denver's wild life feature story -- and have admired the lovely (and startled!) Satine LaChance. This is actually the third time photographer Jim Narcy, who took the photo, has submitted an image of LaChance for the cover (you could also have seen her as the "Refer Madness" nurse on March 11, 2010, or the "Hot Tomato" gardener on April 30, 2009). We caught up with LaChance to ask her about what (if anything) has changed about life since her face has been scattered across the city -- and (important!) where we can see her perform her burlesque.

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T.L. Gallegos

Burlesque and show tunes: Seems like a natural fit, so it's kind of surprising that tonight's premiere of Boobs Over Broadway is the first show-tunes-burlesque-extravaganza we've heard of. But Reyna Von Vett (aka Cora Vette) says this show has been a long time in the making.

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BurlyCute's Cora Vette will perform tonight at Bender's.

BurlyCute's Cora Vette has heard a lot of misconceptions about burlesque. While some think of it simply as "that stripping stuff," others are totally clueless to the fact that it involves nudity, expecting the tame pop star antics of Christina Aguilera and Cher in the misleadingly titled film Burlesque. In advance of "BurlyCute's Most Wanted" and the 2012 Colorado Burlesque Calendar Release Party tonight at Bender's Tavern, we caught up with Ms. Vette to debunk some misguided notions about burlesque by telling us five things you may not know about the art of the tease.

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