VIDEO: A Brief and Transformative Account of Queer History

Watch Fausto Fernós and Marc Felion from the Feast of Fun talking with me about my new book A Brief and Transformative Account of Queer History/Un breve y transformador relato de la historia queer, a collaboration with the artist Dave Buchen! Book available for sale at several bookstores in San Juan, Puerto Rico and online here.

Chicago-Rican Jíbaros Cooking Up a Storm with Lola von Miramar

How fun! Marc Felion and Fausto Fernós from the Feast of Fun had a blast cooking arroz con pollo (rice with chicken) with the ever charming Puerto Rican drag queen Lola von Miramar (that's me!)! Check out our video on YouTube here. You will learn a little bit about Lola's history, visit Larry La Fountain's apartment, and see Fausto and Marc prepare a variety of dishes, including a nice sautéed peas dish to accompany your main course. Make sure to tell your friends about this episode and about the Cooking with Drag Queens series (Season 1), which includes videos with Dixie Lynn Cartwright (how to make meatloaf), Trixie Mattel (tofu pad thai), Shea Couleé (pulled pork enchiladas with salsa verde sauce), Kim Chi (bibimbap), Trannika Rex (fried chicken fingers), and Darienne Lake (donut burgers)! Make sure to subscribe to the Feast of Fun YouTube channel: YouTube.com/FeastOfFun! And watch out for our upcoming Feast of Fun podcast where we spill the tea about the making of our arroz con pollo video! (FOF #2182 In the Kitchen with Lola von Miramar)

Cooking with Drag Queens Season one Premiering April 22!

Lola von Miramar presents Abolition of the Duck: A Literary Drag Cabaret

Please join us for a fun evening of multilingual literature, song, and dance at Aut Bar in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Featuring Lola von Miramar, Brian Antonio Garcia, Michael Parmelee, and friends performing in English, Spanish, and other magical tongues. Copies of Larry La Fountain's Abolición del pato will be available for sale. The delightful boys from the Feast of Fun podcast, Fausto Fernós and Marc Felion, will be in the audience! They will be filming for their web series Cooking with Drag Queens! EVENT IS FREE. Aut Bar is a full service bar and restaurant and there will be food and beverages available for sale.

See Facebook invite here.

Sunday, January 18, 2015 at 7:00pm
Aut Bar, 315 Braun Ct, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48104

Circuits of Trans Electronic Drag: Talk about Fausto Fernós at Northwestern Univ.

Talk by Larry La Fountain (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)

The Puerto Rican performance artist, podcaster and drag queen Fausto Fernós has been performing in drag since the early 1990s, when he started studying under Linda Montano at the University of Texas, Austin. He transformed his drag cabaret Feast of Fools, created in Chicago in 1998, into an award-winning podcast in 2005, now known as Feast of Fun. Fernós and his partner Marc Felion have recorded over 1,750 hour-long shows, many with recurrent guest visitors. The show regularly features drag queens and trans women and is accompanied by extensive drag video production and occasional live drag appearances in Chicago. Numerous American drag and trans pioneers and stars such as Holly Woodlawn, Lady Bunny, Hedda Lettuce, Coco Peru, RuPaul, Kate Bornstein, and Heklina have been interviewed, as well as more recent drag celebrities such as many of the contestants on RuPaul’s Drag Race. In this presentation I discuss the drag and performance career of Fernós and historicize drag and trans presence on the Feast of Fun. I also analyze the transformation from public access TV programs and live shows to podcasts and YouTube/Internet videos; map the complex intersections between drag and trans experience; and discuss the political use of technology and its intersection with live and recorded performance, as projects destined to promote Latina/o and LGBT acceptance and visibility in the U.S. and abroad.

Kresge 2-301
Northwestern University
1880 Campus Drive
Evanston, IL 60208

CONTACT: Joanna V. Maravilla-Cano +1 847 467 3980
joanna@northwestern.edu

Sponsored by the Latina & Latino Studies Program, the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, and the Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities.

Facebook event here.

Delicious coquito!

A new episode of the ever popular Cooking with Drag Queens: How to Make Coquito! With the glamorous Lola von Miramar and her friends Saltina Obama Bouvier and Daphne Dumount! Brought to you by the Feast of Fun.

Country Queen, City Queen (with the Feast of Fun)

Listen to this fab Feast of Fun podcast in which Larry La Fountain chats away with the fabulous Fausto Fernós and Marc Felion about national and international lesbian and gay migration to large cities and about the uber-controversial Puerto Rican politician Roberto Arango (of recent sex-scandal infamy) and the cross-dressing Mexican-American boxer Oscar de la Hoya! (FOF #1433, posted September 2, 2011)

Lola von Miramar Takes Over the World

Curious about what Miss Lola von Miramar has been upto lately? Listen to this fabulous interview on the Feast of Fun podcast! Sure to make you smile and laugh. With Larry La Fountain, Fausto Fernós, and Marc Felion, recorded in Ann Arbor, Michigan! (FOF #1431, posted August 25, 2011)

Cooking with Drag Queens: How to Make Tostones!

The long awaited Feast of Fun tostones video is finally here! Hope you have fun! ¡Ojalá que lo disfruten!

If you just can't get enough, here is my "Behind the Scenes" video:



And how to forget our zany "How to Make Tostones" preview video!

Lola Does Saugatuck, Michigan, with the Feast of Fun!

Lola von Miramar had the most wonderful time with her friends Fausto Fernós and Marc Felion of the Feast of Fun last weekend in Saugatuck, Michigan! Listen to this podcast in which we talk about our exploits, particularly our experience attending a cabaret show by the extraordinary Miss Coco Peru! (See my review here.)

Here's a photo of me with the lovely Miss Coco!



For more photos go here!

We also recorded some videos:


Greetings from Saugatuck


Monarch Butterfly Feeding from a Flower


Larry Is Mad at Himself