The St. Paddy's edition was quite choice with Ms. Martini doing the Saint right and Velocity's opening wringing a lot of exclamations from the crowd.
A lot of the performances at Badass really blur the stodgy boundaries between burlesque, porn, BDSM and art, which to me is really refreshing to see. The results, a really different kind of pleasure, never leave me feeling like so much performance does -that I could have just stayed home and turned on a teevee to see some fluff. And there aren't too many places left where small doses of kink and sleaze get to be appreciated out in the open.