“The Variety Show That Doesn’t Try Too Hard!”

This month’s theme:  BITCH!

Featuring JACKIE BEAT, MUFFY BOLDING, NADYA GINSBURG, SELENE LUNA & MORE!

Tuesday, January 11 @ 8 PM at The Cavern Club Celebrity Theater conveniently located below Casita del Campo!

FOR TIX or MORE INFO: www.Acteva.com/go/JackieBeat

Help “Selene’s Hollywood Confidential” by visiting this link:http://kck.st/8XeFzo

• $2,456-PLEDGED OF $5,000 GOAL
• 26-DAYS TO GO

If 2543 peeps donated $1 (that’s 4 quarters!), I’d reach my goal!

video by John T. Stapleton

NYC see you in September!

Friday, September 10 at Bergdorf Goodman’s Fashion’s Night Out http://fashionsnightout.com/

I’ll be modeling from 7-10PM in one of Bergdorf Goodman’s legendary window displays designed by Douglas Little of http://www.dlcompany.com/ (GASP!)

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Saturday, September 11, 8PM: The Laurie Beechman Theatre

Selene Luna: Dont Sweat The Small Stuff

Debuting my one woman show in the Big Apple!

411 & TIX http://www.spincyclenyc.com/index.php/liveperformances/1-live-performances/123-selene

Back to LA

Tuesday, September 21, 8PM: Cavern Club Celebrity Theater, Los Angeles

Jackie Beat’s “Blah Blah Blah”

The variety show that doesn’t try too hard. This month’s theme: “Shit Storm!” (Delightful songs and stories about poop!) starring Jackie Beat, Billy Butler, Fever Jones, Selene Luna & Alec Mapa! With a special videos by Margaret Cho and NYC drag darling Sherry Vine!

TIX: www.Acteva.com/go/JackieBeat

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Tuesday, Oct. 05, 8PM:  Cavern Club Celebrity Theater, Los Angeles

“Selene’s Hollywood Confidential”

SELENE LUNA hosts comedy superstars JACKIE BEAT, NADYA GINSBURG, MARIO DIAZ & JONNY MCGOVERN The Gay Pimp, plus a special celebrity guest!

TIX: http://www.acteva.com/go/selene_luna

Everything you need to know about “Selene’s Hollywood Confidential” here: http://kck.st/8XeFzo

Frustrated with Hollywood’s notorious glass ceiling, I am not waiting for The Man to knock on my door.  I seek your support to raise funds to produce my own three-part online Soap Opera, “Selene’s Hollywood Confidential”, starring my favorite showbiz misfits Jackie Beat, Mario Diaz, Nadya Ginsburg, yours truly, plus celebrity guests.

I am passionately committed to the art of entertainment, but it is tougher than it looks!  Showbiz ain’t all glamour, one-minute I’m grocery shopping at the 99¢ Store, the next, strutting down the red carpet.  Showbiz is a constant state of limbo that’s enough to drive anyone crazy.  After a decade plus of showbiz experience and priceless press clippings, I still can’t catch a break.  Help me take-on Hollywood on my terms!

With a combined total of 7000+ Facebook & Twitter Friends, a $1.25 tip from 4000 Friends would be all I need to produce “Selene’s Hollywood Confidential”, that’s cheaper than one cocktail…or Beer Bust!

Learn about the Soap & how you can help!
“Selene’s Hollywood Confidential”
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/SeleneLuna/selenes-hollywood-confidential-an-online-soap?ref=users

If you are planning on celebrating Memorial Day by seeing “Sex and the City 2″ I would like you to please rethink your plans. I saw it yesterday at The Grove and — SPOILER ALERT! — the 2 in the title is just too nail-on-the-head. You know, Number Two — like poop? Yes, this movie is shit.

If you are thinking about seeing the very hunky Jake Jizz-in-hole in “The Prince of Persia”, don’t bother. Though I have not seen it, this is obviously nothing more than a live-action gay remake of Disney’s “Aladdin”. Skip it.

Marmaduke? More like Make Ya’ Puke! No talking dogs, please. And speaking of talking dogs, did I mention you should skip “Sex and the City 2″?

Okay, so now it’s time to tell you what you SHOULD do this weekend… Go see a GREAT live show! BORN TO BE ALIVE is a delightful emotional rollercoaster that will make you laugh, make you cry and make you leave the theater satisfied that you are perfect just the way you are! NO ONE LEAVES “SEX AND THE CITY” FEELING GOOD ABOUT THEMSELVES, TRUST ME!

Former burlesque queen and current comic dynamo, Selene Luna, takes us on a tumultuous trip through her hilarious and heartbreaking life — from Tijuana to West Hollywood. The entire show takes place “back stage” as Ms. Luna dishes the dirt and gives us a gritty but glamorous glimpse of the back of the Hollywood sign while preparing to go on stage. The wigs and costumes are stunning, but what really leaves one breathless is Selene’s brutal honesty.

This show has EVERYTHING I look for in an evening of entertainment: Laughter, tears, sequins, disco music and wigs a plenty! Wigs make everything better. Okay, except Jello.

So run, don’t walk, to see BORN TO BE ALIVE! You will thank me.

WHEN: May 28, 29, 30; June 4, 11, 12, 13, 18, 20, 25, 26, 27
Fridays & Saturdays at 8 p.m. / Sundays at 7 p.m.

TICKETS: General Admission: $20
Available on-line at www.lagaycenter.org / boxoffice or call 323-860-7300

Free parking!

The L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center’s Lily Tomlin/Jane Wagner Cultural Arts Center Presents:
BORN TO BE ALIVE
Starring SELENE LUNA
Written by John T. Stapleton and Selene Luna
Directed by DERICK LASALLA
The Davidson/Valentini Theatre
May 28-June 27, 2010
Benefiting the L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center

photo by Tim Palen

Original review  link: http://www.facebook.com/jackie.beat?ref=ts#!/note.php?note_id=10150182296875103&id=511858287&ref=mf

Not being accepted by their own families is a primary social challenge for young lesbian, gay, bisexual & transgender (LGBT) kids.  I was fortunate to have been raised by very loving, open-minded queer-friendly parents.  Growing up, many of my gay friends would find solace and nurturing from my parents, but sadly, an overwhelming number of LGBT youth don’t even have friends to turn to.  Many times, they are ostracized and kicked-out of their homes by their own parents, after they come out of the closet.  As a result, these kids are left to fend for themselves on the streets compromising their health, education, safety, and future.

I have always been accepted and embraced by the gay community and now it’s my turn to give back by donating proceeds of my new show opening Memorial Day Weekend:

The L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center’s Lily Tomlin/Jane Wagner Cultural Arts Center Presents:

BORN TO BE ALIVE

Starring SELENE LUNA

Written by Selene Luna and John T. Stapleton

Directed by DERICK LASALLA

Benefiting the L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center

OPENS MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND:
May 28th – May 30th
THE DAVIDSON/VALENTINI THEATRE
Village at Ed Gould Plaza
1125 N. McCadden Pl.
Los Angeles, CA 90038
(FREE PARKING)

Fridays & Saturdays at 8 p.m.
Sundays, at 7 p.m.
May 28-29-30;
June 4, 11, 12, 13, 18, 20, 25, 26 & 27

TICKETS:       General Admission: $20

Available on-line at www.lagaycenter.org/boxoffice or call 323-860-7300

Your support will make a difference in many young lives.  Proceeds from Born to Be Alive will help provide LGBT youth with welcoming safe shelter, free hot meals, fresh clothes, warm showers, help with getting their GED, jobs and stable housing.

I wouldn’t be offended if you felt inclined to forward or repost.

With much appreciation,
Selene

INQUIRES
Contact: Jon Imparato
Artistic Director, Lily Tomlin/Jane Wagner Cultural Arts Center
L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center
323-860-7324  jimparato@lagaycenter.org

photo by Tim Palen

WHAT:           BORN TO BE ALIVE

Starring SELENE LUNA
Written by Selene Luna and John T. Stapleton
Directed by Derick LaSalla

Produced by Jon Imparato for the Lily Tomlin/Jane Wagner Cultural Arts Center

WHERE: The Davidson/Valentini Theatre

L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center
The Village at Ed Gould Plaza
1125 N. McCadden Place, Los Angeles 90038
(one block east of Highland, just north of Santa Monica Blvd.)

Free parking

WHEN: May 28, 29, 30; June 4, 11, 12, 13, 18, 20, 25, 26, 27
Fridays & Saturdays at 8 p.m. / Sundays at 7 p.m.

TICKETS: General Admission: $20
Available on-line at www.lagaycenter.org/boxoffice or call 323-860-7300

Contact: Jon Imparato
Artistic Director, Lily Tomlin/Jane Wagner Cultural Arts Center
L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center
323-860-7324  jimparato@lagaycenter.org

The L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center’s Lily Tomlin/Jane Wagner Cultural Arts Center Presents:

BORN TO BE ALIVE

Starring SELENE LUNA
Written by Selene Luna and John T. Stapleton
Directed by DERICK LASALLA
The Davidson/Valentini Theatre
May 28-June 27, 2010
Benefiting the L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center

Los Angeles, CA, Tuesday, April 27, 2010– Selene Luna’s story is unlike anything being presented on stage today. The diminutive actress/writer/burlesque artist/stand-up comic/fashion model/activist has faced more obstacles than most as a woman born a little person who emigrated from Mexico to the U.S. with her family when she was just three years old. Confronting and overcoming multiple levels of discrimination, the Logo Award nominee has become one of the hottest members of Hollywood’s “eccentric artist community” and has crossed over into mainstream film, television, theatre and the print fashion world.

Luna is returning to the stage with a brand-new, one-person play, Born to Be Alive, which she has written especially for the L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center’s Davidson/Valentini Theatre. The show premieres on May 28, beginning a month-long run. Aspects of Luna’s improbable odyssey have been explored in her previous plays, but Born to Be Alive is different.

“I’ve evolved so much as a writer and performer,” Luna explains, “and I’ve also become much more willing to be open and vulnerable. This will be my most honest show ever, as well as my happiest and funniest.”

It’s also the first time she’s had the support of a director (Derick LaSalla) and production team. The luxury of focusing exclusively on the creative elements of the show gives Luna the ability to go places she’s never touched before.

A veteran of more than 15 years on stage, Luna first became well known performing in burlesque. While working as a magician’s assistant, she befriended the women in The Velvet Hammer Burlesque, a groundbreaking troupe that single-handedly revived the neglected art form in the early 1990s. One day their creative director asked Luna to join them on stage.

“I thought, ‘What, are you crazy?’ ” says Luna. “But fairly quickly I decided I was up for a challenge! I wound up touring with them for years.” At the time, she was the only little person in the business; she became a sensation, touring the U.S., Europe and Canada.

After a decade on the road, “I made a public announcement that I was hanging up my pasties,” Selene laughs. “But, like Barbra Streisand, I’ll come back for the right price!”

While with The Velvet Hammer, Luna met Margaret Cho, now one of her best friends, who later invited her to be part of Cho’s 2007 burlesque review, The Sensuous Woman, and to join the cast of VH1’s The Cho Show. Luna has amassed an impressive list of stage, film and television credits—everything from music videos for Madonna to the feature film My Bloody Valentine 3D.

For more information, log onto www.seleneluna.com and www.facebook.com/officialseleneluna

Net proceeds from this production benefit the Center’s broad array of services for the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community.

Tues, APRIL 20^th
Doors 8:00pm
Showtime 8:30pm

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“Dirty Mouths”

Comedy trial blazers break it down with the sharpest tongues in town!

• NO painful stand-up

• NO drink minimum

Wednesday, April 21, 2010
DOOR: 8:00pm
SHOW: 8:30pm

PRESALE $10/DOOR $13
http://www.acteva.com/go/Selene_Luna

(RESERVE today, expected to sell-out)

DIRTY MOUTHS hosted by Selene Luna

A night of powerhouse stand-up
jackie BEAT
alec MAPA
nadya GINSBURG
sam PANCAKE
selene LUNA

Cavern Club Celebrity Theater
at Casita del Campo Restaurant
1920 Hyperion Ave. Silverlake, CA 90027
Restaurant: (323)662-4255
www.cavernclubtheater.com

Superstar line-up 411:
http://www.jackiebeatrules.com/
http://www.alecmapa.com/
http://nadyaginsburg.com/
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0659143/
http://seleneluna.com/

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“Come Out Laughing” at the Long Beach Laugh Factory

Wednesday, April 28^th
Showtime 8:00pm

The Laugh Factory
www.laughfactory.com
151 South Pine Avenue
Long Beach, CA 90802
(562) 495-2844

We had eight years of
Bush and Cheney, but now you get mad!

You didn’t get mad when
the Supreme Court stopped a legal recount and appointed a
President.You didn’t get mad when Cheney allowed Energy company officials to dictate energy policy.You didn’t get mad when a covert CIA operative got ousted.

You didn’t get mad when
the Patriot Act got passed..

You didn’t get mad when
we illegally invaded a country that posed no threat to us.

You didn’t get mad when
we spent over 600 billion(and counting) on said illegal war.

You didn’t get mad when
over 10 billion dollars just disappeared in Iraq.

You didn’t get mad when
you found out we were torturing people.

You didn’t get mad when
the government was illegally wiretapping Americans.

You didn’t get mad when
we didn’t catch Bin Laden.

You didn’t get mad when
you saw the horrible conditions at Walter Reed.

You didn’t get mad when
we let a major US city drown.

You didn’t get mad when
we gave a 900 billion tax break to the rich.

You didn’t get mad
when, using reconciliation; a trillion dollars of our tax dollars were redirected to insurance companies for Medicare Advantage which cost over 20 percent more for basically the same services that Medicare provides.

You didn’t get mad when
the deficit hit the trillion dollar mark, and our debt hit the thirteen trillion dollar mark.

You finally got mad
when the government decided that people in America deserved the right to see a doctor if they are sick. Yes, illegal wars, lies, corruption, torture, stealing your tax dollars to make the rich richer, are all okay with you, but helping other Americans… oh hell no.

AND NOW YOU’RE MAD!

Official Site: http://seleneluna.com/

TWITTER: http://twitter.com/seleneluna

FaceBook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Selene-Luna/25159894577?ref=ts

BLOG: http://seleneluna.wordpress.com/

Wednesday, April 21, 2010
DOOR: 8:00pm
SHOW: 8:30pm

“Dirty Mouths”

Comedy trial blazers break it down with the sharpest tongues in town!
cheap booze
NO painful stand-up

PRESALE $10 http://www.acteva.com/go/Selene_Luna
DOOR $13

DIRTY MOUTHS
hosted by Selene Luna

A night of powerhouse stand-up
jackie BEAT
alec MAPA
nadya GINSBURG
sam PANCAKE
selene LUNA

Cavern Club Celebrity Theater
at Casita del Campo Restaurant
1920 Hyperion Ave. Silverlake, CA 90027
Restaurant: (323)662-4255
www.cavernclubtheater.com

Superstar line-up 411:

• http://www.jackiebeatrules.com/
• http://www.alecmapa.com/
• http://nadyaginsburg.com/
• http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0659143/
• http://seleneluna.com/

Wednesday, April 28th

Opening for Ian Harvie at the Long Beach Laugh Factory

The Laugh Factory
www.laughfactory.com
151 South Pine Avenue
Long Beach, CA 90802
(562) 495-2844

More info coming soon!

AUSTIN, TEXAS:

Selene Luna Headlining…”The 4th Annual Ladies Are Funny Festival”

Saturday, MAY 8, 2010
11PM – SHOW

The Salvage Vanguard Theater
2803 Manor Rd
Austin, TX 78722
http://laff.austinimprov.com

I’ll be performing excerpts from my new One Woman Show, “Born to Be Alive”, opens in Los Angeles May 27th

TICKETS
a) ONLINE: On sale now at laff2010.eventbrite.com
b) IN PERSON: at the door before the show. Caution: show may sell out due to extreme awesomeness.

Price: $10 per show

NEW YORK CITY:

Life doesn’t get any better than performing with my best friends!

May 19-22, 2010

“WHATEVER HAPPENED TO BUSTY JANE?”

A new play by Jackie Beat

The Laurie Beechman Theater, NYC
http://www.beechmantheatre.com/beech/index.html

Starring Jackie Beat & Mario Diaz
With Nadya Ginsburg & Sam Pancake
And Introducing Selene Luna as “Edwina”

TIX & 411:  http://www.spincyclenyc.com/

May 23, 2010 9PM

Sam Pancake, Nadya Ginsburg & Selene Luna star in,

“PANCAKE WITH LUNA & GINSBURG OVER EASY”

The Bowery Poetry Club
308 Bowery
(Between Houston and Bleecker)
F train to 2nd Ave, 6 to Bleecker
212-614-0505
http://www.bowerypoetry.com/
TIX & 411: http://www.spincyclenyc.com/

Not only did fiercely anti-gay rights Republican Sen. Roy Ashburn get busted driving drunk in a State issued vehicle (bitch, that’s my tax dollar!), but he was leaving a GAY NIGHTCLUB with a man! Oh yes, and of course, this prick is married with four children.

Thank you Huffington Post! http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/04/roy-ashburn-arrested-anti_n_485419.html

In a twisted sort of way, perhaps the Republican Party is thee Gay Party, they’re just not telling us.

SEN. ROY ASHBURN’S ANTI-GAY VOTING RECORD: In March 2009, Sen. Ashburn voted against a Senate resolution declaring Proposition 8 unconstitutional. Ashburn voted three times to oppose the creation of Harvey Milk Day. In September he voted against California recognizing out of state same-sex marriages. In 2008 he voted to oppose an expansion of the state’s insurance laws to include sexual orientation as a protected class.
source: http://joemygod.blogspot.com/2010/03/anti-gay-gop-ca-state-sen-roy-asburn.html