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Super Ego: Grab your Ongina, it's Pride

By Marke B.


We all love drag gadabout Monistat <http://www.myspace.com/monistat7>
-- even if we hate her for sending us 20 texts a week demanding to be
on the Guardian cover. Now, she's making up for all her cray-cray by
starting a weekly Tuesday night affair called Chaser, which offers a
safe haven at EndUp for transgender people on the prowl, and dishes up
some fierce drag performances to boot (recent theme nights: "The
Aporkalypse: Swine Flu vs Avian Flu" and "Steampunk Circus." To kick
off Pride -- or continue kicking off, if, like me, you went to far too
many Pride kickoffs this weekend (Kick it already, Lucy!) -- she's
bringing in someone, someone apparently big, from RuPaul's Drag Race
to make us all a bit fiercer, if perhaps also more amateur-fabulous.
This person is named Ongina.

[Image]

I think she's gonna do a few numbers? According to her bio: From one
of the thousands of tiny islands in the Philippines comes a mighty,
powerful force called Ongina! She's a mighty wind!

[Video: <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcBeQlYgD-4> ONGINA @ DRAG IDOL]

The point is, the night will be full of fun and frenzy - and possibly
even good music! Chaser's kind of steep cover ($10) has put me off
before, but the entertainment value of the crowd alone seems worth it
for this one.

Chaser with Ongina
Tue/23, 10 p.m., $10
The EndUp
401 Sixth St., SF


Posted by SFBG on June 22, 2009 04:34 PM


http://www.sfbg.com/blogs/music/2009/06/super_ego_grab_your_ongine_its.html