Just announced: April Showers Bring Bitch Flowers

The annual drag show and party put on by stylist/interior designer Richard Anderson's drag persona, Bitch Flowers, April Showers Bring Bitch Flowers is always a gay old time. Held in the decadent Varsity Theater, the show features bitchy drag queen comedy and performances from Bitch Flowers, Krystal Kleer and Camille Collins, with special guests Polly and the Hot Buttered Crackers and Esme Rodriguez with live music from Harley Wood and Wrecked Wheelhouse, and rounds out with a riotous dance party spun by DJ Shiek. In a stylish twist, this year's edition ups the glam factor with the inclusion of restyled spring lines from local designers Emma Berg (hot off a solo showing during MNfashion Week), Voltage 2011 designers Raul Osorio and Ivan Idland, and DIY-styled lingerie line Lollycopter. It should be a night of campy fun.

Raul Osorio's spring 2011 collection photos by Amy Miller

Emma Berg's spring 2011 collection runway photos by Stephen Stephens/Digital Crush

Ivan Idland's spring 2011 collection runway photo by Mordac.org

Lollycopter spring 2011 collection photos by Eric Snyder

Show details: 7:30 p.m. doors. Friday, May 27. $12 advance/$15 door. 18-plus. Varsity Theater, 1308 4th St. SE., Minneapolis, 612-604-0222.

Christopher Straub vs. RuPaul

Local drag queen Bitch Flowers (real name: Richard Anderson) was onto something when he said in an interview with Kate Iverson in City Pages' Dressing Room blog that the green foil leaf-cut gown Christopher Straub closed his show with last Sunday was fit for a drag queen such as himself. Specifically, Richard refers to an unnamed designer (purportedly Christopher) whose "chartreuse Mylar dress was something that Bitch would wear! A drag queen's dream dress!" And he wasn't kidding: the following event on RuPaul's Drag Race season finale, RuPaul herself walked out in a stunning green foil number that could've come from the same batch of foil as Christopher's. See for yourself. Perhaps a new career path for the fledgling former Project Runway contestant?

[Images courtesy Logo & Stacy Schwartz]