Drag Race Season 13 — Tributes and Scale: The season of RuPaul’s Drag Race we all sort of felt would never end (and sometimes didn’t want to) finally crowned the next drag superstar. It was a return to the vaunted lip sync smackdown format after last year’s pandemic outbreak forced Ru and producers to get clever. Still, the…

RuPaul’s Drag Race is usually good at making sure its finale features distinct performance styles, but this season’s final crop of queens feels particularly strong. If you passed through gay Twitter in the last week, you no doubt came across the meme featuring the final four as Charisma (Symone), Uniqueness (Gottmik), Nerve (Kandy) and Talent (Rosé)….

It was only a matter of time before Drag Race tackled the seminal queer cinema classic, Honey, I Shrunk the Kids. It’s a story about an overbearing father pushing traditionally masculine hobbies on a disinterested son, making out with neighbor boys, forming strong emotional bonds to insects and iconic TV actress Marcia Strassman; it’s clearly canon. Alright, fine….

OK, would that headline have been better if Tina were still around? Sure. But still! It’s fitting given how this week’s RuPaul’s Drag Race roast challenge went down in flames. There are those that struggled with jokes and stage presence, but one queen drew such ire from the judges, they turned on her mid-set and became openly…

If you’ve caught the recent ads for Bubly Bounce featuring Drag Race alums Vanjie, Latrice and Manila, the idea of a drag queen soda doesn’t seem that far off. The good news is that there is probably some 14-year-old on TikTok right now who would be the brains behind the brand. Because, clearly, not everyone is up to the…

For all the things COVID has taken from us, at least it’s led to a few improvements on RuPaul’s Drag Race. Chief among them may be the effect on the beloved makeover challenge. Along with Snatch Game, the makeover challenge is a reliable fan favorite. (Sorry, Ru-sical!) Typically, it occurs at a point in the season…

The gals of RuPaul’s Drag Race are still reeling from last week’s double shantay. But that’s not the only thing that has the queens shooketh. The bottom three last week (Tina, Kandy, Symone) were all part of the original group of lip sync winners. No longer are they some sort of untouchable, dominating force. It’s not really all that…

The rusical episode can be polarizing for Drag Race fans. Drag is a big, beautiful umbrella attracting theater kids, punks, comedians, artists and more, but your personal musical mileage may vary. I’m typically full up on group performance challenges by this point, but this season’s rusical managed to land a few solid jokes and leave a significant…

We’re hitting that string of early season episodes of RuPaul’s Drag Race when the frontrunners become clear, and the challenges become goofier. Our top ten tackled the age-old art of improv this week, yes, and the gap between our top and bottom performers continued to grow. The improv challenge often devolves into screaming and humping and sloppy…