BIANCO DEL RIO

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Tonight is all about one thing, and that thing is America’s Next Drag Superstar™, who all the kids are calling JINKX MONSOON, um, I mean BIANCA DEL RIO. It seems that every other queen from season 6 has blown through town at this point—Courtney Act and Joslyn Fox and Laganja Estranja (and naturally Ben, duh, as she lives here) have all shown their painted faces ’round these parts of late, and it seems as if Bianca is finally done ignoring us at last. (Does she not know Seattle is the Drag Capital of the Universe? Gol, woman, get it together.) It also seems that she’s making up for lost time, as she will be appearing/hostessing/performing at three distinct events. But don’t worry! Each of these events takes place at one location—the Baltic Room—so there’s no need to burn any fossil fuels chasing the queen around. The first of these events is the second annual Queen for a Day Drag Queen Auction (thrown by our friends at SinFinite Productions), where she will be hawking the padded asses of local drag queens for charity…

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Adrian Ryan is a Stranger senior contributing writer and nightlife columnist. He has been writing for The Stranger since late 1997, and he’s pretty sure he still hasn’t been paid for some really early...