Hub-ba, Hub-baVIDEO: Tassles, pasties, and Mooninites at the Great Boston Burlesque Exposition March 1,
 2007 9:39:28 AM 
Just last week, over the long Presidents’ Day weekend, a curiously sexy event took place in famously frosty Boston. For a few hours, the city’s puritanical reputation took a back seat to the Great Boston Burlesque Exposition, a four-day bacchanal of boobs, buns, and pasties, celebrating the lost art of the strip-tease.
 
SLIDESHOW: Images from the Great Boston Burlesque Exposition, Part 1
 
SLIDESHOW: Images from the Great Boston Burlesque Exposition, Part 2
 
SLIDESHOW: Images from the Great Boston Burlesque Exposition, Part 3
 
Real women do burlesque: Putting the tease - and some other things - back in striptease. By Sara Faith Alterman
 
  
	
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