Skip to content
Answering Your Questions About Reactor: Right here.
Sign up for our weekly newsletter. Everything in one handy email.
When one looks in the box, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the cat.

Reactor

New York City has been awash in Doctor Who events in anticipation of the new season. I’ve already told you about DW Line Con. There’s also an awesome (and sold-out!) screening event at The Bell House in Brooklyn tomorrow night.

Recently, Dr. Sketchy’s Anti-Art School also got into the act with a burlesque tribute to current Doctor Who! (Some risque photos below, not technically NSFW unless you have a very no-nonsense office.)

Dr Sketchy’s Anti-Art School is the brainchild of artist, Molly Crabapple. Now in its sixth year, Dr. Sketchy’s is a place where you can practice your life-drawing skills. Here’s the twist: the models are scantily-clad burlesque performers, sometimes there is a performance involved, and there’s always alcohol. It’s a low-pressure environment so that experienced artists and newbies alike can feel at home.

Dr. Sketchy Dr Who burlesque

Dr. Sketchy Dr Who burlesque

Dr. Sketchy’s Tribute to Doctor Who, held at the Bowery Poetry Club in NYC, featured Jeffrey Garber posing as Eleven and Someone’s Mrs. Reynolds (yes, that’s a Firefly reference) posing as Amy Pond. And, um, they were hot. I’m not gonna lie. My friend and I were seated in the front row drooling over The Doctor. As I told my friend, He can work on my TARDIS with his sonic screwdriver any time he wants!

Dr. Sketchy Dr Who burlesque

There were the usual Dr. Sketchy’s drawing contests as the poses got more elaborate and less clothed. The winners of the Best Doctor Who/Dr. Seuss crossover sketch won free drinks, that evening’s specialty drink, the TARDIS (blue lemonade and vodka). Winners of the Best Doctor Who/Other Sci-Fi Franchise crossover sketch won plush duck Squishables named “Duckter Who” and “Amy Duckpond.” All of it was underscored by a spectacular mix of music curated by Crabapple collaborator, John Leavitt (which I will include below). It was a great, packed event! Dr. Sketchy’s is generally pretty popular, but Whovians came out of the woodwork for this one!

Dr. Sketchy Dr Who burlesque

And did I mention that The Doctor and Amy were hot?

Dr. Sketchy Dr Who burlesque

If you ever want to have a Doctor Who themed gathering, John Leavitt has put together a perfect playlist:

0—TARDIS sound F/X
1—“Dr. Who Theme”—National Orchestra Of Wales.
2—“There’s No Such Things As Aliens”—Sparks
3—“Ballad Of Maxwell Demon”—Shudder To Think
4—“ROBOT”—Plastics
5—“Giant Robot”—Time Agency
6—“I’m Gonna Spend Christmas With A Dalek”—Go Go
7—“Telstar”—The Ventures
8—“Interplanet Janet”—Man Or AstroMan
9—“Onward”—Dr. Noise
10—“Timelord 120bpm”—Nebula Sound Studio
11—“Doris Day The Earth Stood Still”—Future Bible Heroes
12—“The Sound Of Drums”—Quantum Locked
13—“Dr. Who Theme”—Orbital
14—“Dr. Who Do You Think You Are?”—Don’tjoke
15—“Serious, Sirus Space Party”—Ednah Holt
16—“May The Cube Be With You”—Thomas Dolby
17—“Doctorin’ The Tardis”—The World-Band
18—“Seven Seas Of Rhyne”—Queen
19—“All The Strange Creatures”—BBC National Orchestra
20—“I am The Walrus”—The Beatles
21—“Evolution Of The Daleks”—BBC National Orchestra
22—“From Some Dying Star”—Future Bible Heroes
23—“Loving The Alien”—David Bowie
24—“Donna’s Theme”—BBC National Orchestra
25—“Giant Ants”—The Hissyfits
26—“The Gentleman Who Fell”—Milla Jovovich
27—“Starman”—David Bowie
28—“Velvet Spacetime”—Carter Burwell
29—“Dr. Who Theme”—Mannheim Steamroller
30—“Bonebeard, The Dinosaur Pirate From Space”—Logan Whitehurst
31—“The Doctor Forever”—BBC National Orchestra
32—“Doctor, Doctor”—Mr. Saxon
33—“Space Olympics”—The Lonely Island
34—“Blink”—Chameleon Circut
35—“New Earth”—Tom Milsom
36—“Angel”—Massive Attack
37—“Lost In Space”—TV theme
38—“I’m Sticking With You”—The Velvet Underground

Doctor Who Series 6 premieres on BBC America April 23rd at 9 PM. But you knew that already!


Teresa Jusino is the Thirteenth Doctor. Her “feminist brown person” take on pop culture has been featured on websites like ChinaShopMag.com, PinkRaygun.com, Newsarama, and PopMatters.com. Her fiction has appeared in the sci-fi literary magazine, Crossed Genres; she is the editor of Beginning of Line, the Caprica fan fiction site; and her essay “Why Joss is More Important Than His ‘Verse” is included in Whedonistas: A Celebration of the Worlds of Joss Whedon By the Women Who Love Them, which is on sale now wherever books are sold! Get Twitterpated with Teresa, or visit her at The Teresa Jusino Experience.

About the Author

About Author Mobile

Teresa Jusino

Author

Teresa Jusino was born the day Skylab fell. Coincidence? She doesn't think so. A native New Yorker, Jusino has been telling stories since she was three years old, and she wrote a picture book in crayon in nursery school. However, nursery school also found her playing the angel Gabriel in a Christmas pageant, and so her competing love of performing existed from an early age. Her two great loves competed all the way through early adulthood. She attended NYU's Tisch School of the Arts where she majored in Drama and English Literature, after which she focused on acting, performing in countless plays and musicals in and around New York City, as well as short films, feature length independent films, and the one time she got to play an FBI agent in a PBS thing, which she thought was really cool, because she got to wear sunglasses and a dark suit and look badass. Eventually, producing was thrown into the mix. For four years, she was a company member and associate producer for a theater company called Stone Soup Theater Arts. She also produced a musical in which she also performed at Theater For the New City called Emergency Contraception: The Musical! by Sara Cooper, during which she ended every performance covered in fake blood. Don't ask. After eight years of acting, Jusino decided that she missed her first love – writing – and in 2008 decided to devote herself wholly to that pursuit. She has since brought her "feminist brown person" perspective to pop culture criticism at such diverse sites as Tor.com, ChinaShop Magazine, PopMatters, Newsarama, Pink Raygun, as well as her own blog, The Teresa Jusino Experience (teresajusino.wordpress.com), and her Tumblr for feminist criticism, The Gender Blender (tumblwithteresa.tumblr.com). She is also the editor of a Caprica fan fiction site called Beginning of Line (beginningofline.weebly.com), because dammit, that was a good show, and if SyFy won't tell any more of those characters' stories, she'll do it herself. Her travel-writer alter ego is Geek Girl Traveler, and her travel articles can be followed at ChinaShop while she herself can be followed on Twitter (@teresajusino). Her essay, "Why Joss is More Important Than His 'Verse" can be found in the book Whedonistas: A Celebration of the Worlds of Joss Whedon By the Women Who Love Them (Mad Norwegian Press). In addition to her non-fiction, Jusino is also a writer of fiction. Her short story, December, was published in Issue #24 of the sci-fi literary journal, Crossed Genres. A writer of both prose and film/television scripts, she relocated to Los Angeles in September 2011 to give the whole television thing a whirl. She'll let you know how that goes just as soon as she stops writing bios about herself in the third person.
Learn More About Teresa
Subscribe
Notify of
guest
5 Comments
Oldest
Newest Most Voted
Inline Feedbacks
View all comments