Drag show meets bingo at One World Cafe

Moscow’s One World Café will present a Drag Bingo tonight, a unique event for many college students. Local businesses have donated prizes that bingo players can battle over while watching drag queens perform, according to One World Café’s website.

This event will make drag culture, which is not generally available for college students to experience, more easily accessible for the students of WSU and the University of Idaho.

Becoming a drag queen is an art and it can take hours to perfect. These performers spend extended amounts of time getting into a character, which they may create on their own or with inspiration from a celebrity, according to Wikipedia.

Drag queens use makeup techniques such as heavy contouring and dramatic eye shadow to feminize their face, since most individuals who participate in drag are men.

Drag shows generally consist of the queens performing musical numbers or other forms of entertainment, such as acting. Extensive costumes are also often involved to provide a more entertaining performance.

Drag culture is slowly becoming more accessible to the general public, such as in popular shows like “RuPaul’s Drag Race,” a reality show that televises a drag competition. Venues all around the country are also showcasing drag queens more often, including the TabiKat Drag Show in Moscow last December.

The experienced drag performers will begin their show on One World Café’s bingo night at 7 p.m. and the event will end at 10 p.m. Single bingo sheets will be $1 upon arrival, a half pack will be $5 and a full pack of sheets will be $10.