Kevin O'Keeffe

3 days ago | xtramagazine.com | Kevin O'Keeffe

Welcome to RuPaul’s Drag Race Power Rankings! Every week, we’ve debriefed the newest episode of RuPaul’s Drag Race Season 17 to determine which queens were riding high, and which needed she-mergency care. But now, with our winner crowned, it’s time to take one final look back at our final four queens’ journeys to the endgame. Though she didn’t ultimately snatch the crown, Lexi did the next-best thing in this finale: she won the crowd back.

3 days ago | xtramagazine.com | Kevin O'Keeffe

The conventional wisdom goes that RuPaul’s Drag Race finales are bad. This is mostly rooted in memories of the mid-Logo era, when the show shifted to big-theatre final episodes but had minimal content to fill time. Seasons 7 and 8 introduced one-queen original songs, which helped fill the time, but it wasn’t really until the show moved to VH1 and introduced the Lip Sync for the Crown that finales got more interesting.

1 week ago | xtramagazine.com | Kevin O'Keeffe

Welcome to RuPaul’s Drag Race Power Rankings! Every week, we’ve debriefed the newest episode of RuPaul’s Drag Race Season 17 to determine which queens were riding high, and which needed she-mergency care. But this week is special, as we join back up with the eliminated queens to see who can triumph in a LaLaPaRuZa smackdown for $50,000. Gotta give Hormona her props for nabbing “Say Liza (Liza With a Z)” before Suzie Toot could get it.

1 week ago | xtramagazine.com | Kevin O'Keeffe

There’s always anxiety in the air when RuPaul’s Drag Race repeats a hugely successful twist. Drag Race is ultimately responsive to itself, so when, say, Sasha Velour changes the game with a rose petal reveal for the ages, it’s unsurprising when Aquaria shows up looking like a Jiffy Pop bag in the next finale. And we won’t even get into Asia O’Hara’s butterflies.

1 week ago | xtramagazine.com | Kevin O'Keeffe

In March 2008, Bravo fans met Countess Luann de Lesseps for the very first time on the series premiere of The Real Housewives of New York City (RHONY). Then the wife of French Count Alexandre de Lesseps and rocking a capital A in “LuAnn,” the former nurse and Italian TV star from Connecticut was known for her obsession with class and elegance.