Marianna Bacallao
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Tangerine Summers comes down from the stage to interact with the audience at last year's Common Ground drag performance. "A lot of people don’t know, that years ago when ya’ll was doing the Cherry Blossom festival, I was Miss Cherry Blossom," Summers said. "There was some conflict about it, but they had taken my money… My mom called me, she said ‘Boy, do you know what you done did?’ It was on the front page, but we had to be hush, hush because drag wasn’t as open as it is now. Only time we could drag was during Cherry Blossom and Halloween."
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By Nathaniel Jordan | January 22Elena Moro twirled a "mantón," an intricately decorated shawl, at the McEachern Art Center on Jan. 21, 2026.
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By Nathaniel Jordan | January 22Fiona Cole ‘26 photographed Elena Moro in her "mantón," a decorative shawl worn during flamenco performances, on Jan. 21, 2026.
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By Nathaniel Jordan | January 22McEachern Art Center Director Johnny Cohen shows off images he captured during the McEachern Art Center’s flamenco photography workshop in partnership with Mercer’s World Languages and Cultures Department on Jan. 21, 2026.
