"Etta Vendetta- like a latter-day Laura Keene- founded her Eyeful Tower troupe in her efforts to get the local burlesque scene out of the fly-by-night beerhalls and into more sophisticated spaces.  She, too, is dedicated to showcasing the smarts, satirical streak, and range of beautiful women whose appeal transcends the narrow norms of popular culture- in Keene's day, the demure, shrouded bodies of Victorian ladyhood; in ours, the liposuctioned and siliconed variations found in Playboy and Vogue alike.

And like the burlesque at its origins, The Eyeful Tower is fueled by a delicious mix of sexual audacity and sassy irony that sends up the idea of the burlesque queen at the same time as it is presented- reminding their audiences of how much sex is a matter of not what's between the thighs, but what's between the ears." 

--- Maria Elena Buszek, austhor of Pin-Up Grrrls: Feminism, Sexuality and Popular Culture (Duke University press)