The Chris Owens Club

Bourbon Street is home to many a queen, but only one reigns supreme. Her highness' name, for the uninitiated, is Chris Owens and her kingdom is the club she owns at the corner of St. Louis and Bourbon Street. Owens, a tall drink of Texas water who will celebrate her 83rd birthday October 5, is a French Quarter icon, a whirling dervish of sequins, song and dance in the style of old world burlesque. Backed by a kickin' band of musicians and singers, Owens performs at her club six nights a week, giving it up in the kind of floor show that used to be the norm on Bourbon Street before strip clubs and t-shirt shops took over the landscape.