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About Just out. (Portland, OR) 1983-2013 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 17, 1984)
25 SATURDAY Siste r Tom ato is back playing spicy 30s & 40s swing and low-down blues at Judy's, 15th and NE Broadway. The tim e is 8 pm and the cover is just $2.00. Be there or be ketchup. M alcolm Dalglish, Grey Larsen, and Pete Sutherland return to Portland with their exhilarating blend of traditional and origina l music derived from various folk idiom s at 8:00 p.m. The musicians perform on hammered dulcimer, guitar, flute, concertina, banjo, fiddle, bones, keyboard, and even their own bodies (hambone). D a lglish, Larsen and Sutherland w ill perform at Northwest Service Center (1819 N.W. Everett). Tickets are avail able at Artichoke Music, Music M illen ium, and a ll B.A.S.S. outlets (including M eier and Frank and Everybody’s________ Records) for $6/advance. or at the door for $7. W indfire, a rap group for lesbians, gay men, and bisexuals under 21 meets in the banquet room of Old W ives' Tales Restaurant. 13th and E. Burnside at 2:30 p.m. 26 SUNDAY The Gay Hiking Group meets for what may be the biggest social hike of 1984. The group is going to the Mary S. Young State Park. Meet at Quality Pie, NW 23rd & M arshall at noon. The Lesbian Aging Project (formerly known as The Old Dykes' Home Project) meets at Judy’s, 15th and NE Broadway, at 3 pm to elect a Board of Directors for the project. Jury's Irish Cabaret of Dublin w ill bring their unique Irish fla ir of lilting songs, haunting music, lively dances and variety routines to Portland Civic Audi torium for one performance only on Sun day, February 26 at 8 pm. Tickets available at Celebrity Attrac tions (1010 SW M orrison); Auditorium Box Office; Gl Joe's; and Stevens and Son Jewelers. Just Out is sponsoring a roller skating party at the Portland Skating Center, Main and SE Union, theme Just Out at the Rink from 5 pm to 7 pm. If enthu siasm is high for the event it w ill happen monthly. Cover is just $2.00, which pnoio Oy Helen Lottridge Beginning at 7:30 pm the PSU Film Com mittee presents three film s which explore the themes of black culture and history as a part of Black History Month. Adm ission is free. Aretha Franklin: soul singer, is a close-up profile of this re nowned singer whose vocal magnetism has brought her worldwide acclaim. M a ha lia Jackson is a portrait of the late M ahalia Jackson, who spread the relig ious music of American blacks from congregations in sm all churches to vast audiences. Also showing i s ... But then, She’s Betty Carter, a cinematic portrait of the legendary ja zz vocalist. For three decades she has been proclaimed one of the greatest living ja zz singers. Sister Tomato includes skate rental. Proceeds benefit Ju st Out. Everyone is encouraged to participate. 28 TUESDAY Jim Gambrel I is producing Doric W ilson's dark comedy, The West Street G ang, for an unlim ited run beginning today and playing Tuesdays and Wed nesdays at 8 pm in JR's C ell, 300 NW 10th. Tickets are $5.00 at the door. The award winning satire concerns the patrons of a gay bar under siege from a gang of fag bashers. Brown McDonald is directing the cast of fourteen. 29 Mary Richman cind David Heath in a Chekhov Quartet Just Out February 17 -March 2 Wednesday The Seagull, Anton Checkhov's story of unrequited love is showing at the NW Flm Study Center tonight at 8 pm. The cast includes James Mason and Vanessa Redgrave. Gay Males Together meets to d is cuss issues impacting the lives of gay men at PSU's Smith Center, Rm. 229 at 7:30 pm. 1 THURSDAY Pa ra llel Film s and The Fourth W all Re pertory Company presents America — from Hitler to M-X, created and directed by Joan Harvey shows one day only at Cinem a 21,616 NW 21st at 7 and 9 pm. Am erica — from Hitler to M-X is a provocative documentary that sees cyni cism and danger in the Reagan adm inis tration's drive to upgrade the nuclear arsenal. 2 FRIDAY The Curse o f the Starving Class ex tends run to the Art Museum 's Berg Swann Auditorium tonight and tomor row at 8 pm. »