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About Just out. (Portland, OR) 1983-2013 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 1, 1987)
the O scar-w inning documentary. The Times of Harvey Milk Advance tickets for Wrists are $9 (subject to a service charge) and are available at the C ascade A ID S Project office, A Woman's Place Bookstore, C.C. Slaughter's, M usic M il lenium and Artichoke Music. Tickets for the day of show are $10 at the door. A portion of the proceeds from the show w ill benefit the C ascade A ID S Project. The Lesbian Community Project proudly presents Alix Dobkin and Phranc in concert tonight at the O ld Church. 1422 SW 11th. Alix D o b kins' m usic is fa m ilia r to many lesbians, her 1973 album "Lavender Jane Loves W omen" w as a ground-breaking record celebrating women loving women. A lix was recently hon ored by the readers of the m agazine Hot Wire a s a consistent positive force in building lesb ia n com m unities. A lix's most recent LP — "Th e se W om en/Never Been Better" features acoustic folk m usic and some rocking hi-tech tunes. Phranc, whose Portland appearance at last yea r's W orld M usic Festival was a festival Hig> 2 • WEDNESDAY Portland blues favorite, C urtis Salgado and ft»« Stile tto s, p la ys a series of Wednes day night concerts at the Pine Street Theater, SE 9th and Sandy, beginning tonight and continu ing on the 16th, and 30th. Showtim e w ill be 9:00 p.m. and adm ission is $3 at the door 3 «THURSDAY The O racle Theatre presents the Portland prem iere of Suicide in Bb, an exciting early play by Sam Shepard. Suicide in Bb is directed by Eric Walter, and features Doug Godwin and John D e luc a a s detectives investigating a b iza rre death in the seamy music underworld, and p la ys at the newly air-conditioned O racle Theatre (form erly Storefront North west), 2235 NW Savier, Th.-Sat. at 8 0 0 p.m., from August 21st through Sept 12th Tickets are $7 general, $5 students and seniors, $5 Thurs days. Reservations 224-7627. No one w ill ever replace the late Janis Joplin. Nonetheless, the buzz around San Francisco is that if anyone could, it must be new Big Brother's vocalist M ichelle Bastían. The performance by The Original Big Brother and the Holding Company at Pine Street Theater, SE 9th and Sandy, tonight at 9 00 p.m., w ill be an extra ordinary event. Not only is it rare to see a band return after nearly 15 years, with a ll its original m em bers, but discovering a vocalist like M ichelle Bastion to do it with, is unique. Tic ke ts are $9.50 advance, $11.50 at the door and are a va ila b le at G! Joe's. M usic M illenium , Rockport Records. Second Ave. Records and Jean M achine G alleria. Tonight, Pal Metheny at the C ivic Auditorium . 8 p.m. Reserved seats are $18.00 and $16.50. 4 • FRIDAY The Sin returns for another M ght of DoccKfonco tonight. M usic by C harles Powne (celebrating the second anniversary of Ooze Records) and visual events w ill assault the senses from 9:30 until LATE, at the Icehouse, at Northwest Fifth and Everett A ll ages, a ll sexes, bar — $3 cover 5 • SATURDAY Tho Portland Oay Mon’s C horus: Rousing songs of the sea. show-stopping Broadway tunes and the world prem iere of "Fe stiv a l" by renowned Northwest composer Tomas Svoboda w ill be included in this concert of joyous, celebratory music Oregonian m usic critic Just Out • 16 • Seprcmher. IV87 Robert Lindstrom has described the PGMC sound as "th rillin g " and reviewers at a national choral festival in M inneapolis singled out the Chorus a s “a highlight of the entire festival." This perform ance is funded in part by a grant from the M etropolitan Arts Com m ission. Tonight's concert is at 8 p.m. in the Inter m ediate Theatre of the Perform ing Arts Center. Tic ke ts are S7, $10 and $12. w - . 'mm Tonight at the Prim ary Domain. 1033 NW 16th, enjoy the movie, Black Widow. $1 The fun sta rts at 7 p.m. 9 • WEDNESDAY 10 • THURSDAY The Northwest Film and Video Center pre sents Paths of Glory (1956) Stanley Kubrick's pow erful anti-w ar film at 7 p.m. and Dr. Strangelove (1963) at 9 p.m. Adm ission is $4 general, $3 members, seniors and children. 11 « FRIDAY San Francisco gay comic Tom Ammiano w ill appear in Portland to perform his stand-up com ic autobiography Wrists («ubtitled "A Sm a ll Plit» for Man. a Grand Jette for M ankind") tonight and tomorrow at 8 p.m at the Colum b ia Theatre. 2021 S.E. Hawthorne Boulevard Am m iano has been doing comedy for about six years He got his start at a San Fran c isc o nightclub called the Valencia Rose (which a lso nurtured such fledg ling talents as Rom ano vsky and P h illip s and Lea D e l ana) and soon earned a loyal follow ing Since then he's p layed clubs throughout the country, w inning c ritica l acclaim as w ell as numerous aw ards, among them the C able Car Award for Entertainer of the Year In 1984 he appeared in The Tra n siste is, a band which some con sid e r one of the natural resources of the North west, and Barbara Turrill, a fine com poser and g uita rist w ill p la y in benefit for the N.W. Big M ountain Support Group, 7:30 p.m. Tonight at the Prim ary Dom ain, 1033 N.W. 16th. $4.00 at the door. A ll welcome. Contact Dian or Lesley at 236-6154 for more information. The Im perial Sovereign Rose Court presents the annual Prince and Princess Show tonight at 8 p.m. at Darcelle XV. Th is yea r's show is entitled Sins of a Nightshift Nurse. Adm ission is $4 to benefit the court. 15 • TUESDAY Flirting, Cruising and Hustling is the topic of the Lesbian Forum at the W estm inster Pre sbyterian Church, 1624 NE Hancock, 7:30 p.m., tonight. The Lesbian Forum is a women only event. They offer supervised child care, interpreting for the hearing im paired and deaf and wheel cha ir access (the 16th Street entrance is attended from 7 :00 to 7 :25). The suggested $2 donation helps defray costs (more or less is okay). 6 • SUNDAY New Rose Theatre's This One Thing I Do opens tonight at the Perform ing Arts Center's W inningstad Theatre at 8 p.m. In this exciting revival of This One Thing I Do, Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton return to comment on the 1850s Women's Movement they led and on the continued struggle for equal rights. Respected poet, p layw rig ht and fem inist C la ire Braz-Valentine resurrects these powerful women, fille d with love, hum or and courage, and driven by their devotion. During the p la y's origina l run, audi ences stood and cheered when these brave women dem anded, "M en. their rights and no thing more. Women, their rights and nothing le ss." Tic ke ts are $10 and $12. The show w ill be taped for a national prom o tion video to launch C arr's third national tour She has perform ed w idely for Portland audi ences for three years and the show w ill feature her p op ula r “I Lost In The D ivorce" monologue. Rosanne King will serve as master of ceremonies. Tic ke ts are $6 at the door or $5 in advance from C lub 927 or A W om an's Place. Club 927 is w heelchair accessible. lig ht, is a relative newcomer to the field of w om en's music. Her album , "Fo lksin g e r" is chock fu ll of great songs ranging from “Ama zo n s" to "O ne of the G irls," a song describing Phranc's two years on the Santa Monica col lege sw im team. Phrancs' humor and style is refreshing and lively. Th is concert w ill be a de lig ht to a ll m usic lovers. The concert begins at 8:00 p.m., tickets are $8.00/ $7.50 for LCP members and are ava il a b le at A W om an's Place Bookstore and from LCP Board members. For more information, c a ll 238-0135. Today through Sunday the Annual Fa ll G athering sponsored by Womansource w ill be held at Cam p Low Echo at Lake of the Woods (east of Ashland). Join the women of Woman- source for a weekend of fun, sharing, work shops, sp iritua lity and entertainment. Pre-regis tration is required. Slid in g scale is $30-60. Write to W omansource, PO Box 335, Ashland, OR 97520 or c a ll 1-482-2026. 13 • SUNDAY Today is G randparent's Day. Honor the queer and not so queer grandparents in your life. Shan Carr w ill once again shake up the Portland com edy scene with her show "Sing le and O ther Im personations" tonight at 7 30 p.m. at Club 9 2 7 . 927 SE Morrison. Among Shan's "other im personations" w ill be a variety of local and national fem inist characters never before portrayed on a Port land com edy stage Shan's irreverent brand of humor, her innovative dance routines and ad lib m onologues prom ise a ll the surprises her Portland audiences have learned to expect 17 • THURSDAY Intimate Friends, a m usical celebration of G ay and Lesbian lifestyle s opens tonight at the Portland Center for the Perform ing Arts'Dolores W inningstad Theatre. Tonight's perform ance is a G ala Benefit for Phoenix Rising Foundation. The sm ash hit by M iriam M oses continues through Sunday, Sept. 20 and next weekend. Sept. 25-27. Tic ke ts are $12.50 for a ll perform ances, $20.00 for tonight's show, and are a va il a b le at the Perform ing Arts Center, A Woman's Place Bookstore, Just Out, and Phoenix Rising. Fo r m ore inform ation, c a ll 236-1252. Labor Day Celebration. La bor's fight for the eight hour day is depicted through the life of one of its Black w orking c la ss women lead ers in Lucy Parsons, An American Revolu tionary b y C arolyn Ashbaugh. Join us in d is cussing her agitation for radical solutions to the poverty of her c la ss at the Radical Women meeting, Thursday, Septem ber 17,6:30 p.m., M ultnom ah County Central Library, 801 S.W 10th Avenue. Everyone is welcome. For more inform ation, c a ll 249-8067. W heelchair accessible. 18 • FRIDAY W ild Indian, by Theodore Shank, directed by Lynn Te rre ll, opens tonight at Interstate Fire house C ultural Center and continues through O ctober 18. A fic tio na lize d dram a. Wild Indian is based upon the true story of Ishi, the la st of the Yahi Trib e in northern C a lifornia , and anthropologist A lfred Kroeber, director of the San Francisco M useum of Anthropology. The p la y takes p lace w ithin the m useum 's setting of Ish i's habitat where he becam e a livin g exhibition w hile under the observation and study by Kroeber, his guardian. Playw right Theodore Shank, who w ill be in Portland in September, introduces two fictional characters — Hillary A ddison a s Kroeber's fem ale a ssista nt and W ing Su, a second generation C hinese Am eri can as Kroeber's secretary, to delineate the issue of acculturation, and the a b ility of adap tation a s the key to survival.