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About Just out. (Portland, OR) 1983-2013 | View Entire Issue (July 1, 1992)
2 8 ▼ Ju ly 1 0 9 2 ▼ Jumt o u t ’* DOWN UNDER SPECIA LS ON UNITED AIRLINES Auckland, New Zealand 5 nights at the Regent, RT air, taxes, City Tour from $1269 ppdo Guilt-free escapism Sister Act is full of sisterly love , independent , strong women , and women who don 7 need men . Australian Gold Coast 6 nights at the Pan Pacific, RT air, taxes transfers from $ 1366 ppdo Sydney 5 nights at the Renaissance, RT air, taxes, Harbour Cruise from $1403 ppdo All prices subject to change, availability and restrictions. Extensions and upgrades available. SE 19th and FRANKLIN For m ore inform ation call PHOTO BY Michael Scott VISTA TRAVEL SERVICE, HOME AND CAR ELECTRONIC EXCELLEN CE FOR THE 90S inc 200 SW Market St., Lobby Level Portland, OR 97201 (5 0 3 ) 2 2 4 -5 0 0 0 FAX (503) 299-6831 USA 800-245-5557 Parking validated Robin Flower "...hot m andolin . strikes like lightning Folk Roots Nancy Vogl "...pa cks a punc h that leaves no m a rks hnt an unforgettable im p re ssio n ." Equn! Timvs, Rost on I ibl)> McLaren "...w h o se I it h, angelic ta re stry elevates t it' albu to pot) heaven." Rollini' Stono Robin Flower Nancy Vogl Libby McLaren '" Wilil Hearts! Progressive Folk and Wild Country Trio In n Special Benefit Concert for The Northwest Service Center R PM . TUCKS . July ^ TIX: SIC ($12 door) at FASTIXX, Artichoke Musk, Ladd s Edition, Catbird Seat Bokstore, NWSC Offke. INFO: (503) 228 6972 NWSC is at 1819 NW Everett IT S T f c i c i n r i » by S a n d r a de H e le n T This could have been a one joke movie Whoopi he new Whoopi Goldberg film, Sister Goldberg transformed from a bewigged, spike- Act, is pure fun — pure as in chaste, pure as in guilt-free escapism. This heeled saloon singer to a habited mm. But when movie has no graphic sex, no graphic she arrives, she finds Maggie Smith as the Rever violence. This movie has 300 nuns end Mother, Mary Wickes as the inept choir director, viewing it and walking out afterwards with 600 and Kathy Najemy (of Kathy and Mo, the feminist comedy duo) waiting to be her best thumbs up! Whoopi plays a mobster’s (Harvey Keitel) friend. The combinations make for unexpected apparently naive girlfriend who is the lead singer comedic conflict, and Whoopi should be laughing all the way to the bank on this one, even though the in a sister act newspapers reported she was very unhappy with called The Disney during the filming. Ronnelles. Keitel is the mob boss Whoopi makes her influence felt throughout who owns the ca the convent and they influence her equally. Soon sino where The they have transformed each other as well as the Ronnelles per entire neighborhood. By the time the mob catches form. He’s a mar up with Goldberg, they find they have a family of ried Catholic who sisters to contend with. won’t divorce his Watching a choir of nuns sing and sway to the wife, and when Goldberg threatens to leave him, ‘50’s favorite “I Will Follow Him” is amusing he sends a purple mink coat (hiss — but it looked regardless of one’s own spiritual orientation. fake) to her dressing room to mollify her. It For treatment of women, Sister Act is full of almost works until she sees the wife’s name sisterly love, independent, strong women, and stitched inside the coat. Steaming, she storms into women who don’t need men. Like the (real) his office just in time to see a gang-style execution sisters said: 600 thumbs up! (done ‘50’s movie style so we see no gore) — and Written by Joseph Howard; directed by Emile the chase is on. She turns him in to the police, they Ardolino; costumed by Molly Maginnis. Pro put her in a witness-protection program and send duced by Touchstone Pictures; now playing at her to a convent. Act HI Theatres around town. A new cultural bridge n its premier issue, The Feminist Broadcast Quarterly o f Oregon takes up the fight against sexism, racism, homophobia, classism and the culture of violence. FBQ is the effort of a local Portland woman to bridge racial, class, cultural and political lines of women. FBQ starts the battle against oppression at home. “In this magazine, white women are the minority,” writes Mimi Yahn, the creatrix of FBQ. Articles like Anne Sweet’s “African Heri tage, Working Class in a White Progressive Move ment” are rare even in thé progressive press. In a day when multiculturalism is fashionable, FBQ walks its talk with contributions from Native American women, lesbians, African-American women and Latinas. Yahn notes in her letter from the Editor that some people may be uncomfort able with new perspectives. To them she writes, “Listen. Listen not only to what the women are saying, but listen to yourself. Are you offended- or arc you threatened?... Now you can start leam- I ing from these wise and wonderful women.” Editor and publisher Yahn originally planned to bring out the first issue of FBQ in winter or even next spring. Faced, however, with the climate of hate so apparent in Los Angeles and sponsored locally by the Oregon Citizens Alliance, Yahn decided that now was the time for women’s voices to be heard. “We don’t have the luxury of work ing out our differences over ten years,” said Yahn. “It’s as if we’ve been put into a time machine and wc have a chance to fight the Nazis over again and win in the first rounds.” The Feminist Broadcast Quarterly is avail able at a number of Portland bookshops including The Catbird Seat Bookstore, the Paper Moon, and Powell’s Books. FBQ is now taking poems, essays, stories, artwork, photos, etc. for the Sep tember issue. For information and/or subscrip tions, contact Mimi Yahn at PO Box 19946, Portland, OR 97280 or call 220-6413. Susan Baker
