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About Just out. (Portland, OR) 1983-2013 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 4, 2000)
august 4.2000 * Ju st out I might want my Cl TV on’t look for the listing in T V Guide or even on the Preview C hannel’s slow scroll of lineups, hut do check out Channel 99 on Portland-area A T & T cable for some totally queer TV. A new national cable network, C l T V is starting out slowly hut has ambitious plans. For now, it only has one hour of program ming a week, Wednesdays from 10 until 11 p.m. A handful o f original programs rotates throughout each month, including shows on gay lifestyle, music videos and short films. On July 2 6 , 1 caught an episode of W O W , a half-hour magazine with pieces on travel, men’s fashion and a Miami circuit party. It struck me as a whole lot of fluff and not even especially queer-centric. T he second half-hour was a U SC student film called M eet Joe G ay, which was an improvement over the previous show. The slogan for the network is “the world through your eyes,” which is fine if your eyes reside in an affluent, toned, young, urban NxJy— which seems to he the target audience. The programming also appears more skewed to gay men than lesbians, but perhaps that will change. Scheduled to air Aug. 9 is The Boys o f M am Chester, an hour long look behind the scenes of the popular British series Q ueer as Folk, which debuts the following week in half-hour episodes. Don’t he surprised if that isn’t what you see, however, because the shows broadcast July 26 bore no resemblance to the listings in the publicity materials or on the Internet. C 1T V wants to have an interactive, fully com plementary online presence, hut its site is a badly designed work in progress. Stay tuned! So long to the boys— and girls— of summer D The Rose City Softball Association has hatted its last halls of the season, so all hail the victors! FIN A L SEASON STANDINGS O pen D ivision Now for something completely different lesbian who plays tasty piano and writes and sings jazz! Appearing during the Mount Htxxl Jazz Festival at 6:30 p.m. Aug. 5 in Gresham will he Patricia Barber, a phenomenal musician from Chicago. With her third CD, modem cool, liv ing up to its name— and earning the rarely bestowed five stars from the jazz hihle, Doten- beat, she is poised to release her latest record, Nightclub. Possessing a pure voice she can color in any hue, Barber is a master stylist who also records covers of songs such as “You and the Night and the Music" and “Light My Fire.” But her own lyrics are what stand out as thoughtful, insight ful yet accessible poetry set to inventive melody lines. Let’s get neighborly II Northeast Portland residents are invited to a gathering of gay, lesbian, hi, trans and ^otherwise kinky folks Aug. 13 at McMena- mins Kennedy School. G et to know that cute guy (or W-L Boxxes Stonn Embers Red Wings Full Sail Titans JO Q ’s Genuine Draft Egyptian Club Riders Quest Yellow Pages Wehpride, Vancouver Gay M en’s Chorus 6- 4-15 1-18 W omen ’ s D ivision W -L Mad Dogs Tan Body Just Out Mud Skippers Players Hobo’s The Royals Haggis’s Hustlers Play Hers Club 13- 1 19-0 13-6 13-6 12- 7 8-11 13 12-2 9-5 8-6 7- 7 6-8 4-10 0-14 in the city’s friendliest neighborhood. Organizers hope to make this a regular event, so stop by and share your ideas for fun activities. The mingling begins 3 p.m. at 5736 N.E. 33rd Ave.— ask for the nen-q table. For more information call (503) 731-8034. Texas twang thang f you haven’t heard enough lesbians with guitars lately, a new one is passing through Portland. Christy Claxton shines her btxtts in Austin, Texas, and is on a massive tour to promote her CD, Out of Nowhere. From a sampling, she sounds like a bluesy Ani Difranco wan nabe with a good dose of country. Claxton does two gigs with her backup trio, the Dirty Blondes: 9 p.m. Aug. 12 at the Old World Brewery, ¿728 N.E. 40th Ave., and 8 p.m. Aug. 13 at St. Johns Pub, 8203 N. Ivanhoe St. I What a concept ugene conceptual artist Mike E. Walsh has gotten a lot of ink for his multimedia instal lations exploring AIDS as a gay man. His newest show— Aug. 8 through Sept. 3 at the A.N. Bush Gallery in Salem— is Aus tralian Series: Fragile Circle, assemblages inspired by a monthlong sojourn down under. Composed of a wide array of materials, each piece documents the universality of cultural diversity. The gallery is located at 600 Mission St. S.E. For more details call (503) 581-2228. 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