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About Just out. (Portland, OR) 1983-2013 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 21, 2001)
September 2 1 , 2 0 0 1 DIVERSIONS .....................▼..................... A r t w ith a h e a r t ¿wage Gallery has organized a unique response to the recent terrorist attacks— it has marshaled the artistic community to donate time, materials and talent to a month long print project. Anyone who wants to cre ate a print is welcome to join artists and volun teers in reflection, support, observation and personal expression. T he prints will he dis played through Oct. 27, and all proceeds will go to the New York City Victim Relief Fund Print Project. Various printmakers will he on hand in the gallery to help out, so if you want to put your reactions and thoughts into art, show up between 10 a.m. and 6 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday at 416 N.W. 10th Ave. For details, call 503-223-2868. wintertime set emphasizing the general hard ships of colonial New England. At its heart, the play is about people who fear the Other, what is unfamiliar to them. It’s about people who rush to judgment and condemn people who don’t fit their definitions of normal and acceptable behavior. It’s not much of a leap for most gay men and lesbians to relate to those themes. Sadly, persecution fueled by religious zealotry is still alive and ugly on The 700 Club, where homosexuals recently were cited as one of the causes of terrorism. A RTs actors do a wonderful job evoking the hyste ria of that time and echoing the lingering, dark itkxx J of our own. The play runs through Oct. 21; call 503-241-1278 for tickets. C o m in g off a g e in tu m u ltu o u s tim e s What's popped and what's flopped in a theater near you. Margie Adam is a key player in women’s music T PHOTO BY OWEN CAREY he World of Normal Boys, which won the Lambda Award for Best Gay Fiction, recently was released in a paperback edition. The year is 1978; the place is suburban New Jersey. While other teen-agers are coming of age, 13-year-old Robin MacKenzie is coming undone. This is a fresh look at one hoy’s sexual awaken ing and his journey to find a place where he can fit in. Author Karl Soehnlein reads from his novel 7:30 p.m. Sept. 27 at Powell’s Books, 3723 S.E. Hawthorne Blvd. Learn more at 503-238-1668 or www.normalhoys.com. T he Crucible cast confronts Tituba P e r s e c u tio n c o m p le x T a lk to M a rg ie hen Arthur Miller wrote The Crucible hack in the 1950s, he intended it as an allegory about the McCarthy-era “witch hunts" for communist sympathizers. Now that the Cold War is over, that metaphor is rruxit, hut it’s still easy to extrapolate other relevant situations from the story about the real Salem witch hunts of 1692. Artists Repertory Theatre has mounted an austere presentation of the story, dominated by a bleak atch singer/songwriter/pianist Margie Adam, one of the pioneers of women’s music, during a benefit for Portland C om munity C ollege’s Diversity Fund at 8 p.m. Sept. 29 in the Sylvania Performing Arts C en ter. The event also will serve as a C D release concert for her new album, Avalon. You’ll find the theater at 12000 S.W. 49th Ave. Tickets are $18 at the door or $16 in advance from V C Li The costume possibilities are endless Tw o w om en a n d an a r tic h o k e inger Izctta Smith and composer/musician Barbara Bernstein and friends present a C D release concert 8 p.m. Sept. 28 and 29 at the Artichoke Backgate Theater, 3130 S.E. Haw thorne Blvd. Smith’s new C D is Here's Wishing You Love, a collection of her favorite songs, creat ed with Bernstein as instrumentalist and producer. Maps of Memory is Bernstein’s new CD, 11 songs interlacing the personal with the political. She is also known for her award-winning documentaries on public radio. Get more info or make reserva tions at 503-235-2623. Te ll it to th e D iva D T h e h ills a r e a liv e w ith th e s o u n d o f your v o ic e 111 et’s start at the very beginning, a very good place to start.” Have you ever been to musical and had the uncontrollable urge to hurst into song? Do you muse over the end less tailoring opportunities for chintz curtains? Have you always wondered what it would be like to wear a wimple? T h is is your chance to test your vocal range with several hundred other assorted nuns, Von Trapp family mem bers and Julie Andrews look-alikes. G et into costume as your favorite character— or lyric— for the world-renowned Sing-a-Long Sound of Music at Cinem a 21, 616 N.W. 21st Ave. It arrives Sept. 27 in a special screening for three charities, including— can ’t you guess?— the Portland Gay M en’s Chom s. S o grab a habit or some lederhosen and join the merriment. Your host for the evening, local actor Enrique, 503-460-3803, It’s My Pleasure or Fastixx. Learn more at www.margieadam.com. T he next day from 1 to 3 p.m. in the theater lobby, you can join in “A Conversation with Margie Adam ,” an open-ended discussion of women’s music and culture and strategies for supporting positive change. Admission is free. Making a habit of singing along will lead you through a vocal warm-up, judge the costume competition, show you how to use your interactive bag of props and give you a guide to the accompanying actions and heckles. Show ings have sold exit all across the country, so get your tickets early. Costume judging starts at 6 p.m., prizes and preshow festivities continue at 6:30, and the film screens at 7. Tickets are $35- $75 from the theater or www.singalongpdx.com. You’ll have another chance to belt out your favorite things during a screening at l p.m. Sept. 30 benefiting Sensory Perceptions, the group that brings you the Portland Lesbian Gay Bi Trans Film Festival each year. S o wrap your self in brown paper or warm woolen mittens and have a gay old time. These tickets are $35 from TicketWeb, 866-468-7623, and at the door. The regular run of the film is from Oct. 5 to 18 except Oct. 9. Call for times; tickets are $12.50- $22.50 from 503-223-4044 or Ticketmaster. arklady Prcxluctions brings you Fetish Diva Midori teaching “Aural Sex: Voice Seduction and Storytelling” 7 p.m. Sept. 21 at It’s My Pleasure, 3106 N.E. 64th Ave. This is a combina tion of two of her popular classes. During the workshop, she will show attendees how to use the “hypnotic magic" of their voices as part of seduc tion to suggest, command, tease and take control in or out of the bednxxn or dungeon. Practice and refine your skills with exercises, and learn valuable tips and secrets of aural seduction. Once you have your seductive voice, Midori will show you how to incorporate it into your erotic life. Then at 7 p.m. Sept. 22 she will teach “The Art of Feminine Dominance.” Call 503-280-8080 for the painful details and to register. J H Complied by O riana G reen X dud, bottom o f the bag only if you’re really hungry good effort, pass the salt <J£i><Qy> mmmm, tasty! <£> <§> <g> <§> <&> Set the bigtu^ ° ’ corn <giiC3><5> T he C loset S lig h t but fun Fren ch farce about a straigh t m an co n v in ced h e c an m ore easily clim b the corp o rate ladder by p reten d in g h e ’s gay. Less a zany L a C age A u x Folles th an a com edy o f (m ild ) m anners. G erard D epardieu is pure drollery as an o afish , closeted co-worker. — Christopher M cQ uain T he D eep E nd Lean, gorgeous suspense flick boast ing great perform ances and a genuinely classy, understated tone. T h e excellen t Tilda Sw in ton stars as a m other just com ing to terms with her so n ’s h om o sexuality when the death o f a m an h e’s been involved with sucks her in to a web o f doubt, deceit and blackm ail. It’s likely the best gay film o f the year. — CM £g><g}<g> H edwig and the A ngry I nch A smart little musical with some real flashes of brilliance. Hedwig’s revolt against conventional social, sexual and political wisdom is refreshingly defiant. Her own obsession with becoming whole is an odyssey that’s strangely, magically ful filled by the film’s end. Always engaging and frequently enchanting, simultaneously fun and provocative. —C M <§><£> O ur L ady of the A ssassins Fetish Diva Midori looks like she knows her stuff D irector Barbet Schroed er’s ad apta tion o f Fernando V allejo’s novel about an aging, jaded gay C o lo m b ian writer’s affair with a much younger gan g m em ber, an “assassin" for whom murder and poverty are facts o f life. A harrowing but transcendent existential fable set amid the random violence and political despondency o f present-day Bogota. O pens Sep t. 14 at C in em a 21. — CM 41
