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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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