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octobflf 19. ?(X)1 » A f r i g h t f u l l y g o o d id e a F eel the magic of the night— mix, mingle and make merry Oct. 31 at the Just Out H al loween Singles Party. Bring your single friends to Dragonfish, 909 S.W. Park Ave., from 6:30 until 9 p.m. and enjoy free sushi appetizer platters. Express yourself in free 50-word voice personal ads; everybody who submits one at the party will be entered to win tickets for Suzanne Westenhoefer and Portland Center Stage plus lots of other prizes. Show some queertastic imagination and win a prize for your costume. G et the creepy details form 503-236-1252. What's popped and what's flopped, in a theator near you. Com e as yo u a re n ’ t f you’re searching for a Halloween party with style, elegant drinks and sumptuous food, then ride your broom over to Chameleon, where host Pat Jeung plans another of his infamous affairs Oct. 27. Costumes are strongly encouraged, so drag out your most decadent outfit and party from 11 p.m. until— sunrise? The $15 cover charge I Pat Jeun g’s Cham eleon will live up to its name during a costum e party O ct. 27 includes the buffet, dancing and entertainment featuring male go-go dancers. Stop at the no-host bar for a selection of spooky cocktails, and if you dare, try a haunted sidecar on the rocks. The restaurant, located at 2000 N.E. 40th Ave., will be decked out with Jeung’s trademark special decorat ing touches. Dig up more at 503-460-2682. W ho in th e h e ll is N .P . L o v e c r a f t ■ ■■ A ^ E. A nn H inds probes the inner recesses of flowers in her photography show A tr u e life ta le off t e r r o r * nly slightly less horrific are the true stories told during Nova Presents Sex: Unknown, air ing 8 p.m. Oct. 30 on OPB. The television program asks: Are we bom with a fixed sense of gender? It probes a notorious sex-change case— a twin boy who endured a botched circumcision and was raised as a girl— for clues as to what makes a person act like a boy or a girl. Using that rare example plus others, Nova delves into the nature vs. nurture debate. Is our sense of being male or female defined by our genes, by the way we are raised or by something in between? The show also studies patients bom with ambiguous genitalia. Once called hermaphrodites, such peo ple are neither fully male nor female and now are termed intersex. The sad case of the twin is fol lowed to adulthood, with heart-wrenching results: “I didn’t like dressing like a girl, I didn’t like behaving like a girl, I didn’t like acting like a girl. [Sexual identity) is in your genetics. It’s in your brain. Nobody has to tell you who you are.” Many scientists agree and point to recent brain research indicating a small but significant differ ence between male and female brains, implying nurture can’t undo what nature has decreed. Visit Nova at www.phs.org/nova/gender to listen in as an intersexual talks about what it’s like to be a person of ambiguous gender. Share your story as an intersexual or an acquaintance of someone who is, and learn about how these people have been treated through history. nd why should you go to his film festival? Taking over the Hollywood Theatre from T h r o u g h a le n s d e e p ly Oct. 19 to 21 are adaptations o f the works f you want to see fine art created with a digital o f H.P. Lovecraft by student, amateur and camera, look no further than the Visual Arts professional filmmakers. The master writer of Center Gallery at Mount Hood Community horror and fantasy short stories possessed the College, 26000 S.E. Stark St. in Gresham. On power to move his readers, evoking a mood view Oct. 22 through Nov. 15 is TIFF LOVE: An that is hard to shake. His fiction, although still Exhibit for Transformation by les popular in print, has fared bian artist E. Ann Hinds. Her rather poorly when adapted photographs take the viewer into by commercial filmmakers. the intimate recesses of garden Lovecraft often said his flowers and create otherworldly stories were written out of landscapes and strangely sculp a deeply felt need. Through tural juxtapositions. The artist his unique vision of terror says, “I use light, depth, illusion and the obsessive qualities and visual puns on multiple o f his frail heroes, he has planes to create a sense of disori influenced most modem entation and reorientation.” horror authors. Lovecraft’s These works encourage the view creations seem to bridge er to look at life more closely and that vast gulf separating A victim of Lovecraft’s imagination from unconventional angles. the conscious mind from “Digital photography is a way for its dream-shrouded center; me to paint with a camera,” Hinds says. Her work he links each of us with a mythological possi has revolved around issues of sexuality, identity, bility that chills us to the bone. G et your pants equality and gnef. “In these images, I hope you will scared off for just $8 a day at the door or $6 a see reflections of the homeless, the broken, the day in advance from the theater, 4122 N.E. pain and the loss in a different light,” she says. Sandy Blvd. Films start at 7 p.m., with “And I hope that they will help viewers transform weekend matinees at 2 p.m. Find the awful difficult thoughts and feelings in their own lives.” truth at www.hplfilmfestival.com. I A reception for the artist will be held from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Nov. 2. Learn more from 503-491-7309. R e a d y to r o c k ’ n ’ ro ll? dud, bottom of the bag <g> only if you’re really hungry good effort, pass the salt <Qt> mmmm, tasty! <gi<C 3><gi get the big tub o’ com f so, check out the GoGirlsMusicFest 2001 fea turing Nicole Campbell and nine other acts, including the Leila Chieko Trio and Rene Corbin, 8 p.m. Oct. 20 at Mount Tabor Theatre and Pub, 4811 S.E. Hawthorne Blvd. The event benefits the Nicole Brown Charitable Foundation, which develops and implements long-term transi tional housing and life skills programs for victims of family and partner violence. Tickets are $12 at the door or $10 in advance from www.ticketweb .com. The first 75 people in the door at each show will receive a free compilation CD. Get the full scoop at www.gogirlsmusicfest.com/ gogirlsfest2001/portland.htm. A n o th er Jack the Ripper story? N o t again, I thought. But in the hands o f A llen and A lbert H ughes (Menace II Society), this is on e o f the year’s most frightening films. A d d in g to the terror is the hateful m ob m entality that results when the tow nspeople presum e the ser ial killer is a Jew. O h , and one o f the whores is a lesbian. — Jim Radosta N e w b lu e s o n g s <g>£S><gi G host W orld T N o t your usual teen angst flick— keen hum an insights abound. T h ora Birch (Am erican Beauty) stars as a m is erable young w om an trying but failing to escape her seedy Los A n geles upbringing. S h e d oesn ’t fit in any where, even with other outcasts, which sends her on a journey to another world. D eeply affecting. — O n an a G reen I he Lesbian Community Project and Touch stone Coffee House have joined forces to bring lesbian music pio neer Lucie Blue Tremblay to town Nov. 1 at Bridge port Community Church, 621 N.E. 76th Ave. The show, which features Bobbi Carmitchell as the opening act, gets going at 7:30 p.m. These insightful women also will share their experi Lucie Blue ences playing in New York Tremblay City during the aftermath o f Sept. 11. Tickets are $15 at the door or $12 in advance from It’s My Pleasure, In Other Words and Touchstone Coffee House. C all 503-262-7613 for details. She’s baaack! et-setting Portland singer-songwriter Lynn Frances Anderson is back from her tour and has some fun-sounding gigs lined up. From 7 until 10 p.m. Oct. 19 she’ll perform with her band at McMenamins Grand Lodge, 3505 Pacific Ave. in Forest Grove. The next day, also from 7 until 10 p.m., the band hits McMenamins Hotel Oregon, 310 N.E. Evans St. in McMinnville. For her fans who prefer an intimate solo show, complete with a warm drink on a cool autumn evening, Anderson sings her heart out 7 p.m. Oct. 26 at Touch stone Coffee House, 7631 N.E. G lisan St. in Portland. Then she and her band shake things up from 7 until 10 p.m. Nov. 1 at M cM en amins Kennedy School, 5736 N.E. 33rd Ave. If you’ve never heard the lovely Lynn sing, here’s your chance. | H J Com plied by O riana G reen <&> <&> F rom H ell <£>££> <g> H edwig and the A ngry I nch A sm art little m usical with som e real flashes o f brilliance. H edw ig s revolt against con ven tion al social, sex ual and political wisdom is refreshingly defiant. H er own obsession with becom ing whole is an odyssey th at’s strangely, m agically fulfilled by the film ’s end. A lw ays engaging and fre quently en chan tin g, sim ultaneously fun and provocative. — Christopher M cQ uam L.I.E. T h is tense tale follows the relation ship betw een 15-year-old How ie Blitzer and “ Big Jo h n ” H arrigan, a V ietnam vet and the neighborhood child m oles ter. Fortunately for H ow ie, he sees the dam aged figure o f Jo h n the sam e way we see him: a con tradiction to be approached with caution , not a m o n ster but a m an rendered dangerous by his m onstrous pathology. —CM
