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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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A reception for the artist will be held from 6:30 to
8:30 p.m. Nov. 2. Learn more from 503-491-7309.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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