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And he sure to check out the gay-
owned O N D A Studio and Gallery,
2215 N.E. Alberta St. T his year’s Holi
day G ift Showcase features lesbian
artists Serena Barton, Mariah Ureel and
Sierra Briano through Dec. 24.
The lesbian-owned Plain Jane,
2936 N.E. Alberta St., recently reinvented
itself as a gift gallery. In addition to a
diverse and exciting array of art, small
items are being added to its offerings.
The new merchandise includes color
ful papier-mache bowls made by South
African women with H IV /AID S. The
items are fairly traded, which means the
impoverished artisans are being paid
higher prices and given access to mar
kets otherwise unavailable to them.
The bowls are created by the non
profit Wola N ani, which is Xhosa for
“we embrace and develop each other.”
The organization facilitates job creation
programs for those affected by the dis
ease and offers community support serv
ices such as counseling and child care.
—Jim Radosta
V a m p ir e V o w
by Michael Scheifelbein.
Alyson , 2001; $12.95 softcover .
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f one really wanted to break a bunch of
tabtxis all at once, how about this scenario:
JL An ex-priest writes a Ixxik about a Roman
officer who tries to seduce and rape his friend Jesus
Christ, then becomes a cursed vampire and slaugh
ters monks through the ages. That’s Vampire Vow
in a nutshell—and a nastily erotic nutshell it is.
Michael Scheifelbein writes smoothly—
even in the first-person voice— and the chap
ters fly by so quickly, I read most of the book
while waiting on a car repair. A sequel is
already on the way.
My one complaint is the brevity of this
book; it seems like it should have been longer.
But as every writer wants the reader to desire
more, Scheifelbein did his job.
My job is to recommend Vampire Vow
with a caveat: If you have issues with either
bloody gore or the mixture of eroticism and
Jesus, you won’t want this book. More
adventurous readers— and Anne Rice
fans— will devour it whole.
— AM
happened to be witness to a murder that con
nects back to Lolita.
It’s all quite complicated, and Quiet Days
tries too hard to fracture the myth of a perfect
Tinseltown while indulging in some cliches of
its own, but the performances are almost all
great, and it’s refreshing to see a film deal with
the industry’s gay closet.
The DVD and video feature the same print.
The film was not shot in widescreen, and there
are no DVD extras.
— AM
Q u i e t D a y s in H o l l y w o o d
Image
Although flashbacks tell us the story of Vic
tor Decimus’ cursed past, the hulk of this short
novel is set in the present, when he is a monk
at an Appalachian monastery. There, he finally
finds a man whom he loves and whom he also
wants to turn into a vampire. But the seduc
tion carries with it a price, and because Victors
dreams are haunted by an erotic yet forgiving
Jesus, things are not destined to end well.
uiet Days in Hollywood is one
of those films that almost
seems to be ad-libbed, yet
the plotting is so intricately intertwined
that it had to have a script. An ensemble
cast of eight people wending their way
through Hollywood covers the spectrum.
Hilary Swank represents the low end
as a wig-wearing streetwalker Lolita,
while Peter Dobson sets the tone at the
high end as award-winning closeted
actor Peter Blaine (think Tom Cruise),
who’s in love with a screwed-up, coke
head boy toy. This young guy has a sexu
al encounter with a high-profile Holly
wood type whose equally high-profile
wife is having an affair with an asshole
lawyer whose waitress that morning just
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