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January 18.2002 Fun and frivolity will be had 3 p.m. Feb. 3 during the Jocks in Dresses Super Bowl Party at Embers, 110 N.W. Broadway. T h e club’s resi dent divas will help R C S A athletes transform into jocks in frocks, and contestants will com pete against each other to get the most dona tions for their acts. You can root for your favorite football team and your favorite softball player all at once. And every dime goes to the World Series fund. To volunteer, sponsor or join a team, call 503-450-9999. Volunteers can e-mail volunteers@series2002.org; players can e-mail membership@portlandgaysoftball.com. For further info on the World Series, visit www.portlandgaysoftball. com. To contact Team Quest, call Brice at 503-287-2248. Now you can own them he entire first season o f Show tim e’s Q ueer as Folk is now available on D V D and V H S for a mere suggested retail price of $119.98. (H int: You can rent them for a lot less.) T he collective shows clock in at 990 minutes, but the D V D version includes not one, not two, but three hours of bonus feature footage! W hat is all that never-before-seen stuff? If we told T N i g h t s p o t s N i g h t s p o t s I want my gay TV you, it wouldn’t be a surprise. Speaking of emember when all television fought Q A F, did you know not to introduce queer characters and M ichelle Clunie, aka themes to their lineups and how peo hot power lawyer ple boycotted sponsors of Roseanne even M elanie, was raised up though it didn’t even actually show the kiss right here in the Rose between her and Mariel Hemingway? Doesn’t City? She took off at 17 it seem like that wasn’t long ago? the brighter lights o f Los Now there’s a gay cable channel war. Angeles, noting on an Inter M T V and Showtim e, both Viacom com Q A F s M elanie is net chat that for an actress panies, are embarking on a join t venture to Portland grown “there wasn’t a lot o f opportu launch the first U .S. cable channel “devoted nity in Portland.” O h well, at least we know to gay and lesbian programming.” Announced how to birth women who grow up to play ballsy dykes on T V R Hey, let’s put on a show! T T N i g h t s p o t s N i g h t s p o t s C h e z W h a t? C a f e ’s 281-1717 Whatever?! Lounge A N E Neighborhood Cafe and Bar 2203 N E Alberta • PDX • 503-460-0368 SUPERBOUIL BlflGO! $100 Cash Blackout Game PRIZES T O T A L O V E R $250 Score with appetizers and celebrate with drink specials J o in U s F o r a C h e e r f u l a n d E x c it in g A t m o s p h e r e Sunday, Feb. 3 rd 4:00-6 :OOpm A P la c e fo r E v e r y o n e ! Good Food • Drink • Company W hat’s a nice girl like you doing in a place like this!” “ But will he sing with Eminem? he talented folks of the Sexual he Grammy Awards are scheduled for Minority Youth Recreation Center Feb. 27, and gay pop star Elton John invite you to A New Beginning, an all has been nominated for two: Best ages variety show Jan. 20. (See Page 26 Male Pop Vocal Performance for details). The program will feature per (“I W ant Love”) and Best Pop Vocal formances by Thom XX V Chance Album (Songs from the West Coast). DeValmont, Rosebud XXV Anastasia, Melissa Etheridge garnered a Best Female Leather X V Tobias Pink and a special Rock Vocal Performance nomination for appearance by Rose Court members. “I Want to Be in Love” from the sad and A program of Vanguard Youth Serv moody, my-girlfriend-left-me Skin. ices, SM Y RC is a drop-in center for Queer R.E.M. frontman Michael Stipe queer and questioning kids 23 and will contend for Best Pop Performance by younger. “It’s a safe place,” program man a Duo or Group with Vocal for “Imitation ager Kathy Beige says, “for queer youth to of Life.” He also is nominated separately be themselves and to support each other.” Drag yourself to S M Y R C for its new variety show Jan. 2 0 for Best Recording Package for the art She encourages all age groups to go to the direction on the album Reveal. Here’s show, calling SM YRC ’s past productions simultaneously (fancy th at) is startup M D C hoping his package comes out on top. |H “amazing. This is totally being put on by the Entertainm ent G roup’s intention to launch youth. It’s going to be gorxl entertainment.” the country’s first “cable television channel C o m p ile d by LlSA BRADSHAW Presenting: ( 503 ) targeted to gay and lesbian viewers.” M D C has the two Viacom companies beat with, optimistically, a name for their channel already— A lt 1-TV. But it doesn’t have the deep pockets of an MTV/Showtime hybrid. And the Viacoms are hitting the ground running, with former M TV executive Matt Farber returning to the music channel to head up the project and Showtime senior vice president Gene Falk already in the development and planning stage. No investors needed, thank you very much. T he current popular media question is: Can the queer community support one all-gay-all- the-time channel, let alone two? Considering the other 10 billion cable stations are straight, it doesn’t seem impossible. PDX 2512 “NE” Broadway Full lo ttery/A TM (503) 287-42 I 0 “Looking fo r a naughty girl.” You might fin d on e with JUST fH K VOICE PERSONAL ADS L ook in the next issue FOR INFO. ON OUR P resid ent ' s D ay S ingles P a r t t Page 43 N i g h t s p o t s N i g h t s p o t s N i g h t s p o t s N i g h t s p o t s 41
