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About Just out. (Portland, OR) 1983-2013 | View Entire Issue (May 3, 2002)
30 Ju st m it » may 3.2002 Lesbian singing sensation Ferron plays the St. Johns Pub. Portland dyke Lynn Frances Anderson opens. (8 pm. 8203 N Ivanhoe St. $18 from Ticketmaster.) It's a slam-bang evening at the Meow Meow. Portland spoken-word poets Turiya Autry and Aisha Ayers warm up the stage for New York dyke Alix Olson. All ages. (9 pm. 527 SE Pine St. $8.) Learn to cha-cha with Out Dancing every Fnday in May. (7-8 pm. Comer o f Southeast Ninth Avenue and Ankeny Street. $5. 503-236-5129. out_dancing@yahoo. com.) Lesbian Celtic luminary Rene Corbin offers up a free evening The Bisexual Community Forum invites you to its social mixer at 3 Friends Coffeehouse. (7.30 pm. 201 SE 12th Ave. 503-285-4848.) of Scottish. English and Irish music at Lloyd Center Barnes & Noble. (5 pm. 503-249-0845.) Lesbian violinist and Portland Baroque Orchestra artistic director Monica Huggett u, returns to First Baptist Church through May 4 for an all-Bach program, which closes out the company's 18th season. (8 pm. 909 SW 11th Ave. $13-$35 from 503 222-6000 or vmw.pbo.org.) Make a date with the Portland three- to six-mile run followed by dinner. (6:30 pm. 503-239-7705. www.portlandfrontrunners.org.) Crush invites you to Cabernet Cabaret, a comedy show and wine tasting musical featuring Rhea Neati, resident tasting/swilling goddess. Includes wine and bread for you, too. Also on May 14. (7:30pm. 1412 SE Morrison St. $35. Reservations at 503-235-8150.) Brainwaves Improvisational Comedy livens up Hollywood Theatre tonight and May 4, 10 and 11. Bring a prop bigger than your hand and smaller than a Volkswagen (they don't specify whether Bug or van), and it might be used in the show. (8 pm. 4122 NE Sandy Blvd. $12 from 503-796-9550) Head north to the Olympia Gender and Sexuality Conference for a weekend filled with art, sex, music and performance at Evergreen State College and other locales around the city. See Page 8 for details. (www.olynetwork.org/gendersbxcon.) The all-women Aurora Chorus, led by les bian Joan Szymko, offers Full Circle, a cele bration of 10 years of performance, at Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall. (8 pm. 1037 SW Broadway. $15 $ 18 from Portland Center for the Performing Arts box office or Fastixx.) s t u f f — the likes of Madonna, Gershwin and Shakespeare— at the Spiritual Awareness Center in Bend. (7 pm. 157 N W Franklin Ave. $12 at the door o r $10 in advance from the Book Bam, Boomtown or the Curiosity Shoppe.) Attend Georgena's Journeys A Community Confronts Multiple Sclerosis, an all-women's dance with DJ Lauren at Trinity United Methodist Church to help fund a much-needed operation. (7 pm. 3915 SE Steele St. $10. 503-471-1555 or www. georgenasjoumey. org.) Issues After Breast Cancer is a one-day conference at the Oregon Convention Center for anyone affected by a breast cancer diagnosis Lunch is included, and scholarships are available. (7.15 am-4.15 pm. 777 NE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. $20. Register at 800-404-8241.) Get your heart rate up with the Portland Frontrunners on a three- to six-mile run. An optional brunch follows. (9 am. 503-239-7705. www.portlandfrontrunners.org.) Eat, drink and make menry in the warm May sunshine with the Adventure Group during its annual Spring BBQ at Hoyt Arboretum. (Call for time. 4000 S W Fairview Blvd 503-452-5680. www.adventuregroup.org.) The M argaret Mead Traveling Film and Video Festival returns to Portland State University tonight and May 11 and 18. The first program of the free series includes a screening of the film Margaret Mead: A Portrait by a Friend, which proba bly does not mention that she was a flam ing queer. However, Why Pay Two Rents is a humorous celebration about a gay couple witnessing the cultural transformation of Greenwich Village. (7 pm. Room 53, Cramer Hall. 1721 S W Broadway 503-725-4938.) Confluence W illam ette Valley Mixed GALA Chorus offers up “ unstuffy Hike the Lower Deschutes River with the Forest Group Bring lunch and adequate water for this 7.5-mile dog-friendly trek. (ncc1127@hotmail.com.) The lesbian social group Out A About does brunch at Shenanigan's. (11 am. 4575 N Channel Ave. Linda 503-665-8386.) O ut Dancing will teach you how to swing every Sunday this month. (3-4 pm. C om er o f Southeast Ninth Avenue and Ankeny Street. $5. 503-236-5129. out_dancing@yahoo. com.) Want to discuss kink/altem ative sexuality stuff? Go to the Cedar Hills McMenamins for the Beaverton Sunday Munch. (4-7 pm. 2927 S W Cedar Hills Blvd. phoenix@clearspring. com.) Portland diva Lynn Frances Anderson (second from left) rocks it up May 5 with Ferron, then May 10 with her own band W&gmmum Submissions should be sent t< > just out Calendar, P.O. Box 14400, Portland, OR 97293-0400; or faxed to 503-236-1257; or submitted at wAvw.justout.com Deadline is 15 days before issue date. ju s t OUt is published on the first and third Friday of each month. All addresses are in Portland unless otherwise specified. r Frontrunners for a Straight. David Schmader's one-man show about sexual con version therapy, plays through May 4 at Coho Theatre. (8 pm. 2257 N W Raleigh St. $12 from 503-274-1373.) é ejtkbo a Youth and adult perform ers will come together in irresistible drag for the Sexual Minority Youth Recreation Center's v ari ety show fund-raiser Diva o f Dance. (6:30 pm. 2100 SE Belmont St. $20 and can o f food suggest ed donation. 503-8729664 www.smyrc.org.) Rene Corbin has been called “ the Grace Slick of Celtic.' Canadian Cara Luft’s original folk/rock is compared with Ani .DiFranco s. See them both tonight at Artichoke Music (7-9 pm. 3130 SE Hawthorne Blvd $8 from 503 287-1518 or at the door.) Daisychain Music Fair is back at Mt. Tabor Theatre & Pub through May 12. Features more than 55 female-fronted bands and benefits Old Town's Women's Safe Passage & Respite Fund. (4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd. For schedule and ticket information, visit www.daisychainmusicfair.com, Mt. Tabor Theatre & Pub, Music Millennium or Fastixx.) •Hometown girl (does Brush Prairie count?) Irene Soderberg returns from Hollywood to shoot her music video at Panorama. You get in for free, but show up early—it's limited to 700 guests. Dress elegant, outrageous and/or glamorous. (6-9 pm. 341 S W 10th Ave.503-226-4171.www.imirene.com.) Radical Women plays host to w riter and translator Birgit Nielsen, who will report on the impact o f the North American Free Trade Agreement and the impending Free Trade Area o f the Americas on women laborers in M exico at the Bread and Roses Center. Meeting preceded by a Mexican buffet. (6.30 pm buffet [$6), 7 pm discussion lfree1. 819 N Killingsworth St. 503-240-4463) Portland bi author Annie Dawid reads from her book of stories Lily in the Desert at Borders. (7 pm. 708 S W Third Ave. 503-220-5911.) White Bird presents France’s beloved contem porary dance company Lyon Opera Ballet at Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall. (7.30 pm. 1037 SW Broadway $15.50-$39 from Portland Center for the Performing Arts box office or Ticketmaster.) The Egyptian Club entices with two tantalizing offers: live Middle Eastern music and belly dancers in the Tomb and open mike with Special K in the Room. Why not do both? (8 pm Tomb [$41, 9 pm Room lfreeJ. 3701 SE Division St. 503-236 8689.) Men's FilmTalk watches a biography of William Haines, then the Queer as Folk "Gay Hero Award" episode ( 7 pm. 503 220-0618 filmtalk@aracnet.com.)
