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About Just out. (Portland, OR) 1983-2013 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 6, 2002)
4 6 JlM tM rt • September 6.2002 __________________________________________________ _________________________________________ If m w Wm 1 m « u r m MM W W mM ................ ▼ ................ Rocker dykes from down South Bowling association turns 25 Bienvenido Onda Arte Latina hen you’re wan dering around Northeast Alberta Street on last Thursday this month, you’ll no doubt notice that the gay-owned Onda Studio is hack, albeit with a different name and a whole new look. Onda Arte Latina at 2215 N.E. Alberta St. celebrated its grand reopening last month- Owner Allan Oliver changed the focus of what used to be a traditional art gallery with rotating exhibits to more of a retail shop of arts and crafts from Ecuador, Cuba, Uruguay, Nicaragua, Guatemala and other places south of the border. “Onda Studio &. Gallery got a lot of favorable public and criti cal recognition,” says Oliver. “If I’d been able to clear a mixlest income, I would have continued, but unfortunately, that never happened.” He says he feels the econom ic downturn has affected people’s ability to buy higher-priced art. “I have decided to offer art, design and craft items which are unusual and attractive but also affordable for gifts and other lifestyle purchases.” New merchandise includes an inventory of nearly 1,000 items, including Cuban papier- mache cars, Ecuadorian shawls and scarves and Guatemalan hacky sacks as well as finer art pieces. Oliver has lived and worked in Peru, Venezuela, Chile, Puerto Rico and Mexico for a total of five years. “As they say in Brazil,” he says, “I have sangue quente, or hot blixxJ.” His travels brought him in contact with a lot of artists, and he’s excited to now be repre senting these various regions. “I’ve developed a taste for art which expresses the culture but doesn’t settle for tourist effects.” W Peddlin’ in the Gorge ti,mis it up evtT\ Sunu.iv at Hollywood Lancs he Friends of People with AIDS Foundation, a Portland grassroots nonprofit that gives direct help to people living with HIV, invite you to ride your bike through the breathtaking Columbia Gorge on Sept. 21. The Friends Ride .benefit will begin in Hixxl River and end in The Dalles via the Historic Columbia River Highway. Riders can choose from easy to challenging routes of three different lengths. The Family Fun ride is eight miles and will he entirely free of pesky Be like Audrey! motor vehicles, a ride to Rowena Crest and back is a 24-milc circuit, and you’ll trek 42 miles shcxjld you chtxise to cycle all the way to the Dalles. “O f course, since it’s a ‘there and hack’ ride," says Friends secretary Bill Space, “people can turn anxmd any place they feel they’ve spent about half their energy, making it a very flexi ble ride for folks not certain of their abilities.” The ride is self-monitored, but food, PHOTO BY nine months of the year. Tom Geil ver wonder what your fel founded the low folk/rock artists are up league, he says, to down South? Come “as a means to ! find out Sept. 18 at Hol- foster more com lywixxJ Theatre, where Bclinki munication and DuPrey Art Gallery and between the men the Lesbian Community Proj and women of the ect have joined forces to pre community hack sent the W.A.M. Extravagan when there za, “an evening of women, art weren’t many and music," as a benefit for opportunities for both organizations. interaction.” He The event kicks off at has continued to 6 p.m. with an Art Party in lead the organiza the upstairs lobby, where visu tion through its al artists will display and sell 25-year history their treasures. There are also but celebrates this complimentary munchics and season as his a no-host bar. retirement year. The crowning glory of the Everyone, says evening is the dyke duo con Geil, “from begin Tennessee dyke Kelly Zullo belts it out cert, featuring Nashville-based Sept. 18 at Hollywood Theatre ners to experi singer/songwriters Kelly Zullo enced bowlers” is and Cynthia Williams. According to one smit welcome to join, and he emphasizes the league ten critic, Zullo’s music will “make you want to is open to all ages from youth to seniors. Far look into your lover’s eyes and let them see from competitive, members have maintained a right into your soul.” Williams has been casual approach to the sport through the years described as “a lovelorn sorceress whose tales of in order to create a more siKial atmosphere. (love) could seduce and reduce Casanova to a The league is split into two halves— Sep whimpering, worshipping puppy.” tember to December and January to May— to But, really, one need only hx>k at photos of allow bowlers more options for commitment. these women for reason enough to break down Awards and cash disbursements are made at the the theater dixirs. Tickets are $8 in advance end of each half. from In Other Words or $10 at the dixir. This coming season, Geil notes, will also be the 20th anniversary of Portland’s oldest inter national sports tournament— the Roschowl International Classic. Each year this event attracts bowlers from all over the United ime to break out those snappy shoes and States, Canada and New Zealand. Last June a retro short sleeves with the contrasting co-ed team from Vancouver, British Columbia, embroidered name. It’s bowling time. tixik home the top prize. But this upcoming year isn’t just any howl To make the quarter-century mark memo ing season, oh no. rable, limited-edition commemorative pins are Beginning Sept. 8, Portland’s longest-run being created, and specially prixluced awards ning sporting group celebrates its 25th are being commissioned by artists. anniversary season. T he Portland Com m uni The bowling association knix:ks ’em down ty Bowling Association began in 1976, offi every Sunday at Hollywixxl Lines, 4030 N.E. cially organizing as a league in 1979. Bowling Halsey St. Registration begins at 2:30 p.m., has become the most expansive sports activi with regular games starting at 3:30. Weekly ty for the gay and lesbian community, with cost is $ 10. For further info check out nearly 300 active participants for more than www.pdxbowl.com. mechanical support and emergency transporta tion will be available. Riders are welcome to raise the minimum pledge of $40 through friends and family or donate it themselves. Registration will take place the day of the ride from 8 to 10 a.m. at the Sen. Mark O. Hat field West Trailhead. (Take Interstate 84 east to Exit 64 at Hcxxl River and follow the signs.) You can sign up in advance by e-mailing bill_space@yahœ.com or visiting participating Portland hike shops for registration forms. For further information call 503-283-8535. Take a Roman Holiday! ollywcxxJ Theatre runs the 1953 classic Roman Holiday from Sept. 13 to 19. And as if that wasn’t enough, on opening night the hip theater is offering an Audrey Hepburn look-alike contest, the winner of which will win two round-trip tickets to Rome and the rental of two Vespas for buzzing around the Eternal City just like Audrey Hepburn and Gregory Peck! Additional prizes range from Vespa-labeled Italian wine to Dr. Martens Classic 1460s shoes (probably worth the same as round-trip tickets to Italy, based on current prices of their new shews). Judges of the contest will base their decisions both on appearance and on style and voice— cap turing “the essence" of Audrey. (Extra points given to those bringing a partner dressed like Gre gory Peck.) The contest starts at 7 :3 0 p.m. Sept. 13. There’s a $10 charge, the proceeds of which go to the Restoration Fund of the HollywcxxJ T he atre Project. Visit www.hollywcxxJtheatre.org for complete contest rules. J D H Compiled by L isa B radshaw and S arah L eimert
