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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.”
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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,
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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
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Compiled by L isa B radshaw
and S arah L eimert