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About Just out. (Portland, OR) 1983-2013 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 15, 2002)
HQvember 15.2ÛÛ2 * Ju st h ë 29 S aturday CityWalk with the Adventure Group and follow it up with brunch. (9 am. 503-452-5680. www.adventuregroup.org.) The Oregon Bears hold their annual Thanksgiving Potluck at Vancouver's Northbank Tavern. (4 pm. 106 kV Sixth Ave. www. oregonbears. org.) Rose City Swing is back with its fabu lous Holiday Variety Show and Dance1 Featuring Carol Reise on vocals, Daniel Hutchison of Out Dancing and host ess Poison Waters. Don’t miss it. (8 pm. 618 SE Alder St. $ 10 from 503-790-2170 o r Gai-Pied.) Learn some new steps during Out Dancing’s Dance Social at Ankeny Street Studio. Lesson and refreshments included. (7-10 pm. C om er o f Southeast Ninth Avenue and Ankeny Street. $8. 503-236-5129. out_dancing@yahoo. com.) Satori Men's Chorus opens its new season with Elements, a musical collage of those ancient building blocks earth, water, fire and air, through Nov. 24 at the Community Music Center. (8 pm Saturday, 7 pm Sunday. 3350 SE Francis St. $8 $ 12 from 503-299-4454.) It's a Uniform & Buzzcuts party with In Uniform at the Eagle PDX. Haircuts and shaves on the front stage by Seattle's Patrick Bear. (9 pm. 1300 W Burnside St. www. inuniform, net.) Portlander Lara Michell of Carmina Pirhana teams up with queer girls Thais Perkins and Lorna Hunt for an exceptional evening of singer/songwriter appeal at the Mad Hatter Lounge. The trio moves to Corvallis tomorrow. (9:30 pm. 203 SE Grand Ave. $4.) Icelandic rock band Sigur Rôs with its choir-boy falsettos, hypnosis-inducing sounds and gay frontman is at Roseland Thèater in promotion of its new album, ( ), which is pro nounced "parentheses.” Who would want to miss this? Special guest Siggi Armann. (8 pm. 8 N W Sixth Ave. $20 from Floseland Grill o r Fastixx. All ages.) 26 T uesday Senior Housing and Retirement Enterprises (SHARE) holds its last meeting of the year to plan future gay and lesbian housing options in Portland. (6-8 pm. 1737 N W 26th Ave. 503-286-3575.) The Washington County Parents and Kids Group meets for dinner, support and fun at Community Church of Cedar Hills. (6 pm. ' 84 11695 S W Parkway Ave. 503-228-3892.) pinochle group plays every Sunday at Hobo's. (6 pm. 120 N W Third Ave. George 503-760-1248.) Love Makes a Family presents its annual Auction and Fashion Show at Darcelle XV. Eclectic and vintage delights on offer. (7 pm. 208 N W Third Ave. $10. www Im family, org.) _ M onday Women’s Recreational Basketball Night at James John School. New players welcome! Bring a light and dark T-shirt. (7.15-8:30 pm. 7439 N Charleston S t $3.) The Portland Center for Spiritual Growth plays host to a Spiritual Principle Gab Group every Monday downstairs in the sofa room. (7:30-9 pm. 4525 SE Stark St. 503-777-0727.) famous Silverado dancers, free pizza, dollar shots and a $5 beer bust. (4-9 pm. 1217 SW Stark St.) Find fun and chatty people into kink during the Beaverton Sunday Munch at McMenamins Cedar Hills. (4-7 pm. 2927 SW Cedar Hills Blvd. phoenix@clearspring.com.) 5 T hursday Arlene Hale plays Touchstone Coffee House. (7-9 pm. 7631 NE Glisan St. $3 donation.) Jewish Family & Child Service invites you to a Hanukkah Party A dinner of latkes, songs, games and a white elephant gift exchange to celebrate this last night of Hanukkah. (6.30pm C a ll503-226-7079, ext. 14, for location, www. gayjewishportland. com. ) A gay/gay-friendly Celebrate the holidays together at It's My Pleasure's Sex Toys 101. (7 pm. 3106 NE 64th Ave. Register at 503-280-8080.) Join the Portland Frontrunners for a three- to six- mile run, which makes jogging around in the dark a little more fun. Optional din ner follows. (6:30 pm. June 503-819-4626. www.portlandfrontrunners. org.) Spout some wisdom for your sisters during The Last Word open mike night at In Other Words. (7-9 pm. 3734 SE Hawthorne Blvd. 503-232-6003.) T hursday Anyone feeling like taking a hike this Thanksgiving Day should call Lesbians Enjoying Nature and Science. (Suzanne 503-254-8382.) F riday Portland Bisexual Women play host to a Thanksgiving Leftovers Potluck. (Call 503 283-6433 for time and place ) From jazz to funk to folk to punk: Canadian queer Ember Swift plays the all-ages Meow Meow with Portlander Myshkin (9 pm. 527 SE Pine St. $7.) 7 S aturday GALA Chorus presents Home for the Holidays at Umtanan Universale Congregation of Salem. See Dec. 8 for a Corvallis engage ment. (8 pm. 5090 Center St. NE. $10.) 8 S unday Poison Waters continues her infamous Church of the Poison Mind with the 6 F riday Start your Sunday with a nice Bear Brunch at the Monarch Hotel in Clackamas. (11 am-1 pm. 12566 SE 93rd Ave. www. oregonbears.org.) The Egyptian Club presents The N ig h t- drag, burlesque, go-go divas and beat mixes by Mestizo. (9 pm. 3701 SE Division St. $5 503-2368689.) 1 S unday It's Girls Night Out at Dingo's with food and drink specials until midnight. (4612 SE Hawthorne Blvd. 503-233-3996.) S unday Queer girls Thais Perkins of Louisiana and Lorna Hunt of the Bay Area team up with Portlander Lara Michell to form a beautiful trio o f music at the Fox & Firkin in Corvallis. (7 pm. 202 S W First St. No cover.) december The couple who bring you lnHerTube.com invite you to Kat & Amy's Christmas Art Sale Fine art and pottery for wholesale prices at the home of these fun dykes in Camas, Wash. (10 am-4 pm. 652 SW Trout St. Call 360-833-1156 Canadian queer for directions.) Ember Swift teams George na's Journey: A Community Confronts Multiple Sclerosis holds a The Lesbian Garden Club plays host to a Gardening White Elephant Gift Exchange and Potluck. (2-5 pm. Call 503-909-2002 or e-mail lgcoregon@aol.com for location.) up with Portland's Myshkin on Dec. 6 at the Meow Meow silent auction at Trinity United M ethodist Church. Fabulous items to bid on plus marimba bands. All proceeds go to lesbian Georgena Moran’s medical fund. (1-4.30 pm. 3915 SE Steele St. ww. georgenasjoumey. org.) Dueling chefs and a loft in the Pearl: Robert Reynolds, former owner of San Francisco's Le Trou, and John Taboda, formerly of Genoa, serve up some succulence in a private home as part of Dinner at My House for Our House, a fund-raiser series for Our House of Portland. ( 6 pm. $100. Fora brochure listing all the dinners or to make reservations, call 503-736-9276.) Confluence: The Willamette Valley Mixed GALA Chorus presents Home for the Holidays at Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Corvallis. See Dec. 7 for a Salem engagement. (4 pm. 2945 N W Circle Blvd. $10.) See On View and Onstage listings on Page 30. Check out more listings at www.justout.com! Confluence: The Willamette Valley Mixed Rose City Swing is joined by Out Dancing and Poison Waters for its fabulous Holiday Variety Show and Dance on Nov. 30