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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.)
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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