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About Just out. (Portland, OR) 1983-2013 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 7, 2003)
28 J Submissions should be sent to ju s t out Calendar, P.O. Box 14400, Portland, OR 97293-0400; or faxed to 503-236-1257; or submitted at www.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. 7 ) F riday Find out what to do with all that stuff at It's My Pleasure's free Sex Toys 101 class. (7 pm. 3106 NE 64th Ave. Register at 503-280 8080.) Arlene Hale plays Touchstone Coffee House. PHOTO BY DONALD HORN february Women's Drumsong with SisterSpirit (4 pm. 3430 SE Belmont St. 4102. $3-$5 donation. 503-736 3297.) Movie Night with the women of the Forest Group. Bring a snack and a favorite girlie movie. (6:30 pm. 503 636-1855.) Gay spintual leader and author Andrew Harvey performs selections from the poetry of Rumi at Beaverton High School. See Feb. 9 for another Harvey event. (7 pm. 13000 SW Second St. $15 from Crystal Heart or Unity o f Beaverton.) (7-9 pm. 7631 NE Glisan St. $3 donation.) Bella Casa Realty shouts, “Come to our Learn the salsa with Out Dancing every Friday in February beginning tonight. Arrive early to register. Intermediate level nightclub two-step lessons follow. (7 pm. Comer o f Southeast Ninth Avenue and Ankeny Street. $5. 503 236-5129. out_dancing@yahoo.com.) Rockin' Sox Hop1 ' at Fez Ballroom. Yes, it’s a good old-fashioned '50s party, so put on your dancin’ shoes for this Rose City Softball Asso ciation benefit. (8 pm-1 am. 316 SW 11th Ave.) Lesbians of Central Oregon get togeth er for a potluck in Bend. (541-317-8457.) Colum McCann reads from Dancer, his new book about the life of Rudolf Nureyev. at Twenty-Third Avenue Books. (7.30 pm. 1015 N W 23rd Ave. 503-224 5097.) Portland Uniform Weekend kicks off with I a Uniform Meet and Greet at Gail's Dirty Duck followed by a Men-Only Play Party and Clippers Party. (Meet and Greet: 9 11 pm, 429 N W Third Ave., $2 Play Party. 11 pm- 3 am, location TBA, $10. Fora complete event schedule visit www.inuniform.net or e-mail uniformmag@aol.com.) triangle productions! presents the brilliant Mark Ravenhill play Shopping and Fucking Feb. 13-March 8 Skervy—Queer to the Bone presents WERD1 at Billy Ray's. Queer open mike 10-11 pm, then Zanne, Puppet, Krztal and Ali spin punk, buttrock, hip-hop and international. (10 pm-2 am. 2216 NE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd www.dejanvier.org/skervy.) Embers Avenue and Sailing On Productions present the musical revue “A Century of Sound" to benefit Esther's Pantry. A bevy of singers take you from the 1920s through the '80s, including an overview of each song's place in history. (7-9 pm. 110 N W Broadway. Call 503-222-3082 for cover.) 8 S aturday Profile Theatre Project presents a discussion with Pulitzer Pnze-winnmg playwright Edward Albee at Portland State University’s Lincoln Hall in celebration of its all-Albee season. - (2 pm. 1620 SW Park Ave. Free, but get tick ets at PSU's box office, 1825 SW Broadway Two-ticket maximum per person.) 9 S unday Join the Adventure Group for snowshoe- ing at Trillium Lake on Mount Hood. Good for all skill levels. (9 am. 503-452 5680 www. adven turegroup, org.) Love Makes a Family plays host to the Middle School Family Valentine Cookie Making Gay spintual leader Andrew Harvey speaks Event at Friends Meeting House. on Activism and (2 4 pm. 4312 SE Stark St. Spirituality at Unity of 503 228 3892.) performance artist/diva Beaverton. Workshop Dark brings her slam try storytelling to Touchstone Coffee House on Feb. 22 on the same topic follows (8 30 and 10 am talks. 2 pm workshop. 12650 SW Fifth St. 503-646-3364 \ Holy Goats! Sunday Afternoon Improvisations at Performance • V Works Northwest are dedicated to the encouragement of movement and sound improvisation as composi tional tool, performance form and sources of happy accidents. (2 pm. 4625 SE 67th Ave $7.) Church of the Poison Mind at Silverado Free pizza, dollar shots, a $5 beer bust, hostess Poison Waters and those infamous Silverado dancers. (4-9 pm. 1217 SW Stark St.) Mittleman Jewish Community Center presents a filmed version of the award-winning stage play Crossing the Broken Bhdge, which addresses racism and anti- Semitism Followed by a discus sion with leaders in the African American and Jewish communities (4 pm. 6651 SW Capitol Highway $10-$rS from 503 244-0111.) The Sweethearts of Portland proudly present The Sweethearts Luv Shack at the Fez Ballroom. Watch the current Mr. and Miss Sweetheart end their reign and crown new royalty! Refreshments, too. (8 pm. 316 SW 11th Ave. $10.) il T uesday speakers Mark Clift and Carolyn Fowler will discuss "New Tax Laws and You.” (11 :30 am- 1 pm. 404 SW Washington St. $18-$25, $7 coffee/dessert only. For reservations call 503-241-2222 or visit www.paba.com.) The Women's Fiction Book Group at the Jantzen Beach Barnes & Noble discusses Fhda by Barbara Mujica. (1 pm. 503 283-2800.) Radical Women present Reparations Now! Bad Girls play host to a Kinky Women's Welcoming Munch at Karaoke any Monday or Tuesday at queer bar Tennessee Red’s. (9 pm 2 30 am. 2133 SE 11th Ave.) It's Nude Revue night at the Egyptian Club. (8 pm. 3701 SE Division St. 503 236-8689 ) 12 W ednesday The Portland Area Business Association holds its monthly luncheon in the Greek Cusina's Minoan Room Featured (4612 SE Hawthorne Blvd. 503-233-3996.) You've never seen L.A. bisexual blues until you’ve seen Candye Kane at Duff's Garage. Usa & Her Kin open. (9.30 pm. 1635 SE Seventh Ave. $5.) 14 F riday Black Women Insist on Economic Justice at the Bread and Roses Center. Human rights activist Billie Jean Clay-McCray leads a discussion about the movement to secure payment for cen turies of discnmination. Southern buffet served (6 30 pm buffet [$6l 7 pm discussion. 819 N Killingsworth St. 503-240-4462.) It's sex and gender open mike night at the Back to Back Cafe. All genders, sexualities and ages welcome. (7-9 pm. 614 E Burnside St. emi@eminism. org.) Dingo's. For all kinky or questioning Rod Rockafeller and > women 18 Miss Sweetheart XIV and older. Ifeelya Right at the Feb. 9 Beginners Sweethearts Luv Shack welcome. (7-9 pm. 4612 SE Hawthorne Blvd. 503 972-2233 www.pdxbadgids.net.) Girls Night Out at Dingo's every Thursday. Portland Bisexual Women discuss Bisexual Isolation/lnvisibility in the Broadway Coffee Trader Living Room. (7-9 pm. 2130 NE Broadway. 503 283 6433.) It's the fifth annual Fetish M asquerade Ball at Roseland Theatre: 1,500 people 21 and over celebrating performance art and kink this Valentine’s Day with entertainment by Impotent Sea Snakes, Shift, Apocalypstick, Fire Brigade, Popewyrm and more. Plus two floors of vinyl-clad go-go guys and gals, belly dancers and DJs. For help getting dressed, ! call 503-224-2604. (9 pm 8 N W Sixth Ave. $20 from Roseland Gnll or Fastixx.) Pink M artini plays with the Eugene Symphony at the Hult Center. (8 pm. 1 Eugene Center. $24 $30 from box office, 541 682 5000 o r www.ci.eugene.or.us/hult.) White Bird pre- . sents Ballet Hispánico at Arlene Schmtznr Concert Hall This high-energy troupe is the foremost j dance interpreter of Hispanic culture ’ in the United States (7.30 pm. • 1037 SW Broadway $18-$40 from box office or Ticketmaster) 13 T hursday Scenarios from the Sahel and It’s My Life play at Portland Community College's Cascade Campus as part of the 13th annual Cascade Festival of African Films These compelling films doc ument the AIDS epidemic in Senegal and South Afnca. (7:30 pm Room 122, Terrell Hall. 705 N Killingsworth S t For a complete film schedule visit www cfaf.net ) Skervy—Queer to the Bone presents the Black Hearts Dance at the Whatever Lounge. DJs Puppet and Zanne spin punk rock and hip-hop while you spin the bottle, get spanked and visit the kissing krewl (9 pm 2 am. 2209 NE Alberta St. $2 99 with discounts for fashion excess.) Take your sweetie to (or meet one dunng) Rose City Swing's Moonlight and Melodies concert and dance at Portland Metro Club The 21-and-over event features vocalist Carol Reise and Misha's Make-a- Date (8 pm. 618 SE Alder St. $10 from Gar Pied or 503 790-2170.)