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Olympia's new
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The Gossip play
Portland on May 9
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Are you a good
witch or a bad
witch? All will be
revealed dunng
Heaven or Hell: A
Red and White Mas
querade Ball at the Metropolitan Club. Nibbles,
no-host bar, D J and costume contest, sponsored
by Portland Pagan Night Out. (8 pm-2 am.
618 S E Alder St. $10-$ 13 from www.another-
moon.com or at the door.)
Find out why Olympia queer indie band The Gos
sip are creating all the buzz at the Meow Meow.
Also on the bill are The Haggard and Sleetmute
Nightmute. (9.30 pm. 527 SE Pine St. $8.)
11 S unday
14 W ednesday
Portland lesbian author
w
Judith Barrington reads
at Mt. Hood Community Col
lege's Visual Arts Center Theatre in
A
Gresham. (Noon. 26000 S E
503-452-5680 www. adventuregroup. org.)
Walk with dykes older than 40 and their
dogs of all ages. (E-mail dzoonokwa@
hotmail.com for time and location.)
Friendly folk into leather and kink meet up dur
ing the Beaverton Sunday Munch at
McMenamins Cedar Hills. (4-7pm. 2927 S W
No means no when it
comes to the high cost of war. That's
the topic of a roundtable discussion on
building an anti-capitalist revolution. Present
ed by Radical Women at the Bread and
Roses Center. Preceded by a hearty veggie
buffet. (6:30 pm buffet [$6 donation], 7 pm
541-343-4864.)
Founder of Hip Mama magazine and home
town honey Ariel Gore reads from her new
memoir, Atlas of the Human Heart, at Powell’s
Books. (7:30 pm. 1005 kV Burnside St.
www. a riel gore. com.)
White Bird returns the Mark Morris
Dance Group to Arlene Schnitzer Con
Dar Williams plays the Crystal Ballroom.
cert Hall to share its unique connection
(8 pm. 1332 W Burnside. $21 $23 from box
between music and movement. Live accom
office or Ticketmaster.)
paniment by M orris’ chamber musicians and
a dark yet thrilling tribute to Portland-born
composer Lou Harrison. (7.30 pm.
1037 SkV Broadway. $18-$39 from
Artists Repertory
Every Monday is
Dyke Night at
Touchstone Coffee
House. (6-9 pm.
7631 N EG hsanSt.)
Theatre presents
the amazing If
emotionally
ravaging Tou ch
through June 1
at Interstate
Firehouse Cultural
Center
Seattle lesbian Rebecca
Brown reads from her new
book The End of Youth at Powell's.
(7:30 pm. 1005 kV Burnside St.)
Authors and gay couple Mark Doty
and Paul Lislcky read from their poet-
’ and fiction in Room 327 at Portland
State University’s Smith Memonal Center.
(7:30 pm 1825 S k V Broadway. $0-$8.)
Cool gender-bendin' queer duo Bitch
and Animal (and guests) play the
Meow Meow. (9 3 0 pm. 527 S E Pine
St. $8 )
t's sex and gender open mike
tight at the Back to Back Cafe. All
lenders, sexualities and ages wel-
:ome (7 9 pm. 614 E Burnside St.
imi@eminism.org.)
lad Girls play host to a Kinky
Women's Welcoming Munch at
l i n n n 's .
For all kinky or questioning
18 and older Beginners wel-
e. (7-9 pm. 4612 S E Hawthorne
[ 503 9722233
vpdxbadgirls net.)
A Community Talent Show at Mississip
pi Rising Ballroom and outdoor movie screen
ings of shorts by Portland filmmakers kick
off the Mississippi Avenue Street
Fair, which runs through May 17.
Do Jump says
"Happy Birthday!"
to itself with 2 5
May 9-11 at
Newmark Theatre
box office or Ticketmaster.)
(7-9 pm talent show, 833 N Shaver St.
9-10 pm movies, comer of Shaver Street and
Mississippi Avenue.)
Mellow out at Monteaux’s Public House in
Beaverton with bluesy
dykes Gallow ay &
Luckett
Lesbian author Lucy Jane Bledsoe reads
from her new novel, This Wild Silence, at
Mother Kali’s Books. See May 15 for a Port
land reading. (Call for time. 720 E 13th Ave.
Cedar Hills Blvd.)
12) M onday
box office or Ticketmaster.)
Stark St. Free.)
meeting. 819 N Killingsworth St.
503-240-4462.)
Hike along Wygant Trail with the Adventure
Group Moderate trail explores Perham
Creek Canyon with great Gorge views. (9 am.
Portland for a live taping at Keller Auditori
um with host Ira G lass and contributors
Sarah Vowell, Jonathan Goldstein and Davy
Rothbart. Musical guest is John
Langford of the Mekons. (7 pm.
222 SkV Clay St. $25-$35 from
(8:30-11.30 pm.
16165 S W
Regatta Lane.)
is T hursday
Put a festive feather in your hat for The
Cockatoo Cotillion: A Bird Ball 2003
at the Crystal Ballroom to benefit the White
Bird/Tiffany & Co. New Works Fund. On this
hot queer-as-all-get-out ticket are dance com
pany Bodyvox. the world’s only gay Hispanic
Elvis impersonator, El Vez; and Pink Martini's
scampy Thomas Lauderdale. (6.30 pm
dinner, 8 pm performances. 1332 kV Burnside
St. $18 or $125 with dinner from box office or
503-245-1600, ext. 201.)
Lesbian author Lucy Jane Bledsoe reads
from her new novel, This Wild Silence, at
Powell's on Hawthorne.
(7:30 pm. 3723 S E
Hawthorne Blvd.)
It's Latino Dance Night
at C .C . Slaughters!
Lessons start the evening
off on the right foot. (8 pm.
219 NW Davis St )
Break the hanky code and
come up with your own fag
flag to add to the list during
Skervy—Queer to the
Bone! at the Cobalt
Lounge. (8 pm-2 am.
32 NW Third Ave. $3 99 or
free before 9 pm.)
16 F riday
It’s Queer
Night at Out of
the Fog Coffee
House in Eugene
This American
Life is coming to
Portland! See
May 16 and buy
a ticket now!
Ira Glass is
really cute!
(8.30pm. 450
Willamette St. 541-687-0709.)
Emergence Transgender Social Group
holds its monthly meeting in Eugene.
(7.30-11 pm. bce@efn.org or
emg977@yahoo. com.)
Clanks, booms, whines and whirs...from a
guitar?. Seattle performer Bill Horist re
imagines six-string sounds at gay-owned
gallery Soundvision. (8 pm. 625 NW Everett
St. #108. $5-$8 donation.)
The Forest Group hikes the moderate
9 1 -mile Twin Lakes loop. Dogs and kids
welcome. (503-659-2782.)
The Lesbian Garden Club visits Shorty's
nursery in Vancouver, Wash. Tour includes
refreshments and discount coupon. (10 am.
10006 S E Mill
Plain Blvd.
503 909-2002.)
Put your best
foot forward
for the American
Cancer Society's
(
Making Strides
Against Breast
Cancer walk.
17 S aturday
Funds aid
research,
education, patient
support and ad
vocacy programs.
Join Parents, Families and
Friends of Lesbians and G ays
during the P FLA G State
Conference at Newman
United Methodist Church in
Grants Pass Workshops
address legal issu es, health
care and Gay Straight
Alliances. (Call for times.
(W arn. South
west Hamson and
College streets
Register at
503-795-3963,
rachel.verdick
@cancer org or
www cancer org.)
132 NE B St. $25 includes
lunch. 541 512-0326 )
Portland Radical Faeries gather Satur
day mornings at 3 Friends Coffeehouse.
(9 30 am. 201 S E 12th Ave. 503-235 0826
otter@pcez.com.)
Mississippi Avenue Street Fair main
event includes ribs contest, arts and crafts
market, community garage sale and two
stages of diverse music. (10 am-7 pm. North
Mississippi Avenue between Fremont and
Skidmore streets.)
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Don't be late for this important date1 The
Imperial Sovereign R ose Court presents
Rabbit in the Moon—A Twisted
Wonderland at Embers to benefit Camp
Starlight. Perform ances by Count of
Devotion Realm DeVille and Co untess of
Devotion to the Devotion of the R o se /M iss
G ay Pride Annie Rockafeller Moore.
Curiouser and cunouser. (7 pm. 110 NW
Broadway $5 donation.)
Hip Mama magazine founder Ariel Gore
reads from her new memoir, Atlas of the
Human Heart, at Lucy's Books in Astoria.
Looking Ahead
(7 pm. 348 12th S t www anelgore.com.)
C hic and trendy C ru sh plays host to a
Deaf & Hearing Out Reach s coffee
benefit for the Sexu al M inority
Youth Recreation C en te r M ay 19
Hit the road for Border Rid
ers Motorcycle Club's
fourth annual Victoria
Day Run through May 19
at Pine Flats Campground
near Wenatchee in the C a s
cade Mountains. You don't
need a membership or
motorcycle, but you will
need to camp it up ($110-
If your checkbook is large enough, you
might get to third base when you Bid a
Bachelor/Bachelorette at Embers to
benefit the Rose City Softball Association.
$120 503283-4903
www bordemders. com )
(7 pm 110 NW Broadway
www portlandgaysoftball. org.)
The “ Lost in Am erica"
tour of P B S fave T h is
A m e r ic a n L if e stops in
Socializing and dancing at Potter House
night coincides with the opening of its exhib
it featunng queer deaf and heanng artists
and photographers at Haven. (7 9 pm
3551 S E Division S t.)
Ministries (7 pm 383(3 S E 62nd Ave
503-775 5024)
Doing good feels even better when
there's wine, martinis, D J and buffet
Pro ceeds benefit the struggling agency,
which provides queer youth with
reso urces and a safe place to gather
(6-9 pm 1412 S E M om son S t
ashleighf@ cascadiabhc.org)
See On View and Onstage listings on
Page 34.
Check out more listings
at www.justout.com!