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T uesday
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Cabaret queer Steven Nash goes Over the
Top at Wilf's Restaurant & Piano Bar with songs
that reflect the extremes in our lives, including
| “ Your Son Isn’t Going Through a Stage, Mrs.
Worthington." Another show May 27. (7:30 pm.
F riday
Dyke songster Michelle Shocked gives a
free show at Music Millennium to promote her
latest release, Texas Campfire Takes. (5 pm.
800 NW Sixth Ave. $10 from 503-223-0070.)
801 N W 23rd Ave.)
zi W ednesday
M ichelle Shocked joins Peter Bergman
and Maryedith Burrell in a mix of music, story
telling, comedy and political satire at Aladdin
Theater. (7 pm. 3017 SE Milwaukie Ave. $20
\ Queer w riter and activist Nick Schultz leads
this month's Because It’s Time! queer dis
cussion group at the Lloyd Center Barnes &
I Noble. Chat about health, self-esteem and
HIV. (7 pm. 503-249-0800.)
from box office or Ticketmaster.)
Beyond Sex Work: Voices from the Mar
gins includes a screening of film shorts at Port
land State University's Smith Memorial Center,
followed by a discussion with three former sex
workers around social justice issues. (7-9:30pm.
Room 296. 1825 SW Broadway. Free.)
Lesbian
author Julie
Ann Peters
stops by Bor
ders to read
from Keeping
Remember radio? PBS fave This American
Life makes a Portland pit stop for a live tap
ing at Keller Auditorium with host Ira Glass.
(7 pm. 222 S W Clay St. $25-$35 from box
You a Secret.
her new book
about love
between two
teen-age girls.
office or Ticket master.)
A Community Talent Show at Mississippi
Rising Ballroom and outdoor movie screenings
kick off the Mississippi Avenue Street
Fair, running through May 17. (7-9 pm talent
(7 pm.
708 S W Third
Ave.)
show. 833 N Shaver St. 9-10 pm movies, cor
ner o f Shaver Street and Mississippi Avenue.)
Join the Lesbian and Gay Immigration
Rights Task Force for a social at the Alibi
Newbies welcome, and they won't make you sing.
(8pm. 4024 N Interstate Ave. 503-471-1568.)
ence at Newman United Methodist Church in
Grants Pass. (Call for times. 132 NE B St. $25
Musician Kim Townsend
appears at Music Millennium
to play from her in-produc
tion CD, Wayworn Traveler.
(5 pm. 801 N W 23rd Ave.)
Decomposer: Re-Themed Soundtracks
for Forgotten Films at Hollywood Theatre to
Babes go big screen fo r the
17
S aturday
Lesbian artist Serena Barton joins other
women selling artwork, jewelry, pottery and
handmade clothing at Rimsky-Korsakoffee.
includes ribs contest, arts and crafts market,
community garage sale and two stages of diverse
music. (10am-7pm. North Mississippi Avenue
Judy Fjell (w ho began
110 N W Broadway $5 donation.)
her career at a C orvallis
coffeehouse) joins cellist
Janet Haarvig and violinist
Beth Youngblood fo r a
concert at B ridgeport U n it
ed Church o f C hrist.
Women and Their Kick-
Ass Cars party at Holly
(7:30 pm. 621 NE 76th
Ave. $10 $ 15 from
503-230-9416 or In Other
Words.)
wood Theatre. A follow-up to
last year's Five Dollar Soapy
Hand Job car wash, Pam
Peterson plays host to a
screening of video interviews
and photos for her upcoming
book, raffles, no-host bar, DJ
and swag. (7-11 pm.
some funked-up music at
3 Friends Coffeehouse.
(8 pm. 201 SE 12th Ave.
503-236-6411. $5.)
of its exhibit featuring queer deaf and heanng
artists and photographers at Haven. (7-9pm.
Clanks, booms, whines and
w hirs...from a guitar? Seat
tle performer Bill Horist reimagines six-
string sounds at gay-owned gallery Soundvi-
sion. (8 pm. 625 N W Everett St 4108. $5-$8
3551 SE Division St.)
donation)
Deaf ft Hearing Out
Reach's coffee night coincides with the opening
between Fremont and Skidmore streets.)
Join Parents, Families and Fnends of Lesbians
and Gays during the PFLAG State Confer-
If your checkbook is large enough, you might
get to third base when you Bid a Bache-
lor/Bachelorette at Embers to benefit the
Award-winning bi poet and novelist Annie
D aw id gives the inaugural lecture fo r the
Oregon Jewish W riters Series at Havurah
Shalom, including excerpts from her new,
not-yet-published novel. (7 pm. 825 N W
is S unday
19
M onday
C rush plays host to a benefit fo r the
Sexual M inority Youth Recreation
C en ter Doing good feels even be tte r
when there's wine, martinis, D J and buffet.
(6-9 pm. 1412 SE M om son St.
ashleighf@cascadiabhc.org.)
Portland Polya mory Circle offers informal
discussion of open relationships and commitment.
(7 pm. Call Laury at 503-285-4848 for location.)
Go to bat for the Bella Boys softball team
dunng a gay skate night fund-raiser at Oaks
Park. Raffle pnzes and kissing booth make
the evening a Bella-lot o f fun! (7 30-9:30 pm.
East end o f the Sellwood Bridge. $5 )
The women o f the Forest Group hike the
moderate 9.1-mile Twin Lakes loop Dogs and
kids welcome. (Call 503-659 2782 at least 24
Broadway. $18-$39 from box office, Ticket
Central or Ticketmaster.)
18th Ave. $5.)
Tamara J. Brown plays
4122 NE Sandy Blvd. $5-$8.)
(10am -5pm 707 SE 12th Ave.)
Mississippi Avenue Street Fair main event
Lesbian sin g e r/so n g w rite r
Curiouser and curiouser! The Imperial Sover
eign Rose Court presents Rabbit in the
Moon—A Twisted Wonderland at
Embers to benefit Camp Starlight. (7 pm.
Broadway, w wwportlandgaysoftball.org.)
includes lunch. 541-512-0326.)
Bands Quasi, Hans Grusel’s Krankenkabinet and
Daniel Menche jam to screenings of bizarre films
in an unusual mix of sound and cinema called
benefit a new documentary from bi moviemaker
Vanessa Renwick. More bands and flicks
May 23. (11 pm 4122 NE Sandy BM . $10.)
Rose City Softball Association. (7 pm. 110 N W
Mix Afro-
Caribbean
dance with
ballet preci
sion and jazz
energy, and
you get the
enthralling, intensely physical Garth Fagan
Dance ensemble performing at Arlene
Schnitzer C oncert Hall. (7:30 pm. 1037 SW
T hursday
Schmooze and booze during the Portland Area
Business Association's After Hours at Ori-
talia, featunng wine tasting by local vintner Lago
di Merlo. (5.30-7.30 pm. 750 SW Aider St.)
Lesbian author Julie Ann Peters visits In
O ther W ords to read from Keeping You a
Secret, her compelling teen-age love story.
(6:30 pm. 3724 SE Hawthorne Blvd.)
Hip Mama magazine founder Ariel Gore
| reads from her new memoir, Atlas o f the
Human Heart, at the University o f Oregon
Bookstore in Eugene. (7 pm. 895 E 13th Ave.)
Frock yourself1 It’s dress night at Skervy—
Queer to the Bone! at the Cobalt Lounge
Slightly raised entrance fee goes straight to
hours ahead)
Take a bike ride with the Adventure Group
along the Willamette. (1 pm. 503 452-5680.
www. adventuregroup. org.)
Portland's Making Strides Against
Breast Cancer five-mile walk starts and fin
ishes at the South Park Blocks (10 am
Southwest Hamson and College streets.
503- 795-3963 rachel verdick@cancer org.
www cancer org.)
The Lesbian Garden Club visits Shorty's
nursery in Vancouver, Wash. (10 am.
10006 SE Mill Plain Blvd 503 9092002 )
Author Nina Revoyr reads from her new
novel, Southland, at In Other Words. (4 pm
3734 SE Hawthorne B lvd )
Hey, slugger, be an athletic supporter when
you stop by JO Q 's for the Rose City Soft-
ball Association Sunday Night Social
Cheap beer and players from more than 20
teams help you score. (5- 10 pm 2512 NE
Broadway 503 287-4210.)
Anti-nationalist, multiracial artist James Diamond joins Leslie Bull and Ariel
Lightningchild to lead Beyond Sex Woric Voices from the Margins on May 16 at
Portland State University