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Take a sip o( Pink M artini with a shot of
iCubaiusmo1 as part of Bend Summer Concerts
at Les Schwab Amphitheatre (630 pm 344 SW
SheMm Huron Drive $25 from Ticketmaster.)
august
is F riday
Keshef, the monthly gathenng for queer
Jews, plays host to o Shabbat potiuck
and services Bong a vegetarian or vegan
dish (6 30 pm Call 503 226 7079. ext 14.
fo r location )
The Crystal Ballroom presents Dave
Gahan the rock-and soul voice of Depeche
Mode and solo album Paper Monsters (8 pm
1332 W Burnside St $35 from box office or
Ticketmaster )
Skervy—Queer to the Bone1 opens its doors
to Keep Your Panties On!, a fukking
freaky queer burlesque hosted by Sparkle
Heart at the Cobalt Lounge (9 pm 2 am
32 N W Third Ave $6 sliding scale )
Cruise on over to the mens Leather Night
and Red Hanky Social at Gail s Dirty
Duck (9 pm midnight 439 N W Third Ave
503 224 8446 pdxsaltydg&aol com )
Come hang out with old fnends and new dur
ing Q ueer D eaf and Hearing Coffee
N ight at Haven (7 9 pm 3551 SE Division
St dhorfideafvision net.)
Mosey on down to C rystal's Country
Jam at Portland M etro Club Lessons, danc
ing and plenty of country charm (8 9 pm
lessons. 9 pm 1 am dancing 618 SE Alder St.
$5. $8 with lessons)
Queer as Folk club music fave K ristine W.
headlines the annual monster event that is
C .C . Slaughters Block Party (9 pm.
Davis Street between Second and Third
avenues www ccslaughterspdx com.)
Captain Rock Susie Blue and Ashleigh
Flynn perform at McMenamins White Eagle
to benefit the Sexual M inority Youth Resource
Center (9:30 pm. 836 N Russell St $6 21
and over.)
17) S unday
The women's Forest Group hikes a 7.9-mile
loop at Top Lake in the Ollalie Lake Scenic
Area. Dogs and kids welcome. (Call
503 6592782 at least one day in advance.)
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Skip town with the Lesbian Garden Club
to visit the Old Aurora Colony Museum,
Emma Wakefield Herb Garden and Fir Point
Farms (503 909 2002 lgcoregon@aolcom.)
Enpy the gay outdoors when the Adventure
Group follows a nine-mile moderate trail at
Mount St. Helens. Meet at Starbucks inside
the Hollywood Fred Meyer store (9 am.
3030 NE Weidler St 503-452 5680
www. adven turegroup. org. )
Som e w o n d e rfu l s p e cia l guests jo in
le sb ia n m usic fave Theresa D em arest
to c e le b ra te s h e r new CD Aug. 16 at
W a shington P ark A m p h ith e a tre
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S aturday
Theresa Dem arest A Good Company
folk n’ roll in a concert performance of th a r
new CD, Roll on Down, at Washington Park
Amphitheatre (6-8 pm 400 S W Kingston
Ave www theresacd com.)
It's all happening at the zoo New York-based
mtenksqoknanan Allison Farrow Collaborates
with video artist Sujin Lee to create / Haven t
Always Been a Bear, and Uewn MAire contm
ues the performance installation Define Me
Where I Pea at The Modem Zoo (6-11 pm
6635 N Baltimore St $2-$10
wwwportlandartorg.)
Salem's M arion-
berry Salon
holds a potiuck
discussion of
Dry by Augusten
Burroughs
(6 30 pm Cary
5033636036
manonberrysa
km@aol com )
Thousands gather for the Dove In at Tom
McCall W aterfront Park to benefit Oregon
Peaceworks and Columbia River Fellowship
for Peace Participants form a giant “ living
painting” of a dove carrying a rose that will be
photographed from the sky Live music and
speakers (Noon 2 pm registration, 3 pm
photo. $ 1 6 5 0 www dovem.com.)
Spend a day at the beach without getting
sand in your shorts at Red Cap Garage’s
Back Yard BBQ G iveaway Picnic food,
summer cocktails, complimentary mug and
ticket for an end-of-month raffle (Noon-6 pm
1025 SW Stark St $10 )
Hallelujah' Church o f the
Poison M ind at Silvera
do with free pizza and dol
lar shots (3-9 pm
1217 S W Stark St )
M onday
Kirk Read author of How I Learned to Snap,
and M att Bernstein Sycamore who
penned Pulling Taffy, tantalize, terronze and thnll
unsuspecting audiences at Grass Roots Book
store in Corvallis (7 pm 227 SW Second St )
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Love is all around when the Portland
Polyamory Circle offers informal discus
sions of open relationships and commitment
(7 pm Call Laury at 503-285-4848 for location)
The Rosetown Ramblers and the LGBTQ
Community Center Fund play host to Skate
Night with raffle pnzes. Bnng a nonpensh-
able food item for Esther's Pantry.
(7 30 9 3 0 pm 1 SE Spokane St. $5 )
20) W ednesday
C hristianity and Queers is the topic for
this month's Because It’s Time! discussion
group at the Lloyd Center Barnes & Noble.
(7 pm 503-249 0800.)
SisterSpirit's Wiccan Discussion Group talks
about Taoism and the Pagan Path
(7 pm 3430 SE Belmont St If 102. $3-$5
donation 503-736-3297)
All-gay pioneer rock band Pansy Division
play for queer punks 21 and over at the
Blackbird in support of their new album, Total
Entertainment Take the Blame and The Divid
ed open. (10 pm 3728 NE Sandy Blvd $6.)
The Impenal Sovereign Court of the Raintree
Empire invites you to a community dinner
at Northbank Tavern in Vancouver, Wash.
(6 8 pm. 106 W Sixth Ave iscre impcourt.org.)
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The Reunion Tour of the onginal Joe Jack-
son Band makes a stop at the Crystal Ball
room. (9 pm 1332 W Burnside St $29.50
from box office or Ticketmaster.)
Dos Equis is beer; XX is queer—as in the O re
gon Bears' monthly dance at C.C.
Slaughters. (9 pm-midnight. 219 N W Davis St.)
21) T hursday
Relax and rejuvenate with hundreds o f old and
new friends when Women in the Woods
take a soak in the secluded Breitenbush Hot
Springs through Aug. 24 ($195-$260
www. womeninthewoods. com.)
Eric Cuestas-Thompson stops at Borders
in Salem to read from and talk about his new
novel, Bum, which follows the passions,
addictions and obsessions that lead 10
strangers to share one inescapable destiny.
(7 pm. 2235 Lancaster Drive NE.)
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Glacier Meet at Starbucks inside the Hollywood
Fred Meyer store. (9 am 3030 NE Weidler St
503-452-5680 www adventuregroup.org.)
Attention youngms: The Washington County
Pnde Project wants you at Gay Day at the
Park for food, games and socializing in the
Oak Grove Picnic area of Champoeg State
Park. Free HIV testing and safe-sex
]§ supplies, too. (To carpool call Molly at
' 503 260-5792 or Martin at
503 516-1957.)
D Pack a picnic for Bears at the
■- Beach, a skmny-dipping afternoon in
the Sauvie Island sun Carpool leaves
from Gail's Dirty Duck (11 am 429 NW
Third Ave. www oregonbears org.)
K irk Read (top )
and M a tt B e rnste in
m ake a liv e ly
lite ra ry team
A ug. 18 a t G rass
R oots B o okstore
in C o rv a llis
Singer/songwnter Kim Townsend
celebrates her first CD release at
Music Millennium. (1-2 pm. 801 NW
23rd Ave.)
d The Lesbian and G ay Im m ig ra
5 tio n R ights Task Force heads
south to Salem fo r its m onthly social
at the 300 Club. Queers from Ben
ton, Clackamas, Lincoln, Manon, Polk
and Tillamook counties are especially
encourage to attend! (7 pm. 300 Lib
erty S t SE. 503 471-1568 Igntf-
pdxQhotmaif com.)
) F riday
The sixth annual Vancouver Wine A Jazz
Festival with world-class artists runs through
Aug 24 at Esther Short Park Included is
Captain Sm artypants from the Seattle
Men's Chorus—eight boys sing and dance
like the illegitimate love child of N Sync and
Monty Python's Flying Circus (Captain
Smartypants. 3 15-4 15 pm Saturday West
Eighth and Columbia streets
www vancouverwmejazz.com)
Portland Bisexual Women dis
cuss “ Emotional and Sexual Differ
ences in Relationships with Men
and Women" in the Broadway Cof
fee Trader Living Room. (7-9 pm.
2130 NE Broadway $3 donation
portlandbiwomen@comcast. net)
Take home a piece of the
Egyptian Club when it holds
its summer garage
sale (8 pm. 3701 SE
Division St.)
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Put on your blue suede shoes for Out
Dancing's monthly Dance Social at
Ankeny Street Studio Lessons and
refreshments included. (7-10 pm Comer o f
Southeast Ninth Avenue and Ankeny Street
$8 503 2 365129 )
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Skip New York, Milan and Pans and go
straight to Skervy—Queer to the Bone’s This
O ld Thing? A Q ueer Fashion Show at
the Cobalt Lounge Hosted by Mane of
TechnoDyke com with the fabulous Darklady
as master of ceremonies (9 pm-2 am 32 NW
Third Ave $5 sliding scale.)
) S aturday
The women of the Forest Group continue
their GORGE-ous Summer Saturday
Loops with an all-day trip to Larch Mountain
Crater Dogs and kids welcome (Call
503 659-2782 at least one day in advance )
Lesbian-owned One w ith H eart holds an
open house through Aug 24 with free classes
and activities around martial arts, wellness
and dance (9 am 6 pm 4231 SE Hawthorne
Blvd 503231 1999 www onewithheart.com.)
Explore a new kind of nmming when the
Adventure Group Hikes a moderate eight
mile trail to Elk Cove, a cliff-nmmed basin of
wildflowers with views of Mount Hood and Coe
Gay Days at
Disneyland
aren't until
October, but
you can hear
about all that's
gay at the
mouse house
when queer
travel wnters
Jeffrey
Epstein and
Eddie
Shapiro talk
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Books (7 30 pm 1015 N W 23rd Ave.)
Film Fatales meet monthly for single lesbians
older than 30 who enjoy watching movies (Call
360694 4163 for time and location )