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About Just out. (Portland, OR) 1983-2013 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 19, 2003)
1ÇL2ÛÛ2J Oregon Ballet Theatre's annual holiday trad itio n gets a new spin with G eorge B alanchine's The N u tc ra c k e r through D ec. 27 Wfci. j * Break hibernation for the Bears Annual New Year's Eve Party at Gail's Dirty Duck (9 pm. 429 NW Third A ve) i T hursday Ladies who paddle can welcome in 2004 with a little outdoor fun when the women's Forest Group takes an intermediate-level kayak trip through Steamboat Slough (Call 503-681 3851 h r more in h .) Face the day after with Poison W aters' sixth annual Adventures in Hangovers Party at Silverado Dnnk specials, door prizes, free food, male dancers and drag queens. . . in other words, the usual, but more of it! (Footnote: I It's also Empress XLVI Lotta Marie Liquor's birthday party.) (2 pm. 1217 SW Stark St.) The Lesbian Community Project hosts Coffee Night at Haven. (7 pm at Ankeny Street Studio. Intermedi ate fox trot follows (7-8 pm rumba, 8-9.15 pm fox trot Southeast Ninth Avenue and Ankeny Street $25 a person. 503 236-5129 out_ dancingOyahoo com.) 3551 SE Division St.) ^ e 6 T uesday jV V f Go gay the old-school way during the Leather Night and Red Hanky Social at Gail's Dirty Duck. (9 pm-mid- mght. 439 NW Third Ave pdxsaltydgOaol com ) Fast or slow, just go. Move at your own pace when Tess Harden leads a G LB T group run/walk every Tuesday from Portland Running & Walk ing Co. (5:30 pm 800 SE Grand Ave. 503-232-8077.) 3 S aturday Learn how to achieve, enhance and multiply when Evy and Virginia present the free work shop Women and Orgasm at It's M y Plea sure (7 pm. 3106 NE 64th Ave Register at 5032808080) Rosetown Ramblers and DJ Crystal's monthly country western dance is at Portland M etro Club. (930 pm -1:30 am 618 SE Alder St $5 www.rosetownramblers.com.) You really need to get out more! Join the Portland Frontrunners for a three to six mile run. (6:30 pm June 503 819 4626 www portlandfrontrunners.org ) h - li Deaf and Hearing OUT Reach starts beginning Queer American Sign Language class es tonight. Other levels begin this week, too (7-9 pm. Sliding scale 503-235-0840 /TTY /voice! dhorOdeafvision n e t) All you have to do is ask at Misha's Make-A-Date every Tuesday at Boxxes (9 pm. 1035 SW Stark St.) 2 F riday tonight and continuing every Fnday in January M onday $15.) 4 S unday Out Dancing offers beginning rumba starting Queer Night every Sunday at Level First and third Mondays at Touchstone Coffee House bnng chair massages by Amy Bean (7-9 pm 7631 NE Glisan St (8 pm-230 am. 219 NW Davis St $10.) january location) 5 C C Slaughters presents Platinum Ball 2004 with special guest perform ances and midnight champagne. Division St. $10 in advance. $12 at the door ) Sundays (6:30 pm Call 503233-3557 for (8 pm. 13 NW Sixth Ave $3.) You can't go wrong any night at Scandals but for New Year's Eve the friendly little bar includes a champagne toast, midnight buffet and live DJ (1038 SW Stark St $5 ) The fun never ends at The Egyptian tonight with DJ dancing, karaoke, a snack buffet, mid night champagne, prize giveaways and an after- hours continental breakfast (7 pm-4 am 3701 SE Lesbians with Degrees meet first and third Ethel M erm an is just one of many colorful guests in Judy's Scary Little C hristm as through Dec. 21 at Theater! Theatre! It's a hoot, and it's for chanty. Go to the Fox & Hounds to play bingo on the first Sunday of every month. (3 30 pm. 217 SW Second Ave.) When the weather outside is frightful, the Nude Review inside is delightful at the Egyptian Club. (8 pm. 3701 SE Division St.) 7 W ednesday Everyone’s got something to say. Queer owned Blend Coffeehouse+Cafe invites all loud mouths to its open mike every first and third Wednesday (7-9 pm 2327 E Burnside St.) Cascade Zydeco plays host to queer-friendly zydeco dance lessons Wednesday nights at Alberta Street Public House. (7 15pm lesson, 8-10 pm dance. 1036 NE Alberta St. $2.) 9 F riday Dinner at My House for Our House, a fund raiser series for Our House o f Portland, stimulates the mind and the body when local authors titillate your intellect at the soaring KOIN Tower home of Betsy and Marvin Kaiser Jake’s Grill chef Bnan Light cooks up prime rib and Alaskan crab legs Eugene lesbian group Women to Women gets together every Saturday at Neighbors (6 pm. 1417 Villard St.) Out Dancing's monthly Dance Social moves to the second Saturday of every month at Ankeny Street Studio. Lesson and refresh ments included. (7-10 pm Southeast Ninth Avenue and Ankeny Street $5. 503 2365129 ) (6.30 pm. $150. To make reservations or for a brochure listing all dinners, call 503-7369276.) Fndays are Queer Night in the all lounge at Heaven. (10 pm-4 am. 421 SW 10th Ave.) Stretch your new year’s budget w ith a free therapeutic yoga claee fo r queer people and friends at Cascade Yoga Center. Ful your resolutions to use yoga and ayurveda to self treat chronic pain and other com plaints. (7:30-9:30 pm. 4415 NE Sandy Btvd #200 Bart or Arthur 503 734 6506. Blessed be the Portland Radical Faeries, who gather Saturday mornings at 3 Friends Coffeehouse. (9 30 am. www. gayyogaportland com.) 201 SE 12th Ave. 503 235-0826. otterOpcez.com.) W hat's brewin' with the boyz? Find out during Young Men's Coffee Talk every Wednes day at 3 Friends Coffeehouse. (8-10 pm. Keep your new year's resolution by join ing the Adventure Group for a brisk morning CityW alk (9 am. 503-452-5680 201 SE 12th A ve) www. adventuregroup. org.) Come early to decorate a crown or bring your own to SisterSpirit's Coffeehouse, hosted by musician Tamara J. Brown (7 pm. 201 SE 12th Ave.) Portland prancers Oslund ♦ Co. Dance bring their urban and con temporary, rigorous and agitated work to the stage of Portland State University's Lincoln Per formance Hall (8 pm 1620 SW Park Ave $12 $24 from box office or Ticketmaster.) Hear the gypsy torch- punk music of Myshkin's Ruby Warblers at Produce Row Cafe (9pm 201 SE Oak St $2 ) Women's Maiden. Mother, Crone Celebration for women and children (5:30 pm. Call 503-736-3297 h r loca tion. $5-$10 donation) Southern Oregon's eighth annual Lambda Awards Celebration is in the Grand Ballroom of Med ford's Red Lion Hotel, with dancing, a dessert buffet and performances by the Rogue Valley Gay Men's Chorus. Planned Parent hood Teen Theater and The Bad Street Gudz, a W est Coast trans girl band Keynote address by Roey Thorpe of Basic Rights Oregon. (6 pm. 200 N Riverside Ave $20. www geocities com / thecaucus) ii S unday Sultry DJ dance beats, creative cocktails, scrumptious bites and sweet girls at Holocene's swanky Tart, every second Sun day (4-9 pm 1001 SE Momson St. $5.) Deal with the aay/gay-friandly pinochlo group every Sunday at Hobo's. (6 pm 120 NW Third Ave Mike 503 203 8426 ) Out at tha Brig is a dyke night every Sun day with DJ Mel and friends (8 pm -1 am 1035 SW Stark St $2.) C h ec k out m ore listings at w w w .ju s to u t.c o m !
