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An Affair to remember
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he brand-spankin’-new, ultra-modern
Jupiter Hotel is the site of Stuart Horod-
ner’s latest project de rigueur. Affair @ the
Jupiter Hotel brings together about 20 art deal
ers and guest curators who will set up tempo
rary galleries in the hotel rooms Oct. 1 to 3.
• Horodner, a former curator at Portland
Institute for Contemporary Art, told Just Out
there will be “a mix of contemporary art from
around the United States with a heavy empha
sis on Portland.”
“It’s the perfect time to try and link the
region to the broader art context,” he contin
ued. “This is a great opportunity for artists, col
lectors and educators to get a serious look at
contemporary work in the comfort of their own
city, and to share the city with others.”
Mark Woolley Gallery promises “fun times
in Room 133.” Other local galleries represent
ed include Augen, Froelick, Elizabeth Leach,
Laura Russo and many others. Galleries from
New York; Los Angeles; San Francisco; Chica
go; Albuquerque, N.M.; Austin, Texas; and
Houston will be setting up shop in the slick
and kitschy hotel rooms.
With an eye toward the queer viewer,
Horodner commented: “There are very impor
tant queer artists and curators and collectors
working today, some represented in this fair. It
is expressed in the kind of art they make [and]
how they conceive their goals and concerns.”
Admission to the Friday night gala is $25;
RSV P to stuart@affair-jupiterhotel.com. You
can visit Saturday and Sunday for a mere five
bucks from noon to 7 p.m. Check out the free
panel discussion from 10 to 11:30 a.m. Satur
day on “Biennial & Art Fair Culture.” More
info at www.affair-jupiterhotel.com.
Get your kink on, ladies!
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ct. 1 is the last day to register for Pacific-
Friction, a B/D/S/M conference for women
and trans folks Oct. 8 to 10 at the Ramada
Inn &. Suites near the Portland Airport.
According to Leslie Herzfeld, one of the
conference organizers, PacificFriction is the
love child of a dozen or so women who met last
year at Portland’s KinkFest. They wanted to
put on an event that would focus on the erotic
power and play of B/D/S/M-identified women
and trans people.
In addition to a host of hands-on workshops
by regional and national presenters, the confer
ence features a dungeon party, a sit-down din
ner, a performance by Big Burlesque: The Orig
inal Fat-Bottom Revue and erotic entertain
ment by Felice Shays and Michele Serchuk.
Noted presenter Tristan Taormino will give
two workshops: “ B/D/S/M &. Anal Play” and
“Beyond Mommy Dearest.” Taormino (author
of The Ultimate Guide to Anal Sex for Women
and Pucker Up: A Hands'on Guide to Ecstatic
Sex) will lead participants through the world of
all things anal, including penetration, butt
plugs, strap-ons and enemas. She will also
explore the rich territory of Mommy scenes
and Mommy relationships.
Pamela Means rocks the Mississippi Pizza Pub
on Oct. 14
Queer photographer Marne Lucas’ ‘Pearl N ecklace” will be on sale during Affair @ the
Jupiter Hotel
Another nationally known naughty girl,
Lolita, will present the workshops “Caning
from Sensual to Brutal” and “How to Be a
Greedy Pig: Strategies for Poly Success.” An
activist, publisher and presenter, Lolita has
won many awards in the leather community
and calls herself “a 6-year-old_Princess who lies
about her age [and] manages to stir up shit and
get her own way— most of the time.”
Herzfeld says nearly 200 women have regis
tered for the female kink bonanza. If you want
to join them, download a registration form at
www.pacificfriction.org and get it postmarked
right away.
Her single bullet
theory rocks!
hat would you get if you crossed Ani
DiFranco with Norah Jones and threw in
a dash o f Audre Lorde and Alix Olsen.7
Find out Oct. 14 when queer biracial folk
phenomenon Pamela Means raises the rafters at
Mississippi Pizza Pub, 3552 N. Mississippi Ave.
In the inescapably derivative worlds of folk
music and poetry, Means stands out precisely
because she sounds so familiar. And who cares,
really, if her music smacks of DiFranco’s early
hushed crooning and bad-ass guitar strumming.7
DiFranco is the white, queer girl version of her
mentor, poet Sekou Sundiata, who probably
has more in common with Lorde than Means
ever will. But that’s beside the point.
If you groove on in-your-face political lyrics
and bold, full-on guitar playing, you won’t
want to miss Means playing from her new
album, Single Bullet Theory. She mixes political
rants with love song lullabies to create a dyke’s
wet dream musical melange.
W
ing trashy scenes from the flicks. Think a camp
version of vaudeville. Huestis— affectionately
known as “Hostess Huestis” in San Francisco—
is also an activist whose credits include the
documentary Sex Is..., in which gay men spill
the beans on rheir love lives, and now Way
Cool.
The scandalous behavior of New York
officials in trying to isolate the hundreds of
thousands of protesters (estimates vary from
500,000 to more than a million) from the
Republican National Convention is the
backdrop here. But the real stars are the
ordinary New Yorkers who pay their leaders
no mind as they exercise their rights in an
increasingly elusive democracy. T he e are
“Glam ericans”— trannies and their triends
who carry signs like “Fashion Tip: Flip Flops
Are In!” and add a welcome sense of playful
ness to the protests. There are little kids, one
of whom responds to Huestis’ question of
why he wants to get rid of President Rush
with a loud, heartfelt, “ Because he’s stupid!”
Also here are feisty seniors flipping the bird
at the cops, union workers who passionately
recount a (long) list of Bush’s failures and a
poignant interview with a man whose son
was killed in Iraq.
Inspired by Medium Cool, Haskell Wexler’s
famous 1969 documentary about the 1968
Democratic National Convention, Huestis
captures the buzz of this event with panache.
He unflinchingly records the sometimes whim
sical, often heated exchanges between the pro
testers and convention attendees, who range
from grimly smiling automatons to a goofy,
screaming old man decked out in extreme
patriotic kitsch.
Huestis is a beatific presence in the film,
appearing here and there and always heard on
the soundtrack. He can’t resist getting his own
zinger in, at one point insisting to a befuddled
Republican, “ I’d rather have blow jobs than no
jobs!” And really, who wouldn’t?
Way Cool screens 9:30 p.m. Oct. 8 to 14 at
Clinton Street Theater, with Huestis available
for Q & l A after the Friday, Saturday and Sun
day night screenings.
“Good vs. evil is the slogan we’re
selling/while secretly in silos/phallic missiles are
sitting,” goes the song “Amen.”
O K , maybe it’s a little didactic, but
you’ve got to admire M eans’ chutzpah in
these dark, un-
free-speech days.
Plus she’ll turn
around and woo
you with “Yours” :
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San Francisco filmmaker Marc H uestis
as-pie smile, witty
First up on Oct. 8 is
tells the truth about the Republican
hazel eyes and
Saints & Sinners, which fol
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have all the girls
devout Catholic couple
hoping for the same thing.
who have been living together for seven years
in New York Ciry. Bur when the time comes to
formalize rheir relationship in a domestic
union, they are determined to settle for noth
obcxly can accuse the left of being lazy
ing short of the “holy sacrament of marriage.”
anymore, what with seemingly dozens of
This leads to scuffles with the church, with
d<x:umentaries pouring onto screens big
previously supportive family members and with
and small on subjects ranging from John Kerry’s
no less than The New York Times.
experiences in Vietnam to » scathing portrait
Same-sex marriage is also the focus of Tying
of Bush's Brain (aka Karl Rove) to multiple
the Knot, which opens Oct. 15. The film digs
assaults on a Big Media held captive by the
deeply into the past and present— from the
right wing.
Middle Ages to gay hippies stonrung the Man
Adding to the fun is Marc Huestis’ video
hattan marriage bureau in 1971 to Multnomah
diary Way Cool: RNC as Not Seen on TV.
County’s civil disobedience in March— to
Huestis is San Francisco’s preeminent queer
uncover the meaning of civil marriage in the
impresario, responsible for those extravagant
United States tixlay. J H
Castro Theatre revivals of movies like The
Poseidon Adventure and The Bad Seed attended
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