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“I stay at home and hang out with my
rixnnmate, play video games or go out to a har
with my friends,” he says. (FYI: You won’t win
his heart hy ordering him a fancy microhrew.
He prefers PBR and Miller.)
Concoction plays Dec. 25 through Jan. 22 at
CoHo Theatre, 2257 N.W. Raleigh St. Tickets
are $10-$ 18 from 503-232-7072; Thursdays are
“pay what you can.”
Gay yuletide CDs
atthew Kern has a thing for Nordie’s.
It’s only natural that the gay Portland
musician would have a hit of a love affair
going on with that venerable downtown shop
ping center. For five years he has been the
house pianist at Nord
strom, where this time of
year it’s bubbling with the
sound of holiday tunes.
If you’ve wished you
could Kittle up that sound
along with the cologne and
cashmere you splurged on
for somekidy special’s
stocking, well, Kern has
done it for you. He just
released a collection of his
favorite holiday songs,
Christmas Present (available
at Nordstrom).
“Christmas songs take us
hack to childhcxxl,” says
Kern. “In putting together
this CD, 1 wanted to ckxise
songs that reflected the
whole range of emotions
that people experience dur
ing the Christmas season."
Matthew Kern has#a
He says he put the
album together last year
when he was going through a breakup.
“Undoubtedly some of the intensity of the
album comes out of that experience...‘Have
Yourself a Merry Christmas’ is perhaps the ulti
mate melancholy holiday sting, hut 1 also truly
adore Joni Mitchell’s ‘River.’ ”
The unaccompanied Paul Winter-esque
piano evokes leisurely evenings sipping cock
tails hy the fire at Heathman’s. Which is no
surprise, since Kern plays there as well!
Artists make prints
for PICA
It’s a studio sale like no other, and all the
prtKeeds benefit edgy arts huh Portland Insti
tute for Contemporary Art.
The second annual Prints for PICA
marathon takes place Dec. 18 at Studio 333,
333 N.E. Hancixzk St. More than 50 area
artists will convene and spend the day creating
and collakirating. Among them will he
respected queer artists Paul Arensmeyer,
David Eckard and Storm Tharp.
The sale was founded in 2003 hy Steven
Hayes as a way for visual artists to directly
show their support for PICA. Like last year, he
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Arensmeyer, a sculptor who works almost
entirely with found materials, told Just Out: “I
can’t paint or draw, which
makes printmaking, espe
cially in the midst of this
city’s most talented artists,
a challenge, to say the
least. I’m going to pick a
few objects from the vast
selection in my studio and
make prints hy applying
ink directly to the objects
and pressing the paper to
the objects.... What gives
me hope that I’ll produce
prints of any interest and
quality is that I’ll he work
ing in a building full of
artists...and know that
whenever I need to I can
quickly get a suggestion,
More than 50 area artists will participate in the second annual
tip or idea on how to push
Prints for PICA marathon Dec. 18
what I’m doing beyond
just rubbing paper to an object."
Another gay musician who just released a
Prices for the art are incredibly cheap by
holiday CD is Esera Tuaolo, the former Ore
industry standards: Between $100 and $250
gon State University fcxithall player who is
can score you a print that you might pay more
only the third National Fcxithall League player
than double for at a gallery, so collectors get
ever to come out. Now retired, Tuaolo has
turned his attention to singing, acting and rais quite a deal while supporting the continuation
of Portland’s vibrant art scene. More than
ing his twin son and daughter. The heart
$30,000 was raised last year—imagine what
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