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About Just out. (Portland, OR) 1983-2013 | View Entire Issue (April 1, 2005)
apnl 1.2Q0S • Just AMt;29 Artists are painting the town red this month: from left, Sandy Sampson at Mark Woolley Gallery, Eva Lake at Augen Gallery and Tarsus Moschella at Starbucks on Northwest 23rd. Just in time for the fifth annual Red Dress Party on April 2 at the Meow Meow! Q-LAND gives away 50 one-month memberships to Princeton Athletic Club along with special prizes for boys in athletic jerseys or caps during the Spring Fever Party at Scandals. Free HIV/STD testing and a smooth mix by DJ Robb. (9-11:30 pm. 1038 SW Stark St.) 9 S aturday swing, marching and concert ensembles at Reed College's Kaul Auditorium. The gala also will honor previous conductors and musicians as well as important members of Portland's sexual minorities community. (8 pm. 3203 SE Woodstock Blvd. $8 $ 12 from Music Millennium.) St. Francis of Assisi Church celebrates peace, love and rock 'n' roll with Sneakin* Out and the Billy Shears Orchestra Radical Women and independent activists picket Oregon Right to Life's annual conference at Keizer's Wittenberg Inn for the . right wing's ongoing attack on reproductive rights. (8-11 am 5188 River Road N. Kris 503-240-4462.) Overflowing with bright colors and tantalizing rhythms, Art for Life 2005: Carnevalesco features Portland's largest contemporary art auction, entertainment and delectable hors d'oeuvres provided by the city's best restaurants and caterers at Montgomery Park. Proceeds benefit Cascade AIDS Project. (5-7 pm Patron Event and Dinner, 7-10 pm Grand Event. 2701 NW Vaughn St. $100 $250 from 503-223-9255 or www. cascadeaids. org.) Come out and support the fierce female football players of the Portland Shockwave as they take on the Boise Xtreme at Lincoln High School. (7 pm. 1600 SW Salmon St $5. www. portlandshockwave, com.) It’s My Pleasure teaches the fun introductory class Sex Toys 101. (7 pm. 3106 NE 64th Ave. $10 Register at 503-280-8080.) The Rose City Gay Freedom Band celebrates its 15th anniversary with performances by its fabulous reinterpreting The Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band followed by a '60s flower children costume parade and dance. Prizes for the best hippie outfit! (8 pm. 330 SE 11th Ave. $15-$25 from www. sneakinout. com.) Out Dancing's monthly Dance Social is every second Saturday at Ankeny Street Studio. Lesson and refreshments included. (8-11 pm. 975 SE Sandy Blvd. $5. 503-236-5129.) DJs Anjali, E3 and The Incredible Kid expose electronic sounds emerging from South Asia, the Middle East. Africa, Latin America, Jamaica and the United Kingdom during the dance party Atlas every second Saturday at Holocene. (9.30 pm-2:30 am. 1001 SE Morrison St. $5 after 10 pm.) jo S unday ___________ The women of The Forest Group take a difficult 12.2-mile hike along the Central Salmon River to Kinzel Lake. An all-day, dog-friendly event. (503-659-2782.) Come to Holocene for Tart— a monthly party where the girls go to get more weekend in their weekend You will be sad you missed it. (4-9 pm. 1001 SE Morrison St.) [ii M onday C.C. Slaughters screens four episodes of Queer as Folk every Monday. Enter your name in the drawing for DVD box sets! (8 pm. 219 NW Davis St.) Come to Le Happy for some tasty crepes and queers every Monday. (9 pm-1 am. 1011 NW 16th Ave.) [12 T uesday Lesbian recording artist Athena Reich takes a stand against violence during Take Back the Night at Oregon State University in Corvallis. Meet the musician in the Memorial Union Council Room, then hear her perform with Mina Carson, Laurie Childers and Johanna Beekman at Club Escape in Snell Hall. (6-7 pm meet and greet, 7-9:30 pm concert, www.athenareich.com.) Is your money being spent in accordance with your priorities? How can you prevent it from ending up in the hands of multinational corporations that discriminate and destroy families, the planet and social justice? A Better World Is Within Reach People’s Empower ment and Collective Exchange (PE A C E.) Network presents an educational workshop at Laughing Horse Books about the creation of PeaceNotes an alternative, nationwide currency based on Ithaca Hours. (7 pm. 3652 SE Division St. www.abwwrpeace.org.) [13 W ednesday The Portland Area Business Association holds its monthly meeting at the Governor Hotel, with a presentation by Outside In executive director Kathy Oliver on “Getting Our Kids Off the Streets.” (11:30 am-1 pm. 614 SW 11th Ave $19-$24 from 503-241-2222.) Learn how you can get involved with Radical Women's upcoming activities during their Revolutionary Feminist Meeting at the Bread and Roses Center. (6.30 pm. 819 N Killingsworth St $4 snack donation. To arrange child care, rides or work exchanges, call 503-240-4462.) known as Movement, this dancetastic crazy queer night is one of the city's best bootie-shaking opportunities. (9 pm. 1001 SE Morrison St. $3.) Caught in Candy performs during Sparkleheart's Ain't No Fool dance party April 3 at Holocene. Porky's Pub, with a big blowout party featuring 3-D glasses. CDs, DVDs, T-shirts, and drink specials. Guest DJ MoRocca spins with Puppet, Stormy and Heewee. (9 pm-2 am. 835 N Lombard St. $5 www. bootypdx. com.) Berbati's presents Asva, Point Line Plane, Zombi and, most intriguing of all, Edie Sedgwick, “the transgendered reincarnation of a vacuous Warhol superstar who died of a barbiturate overdose in 1971. Edie was reborn i at the dawn of the new millennium to save the world by singing about celebrities ... Armed with only an iPod, she travels the nightclubs of this land called America singing songs that Composer David Schiff is joined by mezzo- honor the likes of Julia Roberts, Robert soprano Milagro Vargas to perform "Music Is Downey Jr. and, of course, Martin Sheen.” the Food of Love," an excerpt from Ail About (9:30 pm. 10 SW Third Ave. $7-$8.) Love, his song cycle examining love from many angles—straight, gay, jealous, wise, ten der, heated—at Reed College Chapel in Eliot Hall.’ (6 pm. 3203 SE Woodstock Blvd.) 14 T hursday Elder Resource Alliance invites older j 6 members of the sexual minorities community to meet each other, share common interests and enjoy fun conversation every second Thursday at Old Wives' Tales. Two door prize winners will get a free bowl of the restaurant’s famous Hungarian mushroom soup! (2-4 pm. 1300 E Bumside St. Kevin 503-224 2640.) S aturday l ____________ Come hear 60 students play high-energy music from Zimbabwe, Botswana and South Africa during the 10th annual Marimba Recital by the students of MyLinda King at Evangel Baptist Church. Bring your own percussion instruments for the All-Band Jam! (12:30-5 30 pm. 2830 NE Flanders St.) Jim Wallis discusses God's Politics, a clarion call to make both our religious . communities and our government pro-justice, pro-peace, pro-environment and pro-family— without making scapegoats of gays and lesbians—at First Baptist Church. (7:30 pm 909 SW 11th Ave.) Queer musician Joan Meyer performs with her folk-rock band Jessie Rae at Oregon Trader Brewing Co. in Albany. (7:30-10:30 pm. 140 Hill St. SE ) Bear Bust at Gail's Dirty Duck (8-11 pm. 429 NW Third Ave. $8 members. $10 nonmembers.) Portland author Charlie Vasquez, former Panorama nightclub photographer and musician of Factor Red and Kaitlyn m Donovan notoriety, reads from Buzz and Israel, an action-packed tale of a queer punk actor and his criminal lover, at 3 Friends Coffeehouse. (830pm. 201 SE 12th Ave.) Tip your hat to Crystal's Country Jam at the Metro Police Club. (8-9 pm lessons. 9 pm-1 am dancing. 618 SE Alder St. $5. $8 with lessons.) Singer/songwriter Athena Reich combines folk, punk, ska, pop and cabaret at Intaba’s in Corvallis. (9 pm. 1115 SE Third St. $5. www. athenareich. com.) 17 S unday The women of The Forest Group play miniature golf at Bullwinkle’s Family Fun Center in Wilsonville. (29111 SW Town Center Loop. 503-249 9501 or 503-287-7124.) I Cruise Control PDX presents quick dating for lesbians at Hobo's All ages are welcome (4 pm 120 NW Third Ave $15 Register at www.cruisecontrolpdx.com.) I Powell's presents Up & Coming .OUT Queer Writers Tennessee Jones (Deliver Me from Nowhere. a collection of short stories based on Bruce Springsteen's album Nebraska). Charlie Anders (Choir Boy. a fantastical coming- of-age story) and Carolyn Connelly (A Brooklyn Diary, a zine wntten by the New York City performance poet and sex educator). (7:30 pm. 1005 W Bumside St.) Holocene follows the Party Line with DJs Automaton, Amber and Freddie Formerly Celebrate the first anniversary of Booty, a weekly queer night at Snatch: A Dyke Knight presents a singles snatch-up and hot homo dance party with Portland's best queer DJs every third Sunday at the Doug Fir Lounge. (6-11 pm. 830 E Bumside St. $5.) Athena Reich jams April 12 and 14 in Corvallis. Check out more listings at www.justout.com!
