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It only comes once a year...
2005
Portland opera-metal band Fact or
Fiction is featured in the new issue
of Venus, a music magazine from
Chicago.
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Pom Pom Meltdown were included in
the summer edition of Venus, a rock
music magazine based in Chicago. The
bands, featuring queer musicians who
raise awareness about sexual minority
angst, were touted as rays of hope for
Portland’s post-punk music scene.
At the same time, the city’s own gay
commissioner, Sam Adams, was fea
tured in The Advocate, a national gay
and lesbian newsmagazine, for a story
about out and influential politicians.
—JRC
ALL 2005 SUBARUS
ARE ON SALE NOW!
P erformers T ake the S tage
to B enefit W omen ’ s S helter
Providence Milwaukie Hospital
and Salmonberry Catering are sponsor
ing the sixth annual Pathway to Peace,
a five-kilometer fun walk/run and
concert to end domestic and sexual
violence.
Tlie walk/run is at 5 p.m. June 25,
and registration begins at 4. The con
cert takes place from 6 until 10. All
events are in the beautiful Mary S.
Young Park, 19900 Willamette Drive
in West Linn.
While domestic violence is a seri
ous subject, this event is a time for fun
and is designed for the whole family. It
features a post-walk picnic dinner and
Singer Mary Kadderly is joined by friends in her support
activities for children.
for Clackamas Women's Services.
The post-walk lineup includes the
Aurora Chorus, Linda Hornbuckle, Nicole
supremacist ideologies.’ Muse io delves deep to
answer these questions, marveling at how differ Campbell, Rye 1 follow and Mary Kadderly. The
ent personal history is to everyone, while chal concert is free.
Pathway* to Peace benefits Clackamas
lenging people to expand their thinking on
Women’s Services, whose mission is to end
America’s past and encouraging them to consid
domestic and sexual violence against women
er how their own histories might read.
and children. The only nonprofit domestic and
Cunt was a huge best seller at In Other
sexual violence shelter in Clackamas County, it
Words. The San Francisco Chronicle described it
provides lifesaving shelter to an average of 350
as “bright, sharp, empowering, long-lasting, use
women and children each year. Hie 24-hour cri
ful, sexy.”
—SD sis hot line, 503-654-2288, receives about 5,000
calls annually.
Registration for the event is $25 for adults
P ortland S ightings N ationwide
and $15 for youth, and children younger than
Portland has fallen out of the national news
spotlight after dominating headlines about mar 6 are free. For a brochure, call 503-722-2366.
Registration information is also available online
riage equality a year ago. Yet this summer, two
at www.cwsor.org or www.providence.org/
national magazines have featured Portland as a
milwaukie.
forefront city in politics and culture.
— sd jrn
Local bands Fact or Fiction, Swan Island and
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