30 JUSt OUt • September 16. 2005 Old Slocum House Theatre Company Friends Sept 29-Oct. 23 at 2204 NE Alberta St Gay-owned Onda Arte Latina 2215 NE Alberta St., presents In Small Doses, Mananela de la Hoz's paintings in egg tempera, through Sept 27. Next up are oil paintings by Alejandro Ceballos Sept 29-Oct 25 Optic Nerve Arts presents Dearly Departed, about a wacky family in the Baptist backwoods of the Bible Belt who turn to an eccentric community of fnends and neighbors for comfort, through Sept. 25 (Call for times. 605 Esther St., Vancouver. Wash $8 $ 10 from 360-696-2427.) Portland Center Stage presents Underneath the Third Rail's Dirty Story focuses on an epic real estate battle through Oct. 8. presents Heathen Art: A Reluctant Manifesto through Sept. 26 at 1829 NE Alberta St. Next up are paintings by D C. Cooper and collages by Janet Julian Sept. 29-Oct 25 Oregon College of Art & Craft. 8245 SW Barnes Road, presents the inaugural Juned Biennial High School Exhibition through Oct 1. Pacific Northwest College of Art presents Troca Brasil, an art exchange with a gallery in Rio de Janeiro, through Oct. 22 at 1241 NW Johnson St Palio Espresso and Dessert House exhibits Portland photographer Sonya Nidever through Sept. 30 at 1996 SE Ladd Ave. Gay-owned Paolo in the Pearl exhibits the inspired paintings of Selene Robmowitz in Tortilla Delights through Oct. 31 at 1031 NW 11th Ave p:ear gallery exhibits Lam Quang and Kestrel diverse contemporary artists from across tlie United States, through Sept 30. Gates' whimsical lamps and lanterns in Rock Paper Scissors through Sept 29 at 809 SW Alder St Artifact exhibits painter Spencer Reynolds' Genuine Imitation Gallery exhibits |om Photographic Image Gallery exhibits The UPI Oceans along with artwork created by Big Brothers Big Sisters of Metropolitan Portland through Sept. 30 at 625 NE Everett St #101 Luedecke's traditional portraits using contemporary design techniques in WiseCrack through Sept. 30 at 328 NW Broadway #116 News Photographs of Robert Flora through Oct. 1 at 79 SW Oak St The Art Institute of Portland presents Guardino Gallery 2939 NE Alberta St., exhibits Creative Evolution, an invitational exhibit of Northwest graphic designers' work, through Sept. 30 at 1122 NW Davis St. Marcia Hindman's oil paintings and Darlene Schaper's ceramic sculptures through Sept. 27 Next up are photographs by Pat Bognar and ceramic sculpture by Kicki Masthem Sept 29-Oct. 25. Artreach Gallery presents Questions for the A Retrospective of Berbati's Posters through Sept. 30 at 10 SW Third Ave Blackfish Gallery exhibits landscape artist Carol Benson's Cloud Forest Paintings through Oct. 1 at 420 NW Ninth Ave Next up are paintings by Robert Dozono Oct. 4-29 Mark Woolley Gallery presents contemporary Portland City Hall 1221 SW Fourth Ave . art from New Zealand featuring gay sculptor Terry Stringer's The Head Is a Theatre of Dreams and painter Peter Wheeler's Vitamin P through Oct. 1 in Suite 210 at 120 NW Ninth Ave. Marylhurst University s Art Gym, 17600 Pacific Highway, exhibits site-specific, labor-intensive installations by Mike Rathbun and Diane Jacobs through Oct. 23. Gallery talk noon Oct. 20. Bonnie Kahn's Wild West Gallery exhibits Wasco/Yakama artist Lillian Pitt's Crow Takes Leave of the Family through Sept. 30 at 1524 NW 23rd Ave Portland Art Museum 1219 SW Park Ave , Lawrence Gallery presents Portland painter Ann Ruttan through Sept 29 at 903 NW Davis St. Emery Reno's Portraits of Women through Sept. 30 at 3734 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Berbati's Pan exhibits PDX PRNT an ephemeral installation and pnnt study by James Jack, through Sept. 27 at 2045 SE Belmont St. presents Speaking Rums: Piranesi and the Legacy of Ancient Rome through Dec 11; The Mauritshuis Project An Introduction to Dutch 17th Century Painting and Eleven Decades of Modern Silver A Taste for Coffee and Tea through Jan 29. 2006; and Mysterious Spirits. Strange Beasts. Earthly Delights: Eady Chinese Art from the Adene and Harold Schmtzer Collection through Jan 1. 2007 In Other Words Women's Books and Resources exhibits Portland photographer Lyla Chnstian —Kenny Higdon's provocative political paintings that touch on the war. the environment, gays, abortion and how these issues relate to the teachings of Jesus—through Sept 30 at First Congregational Church, 1126 SW Park Ave. Portland Art Center presents Natura Naturans. Milagros exhibits Katie m. Berggren's whimsical exhibits Up Close in Pink, a body of works explonng the artistic expressions of those affected by breast cancer, in the North Atrium; paintings by Megan Scheminske in the office of Commissioner Sam Adams; paintings by Shu-Ju Wang in the office of Commissioner Dan Saltzman; and photographs by Tony Sibley in the office of Commissioner Randy Leonard through Sept 30 Pulliam Deffenbaugh Gallery exhibits Bay Area Moving Through Center exhibits photographs by Heather Dooley through Sept 30 at 2857 SE Stark St. Bazaar, a collection of work by more than 30 artists, through Oct. 1 at its new space. 929 NW Flanders St. Next up is German Photography: Influence of the Bechers Oct 4-29. Butters Gallery presents paintings by David Multnomah Arts Center Gallery presents Kirk Quintana Galleries exhibits Inuit Stone Geiser through Oct. 1 at 520 NW Davis St. Botero’s Southfork Senes, paintings and objects inspired by Western U.S. landscapes, through Sept. 21 at 7688 SW Capitol Highway. Next up is a mixed-media group show Sept. 27-Oct. 26. Opening reception 7-9 pm Sept 30 Sculpture: Recent Works from the Canadian Arctic through Sept 30 at 120 NW Ninth Ave. ink drawings through Sept. 24 at 5429 NE 30th Ave. Gay-owned Brian Marki Fine Art. 2236 NE Broadway, exhibits Italian painter Sandro Negn's Between the Land and Sky through Sept. 30 Chambers exhibits paintings by Agnes Field and lesbian artist Sidney Rowe through Oct. 8 at 207 SW Pine St. #102. Elizabeth Leach Gallery presents sculpture and collage-based paintings by Mark Smith and figurative sculptures and drawings by Christine Bourdette through Oct. 1 at 417 NW Ninth Ave Fix Gallery exhibits paintings and video by Dan Ness through Sept 30 at 811 E Bumside St #113. Froelick Gallery 817 SW Second Ave . presents paintings by gay artist Stephen O'Donnell in Still and Galene des Modes and etchings by Ritsuko Ozeki in Pam through Sept 28 Gay-owned Muse Art and Design exhibits works in acrylics, oils, drawing and photography by Ron Bunch, Edwin J. Schmidt and Meredith Morgan through Sept 26 at 4224 SE Hawthorne Blvd Newspace Center for Photography 1632 SE 10th Ave., presents 56 images by Bootsy Holler through Oct. 2. Oddball Studios presents the textile paintings of Sarah LaDarre through Sept 30 at 2138 E Bumside St. Gallery 500 420 SW Washington St #500. Office presents the Portland debut of lesbian presents Inertia 2005. a juried exhibition of 13 photographer Jan Sonnenmair's 100 or So New Random Order Coffeehouse celebrates its first anniversary with the group art show Elvis or Astronaut through Oct. 26 at 1800 NE Alberta St. RC Gallery presents Northwest abstract artist Deborah Bell and printmaker April Richardson through Oct. 15 at 1314 NW Glisan St Reed College 3203 SE Woodstock Blvd . offers a look into the faces of the histone and contemporary Middle East in the installation Mapping Sitting: On Portraiture and Photography by New York- and Beirut­ based curators Walid Raad and Akram Zaatan through Sept. 30 at Douglas F Cooley Memorial Art Gallery Artist lecture 7 pm Sept. 23 at Vollum Lecture Hall Queer-owned Studio 2507 2507 SE Clinton St., displays a group show of gallery artists through Oct. 10 3D Center of Art and Photography exhibits David Allen's Composites, Conversions and Favorites, using both photographic and computer skills, and screens Unseen Ellis Island: Island of Hope. Island of Tears, a then-and-now look captunng images of the decay of an era. through Sept 25 at 1928 NW Lovejoy St. Next up are Gene Faulkner's stereoscopic diptychs and triptychs and Jim Long's rendenng of beautiful art classics into three dimensions Sept 29-Nov. 6 Waterstone Gallery exhibits Affinity and Influence, sculptures by Stuart Jacobson and Solarplate intaglio prints by Barbara Mason, through Oct. 2 at 424 NW 12th Ave. Woolley at Wonder presents Form and Emptiness, a Buddhist-inspired show coinciding with Insight Out's One, through Oct. 1 at 128 NE Russell St. World Forestry Center exhibits Oregon photographer Steve Ternll's The Way We Look at Trees through Dec 31 at 4033 SW Canyon Road ONSTAGE Lintel, an around-the-world tale of a librarian obsessed with finding whoever had the gall td return a book 113 years overdue, Sept 27-Oct. 30 at Winningstad Theatre. (Call for times. 1111 SW Broadway. $15-$56 from 503-274-6588.) Portland Metro Performing Arts Center revives Hot Flashes, a comedy that follows the career of a five- woman band from their 40s to their 70s, Sept. 24- Nov. 5. (Call for times 9933 SE Pine St. $18-$22 from 503-775-8017 or wwwhotflashesthemusical.com.) Profile Theatre Project launches its Lanford Wilson season with Talley's Folly, a romantic, seno- comic valentine to lost souls. Oct. 8-30 at Theater Theatre. (8 pm Thursday-Saturday. 2 and 7 pm Sunday. 3430 SE Belmont St. $13-$28 from 503 2420080) Profile Theatre Project launches its Lanford Wilson season with Talley & Son. a gripping drama of family scandals and intrigue in the mode of Little Foxes. Oct 8-30 at Theater Theatre. (8 pm Thursday Saturday. 2 and 7 pm Sunday. 3430 SE Belmont St $13 $28 from 503-242 0080.) Portland Opera's Broadway in Portland presents Disney's award-winning musical The Lion King through Oct. 23 at Keller Auditorium. (Call for times. 222 SW Clay St. $27.50-$72.50 from 503-241-1802 or Ticketmaster.) Seers Network presents Pure Gold Baby 2005, Artists Repertory Theatre presents Enchanted Apdl, the story of two proper London housewives’ romantic month in the Mediterranean sunshine, through Oct. 16. (Call for times 1516 SW Alder St. $15-$40 from 503-241 1278.) Arts Equity presents Road Rage, an over-the-top satincal musical comedy by gay composer Mark Steenng, through Oct. 9 in Vancouver, Wash. (Call for times 606 Mam St $24-$28 from 360-695-3770.) BroadArts Theatre presents AmBushed. an interactively raving mystery that asks the musical question, "How did the right wing beat all us smart broads and dudes7” Sept. 24 only at Michael Servetus Umtanan Umversalist Fellowship in Vancouver, Wash. (8 pm. 4505 E 18th St. $20 at the door. $16 in advance from 503-288-5181.) Classic Greek Theatre of Oregon presents Alcestis, a romantic thriller by Euripides. Sept. 17- Oct. 2 at Reed College's Cerf Theatre and Oct. 6-16 at Portland State University's Lincoln Hall. (Call for times. 3203 SE Woodstock Blvd, and 1620 SW Park Ave. $10-$20 from 503-258-9313.) Insight Out Theatre Collective presents One. an American rock musical illuminating the human search for personal truth in the modern day by Drammy Award winner Wade McCollum (Hedwig and the Angry Inch) through Oct. 1 at Wonder Ballroom. (8 pm Wednesday-Saturday. 2 pm Sept 25 128 NE Russell St. $20-$35 from Ticketmaster; Wednesdays are $5 $20 sliding scale ) Lakewood Theatre Company presents The Music Man. one of the most popular musical comedies in American stage history, through Oct. 23. (Call for times. 368 S State St.. Lake Oswego $25-$27 from 503-635-3901 or www lakewoodcenter, org.) Miracle Theatre Group presents the world premiere of Elliot, a Soldier's Fugue, an examination of the effects of war on a Puerto Rican military family, Sept 23-Oct 15. (7:30 pm Thursday. 8 pm Fnday and Saturday. 2 pm Sunday 525 SE Stark St. $16-$20 from 503 236-7253.) Portland playwnght Michelle Keil's streamlined exploitation of the stnpping industry, extended through Oct. 8 at Milk and Honey Studio (8 pm Fnday and Saturday 2512 SE Gladstone St $30 at the door. $25 in advance from www.seersnetwork.com.) Stark Raving Theatre presents Dreampuffs of Loma, a timely dream-comedy tackling issues of women, sex, war and anthropomorphization, through Oct. 8 (8 pm Thursday-Saturday. 7 pm Sunday. 2257 NW Raleigh St. $10-$20 from 503-232-7072; Thursdays are "pay what you can.") Theatre Vertigo presents the dark comedy The Flu Season. Will Enc's postmodern deconstruction of a story of burgeoning love in a psychiatnc hospital, through Sept. 24 at Theater Theatre. (8 pm Thursday Saturday 3430 SE Belmont St. $15 from www.theatrevertigo.org; Thursdays are “pay what you will") Third Rail Repertory Theatre presents Dirty Story, a savage comedy about an epic real estate battle by Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize winner John Patrick Shanley (Doubt. Moonstruck), through Oct. 8 at Interstate Firehouse Cultural Center. (8 pm Thursday-Saturday, 2 pm Sunday 5340 N Interstate Ave $15-$20 from 503 235 1101.) Triangle Productions puts a comic twist on a story of unconditional love, acceptance and "coming out" in a Texas family in Sordid Lives, through Sept 23 at Theater Theatre. (8 pm Thursday- Saturday 3430 SE Belmont St. $17-$23 from 503-239-5919 or TicketsWest.) Woolley at Wonder presents a staged reading of Falling Star, an onginal play co-wntten by Portland lesbian Ginny Foster about an African Amencan movie star who "passed" in order to get work in early films. Sept. 19 only (7 pm. 128 NE Russell St. $5.) BULLETIN BOARD Enjoy cooking and good wine? Lesbian couple seek women in the Gresham/Northeast Portland area interested in forming a small cooking and wine­ tasting group. First meeting Sept 24. 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