MARCH 17, 2006 iustout
out standin,
just asking
Starting Something with Shoshanah Oppenheim
Are you enthusiastic about a second term
for Oregon Gov. Ted Kulongoski?
hoshanah Oppenheim spent
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the better part of the past 15
years in Portland, yet she
yearned to create a party
atmosphere she experienced
in San Francisco, where lesbians meet
to see and he seen by each other on a
low-pressure, casual afternoon.
“I’d recently been back to San
Francisco, and there’s such a wide
variety of events for women down
there,” she said.
She created Tart, dubbed “a swank
soiree where the queer girls play,” in
November 2003. Double Down, “the
Shoshanah
fab queer party where it pays to be
fast,” followed last February.
“I tried to create the party I wanted to go to,”
she said.
Selling points for Tart are its early hours, loungy
rhythms and Sunday placement, for those who
want to pack more weekend into their weekend.
Tart is from 4 to 11 p.m. every second Sunday.
Double Down, from 8:30 p.m. to 2:30 a.m. every
fourth Saturday, is a brassier party with more of a
mixed crowd. Both events are held at Holocene,
1001 S.E. Morrison St.
Oppenheim has used the success of her events
to give back to the community by donating profits
from Tart and Double Down. She recently donated
$1,200 to Mercy Corps for Hurricane Katrina relief
and made a similar donation to Basic Rights
I van P adial
Portlander
C athy R obart
Amateur Skating
Coach
“No. 1 don’t think
he’s done a good job.
He talked the talk,
but he didn’t walk
the walk.”
“No. He doesn’t
keep his word on a
casino at the
Gorge. He relies on
gambling to fund
Oregon’s public
programs.”
Oppenheim seeks out meaningful work.
Oregon last year. She has also held fund-raisers for
Pride Foundation and the Portland Lesbian & Gay
Film Festival.
“We try to be responsive to what’s going on,”
she said.
Oppenheim has worked as a judicial clerk, real
estate agent and attorney. She now does grassroots
fund raising for rhe campaign to re-elect
Multnomah County Chair Diane Linn.
In her professional endeavors, Oppenheim said:
“1 hope to do work in the future that will be much
more about passion and meaning. The campaign
I’m working on now is a crash course in politics,
a race I believe in and important work.”
For more information visit www.tartparty.com.
—Jaymee R. Cud ©
J an H inton
Governor of Gayville
J ohn
M c R eynolds
Happily Retired
“If he can bring the
civil unions on
hoard, mayhe I’ll
look at him
differently.”
“Not particularly.
He’s like a
Democratic Victor
Atiyeh. The only
gixxl thing to say
about him is he’s
been to all the
veterans’ funerals.”
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