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Sunday. 3203 SE Woodstock Blvd.
$22 $39 from www.pbo.org.)
Portland Metro Club (PPAA)
(8 pm-midnight 618 SE Alder St.
$ 12 at the door, $10 in advance
from choicerocks@ppcworg.)
The Egyptian Club presents Hip-
Hop Fridays with DJ Brooklyn
once a month. (9 pm. 3701 SE
Division St. $4.)
Mississippi Pizza Pub presents
the Africa Women's Bike
Initiative Benefit Show featur­
ing a silent auction of Ghanaian
crafts, renowned West African
percussionist Chata Addy, rock
duo Gatas en Zapatas and
excerpts from the documentary
Ayamye by lesbian filmmaker
Tricia Todd and Eric Matthies.
19 pm. 3552 N Mississippi Ave
$5-$50 sliding scale.)
Need a Gaycation? Then party
down at Holocene for a queer
night with booty-shaking beats
spun by DJs Mr. Charming,
Snowtiger
and
Automaton.
19 pm 1001 SE Morrison St. $2.)
Someday
Lounge
presents
Cacaphony, an evening spot­
lighting those revisionist musical
forms often referred to as "exper­
imental," including noise, ambi­
ent, drone, neo-classical, glitch,
power electronics and improvisa­
tion. (9 pm-2 am 125 NW Fifth
Ave $5.)
Sissyboy's Bulimianne Rhapsody
hosts Club I.T. on Oct. 6.
SAT • OCT. 14
Border Riders Motorcycle Club visits Flowing Lake
County Park near Snohomish, Wash., through Oct. 15.
(RSVP to brmcprez@yahoo.com. www.borderriders.com.)
Portland Open Studios invites art enthusiasts to visit
studios on the west side of the Willamette River through
Oct. 15. Continues Oct, 21 and 22 on the east side. (10 am-
5 pm $15 from www.portlandopenstudios.com.)
The Sappho Social Club presents an Artistic Odyssey for
Women. Use art to help you visualize and manifest what
you want out of life by creating a project of your own in a
safe and nurturing setting. (1-3pm. 503-295-7156.)
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Old Lesbians Organizing for Change meet at Red
Lion Hotel in Vancouver, Wash., to discuss the
possibility of having their next national gathering
in the Portland area. Followed by dinner at a nearby restau­
rant. (3-5 pm 100 Columbia St. www.oloc.org.)
Hip Chicks Do Wine throw a Squishfest Harvest Party
featuring wine tasting, grape juice tasting, delicious food,
artisan cheeses and breads, and the chance to help crush
some grapes! (4-8 pm. 4510 SE 23rd Ave $7.)
"Pope of Trash" John Waters brings his warped wit to
Tower Theatre as part of the Bend Film Festival followed
by a screening of his 1988 classic Hairspray. (4:15 pm
lectuie, 7 pm screening 835 NW Wall St $15 from
www. bendfilm. org.)
The Imperial Sovereign Rose Court presents Coronation
2006 at Crystal Ballroom. This year’s theme is "The Roses
of Camelot—An Evening of Elegance: Past Present and
Future." (6 pm 1332 W Burnside St $40. For a complete
list of events, visit www rosecourt.org.)
Out Dancing's monthly Dance Social is every second
Saturday at Ankeny Street Studio. Lesson and refresh­
ments included. (8-11 pm Southeast Ninth Avenue and
Ankeny Street $8 at the door, $5 in advance from
503-236-5129.)
Planned Parenthood of the Columbia/Willamette presents
the all-ages dance party Choice Rocks 2006 at the
Brilliant lesbian folk goddess
Melissa Ferrick performs with
Kinnie Star at Doug Fir Lounge
19 pm. 830 E Burnside St $17
at the door, $15 in advance
from TicketsWest.)
Come to the Eagle for some ass-slapping fun during the
monthly kink night Queer Fetish (9 pm-2:30 am 1300 W
Burnside St. $3.)
SUN • OCT. 15
The Sappho Social Club visits the Oregon Mycological
Society Fall Mushroom Show at World Forestry Center's Butt magazine spreads its cheeks Oct. 11 at Crush. This summer the "international fagazine"
Chatham Hall followed by an optional hike through Hoyt featured Portland boys including Just Out contributor Aaron Scott.
Arboretum. (Noon 4033 SW Canyon Road Pat
503-697-3506.)
Central Library presents Zinesters Talking featuring queer
Tony-winning actress Cherry Jones hosts this month s
independent publisher Ariel Gore (Hip Mama). (6-8 pm.
episode of the gay and lesbian newsmagazine In the Life
Q Center presents Senior Life Stories, a facilitated discus­
801 SW 10th Ave.)
on OPB "Inside Out" celebrates the series' 15th season by
sion group for sexual minority seniors to share stories with
renewing its commitment to tell real-life stories from the
their contemporaries about growing up, coming out and
/ gq \ The Gay Gourmet Club meets at Le Bistro
sexual minorities community and to continue to inspire,
dealing with social pressure and family. Light refreshments
Montage (6-8:30 pm. 301 SE Morrison St RSVP
educate and inform. (11 pm.)
will be provided. (1-3 pm 69 SE Taylor St.)
to www gaygourmetclub.com.)
Learn how to keep the physical love sparking and not
become "best friends" when Mary Rowe facilitates the
workshop 0 That Lovin' Feeling at Haven Coffee
Sponsored by Cruise Control PDX, a social network for
lesbians 36 and older. (4 pm. 3551 SE Division St $15 from
www. cruisecontrolpdx. com.)
Come ye voluptuous vampires and vixens! Come ye plump
and preening princes and princesses! Come ye big and
burly beasties! Cupcake, Holocene's monthly dance party
for fat folks and allies, presents the Halloween masquer
ade Cupcake, Bloody Cupcake! (5-10 pm. 1001 SE
Morrison St. $5.)
Interstate Firehouse Cultural Center presents the fourth
annual Hip Chicks Do Wine Gala and Silent Auction
featuring live music by Dirty Martini. Proceeds benefit
Portland Women's Crisis Line. (6:30-10 pm 5340 N
Interstate Ave. $20 from 503-232-9751.)
The Dresden Dolls, featuring bisexual singer Amanda
Palmer and cross-dressing musical partner Brian Viglione,
perform at Crystal Ballroom. (8 pm. 1332 W Burnside St
$17.50 from box office or Ticketmaster.)
Logo premieres The Line of Beauty an acclaimed three-
part BBC miniseries that lovingly re-creates the excess of
1980s London. (10 pm.)
MON • OCT. 16
Jacqueline Woodson, an author whose books feature gay
and lesbian characters, delivers the fifth annual Teen
Author Lecture at Parkrose High School. (7 pm 12003 NE
Shaver St $5-$10.)
Gather around the Portland Polyamory Circle for informal
discussions of open relationships and commitment. (7 pm
Laury 503-285 4848 )
/ go \ Win prizes by entering the Hallovyeen costume
contest during Gay Skate Night presented by
Just Out every third Monday at Oaks Park.
(7-9 pm 1 SE Spokane St $5 plus canned food items for
Esther's Pantry.)
Q LAND and LoveTribe kick off Beat the 8lues, a men's
depression peer support group that meets every first and
third Monday. (7-9 pm RSVP to 503-223-8822 or
www lovetribe org/menspirit)
Logo premieres Jacob b Joshua: Nemesis Rising, a real­
ity series exploring the world of identical twins who launch
their band and music career as openly gay artists. (10pm.)
TUE • OCT. 17
Chambers unveils gay artist Randy Moe's
colorful portraits Oct. 19.
Planned Parenthood of the Columbia/Willamette presents
Sexy Tuesdays at lesbian-owned Middle Eastern bar
Zaytoon. (5:30-8 pm 2236 NE Alberta St. $10 from
sexytuesdays@ppcw.org.)
Q-LAND and LoveTribe present Men Touching with Heart
This month's theme is "Pleasure as a Compass in Healing
Touch." (7-10 pm
RSVP to 503-223-8822 or
www. lovetribe, org/menspirit.)
Internationally acclaimed fetish-burlesque stars The
Porcelain Twinz celebrate the release of their book Our
Life in the Sex Industry and film The Masked Charade at
Spartacus. (8 pm. 300 SW 12th Ave.)
Puff Puff Give— a psych-noise stoner jam band with
mutated diva vocals featuring members of Atole, Do n'
Dudes, Flaspar and Combat Drug—performs at Ground
Kontrol. (9 pm 511 NW Couch St $3.)
WED • OCT. 18
Deaf h Hearing Out Reach presents its fall beginner
American Sign Language course Wednesdays through
Dec. 13 at Haven Coffee. (6:30-8:30pm 3551 SE Oivision
St $90 Register at www dhor org by Oct. 13.)
Folksinger, political activist, educator and writer Alix
Dobkin reads from her memoirs-in-process. My Red
Blood: Radical Girl Takes on the American 20th Century, at
In Other Words followed by a concert at Mississippi Pizza
Pub. (7:30 pm, 8 NE Killingsworth St. 9 pm, 3939 N
Mississippi Ave.)
Crush presents Krush Groove, a queer hip-hop dance
Burning Love
In the months before and after rhe release of Nirvana’s
Nevermind, masses of Gen Xers opened their minds (and
their suburban parents’ wallets) to flannel, the Pacific
Northwest and a sonic stew of recycled and heroin-drenched
heavy metal realism dubbed “grunge.” A few hundred miles
south, the Portland music scene seemed on the verge of
mainstream success. It didn’t happen.
In the second half of the 1990s, Sleater-Kinney emerged
from Olympia’s riot girl community, dropping bombastic
records left and right. The unabashedly feminist trio got the
cover of Rolling Stone and had to marvel at the adoration of
the white male rock critic “establishment.” The Portland
scenesters chewed their nails, dreading the ruin of the city's
cheap rent and uncrowded streets, but for rhe most part,
appreciation for local bands remained, at best, local.
So maybe now is Portland’s big moment, and the DVD
Bum to Shine: Portland, Or. 06.15.05 (Trixie) is just one shred of incriminating evidence. Produced
and created by Fugazi drummer Brendan Canty, the sertes moves from city to city with a film crew and
an unwavering agenda: find a musical curator and a house slated for demolition. Pick a day. Pick a day’s
worth of music. Ask each chosen artist to perform one song. Record it. Then bum the house down.
To document the city’s current vital state, Canty asked multi-instrumentalist and resident Decemberist
Chris Funk to curate. The result? While some bands (most notably indie-pop A-listers The Shins and
freak-masters The Planet The) managed to keep the intensity of their stage personas intact, the absence
of an audience, the presence of a camera crew and the backdrop—a large piece of land with rolling green
Tualatin hills—created a sense of intimacy, even mortality, not usually seen from bands like The Gossip
and Sleater-Kinney.
The slow, steady sea change of the past 20 years is over; Portland is a city undeniably exploding with
music, worthy of capture on film by outsiders. And as if on cue, this is the year Sleater-Kinney calls it quits.
How fitting, then, that Carrie Brownstein's profile should frame the DVD packaging, eyes closed, savor­
ing the fleeting—and soon-to-be-fiery—moment.
—Cori Taratoot