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About Just out. (Portland, OR) 1983-2013 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 19, 2007)
JANUARY 19, 2007 onview PAGE 30 | onstage PAGE 31 | film PAGE 35 | theater PAGE 37 | culture PAGE 38 | ¡USt|OUt[25 music PAGE 40 Queer painter Storm Tharp's We Appeal to Heaven is on display this month at PDX Contemporary Art. FRI • JAN. 19 Gay-owned Froelick Gallery and Augen Gallery present an Attic Sale through Jan. 20 featuring sexy, vintage, rare, estate-quality office equipment, frames, furniture, decorative treasures, shipping crates and other ephemera. (10am-5pm. 817 SW Second Ave.) Bettina Aptheker reads from her poignant memoir. Intimate Politics: How I Grew Up Red, Fought for Free Speech and Became a Feminist Rebel, at In Other Words. (7 pm. 8 NE Killingsworth St.) The Greater Portland Intercollegiate Queer Society hosts College Night Fridays at the Escape Nightclub featuring different music every week, $3 off the cover with student identification and speed friend-making (like speed dating!) for the first hour. (10:30 pm. 333 SW Park Ave. gpiqs. info@gmail. com.) SAT • JAN. 20 Portland Frontrunners take a 2.7- to 6.5-mile run along the Willamette River followed by brunch every Saturday. Meet at the intersection of Southeast Main Street and the Eastbank Esplanade. (9 am. www.portlandfrontrunners.org.) Portland's deaf and hearing comedians take the stage for the seventh annual ASL Comedy Night through Jan. 20 at Embers featuring skits, improv, standup and more hosted by "The Deaf Aztec Man" Mark Morales. Voice interpreters will be provided for the ASL- impaired. Stay for Deaf Professional Happy Hour after the show Friday! (7-9 pm. 110 NW Broadway. $5.) Liz Taylor, a Dangerous Writer studying with acclaimed author Tom Spanbauer for more than a year, leads DykesWrite!— a weekly supportive community where lesbians will write, review each other's work and discuss selected topics on the "writer's life"—at In Other Words. Space is limited, so come eariy! (2-4 pm. 8 NE Killingsworth St. $3-$6 donation, dykeswrite@gmail.com.) Northwest Film Center screens Burn to Shine: Portland, Or. 06.15.05— a documentary featuring performances by The Shins, The Planet The, Sleater-Kinney and The Gossip—at Whitsell Auditorium as part of the 24th Reel Music Film Festival. (9:30 pm. 1219 SW Park Ave. $6-$7.) Would you like your wellness visions to become real, and not just another set of forgotten new year's resolutions? Q-LAND and LoveTribe present the practical men's workshop Vision into Action: Finding Allies for Your Wellness Vision. (2-8 pm. RSVP to 503-223-8822 or www.lovetribe.org/menspirit.) ................... appears next to events especially recommended by the Just Out arts staff. 1 Q Center presents the Daddies and Papas Potluck every third Saturday. (5:30-7:30 pm. 69 SE Taylor St.) Dyke-owned Haven Coffee presents Old Time Music Jam every Sunday. (6:30-8:30 pm. 3551 SE Division St.) BearBust at Gail's Dirty Duck. (8-11 pm. 429 NW Third Ave. $8 members, $10 nonfffembers.) Multnomah Meeting House (Quakers) presents Responding to the War of Terror from a Place of Nonviolence, an evening, of comedy, reflection, prayer and action for people who want to share their concerns, frustrations and hopes. Includes excerpts from queer performance artist Peterson Toscano's play The Re-Education of George W. Bush. (7pm. 4312 SE Stark St.) Tip your hat to Crystal's Country Jam at the Portland Metro Club (PPAA). (8-9 pm lessons, 9 pm-1 am dancing. 618 SE Alder St. $5, $8 with lessons.) SUN • JAN. 21 MON • JAN. 22 Keshet invites queer Jews as well as their spouses, partners, significant others and good friends (whether Jewish or gay or not) to a potluck brunch discussion with Rabbi Steven Greenberg, the only out gay Orthodox rabbi. (11 am. RSVP to mike@seeingresults.com.) Acme presents Lingo, a free weekly event featuring lounge/house music and performance pieces. (9 pm. 1305 SE Eighth Ave.) Queer Knitting meets every other Sunday at Mabel's Cafe and Knittery for crafting, conversation and cama raderie. All genders, sexualities and knitting/crocheting experience levels welcome. (4-7 pm. 3041 SE Division St. starstealinggirl@gmail. com.) David Copperfield brings an intimate evening of grand illu sion to the Rose Garden. (5:30 and 8:30 pm. 1 Center Court. $29.75-$59.75 from ComcastTix.com.) The Gay Pinochle Group meets every Sunday at Hobo's. Come play cards and meet the gang. (6 pm. 120 NW Third Ave. Mike 503-641-7224.) Submissions should be sent to Just Out Calendar, P.O. Box 14400, Portland, OR 97293-0400, or faxed to 503-236-1257; or submitted at www justout.com. Deadline is 15 days before issue date. Just Out is published on the first and third Friday of each month. All addresses are in Portland unless otherwise specified. TUE • JAN. 23 The Egyptian Club presents the Ladies International Poker Series Texas Hold 'Em Tourneys every Tuesday. Two women will be sent to the LIPS weekend in Las Vegas; earn points through May! (7 pm. 3701 SE Division St.) r—---------------------- For complete, up-to-date listings I log onto www.justout.com. » We teach Knitting? bind the fabulous pattern for this sweater knit from Rowan Scottish Tweed Chunky yarn at Yarn Garden. We know yarn! (¿very fiber, every color! We have so much yarn, we say that if we don't have it, it's because we found something belter to offer you! r* Discover Paradise! t-of-the-Year CLEARANCE SALE! 25% off all Gay New Releases 50% off all other Gay DVDs Paradise Video Upscale Adult Video Store 503.255.9414 1413 S.E. Hawthorne Blvd. Portland, OR 97214 CAR HEXT www.yarngarden.net (503)239-7950 Hr _ _ - YA lv N
