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About Just out. (Portland, OR) 1983-2013 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 2, 2007)
FEBRUARY 2, 2007 I I Glenn & Viola Walters Cultural Arts Center unveils queer artist Wesley Younie's fantastical wildlife Feb. 6. at Hollywood Fred Meyer. (9 am. 3030 NE Weidler St. Jeff 503 234-4800.) men and women to socialize in a smoke-free environment. (7 pm. 1135 SW Washington St.) With Valentine’s Day around the corner, Crafty Wonderland at Doug Fir Lounge will be full of handmade gifts for sweethearts and singletons alike. Make a free V-Day card at the do-it-yourself table! (11 am-4 pm. 830 E Bumside St.) Erin McKeown performs with Eleni Mandall at WOW Hall in Eugene. (7:30 pm. 291 W Eighth Ave. $12 at the door, $10 in advance from www.wowhall.org.) DJs Harmony, Beyonda and Saffronica lay down the hottest world, Latin, house and old-school beats during Tart, a monthly party for queer girls at Holocene. (4 pm. 1001 SE Morrison St. $5.) The Portland Area Business Association holds its monthly meeting at MacTarnahan's Taproom with a pre sentation by Jean Ann Van Krevelen and Roma Peyser of WED • FEB. 14 From Fizzle to Sizzle Gay-owned Vino Paradiso introduces its new chef and launches its modern Italian menu with a five-course Bring Your Own Barolo (BYOB) Dinner. No corkage fee! (6-8pm. 417 NW 10th Ave. $45 from timothy@vinoparadiso.com.) I C.C. Slaughters plays The Dating Game during Carnivale de Bolivia Game Show Night and throws a CD release party for Children Running Through by Patty Griffin. (9pm. 219 NW Davis St.) Give yourselves tools for an improved relation ship for Valentine’s Day with the same-sex couples workshop From Fizzle to Sizzle. This series is for couples who believe in their rela tionships and wish to maintain, improve, work through and genuinely commit to each other. Trainer Mary Rowe will offer ideas for couples to improve MON • FEB. 12 Q Center exhibits QuArt's group show Loire and the Anatomical Heart, featuring this sculpture by Julie Gragg, through Feb. 28. Don't miss the opening reception Feb. 2. type of food, but we often have no choice when traveling for work or stuck with a four-hour layover at the airport. (7-8:30 pm. 928 S W Stark St.) SAT • FEB. 10 The Adventure Group takes a moderate 11,5-mile cross country ski loop in Upper Wind River, Wash. Meet in Starbucks at Hollywood Fred Meyer. (9 am 3030 NE Weidler St. Gustavo 503-756-5566.) Contact, express and perhaps even transform some of the silenced parts of your self through art, movement, mind ful touch and psychodrama during Men s ShadowQuest: Freeing Your Authentic Power co-sponsored by Q-LAND. (4-10:30 pm. RSVP to 503-223-8822 or www. lovetribe, org/menspirit.) Ambridge Center presents the Rose City Swing Valentine's Dance. (7 pm dance lesson, 8 pm concert. 300 NE Multnomah St. $18 at the door, $15 in advance from www.rcgfb.org.) Pride Foundation, which awards grants and scholarships and cultivates leaders among Pacific Northwest queers, holds a meeting in search of new ideas and fresh faces to support the Columbia-Willamette's sexual minorities community. (5:30 pm. For location contact Cody Bambino at 503-313-3636 or cody@pridefoundation.org.) Meet Portland's most talented thespians during the Drammy Committee's second annual Mid-Season Martini Mixer featuring food catered by Ten-01 at the Armory. (6-10 pm. 128 NW 11th Ave.) C.C. Slaughters presents the fifth annual Red Party, a retro '80s flashback ball featuring music remixed by DJ Alex Hollywood and hostess Bolivia Carmichaels. (9 pm. 219 NW Davis St. $5.) C.C. Slaughters throws a DVD release party for Shock to the System (9 pm. 219 NW Davis St.) 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.) Logo premieres First Comes Love, a comic and touching look at same-sex couples as they plan their dream weddings. (10 pm.) easily and bring more passion and romance into their relationship. Whether you have just gotten together or have been together for years, these workshops will add tools to your communication chest: • I Don’t Want to Talk About It! (Feb. 4): You have all heard it before: Communication is the key and foundation to any relationship. The series will start by ftxzusing on ways to kx>k at your communica tion patterns so that you can build on your successes and work through the challenges. Learn tips for increasing your effectiveness in communicating with each other. • Keeping the Love Alive—Because Nothing Will Kill It Quicker Than Unresolved Conflict SUN • FEB. 11 The Adventure Group takes a moderate five-mile hike around Catherine Creek and Tracy Hill. Meet in Starbucks their communication, move through conflict more TUE • FEB. 13 Bettie Ford Lounge hosts Salon Q. a monthly mixer for (Feb. 11): Do you find yourselves avoiding talking about certain topics until things get unbearable? With each conflict there is an opportunity for increased Matchmaker, Matchmaker While some of us are consumed with the idea of getting our relationships legally obsessive-compulsive depressives, emo closeness and tmst when it is dealt with in a construc tional vampires and other problem tive manner. Just like there are personality styles, types. there are also conflict styles. Gain insight into how to recognized as marriages, others are just try Mark, 37, is a hunky flight atten ing to find a date—followed, they hope, by dant whose dating history seems to lasting love. That’s the subject of Love have been conducted exclusively at Remember when you and your partner first got Lessons. Part of Logo’s “Real Momentum” the baths. Socially stunted perhaps together and it was as if you two could live on love series exploring “the diversity and unique because he still carries major baggage alone? Gain some insight into how to get that spark true-life stories” of queers across America, from having been molested for five back before it is going, going gone. Whether you are this hourlong documentary profiles two gay years as a young teenager, he hires gay still passionately in love or starting to live as room men and a lesbian, all unattached, as they dating coach Jim Sullivan to help mates, this class will help you generate some ideas for him land a man. getting that loving feeling back into the relationship. bypass the lure of online tricking and bars and the Metropolitan Community Church Perry hires “New York's only certified gay matchmaker" to teach him Loire Lessons, which debuts 9 p.m. Feb. 3 on Logo. better work with each other’s conflict style. • Ohh That Lovin’ (Feb. Feeling 18): Reality TV shows are only as grxxl Rowe conducts trainings and mediations through as their stars, and Love Lessons is a her consulting practice and has worked as an organi I winner on this basis. These are all charming, endearing people whose struggle zational trainer for more than 12 years. She has also gay matchmaker." Perry’s case is challenging, says Rob—not because he’s HIV ! for something that shouldn’t be so hard to find strikes a universal chord. The taught personal development classes through commu positive, which is common enough, but because he refuses to consider anybody show tracks the process from the matchmakers learning about their clients’ nity colleges and nonprofits. A cornerstone of this has who doesn’t share his status. His list of hates is woefully long: children, musi desires to actual dates and possible successful matches. It’s fascinating and been her self-esteem classes for women. cal theater, tattoos, certain shoes. His fantasy man is pretty much that; in an often painful to watch the dates, which sometimes end very differently than Classes take place from 4 to 5:30 p.m. at the amusing moment, he shows Rob a computer presentation of what he’s after, expected, and to see the matchmakers’ varying approaches to convincing their Center for Natural Medicine, 1330 S.E. 39th which includes hunky Neanderthal wrestler Goldberg. clients to open up. (Sullivan simply demands that Mark “take the mask off!”) Ave. The cost is $30 a couple for drop-ins or $75 The only complaint about the show is that it’s so short. Love Lessons is one of a couple for the series. To register e-mail the few reality shows that screams miniseries but only lasts an hour. mrowecommunications@comcast.net. in favor of a professional: the matchmaker. Perry, 34, hires Rob Anderson, advertised as “New York’s only certified Rachel, 36, tells L.A. matchmaker Robin Fox that her last relationship “pretty much tore me down," and she shows it. Rachel is a major giver and pos sibly enabler with a history of hixiking up with dmg addicts, confused bisexuals, —Gary Morris —Jim Rodosui
