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¿8 justout APRIL 6, 2007 Watch Out, Boys, She'll Chew You Up Quintana exhibits Douglas Miles' alternative view of Native American art through April 28. Mississippi Pizza Pub presents Bitch and the Exciting Conclusion, Swan Island and Slim and the Competitive Eaters. 18 pm. 3552 N Mississippi Ave.I THU • APRIL 19 / go \ Crush throws a big gay dance party with DJs Rob l ° u L and Bradl (9 pm. 1400 SE Morrison St.) DJ BJ spins with Eats Tapes, Lucky Dragons, The Dodos and Powdered Wigs at Holocene. (9 pm. 1001 SE Morrison St.) The Rose City Sirens present their all-new tantalizing burlesque show at the Egyptian Club. (9 pm. 3701 SE Division St.) FRI • APRIL 20 Oregon’s capital city hosts the second annual Salem Film Festival through April 22 at Salem Cinema. Be sure to check out Coffee Date, a romantic comedy about a straight man whose life spins out of control when an unexpected friendship with a gay man causes everyone in his life to assume he’s queer. (For a complete schedule visit www. salemfilmfestival. com.) Hey, all you classy martini-swillin', mellow-music- listenin', good-conversatin', lady-appreciatin', hard- workin' queer women! Come enjoy a good drink with good friends in a quiet, relaxing, nonsmoking environment during Gimlets n' Garters every third Friday at Fez Ballroom. Stick around for '80s dancing upstairs! (6- 10pm. 316 SW 11th Ave. $6-$8.) Don't miss out on all the fun! Drag queen extraordinaire Miss Mylar hosts Chicos Latinos Bingo at the Men's Wellness Center. Come by and have a delectable pastry and play for a chance at an obscenely huge bottle of ID Glide. (7-8:30pm 928 SW Stark St.) SAT • APRIL 21 Weather permitting, The Adventure Group takes an easy kayaking trip in Scappoose Bay and Sauvie Island. Meet in the lot at Montgomery Park. (9 am. 2701 NW Vaughn St. Evan 503-701 7922.) The Adventure Group takes a moderate 12-mile mountain bike ride in Forest Park. Helmets required. Meet at the eatingout J J I I I I I I I I I 1 (f ff ¿P O Oil eatingout your food purchase with this ad i west end of Northwest Thurman St. (10 am. Laurent | 503-227-2914.) Gay gurus Bill Donnelly and Jeff Bader—aka the Spirit Trainers—teach a special yoga class at Andrea's Studio in Hillsboro to help calm your mind, regulate your breath and gently move energy through your body. (10-11:30 am. 874 NE Birchwood Drive. $15 from www. spirittrainers, com.) Q Center presents the Daddies and Papas Potluck every third Saturday. (5:30-7:30 pm. 69 SE Taylor St.) Toe-tappin' urban folkie Liz Snavely of Grand Rapids, Mich., brings her catchy lyrics and gritty and powerful vocals to In Other Words. (6 pm. 8 NE Killingsworth St.) The Portland Institute for Contemporary Art presents Tada Underground, an annual fund-raising gala featuring a performance by queer neo-folkie Holcombe Waller, a special choral presentation, a Wall of Wine, an incred ible dinner prepared by the wizards of Simpatica Catering and the announcement of the 2007 Time-Based Art Festival lineup! (6-10 pm. 509 SW Taylor St. $150 from 503-242-1419, ext. 221.) Ladies are invited to mingle at the beautiful Edgewood Manor during Eat My Martini. (7:30-10:30 pm. Register at www. yourplaceormineproductions. com.) BearBust at Gail's Dirty Duck. (8-11 pm. 429 NW Third Ave. $8 members, $10 nonmembers.) 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 • APRIL 22 ¿ go A Who knew that one of the smallest, most diverse and most endangered ecosystems in North Amenca is nestled on 26 acres in West Linn? Q-LAND and LoveTribe explore the beautiful spring wildflowers and unique plants at Camassia Natural Area followed by a delicious dinner. (1:30 pm carpool, 2:15 pm walk. RSVP to | 503-223-8822 or www.lovetribe.org/menspirit.) The Portland Arts 8 Lectures series welcomes humorist David Sedaris to Keller Auditorium. (7:30 pm. 222 SW Clay St. $30-$60 from www.literary-arts.org.) eatingout eatingout wants. Some of the women here go even further. In One of the (many) pleasures of the enduring 1962’s The Manchurian Candidate, frustrated power film noir genre is the unforgettable gallery of gorgeous, gun-toting, ball-busting women who pop bitch Mrs. Iselin (Angela Lansbury) destroys her son in a plot to take over the U.S. government. In ulate it. These decidedly undomestic temptresses can’t be bothered with cooking din-din for hubby or ’ the 1955’s apocalyptic Kiss Me Deadly, a scheming beauty opens an atomic-age Pandora’s box capable doing the dishes or cleaning Junior’s dirty diapers— of destroying the world. they’d rather rob a bank, swindle an insurance company, steal their mother’s boyfriends, murder their annoy ing husbands or, in a few extreme cases, try to take over or destroy the world. Their victims aren’t always rubes, either: Even the savviest man in a film noir can be brought down by a femme fatale determined to take advantage of his romantic, or lustful, feelings for her. Just how lethal these women can be can be seen in the Northwest Film Center’s Killer Ladies Joan Crawford won her only Academy Award for Mildred Pierce. series. Featuring glis tening 35mm prints in a rare appearance on the big Critics often read film noir as one of the more screen (a vastly different experience from watching butch genres, embodying male anxieties and fan them on the tube), rhe series showcases 10 of the tasies of empowerment as they try crime as a way to toughest gals in film history. One of the revelations get rich, or nail some moll who wouldn’t look at of revisiting these classics is that, despite the hav them if they don’t have money. But this series oc they wreak, these women are surprisingly shows noirs are just as likely to be fueled by female sympathetic as they try to blast their way out of the ambition. A case in point is 1945’s Mildred Pierce, traps of dull domesticity, middle-class life and which has its share of memorable males, but the suffocating sex roles. women—Crawford as the obsessive mother and A perfect example is Brigid O’Shaughnassey Ann Blyth as her monstrous daughter Veda— (Mary Astor) in 1941’s The Maltese Falcon. She dominate the film with Mildred’s climb to wealth spends the entire movie tearfully fucking over through her dogged entrepreneurship and her end everybody around her, including love-struck lessly fascinating emotional tug of war with Veda. gumshoe Sam Spade (Humphrey Bogart). But we The films’ proto-feminist angle is only one of viewers are as drawn to her beauty and power as the lures of this series. Fans of snappy scripts, stel Spade is, and we unexpectedly suffer as he does lar performances, intricate plots, stunning location when she finally gets her comeuppance. 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