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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
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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
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| 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.)
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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. In 1950’s
photography and even queer subtexts (in the case
Gun Crazy, Annie Starr (Peggy Cummins) leads a
of The Maltese Falcon and Gun Crazy, starring gay
good-natured naif astray, but she does it with heart.
actor John Dall) will also find much to love.
Jane Greer’s brilliant portrayal of murderous Kathie
Killer Ladies runs through April 29 at Portland
Moffat in 1947’s Out of the Past humanizes one of Art Museum’s Whitsell Auditorium, 1219 S.W.
noir’s most vicious characters, one who single
Park Ave. For a complete schedule visit
handedly engineers a dizzying series of double
www.nwfilm.org.
crosses to get the kind of plush life—and man—she
—Gary Morris
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