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30 lUStOUt JULY 6, 2007 Summer Shakes ff/c/r ft Steve: The Happiest Gay Couple in All the World premieres July 10 on Logo. Vita Café hosts a fun summer night of Roller Derby Bingo1 I Rose City Roller derby girls will be selling cards and giving out excellent prizes, and the lovely Miss Ezmerelda will call the games. Proceeds benefit the Siren Nation Women's Music b Arts Festival scheduled for Nov. 1-4. (7 pm. 3024 NE Alberta St. $2 a game.) FRI • JULY 20 Bagdad Theater presents Tegan and Sara. (7:30 pm. 3702 SE Hawthorne Blvd. $20 from Ticketmaster.) Pink Martini performs during the daVinct Days Festival on Oregon State University's campus in Corvallis. (8pm. $10 from www.davinci-days.org.) In Other Words and the Rock 'n' Roll Camp for Girls host a midnight book release party to celebrate J.K. Rowlings' Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows featuring a spe- cial reading, treats and performances by Killer Llamas and Coffee Shop. (8 pm. 8 NE Killingsworth St. $5 donation.) SAT • JULY 21 The Adventure Group takes an easy two-mile walk along Eastbank Esplanade and Waterfront Park. Meet on the Esplanade at Southeast Main Street. (9 am. Evan 503-701-7922.) Love Makes a Family holds a social gathering every third Saturday at Q Center. (10 am-noon. 69 SE Taylor St.) Life coach Jill Nelson presents Five Secrets to a Better Relationship, a free seminar to give you powerful tools for improving your personal relationships, at Metropolitan Community Church of Portland. (2-4 pm. 2400 NE Broadway. RSVP to 503-730-9187 or stepbeyond coach@aol.com.) Pink Martini— the genre-bending, best-selling, supremely talented and raucously fun 12-piece ensem ble that The New Yorker calls simply "beautiful, sophisth cated and breathtaking"—performs at Les Schwab Amphitheater in Bend. (6:30 pm. 344 SW Shevlin Hixon Drive. $20-$45 from Ticketmaster.) Maria Webster performs fun music at Cooper's Coffee. (7-9 pm. 6049 SE Stark St.) 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.) All-female indie electro-pop band The Trucks performs during Sluts + Squares at Acme. (9 pm. 1305 SE Eighth Ave. $5.) SUN • JULY 22 Haiku displays queer artist Sharon Comunales Doll Parts through July 24. Make a big summer splash! Fat Action Troupe Portland (F.A.T. PDX), known best for its popular event FatGirl Speaks, presents Chunky Dunk, Portland's only fat-positive group swim, at Peninsula Pool. (5:15-7:15 pm. 6400 N Albina Ave. $5.) This summer, star-crossed lovers will off themselves in downtown Portland, and a hitch of epic propor tions will wreck havoc at various parks. The mayhem comes to us cour tesy of Portland Actors Ensemble, a company that has staged free outdoor Shakespeare in the Park productions every summer since 1970. The season opens with The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet through July 21 at Lovejoy Fountain Park. This year’s touring production is The Taming of the Shrew, a catty comedy about a man who gradually Count Paris (Butch Flowers) looks sharp in Ralph Lauren. quells his wife’s fiery temper. The show makes its way to six metro-area parks from I native who is on break from her undergraduate July 28 to Sept. 3. studies at Illinois Wesleyan University. “I went Local theater veteran John Monteverde directs through a goth phase,” she says. “1 also went Romeo and Juliet, reviving the modernized version of through a high-fashion phase.” the classic that he staged for Blue Monkey Theater When she’s not creating or reinforcing Co. in February. His interpretation of the tragic costumes, Clancy has taken some time to reflect on romance has no explicit queer content, but he a play that’s still timely 400 years after the Bard suspects that the show’s dramatic costumes will wrote it. appeal to queer viewers with fashion savvy. “There’s a lot to be drawn from it,” she says. Monteverde sets his version in contemporary “Fighting is not the right answer, and you shouldn’t Italy, using the battle between Romeo and Juliet’s outlaw connections between groups.” families as a means of spoofing the battle between Heed these words from Monteverde if you think the Armani and Versace clothing empires. “Lady you’d rather get rabies than watch a Shakespeare Capulet is styled after Donatella Versace,” he says. play: “This is one of his most beautiful and pure For the Blue Monkey production, Monteverde love stories, and it has some of his dirtiest jokes. designed the set to resemble an indoor fashion run And this version has plenty of swordplay and way. Of course, the Lovejoy Fountain location violence, amped up with a rock ’n’ roll feel.” forces the fashion show to go alfresco. “Now it’s an Visit www.portlandactors.com for dates, kx:ations outd<x)r runway,” says Monteverde. “I like the strut and showtimes. ting feel of the models. The men strut and preen.” —Stephen Blair From the songs by Offspring to the goth outfits and makeup worn by the teenage charac ters, the production boasts some serious punk attitude. Monteverde called on young costume designer Devin Clancy to ensure that the hip factor of the February production is intact in the great outdoors. Clancy—a self described “queer youth” and “equal opportunity Mercutio (Paul Pistey) struts and swaggers at the measure of his lover”—is Portland * sword in The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet. ______ out________ out________ out________ out________ out________ out________ out out out THAI CUISINE PORTLAND’S EASTSIDE DINING & SPIRITS I 3207 s I Division Street n 32nd \ve. Iratuiing music and videos on tlat sc reen plasm.« monitors extended menu including late night hours TAKE-OUT & DINE-IN Saturday K Sunday <)am to 2am Saturday Breakfast <) »tin Sundas Brunch ’)/{O am 503 23O ;<)SO’2<H3 SI Stark ww\s. st<i rk\ s.c< »in 503 223 9265
