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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
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