Oarcelle XV presents the 26th annual
LaFemme
Magnifique
International
Pageant at the Oregon Convention Center.
This year's theme is “Notorious Animated Villains."
(8 pm. 777 NE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. $35 from
503-222-5338)
FRI • SEPT. 7
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MON • SEPT. 3
The Bisexual Community Forum hosts a casual
discussion group every first Monday at 3 Friends
Coffeehouse. (7:30 pm. 201 SE 12th Ave.
503-285-4848.)
WED • SEPT. 5
Our Shoes Are Red/The Performance Lab
presents the one-man show Thom Pain
(Based on Nothing) Aug. 30-Sept. 2.
Get lucky during the Fox b Hounds' Monthly Charity
Bingo. (3:30 pm. 217 SW Second Ave.)
Girls on Gay presents Temptation featuring some of the
Northwest's hottest lesbian and bisexual dancers at
Viewpoint Gentleman's Club. Great prizes include an ¿Il-
inclusive trip to Dinah Shore 2003! VIP admission
includes premium seating, a wont erti ouffet and a Bud
Light. (6 pm-3 am. 8102 NE Killingsworth St. $7 gener
aladmission, $12 VIP from wwwg.dsongay.com.)
Elder Resource Alliance holds a business meeting at
Friendly House Community Center. Learn about
projects, activities and resources available for queer
senior citizens, and be part of creating social change.
(2:30-3:30 pm. 1737 NW 26th Ave.)
THU • SEPT. 6
The Portland Institute for Contemporary Art presents
the fifth annual Time-Based Art Festival through
Sept. 16 at various venues. Full coverage in the next
edition of Just Out\ (For a complete schedule visit
www.pica.org.)
PDX Pride Bowling League starts its
season at Hollywood Bowl. (6 pm signup,
7 pm bowling. 4030 NE Halsey St. wwwpdx
pridebowl.com.)
Out Dancing's intermediate country two-step class
starts tonight and continues every Friday in
September at Ankeny Street Studio. Beginning fox
trot class follows. (6:15-7:15 pm two-step ($32 for
month], 7:15-8:15 pm fox trot ($24 for month).
Southeast Ninth Avenue and Ankeny Street.
503-236-5129. www.outdancing.info.)
Logan Lynn performs during MusicFest NW at
Holocene with Riddenpaa, Velella Velella. Dat'r, Copy
and Dan Deacon. (8 pm. 1001 SE Morrison St. $8.)
Grizzly Bear performs during MusicFest NW at Doug
Fir Lounge with Eric Bachman, Tiny Vipers and Au.
(9 pm 830 E Burnside St. $12.)
Virginia Lopez's Cuban drum troupe Mambo Queens
perform with the all-female saxophone quartet
Quadrophones at Mississippi Pizza Pub. (9 pm.
3552 N Mississippi Ave.)
Blues musician Margo Tufo performs at the
Candlelight. (9:30 pm-1:30 am. 2032 SW Fifth Ave.)
Exotic Electro Elixir
Queer knowledge test: Do you know
what “G-emo is?”
I didn’t either until I met “gay emo”
musician Logan Lynn.
The sassy electro fag is putting Portland
on the musical map in an entirely new way,
coining his queer-oriented genre for the
heartbroken. Apparently, the sadness of his
audience makes Lynn a happy man.
“I really want to he the Liz Phair of my
generation,” he says. “I don’t want to be
a rock star, but just have some really big hits
on soundtracks.”
Since debuting his first album at the
Folsom Street Fair to 400,000 leather dad
dies, Lynn has found his niche with an entirely different audience—that of the straight commu
nity. With his quirky, sex-drenched musical style filled with catchy beats, he appeals to frat boys
and sexually androgynous hipsters.
Crediting bands like the Postal Service for “paving the way” for artists like him, Lynn is tak
ing every inch he’s given to push the sexy extremes of his exotic electro elixir. With the video for
his single “Burning Your Glory” reaching No. 7 on MTV’s Logo network and his newest album
release, From Pillar to Post, coming out in the fall, there is no stopping this man-meets-machine.
“At first my music was too dancy for the emo kids and too folky for the electro kids...things
seem to be happening really organically now,” Lynn says. “The music may be quirky, but it’s still
digestible.”
Lynn and bandmate Carlos Cortez are ready to play for, and with, the G-emos of Portland
during MusicFest NW 8 p.m. Sept. 8 at Holocene, 1001 S.E. Morrison St. While rocking the
sweaty room, Lynn will surely teach you a thing or two.
Lynn is also booked to perform at Cascade AIDS Project’s 21st annual AIDS Walk Portland,
which runs from 8:30 a.m. to nwn Oct. 14 at Pioneer Courthouse Square. For more information
visit www.loganlynnmusic.com.
—West Duncan
SAT • SEPT. 8
Galloway and Luckett perform in the Local Heroes
series at Artichoke Music Backstage as the kickoff
event for their tour in England, Ireland and Scotland.
(7:30 pm. 3130 SE Hawthorne Blvd. $5.)
Blow Pony—Portland's fresh, hot, dirty electro night
at the Eagle PDX—presents Play Dead, a perform
ance that straddles the line between the comedic and
the creepy, borrowing from vaudeville, sketch, drag,
cabaret and more traditional theater. (9 pm. 1300 W
Burnside St.)
SUN • SEPT. 9
Holocene presents Pop Tart, a new party for
bois, dykes, ladies and the like every second
Sunday. This month DJs Harmony and
Saffronica host the West Coast's premier mashup
artists from Booty San Francisco, DJs Adrian and the
Mysterious D. (7 pm-1 am. 1001 SE Morrison St. $5.)
Photographer Lucas Foglio's "Carving a
Buddha" is on display this month at PDX
Contemporary Art.
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As You Like It has a reputation for being one of
Shakespeare's fluffiest plays—there’s a bit of unpleasant quar
reling at the beginning, but eventually everybody runs off to
the woods and falls in love. There’s also a bit of cross-dressing,
just to keep things nteresting.
Give it to Kenneth Branagh to take the play’s slightness
as a challenge and take a “high concept” direction—in this
case, setting the movie in late 19th century Japan, among
a vaguely described group of British merchants settled there,
assimilating to their new culture. As if that weren’t enough,
in another of his directorial curveballs, Branagh presents
a defiantly, but not illogically, interracial cast. While not his
torically impossible, this choice places the movie firmly into
theatrical, rom-com unreality.
The roles of Oliver and Orlando, quarrelling brothers, are
played by the superb Adrian Lester and David Oyelowo, two
British actors relatively unknown to American audiences.
Oyelowo in particular brings a mixture of sentiment and
strength to Orlando, but he never seems to have a genuine
romantic connection to Bryce Dallas Howard’s Rosalind. He
looks convincingly in love, but not with the person in front of
him, whether she is dressed as a boy or a girl. Little attempt is
made to masculinize the delicate Ms. Howard, but she’s cute
and spunky enough in her trousered and dirty-faced Ganymede
persona that when the shepherdess Phoebe (Jade Jeffries)
develops a swift crush on her, it makes a certain kind of sense.
Orlando’s lack of connection with Rosalind, though, is a mat
ter of chemistry, and Oyelowo and Howard don’t have it.
In general, though, the film is free of genuine sexual
tension, a common side effect of the Branagh approach.
Branagh loves the language, energy, romance and fun of
Shakespeare, but he doesn’t seem to capture its lu. t, preferring
to have the lovestruck characters gaze stupidly at each other.
The best performances aren’t the young lovers, but the grown
ups, played flawlessly by Brian Blessed, Alfred Molina and
Kevin Kline. Branagh’s As You Like It is pleasant and fun, it
ultimately insubstantial.
—Jemiah Jefferson
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