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In Other Words throws a Bitch Magazine
Release Party for Issue #38, "Lost and Found,"
which is packed with rediscovered feminist
texts, a chewy interview with Susan Faludi and
one woman's love affair with Christian rock.
(7 pm 8 NE Killingsworth St.)
Wonder Ballroom presents Storm and the Balls
Holiday Cabaret featuring special guests.
Proceeds benefit Q Center. (8 pm. 128 NE Russell
St. $17425 from box office or Ticketmaster.)
Q Center presents the QDOC Monthly
XjJjjF Documentary Series. View and dis
cuss The Believers, which chronicles
the formation of the world's first professional
transgender gospel choir, highlighting individual
backstories as well as the group's impressive
contemporary, gospel-pop sound. This film
might set more than a few conservative
Christian mindsets reeling! (8-10 pm. 69 SE
Taylor St.)
Lynn Frances Anderson performs at Bethany
Village Grill. (8- 10 pm. 4876 NW Bethany Blvd.)
Splendora and the Gender Fluids host the new
weekly dance party Queer Bait at Crush. Come
dance with all of your favorite DJs, fun-time
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freaks, drunky sluts and hairy mammoths!
(9 pm. 1400 SE Morrison St. $3. )
FRI • DEC. 14
A go Audio Cinema presents the Girls Rock
Xj^|F Institute Fall Showcase Er Holiday
Jam with a silent auction featuring
a Fender guitar and musical gift packs as well
as a special set by the all-female dance-metal
crew Swan Island. Proceeds benefit the Rock 'n'
Roll Camp for Girls. (5:30 pm. 226 SE Madison
St $5.)
Singer/songwriter Jana Losey performs at
Mississippi Pizza Pub. (6 pm. 3552 N
Mississippi Ave.)
In Other Words presents Dirty Queer, an X-rated
open mike to celebrate sexuality and strut your
creative stuff! Hosted by renegade writer and
poet Sossity Chiricuzio, it promises to be an
evening full of laughter and full-body shivers.
(6:30-9 pm. 8 NE Killingsworth St. $1 donation,
www. dirtyqueer. com.)
The Portland Gay Men's Chorus presents the
holiday concert Brass, Bells and Wassail through
Dec. 16 at Reed College's Kaul Auditorium. (8 pm
Friday and Saturday, 2 pm Sunday. 3430 SE
Woodstock Blvd $15425 from 503-226-2588.)
Queer neo-folkie Holcombe Waller rings in the
holiday season during this month's recording of
the OPB variety show Live Wire! at Aladdin
Theater. Other guests include Chris Walla of the
pop band Death Cab for Cutie; Curt Ellis, produc
er, director and star of the documentary King
Com; and author Paul Collins revealing some
thoughts about recycling calendars (and recy
cling time?). (8 pm 3017 SE Milwaukie Ave.
$15 at the door, $12 in advance from box office
or Ticketmaster.)
OJ Girlfriends presents Pink, a monthly queer
night at Dunes offering an eclectic array of
music from disco to hip-hop and everything in
White Bird welcomes back the country's pre-eminent hip-hop dance company,
Rennie Harris Puremovement, through Dec. 8.
between. Pink drink specials all night long!
(8 pm speed dating, 10 pm dance party.
1905 NE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd $3.)
SAT • DEC. 15
Weather permitting. The Adventure Group takes
a moderate snowshoe hike or cross-country ski
trip around Timberline. Meet outside Starbucks
at Hollywood Fred Meyer. (9 am. 3030 NE
Weidler St. 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.)
Q Center presents Daddies and Papas Potluck,
a monthly group for gay, bi and trans men
raising children to hang out with their kids and
other dads, enjoy a dinner and have some fun.
(5-7 pm. 69 SE Taylor St.)
Barracuda throws another Hot Flash Dance
Party for seasoned lesbians 36 and older featur
ing music from the '70s to today, a great dance
bar and wall-to-wall sexy, gorgeous women!
(5-9 pm. 9 NW Second Ave. $8)
Mr. Gay Portland XXX Dr. Chance de Valmont and
Ms. Gay Portland XV Char Star present a night of
out-rage-us fun featuring group production
numbers at Embers Avenue. Proceeds benefit the
Sexual Minority Youth Resource Center (7 pm
110 NW Broadway. $5 donation)
Singer/songwriter Jana Losey performs at In
Other Words. (7 pm. 8 NE Killingsworth St. $6.)
The Eagle PDX presents the sultry dance night
How Rude! featuring DJs Danny Damage, Olek
and Bdrm Eyes spinning '80s, new wave, disco,
punk, electro and funk music. (8 pm. 1300 W
Burnside 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.)
C.C. Slaughters throws a Homo Holiday Party
featuring a customer white elephant gift
exchange. Get your picture taken with Hot
Santa and his elves! (9 pm. 219 NW Davis St.)
Broadway Rose Theatre Company
Ooug Fir Lounge presents devilishly clever
avant-pop from Portland duo The Blow, featur stages Plaid Tidings through Dec. 9.
ing bisexual musician Khaela Maricich. (9 pm.
and introduces lesbian conductor/composer
830 E Burnside St. $12 from TicketsWest.)
Joan Szymko's "Ten Million Stars." (4 and 7 pm
12003 NE Shaver St. $20 at the door, $18 in
Pop band Office, featuring bisexual
advance from 503-AURORA1.)
frontman Scott Masson, performs at
Towne Lounge. (9:30 pm. 714 SW 20th
Place. $6.)
Q Center hosts Tranz Guys —a group for trans
men and intersex, genderqueer and questioning
people who were assigned female at birth—
every third Sunday. (6 pm. 69 SE Taylor St.)
Weather permitting, The Adventure Group
Darcelle XV Showplace celebrates the
takes a moderate cross country ski trip along a
X^^p season with the 27th annual La
popular trail that begins with a thrilling downhill
Femme Christmas Holiday Show fea
stretch and loops around Trillium Lake for excel
turing delightful performances by reigning and
lent views of Mount Hood. Meet outside
former queens. (8 pm. 208 NW Third Ave. $15.)
Starbucks at Hollywood Fred Meyer. (9 am.
3030 NE Weidler St. Gustavo 503-756-5566.)
C.C. Slaughters presents The Superstar Divas
Holiday Show Part 1. Concludes Dec. 23.
Aurora Chorus, featuring more than 100
(8 pm. 219 NW Davis St.)
women's voices, presents Stars in Your Bones
at Parkrose High School. This seasonal, inclu
George Michael guest stars on the series finale
sive concert celebrates our human relationship
of Extras on HBO. (9-10:30 pm.)
with stars, the moon, the sun and the universe
SUN • DEC. 16
Pop Tart's Eye Cdndy
r is releasing a limited, local-only live
imed TBA performance, Into the Dark
ope Chest.
What’s warm, gooey, delicious and a great winter treat?
Pop Tart, that’s what.
Unlike the stale, flat, generic excuse for breakfast that used to ’
pop its way into your hand on the way to school, this Pop Tart is
full of flavor and fun. Taking place on the second Sunday of every
month at Holocene, the all-queer, all-female event is a new twist
on an old favorite.
Shoshana Oppenheim began Tart two years ago and hand
ed the night over to friend and coHeague Kaki Marshall in
August. Now with the reins in hand, Marshall plans to make the
evening more sizzling than ever with a buffet of new DJs like
A&D, Victor M and Joy while also recruiting tasty new guests.
“As our community has grown and evolved, there is now
a generation that identifies as queer and wants a place to express
themselves without a label,” says Marshall. “There’s a real sense
of community here, and there is more than enough for all!”
Kaki Marshall runs Pop Tart every
The event promises a night of lip-smackin’ satisfaction second Sunday at Holocene.
and a way to whet your appetite for something new when the
winter doldrums set in. By modeling the evening after Sunday
late-night successes in Marshall’s hometown of the Bay Area,
she’s also carefully chosen her entertainment wisely to appeal
specifically to Portlanders. It’s clear while sweating to the hody-
wracking heats with a room full of eye candy, one can easily find
comfort food here.
With a limited number of spaces for queer women in
Portland, Marshall hopes Pop Tart offers another way for more
to come out and dance their asses off. Maybe this tasty morsel
will be something we can all agree on.
‘Tm really all about expanding the scene, and I think
Portland is ready for a more unified one,” says an excited and
hopeful Marshall. “If some is good, more is better!”
Pop Tart starts 7 p.m. at 1001 S.E. Morrison St. C9ver is $5.
For more information visit www.myspace.com/pop_tart.
—West Duncan