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Blue Door Productions stages The 3rd Floor's Gone in 60 Sketches Dec. 29.
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Resources presents Because Reading Is
Sexy: The Dirty Queer Book Club on the
Gay-owned Clarklewis presents
fourth Wednesday of each month. Riding the
an afternoon of champagne and
wave of Dirty Queer, Portland's only X-rated
oysters. Sommelier Dana Pickell
open mike, the group will let loose to discuss
hosts a tasting of her holiday selection of
the best in queer, pervy, kinky porn—with 10
grower champagnes, paired with a festive
percent off sexy selections! (7 pm. 8 NE
raw bar featuring Pacific Northwest oysters,
Killingsworth St. $1 donation.)
house-smoked trout and domestic caviar.
Accordion performance by Vagabond Opera's
Eric Stern! (4-6 pm. 1001 SE Water Ave. $55
from 503-235-2294.)
The Men's Wellness Center screens
FRI • DEC. 28
THU • DEC. 27
Naked Boys Singing, a hilarious
musical that won rave reviews off- j
Broadway. Hey, who can beat some good old-
fashioned gratuitous nudity (done tastefully, of
course)? (7-9 pm. 928 SW Stark St.)
Mother's Velvet Lounge presents Cabaret
Karaoke. This month’s theme is "Happy
Holidaze," a nondenominational extravaganza
where you can warm your cockles! (8 pm-1 am
212 SW Stark St.)
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Splendora and the Gender Fluids host the new
weekly dance party Queer Bait at Crush. The last
Thursday of every month is an open-invitation
performance salon, so sign up now! (9 pm.
1400 SE Morrison St. $3. For salon details e-mail
loveleeart@yahoo. com.)
In Other Words showcases Portland female
musicians during the monthly Luna Music
Series. (7 pm. 8 NE Killingsworth St.)
C.C. Slaughters presents the Oregon Bears'
monthly Double X Dance featuring music by
DJ Peter Calandra of Studio 54 fame. (9 pm-
1am. 219 NW Davis St. $2.)
SAT • DEC. 29
Weather permitting, The Adventure Group
takes a moderate snowshoe trip to Twin
Lakes for a view of the Mount Hood summit.
Meet outside Starbucks at Hollywood Fred
Meyer. (9 am. 3030 NE Weidler St. Sarah
503-341-6226.)
Much more traditional are the four portraits painted by
multifaceted artist and queer filmmaker Todd Haynes (I’m
Not There). Of course, each portrait is of his subject du
jour, Bob Dylan.
It’s not just local folks in this issue of Plazm. The
magazine’s editorial coordinator, Sarah Gottesdiener,
scored an interview with JD Samson. Samson became
the quintessential butch lesbian when she joined the
band Le Tigre in 2000. Her androgyny was celebrated
and condemned around the world as much (if not more
so) than her musical and artistic endeavors. Since Le
Tigre went on hiatus in 2006, Samson has been working
on her own projects, such as resurrecting JD's Lesbian
Calendar as JD’s Lesbian Utopia.
Gottesdiener’s interview with Samson is compelling in
large part because it is a conversation between two queer
artists. They move seamlessly from discussing queer art’s
historical context to identity politics to the subject of
money and appealing to the mainstream. Samson says,
“I want this queer art to be relevant in a straight world,
and 1 want straight people’s art to be relevant in our world.”
This issue of Plazm blurs the lines, bringing Samson’s sentiment closer to the surface.
—Julie Sabatier
From left, Portland Gay Men's Chorus guest artists Joseph Pearce, Johnny Hochgraefe, Mark Weinsoft and Dana Busch
share the stage with Susannah Mars during her cabaret celebration Mars on Ufa: The Holiday Edition.
Oh, Susannah!
Artists Repertory Theatre has revived Mars on Life: The Holiday Edition, a popular family-friendly production that affec
tionately plays with a multitude of holiday traditions, incorporating music, comedy and audience interaction into a cabaret
celebration.
This year Susannah Mars gets a boost from gay Seattle musical theater composer Richard Gray, who has created two songs
especially for her, “Holiday Time” and “Holiday Letter.” For the past two years he has been a finalist for the Fred Ebb Foundation
Award honoring up-and-coming musical theater writers. Gray’s musical Cold Turkey (for which he wrote the book, music and
lyrics) was featured at the 2004 Village Theatre New Works Festival. His holiday revue Forbidden Xmas (modeled after Forbidden
Broadway) has been a fixture of the Seattle holiday scene since 1991, and two of his full-length musical scores (Time Again in O?
and Little Rock) have been performed in theaters across the country.
Meanwhile, visual artist William Rihel has transformed the Artists Rep lobby into an interactive installation based on
a “wishing” or “prayer” wall where audience members can contribute their own hopes and desires to the finished work through
out the run.
Each night Mars welcomes different special guests showing off their unique talents, from clarinet to dance to song, providing
a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for theater audiences to see familiar names and faces show a totally new facet of their glittering
personalities. Gay guests this year have included humorist Marc Acito, Oregon Ballet Theatre artistic director Christopher
Stowell and BodyVox choreographer Eric Skinner.
The final weekend will feature jazz singer/pianists Robert Hicks at 7:30 p.m. Dec. 21 and 22 and Tom Grant at 2 and 7:30 p.m.
Dec. 23. Tickets are $20-$47 from www.artistsrep.org.