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About Just out. (Portland, OR) 1983-2013 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 1, 2008)
A gay butler (Ralph Fiennes) befriends a tobacco heiress (Susan Sarandon) in Bernard and Doris debuting Feb. 9 on HBO. SAT• FEB. 9 lite Adventure Group goes downhill skiing at ,jaunt Hood Meadows. Meet outside Starbucks al Hollywood Fred Meyer. (8 am. 3030 NE Weidler St. RSVP to Jim at 503-760-3814.) r.abbage. Ieer, an ality and enegade promis- and full- sworth .) esbian atures leg and from t The . (7pm y[$25 Maria Ochoa and Barbara K. lge read from the multidimensional anthology Shout Out: Women of Color Respond to Violence at In Other Words. (2 pm. 8 NE Killingsworth St.) Northwest Gender Alliance-a social, sup- ROrt and educational group for people who desire to explore and express another gender- meets every second Saturday at Q Center. (2-6 pm. 69 SE Taylor St.) Asian & Pacific Islander lesbians & Gays present their Lunar New Year Banquet and Annual Meeting at Shenzhen Restaurant. (5-8 pm. 707 NE 82nd Ave. $30 at the door, $25 in advance from Meei at 503-784-5388 or aplg _pdx@yahoo.com.) Eugene's Indigo District throws a Hot Flash Dance Party every second Saturday featuring dance music from the '70s to today. Power surges for seasoned lesbians 30 and older-and the women who love them! (5-9 pm. 1290 Oak St. $8.) nts My ening of mpagne Church. Brown Celebrate good times! Embers presents L4L POX for lesbians 35 and older every second Saturday. Dance to '50s, '60s, '70s and ·sos music in a nonsmoking environment. (5-9 pm. 110 NW Broadway. $5.J ;ic out of legacy ert Hall. 75 from Hip Chicks Do Wine presents Valentine's Day Wme and Chocolate Tasting featuring a tast- ing of six to eight wines, appetizers, chocolate delights by Godiva, live music by There She Goes and a rose for your sweetie. (6-9 pm .. 4510 SE 23rd Ave. $10.) Now k-lt and ) The seductive Eartha Kitt-an 81-year-old showbiz icon whose career has spanned more than six decades of stardom in fit m, theater, fresh fish, Peking duck and meat-free options such tables and tofu. Guests will also have a chance to mes in a raffl to win gift ccnificates for massage <I fine eating establishments around town as well as rtland's Japanese Garden and Chinese Classical wonderful group of folks who get together two or year for different occasions and celebrations, and ly one of the best ones to be at," says Lum. ganizes a nmgc of social activities throughout the outdoor activities, potluck dinncn and movie says she hopes the Year of the Rat will bring directions, new faces and mare friends" to the n is $30 at the door or $25 in advance. RSVP to o~ aplu,dxOyahoo.com. -J• Sabaria cabaret, television and the recording studio-- makes a rare Portland appearance in a special pre-Valentine's Day concert with the Oregon Symphony at Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall. (7:30 pm. 1037 SW Broadway. $20-$112 from Ticketmaster.) (ii;'\ The Portland Lesbian Choir presents W, Passion for Peace featuring songs about peace, freedom, justice, cele- brating women and, of course, love at Bridgeport United Church of Christ. (7:30 pm. 641 NE 76th Ave. $12 at the door, $10 in advance from Touchstone Coffee House, In Other Words and Music Millennium./ HBO debuts Bernard and Doris, a grown-up fairy tale about the extraordinary relationship between tobacco heiress Doris Duke (Susan Sarandon) and her gay butler, Bernard Lafferty (Ralph Fiennes), who was granted control over her billion-dollar fortune. (8-9:45 pm.) CoHo Productions stages Ta/es of Ordinary Madness through Feb. 23. a safe, respectful and creative environment Mondays through April 21 . Journals, pens, snacks and beverages provided. (6:30-8:30 pm. 917 SW Oak St. #405. RSVP to ,503-796-9224.) The Human lijphts Campaign, which advo- cates for queer issues, holds a volunteer meet- ing every second Monday at Q Center. Get involved! (7-9 pm. 69 SE Taylor St.) logo premieres Transamerican Love a reality dating series starring actress and activist Calpemia Addams in her quest for love. Join host Alec Mapa (Desperate Housewives, Ugly Betty) and Calpemia's best friend, Andrea James, as they whittle down a group of eight eligible suitors in their search for her Mr. Right. (10 pm.) Hard Uving TUE• FEB. 12 Holcombe Waller. (9 pm. 830 E Burnside St. $10 from TicketsWest.) Haven Coffee hosts the Bisexual Women's Discussion Group. (6:30 pm. 3551 SE Division St. RSVP to pdxbiwomen@gmail.com.) WED • FEB. 13 Women's rights activist Susan Wicklund reads from The Common Secret: My Journey as an Abortion Doctor at In Other Words. (6:30 pm. 8 NE Killingsworth St.) The Portland Area Business Association holds its monthly meeting at MacTarnahan's Taproom with a scholarship committee presen- tation. (11 :30 am-1 pm. 2730 NW 31st Ave. $18-$25 from www.paba.com.) Gilt Club hosts Salon Q, a monthly mixer for men and women to network, chat, socialize, flirt, dish and kibitz in a smoke-free environment. (7-11 pm. 306 NW Broadway. www.salonqpdx.com.) Central Library pre~ents Zinesters Talking fea- turing Nicole Georges (Invincible Summer) and Greg Means (Clutch Split). (6:30-7:45 pm. 801 SW 10th Ave.) Doug Fir lounge presents an evening with two uniquely gifted performers, Baby Dee and Beren deMotier reads from The Brides of March: Memoir of a Same-Sex Mary Gauthier's latest release, Between Daylight and DMk, is country noir: sad, despairing Girf4Girl celebrates one year in Portland with and, at times, bleak. Each song is like a short fiction, a celebrity appearance by Dani Campbell from MTV's A Shot at Love with-Tila Tequila, the al portrait of liminal people, those lost and ,disenfran, Pacific Northwest's hottest go-go dancers and chised souls who pass through this life invisible in music by DJs Mel and Beyonda at Wonder Ballroom. (9 pm. 128 NE Russell St. $15 from their misery to most of us. box office or Ticketmas_ter.J ''Thanksgiving Day" is a stark, firsthand account of Having returned from their yearlong sabbatical families waiting outside in the bitter cold for a visit to across the pond, 2 Gyrtz Performative Arts pre- see kin in Tallulah State Prison on the holiday. "Can't sents a good old-fashioned rock show featuring Find the Way" speaks to the ordeal of displacement of Tex Napalm & Dimi Dero with Anthony S. Malat of Bellmer Dolls and opening sets from · a Hurricane Katrina victim, now scraping by in Magick Daggers and The Garland Ray Pro;ect Houston. "Snakebit" conjures images of utter desper- at Rotture. (9 pm. 315 SE Third Ave. $8.) ation with crying hungry children in the background SUN • FEB. 10 and a woman, gun in her hand, whose circumstances Garrison Starr performs at Borders. (2 pm. are unclear. The gravely voice of personal experience 708 SW Third Ave./ resonates in these songs; there is no question that Gauthier herself has done some hard living. Q Center presents NoHo Trans/f:ienderqueer Group, for folks who are not on hormones, Born in New Orleans, Gauthier spent the first every second Sunday. (2-4 pm. 69 SE Taylor nine months of her life abandoned to the St. Vincent St./ de Paul Orphanage by a mother she never knew. She ButcMemme advice columnists Gina Daggett recounts: "I was adopted by a couple with a deepty and Kathy Beige celebrate the release of their troubled marriage that would end in divorce after 23 book, Upstick ft Dipstick's Essential Guide to Lesbian Relationships, during the monthly years of conflict and unhappiness. My mother was dance party Pap Tart featuring Rose City Sirens unstable, my father an alcoholic-and the war between them lasted for my entire childhood." ~ot surprisingly, Gauthier began and Ashleigh Flynn at Holocene. (5-7 p.m. using drugs and alcohol at an early age, racking up time in rehab and jail and before finally quitting in her late 20s. 1001 SE Morrison St. $5.J Gauthier eventually landed in Boston, where she found work in restaurants. Combining her love of food and her home town of (Go\ Authors, poets and songwriters W, (including former Just Out columnist New Orleans, she opened Boston's first Cajun restaurant, the Dixie Kitchen. Unfortunately, the opening night for her establish, and award-winning humorist Marc ment took an ugly tum; she made the morning paper for a drunken driving arrest rather than a culinary review. Acito) tell True Stories at Mississippi Studios. One of her employees took her to an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting, and so began her sobriety. At age 39, 10 years into her (7:30 pm. 3939 N Mississippi Ave. $10 at the door, $8 in advance from 503-288-3895.J sobriety, Gauthier was coaxed into an open mike night by an employee. Soon she was part of the prolific Boston inger/songwriter scene, leading to three self-released CDs, Dixie Kitchen, Drag Queens in Limousines and Filth and Frre. 2005's Mercy Now on Lost MON• FEB. 11 Highway Records-a label she shares with Lucinda Williams, Willie Nelson and Ryan Ada ~received critical acclaim and a nod In Other Words presents the Olin Study Group from none other than BQb Dylan himself. discussing the fink between the anti-capitalist Gauthier might have other skeletons in her closet, but she has alway been frank about her sexuality. She is one of the few struggles of Latin America and our own strug- gles here at home. £6 pm. 8 NE Killingsworth openly gay musicians to have played the Grand Ole Opry, a notoriously straight old boys club. St.) Between Da,light and Dark is Americana storytelling at its best. Gauthier's arrangements are pare with familiar, waltzlike Write Around Portland f acifitates a frfJe 10- tempos. Each song is linked together by her visual lyrics of humanity, e tablishing her If as a songwriter of merit. week workshop for transgender adults to - Dale Schiff explore the power of writing and community in
