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About Just out. (Portland, OR) 1983-2013 | View Entire Issue (June 13, 2008)
What to do about anti-gay ballot initiatives? Find out and share your ideas on strategies to defeat these threats with Radical Women at the Bread and Ros es Center. Light meal with vegan option available. (6:15 pm. 819 N Killingsworth St. $5-$8 sliding-scale food donation.) Learn presence, compassion and nonverbal com munication by exchanging breema healing touch sequences with other fully clothed men. Free in troductory class presented by Manifest/Q-LANO. (8:15-9:45 pm. RSVP to 503-223-8822 or www. qland. org/calendar.) C.C. Slaughters throws a CD release party for One of the Boys by Katy Perry. (9 pm. 219 NW Davis St.) Gretchen Phillips performs at Mississippi Pizza Pub. (9-11 pm. 3552 N Mississippi Ave.) WED •JUNE 25 Are you an elder who writes or likes literature? Want to read your writing aloud for a friendly audience or share writing by another author who is special to you? Elder Resource Alliance invites readers to Seniors Sharing Stories, Companions on the Road at Friendly House. (2-4 pm. 1737 NW 26th Ave.) Cinemax premieres When I Knew. (4:30 pm.) Crush celebrates its seventh anniversary by kicking off the weekly event Gaym Show Bingo featuring wheels, doors and suitcases full of cash and prizes. Gay owners Mitch and Woody will strap on the pumps and wigs, just like the good old days, to host as Sharmai and Carlotta. Afterward some of Crush's favorite former employees will DJ—even the ones who got fired! (7 pm. 1400 SE Morrison St.) C.C. Slaughters throws a CD release party for Love the Woman by Chants Moore. (9 pm. 219 NW Davis St. $4.) Relieve stress, feel calmer and improve creativ ity during Men's Meditation Group presented by Manifest/Q-LANO. (7-9 pm. RSVP to 503-223-8822 or www.qland.org/calendar.) Dexter's Famous Spoken Mic gives writers "rock star status" by bringing beginners and more estab lished readers together for inspirational rants and performances every last Tuesday at In Other Words. (7:30 pm. 8 NE Killingsworth St.) Holocene presents A Benefit for Umbrella featuring Sad Horse, Sarah Winchester, Sarah Dougher, Janet Pants, Mattress, Rush-n-Disco, Tara Jane ONeil and OJ Mike McGonigal. Proceeds also benefit Planned Parenthood and the Rock 'n' Roll Camp for Girls. (8 pm. 1001 SE Mor rison St. $5-$10 sliding scale.) The Men's Wellness Center presents an informa tional workshop about community acupuncture, Sacket to Me Sacha Sacket is really fucking damn sexy. OK, great: Now that that’s out of the way, the Los An geles-based singer-songwriter hopes you’ll look past his bed room brown eyes, lean physique and tousle of dark hair and see something a little more complex—a promising young gay pop musician with something to say. “You have an opportunity to say something" as a pop tune smith with a stage as soap box, Sacket says. “Where I’m at right now is—what am I here to say? And I think I’m interested in pushing buttons, too.” The pushing buttons part comes pretty easy to Sacket, a 29-year-old artist on the ascendant whose third album, Lovers and Leaders, he’s showcas ing on a solo tour that touches down this month Sacha Sacket performs June in Portland. Growing up at the classical keyboard on a steady diet of Beethoven sona tas and scale exercises, Sacket pretty quickly began asserting himself, rejecting formal piano lessons (“I always hated what I was being taught”) and playing his own way. “I just teach myself nowadays,” he says. “1 have a prob lem with authority." out FRI • JUNE 27 Sacha Sacket performs at Alberta Street Pub. (9:30 pm. 1036 NE Alberta St. $8.) The Adventure Group takes a moderate hike on Eagle Creek trail. Meet outside Starbucks' at Holly wood Fred Meyer. (9 am. 3030 NE Weidler St. Patrick 406-544-4143.) out out Mr. Oregon State Leather 2007 Ben Brown Jr. hosts a Fourth Saturday Party for the men's community featuring boot blacking by Shell at Eagle Portland. Come in your favorite leather/Levi/bear attire. Free raffle tickets to anyone who brings in canned goods for Esther's Pantry. Proceeds benefit Central City Con cern and Blackout Leather Productions. (10 pm-1 am. 835 N Lombard St.) Indigo Girls perform at Secret House Vineyard in Veneta. (7 pm. 88324 Vineyard Lane. $36 at the door, $33 in advance from Ticket master.) Out Dancing's monthly Dance Social is every last Fri day at Ankeny Street Studio. Lesson and refreshments included. (8:15 pm. Southeast Ninth Avenue and Ankeny Street. $8.) That’s an understatement: His sense of personal and professional identity is so strong that for a long while it kept him from seeking out a relationship. “1 guess 1 equated love with losing power, losing my aspirations,” he says. But after falling for a gent a few years back, things started to change: “I had never wanted to fall in love, and I wasn’t in control of that, and I wanted to express that.” And so Lovers and Leaders was bom. The tour features Sacket playing solo, leaving behind the uniquely all-female backing band that’s part of his special cache, and he prom ises tunes from his recent and next al bums mixed with some interesting cov ers—Britney Spears, U2, The Doors. But 28 at Alberta Street Pub. as much as he says the gay press has “over sexualized” his smoldering image, he’ll be keeping his shirt on. “I like sex, sex is great, and I don’t mind people thinking I’m attractive,” he says. “But I don’t want to do anything in public unless I’m truthful to myself.” —Stephen Marc Beaudoin out Indigo Girls perform with Cowboy Junkies at Or egon Zoo. (7 pm. 4001 SW Canyon Road. $25 from Ticketmaster.) Hey, what's your vice? Holocene presents Double Down, the fab queer party where the player always wins, every fourth Saturday. (8 pm. 1001 SE Morrison St. $5.) Gay poet, spiritual teacher and Portland Classical Chinese Garden volunteer docent Daniel Skach-Mills reads from The Tao of Now at Q Center. (7 pm. 69 SE Taylor St.) THU • JUNE 26 theme is 'Behind the Velvet Rope at Studio 54...A '70s Explosion!’ Proceeds benefit the Sexual Minority Youth Resource Center, Q Center and the Pride of the Rose Scholarship Fund. (6 pm. 615 SE Alder St. $20.) The Eagle PDX presents Queer Bait's Freestyle Soul with appearances by drag monsters Splendora and Fannie Mae. DJs Olek and Jack will be playing mostly freestyle hits from the '80s (Lisa Lisa, Exposé) along with some Italo and high-energy disco. (10 pm. 27 NW Sixth Ave. $3.) OPB airs Emile Norman: By His Own Design. (11 pm.) TUE • JUNE 24 out an affordable and accessible practice model that can improve the quality of life in mind, body and spirit Free sample treat ments will be offered. (7-8:30 pm. 928 SW Stark St) out Dance-party machines Atole, Flaspar and Gay Deceivers perform with queer DJs Jack and Girlfriends at Kimono Fac tory. (9 pm. $$$. $5.) C.C. Slaughters presents the Or egon Bears' monthly Double X Dance featuring music by DJ Peter Calandra of Studio 54 fame. (9 pm-1 am. 219 NW Da vis St. $2.) SUN •JUNE 29 The Adventure Group takes a moderate hike to Up per Creek Falls. Meet outside Starbucks at Holly wood Fred Meyer. am. 3030 NE Weidler St. Rachel 503-789-1428.) Explore old-growth trees and four amazing wa terfalls during an easy Solstice Waterfall Eco- Hike presented by Manifest/Q-LAND. (10 am. $7-$15 sliding-scale donation. RSVP to 503-223-8822 or www. qland. org/calendar.) The Adventure Group goes kayaking for beginners on the Tualatin River. Meet at the Alder Creek Kayaking Store in Tualatin. (10:30 am. 5855 SW Nyberg Lane. Landon 503-709-3750.) Daniel Skach-Mills reads from The Tao of Now at Moonstruck Chocolate Café in Lake Oswego. (6:30 pm. 45 S State St.) SAT • JUNE 28 TUE • JULY 1 Coming out, acceptance, re jection... what is your story of transition and transformation? Elder Resource Alliance pres ents Civil Writes, a workshop in which you will have an op portunity to tell your story and receive an introduction to narrative/poetry therapy with techniques for memoir writing, at Friendly House. (12:30-3:30 pm. 1737 NW 26th Ave. RSVP to Rachel at 503-224-2640 or eracoordina- tor@yahoo.com.) Mr. Gay Oregon XXX- VIII Chad Hammer, Ms. Gay Oregon XVIII Savannah Veronica Jackson, Miss Gay Oregon XXXVI Candi Wrapper and the Imperial Sov ereign Rose Court present the 2008 Gay Oregon Pageant at Melody Ballroom. This year's O.1ÍH out Leslie Jordan presents My Trip Down the Pink Carpet at Newmark Theatre. (8 pm. 1111 SW Broadway. $37.75- $48.75 from box office or Ticketmaster.) FRI • JULY 4 The Rose City Softball Association presents the Cascade Cup tournament through July 6. (For a complete schedule visit www.rosec- itysoftball.org.) Out Dancing's intermediate salsa class starts tonight and continues every Friday in July at Ankeny Street Studio. Beginning cha-cha class follows. (6:15-7:15pm salsa [$40 for month], 7:15-8:15 pm cha-cha [$32 for month]. 975 SE Sandy Blvd. 503-236-5129. www.out dancing, info.) SAT • JULY 5 DJs Jack and DannyDamage play a mix of dance hits, '80s pop, new wave, no wave, new stuff and old stuff during Pleasure Boys every first Saturday at the Eagle PDX. (9 pm. 27 NW Sixth Ave.) out eatin out out R ing S ide Best Steaks in town Since 1944! In Portland, RingSide is the PRIME Steakhouse/ r or $2.00 Off Um Hirxn s ’ any frozen beverage with this ad. Present this ad to receive discount. Valid at participating Ben fiP Jerry’s Scoop Shop. Limit one coupon per customer per visit Expires August I, 2008. * . uML -/ A mer ka ' s T op T en S teakhm se H au . »/F ame HI ST or uuMDor FUEIIliMf Since 2002 Since 1999 Siner 200.1 Siner 2005 Serving USDA Prime BeefGrilled to Perfection! DOWNTOWN GLENDOVEER N.W. 22nd & W. Burnside 140th & N.E. Clisan 503-223-1513 503-255-0750 X ringsidesteakhouse.com
