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About Just out. (Portland, OR) 1983-2013 | View Entire Issue (June 13, 2008)
NIGHTLIFE NIGHTLIFE NIGHTLIFE Nl NIGHTLIFE IFE nightlife Q BOXXES/FISH GROTTO/RED CAP GARAGE 1035 SW Stark St. « 503-2264171 Boxxes/Red Cap Garage is the only two-in- one gay club in the city. EAGLE POX 0 THE 27 NW Sixth Ave. • 503-241-0105 Portland's onginal masculine men's bar. THE EAGLE PORTLAND 835 N Lombard St. * 503-283-9734 Portland's masculine men's bar and leather bar. Home bar of the Oregon Bears. Q C.C. SLAUGHTERS 219 NW Davis St. * 503-248-9135 C.C. Slaughters is a great hangout. Come feel like "Norm" or shake your booty all night long to the best sound, lights and la ser shows in Portland. EGYPTIAN CLUB O 3701 SE Division St. • 503-236-8689 The 7,000-square-foot Egyptian Club, lo cated in a former milk plant, features three different rooms. QCRUSH 1400 SE Morrison St. • 503-2354150 Crush features specialty martinis and cocktails and serves a full food menu. AVENUE 0 EMBERS 110 NW Broadway • 503-222-3082 Q DARCELLE XV SHOWPLACE w 208 NW Third Ave. • 503-222-5338 World-famous female impersonators Dar- 0 ESCAPE w 333 SW Park Ave. • 503-227-0830 Portland's only all-ages gay nightclub. £ ® East Portland n NE Broadway NE Glisan 5 5 LU z a v SE Stark <m SE Morrison SE Hawthorne 1 æ » i a £ » SE Division g SE Powell $ NW Glisan NW Flanders NW Everett § Q © NW Davis MS Z Z • O w Burnside _ NIGHTLIFE It's My Pleasure celle XV 8 Company have been entertaining audiences from all walks of life for more than 37 years with Las Vegas-style cabaret revues of glitz, glamour and comedy. Q CASEY S 610 NW Couch St. • 503-224-9062 "All-inclusive* nightclub and lounge in Old Town. NIGHTLIFE O o NW Couch £®£ 00 i I (fiFOXft HOUNDS 217 NW Second Ave. • 503-243-5530 According to Bar- Fly, this "cheery, kicked-back pub draws a convivial, mostly mature crowd to its some what countrified environs." £ o 1 ? i *«| West Portland GAIL S DIRTY ’•'DUCK 439 NW Third Ave. • 503-224-8446 Featuring pool, pin ball, MegaTouch and darts. (R HOBO'S w 120 NW Third Ave. • 503-224-3285 Hobo's has been an integral part of Portland's dining and lounge experience for more than 25 years. Located in the heart of Old Town, it provides a friendly atmosphere of casual elegance and serves outstanding cuisine from both its complete dinner menu and its lounge menu. (E) JOQ S 2512 NE Broadway • 503-287-4210 i Enjoy a good time and make a new friend at this entertaining neighborhood bar! NORTHBANK 106 W Sixth St., Vancouver • 360-695-3862 Southwest Washington's first and only gay bar. Now smoke-free! SCANDALS W 1125 SW Stark St • 503-227-5887 Scandals, one of Portland's most estab lished gay men's bars, has been a fixture on the ever-changing Stark Street for go ing on 30 years. It provides a cruisy streetside setting with a seasonal side walk cafe, great drinks and a "more than friendly" bar staff. /T- SILVERADO 318 SW Third Ave. • 503-224-4493 SOUTHSIDE SPEAKEASY 3529 Fairview Industrial Drive SE, Salem * 503-362-1139 Southside Speakeasy is the place in Sa lem and the central Willamette Valley for the gay, lesbian, bisexual and trans gender community to meet and hang out. ¿ft STARKY'S 2913 SE Stark St. • 503-230-7980 gr. STEAM w 2885 NE Sandy Blvd. * 503-736-9999 Portland's hottest all-male experience. NIGHTLIFE NIGHTLIFE NIGHTLIFE NIGHTLIFE NIGHTLIFE NIGHTLIFE Upstairs, by the way, is the sprawling first floor of Karl Wilgus’Casey’s complex. The addition of bar-stomping strippers (if your cocktail tastes like cock, don’t act surprised) and a postage-stamp stage drag show added to the circuslike atmo sphere. The only question 1 have is this: What doesn’t go on at this bar? Back at the Pleasure Boys scene downstairs, my friend and 1 took a seat to watch silent Blond ie music videos on a small screen and kicked back vodka-sodas ($6 a pop). As another old-school poppy dance tune hit the speakers, a group of girls rushed in to bump uglies with their ambiguously gay guy dates. That’s when 1 “got it”: Pleasure Boys might not be everyone’s scene, but it’s a crazy big-top event in a tiny space that is the very contemporary definition of queer. —Stephen Marc Beaudoin This is not your daddy’s Eagle. Skinny jeans, graphic T’s and Debbie Harry on the screen. Punk dudes and horn-rimmed hip ster girls in equal supply. And not a sling-riding bottom boy in sight. If you’re looking for a hardcore leather scene more typically in line with the “Eagle” brand, you better come back another night, because the new Pleasure Boys party—the first Saturday of each month—is all about danceable beats, egalitarian crowds and pure pop pleasure. “We’re trying to in tegrate a different crowd, as opposed to the typical Eagle crowd,” says Danny Bidwell, who more usu ally goes by the moniker DJ DannyDamage. He calls the manic scene he’s creating “more edgy” and “all over the spectrum as far as music goes.” “Schizophrenic” is how a friend of mine de scribed the whole scene on a recent visit, and he’s not far off. While early 20s Portland Mercury reader types freak-danced to Nirvana and Rihanna remixes—courtesy of no less than The Gossip’s Nathan Howdeshell, aka DJ Nightschool, a guest spinner for the night—a stream of disoriented daddy bears sauntered in, poked around (the new Eagle leather shop is closed on Pleasure Boys nights, dang) and wan DJ Danny Damage hopes to draw a different crowd to the Eagle for his monthly party. Pleasure Boys. dered back upstairs. STETAJVi PORTLAND’S T ■BOI _- .□nT- " ÎTTTT visit www scandalspdx.com for additional details and event times
