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32 JUS t OUt DECEMBER 5, 2008 (5-7 pm. 69 SE Taylor St. $5 plus canned food donation for Esther's Pantry.) Gay-owned Vino Paradiso presents a Five-Course Rare Italian Wine Dinner pairing Italian-inspired food with ob scure grape varietals provided by Tom Kelly of Small Vine yards. Cost includes gratuity. (6-8 pm. 417 NW 10th Ave. $90 from 503-295-9536.) Portland Lesbian Choir presents This Glonous Night at Colonial Heights Presbyterian Church. (7 pm. 2828 SE Stephens St. $12 at the door, $ 10 in advance from Touchstone Coffee House.) Holocene presents Pop Tart for bois, dykes, ladies and the like every second Sunday. (7 pm-1 am. 1001 SE Morrison St. $5.) Portland La Femme Magnifique and La Femme Magnifique Plus Bolivia Carmichaels and Adrienne Alexander present 2008—A Christmas Odyssey at Darcelle XV Showplace. Proceeds ben efit Camp Starlight. (8 pm. 208 NW Third Ave. $10.) MON • DEC. 15 Playfully explore holiday lights by bike with other men dur ing Wanderlust presented by Manifest. Meet at Whole Foods. (6:30 pm. 3535 NE 15th Ave. $5-$15 sliding scale. RSVP to 503-223-6822 or www.manifestpdx.org/calendar.) One of Portland's most glamorous divas, the divine Rose Empress XXXVI Maria, hosts Q Center Bingo! (7 pm. 69 SE Taylor St. $5.) Grease your wheels during Gay Skate Night pre sented by Just Out at Oaks Park. (7-9 pm. 1 SE Spokane St. $6 plus canned food items for Es ther's Pantry.) TUE • DEC. 16 Elder Resource Alliance meets up at Peet's Coffee. (1 pm. 1114 NW Couch St.) Vault Martini Lounge presents the monthly queer social mixer Q-T. Enjoy a cocktail from a selection of 44 exotic libations or take advantage of exclusive drink specials ben efiting (Renter. (6-8 pm. 226 NW 12th Ave.) In the vein of Cat Power's art folk and PJ Harvey's raw moodiness, Silk & Olive celebrates the EP release of Trouble in the Tea Leaves with Sallo and Power Circus at Someday Lounge. (9 pm. 125 NW Fifth Ave. $5.) WED • DEC. 17 A Quiet Queer Portland Artist's Breakout Show This time, the underwear stays on. This marks a sort of first for 35-year-old queer artist Stephen Scott Smith. “I hate to disappoint the gay audience,” he deadpans, “but I’m actually not in my underpants at any point in this show.” Not that there won’t be plenty of sexy overtones to Smith’s multimedia installation at Mark Woolley Gallery. His partially unclothed teiso makes a few noteworthy cameos in ME9, which runs through Jan. 3, 2009. The exhibit, by the artist’s own account, explores narcissism, ego and the cult of personality in 21st century iiber-branded United States. “MySpace and Facebook and the culture erf everybody being these little celebrities—I think there’s something amazing about that, and I wanted to comment on that.” The comment on what Smith calls “this insanity of celebrity” comes through in the nine archetypal characters that populate his installation. The Woottey showing features five of them: a zebra, hyena, businessman, artist and lover. Smith says the interactions of the five characters in film, photos and painting could be interpreted, in a super-charged atmosphere of “hope and change,” as “very political.” The show marks Smith’s Oregon gallery debut. The Philadelphia native has been a Portland resident for going on four years, but he kept a low profile until helping indefatigable art maven Mark Woolley mount a show of queer artists last spring at Wonder Ballroom. “I moved here intentionally to be quiet and work on this project,” he says. “And it’s a great town for that, actually.” Click through his Web site, StephenScottSmith.com, and you’ll get a sense of the irreverently self-absorbed side of the artist, all abs and arms and gleaming white skin. Woolley is even going out of his way to hype ME9 as sexy and provocative. What does Smith make of this? “Actually,” he says, almost sheepishly, “my mom and ! were just hav ing a conversation about my penis in my art.” (Intriguing!) He continues, “My mom was just saying, ‘1 like the penis, but I just don’t like yours.’ ” —Stephen Mate Beaudoin Getting Bi PDX, asocial group for bisexual and ques tioning women, holds its first- ever holiday gift exchange at Old Wives' Tales. Bring a fun wrapped present. (6-8 pm. 1300 E Burnside St.) Write Around Portland cel ebrates the release of the anthology Now/Past/Future at First United Methodist Church. Hear the powerful and creative words of fall workshop participants: queer seniors, people living with HIV/AIDS, mentally ill youth, low-income adults and many others. (6:30-8:30 pm. 1838 SW Jefferson St.) Have winter weather and holi day food taken a toll on your workouts or diet? Come to the Men's Wellness Center for Need a Workout Boost?— a workshop led by a certified personal trainer who will of fer personalized advice and workout suggestions on how to reach your physical fit ness goals for the new year. (7-8:30 pm. 928 SW Stark St.) in office and thank him for all he's done for the community at City Hall. Hors d'oeuvres and drinks will be provided. (5:30-7 pm. 1221 SW Fourth Ave. RSVP to kevine@equi- tyfoundation.org.) In Other Words presents a night of women's poetry— Heather Lane and Franciskza Voeltz of Portland and Christine Leclerc and Jen Currin of Vancouver, British Co lumbia—followed by an acoustic set by Pelican Ossman (7 pm. 8 NE Killingsworth St.) Q Center screens the Oscar-nomi nated film Transamerica. Upstairs will be a meeting for Dads Group, a safe place to discuss issues of common interest, listen and sup port. (7-9 pm. 69 SE Taylor St.) FRI • DEC. 19 THU • DEC. 18 Come celebrate Portland Mayor Tom Potter's term Asher Loverdi and Caught in Candy's Mickey Pollizatto present Saturday Morning Cartoons at The Waypost. This month’s theme is "Money Show." (1pm. 3120 N Wil liams Ave.) Barracuda throws another Hot Flash Dance Party for sea soned lesbians 36 and older featuring music from the '70s to today, a great dance bar and wall-to-wall sexy, gorgeous women! (5-9 pm. 9 NW Sec ond Ave. $8.) PPAA presents Crystal's Country Jam preceded by two-step lessons from Out Dancing. (8 pm lessons [$3], 9 pm-midnight dancing [$5], 618 SE Alder St.) Wonder Ballroom and Storm and the Balls Get your picture present the second an taken with Santa nual Winter Wonderball through and his sexy elves Dec. 20. Tonight's all-ages show at Homo Holiday, a Christmas features Portland Mayor-elect Sam party for C.C. Slaughters cus Adams and Pink Martini vocalist tomers featuring music by DJ Cup ft Saucer Northeast exhibits China Forbes; proceeds benefit Alex Hollywood. Prizes and Music in the Schools. Tomorrow's queer artist Mel Heywood's rhe Party presents for all! (9 pm. 219 NW 21-and-older show features Ad through Dec. 23. Davis St.) ams, Pink Martini pianist Thomas Lauderdale, guitarist Jennifer Bat BearBust at the Eagle Portland. (9 pm-midnight. 835 N ten and Darcelle; proceeds benefit Planned Parenthood. Lombard St. $8 members, $10 nonmembers.) (7 pm silent auction, 8 pm concert. 128 NE Russell St. $20- $30 from box office or Ticketmaster.) SUN • DEC. 21 Miss Mylar is sure to bring you good luck in another rous ing game of Chicos Latinos Bingo at the Men's Wellness Center. Win fantastic prizes and meet some new people! | (7-9 pm. 928 SW Stark St.) Portland Gay Men's Chorus opens its 29th season with Heavenly Holidays through Dec. 21 at Reed College’s Kaul Auditorium. The concert will include a potpourri of stellar music celebrating Christmas ("Come and See the King"), Hanukkah ("Zum Gali") and Kwanzaa ("Harambee ") along with some madcap folly ("Turkey Lurkey Time"). (8pm Fri day and Saturday, 2 pm Sunday. 3203 SE Woodstock Blvd. $16-$28 from 503-226-2588.) Q Center presents a special holiday edition of Cabaret with a Q, a monthly evening of singing, meeting new and old friends and delicious conversation around Darcelle’s piano. (8-10 pm. 69 SE Taylor St.) SAT - DEC. 20 Berbati's presents Logan Lynn, EiodieO, Gavin Castle ton and DJ Bubbles (9 pm. 10SW Third Ave. $6 from TicketWeb.) 503-223-8822 or www.mani- festpdx.org/calendar.) The Adventure Group goes snowshoeing at Mount Hood. Meet outside Starbucks at Hollywood Fred Meyer. (9 am. 3030 NE Weidler St. Gustavo 503-756-5566.) Manifest presents Men s Wellness Free-for-AII Open House featuring interactive Akido, Eco-Walk and Yogaero bics classes with a potluck lunch and two roundtable dis cussions on how to create community by pursuing wellness passions with other men. Followed by Dancing with Dark ness, a solstice ritual to liberate men's sexual shadows. (10 am-4:30 pm open house, 6:45-10 pm dance. RSVP to Crush presents Soul to Soul, a monthly tea dance for Unity Project featuring funk, hip-hop and soul music by DJ Celest and $2 draft beers. Free mesquite-grilled hamburger and potato salad from 4-6:30 pm! (3 pm. 1400 SE Morrison St. $3.) The 100 women of Aurora Chorus present Song for a Winter's Night— a program that evokes many shades and moods of the season featuring works by composers from Tchaikovsky to John Lennon; the poetry of Shakespeare and Robert Frost; and traditional music from Iraq and Fin land—at Parkrose High School Auditorium. (4 and 7pm. 12003 NE Shaver St. $22 at the door, $18 in advance from Box Office Tickets.) Keshet invites queer Jews as well as their spouses, partners, significant others and good friends and family, whether Jewish or queer or not, to a Hanukkah party. Bring a white elephant gift. (5:30 pm. RSVP to David at 503-226-7079, ext. 114.) House of Foxx & House of Rochelle present Christmas Dreams at C.C. Slaughters. Proceeds benefit Doernbecher Children's Hospital. Followed by the Superstar Divas Christ mas show, A Very Diva Holiday Special (6 pm Dreams [$2 donation or unwrapped toy], 8 pm Divas. 219 NW Davis St.) Q Center hosts Tranz Guys— a group for trans men and intersex, genderqueer and questioning people who were as signed female at birth—every third Sunday. (6-8 pm. 69 SE Taylor St.)
