Get yer TBA tickets! Get yer TBA tickets! The official TBA Box Office is in the PICA building, 1122 NW Glisan, and is the best place to hit up for tickets, which run from around $10 for individual events all the way up to a $500 Patron Pass that gives you full access to everything, […]
Evan James
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My Heterosexual Weekend
Or, Pretending to Be Straight Isn’t As Easy as It Looks!
The first time I met Molly, she asked if I would pretend to be her boyfriend. “My ex-boyfriend’s going to be at a wedding in Seaside,” she explained. “I want to bring a hot date to make him jealous.” I’d known her for about two minutes at that point. She happened to be visiting my […]
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Fresh Fruits
Fresh Fruits by Shoichi Aoki (Phaidon) Fruits, the volume that precedes Fresh Fruits, documented the fashion at Omote-sando, the main street in the Harajuku area of Tokyo. At one time during the ’90s, every Sunday the street was declared a pedestrian haven: all traffic was banned for the day, and Japanese kids started gathering there […]
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Don’t Even Think About It
Rebound Cures Film Criticism
Rebound dir. Carr Opens Fri July 1 Various Theaters I normally can’t stand to be hung over in a movie theater full of children, especially at 10 in the morning on a Saturday–but I put all that aside to join 200 prepubescent African-American kids at a screening of Rebound. Had I been alone with a […]
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I’m Staying Home
Queers Love Liz
Aside from Michael Jackson, nobody loves Elizabeth Taylor as much as queers! Described by Camille Paglia as “Hollywood’s Pagan Queen,” immortalized in the silkscreens of Andy Warhol, and cast as the leading lady in several film productions of Tennessee Williams plays, Taylor has awed the gays for almost half a century. (Of course, it helps […]
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Get to Know Your Gay!
A Scientific Breakdown of the Homosexual Subspecies
There’s a very good reason straight people are afraid of the gays—because they think we’re all the same! They see all homosexuals as either swishy (Jack from Will & Grace), or mentally retarded (Rosie O’Donnell). They have no idea of the myriad of subspecies that exist within gay culture! And so, in the spirit of […]
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The Masculine Mystique
Oregon Bears and the Low-Brow Revival
Big, hairy, and often overweight: this is how most gay men would describe their subcultural brethren, the Bears. Oversimplification, to be sure–but when I think of a Bear, the emerging image is that of a burly man with a beard, a forest of chest hair, a short haircut, and jiggly rolls of flesh hanging over […]
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Neutered British Dames
Some Tame Ladies in Lavender
Ladies in Lavender dir. Dance Opens Fri May 27 Fox Tower Ladies in Lavender has British cinema giants Judi Dench and Maggie Smith playing two dames sharing a house in lovely Cornwall–it’s 1936, and world war is on the way. The quiet world of Ursula and Janet Widdington is full of gardening, knitting, and afternoon […]
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Emotions Revealed
Emotions Revealed by Paul Ekman (Owl Books) A good psychology book provokes a shift in the reader’s perception: she starts to reconsider the significance of her own behavior and that of those around her. Life is seen from an interesting new angle, invested with yet another layer of meaning. Paul Ekman’s Emotions Revealed: Recognizing Faces […]
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Orphans
Orphans by Charles D’Ambrosio (Clear Cut Press), appearing with Matt McCormick at New American Art Union, 922 SE Ankeny, Thurs Feb 10, 7:30 pm, Free Essay collections tend to be a pretty mixed bag. There are usually a few hasty, slapdash pieces, and often one or two brilliant gems. The best collections I’ve read consistently […]
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Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell (Little, Brown) reading at Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside, Tuesday January 25, 7:30 pm A good nonfiction book carries new wisdom that stays with you long after you’ve finished reading. It comes in many forms: a cooking skill; a conversation topic; a new […]
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…He Was Costuming Angels
…He Was Costuming Angels Theory1: Dance at Disjecta, 116 NE Russell, 730-3176, Fri-Sun 8 pm, closing this weekend, $12 Serial killers fascinate artists. Be it their shadowy psychological motivations or their unique and extreme condemnation at the hands of society, they occupy a prominent symbolic station in the eyes of all onlookers; they’re both sacred […]