DJ LISTINGS Thursday 7/20 1201 CAFE & LOUNGE-Imix/StarBass BALZER’S-R&B, Reggae * BEULAHLAND–DJ Scarface COBALT LOUNGE-Xotica Go Go FERNANDO’S HIDEAWAY-Salsa Dancing LOTUS CARDROOM & CAFE-DJ Groove’s 80s classics * MEDICINE HAT–Mod Night with Britpop DJs! Yow! SAUCEBOX-DJs * TONIC LOUNGE–Topiary Kings, Black Orchid, Dewey & Jude VISCOUNT BALLROOM-Swing Night Friday 7/21 1201 CAFE & LOUNGE-Big M, […]
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Club Directory
1201 Club 1201 SW 12th, 225-1201 Aladdin Theater 3017 SE Milwaukie, 233-1994 Alexander’s 921 SW 6th Ave, 226-1611 Andrea’s Cha Cha Club 832 SE Grand Ave, 230-1166 Arnada Cafe 1717 Broadway, 360-750-9596 Ash Street Saloon 225 SW Ash St, 226-0430 Bar 71 71 SW 2nd Ave, 241-0938 Bar of the Gods 4801 SE Hawthorne, 232-2037 […]
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Theater Listings
Opening & Current Runs Brody Theater The usually prolific Brody Theater improv group confines itself to an evening featuring a two-act improvised play. BRODY THEATER, 1904 NW 27 Ave, 224-0688, Fri-Sat 9 pm, through Sep 2, $8 A Piece of Cake Raymond Barry’s play “contains sexual situations, nudity, violence, and adult language,” according to the […]
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Readings Listings
THURSDAY 7/20 Gay, Lesbian & Bisexual Book Discussion Group Discuss wildly funny, brilliant Mercury columnist Dan Savage’s award-winning book The Kid. BORDERS BOOKS AND MUSIC, 708 SW Third Ave, 220-5911,7 pm, free David Long The Daughters of Simon Lamoreaux is a book about unraveling a mysterious past, the disappearance of a high school girlfriend, and […]
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Visual Arts Listings
750 ml 232 NW 12th, 224-1432 Organum, abstract paintings by Jeff Jahn. Through July 31 Alysia Duckler Gallery 1236 NW Hoyt St, 223-7595 Recent work from Elizabeth Sandvig and Jeana Edelman. Through July 30 American Institute of Architects 315 SW 4th Ave, 223-8757 Taking Space, Making Space: Transforming Urban Experiences. An exhibition including work from […]
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Film Shorts
OPENING THE ADVENTURES OF ROCKY AND BULLWINKLE BLOOD SIMPLE BUT I’M A CHEERLEADER FILMS ON THE LAWN FORBIDDEN PLANET THE IN CROWD JUAN, I FORGOT, I DON’T REMEMBER LOSER OSAKA ELEGY POKEMON 2000 TRIXIE WARGAMES WHAT LIES BENEATH MOVIES & EVENTS The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle Once upon a time, a badly-drawn cartoon dependent […]
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VALENCIA
(Seal Press) Michelle Tea writes like an estrogen fever dream: her girl sex stories float through ruptured San Francisco streets reverberating lost romance, broken families, and abused prostitutes. San Francisco is the perfect partner to Tea’s narrator’s simultaneously bleak and romantic viewpoint–it is a city where the interpersonal somehow seems merely geographic. A chance meeting […]
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CD Review
SYSTEMWIDE Osmani Stepper (BSI) **** Systemwide is back, and frankly, three years between discs is too long. While the BSI boys have been fighting to make Portland a safe haven for progressive dub by bulking up their label’s roster, they seem to forget that it was their band that got this party started. Thankfully, the […]
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CD Review
ROYAL TRUX Pound for Pound (Drag City) * If you’d like to lead the white trash out of your neighborhood, I have a suggestion: hijack the local ice cream cart, throw Royal Trux in the tape player and lead the masses towards Gresham (their true home). Besides that, I can find little to no use […]
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Letters to the Editor
EMINEM FANS VOW TO TORMENT HOMOSEXUALS YO CRETINS: Are you providing an alternative to the tirelessly moronic Willamette Week, or are they actually covertly funding you to invade Portland and make them look good? Your hideous queer issue [Issue 3] is a perfect example. After letting your despicable “One Day at a Time” columnist diss […]
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I, Anonymous
When your mother invited us to her house for lunch, I was happy that she finally knew the two of us were such a hot item. I enjoyed her company very much and was glad to stay and chat after you had to return to your job. You told me a lot about this nice […]
