GAY PEOPLE'S CHRONICLE AUGUST 29, 1997

THE PLAIN DEALER

DOLLAR DAY!

Monday, September 1

NOON-7PM

Admission Only $1.00 Deliciously Affordable!

Taste of CLEVELAND

A CULINARY FEAST OF FOOD, ART & MUSIC

NAUTICA ENTERTAINMENT COMPLEX •LABOR DAY WEEKEND.

FRI., AUG. 29 4PM-12AM

SAT., AUG. 30 & SUN., AUG. 31 • 12PM-12AM MON., SEPT. 1. 12PM-7PM

Finest dis

Friendly Markets

• The Watermark

· Pearl of the Orient

give 6

Great Lakes Brewing Company Annie's Restaurant

Wallaby's Grille & Brewpub

• Captain Tony's Pizza & Pasta Stix

· Palazzo

•

Bo Loong

• Joey's

Amici's

Diamond Back Brewing Company

· Marrakesh Express Cafe

⚫J. Alexander's

•TGI Friday's

•Winsor's

Coaches

• Hot Sauce Williams

•Ferrante Winery & Ristorante

THE YOVE

GTE WIRELESS Invitational Art Show Featuring Over 60 Artists From Across The Country

Culinary Showcase Featuring Guest Chefs Including Good Morning America's Curtis Aikens give S and Loretta Paganini School of Cooking

NUVISTA

Angry

■CABLEVISION Mayor's Dessert Cup Challenge-Sunday 2pm

Best Of The Fest Entree Award Finest Voted By The Public

give 5

[GTE WIRELESS MPOK Kids Edible Art Pavilion

10 Margaritaville Dance Club

LaRosa) THE PLAIN DEALER

ITALIAN 072

MAIN COURSE

Saffron Patch

Mi Pueblo. Stancato's • Hunan By The Falls⚫

Georgio's Mediterranean Cuisine⚫ Pierogi Palace⚫

Lift Bridge Brewing Company⚫ Crooked River Brewing Company⚫

The Mad Greek⚫ Traci's Restaurant • Civilization⚫

Liberty Street Brewing Company⚫ Rock Bottom Brewery⚫

Firehouse Brewery⚫ Dick's Last Resort⚫

House of Nagy⚫ La Dolce Vita • Cookie Cupboard • APPETIZERS

Ohio Wine Pavilion Presented by the Ohio Wine Producers Association

106.5 WLTF FREE Money Mobile American Express Waiter's Race

Benefits Greater Cleveland Restaurant Association Scholarship Fund

Beer Slide 985WNCX Proceeds Benefit

Visit Plymouth Place

The Humidor Cigar Bar and Martini Express

Prize Wheel

Free Admission On Sunday

With 3 LaRosa Pasta Labels Containing UPC Codes

CHARLIE'S CALENDAR

■Deadline for next calendar is Tuesday, September 2.

Saturday, August 30

Wing Fling, to benefit the Columbus AIDS Task Force, wings and other food vendors, entertainment, raffles, $5 per car, 2-9 pm, Murphy's Party Barn, Sawmill Rd. 1 mile east of Columbus Zoo, 2 miles north of I-270; 614-431-3610.

Sunday, August 31

Midwest Womyn's Autumn Fest, info: Athena Productions, 217 S. 2nd St., #193 DeKalb III. 60115 or 815-748-5359.

Oldtimers Club Central Ohio Labor Day Picnic, free food, raffle, drinks and fun, 3 pm, Club 20, 20 E. Duncan St., Columbus; 614-261-9111.

Any Mother's Son, the true story of Dorothy Hajdys and her struggle for justice after the brutal murder of her gay son Allen Schindler, 8 pm, Lifetime cable TV. Cyberqueer, comedy about gay chat rooms on the internet, $14, 7 pm, Reality Theatre, 736 N. Pearl St., Columbus; 614-263-9448.

Thursday, September 4 to Saturday, September 6

Celebrating Life, an evening of short plays dealing with HIV, $10, 8 pm, Reality Theater, 736 N. Pearl St., Columbus; 614-294-7541.

Friday, September 5

"Dating and Relationships” discussion, Twentysomething, group for les-bi-gays and friends ages 18-33, 8 pm, Cleveland Lesbian-Gay Center, 1418 W. 29th St., Cleveland; 216-522-1999.

Friday, September 5 to Saturday, September 27

Ten Percent Revue dinner theater musical revue about being gay, $35 includes show and dinner, Fridays and Saturdays, Out on Main restaurant Renaissance Room, 122 E. Main St., Columbus; 614-263-9448 or 614-224-9520.

Saturday, September 6

Ohio Lesbian Festival, ninth annual event sponsored by Lesbian Business Association; $25, 11 am to 11 pm at Frontier Ranch near Kirkersville, off I-70 twenty miles east of Columbus; 614-267-3953.

Coronation VII, "A Twilight Adventure in the Golden Castle," Imperial Queen City Court AIDS benefit, $25, 5:30 pm doors open, 6:30 show, Cincinnati Regal Hotel, 150 W. 5th St., Cincinnati; 513-369-0011.

Girth and Mirth of Cleveland, a social group for gay chubby men and their male admirers, dinner out and putt-putt golf, 6:30 pm; Jim or Fred 216-521-9456. Sunday, September 7

NOCI We Are Family Picnic, 19th annual benefit for Northern Ohio Coalition's funding of gay and AIDS programs, Wildwood Lake, 11200 East River Rd. (Copopa-Mallet' Creek Rd.) just south of Sprague Rd. in Columbia Station, 10 am to 6 pm, 216771-0369.

Cris Williamson and Tret Fure in concert, with special guest June Millington, celebrating the release of their new CD, $16 in advance, $18 at door, benefits Oberlin Co-Op Bookstore, wheelchair accessible, 7 pm, Lorain County Community College, Stocker Arts Ctr, 1005 N. Abbe Rd., Elyria; 440-774-3741.

Tuesday September, 9

HIV and Me, 9-week session begins for those just beginning their journey through HIV diagnosis, 6:30 pm Cleveland, registration required: the Living Room 216-522-1998. Wednesday, September 10 to Sunday, September 14

Conference of Gay and Lesbian Criminal Justice Professionals, Miami Beach, write to Legal International, P.O. Box 1161, Old Chelsea Station, N.Y., N.Y. 10011 or legalint@aol.com.

Thursday, September 11

Community Picnic for the gay, lesbian, bisexual and men-who-have-sex-with-men community, food provided, Edgewater park at West Blvd. end of Ohio 2 Shoreway, Cleveland; 216-621-0766 ext. 232.

"Friendship in the Age of AIDS,” program by two college friends, one HIV-positive, focuses on HIV and campus life; Miami University Millett Hall, Oxford, 513529-7135.

Agony and Ecstasy Fetish Ball, 9 pm to 4 am, Interbelt Nite Club, 70 N. Howard St., Akron; 330-253-5700.

Thursday, September 11 to Saturday, September 13

Celebrating Life, an evening of short plays dealing with HIV, $10, 8 pm, Reality Theater, 736 N. Pearl St., Columbus; 614-294-7541.

Friday

5:00 PM Dan Levenson 5:45PM Murphy Irish Dancers 6:30PM Mellow Harps Steel Drum Band 7:30PM Nell Zaza/Bobby Rock 8:30PM U.A.G. Band

presents 9:30PM Anne E. DeChant

Barenaked Ladies

Save $2.00 On Admission With A Pierre's Taste of Cleveland

Ice Cream Lid Compliments of

10:40 PM The Simpletons Saturday 12:15PM Jim Tigue & Eroc

1:00PM Tap The Bow Irish Music 1:30PM Alexis Antes

2:15PM iroko Drum & Dance Society 3:00PM TwistOffs

Saturday 430PM The Casuals Polka Band 1979 END

5:10PM Deutscher Musik Verein 6:00PM 87th Cleveland Pipes & Drums 6:45PM Burke Irish Dance School 8:30PM Tara MacLean 10:00PM Barenaked Ladies

Adult Admission $6.00Includes All Entertanment!

Children 12 & Under Are Free

DESSERT Sunday

12:15PM One Wish

1:25PM Lu Hromadka Boheman Brass Band 2:06PM Jazz Energy Dance Band 2:40PM David McClintok

3:40PM Le Mascherate talian Vocal & Dance Co. 4:10PM Clickety Cloggers

4:35PM Latvian Dance Group 5:00PM Articles

6:00PM Kittie Pipe Band

6:20PM Majestic Sound Polka Band 7:25PM Howl At The Moon Performers

9:00PM Disco Inferno 10:30PM Disco Inferno Monday 12:00PM Blue Lunch 1:10PM Shahevet international Folk Ensemble 1:50PM Brickhouse Blues Band 3:00PM Majestic Sound Polka Band 4:00PM Mighty Blue Kings 5:45PM Coin Dussault's Blues Project SAVE $2.00

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Creating Our Own History

Oral History A Free Half-Day Workshop* Saturday September 13, 1997, 9:00 am 1:00 pm 12550 Lake Avenue, Lakewood (in the Meridian)

Find out how Oral History can contribute to gay & lesbian history. Find out how to get involved in preserving OUR history.

If we don't preserve it, it will be lost

*Call 216-791-0600 to make your reservation.

This workshop has been made possible through the cooperation of

GRAY PRIDE

Gay & Lesbian Aging

The Gay and Lesbian Oral History Project

Coffee & Pastry

MOCCAA

Men of Color Concerned About AIDS