Kennedy School
Come have fun in school... for once...
5736 N.E. 33rd Ave.
Portland, OR 97211
Local: (503) 249-3983
Elsewhere: (888) 249-3983
info.ks@mcmenamins.com
Sunday, May 19
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Q Doc Film Festival“Bayou Maharajah: The Tragic Genius of James Booker”12:30 p.m.Minor with parent or guardian |
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Bayou Maharajah: The Tragic Genius of James Booker explores the life, times and music of piano legend James Booker, who Dr. John described as “the best black, gay, one-eyed junkie piano genius New Orleans has ever produced.” Triply marginalized by his race, sexuality and physical disability, Booker still managed to excel as a musician in New Orleans and Europe in the turbulent ’60s and ’70s, fusing secular, sacred, pop and classical traditions.
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Q Doc Film Festival“Wildness”2:30 p.m.Minor with parent or guardian |
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Wildness captures the creativity and conflict that arose when a group of young queer artists of color organized a weekly performance party at the Silver Platter, an historic bar in the east end of Los Angeles’s MacArthur Park neighborhood that has been home to the Latino LGBT community since 1963. The party, also called Wildness, became an incubator for queer performers, punks and dance music aficionados.
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Q Doc Film Festival“I Am A Woman Now”4:30 p.m.Minor with parent or guardian |
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They are all women of a certain age: blue-haired ladies using canes, well-preserved 60-year olds walking small dogs in the park or aging beauties meeting old beaus for a posh lunch. And they all have one thing in common: Dr. Georges Burou. In this beautifully photographed documentary, five trans women reflect back on their lives and the various paths that led them to surgery. In a mixture of interviews, home movies and scenes of their daily lives, we hear their stories.
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Q Doc Film Festival“Valentine Road”7 p.m.Minor with parent or guardian |
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On December 12th, 2008, eighth-grader Brandon McInerney entered E.O. Green Junior High School in Oxnard, Calif., with a stolen gun. His target was Lawrence “Larry” King, an openly queer classmate who had just started coming to school wearing women’s clothing. Valentine Road, named for the street where King is buried, peels back the layers on what Newsweek described as “the most prominent gay-bias crime since the 1998 murder of Matthew Shepard.”
Monday, May 20
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Life of Pi (PG)Family Matinee2:30 p.m.Minor with parent or guardian |
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A young man who survives a disaster at sea is hurtled into an epic journey of adventure and discovery. While cast away, he forms an unexpected connection with another survivor: a fearsome Bengal tiger.
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Co-sponsored by 1,000 Friends of Oregon“Land-Use Planning at Middle Age: Oregon’s SB 100 Turns 40”History Pub Monday at Kennedy School7 p.m.All ages welcome |
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By Sy Adler, professor of Urban Studies and Planning, Portland State University and author of Oregon Plans: The Making of an Unquiet Land Use Revolution.
Honoring the 40th anniversary of the passage of Oregon’s land-use legislation, SB 100, this special program presents the history of the landmark law’s creation and its implementation during the initial, critical years.
Tuesday, May 21
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Life of Pi (PG)Mommy Matinee2:30 p.m.Minor with parent or guardian |
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A young man who survives a disaster at sea is hurtled into an epic journey of adventure and discovery. While cast away, he forms an unexpected connection with another survivor: a fearsome Bengal tiger.
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Admission (PG-13)5:30 p.m.Minor with parent or guardian |
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A Princeton admissions officer who is up for a major promotion takes a professional risk after she meets a college-bound alternative school kid who just might be the son she gave up years ago in a secret adoption.
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Identity Thief (R)7:45 p.m.21 and over |
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Mild-mannered businessman Sandy Patterson travels from Denver to Miami to confront the deceptively harmless-looking woman who has been living it up after stealing Sandy's identity.
Wednesday, May 22
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Life of Pi (PG)Mommy Matinee2:30 p.m.Minor with parent or guardian |
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A young man who survives a disaster at sea is hurtled into an epic journey of adventure and discovery. While cast away, he forms an unexpected connection with another survivor: a fearsome Bengal tiger.
“Give me a woman who truly loves beer and I will conquer the world.” – Kaiser Wilhelm II What was the very first McMenamins pub, opened by Mike and Brian McMenamin? The Barley Mill on SE Hawthorne in Portland. “Wine is bottled poetry.” -- Robert Louis Stevenson The Centzon-Totochtin (“Infinite Rabbits”) was an Aztec group that represented the ways humans are affected by intoxication. What’s the name of the Kennedy brewery? The Concordia Brewery, named for the surrounding neighborhood. “Wine is bottled poetry.” -- Robert Louis Stevenson Does each McMenamins pub brew beer? Nope – only our brewpubs and breweries do. They supply our other spots. Which beer is our best-selling ale? Hammerhead, of course. Have a pint or two today! “We borrowed golf from Scotland as we borrowed whiskey. Not because it is Scottish, but because it is good.” -- Horace Hutchinson Queen Elizabeth I, daughter of Henry VIII, was said to be able to drink any man under the table. You show ‘em, Betsy! McMenamins has a full-time historian on staff. He collects stories, photos, anecdotes and more about McMenamins spots, past and present. How many McMenamins are there in the Seattle area? Three – Mill Creek, Six Arms and Queen Anne. Give it up for St. Arnold, the patron saint of brewers! His miracle was a tankard of ale that never ran dry… Put him on the invite list. At the Grand Lodge, the mosaics in the basement hallways were inspired by the work of Spanish artist Antonio Gaudi.
