Lavender Issue 388

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Lavender Magazine, Minnesota's GLBT Magazine, continues to reach out to an ever broadening readership -- not only to those gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender individuals who are our mainstay, but to all readers seeking stimulating feature articles, columns on diverse topics through diverse voices, commentaries on current affairs and a calendar rich in local offerings in art, film, theater, and community events. Lavender readers are predominantly Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender -- and “metrosexual,” most of whom reside in the Twin Cities metro area, extending throughout the Upper Midwest. In the main, they are affluent, style-conscious, and active, participating enthusiastically in the arts and athletics alike. They are brand conscious, and loyal to those who are friendly to the GLBT community.

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[ Minnesota's Gay-Lesbian-Bisexual-Transgender Magazine ]

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40 On the Record
Head First • Interpreting the Masters, Vol. 1: A Tribute to Daryl Hall and John Oates • Plastic Beaches • Sasha Maria

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42 Bar Advertiser Guide
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42 Bartender Spotlight 44 Bar Showcase
Camp 46 Bar Calendar Plan Your Bar Outings 48 The Main Documentary Preview/Fundraiser

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CUISINE
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50 Off the Eaten Path
Fusion: Excels at Celebrating the Diversity of World Cuisine

Fusion Restaurant Bar

BACKTALK

56 Public Service Announcement

GLBT WEDDINGS
Spark Elegance & Romance
Photo by Mike Hnida

COVER FEATURE: GLBT Weddings
12 Here Comes!
Lesbian Writer Chats Up Women’s Offbeat Weddings: Interview with Ariel Meadow Stallings

COMMUNITY DIALOGUE
8 A Word in Edgewise 10 Queer As Folks
AIDS Action Day at State Capitol • Historic Hearing on Marriage-Related Bills in Minnesota Senate • First Lesbian US Marshal Conﬁrmed Will It Be Déjà Vu All Over Again?

ON THE RUNWAY
18 Fashion
Happily Ever After

Minneapollis Police Department Seeks Your Help in HIV Criminal Case 58 Lavender Lens Lavender First Thursday 59 Business Proﬁle Lyn Lake Chiropractic 60 The Network Business Services Directory 61 LavenderMagazine.com Calendar Plan Your Fortnight 65 Classiﬁeds Find Some Classy Stuff 66 Community Connection GLBT-Friendly Nonproﬁts 68 Ms. Behavior Guests Used Lesbian Couple’s Bed and KY Jelly Without Permission 70 Dateland The Lesbian Etiquette Game 73 Consider the Source Quacks Like a Duck 75 Yellow Pages Advertiser Index What’s Where This Issue 75 Cartoon Trolín

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26 Isn’t Fashion Fun
Spring Scarves

Top Headlines
Maryland AG Threatened With Impeachment Over Gay Marriage Ricky Martin is Gay Zimbabwe Prime Minister Rejects Gay Rights Move UK Parliament Hosts First Same-Sex Marriage

NEWS & POLITICS
28 Big Gay News
National News

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
32 Guthrie Featured Playwright
April 9–22, 2010

Discusses His M. Butterﬂy Interview with David Henry Hwang 36 On the Townsend The Iron Ring • Women Without Men • How to Make Love Like a Minnesotan III: The Full Montevideo • Big River • The House of Bernarda Alba • Medea

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Volume 15, Issue 388 • April 9–22, 2010

Editorial
Editor Emeritus Ethan Boatner 612-436-4670 Editorial Director Russell Remmick 612-436-4671 Editorial Associate George Holdgrafer 612-436-4672 Podmaster Bradley Traynor 612-436-4669 Contributors Kolina Cicero, Meryl Cohn, Carla Continenza, Julie Dafydd, Heidi Fellner, Terrance Griep, Ed Huyck, Steve Lenius, Jennifer Parello, Todd Park, Kevin Quinn, Sara Rogers, Amber Schadewald, Vince Sgambati, Elizabeth Stiras, John Townsend, Carla Waldemar

Advertising
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Creative
Creative Director Hubert Bonnet 612-436-4678 Creative Assistant Mike Hnida 612-436-4679 Creative Intern Andy Scott Photographer Sophia Hantzes Cartoonist Rodro Lavender Studios Hubert Bonnet, Mike Hnida

Administration
Publisher Lavender Media, Inc. President & CEO Stephen Rocheford 612-436-4665 Vice President & CC Pierre Tardif 612-436-4666 Chief Financial Ofﬁcer Carolyn Lima 612-436-4664 Administrative Assistant Austin Lindstrom 612-436-4661 Founders George Holdgrafer, Stephen Rocheford Inspiration Steven W. Anderson (1954-1994), Timothy J. Lee
(1968-2002), Russell Berg (1957-2005), Kathryn Rocheford (1914-2006)
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Community Dialogue > A Word in Edgewise

[ by E.B. Boatner ]

Will It Be Déjà Vu All Over Again?
ecently, Marine Commandant General James Conway stated that when the ban on openly gay military service is lifted, he would build separate quarters for gay and straight troops. In an interview on Military.com, Conway said, “I would not ask our Marines to live with someone who is homosexual if we can possibly avoid it. And to me that means we have to build BEQs [bachelor enlisted quarters] and have single rooms.” Humans inevitably need to create an “other,” someone, some group that safely can be put down by “us”—even when we can’t recognize the “other” without a scorecard. I personally know at least one ex-Marine who served honorably, so I’ll allow myself to extrapolate from that single instance,

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and bet other gay Marines have served and currently are serving. I glanced at historian Stephen Ambrose’s description of Army practices as America plunged into World War II. While Hitler was attempting to forge his 1,000-year Otherness, Jim Crow and racial segregation were army-wide. Blacks had their own barracks—and units and mess halls. No black infantry units existed throughout the European Theatre of Operation. By the end of the war, many changes had taken place, with resistance to black troops eroding because of their combat records. The next worry, according to Ambrose, was the issue of integrated barracks—but no problem arose. Ambrose quotes a battalion commander in the 78th Division: “When men undergo the same privations, face the same dangers before an impartial enemy, there can be no

segregation. My men eat, play, work, and sleep as a company of men, with no regard to color.” Today, Retired Marine General Carl Mundy, one of Conway’s predecessors, while opposing openly gay service, concedes that “the easiest way to deal with it is to make it as simple as possible. The last thing you even want to think about is creating separate facilities or separate groups or separate meeting places or having four kinds of showers—one of straight women, lesbians, straight men, and gay men. That would be absolutely disastrous in the armed forces. It would destroy any sense of cohesion or teamwork or good order and discipline.” It is enough to expect young men and women to be willing to die for their country, without stigmatizing and segregating for anyone’s color, creed, gender, or sexuality.

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Community Dialogue > Queer As Folks

Photo by Sophia Hantzes

HISTORIC HEARING ON MARRIAGE-RELATED BILLS IN MINNESOTA SENATE
After a hearing on similar legislation on February 22 in the Minnesota House, bills legalizing same-sex marriage were brought up March 2 in the Minnesota Senate, and a hearing was held. Amy Johnson, Executive Director of OutFront Minnesota, said, “Legislators have seen that there is strong support for extending legal recognition to same-sex couples and their families by ending discrimination in marriage. Minnesotans know that marriage equality next door in Canada and now Iowa is not a threat to them or their families. In fact, polls show that the majority of Americans support creation of the sorts of legal frameworks and protections for same-sex couples. Today’s informational hearing in the Senate is a signiﬁcant step toward ending this form of discrimination.”
Photo by Sophia Hantzes

AIDS ACTION DAY AT STATE CAPITOL
With the help of the Minnesota AIDS Project (MAP), AIDS Action Day again took place at the State Capitol. HIV/AIDS advocates converged on the Minnesota Legislature to raise awareness and visibility about the disease, showing that funding still is needed, and that cutting it would be a huge blow to those infected, as well as to those working to decrease infection rates and ﬁnd a cure. Attendees met with legislators, held a rally in the Capitol Rotunda, and heard personal stories from several people diagnosed with HIV. Putting real faces on the statistics made them more real for participants.

FIRST LESBIAN U.S. MARSHAL CONFIRMED
Sharon Lubinski—who has been in law enforcement for 31 years, the last 23 with the Minneapolis Police Department—recently was conﬁrmed by the US Senate as US marshal for the Minnesota district. She is the ﬁrst openly gay US marshal, as well as the ﬁrst female marshal for Minnesota. President Barack Obama, who nominated
Photo by Sophia Hantzes Photo by Sophia Hantzes

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Lubinski, said in a press release, “Assistant Chief Lubinski has dedicated her career to the noble cause of protecting her fellow Americans. She has displayed exceptional courage in the pursuit of justice, and I am honored to nominate her to continue her selﬂess work as a US marshal for the District of Minnesota.”

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Cover Feature > GLBT Weddings

April 9–22, 2010

Illustration of Ariel Meadow Stallings by Donna Wilson of Butterﬂieskiss.com

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Lesbian Writer Chats Up Women’s Offbeat Weddings: Interview with Ariel Meadow Stallings
[ by E.B. Boatner ]

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riel Meadow Stallings ﬁrst wrote Offbeat Bride: Creative Alternatives for Independent Brides in 2005 in the lonely fastness of her Seattle home. Her main aim was to encourage brides to create and enjoy their own special brand of wedding. To Stallings’s surprise, the book spawned thousands—make that hundreds of thousands—of responses a month from offbeat brides. That explosion of nuptial eccentricity begat her beguiling and addictive wedding website: <http://offbeatbride.com>. One can browse it for hours, checking in to read the proﬁles or just feast on the photos.
like “I Am Woman, Hear Me Order Monogrammed Napkins”; “The Swag, Part 1: Invitations & RSVPs”; “Décor Fetishist”; “Prefunk”; “Can I Borrow Your Yarmulke?”; “Who the Hell Are All These People?”; and “Postweddin’ Depression”—give the dewy-eyed a clearer vision of what to expect. The couple survived what Stallings calls her “hippie/raver forest freakfest wedding”—and so can you. Stallings recently snatched a moment from her wedding whirl to join in a question-and-answer with Lavender’s ring-shy writer. Just to be clear—your information is in the book and online only—you don’t actually physically set up nuptials for folks, do you?

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A quick peek gleaned these tidbits from couples postings on the website: “Ani & Laura’s Lesbian Gamer Geek Wedding”; “Alison & Matt’s Icelandic wedding & Philadelphia library reception.” The latter posted: “We got married at a glacier lagoon….Instead of a cake cutting, we had gingerbread versions of ourselves, and bit off each other’s heads.” The website is crammed with proﬁles of couples like these, along with Stallings’s answers and information for the curious. “Wedding suits for butches, transmasculine beings, and other festive genderbenders” is deﬁnitely a must-see. Stallings’s wedding to her partner, Andreas, urged on by the author’s lesbian aunties, forms the framework of the book. Chapters—

Cover Feature > GLBT Weddings

Ariel Meadow Stallings’s wedding. Photos by Amrita Huja

Oh, goodness—I absolutely am not a wedding planner! I realized pretty early on that I could help a few dozen couples with their weddings each year as a wedding planner, or I could help hundreds of thousands of couples each month as a writer and web publisher. I choose the latter. Tell us a bit about your website. Will all permutations of bride and groom ﬁnd it useful? And, while we’re at it, just what is “wedding porn”? Originally launched as a way to promote the ﬁrst edition of my book, offbeatbride.com has evolved into a beast unto itself. The site is updated three times a day with an avalanche of real offbeat wedding stories, advice, and wedding porn. Wedding porn has nothing to do with sex. It’s just photos from other people’s real weddings that may inspire readers in their own wedding planning. I use the term “porn” as a play on “images that inspire desire,” rather than “images of naked people with plasticky genitals engaged in sexual activities.” Most of my content aims to be easy-to-digest and empowering. I proﬁle at least three offbeat weddings every week, and provide a potpourri of advice, opinion, interviews, features, and perspectives written for people planning offbeat weddings. I’m not especially focused on vendors, and you won’t see many high-budget weddings on the site. I strive for diversity, and—as the product of two gay families—love featuring offbeat lesbian weddings. Since my book was published by a woman’s press, it was written for women. The website, while inclusive of both het and gay weddings, is also written for women. I just can’t do it all! Men both gay and straight are absolutely welcome, but ultimately, my

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goal with the site has always been to create a community to support women. How do you see the rising numbers of same-sex marriages affecting the wedding industry? Are you getting more hits from gays and lesbians? What types of offbeat ceremonies are they looking for, or are they being more traditional? What types of ceremonies I see queer readers looking for? I’ve seen it go both ways. I’ve talked to gay couples who want to have a more traditional wedding as a way of legitimatizing the ceremony in the eyes of family members who may not see it as a “real wedding.” For folks with dubious or critical family, sometimes, the last thing they want to do is make their queer wedding even more queer. Other queer couples go the opposite direction, ﬁguring that as long as they’re already marriage rebels by nature of their relationship, they might as well scrap all the traditions, and build their wedding from scratch. What would you tell a couple who want to be nontraditional, but is kind of vague on the details?

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Cover Feature > GLBT Weddings
I actually worry about couples wanting to be nontraditional. I encourage couples to plan weddings that are an expression of their relationship and personalities. For some couples, this can mean conﬁrming their place in larger cultural contexts, and honoring family traditions. For others, this can mean expressing their individuality. For both, the goal is the same: to create a wedding that ﬁts with the couple and their relationship. When I hear about couples wanting to be nontraditional, it strikes me as a little inauthentic. You either are, or you aren’t. It’s like Yoda says: “Do, or do not. There is no try.” That said, I think there’s a lot than can be gleaned from admiring other people’s weddings—even weddings that totally aren’t what you think of as your style. I tell my readers on my website that I guarantee they won’t like every wedding they see on offbeatbride.com. And that’s the whole point! I like to expose my more traditional readers to the wide breadth of subcultures and lifestyles. We have so much to learn from the way different people celebrate their commitment. In the process of creating your own wedding, does it help or hinder if at least one person of the couple—you, for example—is an obsessive organizer? Your subject heading “Demented bridal-control issues” lingers in my mind. Can you give our marriage/commitment-minded readers come advice? For me, the way I was able to release control was to focus on the metaissues instead of the immediate issues. For instance, as long as it was my dear friend making our wedding cake, I could release control over what the cake actually looked like. In today’s world, “bride/groom” can be more than, or perhaps one might say “beyond,” the standard boy/girl dichotomy. With the number of transgender individuals increasing, have you had any inquiries from or information offered by couples with one—or more—trans people? Oh, I’ve got a whole archive dedicated to transgender wedding issues: <http://offbeatbride.com/tag/transgender-wedding>. It’s been a really wonderful opportunity for me, actually, to learn more about the transgender community. For instance, I had a reader correct me when I referred to someone as “transgendered” instead of “transgender.” I have tons of lesbian family, so the language around lesbian culture feels pretty natural to me. As a writer, learning the language of transgender culture was a great side effect of working on Offbeat Bride. Are there any other wedding words or suggestions you’d like to direct to Lavender readers? This is an odd thing for a wedding “expert” to say, but I actually don’t particularly care about weddings. But I love wacky, wonderful people who are madly in love with each other. I love seeing the way nontraditional people chose to celebrate their commitments, how they come together to honor

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love and their values. I like learning about new corners of culture: puppet-makers, steampunks, psychobillies, happy goths. I love the way couples express themselves through fashion and art, and I am a huge sucker for exciting wedding photography. Plus, I genuinely enjoy supporting smart women as they question and challenge the massive cultural expectations that come with weddings and marriage. To see Offbeat Bride in all its spangled glory, visit <http://offbeatbride.com>

Offbeat Bride: Creative Alternatives for Independent Brides Ariel Meadow Stallings Seal Press $16.95

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On the Runway |

April 9–22, 2010

7mm palladium spike band $895, T Lee

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Happily Ever After
Produced by Mike Hnida Photography by Mike Hnida, Lavender Studios Hair & Makeup by Adam Lang Models: Adam, Daniel, Molly Clothing provided by Bloomingdale's Jewelry provided by T Lee Fine Designer Jewelry

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> On the Runway

April 9–22, 2010

2.5mm 14k yellow, white, and rose spike band $425 each, T Lee

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Ivory beaded dress $309, Bloomingdale's 18k yellow XO ring with 2.43ct Madagascar sapphire $2850, T Lee

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> On the Runway

April 9–22, 2010

Hugo Boss Red Label suit $895 Hugo Boss Red Label lavender stripe shirt $125 Tie $95, all Bloomingdale's

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Hugo Boss charcoal suit $795 White dress shirt $95 Ike Behar tie $89, all Bloomingdale's

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On the Runway > Isn't Fashion Fun

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April 9–22, 2010

Live your Best Life… your STYLEDLIFE! Allison Werthmann-Radnich

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Big Gay News |
[ Written & Compiled by Bradley Traynor ]

HALF OF AMERICANS SAY THEY’D SUPPORT AN OPENLY GAY PRESIDENT
According to a new 60 Minutes/Vanity Fair poll, 50 percent of Americans say they would support an openly gay President of the United States, while 44 percent would oppose having a gay president in the Oval Ofﬁce. The survey asked how people would feel about having an openly gay person in a variety of roles, including Supreme Court Justice, Secretary of State, and Super Bowl quarterback, with the latter garnering the highest approval level at 62 percent.

JUSTICE DEPARTMENT DEFENDS MILITARY GAY BAN WITH OLD VIEWS
Politico reports that the US Department of Justice continues to defend the military’s ban on openly gay personnel, despite assurances by the Obama Administration that it will be lifted. The department ﬁled a brief in federal court in March, repeatedly quoting retired General Colin Powell’s statements from nearly 20 years ago that support the ban, without regard for his recent reversal of opinion on the issue. Tracy Schmaler, a Justice Department spokesman, told reporters, “In this case, the Department is defending the statute, as it traditionally does when acts of Congress are challenged. The Department does not pick and choose which federal laws it will defend based on any one administration’s policy preferences.”

ARMY CHIEF SEES DE FACTO MORATORIUM ON GAY DISCHARGES
Army Secretary John McHugh informed reporters in March that he would not discharge personnel who told him they were gay, despite the current ban on openly gay service members, according to Reuters. He said, “What the Secretary of Defense has placed a moratorium on is going forward on discharges.” Although Congress has yet to lift the ban, the statement by McHugh indicates some Pentagon leaders already have changed their stance on the issue. The Pentagon recently issued new rules making it harder for the military to discharge gay personnel.

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SUPPORT FOR GAY MARRIAGE GROWING IN CALIFORNIA

The Associated Press reports a new poll in California has found for the ﬁrst time that more residents of the state support same-sex marriage than oppose it. A Public Policy Institute of California survey released in March found that a recordhigh 50 percent of Californians said they support gay marriage, while 45 percent opposed it. The poll also showed that support is growing for repealing the nation’s ban on openly gay service members, with 75 percent of Californians in favor of the ban repeal.

DEAD SOLDIER’S FATHER MUST PAY ANTIGAY PROTESTERS
Albert Snyder, the father of a US marine killed in Iraq, must pay $16,000 in legal bills to Reverend Fred Phelps of the Kansas-based Westboro Baptist Church, AFP reports. Phelps—whose church routinely demonstrates outside the funerals of military personnel, claiming the deaths are because of United States acceptance of gay people—protested at the Snyder funeral in 2006. Albert Snyder sued Phelps and won, but the case later was overturned on appeal. Snyder’s attorney, Sean Summers, told AFP, “After the reverse of the appellate court, Phelps requested that we be required to pay.” Statutory law permits Phelps to ask for payment. The case, however, is headed to the US Supreme Court.

CHRISTIAN BROADCASTER SETTLES GAY HARASSMENT LAWSUIT
According to The Washington Post, Christian broadcaster Trinity Broadcasting Network has settled a civil lawsuit brought by an openly gay former engineer who claimed he was harassed for being gay. The lawsuit alleged that Paul Crouch Jr., the son of Trinity founders Jan and Paul Crouch, told Dugger to stop being “gay,” teased him in front of others, and told him to take more interest in women. Dugger asked for more than $2 million in damages, but the amount of the settlement is unknown.

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GUTHRIE FEATURED PLAYWRIGHT DISCUSSES HIS M. BUTTERFLY
Interview with David Henry Hwang
[ by John Townsend ]

ast year, Tony Kushner was the Guthrie Theater’s featured contemporary playwright. This year, it’s David Henry Hwang, whose 1988 Best Play Tony-winner, the gender-bending groundbreaker M. Butterﬂy, is about to open. His 2008 Pulitzer-ﬁnalist Yellow Face, featuring Randy Reyes, sold out at the Big G in February as a coproduction with Theater Mu. Hwang generally is regarded as the best AsianAmerican playwright ever.
M. Butterﬂy is an ironic updating of Puccini’s 1904 opera Madame Butterﬂy. Further irony: Yellow Face critically comments on the 1991 Broadway smash Miss Saigon, also based on the same opera. M. Butterﬂy’s other template is the scandalous true story of French diplomat Bernard Boursicot (born 1944), who falls in love with a seemingly female performer, Shi Pei Pu (1939-2009). Hwang changed the names. At the Guthrie, Reyes plays Song Liling to Andrew Long’s Rene Gallimard.
David Henry Hwang. Photo by Resby Craig Schwartz

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I recently spoke with Hwang about M. Butterﬂy. M. Butterﬂy is a perfect blend of the proverbially “well-written” play, and at the same time a radical reassessment of gender, sexuality, race, and the West’s colonial legacy imposed on the East. How did this play come about? When I heard the story on which M. Butterﬂy is based. The idea of a French diplomat who had an affair for 20 years with a Chinese actress who turned out to be (A) a spy and (B) a man in drag. The way in which that story just kind of hit me and fascinated me, without my knowing on any conscious level in those early phases that that story would inherently encompass sexism, racism, imperialism, gender reevaluation, and notions of racial and sexual identity being ﬂuid. There is so much in that story itself. It was just a question of being able to unpack what I think this anecdote carried within it inherently. How could Gallimard not know about Song being a man for so long? The play argues that it’s essentially a case of self-delusion, in the same way, in a more typical sense, that a spouse knows the other is cheating, and chooses not to know. In this case, Gallimard is so in love with the idea of living the Madame Butterﬂy scenario that he chooses

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to ignore anything which would contradict that fact, including the fact that his Madame Butterﬂy has a penis. The play argues that it’s basically self-delusion conditioned by the sort of racist template of Madame Butterﬂy and the seductiveness of that fantasy. Now, in terms of the mechanics of the situation, which the play really doesn’t get into, there’s a woman named Joyce Wadler who wrote a book called Liaison about the actual case, and she went and spent a lot of time with the real principals, and interviewed them. I guess there was some issue of Shi Pei Pu being able to fold his penis into his testicles, so that’s one way it could be done physically. But the point is not really about that. It’s more about the state of mind. Now, interestingly, there has always been a school of thought about Boursicot having been a closeted gay guy, and I feel that doesn’t actually make sense in terms of the real character, because at the time Boursicot was arrested, he was out. He was living with a different man, so it would have been much easier for him to have said, “I had an affair with a man, and at the time, I was young, and wanted to believe that Shi Pei Pu was actually a woman, and not a man.” But no. Instead, when he got arrested, he continued to protest, and assert that Shi Pei Pu was a woman and not a man, which made him look ridiculous. So, even in

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construct these categories of black, white, Asian—whatever—and, in fact, there’s a huge amount of ﬂuidity, and it’s convenient most of the time for us not to recognize that. And similarly, I feel that we’re at just that particular point of social history where categories of sexuality are straight, gay, and kind of bisexual. But those are constructs as well, and they’re attempts to kind of categorize experience, i.e., human sexuality, which has a myriad of manifestations and facets. It’s politically convenient sometimes, and sometimes it’s just lazy to reduce them to three categories. What’s it like for you revisiting M. Butterﬂy now? When it opened in ’88, the West was still pretty secure in the position that it’s held for the past 300 or 400 years. Now, just 22 years later, the West is considerably more insecure about its power relationships, particularly in relation to China. The play kind of posits that the West has always considered itself masculine, and looked at the East as feminine. A powerful East—is there a cultural template or stereotype that that ﬁts into? And I think that there probably is. I think that with women, there is the Madame Butterﬂy or the Lotus Blossom submissive Asian woman. But there is also the Dragon Lady, and I wonder to what degree our perception of the rising China is inﬂuenced by the template of the Dragon Lady. The treatment of the Dalai Lama reinforces that view. There was a feeling that President Obama was too reluctant in ﬁnally greeting the Dalai Lama. There are deﬁnite problems with Chinese society. It combines two of my least favorite things, thought control and rampant capitalism, in the same culture. As China starts to feel its oats as an economic and political power, it seems like the repression of dissidents is growing more intense, because there is less fear of condemnation by the international community. For that reason, and because the Dalai Lama is a legitimate leader, it seems [that it was right] for President Obama to meet him. I’ve taught scene study from your

terms of the actual case, the idea that Boursicot was just trying to cover the up the fact that he was gay doesn’t hold water. It’s intriguing how M. Butterﬂy presages what we’ve ﬁnally come to see nowadays: that many men who identify as straight are attracted physically and emotionally to those who are anatomically men, but who vividly evoke feminine traits. We see this a lot more in this Internet age. When M. Butterﬂy premiered in 1988, at that time, I would have fallen into my “he’s not facing his homosexuality” spiel. But I think about how sexology pioneer Alfred Kinsey looked to insects, saw amazing variety, and pondered why sexuality couldn’t be that varied. I think we are still caught up in the binary: gay versus straight. And there’s not just gay, straight, or bisexual, either. The three categories we use now are kind of reductionist, because, as you say, the range of human sexuality is much more complex and ﬂuid. One of my big arguments, particularly in Yellow Face, has to do with the ﬂuidity of race. We

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Obie-winning play Golden Child. My own reaction to its foot-binding aspect was: “how barbaric.” Yet, some of my students saw it differently. I think it’s really interesting to look at tradition versus change in the context of somebody else’s society, because tradition in the context of one’s own society always feels like: well, that’s the normal thing, and that’s how people have always done it, and why would you change this? But you put it in somebody else’s culture, and it becomes something like foot binding. Our instinct is to go, “No! They shouldn’t be foot binding!” So, hopefully, it problematizes the easy reactions we have to tradition versus change. Your view of the interplay between Asia and America is widely admired. As a boy growing up in the Southwest during the Vietnam War, I recall more of a sense that that war was deemed racist. There seems to be less of an awareness about the racist component in American wars nowadays. I think that’s true. I feel there’s a degree to which we have a kind of template or stereotype that’s gotten into our heads as a result of cultural inﬂuences or media about what different races are like. Then, there’s the degrees to which those inﬂuence our policy makers and the decisions made on a national level. A connection sometimes gets made, but it’s easier to make them in retrospect, so that at the current moment, of course, we’re largely dealing with Middle Eastern issues. One of the things that Yellow Face argues is that at the end of the 20th Century, we were starting to get into a period where America needed a new Big Enemy, and China was going to be the new Big Enemy. So, a lot of the Donorgate and Wen Ho Lee scandals were kind of the opening shots of that particular war that we would have begun with China. Then, 9/11 happened, and then, all of a sudden, it was: “Oh, wait!” Well, we’ve now got a Big Enemy. He’s over there in the Middle East, so we went into a useless war. For which we borrowed hundreds of billions of dollars from China. To ﬁnance that war. So, the ironies abound.
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Arts & Entertainment > On the Townsend

[ by John Townsend ]

The Iron Ring. Photo by Dan Norman

THE IRON RING
Through Apr. 10 Children’s Theatre Co., 2400 3rd Ave. S., Mpls. (612) 871-0400 <www.childrenstheatre.org>

Director Peter Brosius and Children’s Theatre Company score an artistic breakthrough with a majestic staging of material drawn from Hindu epics. Young ruler Tamar (Reed Sigmund) is tricked into a perilous odyssey that makes him conscious of deceit, injustice, human suffering, and oneness with nature. A sparkling cast and choreographer Renee Ramaswamy’s mesmerizing dancers keep us guessing about who can be trusted and who cannot. A bewitching scene involving outcast corpses lifts things to an utterly mystical level.
WOMEN WITHOUT MEN
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Apr. 16-17 Walker Art Center, 1750 Hennepin Ave., Mpls. (612) 375-7600 <www.walkerart.org>

Filmmaker Shirin Neshat—in a beguiling nightmare vision of Iran when the 1953 CIA-backed coup toppled Prime Minister

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Mohammad Mossadegh in order to install the Shah—observes a group of women who take healing refuge in a villa near Tehran. The viewer isn’t sure what’s real and what’s surreal at times, giving the weird impression that as societies collapse, the nature of space and reality actually shifts. Tragic notions of a prostitute whose soul seems to have left her body and of conservative Muslims becoming rabidly anticommunist make for a provocative masterwork. The ﬁlm was a Venice Film Fest Silver Lion Winner.
HOW TO MAKE LOVE LIKE A MINNESOTAN III: THE FULL MONTEVIDEO
Through Apr. 24 Brave New Workshop, 2605 Hennepin Ave., Mpls. (612) 332-6620 <www.bravenewworkshop.org>

It’s the best Brave New Workshop revue in years, and maybe the company’s best sexuality inquiry ever. Director Caleb McEwen’s marvelous cast crisply sidesteps juvenile giddiness over sex, so you walk out delighted and more sexually aware. Lauren Anderson and Ellie Heino are rip-roaring as two aging gal pals who’ve replaced sex with food. Josh Eakright and Bobby Gardner crackle with studly insight—rather than man-crush cheap shots—as two athletes whose machismo is triggered by mutual homoromantic attraction. The cast exquisitely wrote the piece.
BIG RIVER
Through Apr. 25 Illusion Theater, 528 Hennepin Ave., Mpls. (612) 339-4944 <www.aboutmmt.org>

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The Mighty Mississippi has been rambunctious this spring, so let’s honor the river’s emblematic Mark Twain narrative, Huckleberry Finn, whose musical version, Big River, won seven 1985 Tonys. Minneapolis Musical Theatre Director Steven Meerdink says, “It is truly beautiful to watch the story unfold, as Huck [Andrew Newman] and Jim [Reginald Haney] learn how much they have in common, and how much they actually understand one another. This message of discovery, acceptance, and understanding can be applied to any time period and to a multitude of situations. Huck learns to accept Jim as a person, not a slave.”

> On the Townsend

The House of Bernarda Alba. Photo by Paulino Brener

THE HOUSE OF BERNARDA ALBA
Through Apr. 25 Steppingstone Theatre, 55 N. Victoria St., St. Paul (800) 838-3006 <www.brownpapertickets.com>

This play is acclaimed as gay playwright Federico Garcia Lorca’s greatest. Teatro del Pueblo and Pangea World Theater are reviving it. The house in the play is known as a metaphor for fascist dictator Francisco Franco’s Spain. Though it was written in 1935 for an all-female cast, innovative Laurie Carlos directs Paulino Brener in a crossgender turn as Poncia. Tinne Rosenmeier plays tyrannical Bernarda. Carlos calls Poncia “the sturdy housekeeper of Bernarda’s abode. She has a powerful presence in the house, although she works in a very different way than Bernarda. As Laurie has said to me, ‘It’s all about the energy you bring to the stage.’”

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Medea. Photo by Richard Fleischman

MEDEA
Through Apr. 25 Lowry Lab, 350 St. Peter St., St. Paul (612) 721-1186 <www.theatreunbound.com>

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The 600-year-old Noh and the 400-year-old Kabuki traditions are directed in this production by experts in both: Kathy Welch (for her Green T troupe) and the feminist Theatre Unbound. Ironically, men historically have dominated both traditions, even though women invented Kabuki. Carol Sogenfrei’s script adds modern dance, Chinese opera, and Greek theatricality to reshape this grisly tale of the archetypal murderous mother. Welch explains that the Noh structure “allows us to observe the myth through a misty veil of memories, unearthing new perspectives and new motivations for Medea’s actions.”

Arts & Entertainment > On the Record

[ by Ed Huyck ]

Head First
GOLDFRAPP It must be something in the air. Goldfrapp’s latest opens with a riff and vocal that could have been drawn from Donna Summer’s “She Works Hard for the Money.” That vibe never disappears from the latest by the electronic duo of Alison Goldfrapp and Will Gregory. You can hear it in the throbbing piano riff that powers the title track, the bouncy synth riff on “Shiny and Warm,” or the Laurie Anderson-like “Voicething.” Sometimes, the “guess the inﬂuence” gets a bit distracting—hmm, are they playing off the Human League or the Eurythmics on this track?—but that is overpowered by the general quality of the songs. For the most part, the duo didn’t forget to write actual songs to go with the nostalgic electronics. Goldfrapp isn’t as soulful as the above-mentioned performers, but she gives the music a singular modern-age moodiness, a 21st-Century wariness that says life turned bit more complicated than we thought it would be.

Interpreting the Masters, Vol. 1: A Tribute to Daryl Hall and John Oates
THE BIRD AND THE BEE I may be a child of the 1980s, but I never have been much of a Hall and Oates fan. Being a rocker (and later punker) meant I usually sneered at such prefab soul. Still, when one of the songs came on the radio, I secretly would tap my toes, and sing along. The Bird and the Bee understand this, and they dedicate a whole album to the earlier duo’s mellow and smooth soul. It helps that Inara George’s vocals—from tone to inﬂection—aren’t anything like the original. The gender switch also gives it all a fresh, modern perspective. Instrumentalist Greg Kurstin retains the signature mood of the originals, but adds in oddball musical twists to make it feel modern without being too high tech. Meanwhile, you have the toe-tapping sing-alongs, from “Maneater” to “Kiss on My List” to “Private Eyes,” which I believe I had hidden behind the Prince and Bruce Springsteen singles when I was a sprout.

Plastic Beaches
GORILLAZ Starting life a decade ago as a cartoon side project, Gorillaz have grown into a going concern all on their own, becoming the artistic home of former Blur frontman Damon Albarn. He has indicated that this album may be all from the virtual band. If so, it’s a ﬁne way to go out. The sprawling collection merges many of his own lyrical interests from the past 20 years with a who’s who of inﬂuential artists: Mos Def; Snoop Dogg; Mark E. Smith of The Fall; and Mick Jones and Paul Simonon, better known as the surviving members of The Clash. In fact, it’s these fellow Brits who get the best moments here, as their own worldviews mesh well with the host artist. The moody title track brings it all home, sounding like some odd relic from 1981, lost for three decades, and freshened up by a hot DJ. Plastic Beaches sometimes sprawls too far, but the whole ride is worth taking.

Sasha Maria
SASHA MARIA After nearly a decade of performing around the Twin Cities and the Midwest, singer-songwriter Sasha Maria recently released her self-titled debut. It’s a collection that shows plenty of promise. She has a nice Norah Jones/Tori Amos vibe going on here, and the songs showcase her vocal skills quite well. The slowburning “My Beautiful” is a real highlight here, from the smoldering vocal line to the bluesy guitar solo by Jonathan Earl Nelson. Elsewhere, a few too many laid-back mid-tempo pieces may be found. These songs, while ﬁne on their own, blend together into a seamless whole that just sits in the background, instead of arresting the listener like the best cuts here. Still, several others stand out as well, including the syncopated riffs and compelling vocals of “Blink of an Eye,” and the smoldering, jazzy mood of the closer, “Wanting.” These are the moments that make me look forward to Sasha Maria’s next release.

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Shoot pool or play darts at your neighborhood bar— the Twin Cities’s oldest GLBT establishment.

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990 Central Ave. NE, Mpls. <www.lushfoodbar.com>
Great Food. Happy Hour Wed.-Sat. ’Til 8 PM. Wed. $1 Drinks. Thu. Show Tunes. No Cover. Free Parking.

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422 Hennepin. Ave., Mpls. (612) 332-RAIL (7245) <www.thebrassraillounge.com>
Completely remodeled elegant lounge featuring variety of entertainment: live piano, karaoke, male dancers.

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420 S. 4th St., Minneapolis (612) 354-3846 <www.ticklesbar.com>
Live Piano Music. Full-Service Menu, Happy Hour, Sports on 10 Flat-Panel TVs, Pool, Darts.

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CAMP

490 N. Robert St., St. Paul (651) 292-1844 <www.camp-bar.net>
An upscale but casual spot with great video, dancing, cabaret, and the friendliest staff in town!

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WHAT
Recipe: Baby Unicorn 1 part Malibu Rum 1 part Stoli Vanil Vodka 1 part Midori Splash of Orange Juice Splash of Pineapple Juice Grenadine Layered on Bottom Suck It Through a Straw (the unicorn horn)

1415 University Ave. W., St. Paul (651) 646-7087 <www.townshousebar.com> Town House
Fun neighborhood bar with a great mix of men and women. Karaoke. Drag shows.

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GAY 90’S MEGABAR
408 Hennepin Ave., Mpls. (612) 333-7755 <www.gay90s.com> Gay 90’s

Piano Lounge
That’s entertainment! Friday: Karaoke (Twyla). Saturday: Lori Dokken & Friends. Sunday: Karaoke (John). Monday: Men’s Night.

Upper Midwest’s Largest Gay Entertainment Complex. Serving reasonably priced menu in main bar Wednesday-Sunday.

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Dance Annex
Awesome DJs deliver latest in dance, techno, and hot gay anthems for your dancing pleasure.

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Happy Hour
Newly remodeled. Open longest hours of any local GLBT bar. State-of-the art sound/video.

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Tickles 420 S. 4th St., Mpls. (612) 354-3846 <www.ticklesbar.com>

La Femme Show Lounge
The Ladies of La Femme present the Twin Cities’s best female impersonator show Thursday-Sunday.
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THE FLAME

Men’s Room
It’s a guy thing (ladies beware!). Hot men in a sizzling scene. Best male dancers.

1612 Tower Ave., Superior (715) 395-0101 <www.SuperiorFlame.com>

WHY
“Fun atmosphere. Different rooms with different ambience and entertainment. Serving great food until Midnight.”

Retro Bar
Just what its name says. Fabulous DJs reprise the best of the ’70s through ’90s.
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GLADIUS

1506 N. 3rd St., Superior (715) 394-2580 <www.jtsbarandgrill.net>

April 9–22, 2010

1111 Hennepin Ave., Mpls. (612) 332-9963 <www.gladiusbar.com>
The New York Chic of Minneapolis. Gladius Goddesses Tuesday. Killer B's Karaoke Wednesday.

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1217 Tower Ave., Superior (715) 392-1756 <www.mainclubsuperior.com>

MAIN CLUB

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CAMP
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Bar Scene > Bar Calendar
For club addresses, phone numbers, and Web sites, see “Bar Advertiser Guide” on page 42. For events not at bars, see <LavenderMagazine. com/calendar>.

FRIDAY, APRIL 9
Gary Collins 5 PM. Tickles. Total DiscTracktion 9 PM. Town House. Jason Richards 9 PM. Tickles.

Daina DePerez 9 PM. Tickles. Dragged Out! Flip Show 9:30 PM. Town House. Foam Party Gay 90’s

SATURDAY, APRIL 17 SATURDAY, APRIL 10
Thumper Hunt The Black Guard Fundraiser 3 PM. Gay 90’s. Red Hot Drag Contest 8 PM. Lush. Mia Dorr 9 PM. Tickles. TNT Show 9 PM. Town House. Blue Jeans & Bling: A Dinner & A Show Imperial Court of Minnesota Beneﬁt for Rural AIDS Action Network (RANN) 5:30 PM. La Femme Show Lounge. Gay 90’s. Red Hot Drag Contest 8 PM. Lush. Mia Dorr 9 PM. Tickles. Country Night 9 PM. Town House.

SUNDAY, APRIL 11
Jeff Olson 7 PM. Tickles.

SUNDAY, APRIL 18
Singles Pool Tournament 4 PM. 19 Bar. Jeff Olson 7 PM. Tickles.

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 14
Mark Bloom 6 PM. Tickles.

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 21 FRIDAY, APRIL 16
Gary Collins 5 PM. Tickles. Mark Bloom 6 PM. Tickles.

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Bar Scene

The Main

Documentary Preview/Fundraiser
For a number of years, ﬁlmmaker Julie Casper Roth, a native of Superior, Wisconsin, has been working on The Main, a documentary about The Main Club in her hometown and owner Bob Jansen. The bar, which opened at its original location in 1983, was destroyed in a tragic 1996 ﬁre, but moved to its present home in 1997. A two-day preview/fundraiser for The Main takes place at the Zinema 2, 222 East Superior Street, Duluth, Minnesota. On April 17 (tickets $35), a silent auction, hors d’oeuvres, and cash bar get under way at 6 PM, followed by a screening at 8 PM. On April 18 (tickets $25), doors open at 11 AM for a silent auction, with a screening at 1 PM. Tickets may be purchased at The Main Club, 1217 Tower Avenue, Superior.

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Cuisine > Off the Eaten Path

EXCELS AT CELEBRATING THE DIVERSITY OF WORLD CUISINE

FUSION

[ by Heidi Fellner ]

eno is dead. Long live Zeno...or, as it so happens, Fusion—the successor under the same management. The renamed restaurant space once known for its focused coffee and dessert menu has done a complete about-face. Instead of selecting a niche cuisine of any sort, the concept—which is carried out not so much within each dish

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as it is across the menu—is about as varied as I’ve seen. To be quite honest, I didn’t think the staff would be able to pull it off. Baked goat cheese, avocado quesadillas, and sushi under one roof? That sounds a lot more like a food court than a restaurant. But take one bite of the Baked Clams ($5.95) in white wine and butter, and any unpleasant mall thoughts vanish like so many weak czars.

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> Off the Eaten Path

(Clockwise from above left) Edamame—hot soybeans tossed with kosher tapenade and barrel-aged feta cheese; dining area; Lava Cake—a rich rich ganache, heated to an extreme.

From the Starter Plates menu, we also sampled the Baked Goat Cheese Dip ($9.95), the Edamame ($4.95), and the Cheese Plate ($12.95). A little eclectic, perhaps, but like the old interior design mantra—“if you like it, it probably will work together”—the edamame actually is refreshing next to the creamy, tangy goat cheese dip and fresh baked focaccia. A worthy cheese plate is almost a requisite for any local restaurant with a cuisine remotely able to accommodate it. Fusion’s adaptation (with red grapes, Turkish ﬁgs, and salted almonds) easily could delight a table of two to four. My dining partner had our meal served to us in the lounge, which is furnished with low tables and sleek, mod furniture, but

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salt; Cucumber Feta Tapenade—European cucumber, kalamata live chocolate eruption caused by combining chocolate soufﬂé cake and

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nevertheless imparts a positively Roman vision of luxury and comfort with upholstered columns and soft lighting. Complete the mood by ordering from the extensive wine list, all available by the glass. Of course, if sake is more to your liking, you can ﬁnd that, too, along with bottled beer, plus French press coffee, espressos, and lattes—but you get the idea. The martini list includes 16 cocktails priced at just $8. Not surprisingly for Fusion, it has something for just about everyone—including me. Knowing my apathy toward sugary cocktails, our server brought the tart Pomegranate Martini (Finlandia Vodka and pomegranate juice), followed by the smooth and sensual Red Lotus (Stoli Razberi Vodka, Chambord,

> Off the Eaten Path

(Clockwise from above left) Chef's Choice, including Maguro (tuna), Suzuki (striped sea bass), Hirame Negihama (yellow tail and scallion), veggie roll, spicy tuna, Spider roll, Crunchy, Caterpillar; bar area; hummus, and Italian sun-dried tomato relish, fresh baked rosemary focaccia, served with ﬁgs;

mango, white cranberry, and lime juice). My dining partner, who more easily is tempted by the sweeter drinks, was treated to the bold and fruity Raspolitan (Stoli Razberi, Triple Sec, white cranberry, and Chambord). Throughout the course of the meal, we also indulged in the Espresso (Stoli Vanil, Tia Maria, Kahlua, Frangelico, and espresso) and the Tiramisu (Stoli Vanil, Bailey’s, Tia Maria, and Kahlua). I surprised myself by taking such a fondness to the tiramisu, but it was quite fantastic, impressing even this single malt scotch lover. If you’re looking for soups, salads, ﬂatbreads, quesadillas, panninis, and pasta, Fusion offers them. We sampled the delicate Chicken Apricot Salad ($8.95) alongside the robust European Flatbread ($9.95), a ﬂavor-packed dish thanks to sun-dried tomato puree, olives, sausage, roasted red peppers, and goat cheese. Should you venture to Fusion, I would recommend experimenting with just such unlikely pairings—it truly is amazing how many tastes and ﬂavors that different cultures around the world have developed. Fusion excels at celebrating the diversity of world cuisine as a whole, while managing to be respectful to each individual dish. Next on the culinary tour was the Avocado Quesadilla ($8.95). Perhaps the addition of orange zest to the somewhat more conventional cilantro/red onion/tomato/Monterey jack cheese/sour cream ﬁlling gave it such zip. If you’re looking for a light but satisfying happy hour bite, this little quesadilla would do the trick. When it comes to Fusion’s sushi, keep your expectations fairly high. I sampled two off-menu items: a spicy salmon roll, and cubed yellow tail doused in trufﬂe oil. Yes, traditional favorites

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(ﬂounder), Envy, Copasetic, Fusion roll, Tuna Tataki, Tekka (tuna), Mediterranean Plate—goat cheese, kalamata olive tapenade, Chocolate Cake, a mile-high, three-layer chocolate masterpiece.

are offered, but if you already are eating sushi at a place that also serves quesadillas, you might as well be adventurous: Get a signature roll; or, better still, let the chefs experiment for you. All in all, Fusion is about as far from Zeno as you can be conceptually, except for one thing: the management team wisely kept the coffee and dessert menu. The Crème Brûlée ($6.95) is as rich and sensual as ever; the chocolate-ﬁlled Lava Cake ($7.95) practically begs for both spoon and fork; and the Caramel Chocolate Trufﬂe Cake ($8.50) would satisfy even the most desperate of chocolate cravings. The list goes on, of course, like so many things at Fusion. My advice? Try Fusion during a latenight happy hour, when appetizers, house wine, sushi, beer, and signature martinis are half-price. Choose randomly, sit back, and enjoy the culinary world tour.
Fusion Restaurant Bar 2919 Hennepin Ave., Mpls. (612) 824-6300 <www.fusionmpls.com>
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> Public Service Announcement
Lavender is running this public service announcement at the request of the Minneapolis Police Department.

Minneapolis Police Department Needs Your Help in HIV Criminal Case
Daniel James Rick, who often goes by “D.J.,” age 29, has been diagnosed HIV-positive since 2006. Now in custody, he has been charged with crimes in two separate incidents: • Offense (on or about February 5, 2010): one count of Assault in the Third Degree—Knowing Transfer of Communicable Disease. • Offense (on or about October 15, 2009): two counts of Assault in the Third Degree—Knowing Transfer of Communicable Disease. The ﬁrst offense involved one victim, while the second offense involved two other victims, one of whom subsequently tested HIV-positive. In both incidents, Rick allegedly engaged in unprotected sex with the victims, failing to inform them of his HIVpositive status. According to the Minneapolis Police Department, four additional possible victims have come forward with information about encounters with Rick. The police believe other possible victims remain to be heard from. Rick apparently would cruise Internet sites—speciﬁcally, Manhunt.net, Gay.com, and Adam4Adam.com—using the online handle “skyﬁre2be”. He also was known to frequent the Saloon bar at 830 Hennepin Avenue in Downtown Minneapolis. Anyone with further information about Rick is urged to contact Sgt. David Mattson of the Minneapolis Police Department at (612) 673-2358.

Daniel James Rick.
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[ by Heidi Fellner ]

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ertain chiropractic theories still are questioned by practitioners of traditional medicine, but by now, the point is almost moot. Almost 18 million Americans seek chiropractic treatment every year, for everything from back pain to headaches, plantar fasciitis, jaw problems, muscle strains, and sciatica. Chiropractic patients look for alleviation of their discomfort, to be sure, but they are also attracted to a more rounded and inclusive approach to wellness. And, for the most part (outside of a few overzealous chiropractors who promise the moon, but deliver only a bill), patients do leave a chiropractor’s ofﬁce with increased mobility and less pain. Many Lavender readers in the Twin Cities either have visited or heard of Lyn Lake Chiropractic—it has been featured in Allure, Glamour, Self Magazine, and Minnesota Monthly. CEO Dr. Kevin Schreifels has treated patients in his ofﬁce at 2937 Lyndale Avenue South, Minneapolis, for the past 10 years, and he owes most of his growing client base to glowing word-of-mouth referrals. He doesn’t do much advertising outside of Lavender, but with his sciencebased, conservative approach to treatment, as well as his staff’s infectious enthusiasm, new clients walk in his door every day.

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It’s easy to understand why: Dr. Schreifels isn’t like a lot of other chiropractors, who may treat every patient in the same manner regardless of their speciﬁc issues, and keep them returning regularly for months—or even years. Dr. Schreifels points out, “Everybody’s treated completely differently here. We’ve got three doctors looking at you. If none of us can ﬁgure it out, then we’re happy to refer you elsewhere.” Because most of Dr. Schreifels’s patients see him only if they need further care—not because he keeps them regularly scheduled—one might think he would lose business. Actually, it’s the other way around. As Dr. Schreifels explains, “We don’t pitch. The average clinic sees three or four new patients a month; we get 12 to 13 a week. They come in, we treat them, and they feel better. A couple of treatments, and they’re usually good to go. And they tell someone else, and that person tells their friends.” The clinic certainly sees a wide variety of patients, but Dr. Schreifels reports that the majority of them are athletes or sports enthusiasts, members of the GLBT community, and people who have been injured in car accidents. As a victim of a car accident himself, he is able to relate personally to all his patients, whether they’re gay or straight, blue-collar workers or lawyers. Dr. Schreifels declares, “I’m a chameleon.” The clinic is open for walk-in patients, but also takes appointments, with a 24/7 answering service. Consultations are free. Dr. Schreifels currently is offering Lavender readers a discounted rate of $37 for an initial exam. More information about Lyn Lake Chiropractic is available at <www.lynlake chiropractic.com>. To schedule an appointment, call (612) 879-8000.
Name of Company: Lyn Lake Chiropractic Year Founded: 2000 President/CEO: Dr. Kevin Schreifels, Dr. Jill Field, Dr. Steve Eckstein Number of Employees: 8 Address: 2937 Lyndale Ave. S., Mpls. Phone: (612) 879-8000 Website: <www.lynlakechiropractic.com>

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Junior Moco Jumbie stilt walkers, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. Photo by Robert Jerome Courtesy of Museum of International Folk Art.
¡Carnaval! Showcasing costumes, masks, musical instruments, photos, and video from eight international cities via the National Endowment for the Humanities On the Road Exhibit, ¡Carnaval! is ﬁlled with fun learning activities for the entire family. Through May 25. Hennepin County Library-Minneapolis Central Branch, 300 Nicollet Mall, Mpls. (952) 847-8665. <www.hclib.org>. Lake Home & Cabin Show. Join more than 250 exhibitors from across the country for a one-stop resource for lake-home and cabin lovers. Find everything from decorating and remodeling to building, buying, or just dreaming the dream. Plus, take part in some interactive exhibits, including a live raptor display, cooking demonstrations with great cabin grilling recipes, and architecture cabin tours. Apr. 9-11. Minneapolis Convention Center, 1301 2nd Ave. S., Mpls. (612) 335-6000. <www.lakehomeandcabinshow.com>.

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We2. Form+Content Gallery reveals new paintings by local artist Jim Dryden. Inspired by the words and images of Walt Whitman and David Hockney, the gallery will be ﬁlled with double portraits in a variety of sizes, with a seemingly endless array of expressions and personalities using bright colors in surprising combinations. Through May 15. Form+Content Gallery, 210 N. 2nd St., Ste. 104, Mpls. (612) 436-1151. <www.for mandcontent.org>.

SUNDAY, APRIL 11
NOMI Home Buyers Tour. Join in, as you get a hightouch, guided tour of homes on the market in North Minneapolis neighborhoods. Start with a Meet & Greet, where you get the opportunity to meet current residents of NOMI, chat with realtors, and learn more about ﬁnancial incentives being offered. 11 AM. 42nd Ave, Station, 4171 Lyndale Ave. N., Mpls. (612) 4815635. <[email protected]>.

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Avenue Q. The hilarious Tony Award-winning musical about a group of puppets living on Avenue Q in New York City comes back to Minneapolis. If you missed this show the last time it was here, be sure not to make the same mistake twice. Apr. 13-18. Orpheum Theatre, 910 Hennepin Ave., Mpls. (800) 982-2787. <www. ticketmaster.com>.

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FRIDAY, APRIL 16
Execution of Justice. The acclaimed docudrama from Emily Mann is hitting the stage in Minneapolis. It details the 1978 trial of Dan White for the murder of San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk—the ﬁrst openly gay elected ofﬁcial in the United States. Based entirely on actual court transcripts and real-life interviews, this drama chronicles the collapse of justice, as White is given a lighter sentence because of his “altered mental state.” Apr. 1624. Rarig Center’s Whiting Proscenium Theater, Univ. of Minn., 330 21st Ave. S. Mpls. (612) 624-2345.

SATURDAY, APRIL 17
Earth Day Celebration. Join Midtown Global Market in celebrating Earth Day. Guests can learn about water conservation, as well as how to reduce toxins and more, while enjoying children’s planting activities, a bike tune-up demonstration, an ecofriendly fashion show, and live music. 11 AM-4 PM. Midtown Global Market, 920 E. Lake St., Mpls. <www.midtownglobal market.org>.

SUNDAY, APRIL 18
Buchenwald and Beyond. Nearly 65 years ago, soldiers and medics of the 120th Medical Corps entered the Buchenwald Concentration Camp as part of General Patton’s Third Army, liberating those who remained after the institution’s eight-year operation. These same men, now in their 80s and 90s, will discuss what they saw while healing those liberated from the Nazis. 3 PM. Congregation Shir Tikvah, 5000 Girard Ave. S., Mpls. <www.worldwithoutgenocide.org>. April 9–22, 2010

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Synaplex Shabbat: 101 Ways to Connect at Adath. Take part in dinner, then listen to Rabbi Steven Greenberg talk about “Gays in the Garden: Searching for a Place in Our People’s Story.” Award-winning author of Wrestling with God and Men: Homosexuality in the Jewish Tradition, he has broken boundaries, leading the ﬁght to make Orthodox Judaism more open and inclusive of homosexual members. 7 PM. RSVP by Apr. 16. Adath Jeshurun Congregation, 10500 Hillside Lane W., Minnetonka. <www.adathjeshurun.org>. Tickets on Sale SALE TICKETS ON CATS. The winner of seven Tony Awards, including Best Musical, which features 20 of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s timeless melodies, is hitting the stage in the Twin Cities. One of the best-known musicals in recent memory, CATS is a must-see for any theater enthusiast. May 14-16. Orpheum Theatre, 910 Hennepin Ave., Mpls. (800) 982-2787. <www.ticketmaster.com>. Wicked. Something wicked this way comes…again. The musical sensation known as Wicked is making its way back to Minneapolis, with more than a monthlong stay this time. It tells the story of the Wicked Witch of the West. Find out the truth behind the fable. Tickets on sale for season ticket holders, donors, and groups of 20 or more. Aug. 11-Sept. 19. Orpheum Theatre, 910 Hennepin Ave., Mpls. (800) 982-2787. <www.tick etmaster.com>.

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America the Beautiful: The Monumental Landscape of Clyde Butcher. Known as the “Ansel Adams of the Everglades,” Clyde Butcher brings a major collection of his iconic black-and-white images—ranging from the pristine beauty of the South Dakota Badlands to the beaches of Hawaii—to St. Paul for a very limited engagement. Through Apr. 15. James J. Hill Reference Library, 80 W. 4th St., St. Paul. (651) 2655500. <www.jjhill.org>. Enchanted April. Watch as four women discover who they are in ways they never could have expected. It’s a heartwarming story based on the best-selling novel about two London housewives who decide to rent a villa in Italy for a much-needed holiday, and recruit two others to help share the cost. Weekends through Apr. 11. Theatre in the Round Players, 245 Cedar Ave., Mpls. (612) 333-3010. <www.TheatreintheRound.org>. How to Make Love Like a Minnesotan III: The Full Montevideo. In the threequel to the smash hits How to Make Love Like a Minnesotan I and II, Brave New Workshop is back at it, and baring all for Minnesota love. Can Cupid’s arrow strike a third time? We think so. Be prepared to thaw your heart out in time for an all-new look at our favorite subject: love. Thu.-Sat. Through Apr. 24. Brave New Workshop Theatre, 2605 Hennepin Ave. S., Mpls. (612) 332-6620. <www.brave newworkshop.com>. How To Talk Minnesotan: The Musical. Ever wanted to talk like a true Minnesotan? Now’s your chance. Come out for a night of education, as you’re treated to the beloved classics “Hotdish Hallelujah,” “Northwoods Woman,” and “Brothers in Ice,” along with some easy-to-follow lessons underscored by advertising spots and jingles. Wed.-Sun. Through May 30. Plymouth Playhouse, 2705 Annapolis Lane N., Plymouth. (763) 553-1600. <www.plymouthplayhouse. com>. Planning a Remodel. Need help with that home project you planned? Castle Building & Remodeling holds bimonthly classes to help you ﬁgure out everything you need to know to get started. Classes are limited to only 12 people, so RSVP well in advance to the one you wish to attend. 5:30-7 PM. For complete list of classes, locations, and topics, visit <www.castlebri. com/classschedule.html>.

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Employment Help Wanted Psychotherapy
IRENE GREENE, MSEd, Psychotherapist: 24 years experience. Individual, Couples Counseling, Mediation. Life changes, relationship, gender, sexuality, parenting, anger, anxiety, depression. Coming Out, Sexual Abuse, DID Groups. Sliding fee. Professional, nonjudgmental, conﬁdential. (612) 874-6442. [email protected].

Rentals-Residential
TILSNER ARTIST LOFTS – 2 BR ONLY $995. Art Crawl is coming up…. Live in the action! Pinewood ﬂoors, amazing spaces. Tilsner. net or Call: (651) 203-6704. LORING PARKING - Classic 2 BR & Den. Natural woodwork, hardwood ﬂoors, dishwasher, balcony, offstreet parking available. Overlooks lake, blocks to downtown. $1,100/month includes heat, cooking, water. Rent specials. (651) 3730603. CHASKA’S LUXURY COMMUNITY - 1 & 2 Bedroom Homes. Cats & Small Dogs Welcome, Exceptional Value – Heat Included. Washer/Dryer in your Home, Spacious Floor Plans, Garage Available. Call about our Specials. (952) 448-9201. Warm & Inviting – A Must See! www.ﬁrstselectequities. Linden Hills - 2 bedroom Duplex with Sunroom, 4732 Upton Ave So. Less than 1 Block to Lake Harriet. Pets OK. Hardwoods built-ins, ﬁreplace, garage. Available now. $1375, (612) 721-2155.

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Spa Services
The Tranny Factory @ The Spa. Complete Makeovers for Men becoming Women. [email protected]. (612) 986-4929. Private-Supportive-Affordable makeupnails-wardrobe-hair-waxing.

Home Services
Handyman Services Available for your Spring Projects. Professional. Insured. Oriel Flores (612) 385-2102

House Cleaning

For Sale
Anthony Whelihan Framed Art Collection valued at $7550 with Certiﬁcates of Authenticity. Cleopatra ( Liz Taylor), Garbo and the Doors. Please call for more info. Bev: (763) 585-0380.

Health/Fitness
501 FIT. Strength with Class. Improve your life. Fun, Effective and Affordable Strength Training Classes. Try “1” Class for FREE! 501 Washington Ave. S. 3rd Fl., Minneapolis, MN. (612) 767-4415. www.501ﬁt.com

The Maids Home Services gives you the healthiest, most thorough housecleaning, guaranteed! Supervised teams, bonded, insured, environmentally safe cleaning products are why Nobody Outcleans The Maids. Free estimates (952) 929-6243. www. maids.com. T. THOMAS LIDDELL, Residential cleaning. Dependable - Honest. Excellent references. Weekly, bi-weekly, monthly, ﬂexible schedules. [email protected]. Call Terry: (612) 834-4887. CLEANING MASTER INC. - Owner operated. Serving the community since 1997. I'm responsible, honest & respectful. I have kept clients 12 years. (612) 521-9658.

Tax Services
Northeast Tax & Accounting - Personal & Business Tax Preparation Payroll & Bookkeeping Services Since 1994 (612) 5586197 www.netaxaccounting.com

Therapeutic Massage
FULL BODY MASSAGE. Warm relaxing atmosphere, Minneapolis. Hour Massage $60.00. Shower Available. (612) 219-6743. 7 days a week, 10 am - 10 pm. Therapist: 5'10, 167#, 32 waist. GAY FUN SPA!!! Totally Unique Experience. Get Pampered, Have Fun! Wanna know more? Kevin, (612) 229-0001. STRONG & RELAXING hands, resulting in bodywork at its best! Bruck, MT, DC in South Minneapolis @ (612) 306-6323. R & R STUDIO. A rub above the rest. Offering Therapeutic Massage. APRIL SPECIAL: $60/hour or $75/1.5 hour. In/Out by appointment only. Convenient downtown location. Free parking. Ryan, (952) 261-4944. [email protected]. FULL BODY DEEP TISSUE MASSAGE. Relax & Unwind from Head to Toe. Private S. Mpls Studio. Music, Candles, Jacuzzi, Full Bath. In/Out Calls. 7 days. 10am - 10pm. (612) 388-8993. Keith.

Psychotherapy
Dennis Christian, LICSW: Pay attention to thoughts, feelings, relationships; reconcile unwanted aspects of yourself; accept impossible but inevitable situations, face the frightening but changeable ones; realize the true beauty of your inner Self. (612) 940-7033. www.dennischristian.com. Dan Maki, MA, LMFT - Individual Couples & Family Therapy. Helping people build conﬁdence, hope and fulﬁllment in life and relationships. Ofﬁce now located at 394 and 100 in St. Louis Park. (952) 544-6806. www. danmaki.com.

Home Furnishing
FLAMINGOS • An Occasional Market • Next sales: Wednesday - Sunday, April 7-11 and May 5-9, 10am - 6pm • 3404 Cedar Ave. S. Minneapolis, MN (612) 767-4548. COTTAGE HOUSE • An Occasional Market • Next sale: GARDEN FEVER! • MAY 5, 6, 7, 8, 9. Wed: 1 - 8pm. Thurs-Fri 10am-7pm, Sat-Sun: 10am - 6pm • 4304 Chicago Ave. S., Minneapolis, MN.

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Community Connection brings visibility to local GLBT-friendly non-profit organizations. To reserve your listing in Community Connection, call 612-436-4698 or email advertising@ lavendermagazine.com. Minnesota Online High School State-approved, public online high school open to any Minnesota resident in grades 9 through 12. 1313 Fifth St. SE, Ste. 227 Minneapolis, MN (800) 764-8166 www.mnohs.org Radio K 770 Radio K is the award-winning student-run radio station of the University of Minnesota 330 21st Ave. S. 610 Rarig Center University of Minnesota Minneapolis, MN (612) 625-3500 www.radiok.org One Voice Mixed Chorus Passionate about building community and creating social change by raising our voices in song. 732 Holly Ave. Ste. Q Saint Paul, MN (651) 298-1954 www.ovmc.org [email protected] Ordway Center for the Performing Arts Hosting, presenting, and creating performing arts and educational programs that enrich diverse audiences. 345 Washington St. St. Paul, MN (651) 224-4222 www.ordway.org Park Square Theatre Creating entertainment that matters; transporting you to unique worlds through exceptional talent and masterful stories. 20 West Seventh Pl. Saint Paul, MN (651) 291-7005 www.parksquaretheatre.org The Minnesota Opera America’s most exciting opera company has launched a new GLBTA group “Out at the Opera!” 620 N. First St. Minneapolis, MN (612) 342-9550 www.mnopera.org Twin Cities Gay Men’s Chorus An award-winning chorus that builds community through music and offers entertainment worth coming out for! 528 Hennepin Ave., Suite 307 Minneapolis, MN (612) 339-SONG (7664) [email protected] www.tcgmc.org University of Minnesota Theatre Arts and Dance Educating artists and audiences through a diverse mix of performances on both land and water. U of M Theatre 330 21st Ave S, Minneapolis, MN (612) 624-2345 www.theatre.umn.edu

Events Addiction & Treatment
Hazelden Providing comprehensive treatment, recovery solutions. Helping people reclaim their lives from the disease of addiction. P.O. Box 11 15251 Pleasant Valley Rd Center City, MN (800) 257-7800 www.hazelden.org

AIDS/HIV & Treatment

Aliveness Project, The Community Center for Individuals Living with HIV/AIDS -- On-site Meals, Food Shelf and Supportive Services. 730 East 38th St. Minneapolis, MN (612) 824-LIFE (5433) www.aliveness.org HIM Program One of the Red Door Services of the Hennepin County Public Health Clinic. 525 Portland Ave. 4th Floor Minneapolis, MN (612) 348-9100 www.himprogram.org www.StopSyphilisNOW.org www.CrystalClearMN.org www.inSPOT.org/Minnesota MAP AIDSline MAP AIDSLine is the conﬁdential statewide toll-free HIV information and referral service. 1400 Park Ave. Minneapolis, MN (612) 373-AIDS (metro) or (800) 248-AIDS (statewide) [email protected] www.mnaidsproject.org Park House Day Health / Mental Health Treatment Program for Adults Living with HIV/AIDS. 710 E. 24th Street, Suite 303 Minneapolis, MN (612) 871-1264 www.allina.com/ahs/anw.nsf/page/ park_house_home U of MN Research Studies Looking for HIV+ and HIV- individuals to participate in research studies. 420 Delaware Street SE Minneapolis, MN (612) 625-7472

Minneapolis Bike Tour Annual bike ride in September supporting Minneapolis Parks. Fully supported route, refreshments and music in ﬁnish area. 2117 West River Rd. Minneapolis, MN (612) 230-6400 www.minneapolisbiketour.com [email protected] Red Ribbon Ride Four-day Bike Ride in July Beneﬁting Eight HIV/AIDS Service Organizations in Minnesota. 4457 3rd Ave. S. Minneapolis, MN (612) 822-2110 www.redribbonride.org

Performing Arts

Ballet of the Dolls Resident Company of Newly Renovated Ritz Theater. Twin Cities ﬁrst year-round dance-theater program. 35 13th Ave. NE Minneapolis, MN (612) 623-7660 www.ritzdolls.org Brazen Theatre Plays, Musicals, Cabaret and Other Entertainment for Adventurous Audiences. See Individual Ads for Venue (414) 248-6481 www.brazentheatre.org Flower Shop Project Producing new and local works of theatre that are smart, ballsy and fundamentally entertaining. At Bryant-Lake Bowl & Patrick’s Cabaret Minneapolis, MN (612) 388-8628 www.theﬂowershopproject.com Guthrie Theater Come On In! Performances, Classes, Dining, Tours. 818 South 2nd St. Minneapolis, MN (612) 377-2224 www.guthrietheater.org Hennepin Theatre Trust Orpheum, State and Pantages Theatres Twin Cities’ best live entertainment: Broadway shows, music concerts, comedy, dance and more! Minneapolis, MN (612) 673-0404 www.HennepinTheatreDistrict.org Illusion Theater Nationally Renowned For Developing Artists and New Work While Sparking Conversation About Challenging Human Issues. 528 Hennepin Ave., #704 Minneapolis, MN (612) 339-4944 www.illusiontheater.org Jungle Theater Professional theater producing contemporary and classic works in an intimate setting in the Lynlake neighborhood. 2951 Lyndale Ave. S. Minneapolis, MN (612) 822-7063 www.JungleTheater.com Minneapolis Musical Theatre “Giving Voice to the Human Experience” New and Rarely-Seen Musicals. 8520 W. 29th St. Minneapolis, MN (612) 605-3298 www.aboutmmt.org Minnesota Orchestra Led by Music Director Osmo Vänskä, the Minnesota Orchestra, one of America’s leading symphony orchestras. 1111 Nicollet Mall Minneapolis, MN (612) 371-5656 (800) 292-4141 www.minnesotaorchestra.org Northrop Presenting world-class entertainment in the heart of the Twin Cities. 84 Church St. SE Minneapolis, MN Business Ofﬁce: 612-625-6600 Ticket Ofﬁce: 612-624-2345 northrop.umn.edu

Fitness

YWCA of Minneapolis Healthy Me. Healthy Community. Co-ed, full-service health clubs. Locations in Downtown, Midtown and Uptown 2808 Hennepin Avenue South Minneapolis, MN (612) 874-7131 www.ywcampls.org

Health & Wellness

Rainbow Health Initiative Working to improve the health of LGBTQ Minnesotans through education, clinical practice, outreach, and advocacy. RHI is the lead agency for the MN Tobacco-free Lavender Communities. 611-A West Lake Street Minneapolis, MN 877-499-7744 www.rainbowhealth.org www.mntlc.org

Historical

Minnesota Historical Society The best of Minnesota comes to life with fun, hands-on exhibits and signature programs. 345 Kellogg Blvd W., St. Paul, MN (651) 259-3000 www.mnhs.org/historycenter

Pets/Pet Services

Library

Art Galleries

Minneapolis Institute of Arts Enjoy Masterpieces From All Over The World And Every Period Of Human History. Free Admission Daily! 2400 3rd Ave. S. Minneapolis, MN (612) 870-3000 www.artsmia.org Zeitgeist Arts Cafe Duluth’s newest dining experience offering contemporary American dining and full bar in an art-ﬁlled setting. 222 E. Superior St. Duluth, MN (218) 722-9100 www.zeitgeistartscafe.com
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Quatrefoil Library Your GLBT Library with stacks of DVDs, books, and magazines. Check out our online catalogue. 1619 Dayton Ave., No. 105 St. Paul, MN (651) 641-0969 www.qlibrary.org

Animal Humane Society Buffalo: (763) 390-3647 Coon Rapids: (763) 862-4030 Golden Valley: (763) 522-4325 St. Paul: (651) 645-7387 Woodbury: (651) 730-6008 www.animalhumanesociety.org Wildcat Sanctuary A non-proﬁt accredited sanctuary for over 100 abandoned and abused bobcats, tigers, leopards and more. Sandstone, MN (320) 245-6871 www.wildcatsanctuary.org

Literacy

Education

The Loft Literary Center Where writers learn from other writers. Visit www.loft.org for classes, events, conferences, and more. 1011 Washington Ave S. Suite 200 Open Book Minneapolis, MN 612-215-2575 www.loft.org [email protected]

Politics & Rights

Human Rights Campaign Advocates for all GLBT Americans, mobilizes grassroots action, invests strategically to elect fair-minded individuals. P.O. Box 50608 Minneapolis, MN www.twincities.hrc.org www.hrc.org OutFront Minnesota Delivering programs / services in the area of public policy, anti-violence, education and training, and law. 310 E. 38th St., Ste. 204 Minneapolis, MN (612) 822-0127 www.outfront.org

Art Institutes International Minnesota Helping prepare students for careers in the visual and practical arts. 15 South 9th Street Minneapolis, MN (612) 332-3361 www.artinstitutes.edu/minneapolis

Media & Communications
Minnesota Public Radio Providing in depth news coverage, classical music and emerging artists on our three regional services. (651) 290-1212 www.mpr.org

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Twin Cities Pride The third-largest national Pride celebration seeks sponsors, volunteers, and board members. Contact us today. 2021 East Hennepin Ave, Ste. 460 Minneapolis, MN (612) 305-6900 www.tcpride.org

Religious & Spiritual

St. Paul-Reformation Lutheran Church with Wingspan Ministry + PASTORAL CARE + EDUCATION + WITNESS + ADVOCACY + Outreach of St. Paul-Reformation Church to the GLBTQA Community. 100 N. Oxford St. St. Paul, MN (651) 224-3371 www.stpaulref.org University Lutheran Church of Hope Reconciling Congregation - All Are Welcome. Social Justice Opportunities. Strong University Links - Questioning Encouraged. Great Music. 601 13th Ave. SE Minneapolis, MN (612) 331-5988 www.ulch.org Westminster Presbyterian Church A Covenant Network Congregation, Working Toward a Church as Generous and Just as God’s Grace. Nicollet Mall at 12th St. Minneapolis, MN (612) 332-3421 www.ewestminster.org

Old Town In Town 728 E. 16th St. #4 Minneapolis, MN (612) 341-4394 [email protected]

Student/Campus/Alumni

Sexual Health
Man2Man Interactive events where guys talk to one another about being gay/bi, dating, sex, life! Metro (612) 626-7937 1-800-552-8636 www.M2M.mn Family Tree Clinic LGBTQ Health Matters at Family Tree ! Offering respectful, affordable sexual health service to meet your needs. 1619 Dayton Avenue St. Paul, MN (651) 645-0478 www.familytreeclinic.org

Minnesota GLBTA Campus Alliance A statewide alliance of students, staff, faculty, alumni, and community members uniting for campus change. 2136 Ford Parkway #131 St. Paul, MN (612) 730-8541 www.mncampusalliance.org

Central Lutheran Church We welcome all people to celebrate, discover and share the love of Christ. 333 Twelfth St. S. Minneapolis, MN (612) 870-4416 www.centralmpls.org Edina Community Lutheran Church Upbeat, growing congregation committed to inclusion, justice, peace, community and proclaiming God’s YES to all. 4113 W. 54th St. Edina, MN (952) 926-3808 www.eclc.org Hennepin Avenue United Methodist Church Take a Spiritual Journey With Hennepin’s Faith Community Through Worship, Education, Fellowship, Service, and More. 511 Groveland Ave. Minneapolis, MN (612) 871-5303 www.haumc.org Mayﬂower Community Congregational United Church of Christ An open and afﬁrming, peace with justice church welcomes you. 106 E. Diamond Lake Rd. (I-35 & Diamond Lake Rd.) Minneapolis, MN (612) 824-0761 www.mayﬂowermpls.org Mount Olive Lutheran Church Ours is a welcoming parish, rich in music, liturgy and opportunities to serve the community. 3045 Chicago Ave. Minneapolis, MN (612) 827-5919 www.mountolivechurch.org Plymouth Congregational Church, Minneapolis A Beacon of Liberal Theology. Progressive Christianity, Traditional Setting & Service, Social Action, The Arts & Music. 1900 Nicollet Ave. at Franklin Minneapolis, MN (612) 871-7400 www.plymouth.org Spirit of Hope An Independent Catholic community. At our table, all are welcome. Mass at 5 PM Saturday evening. Fr. Marty Shanahan. Worship at: St. Anne’s Episcopal Church 2035 Charlton Rd Sunﬁsh Lake, MN www.spiritofhopecatholiccommunity.org St. Luke Presbyterian Church We’re a joyful, compassionate community on a spiritual journey, seeking justice and peace. Join us. 3121 Groveland School Rd. Wayzata, MN (952) 473-7378 www.stlukeweb.org St. Mark’s Episcopal Cathedral Wherever you are on your faith journey... St. Mark’s Welcomes You. 519 Oak Grove St. Minneapolis, MN (612) 870-7800 www.ourcathedral.org

Travel

Grand Marais Area Tourism Association Visit the North Shore's only harbor village - art, dining, shopping, outdoor activities, the perfect escape. P.O Box 1048 13 North Broadway Ave Grand Marais, MN (888) 922-5000 (218) 387-2524 www.grandmarais.com Palm Springs Bureau of Tourism America's Gay Oasis is Beautiful Palm Springs. www.palm-springs.org Visit Minneapolis North Convention & Visitors Bureau We take pride in helping individuals ﬁnd the ideal location for events & celebrations. 6200 Shingle Creek Parkway, Suite 248, Minneapolis, MN 763.566.7722 / 800.541.4364 www.visitminneapolisnorth.com

Retirement

The Kenwood Retirement Community Our full service retirement community provides Independent, Assisted Living and Short Term apartment rentals. 825 Summit Avenue, Minneapolis, MN 612-374-8100 www.thekenwood.net

Social Organizations
Imperial Court of Minnesota P.O. Box 582417 Minneapolis, MN www.impcourtmn.com

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[ by Meryl Cohn ]

Guests Used Lesbian Couple’s Bed and K-Y Jelly Without Permission
Dear Ms. Behavior:
My girlfriend, Sue, and I always have taken a special interest in my brother’s kid—I’ll call him Matt. A few weeks ago, we went on vacation, and let Matt come stay at our apartment with his college girlfriend. This was all hush-hush, because he isn’t very close to his father, my brother, who is an alcoholic. When we got back home, Sue found that a new tube of K-Y Jelly, which had been in the bedside table, had been used, but not returned to the drawer. Obviously, Matt and his girlfriend had sex in our bed while we were gone, though the agreement was that they not stay overnight, only using our place to hang out during the day to “get away from school and Matt’s oppressive father.” Now, we are in a terrible spot, and it’s causing tension between my girlfriend and me. Sue feels violated and disrespected. She says we should get Matt’s key back, and not allow him to come into our home without us here ever again. I think this is kind of harsh, and I am more concerned with Matt’s poor decision-making. Do I really need to take back his key? —Aunt Mary

Dear Aunt Mary:
You want to be Matt’s cool aunt, and provide refuge to him, but you also need to let Sue know you respect her feelings. Tell her you’re willing to confront Matt about the case of the missing lube. If she knows you’re taking her feelings seriously, she may be willing to give Matt another chance before forcing you to conﬁscate his key. You may embarrass your nephew (and yourself) by mentioning the pilfered lube situation—detailing how you and Sue prefer to save it all for you own giant double-headed lesbian dildos—but sometimes, direct communication requires a bit of awkwardness. If you want to get the point across without going down the slippery lube slope, you could mention lightly to Matt that you noticed he and his girlfriend may have had a romp in your bed, which wasn’t what you had in mind when you gave him the key. If he’s mortiﬁed, that’s great—maybe he won’t do it again. If he shrugs it off or denies it, but you still want him to stay in your home, you might clarify which rooms he’s

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welcome to use. If all else fails, and you and Sue still want to give him a place to escape, put a lock on your bedroom door.

Dear Ms. Behavior:
My college roommate, William (who is practically like a brother to me—a problematic, ill-behaved brother), came for a visit last weekend with his “new boyfriend,” who was basically a mail-order boy-bride from the Philippines. The poor young man (ﬁctional name Bayani) seemed more like a prisoner than a willing partner. William barely let the kid out of his sight, held his hand practically throughout the entire weekend, and only let him be by himself when he used the bathroom. It was disturbing. Only once was I able pry Bayani away from William when we went to the store to get groceries. Bayani was reticent, but ﬁnally said something about William not letting him work, which was a problem, because Bayani needed to send money home to his family. Also, he mentioned that William was not the gentleman he thought he was going to be, whatever that means. (I think it had to do with money.) This feels like an awful moral dilemma. Should I tell William to let the kid have a little more leash? Obviously, William doesn’t want him to go out and get experience, because he’ll leave him the minute he gets the chance. But still, you can’t keep another human being prisoner. What should I do? —Unwilling Witness To Will

Dear Unwilling Witness To Will:
If you think Bayani is being mistreated, no sense in mincing words. Talk to William, and tell him exactly what you see—that his boyfriend seems like a prisoner, and that he doesn’t have any breathing room. It seems important to do this without betraying Bayani’s conﬁdence. If William doesn’t listen to you, you may need to involve other friends or family members to help you intervene. If it seems like you need heroic methods to remove Bayani from the situation, ask a few lesbians to help. In Ms. Behavior’s experience, 40 percent of all lesbians are very brave, and have large hero complexes. Such lesbians will go to any lengths to rescue a person who is being oppressed.
© 2010 Meryl Cohn. Address questions and correspondence to <[email protected]>. She is the author of Do What I Say: Ms. Behavior’s Guide to Gay and Lesbian Etiquette (Houghton Mifflin). Signed copies are available directly from the author.

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Backtalk > Dateland

[ by Jennifer Parello ]

The Lesbian Etiquette Game

i, kids! Time to play another edition of the Lesbian Etiquette Game. Remember, there are no right answers—only wrong ones.
1. You and your girlfriend are at the grocery store, ﬁlling your cart with empty calories to reinforce your recent weight gain. Neither of you having showered in days, your limp hair is encased in a hideous cap your Grandma knitted for you in sixth grade. Suddenly, you spot your ex-girlfriend, the love of your life, looking her glamorous best. Before you can abandon your cart, and ﬂee the store, she calls your name. How do you react? a. Pat your bloated tummy, and tell her that you’re still working on losing the baby weight. (When she demands photographic evidence of your new infant, pull from your wallet a photo of your 20-year-old niece, and claim that she’s big for her age.) b. Wave your hands wildly, and speak in a phony foreign language. Make repeated mentions of Albania and fear of deportation. c. Do not acknowledge your new girlfriend, who is standing at your side, and looking even more ragtag than you. When your ex requests an introduction, ask your girlfriend to fetch something in the bread aisle. As soon as your girlfriend is out of earshot, explain to your ex that she’s the maid. 2. You have been invited to spend the weekend at your girlfriend’s family home. When you arrive, her mother puts you in separate bedrooms. Later that night, your girlfriend’s mother catches you sneaking into her daughter’s room. What do you say? a. “I can’t ﬁnd my adult diapers in my bag. I’m just going to take a peek in your daughter’s suitcase. I’d hate to have an accident on your lovely ﬂannel sheets.” b. “Perhaps I misunderstood you. I know you don’t want us to sleep in the same room, but you never said anything about having sex.” c. “Oops, wrong room. I wasn’t planning on sneaking into your daughter’s room. I meant to sneak into your room.” Then, raise your eyebrows suggestively. 3. You have been selected to represent lesbians on your company’s diversity task force. You are required to draft a list of demands for management. What do you request? a. Hire more of those lady-executive types who barely disguise a raw, animal sen-

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suality beneath layers of carefully pressed linen and expensively coiffed hair. b. Paid family leave to spend time with neurotic cats suffering from separation anxiety, and a generous pet health insurance plan. c. Replace instructional posters on boosting productivity with life-sized photos of Grace Kelly, Ingrid Bergman, and Kristen Scott Thomas. 4. You ﬁnally work up the nerve to ask out a girl you’ve had a crush on for years. Amazingly, she accepts your invitation to meet at a cabaret club. She shows up at the bar with another woman she introduces as her girlfriend. What do you do? a. Get drunk, and strike a provocative pose on top of the piano. Command the piano player to perform songs of unrequited love, and sing along while staring pointedly at your crush. b. When the waiter takes your drink order, politely ask if yours comes with a side of arsenic. If it doesn’t, request a razor blade. c. Ignore the existence of the girlfriend. Place your hand on your crush’s thigh. Shove your tongue down her throat. Request a sappy love song, and gaze meaningfully into her eyes. When the crush’s girlfriend protests, look confused, and ask your crush why she decided to bring her maid along on the date.

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Yellow Pages > Advertiser Index
Adult
Déjà Vu....................................................72 Dream Girls ............................................71 Hardline Gay Chat ................................69 Hennepin Avenue Adult Boutique ........71 Interactive Male .....................................68 Megaphone ............................................72

Computer & Internet
Big Dog Solutions...................................61 DeskTech .................................................60

Education
Metropolitan State University................6

Pride Institute...........................................60 Running Tiger Shaolin Kenpo................61 Stechmann, Dr. Fred...............................64 Stolz, James ............................................64 Touch of Wellness Center ......................60 Uptown Dermatology & SkinSpa .........63 Vader, Kathy ...........................................64

Pet Products & Services
Animal Humane Society .......................29 Larpenteur Animal Hospital...................6 Pampered Pooch Playground................64

Photography
Rogue Photography ...............................64

Apparel & Accessories
STYLEDLIFE-styledlook ...........................27

Contest
Lavender's Win a Wedding ..................21

Home Furnishings & Accessories
Furniture Manor......................................29

Political
Human Rights Campaign ......................57

Arts & Entertainment
Madison Museum of Contemporary Art ............................................................30 Minneapolis Musical Theatre ..............35 Dead Man’s Cell Phone ........................35 Univ. of Minn. Theatre Arts & Dance ...30

Events
Aliveness Project .....................................5 Bingo A-Go-Go ......................................37 Festivities .................................................15 Lavender's First Thursday .......................9 Lavender's OUT at the Movies..............34 MN AIDS Project AIDS Walk ...............39 Park Tavern Bowling & Entertainment Center ......................................................15

Home Services
4 Quarters Design & Build ....................29 A-Z Electric .............................................62 Bauer Floor Covering ............................62 Berglin Flores Fine Art & Design ...........17 Good Stuff Moving ................................61 Greenway Pavers ...................................62 Halet Remodeling & Renovations .........61 Hi-Tech Installations................................63 Matt’s Tree Service ................................62 Personal Pride Construction...................62 R. Davis Construction .............................62 Ryan’s Tree Care ....................................63 Soderlin Plumbing, Heating & Air Conditioning ...........................................62 SOS Homecare ......................................63 Tangletown Design and Interiors ..........62 The Tile Shop ..........................................31 Todd the Plumber....................................61 Twin City Heating and Air .....................59 Universal Windows Direct .....................29

Real Estate & Rentals
Bowker, Kent ...........................................64 Calfee, David..........................................64 Corridor Flats ..........................................9 Farinella, Marilyn ...................................64 Groff, Wayne .........................................64 The Kenwood Retirement Community ...31 Leviton, Ann ............................................64 McGee, Michael....................................6 Miller, Valencia ......................................25 Richardson, Beth.....................................11 Ruzick, Amy & Johnson, Kay .................28, 64 Walker, Nancy .......................................64

Automotive
Bridgestone Tire .....................................41 LaMettry’s Collision ...............................28 Morrie’s Mazda .....................................38 Morrie’s Subaru .....................................59

Financial
Bender, Joy .............................................38 Boyer, Daniel ..........................................61 Moltaji, Roya ..........................................11 Palm, Karen .............................................7 ROR Tax Professionals ...........................60

Bars & Nightlife
Bar Advertiser Guide .............................42 19 Bar ......................................................48 Brass Rail .................................................44 Camp .......................................................48 The Flame Nightclub ..............................48 Gay 90’s ................................................43, 45, 75 Gladius ....................................................47 Lush ..........................................................46 The Main Club ........................................48 Tickles ......................................................47 Town House ...........................................47

Religious
Virginia Street Church (Swedenborgian) ...................................64

Floral & Garden
Landscape Junction ................................63 Tangletown Gardens..............................7

Restaurants
B.A.N.K. Westin Minneapolis ...............55 Cecil’s Deli ..............................................55 Dancing Ganesha ..................................52 The Favor Café .......................................55 It’s Greek To Me ....................................52 KinDee Thai Restaurant .........................56 Luna Rossa Trattoria and Wine Bar ......52 Fusion: Restaurant Bar Lounge ..............53 Midori’s Floating World Café ...............55 OM ..........................................................54 Roat Osha ...............................................52 Subo ........................................................56 Sushi Tango.............................................56 Toast Wine Bar & Café..........................55 Uptown Diner/Calhoun Grill/ Louisiana Café/Grandview Grill ..........53 W.A. Frost ...............................................53 Wilde Roast Café ...................................52

Funeral Services
Johnson Hannah, Barbara ...................61

Insurance
American Family Insurance ...................11 Baldwin, Davina .....................................63 Wagner Insurance-Financial Services ..63 Wolfson, Steve........................................63

Gifts
Eyes of Horus..........................................60 Fantasy Gifts ...........................................60

Beauty & Relaxation
Anew Aesthetic Medical Center ...........25 Barbers on Bryant ..................................60 Garden of Eden......................................25 Homme by Maric Group.......................23

Government
US Census...............................................2

Jewelry
Tesa Jewelry............................................27 Max’s ......................................................21 T Lee Fine Designer Jewelry ..................23

Grocery Stores
Wedge Co-op.........................................53

Beverages
Budweiser ...............................................3 Haskell’s ..................................................54 Miller Lite.................................................49 Sorella Wine & Spirits ...........................14

Legal
Bohn & Associates ................................60 Cloutier & Brandl....................................16 Dean, Jeff ................................................23 Heltzer & Burg ........................................28 Mediation One .......................................63 Moshier, Becky .......................................7 Terry & Slane ..........................................9

Health, Wellness & Recovery
Advanced Foot and Ankle Care ...........21 Amble, Paul DDS ....................................25 BioScrip Pharmacy .................................31 Burns, Steve ............................................64 Carrillo, Dr. Thomas P. ...........................64 Get Real Fitness ......................................61 Heffelﬁnger, Kate ...................................64 Heteroﬂexible Therapy ..........................64 HIM Program ..........................................8 Homecare Assist .....................................7 Mayﬁeld Chiropractic............................11 O’Hara, Paul ..........................................64

Catering
Mintahoe Hospitality Group .................16

Retail
The Grand Hand Gallery ......................39

Communications
AM950, The Voice of Minnesota .........7 Radio K 770 ..........................................17

Mortgage
Gleason, Pat ...........................................9 Lozinski, David........................................28

Travel & Accommodations
Graves 601 Hotels.................................17 Marriott City Center ...............................9, 11 Winneschiek Convention and Visitors Bureau / Discover Decorah .....76

Optical
Specs Appeal .........................................23

I’m conducting a study about sexual behavior. Je mène une recherche sur le comportement sexuel.

Robinson Crusoe: Are you homosexual, or heterosexual? Robinson Crusoé, êtes-vous homosexuel ou hétérosexuel?

I'm lonely! Solitaire!

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Backtalk > Consider the Source

[ by Julie Dafydd ]

Quacks Like a Duck

et’s say you’ve got a serious illness that has resulted in a malfunctioning spleen. Spleens do have a function, right? Anyway, would you prefer to be treated by powerful antibiotics or skilled surgeons in a hospital setting, or by a guy waving sassafras root and a wing of bat over your tummy region as he sits crosslegged summoning the healing energy beams of the universe?
For most of us, I believe the answer is obvious: It doesn’t matter what the hell we want—our insurance rep will make that call. Ironically, while sifting through old magazine remnants at HCMC’s emergency room waiting area, I stumbled upon a 15-year-old copy of Life Magazine containing an article that actually addressed this very current-affairs issue. The article, titled “The Healing Revolution,” chronicles the sweeping changes in health care in America, revealing that traditional doctors are now becoming more intertwined with things that grow from the earth. An example of this would be a doctor hooking his golf ball into the rough. Padum-pum. No, really, an example would be the Harvard, Yale, and Johns Hopkins medical schools, which now offer courses in alternative medicine, including yoga, meditation, and herb therapy. Among them, only yoga has met with some resistance, as doctors quickly realized that when a patient is sitting in the yoga position, it is almost impossible to get at his wallet. Among the leaders in alternative medicine is the Great Oprah’s latest TV star, Dr. Mehmet Oz, a highly skilled heart surgeon and hottie. I now pass along many of his observations because of his vast insight; because of his willingness to speak openly about New Age medicine; and, of course, because I can end each quote with the words “according to the great and powerful Oz,” and we can all have ourselves a good chuckle. “Science is a remarkable thing,” according to the great and powerful Oz. (See?) “My career is built on a scientiﬁc bias. But I also recognize that there are areas where science doesn’t have all the answers.” (An example of this would be Heidi Montag. Sticking with that example for just another moment, it should be noted that science does have a lot of questions.) The Life article opens with a scene in an operating room. On the table is a Mr. Randazzo. Performing heart surgery is a seven-member team, led by the great and powerful Oz. But near Randazzo’s head is an energy healer, whose hands are making gentle, circular motions above his forehead. The energy healer believes that “a person’s energy ﬁeld extends beyond the skin into the air around him, and that by consciously directing the ﬂow of energy through her hands to the patient’s body she can—without even touching the patient— help stimulate his recovery.”

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Three days after surgery, and having— in strict medical terms—“his energy ﬁeld tinkered with,” Randazzo was recovering nicely in this hospital room and exercising. (On the downside, each time he did a situp, the hospital's power went out, sending the billing department into hysterics.) Critics allege, however, that some doctors might be riding this wave of New Age medicine all the way to their beachfront condos in Hawaii. From the Life author, after attending the World Congress on Complementary Therapies: “I am disheartened to watch a medical professor wind up her seminar by ﬂogging medical videos she helped produce, then carefully enunciating the tollfree number for ordering them.” Proof, once again, that ﬂogging anything at a public seminar is not a terriﬁc idea. Another proponent of this form of wacks…I mean, alternative…medicine is Dr. Andrew Weil. His recent book, Spontaneous Healing, outlines an eight-week program for healing the sick. Weil’s prescription: “Deep yoga-breathing, eating garlic and ﬁsh, buying fresh ﬂowers, making a list of friends who make you laugh, and going on a ‘news fast’ (no TV, radio, or newspapers). He also recommends falling in love.” Makes sense to me. Especially fresh ﬂowers. This way, when you drop dead, your loved ones won’t have to go scrambling all over town before the funeral. Oops. Do I sound like a skeptic? Well, hell, consider the source. Bye for now. Kiss, kiss.

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Dining Guide Listing |
AVERAGE PRICE OF A TYPICAL ENTREE $ LESS THAN $15, $$ $15-$25, $$$ MORE THAN $25

Our Guide to the Metro Eateries Featured in This Issue Lavender Magazine’s Dining Guide is your resource to GLBTfriendly restaurants. We recommend calling restaurants before visiting to conﬁrm information. Lavender’s cuisine section and updated dining guide appears each issue. Please direct questions about the directory and cuisine advertising to [email protected].
Roat Osha. Photos by Hubert Bonnet

B.A.N.K $$$ Modern American cuisine Step into BANK restaurant and prepare to be captivated. Delight in the retro-glamorous and modernly comfortable surroundings. Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner 88 S. 6th St. Minneapolis (612) 656-3255 Mon – Fri: 6 AM – 10 AM, 11 AM – 2:30 PM, 5:30 PM – 10 PM • Sat – Sun: 7 AM – 10:30 AM, 11 AM – 2:20 PM, 5:30 PM – 10 PM CECIL’S DELI $ Deli/Bakery We specialize in box lunches & deli trays! Anything on our menu can be made to go, just ask. Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner 651 S. Cleveland, St. Paul (651) 698-6276 Deli: Mon – Sun 9 AM – 9 PM Restaurant: Mon – Sun 9 AM – 8 PM DANCING GANESHA $$ Contemporary Indian We would like you to come & enjoy our novel Indian cuisines in an extraordinary ambiance. Lunch, Dinner 1100 Harmon Pl., Minneapolis (612) 388-1877 Mon – Sat: 11 AM – 2 PM, 4 PM – 10:30 PM • Sun: 11 AM – 2 PM, 5 PM – 9 PM THE FAVOR CAFÉ $ Soul Food Offers the best in authentic Jamaican-Creole-soul food in the Twin Cities. Brunch, Dinner 913 W. Lake St., Minneapolis (612) 821-0553 • www.1favorcafe.com FUJI YA JAPANESE RESTAURANT $$ Japanese & Sushi Authentic Japanese food, ﬁnest sushi available, Uptown Minneapolis, downtown St. Paul. 600 W. Lake St., Minneapolis (612) 871-4055 Mon: Closed • Tues – Thurs: 5 PM – 10 PM • Fri – Sat: 5 PM – 10:30 PM • Sun: 5 PM – 9 PM 465 N. Wabasha, St. Paul (651) 310-0111 • Mon – Fri: Lunch 11:30 AM – 2 PM. Dinner 5 PM—10 PM • Sat: Dinner 5 PM – 10 PM • Sun: Closed FUSION $$ Sushi, Flatbreads, Panini, Sandwiches Sounds, Style. Swank. See and be seen at our dynamic happy hour. Dinner 2919 Hennepin Ave., Minneapolis (612) 824-6300 • www.fusionmpls.com GINGER HOP/HONEY $ Asian Specializing in pan-Asian classic dishes. As we say, “East meets Northeast”. Lunch, Dinner 201 E. Hennepin Ave., Minneapolis (612) 746-0305 • www.gingerhop.com THE GRANDVIEW GRILL $ American Fresh hand ground hash browns, French toast, omelets, pancakes, coffee, juices, soups, salads & sandwiches. Breakfast, Brunch, Lunch 1818 Grand Ave., St. Paul (651) 698-2346 Mon – Fri: 6:15 AM – 2:30 PM • Sat: 6:15 AM – 3 PM • Sun: 8 AM – 3 PM

IT’S GREEK TO ME $ Greek Family-owned & run for over 25 years, we’ve treated generations of diners to our authentic menu & warm Greek hospitality. Dinner only weekdays, Lunch & Dinner on weekends 626 W. Lake St., Minneapolis (612) 825-9922 Tues – Fri: 4:30 PM – 11 PM • Sat: 11 AM – 11 PM • Sun: 11 AM – 10 PM KINDEE THAI $ Thai This isn’t your traditional everyday Thai restaurant. Lunch, Dinner 719 S. 2nd St., Minneapolis (612) 465-8303 Mon: Closed • Tues – Thurs: 11:30 AM – 9 PM • Fri: 11:30 AM – 10:30 PM • Sat: 11 AM – 10:30 PM • Sun: 11 AM – 9 PM THE LOUISIANA CAFÉ $ American Fresh hand ground hash browns, French toast, omelets, pancakes, coffee, juices, soups, salads & sandwiches. Breakfast, Brunch, 613 Selby Ave., St. Paul (651) 221-9140 Mon – Fri: 6:30 AM – 2:30 PM • Sat: 6:30 AM – 3 PM • Sun: 8 AM – 3 PM LUNA ROSSA TRATTORIA AND WINE BAR $$ Italian Fine Italian food, espresso bar, gelateria, happy hour, banquets & events. Lunch, Dinner 402 S. Main St., Stillwater, MN (651) 430-0560 Sun – Thurs: 11:30 AM – 10 PM • Fri – Sat: 11:30 AM – 11 PM MIDORI’S FLOATING WORLD CAFÉ $ Sushi, Tempuru Sushi, tempura, noodles, traditional, contemporary, home-styled specials, beer, wine, sake. Lunch, Dinner 3011 27th Ave. S., Minneapolis (612) 721-3011 Mon: Closed • Tues – Wed: 11:30 AM – 2 PM, 5 PM – 9 PM • Thurs – Fri: 11:30 AM – 2 PM, 5 PM – 10 PM • Sat: 12 noon – 2 PM, 5 – 10 PM • Sun: 4 PM – 8 PM NEW UPTOWN DINER $ American Fresh hand ground hash browns, French toast, omelets, pancakes, coffee, juices, soups, salads & sandwiches. Breakfast, Brunch, Lunch 2548 Hennepin Ave. S. Minneapolis (612) 874-0481 Mon – Wed: 6 AM – 3 PM • Thurs – Sat: 24 Hours • Sun: Close at 6 PM OM $$ Indian Modern approach to Indian cuisine featuring bold and distinctive ﬂavors. Dinner 401 First Ave. N., Minneapolis (612) 338-1510 www.omminneapolis.com ROAT OSHA $$ Thai Uniquely crafted authentic and American inﬂuences. Decor that invites conversation Lunch, Dinner 2650 Hennepin Ave. S., Minneapolis Sat: 11 AM – 11 PM • Sun: 11 AM – 10:30 PM
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Fusion.

The Grandview Grill.

New Uptown Diner.

SUBO $$ Filipino fusion Eclectic Southeast Asian dishes with bold, exotic ﬂavors served on small plates. 89 S. 10th St., Minneapolis (612) 886-2377 Tues – Thurs: 4 PM – Midnight • Fri – Sat: 4 PM – 2 AM • Closed Monday SUSHI TANGO $$ Japanese Exciting and eccentric mix of Japanese cuisine and Uptown attitude. Lunch, Dinner Calhoun Square, (612) 822-7787 Mon – Wed: 5 PM – 1 AM • Thurs – Sun: Noon – 1 AM TOAST WINE BAR AND CAFÉ $ Wine bar with Italian inﬂuence Neighborhood wine bar serving pizzas, cured meats and small plates. Dinner 415 N. 1st St., Minneapolis, MN (612) 333-4305 Tues – Thurs: 5 PM – 11 PM • Fri – Sat: 5 PM – 12 AM • Sun: 5 PM – 11 PM W.A. FROST & CO. $$ Since 1975. Enjoy the open air setting in the summer & the spectacular historic architecture year round. Sensation wine selection, cuisine & ambiance provide the perfect dining experience. Lunch, Dinner, Sunday Brunch 374 Selby Ave., St. Paul 651-224-5715 Sun – Thurs: 5 PM – 10:30 PM. Bar open until Midnight • Fri – Sat: 5 PM – 11 PM, Bar open until 1 AM WILDE ROAST CAFÉ $ American Homemade, comfort food, outstanding desserts, beer, wine, espresso drinks. Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner 518 E. Hennepin Ave. Minneapolis (612) 331-4544 Mon – Sat: 7 AM – 11 PM • Sun: 7 AM – 9 PM THE WOODBURY CAFÉ $ American Fresh hand ground hash browns, French toast, omelets, pancakes, coffee, juices, soups, salads & sandwiches. Breakfast, Brunch, Lunch Bielenberg & Tamarack, Woodbury, MN (651) 209-8182 Mon – Fri: 7 AM – 2:30 PM • Sat: 7 AM – 3 PM • Sun: 8 AM – 3 PM

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