Great Live Music This Weekend in Portland, Seattle + Vancouver, BC

It's a great weekend for music in Cascadia! First, you Seattle-ites will enjoy this little treat: Christine Havrilla is back! She will be performing on Friday night in Seattle at the Sunset Tavern with Camille Bloom.

Saturday night, she and Bloom zip down to Portland for a gig at the Alberta Street Pub. Here are the details:

Fri 10/23 7:00 pm
Sunset Tavern
5433 Ballard Ave NW
Seattle, WA

206.784.4880

Tune in online at http://www.synclive.com/

Sat 10/24 7:00 pm
Alberta Street Public House

1036 NE Alberta St. Portland, OR
503.284.7665

Next, for you Canadians: Ashleigh Flynn will be opening for the Wood Brothers in Vancouver on Saturday!

Saturday, October 24, 2009

Media Club

695 Cambie St

Vancouver, BC

(604) 608-2871

COME OUT AND SUPPORT THESE FANTASTIC CHICKS WITH PICKS!

Ashleigh Flynn :: Upcoming Shows

Our favorite Americana star, Ashleigh Flynn, is burning up the guitar strings and the road. Ashleigh Flynn will be on NPR West Virginia this afternoon live playing from the Mountain Stage with Nanci Griffith and Todd Snider. At 3pm EST, click on this link to hear the show.

If you miss it, it will be available in the archives after Oct. 3.

Also, Ash is hitting the trail with The Wood Brothers. The show dates and locations are below.

Check out our favorite Americana supah stah.

UPCOMING SHOWS

10/20/2009 Stillwater | Ashland, OR | 8:30 PM
10/21/2009 Wonder Ballroom | Portland, OR | 8:00 PM
10/22/2009 Knitting Factory | Spokane, WA | 8:30 PM
10/23/2009 The Tractor Tavern | Seattle, WA | 9:30 PM
10/24/2009 Media Club | Vancouver, BC | 7:30 PM

Paying Homage to a Murdered Lesbian :: Teresa Butz

We get the Seattle news up here in Vancouver, BC and I have recently been totally moved by the story of Teresa Butz, a lesbian who was murdered in her home trying to defend her and her girlfriend against a vicious intruder, who had broken into their home and raped them both. The details are becoming clearer and clearer about what happened that early morning and I won't print them here (because they're too upsetting). If you think you can handle it, go here.

Teresa and her partner had a commitment ceremony planned for September and were going to celebrate Teresa's 40th birthday in Spain in October.

I don't know if the story got national attention or not, but it got extensive regional coverage before and after they caught the suspect (may he burn in hell forever). Teresa's last words on the street to neighbors: "He [the intruder] told us
if we did what he asked us to do he wouldn't hurt us. He lied, he lied."

I didn't know Teresa or anyone in their circle of friends, but I wanted to pay tribute to her here because I'm so devastated by this story. Doesn't she look like a friend you'd have? Someone you'd see at Pride or play softball against?

It's just so heartbreaking and an important reminder amidst the summer heat that there are very bad people who are looking for open windows to climb through.

May Teresa rest in peace and may her partner find comfort and healing.

Photo below is from a vigil neighbors and community members organized in their South Park Seattle neighborhood. Of Teresa, they said she will be remembered for her piercing eyes, remarkable laugh and cheerful outlook on life, and, no doubt, for the way she sacrificed herself to save the love of her life.

Killer Music Coming to the Pacific Northwest

Christine Havrilla will be in the Pacific Northwest this week! Be sure to check her out. She'll be doing a handful of shows in the Seattle area and then she'll head down to Portland!

Come support our friend!

Woo hoo,
Lip

DETAILS
Wed 05/13
7:00 pm

Eddie's Trackside
214 N. Lewis St.
Monroe, WA
#360.805.5305

Thu 05/14
8:00pm

Conor Byrne
5140 Ballard Ave. NW
Seattle, WA
#206.784.3640
w/ Leanne Wilkins & Josiah Johnson

Fri 05/15
9:00 pm

Green Frog
902 State St.
Bellingham, WA
#306.756.1213

Sat 05/16
7:00 PM

Olalla House Concert
Olalla WA
Please conctact www.olallahouse.org for reservations!

Fri 05/29
8:00 pm

Renegade Pilgrim Productions
Portland, OR House Concert Series
heather.knight.pdx@gmail.com for reservations!

Thanks Seattle!

Dipstick and I have decided that Hot Flash Dance Parties are our favorite events to sell books at. Those damn flashdancing dykes sure love to read and sure love them some Lipstick & Dipstick! We sold a bunch of books.

A big shout out to all the wonderful women we met in Seattle this weekend at Neighbors. To name a few: Ginny (picture here as Lip + Dip freak her), Donna, Karen (we met her in Whistler), Ziggy (the photographer), Kelley (a fellow author) and many others.

Special thanks go out to Pauline Miriam, the promoter who we adore, and her photographer, Ziggy Robideaux. She took the one of us in the light after we'd just thrown some t-shirts. (Should Lipstick be thanking Heineken, too, and Dipstick Stella Artois?)

And lastly, a HUGE thank you to Kimpton Hotels for putting
us up at their beautifully renovated Alexis Hotel. Kimpton rocks!

Calling All Seattle Flashdancers

Dipstick and I are coming to town! We will be whooping it up on Saturday night at Neighbors in Seattle for Hot Flash. At the dance, we will be doing a short, animated reading, signing books and dancing and drinking the night away.

There will be a short performance by Hot Flash's own Queen Bee and her Lovely but Useless Honeypots, too! You won't want to miss it.


Details
Hot Flash Dance Party
When: Saturday, March 1st 5:30 - 9:30pm
Where: Neighbors (1509 Broadway)
$10 cover



Much thanks to the Kimpton Hotel for plush accommodations.

Thank You Seattle!

Dipstick and I had a great time in Seattle this last weekend emceeing the Girl-4-Girl benefit Rock Against Cancer. We met lots of fans and sold our book, hot off the press.

Yahooo!


Hope to be in your neck of the woods soon.

Seattle Here We Come

Seattle Bitches Look Out!

Dipstick and I are headed your way next month for Girl-4-Girl's ROCK AGAINST CANCER event. The details are on the flyer, but here are the basics:

OCT 20th
9pm
Showbox SODO (1700 1st Ave South)

We will be your hosts and Kirsten Price will be performing (as seen and heard on the L Word and CSI). Come on down!