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The Gay Agenda
5Thursday
Just a reminder that there is a variety of gay-oriented or gay-friendly films currently showing in the city. Your filmgoing options include Brokeback Mountain, of course, as well as the French comedy Cote d’Azure and Sarah Jessica Parker’s holiday romp, The Family Stone. Also, we have only a month to wait before last year’s Sundance hit Loggerheads finally arrives in the City by the Pestilent Sea™.
Brokeback Mountain: Salt Lake Film Society’s Broadway Center Cinemas. 111 E 300 South. Show times and information at 321-0310 and saltlakefilmsociety.org.
Cote d’Azure: Regency Theatres, 602 E 500 South in Trolley Square. Show times at 746‑1555 and regencemovies.com
The Family Stone: At theaters valley-wide.
6Friday
Motion City Soundtrack is not your typical pop-punk band: while the Angry Young Man types like Good Charlotte tattoo teardrops to their faces and spend their royalty checks at Hot Topic, Motion City is interested in, you know, playing good music. Perhaps this is why Rolling Stone named them one of their Artists to Watch for 2005. You can watch them tonight in Park City.
8pm, Harry O’s, 427 Main Street, Park City. Tickets $20 in advance, $25 day of show at 4671-TIXX.
 UPNet invites you to a wine and cheese reception with David Litvak to discuss the upcoming legislative session.
6pm, First Unitarian Church, 569 S. 1300 East.
The Utah Bear Alliance is having a Polar Bear Bash to raise funds to send the reigning Mr. Utah Bear to San Francisco for the International Bear Rendezvous where he and Mr. Utah Cub will compete for titles. Wear white clothing and join in on the raffle, $4 Polar Ice martinis and the dance to the legendary DJ Ruckus spinning the greatest.
10pm, Club Try-Angles, a private club for members, there is no cover.
7Saturday
Legendary wildlife expert Jungle Jack Hanna has been on television since the Jurassic period, hosting “Jack Hanna’s Animal Adventures” and appearing on Johnny Carson’s tonight show with exotic creatures like condors, lions, and Joan Rivers. He’ll be in Park City tonight, telling stories, showing film clips, and trotting out Chilean flamingos and Siberian lynxes. Unfortunately, Rivers will not appear, as she’s currently molting.
7pm, Eccles Center for the Performing Arts, 1750 Kearns Blvd., Park City. Tickets $15 and $30 at 355-2787 or arttix.org
Bill Cosby makes his annual trip to Salt Lake tonight. To get yourself psyched for the show, or if you can’t go because your wallet has not recovered from the Holiday gouging, I suggest giving his “Fatherhood” album a listen. Is there anything funnier than chocolate cake for breakfast? “Dad is great, he gave us chocolate cake….” Now that’s comedy. Take that, Sarah Silverman.
6pm and 8pm, Kingsbury Hall, 1450 E President’s Circle, University of Utah. Tickets $39.50 to $49.50 at 581-7100 or kingsburyhall.com
8Sunday
Out Sen. Scott McCoy will appear on ABC 4’s On the Record with Chris Vanocur for a legislative preview show. The show’s other guests include Rep. Roz McGee, Senate President John Valentine and House Speaker Greg Curtis.
9:30am, KTVX Channel 4
9Monday
Journalist Mike Shiley could kick Anderson Cooper’s scrawny little Armani wearing ass. Shiley, who is self-trained, made a press pass for himself, grabbed a video camera, and headed to Iraq, where set out to get an unfiltered, genuine look at the War on Terror. The result is Inside Iraq: The Untold Stories, a film that follows Shiley from Baghdad to the Sunni Triangle to Anaconda Base. Interpolated with combat footage are interviews with Iraqi citizens that create a nuanced and complex look at the situation.
7:30pm, Kingsbury Hall, E President’s Circle, University of Utah. Tickets $7 at 581-7100 or kingsburyhall.com
11Wednesday
5:00pm – 7:00pm
Baci
“OUT for Equality” Kick-off
Social event similar to the “OUT Against Amendment 3” events held at Panini during the “No on 3” Campaign of 2004. Come nibble on appetizers, have a drink with friends and learn about the upcoming legislative session from those who are making it happen.
Special Guest: Senator Scott McCoy
12Thursday
One of the best things about being a gay person is that we get to choose our families. Which is why Terrence McNally’s play Love! Valour! Compassion!, which tells the story of eight gay friends spending the summer together in upstate New York, is really a family story: the men in the play share all the affection, resentment, laughter and strength that come with blood-ties, which just goes to show that love does indeed create a Family.
Continues Thursday through Saturday at 8pm and Sunday at 2pm through January 22, Studio Theatre at the Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center, 138 W Broadway. Tickets $12 at 355-2787 or arttix.org
14Saturday
Spend your morning finding out how to make the world — well, at least this little corner of it — a better place. Equality Utah has joined with the Human Rights Campaign and the Gay Lesbian Transgender Community Center of Utah for a special Citizen Lobby Training titled “How to Talk to Your Elected Officials.” The training will be conducted by out legislators Rep. Jackie Biskupski and Sen. Scott McCoy. There will also be a town hall meeting with Rep. David Litvak about the pending hate crime bill.
9am–1pm, Capitol Hill West Building, Room W125. Seating is limited and you are aksed to rsvp with Equality Utah at 355-3479.
Puccini’s opera La Rondine, while not one of his best known works, features one of his most beautiful scores the kind of story that makes a romantic swoon: a beautiful courtesan who defies convention and allows herself to fall in love with a handsome, although poor, poet. Utah Opera.
Tonight, Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 7:30pm, Sunday at 2pm, Capitol Theatre, 50 W 200 South. Tickets $12 to $60 at 355-2787 or arttix.org
Did you know that Kris Kristofferson wrote “Me and Bobby McGee”? This was before he became famous for enduring the inhumane cruelty of being asked to make out with La Streisand in A Star is Born. For both of these things, he deserves your respect. Come on and give it to him in Park City tonight.
7:30pm, Eccles Center for the Performing Arts, 1750 Kearns Blvd., Park City. Tickets $15 to $50 at 355-2787 or arttix.org
16Monday
The Agenda is proud to honor the memory today of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and to celebrate his legacy of peace and tolerance.
In honor of Dr. King the phenomenal Oleta Adams, best known for her hit single “Get Here”, will perform tonight at the University of Utah. The event is free to the public and will be immediately preceded by the 2006 MLK Youth Leadership Awards presentation.
6:30pm, Kingsbury Hall, E President’s Circle, University of Utah. Admission is free but seating is reserved and tickets must be obtained in advance. Tickets and information at 581-7100 or arttix.org
18Wednesday
You would never know it from watching “Sabrina the Teenage Witch” reruns, but comedian Caroline Rhea has a genuinely foul mouth. Another example of a common phenomenon: the lovable TV actor who stars in a feel-good family comedy, but whose own act features the kind of language that would make a crack whore ho blush (see also Bob Saget, Rose O’Donnell.) It might be worth going just to see the bewildered faces of any unfortunate members of the Family Home Evening crowd who don’t know that.
7pm and 9pm, Wise Guys Comedy Café, 3500 S 2200 West. Tickets $15 at 467-TIXX or smithstix.com
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