Portland Observer, April 17. 1906, Page 5
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NETWORK
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Jo« "Bean " Keller, Entertainm ent Editor
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6th A venue opens up
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Portland'« newest over-21 club and night «pot w ill ba hawing It«
Grand Opening on Wednesday. April 24. 6 p.m . 'til 2 a.m . at tha 6th
Awa. Club. 15 N .W 8th (formarty Old Tow n Saloon! It'« «oon to ba
com a ona of tha city'« hottaat live entertainm ent «pot«, hosting a va
riety of Portland'» artl«t» from Rock to R&B The public is Invited to
attend tha grand opening and ba entertained by tha mualc of No Shoot
Tha M .C .'s for tha evening w ill ba tha 2100 M orning Zoo. Gary Bryant.
Loma Dae and tha 2100 Jam m ln Salmon. Sea you there.
Gene Diam ond & Frances Dunlap
Invite you to attend their
Rick M itchell, mualc critic for Rolling Stone record magazine and
The Oregonian, and founder of tha Electric Gan M ai. a Latin term that
directly translate« to "big bad." and n o w com m only refer« to ma|or
electric short-circuiting In the human brain akin to an epileptic episode.
Of course, only the hopeleea intellectual w ill form »oma imaga connec
tlon. although Mltchall doe« plan an original composition for tha par
form anca entitlad "Seizure Later."
Gran M ai mem bers are all n otaN a and active in other band» Calvin
W alker, lead vocalist; Dam ien Dillon, drums; John Mazzocco. ba«»;
Dan Brandt. keyboard-synthasizar; John Jansen, trum pet; Warren
Rand, saxophone, and Rick M itchell and Curtis Craft on percussions
Gran M ai is scheduled to debut at Kay Largo on April 28. opening for
El Com bo Caribe, then headlining on the same stage M a y 8.
by Lam ia Duke
music.
Wonder's songs w ere banned from South African radio stations re
cently after W onder dedicated his Oscar to M andela, leader of the o u t
lawed African National Congress. M andela has served 22 years of a
life sentence for treason and sabotage.
" If m y being banned means people w ill ba free, ban ma m age times,
said W onder w h o w on tha Academ y A w ard for best song "I Just W ant
to Say I Love You" from the m otion picture "The W om an In Red "
Those wishing to show their support for Stevie W onder should call
their local stations and ask that they have a Stevie W onder Day of
Music.
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G RASSROOT NEW S. N W — If
middle-class America is anything
like it was portrayed in a film enitiled
“ Seventeen,” then our youth are
truly in trouble. And racism is alive,
perpetuated and ingrained in everyday
attitudes, actions and thoughts.
"Seventeen” was the youth seg
ment in "M idd leto w n ,” a multi part
documentary portrait of Muncie,
Indiana in 1982. Underwritten by
Xerox Corporation and the Public
Broadcasting System, "Seventeen”
was never broadcast in the " M id
dletown" series.
The reason lies with the content.
The filmmakers shadowed a white
17-year-old female for iwo years
through her involvement with a Black
basketball star, her relationship with
her high school teachers and her inter
actions at home.
The scandal for Xerox and PBS
was the youth and her peer group's
very limited vocabulary — four letter
words — with outside interests equal
ly narrow — drinking beer and smok
ing marijuana
Bettering one's self, going to col
lege or even completing homework
assignments were never discussed by
the youth Also, a consistent disre
spect for adults was quite evident
throughout the film.
The main character. Lynn Massie,
is infatuated with a Black youth.
However, when she's alone with him,
she chastises him to the point o f cas
tration — "W h y are you always tell
ing lies? W hy aren't you home?”
On an interracial double date when
one o f the Black youths is perceived as
being embarrassed because he's out
with a white girl, Lynn counters with,
"Listen, you guys ain’t the ones get
ting the bad name — we are White
girls don’t mess with no Black guys,
but we swallow our pride cause we
care about you so much.”
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PBS nixes interracial film
Radio personallty/actlvlst Bob Law, host of "N ig ht Talk," has called
for Black Am ericans - especially Black radio stations - to show na
tionw ide solidarity for Stevia W onder and his public support of Nslson
M andela, the imprisoned South African leader Law has asked Black
radio stations across the country to play a day of Stevia Wonder's
GET TOGETHER
9:00 p.m. t * 2:30 a.m.
Give Good Lova."
Stevie W onder D ay urged
and
April 21st. 1966
N ew Arista signing W hitnay Houston made har first soio N aw York
City appaaranca at S w a a tw a te r’s. previewing tongs from har |uat-
reieased debut album . "Whitney Houston '' Tha LP faaturaa production
contributions from Kaahif (Including tha singla. "You Glva Good Love."
Jerm aine Jackson. M ichael M a s te r and Narada M ichael Walden Tha
Ave-night S w eetw ater's engagem ent, which drew raves from tha
press. attracted show business personalities such as Gregory H ints
and singer Patti Austin, as w all as many radio and retail people who
came out to te a tha young singing discovery
Shown at S w eetw ater's follow ing ona of Houston's shows are (l-r):
Austin; W hitnay Houston; Kaahif; Cissy Houston; LaLa. w riter of "You
'Seizure Later' by Gran M a i
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young
Aries Birthday Party
W hitney Houston's N.Y. solo debut
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are. including »uch w ail-know n
personalities a * M ’ A ’ S’ H star
David Ogden S tiers. actress Jean
Stapleton, and talk «how host
Dick Cavatt. w ill help launch Pub
He Radio Cam paign "85. This na
tionw ide on-alr effort, designed to
assist NPR m em ber station« in
local fund-raising, is scheduled
for April 22 - 27. a w aak of special
ly produced
perform ance
and
news program from National
Public Radio and m em ber sta
tion«.
27th Annual
But Lynn's caring for the basket
ball star is short-lived. After seeing
she does a roll call o f “ I've done him
so wrong with Ted. Jim, Harry,
etc___ ” W hile still involved with the
relationship, the local Ku Klux Kian
burns a cross in her yard and her
friends call her a "nigger lover."
“ I think it's death when Black and
white get together. I think it sucks!,"
says a while male to her in a pool hall.
Lynn, without defense, puts up
with the criticism but immediately
breaks o ff the relationship when
Black girls begin to call her home
with threats. Lynn replies to these
assaults with a tirade of “ Black
Ebony Fashion Fair
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b-ches!”
"Seventeen" was shown last week
end, sponsored by the Northwest
Film Study Center. There were only
two scenes when a Black youth kissed
a white girl Both times, while couples
in the audience left. Now. if this hap
pens in Portland where interracial
dating is so visual, just think how
those folks at PBS and Xerox took it.
J. Hoberman from the Village Voice
summed up “ Seventeen” this way:
“ The fear of presenting an interracial
couple on TV is a greater scandal
than any romance could be."
“ Seventeen" is a slice o f America
in the raw Because it seemed so real,
and it was real, it takes one inside
the youth o f America and what it
shows is that they are in trouble.
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