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THE DOOR TO
THEIR DREAMS.
‘Hot, Spicy & M iid’ Restaurant
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A r is ta 's 1 9 8 8 B la c k
M u s ic M o n th C o lle c tio n
by Danny Bell
'Hot, Spicy, and M ild’ is a Carribean Island Cuisine restaurant.
It is a family enterprise that evolved out of authentic West Indian
style food (primarily Jamaican) not being available in the Portland
metropolitan area.
According to Pauline Lawrence one of the principles in the
restaurant. After living in Portland for twelve years, and missing the
availability of West Indian food she and other family members
decided to embark on this venture of establishing a West Indies
theme restaurant. However the central figure to the success of the
restaurant lays with her brother who is the executive chef of Hot,
Spicy and M ild’. Mr. Donald Washington executive chef has study
under the tutelage of Patrick Clarks, a close personal friend and
internationally reknown chef based in New York City. Mr. Clark has
also been featured in Ebony magazine among his many other
accomplishments.
The evening I was at ‘Hot, Spicy & M ild', I was treated to
unique ethnic culinary experience starting with appetizers of
peppered Shrimp, which is Shrimp sauteed in butter, onion pepper
collage, garlic and choice of hot, spicy or mild sauce, and West
Indian turn chicken; chicken wings, Carribean style serve with
special barbeque sauce. An entree of hot pepper steak was served
with side dishes of peas & rice, (red beans and rice with shredded
coconut), fried plaintain (bananas), and hot pepper steak slices in a
sauce that included red pepper, and bean sprouts. The rustic
appointments of the restaurant and amiable service combined to
create a truly enjoyable culinary experience.
‘Hot, Spicy & M ild’ is located at 7540 N.E. Glisan, open from
5:30 p.m.-10:30 p.m., Monday through Friday. Private parties by
reservation only - Saturdays and Sundays. The prices are affordable
and I would encourage those who enjoy the more exotic in their diet
to patronize this establishment. You w ill find good food served and
well worth your while. Bon Appetite!
PoDular sinaer Morris Day recently performed as part of the King Cobra
Presents concert tour at the Paramount Theatre in Oakland. Shown with Day
backstage at the concert are (left to right) Will Boyette, sales supervisor
Horizon9 Beverage; Lisa Walker, sales rep, Horizon Beverage, Derrick
Frederickson area manager for Anheuser-Busch, Inc.; Day; Ces Butner, co-
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Horizon Beverage Company; and Bill Jones, division projects
‘Kool and the Gang’ was really Kool, Funky and Down-To-Earth last Thurs­
day night at the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall.
Melba Moore
I ’m In Love is a shimmering album
showcasing Melba Moore. I ’m
In Love is songs, words, emotions,
and simplicity; and that’s what Melba
is about. I ’m In Love reflects a new
richness, resonance and experience in
the voice of an artist already at the top
of her field.I ’m In Love is an album
that takes the same course that love •
takes, honestly reflecting the feelings
that are experienced in everyone’s life.
A voice living what she’s sing­
ing— from the magic of a new duet
with Freddie Jackson, "I Can’t Com­
plain” (the first single), and “ Keeps
Me Running Back,” to “ Love &
Kisses.”
M elba M oore is recognized
throughout the entertainment world
as one of its most prolific and multi­
talented superstars. Her career has
included stage and screen roles, Tony
awards and Grammy nominations,
hit songs, and over a dozen albums.
Her last album, A Lot O f Love, con­
tained two #1 hits— the duet with
Freddie Jackson, “ A aLittle Bit
More,” and “ Falling” (which fea­
tured a top requested video).
Melba Moore once again has work­
ed with the multi-production team of
Gene McFadden, Rahni Harris,
Kashif, Howard King, and Shelley
and Brian Morgan to produce a
stellar, growth-reflective new album,
I ’m In Love.
A limited edition, specially-priced
collection featuring classic
performances by:
Whitney Houston
Aretha Franklin
Jermaine Jackson
Kashif
La La
Billy Ocean
Jermaine Stewart
Dionne Warwick
Whodini
and label debuts by the Four Tops
& Kiara.
A portion of the proceeds from the
sale of this album, cassette and
compact disc will go to benefit the
United Negro College Fund
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ONE FREE PAIR
by Garland Lee Thompson
t has been thirty years (1958)
B since Lorraine Hansberry’s
Broadway paly, “ A Raisin In The
Sun” (the first, by a black woman
playwright), directed by Lloyd
Richards, who is now the Dean of
the Yale School of Drama, and
who more recently, directed,
“ Fences” and “ Joe Turner’s
Come and Gone” . It took twenty
years after Hansberry, for Ntozake
Shange’s Choreo-poem play, "for
colored girls, who considered sui­
cide when a rainbow is enuf,”
directed by Oz Scott, to reach
Broadway, produced by Joseph
Papp.
After “ Raisin,” Lloyd Richards
directed a Kitty Fringe play, “ The
Long Dream,” with Al Freeman Garland Thompson (left), Charles Fuller (‘A Soldier's Play’) and Pat White
Jr., Helen Martin (TV series,
“ 227” ) and Isabel Cooley (with
whom I first worked in the West
Morosco Theatre in 1971). After
body” and August Wilson for
Coast production of “ Simply
the Pulitzer rules were changed
"Fences” ). Fuller chose not to
move to Broadway from Off
Heavenly,” a musical by Langston
and an Off Broadway play won the
Hughes). It was Richards’ “ big
Broadway at the Negro Ensemble
prize, “ Crimes Of The Heart," by
push" to be a director of all types
Company, because, as he per­
Beth Henley, Charles Fuller won
of plays and playwrights, such as
sonally told me in New York after,
it while also Off Broadway at
Kitty Fringe (who is a white
“ A Soldier's Play,” won the prize,
Negro Ensemble Company (NEC)
he wanted the show to run, tour
author).
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in 1980.
It was a good idea “ on paper,
and have a longer “ life" away
Now Richards (who is black
but it took years before “ the racial
from Broadway. We had all seen
and has three recent “ hits" on
and economic climate" altered
far too many plays by black as
Broadway, with two currently run­
and for Broadway to accept
well as white playwrights, go to
ning), is now “ the Dean of Broad­
Richards again (he directed
what we called, "the graveyard,"
way,” as well as Yale Rep. Is this
August Wilson’s “ Ma Raineys
Broadway.
the future or just a phenomenon
Black Bottom," originally from
Producer, Joseph Papp, took
of “ the fates" and events? As
the Yale Repertory, where I first
Gordon's play, "No Place,“ to
Fats Waller only said. “ One never
Broadway in 1970, at the ANT A
saw it in New Haven, Conn.).
knows, do one?”
Charles Fuller ("A Soldier's
Theatre for three weeks only, to
Since "Shuffle Along," (1921)
qualify for the Pulitzer, under the
Play and the film, “ A Soldier
by Noble Sissle and Eubie Blake
Story” ), won the Pulitzer Prize, to
old rules of "Broadway selections
(the first “ book show” with lyrics
become only one of three black
only" (I Stage Managed the play
on Broadway), black shows pro­
playwrights to do so (Charles Gor-
later when the show returned
duced and directed by whites.
from the National tour to the
done for “ No Place to Be Some-
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Layaways Welcome
have appeared on Broadway, only
after many other white shows fail­
ed, and generally opening in the
heat of the summer. Broadway
was not air-conditioned in those
days. Langston Hughes opened
his show, “ Simply Heavenly,” in
August, 1958.
Helen Martin, black actress and
my first landlady In New York,
1971, was recently quoted in
Ebony Magazine, “ Racism (in
theatre) gets to me even now. I’m
still having to deal with It.
Nothing has changed. It’s just in
technicolor now." Racism will
always exist, she suspects. But it
never has and never will get in the
way of b a r acting, "all I know is
that I love it,” she says, and I
agree, Amen.
In 1940, she and a number of
other black performers, such as
Frank Silvera, Ruby Dee, Ossie
Davis, Loften M itchell, Hilda
Simms and Max Granville, formed
the American Negro Theater
(ANT), in the Schomburg Center
Library in Harlem, (where else?) to
help the situation for black actors
in the American Theatre.
We founded the Frank Silvera
Writers’ Workshop in 1973, like
Douglas Turner Ward and Robert
Hooks founded the NEC in the
1960's, for the same purpose:
Black survival in the Arts!
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