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ENTERTAINMENT
Once upon a time...when we were colored
Travelling
Photo Show
PYP’s 73rd
concert series
M ary Ihurst C ollege is hosting a
traveling photo-journal exhibit.
Faces o f Liberty.
The free exhibit runs from Sept.
9-26 and will be in the S treff G al
lery o f Shoen Library on the col
and 25 from 3-8 pm.
T he stories include those of a
G resham firefighter viciously ha
rassed on the jo b for attending a
gay-rights political rally and a
V ernonia youth barred from play
ing ju n io r high football for refus
ing to com prom ise his privacy in a
Huw E dw ards, C o n d u cto r and
Music D irector, has announced the
concert program for the Portland
Youth Philharm onic’s com ing 73rd
Season. Three o f the four Season
C oncerts feature soloists. The sea
son will begin with T he Fall Concert
honoring the 50th anniversary o f
Portland State U niversity. This con
cert will include a M ozart piano con
certo perform ed by the w inner o f the
PYP Piano C om petition. The C on
cert at Christmas, entitled "T h e Foun
tain o f Y outh," will present w orks by
and about young people. T he W inter
Concert will feature soprano Jane
Barthélém y, and the W est C oast pre
mier o f A W inter Solstice by U niver
sity o f H aw aii c o m p o s e r D o n
W om ack. The season ends with the
m andatory drug test.
Faces o f Liberty puts human
faces on what can often be com
plex legal issues related to civi
liberties cases that m ake the news.
For m ore inform ation call the li
Spring Concert
Tickets are available by calling
FA STIX X (244-5073 o r I -800-992-
TIX X outs ide Port land ), at many F red
M eyer stores, or at the Portland C en
ter for the Perform ing Arts box office
brary at 699-6261
at 1219 SW Broadway.
lege cam pus
Library hours are from 9 ¿un to 5
pm through Sept. 19, when summer
term ends. Monday through Friday,
9 am to 6 pm Saturday and 1 -5 pm
Sunday. A special voter registration
will be held in the gallery on Sept . 24
Stand with To Kill A Mockingbird
Published in I960, Harper L ee's
first and only novel. To Kill A M ock
ingbird was an instant best seller and
remains a beloved and widely read
classic to this day. Now, the nationally
acclaim ed N orthwest C hildren's T he
ater brings this stirring and powerful
story to the stage October 4 through 20
at the Northwest Service Center.
Today, the novel is regarded as a
What d o e s Jesse read?
BY JOEV M t'RPIIV
Frederick D ouglass read any
thing h ecouldfind. M arcusG arvey
read Booker T W ashington. C or
nel W est read W EB D uBois. But
what A frican-A m erican authors do
the A frican-A m erican leaders o f
today read?
W ithout firsthand know ledge,
it’s im possible to be sure. But it’s
not im possible to speculate on a
couple o f books sure to be on the
bedside tables o f Jesse Jackson and
Louis Farrakhan.
Ralph E llison’s Invisible M an is
probably on Jackson’s reading list.
The invisible man in E llison’s
Invisible M an is not seen for the
human he is but instead h e’s seen
for the race he em bodies. T he novel
chronicles his search for identity.
Jackson bears a striking resem
blance to the narrator in E llison’s
novel, m ost apparently in the ep i
sode where the in visible man w atch
es the shooting death his colleague,
a more skilled, charism atic A fri
can-Am erican orator. A fterthe kill
ing, the invisible man rallies the
people and elevates his prom inence
by speaking about the death.
Jackson fell under sim ilar t .
cum stances 20 years after the be
was written. He w itnessed the as
sassination o f M artin Luther King
Jr., a colleague and fellow orator.
Jackson then went on national tele
vision wearing his shirt stained with
K ing’s blood and with the intent to
succeed King.
Jackson can relate to E llison’s
creation, and sees in E llison’s book
many o f the ideals Jackson strives
for.
Ellison wrote Invisible Man to
explore the human u n iv e rs a l in the
A frican-A m erican experience and
the barriers preventing brotherhood
am ong the races.
Likewise, Jackson em phasizes
the com m on ground all races and
Madame Butterfly
opens season
For the third season in a row,
Puccini, the m aster o f Italian opera,
gets the opening call. So popular is
M adam e Butterfly that a special fifth
perform ance has been added.
Portland O pera opens its 32nd
season with o n e o f the m ost popular
operas o f all time. M adam e B utter
fly, P u ccini’s tragic tale o f unrequit
ed love, tells the bittersw eet story o f
the fragile but courageous young
w om an, C io-C io-San, and her love
for the cavalier--and unthinking—
Am erican sailor, Pinkerton.
Featuring the A m erican debut o f
fast-rising British soprano Susan
Bullock .as C io-C io-San, M adam e
Butterfly spins its audience through
a series o f em otional events that cul
m inate in her ultim ate sacrifice as
she chooses death over a I i fe o f sham e.
cultures share in his speech at the
1988 D em ocratic National C onven
tion.
“ W hat D oes Jesse W ant?” Tim e
m agazine’s cover asked in the 1988
presidential race, where Jackson
w as a candidate. Jackson, like the
invisible man, is caught in a sim ilar
conundrum - the traditional m edia
focuses on his race to the exclusion
o f his m essage.
F arrakhan’s bedside table d if
fers a little. Instead o f Ellison, he
probably has a copy o f M alcolm
X ’s speeches before M alcolm broke
with the Nation o f Islam. But he
probably also reads The N ew Ne
gro, a collection o f poetry and es
says o f the Harlem Renaissance
edited by A lain Locke.
The N ew N egro em bodies much
o f the independence Farrakhan ad
vocates.
“ W hoever wishes to see the N e
gro in his essential traits, in the full
perspective o f his achievem ent and
possibilities, must seek the enlight
enm ent o fthat self portraiture which
the present developm ents o f N egro
culture are offering,” Locke writes
in the foreword.
Farrakhan speaks o f a sim ilar
nove from the “O ld N egro” to the
N ew N egro” in his M illion Man
M arch speech.
“All w e’ve got to do is go back
hom e and turn our com m unities
into productive places,” Farrakhan
sa id , “ but ev e ry tim e w e car-
jack ...w e feed the degenerate mind
o f w hite suprem acy.”
T hese classic books hold m ean
ing not ju st for leaders o f any race,
but for any w ho read them. Their
m essages hold pow er for all.
Jo e y M urphy is a sophom ore
m ajoring in jo u rn a lism a n d A fri
can-A m eric an studies at Northwest-
ern U niversity in Evanston, Illi
nois. H e likes the O bserver a lot.
But h e 's still g o in g back to school.
masterpiece o f American literature
winning the 1961 Pulitzer Prize and,
o f course, most people are familiar
with the Academy Award winning film
version startingGregory Peck. N WCT
is no stranger to awards themselves,
being the national recipient o f the
American Alliance o f Theater and
Education’s O utstanding New Chil
dren’s Theater Award in New York
City last month.
Diane Englert returns to N W C T ’s
Mainstage after directing last season's
Little Women. Englert is well known
to Portland audiences for her work
with Portland R epertory. T heatre
where she directed last season’s criti
cally acclaimed productions o f Angel
Street and The Sisters Rosensweig.
Tobias Anderson stars as Atticus
Finch with Don Bum s as the malevo-
lent Bob Ewell and Judy Sloane as the
cantankerous Mrs. Dubose. Desi Stone
is the Finch’s housekeeper, Calpurnia
and Tracy Conklin is the local sheriff.
Young Sara Naon takes on the chal
lenging role o f Scout, with Matt I uck-
er as her brother Jem and Brian Kettler
as their neighbor Dill (acharacter based
The past and future of science and technology
In Nano; The Emerging Science o f Nanotechnology
(Little. Brown), noted science writer Ed Regis
takes us inside an imminent scientific revolu
tion, nanotechnology. Profiling the visionary
scientists and engineers who may soon make
molecule-sized machines a reality, Regis
explores nano’s implications, from medicine and
manufacturing to computing and warfare In
The Pinball Effect (Little, Brown), James Burke
takes readers on a fascinating
tour through history's most
dramatic innovations-and
shows "how sometimes the
simplest act will have cosmic
repercussions a hundred years
later.” For example, he shows
how the solution to early
colonists' malaria ultimately led
to the development of better car
tires, and how clingwrap had its
origins in fake-lacquer furniture.
This is a journey through
knowledge with all the twists
and turns of a detective story.
on L ee's childhood friend Truman
Capote). M egg Luckcuck, a stand-out
in last spring's The Hobbit, plays the
u n fo rtu n ate M ayelle E w ell. Ken
Dembo, Lorrain Bahr, Nancy Wilson,
and Frank W oodm an are also featured
with Stepen Rondel as the mysterious
Boo Radley.
The production’s professional de
sign team includes set designer Jim
W eism an, lig h tin g d esig n er Je ff
Forbes, costumer Virginia Belt and
sound designer Mar LaPierre.
Motown
Dresses For
Success In Vibe
Coined the “ Pow er” issue, VIBE
M agazine’s Septem ber issue fashion
spread features som e new faces from
a fam iliar name. T itled "D ressed For
Success,” the eight-page spread sets
out to show case “new stars, new style,
and a new spirit the M otow n.” The
M otown m odels include:
Johnny G ill -- his long-aw aited
solo project, “ L et’s G et The M ood
Right,” hits the streets O ctober 8th!
The title cut is currently burning up
the airwaves!
Q ueen Latifah - stars in the up
com ing N ew Line C inem a feature
film, “ Set It O ff," this fall. Look for
a new album from Latifah early in
available at
P O W E L L ’S C IT Y O F BO O KS
1005 W Burnside, downtown Portland • 503-228-4651
Motown recording artist Taral
Hicks and Motown President/
CEO Andre Harrell
POWELL’S BOOKS AT CASCADE PLAZA
8775 SW Cascade Avenue, Beaverton • 503-643-3131
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Z hane’ -- the duo that got every
one say in g “ Hey Mr. D J,” heat up the
pages o f Vibe! Zhane can currently
be heard on Busts Rhym es and DeLa
S o u l’s album s, as w ell as on the
M oJazz O lym pic album , “people
make the world go aro u n d ,” com ing
soon ..their sophom ore album!
Michael Bivens -- his M otown
distributed label, Biv 10, has ju st
introduced a new fem ale-trio, 702,
w ith th e c h a r t-c lim b in g sin g le
“Steelo.” '9 7 will see the new album
from the gold-selling group Subway,
who are currently featured on the
“ K A ZA A M ” soundtrack.
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