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Tm: P oru an » O bserver • S eptember 25, 1996 <ni|v }Jorthuxh OPhscruer EPíTERTAiríMEPiT Tupac dies, we must reflect m P am L ew is / ren d so m e w h e re th a t T u p a c S h a k u r h a d p re d icted h is o w n vio lent death. H e is sa id to h a ve to ld a n interview er: “This was th e ro le I was g iv e n ." This gifted young perform er, who played so many p a n s in his sh o n life -- gangsta rap artist, convicted sex offender, son (his m other had been a member o f the Black Panther Party), celebrity - apparently believed that he had been cast in the role o f som e one condem ned to die at an early age. Like Tupac, all too many o f our young people believe that they have no choice but to act out one or another destructive role: a perpetrator o r a victim o f violence; a drug user or dealer; a school dropout; a teenager with an unw anted pregnancy; a hood lum or a “ho” ; a "dum m y” ; a "trou- ‘T 'tiday t6e 27t6 Something Different. B op-a-ganda & the Zen M onk Punks present hip stories from the A m erican Jazz Rap genre as per form ed by Dr. Francesco Patricolo. w ith m u s ic ia n s M ig u e l M aldonado, Tim A cott and Sam Henry, 8 p.m ., Rexall Rose Cafe, 2403 N .E. A lberta St., 282-9781 R&B Vocals. Linda H ornbuckle. 9:30 p.m.. Key Largo, 31 N .W First Ave., 223-9919. Jazz Guitar. H ear the cool sounds o f Larry A dair, 7 p.m., Edgefield W inery, 2126 S W Halsey St.. Troutdale. 669-8610. Sa&cideuf t/ie 2%tA CD Release. Pete M iser’s Solo C D release party gets busy at 9 p.m .. L.aLuna, 215 S.E 9th Ave., 241-LU N A . Saturday Market Tunes. B anjo2 from 11:30 a.m . to 12:30 p.m .; M oe N elson from 1 to | 2 p.m ., Robbie Kaye Band from 2:30 to 3:30 p.m., Portland S atur day M arket’s M ain Stage, 108 W. B urnside, 222-6072. Seattle Punk Nights. Featuring Dumas, Rubber, Flat Earth and M avens, Ash St. Sa loon, 225 S.W . Ash St., 226-0430. Quartet. G o see the V ictoria Corrigan Q u a r te t a t th e B r a s s e r ie | M ontm artre, 626 S.W Park Ave. 224-5552. (they also perform on Fri.) Stephen Cohen. A coustic guitar, percussion and vocals, 7 p.m ., Edgefield W inery, 2126 S.W . Halsey St., Troutdale, 669-8610 Scautatf 2 9 (6 Best Seller. R o ger W illiam s, A m e ric a ’s best-sellingpopularpiam st in his to ry p e rfo rm s at th e A rle n e S chnitzer Concert Hall. 3 and 8 p.m., S.W . Broadw ay and Main St.. 228-1853. No metal. Molly M cG uire plays heavy rock w ithout the metal, Satyricon, 125 N.W . 6th Ave., 243-2380. Harvest Jam. C eleb ratin g the beat o f life through the drum , beginning Fri., at the O ld Ranch in Silver Creek Falls State Park, call for times, 274-6969. It's Elementary. A cadem y A w ard-w inning d i rector D ebra C hasnoff and pro-1 ducer H elen C ohen host this ben efit prem iere o f their study o f the I roots o f hom ophobia and how | schools can encourage change, 7 p.m . N orthw est Film Center, 1219 | S.W . Park Ave , 221-1156. I that supports them so that they do not have to act out their anger, or their sexuality, in w ays that are hurtful or self-destructive In honor o f T upac Shakur, I invite all o f you to follow the lead o f the tens of thousands o f young people w ho have given their talent and their energy over the last 12 years to build the All Stars. And I urge you to ask all the adults w ho say they are con cerned about violence -- your par ents, your teachers, and the elected officials in y o u r com m unity -- to support program s that support our youth. Pam Lewis, 35 years old, is the Na tional Producer o f the A ll Stars Talent Show Network. An accomplished ac tress and a performer, Ms. Lewis Is also the Assistant to the Artistic Director o f theCastillo Theatre in theSoHo area o f New York City. C h u n p sp Oppirw E v fp iii c o m < ps th p TV o r th w p s t Larry Nobori Trio. F e a tu rin g v o c a list V icto ria C orrigan and Randy Porter, 6 to 9 p.m., W illam ette C afe 4949 S.W Landing Drive. 225-1068 blem aker"; a “ loser" with no skills, no jo b and no future. As the national p ro d u ce ro fth e All Stars Talent Show N etw ork - the largest and m ost successful anti-vio lence program for inner city youth in the country -- my jo b is to support young people to grow and develop by breaking out o f such deadly and deadening roles. The All Stars Talent Show N et work does not practice censorship. We recognize that there is a differ ence between the perform ance o f a gangsta rap on a stage and pulling a gun on the street! l.ikew ise, there is a difference between the perform ance o fa sexy dance routine on a stage and having sex on the roof! We think it is positive for young people to make w h atev er cu ltural statem ent they choose to m ake in an environm ent Cuban natives Terisita and Sandy Perez, formerly with the famed Afro-Cuba de Matanzas ensemble presents a two-day workshop, entitled “Afro-Cuba!" Oct. 5 and 6 noon each day at PSU. Literary Arts Awards The L iterary Arts, Inc. A dvisory Council has announced that Eloise Jarvis M cG raw , a ju v e n ile w riter, will receive the C.E.S. W ood A w ard for a distinguished career in letters. Brain Booth, law yer, w riter, and founder o f O regon Institute for L iter ary Arts, was selected to receive the Stewart H. H olbrook A w ard for o ut standing curren t co n trib u tio n s to O regon’s literary life. Elosie Jarvis M cG raw has been w riting fiction since she w as eight yearsold. She has lived in O regon for over forty years. She is know n as a great w riter o f ju v en ile literature. Her first book. Saw dust in H is Shoes, was published in 1950 and since that tim e she has published 20 books. She has been the recipient o f a N ew bery Award for her books, M occasinT rail and G olden G oblet, and an Edgar Award for the best ju v en ile m yster ies o f the year for her tw o books. Tangled W eb and A Really W eird Summer. Besides her ju v e n ile nov els, she has published an adult novel and a play, and a book on the T ech niques o f W riting Fiction. Brain Booth is a long-tim e ad v o cate o f the literary arts com m unity in O regon. He is the founder and has served as President for the O regon Institute for Literary Arts, currently known as Literary A rts, Inc. after m erging with Portland A rts & Lec tures in 1993. Booth is also a w riter, h av in g re c e n tly w ro te his book W ild m en , W o b b lies & W histle- punks: Stew art H olbrooks’s Low brow N orthw est wh ich was pub I ished by O regon State U niversity Press. T heC .E .S. W ood A ward is named for C h arles E rskine Scott W ood ( 18 5 2 -1944), a w riter, poet, soldier, lawyer, orator, bibliophile and patro o f the arts who had great impact on P o rtlan d ’s cultural and political life. The H olbrook Award honors Stewart H. H olbrook o f Portland, a colorful, popular historical w riter w ho was know n as “ Lum berjack B osw ell’’ for his w riting on loggers and the tim ber industry. U n derthe nam e “ Mr. O tis," H olbrook also painted in a style he described as “m odern prim itive.” M cGraw and Booth will be pre sented with their awards at the tenth annual Oregon Book Awards cerem o ny, scheduled for Novem ber 14,1996 in the Scottish Rite Center. Author Ivan Doig will serve as master o f cer em onies at the event, O regon’s prima ry celebration o f the written word. The public is warmly invited to attend. The 1996 O regon Book Awards will also honor the authors o f out standing w orks in fiction, literary nonfiction, poetry, dram a, and young readers literature. Finalists in eacl category will be announced in earl) O ctober W inners will not be an nounced until the night o f the aw ards All w inners as well as the recipient: o f the C .E .S W ood and H olbrool aw ards will receive $ 1,000. Sample Global Theatre A revival production, a w orld pre miere and special guest artists mark University T heatre’s 1996-97 main- stage season w hose five productions span various periods and styles rang ing from a traditional Italian com edy to a contem porary A m erican m usical to an Asian fusion piece. Each o f the plays will be per formed on the Robinson Theatre stage at Villard Hall, 1109 O ld C am pus Laane in the northeast corner o f the University o f O regon cam pus. All regular perform ances begin at 8 p.m. An additional pertorm ance, b enefit ing a local nonprofit, social service agency, will be scheduled for each play Tickets for individual Robinson Season plays, on sale Oct. I , are $9 for the general public; $7 for senior citi zens, UO faculty and staff, and non- UO students; and $4.50 for UO stu dents. Season tickets currently are on sale at a considerable savings from the single-show price, and group rates are available for 10 or more patrons. The U niversity T heatre Box O f- fice is open from noon to 6 p.m. T uesdays through Friday and from noon to 8 : 15 p.m. on days o f perfor m ance. For inform ation, call the box office, ( 5 4 1) 3 4 6 -4 1 9 1. Kirk Boyd, associate artistic d i rector o f the O regon Shakespeare Festival at A shland, will guest direct the 18th-century Italian com edy “The Servant o f Tw o M asters” by C arlo G oldini, set Nov. 8 -9 ,1 4 -1 6 , and 22- 23. Boyd, w ho grew up in Eugene, re tu rn s ho m e a fte r 15 y e a rs at A shland. He began his theater career as an actor, director and stage m an ager with the O regon Repertory T h e atre in Eugene. In recent years, Boyd had directed “ M uch Ado A bout N othing,” “ Light in the V illage,” “ H eathen V alley” and “ Tw o R oom s” at the O regon Shakesphere Festival;” “ A M idsum m er N ight’s D ream ” a, the Idaho S hakespeare Festival; “All in the T im ing” at C entralia C ollege; and ’ The G o v e rn m e n t In sp e c to r” at Southern O regon State College. A fu ll-p ro d u c tio n ( h iñ e se O pera will ta k e p la c e a t th e W a sh in g to n C enter f o r P erfo rm in g A rts in d o w n tow n O lym pia a t 7:30 p .m . on O cto ber 5. Tickets for the opera are $ 16 g en eral adm ission. $13 students and se niors. $10 for groups o f 20 or more; forticket inform ation, call the W ash ington C enter Box O ffice, 360/753- 8586. Portland residents can take a g u id ed bus tour to see the event for $60 (includes bus to and from O lym pia that evening, box dinner and talk by Reed Professors C harles Wu and Harry Kuoshu along the way, and opera ticket): m ake your reservation by calling the Northwest China C oun cil. 503/725-4567. Fhe evening features episodes o f The Monkey K ing,T he W hiteSnake, and The W oman W arrior; three o f the m ost popular C hinese operas. Beijing O pera (Peking O pera) is the quintessence o f Chinese theatri cal art. Its colorful and highly styl ized perform ance requires the skill ful blending o f singing, dancing, martial arts, acrobatics, costum e, and m akeup. Personify ing this beautiful but dif ficult art is the lead perform er (play ing the W om an W arrier), M argaret Li, w ho rose to fame in the early 80s as an outstanding descendant o f the greatest Beijing O pera artist o f the century, Mei Lanfang. Chen Cao. also from Beijing, plays the M onkey King, Prom inent N orthw est m usi cian W arren C hang, professional m usicians from C hina, and accom plished am ateurs perform the music. Rose Jang, faculty m em ber at The Evergreen State C ollege, is project director and organized this event The even in g ’s perform ance is pro duced by the E vergreen State C o l lege, whose students (trained by Chen C ao) participate in episodes o f The M onkey K ingand The W hite Snake C osponsors o f the event include the Hwa Sheng C hinese O pera Club o f Seattle, S en io r’s Research G roup o fC h in ese O pera and M usic o fV an - couver, B.C.. the C hinese Art and Music A ssociation, and the* N orth west China C ouncil, located in P ort land. A... My name is still Alice I niversity Theatre will kick o f f the 1996-97schoolyear on Oct. 3 with three p e rf ormances o f the m usical revue “A... M y Nam e Is Still Alice, ” a revival fr o m its 1996M a d Duck Repertory The atre S u m m er Season. Conceived by Joan M ickl in SI iverand Julian Boyd,“A...MyNameIsStill Alice” will continue on Friday and Saturday, Oct. 4-5. All performances will begin at 8 p m. at Robinson Theatre, 11 ()9Old Cam pus Lane next to the law school on the University o f Oregon campus. Pickets are $9 for the general public; $17 for senior citizens, UO faculty and staff, and non-UO students; and $4.50 for UO students. "A . My Name Is Still Alice” is the critically acclaimed sequel to the hit revue “A...My Name Is Alice,” which itselfhad a successful run in University Theatre’s Mad Duck Repertory Theatre during the summer o f 1995. This latest collection of songs and sketches - created by a wide variety ofcomposers, lyricists and writers - featuresa lively and richly comic explo ration o f what it means to be a woman in the 1990s. Both very funny and extreme ly topical, “A.. My Name Is Still Alice” includes music that runs the gamut from gospel to rock and from country to pop. Dion Reschedules C eline Dion, o rig in a lly sc h ed u le d to p la y th e T heater o f th e C louds in th e R o se G arden on A u g u s t 31st has been rescheduled. The new date is Saturday, M arch 29th at the T heater o f the C louds in the Rose G arden. Show tim e re m ains 8pm. Tickets from the Au gust 31st show will be honored at the new March 29th show. Som e tickets w ere still available for the original show. T hese tickets will go on sale now at the Rose Q u a rte r T ic k e t O ffic e an d all I icketniaster ticket centers or charge by phone at (503) 224-4400. G ram m y aw ard w inning artist C eline Dion is one o f pop m usic’s fast-rising stars, and has been tour ing in support o f her last album, “ Falling into Y ou,” featuring the smash it "B ecause You Loved M e.” New perspectives on an age-old idea W h a t are angels? M an y people believe in M <« T < ti e vv 1 . » A .Sr »< II r I t " li I I (I I n k I angels, b u t few can define these enigm atic spirits. N ow theologian M atthew Fox and biologist Rupert Sheldrake-pioneers in m odern religious th in k in g and scientific -J a p ' th e o ry -la u n c h a ground-breaking exploration in to the ancient concept o f the angel in The Physics o f Angels P H Y S IC S OF A N G E L S mensof illennium (HarperCollins). fc®»* A n d in Omens o f M illennium SU SO ADV (Riverhead Books) H a rold Bloom reveals how the concept o f angels have always played a central role SUPERS OCTOBER 2 3 ® in Western culture. available at POWELL’S CITY OF BOOKS 1005 W Burnside, downtown Portland • 503-228-4651 POWELL’S BOOKS AT CASCADE PLAZA •775 SW Cascade Avenue, Beaverton • 503-643-3131 215 SE 9TH • 241-LU N A http ://w w w .m o n q ui.co m TICKETS AT ALL TICKETMASTER OUTLETS OR CHARGE-BY-RHONE 224-44*0 SUBJECT TO SERVICE CHARGE OPENING ACTS SUBJECT TO CHANGE GESEK