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Page A6 March 27, 2002 Focus Get Connected!! N»d i Telephone at Home? Tim« To GetACellPhone? Want Your Old Phone Number Back’ Contused? Too much Information? Can’t Wail 10 days? Why Choose?—Have it all! Need Features? Robin Williams Comedy Tour OR Free Cellular Phone, We Otter Affordable Packages The Fastest Service—3 to 5 days Free Long Distance, Free Anytime Minutes, No Roaming, You Can Keep Your Old Number Get Free Call Waiting. 3-Way, *69 & More No Activation Fees, No Credit Req'd. Rates as Low as .05 Cents Per Minute Call For Details Order By Phone. Some Restrictions Apply Available Only At: Simply Cellular & Telephone Reconnections 6040 NE Sandy Blvd., Suite 100B Portland, OR 97213 5 0 3 -2 8 0 -8 0 0 0 Hi-Fashion Menswear • S uits • Neckwear • Footwear • S h irts Actor and comedian Robin Williams will arrive in Portland as part o f his first live stand-up comedy tour in 15 years on Wednesday, April 24 at 8 p.m. in the Keller Auditorium. For ticket information, call Ticketmaster at 224-4400. • Accessories The 13th annual Inner City Blues Festival features Lenanne Sylvester (above) and Janice Scroggins performing the music o f black divas like Besse Smith, Billie Holiday, Pearl Bailey and others. Performances by local musicians are included. The festival will be on Saturday, April 2 0 at the Melody Ballroom, 615 SE. Alder, from 6:30 p.m. - 1 2 : 3 0 a.m. Tickets are available at Music Millennium, Genevas, Reflections, McPeets Pub and Laughing Horse Books. 7618 N. Interstate Blvd. • Portland • S03.285.9500 M F 117 / Sol 114 • www steppingoutmensweai com At the Movies for the love of ^azz Blade 2: Bloodhunt Examining Vanishing Cultures Bv W ade D avis N ational G eographic ; 2002 Renowned anthropologist and National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence, Wade 89.1 8 0 vibrant images from the many thousands o f photographs he has taken over the course o f 2 5 years o f exploration. Beautiful and haunting in their intimacy, these photographs reveal the wonders o f the “ethnosphere" - the wealth o f human A bbas K iarostami and his assistant, Seifollah Sam adian, travel to Kam pala, U ganda at the request o f the U N ’s International Fund for Agricultural Development. For ten days, their cam era captures and caresses the faces o f a thousand children - all orphans - w hose parents have died o f AID S. R ecording tears and laughter, m usic and silence, life and death, the film attests to A frica’s sunny resilience in the face o f so m uch suffering and d isease. (G e n re : d o c u m e n ta r y ; R a tin g : M P A A ; R u n n in g tim e: 83 m ins.) diversity and the lim itless potential o f the human imagination. C O ASTAL R hythm & B lues Women’s History Month at IFCC Through March 30 One-Woman Musical Comedy April 1 2 ,1 3 ,19& 20 The Interstate Firehouse C ultural C enter, in celebra tion o f W o m en ’s H istory M onth will be having tw o gallery presentations. T he M ain G allery w ill feature Ping K haw -Sutherland’s m ultidisciplinary project “ Perspectives in P eace” and Shezuet M iller’s “ Heal- ing in M otion.” Both w orks are available for view until M arch 30. IFCC is located at 5340 N. Interstate Ave. Call 503-823-2072. A new one-w om an m usical com edy called “C hoco late C onfessions” will prem iere at the O ld Church, located at S.W . 11* and C lay on A pril 1 2 ,1 3 ,1 9 and 20. T he show focuses on chocolate shop ow ner Coco Bliss as she w elcom es an array o f am using custom ers to her show. Call 503-224-8499 fortickets. Comedy at Central Library Sun., March 31 Norm an Sylvester Band Saturday April 27, 2002 Doors open 6pm Music 7pm * 12:30am 21 and over only Master Jam 12am to 12:30am All 3 bands on stage Standup com ic A lex St. A ndrew s is having her new 11 /2 w om an show , “ R unning with Scissors” on Sun day, M arch 31,3:30 p.m. at the Central library for free. This is a theatrical, interactive, spiritual and often hysterical jo u rn ey to m etaphysics, quantum phys ics, illness, untapped potential and the daily “reali ties” oflife. Call 503-957-2137. IFCC Art Gallery The Interstate Firehouse Cultural C enter will be show casing art, draw ing and prints o f H ector Hugo H ernandez and Sher D avidson. H ernandez uses the tradition o f mural painting to express his understand ing o f hum an relations and nature. D avidson uses photographs to capture the rom ance o f Latin people. The exhibits can be seen from April 4 - 27 at 5340 N . Interstate. Call 503-823-4322. Lakewood Theatre Auditions Paul deLay Band Patrick Lamb Band, featuring Debra Crowe April 4 - 2 7 April 6 & 7 L akew ood T heatre C om pany will be having open auditions for the m usical “Q uilters" on Saturday, April 6 and Sunday, April 7. The director is seeking seven w om en, betw een the ages o f 20 and 60 to play m ultiple roles. “Q uilters” is a story that depicts the harsh challenge and abiding rew ards o f frontier life. Call 5 0 3 -6 3 5 -3 9 0 1 to schedule an appointm ent time. Radical Women Book Group Wed., April 10 Tickets on sale, Monday, February 25th $12 in advance ~ $15 at the door 800-992-TIX X (8499) or 888-M A IN ACT Radical W om en will be having a book review and discussion on Leon Trotsky’s “W om en and Family.” The topic: “Can equality exist in the household or is the nuc lear fami ly inherently oppressi ve?” The event wi 11 be on W ednesday, April 10, 7 p.m. at the Bread and RosesCenter, 819N . Killingsworth. Them eetingis free and open to the public. Call 503-240-4462. > ABC Africa Davis has traveled the world studying the mysteries o f sacred plants and celebrating the diversity o f human culture. In “Light at the Edge o f the World," Davis presents A new breed o f creature is on the loose and feeding on the run-of-the-mill vampires, turn ing them into creatures called Reapers. Deadly and monstrous, Reapers suck blood through a nasty, fanged apparatus that passes for a mouth. To exterminate the creatures, Blade forms an uneasy alliance with a band o f elite vampires. (G enre: horror, action; R ating: R) Luau at Pacific University Sat., April 13 Pacific University Hawaiian C lub’s4 2 n,)annual Luau is scheduled for Saturday, April 13. The them e for the Luau is “ ’N o Task Is T oo Big W hen Done T o gether.” T he evening will feature Polynesian dance, music and entertainm ent, as well as an authentic luau menu. The Luau meal is scheduled for4:30 p.m. in the U niversity C enter on the cam pus in Forest Grove. Call 503-359-2107. Oregon Children’s Theatre April 13 & 27 O regon C h ild re n ’s T h e a tre p re se n ts “O n the T h re sh o ld o f Life: A n n e F rank R e m e m b ered ,” ad ap ted from A nne F ra n k ’s d ia ry by Jan B arros. T he p lay w ill be p erfo rm ed in co n ju n ctio n w ith the “ A n n e F rank: A H isto ry fo r T o d a y ” ex h ib it, from A pril 7 - M ay 5 at the Lloyd C enter on Satur days, April 13 and 27 at 2 p.m. Call 503-228-9571 or go online to www.QCtC.org. Lakewood Theatre Company Sun., April 14 Lakew ood Theatre presents Eugene O ’N eill’s clas sic “com ing o f age” com edy “Ah, Wi ldem ess!” This sunny sum m er tale, laced with hum or, centers on the M iller fam ily and their teenage son R ichard, w ho is teetering on the edge o f m anhood. Perform ances o f “Ah, W ildem ess!” continuesuntil Sunday, April 14. For reservations, call 5O3-635-39OI. Portland Center Stage Through April 14 Mae W est com es alive in the Portland C enter Stage play called “Dirty Blond.” In the story, Jo and Charlie are obsessed w ith M ae W e st's sexy screen goddess image. Both are aw kw ard, unlikely acolytes, but then Mae m ade an art - or at least an entertaining act - out o f being different. Perform ances are from M arch 26 - April 14 at the N ew m ark Theatre, located at 1111 S.W. Broadw ay and Main. Call 503-248-6309. I
