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A l i c i a KLeys
1631 ME Alberta Street
Portland, Oregon
Turns 22, Celebrates
$10 Million in Sales
(503) 288-1053
Singer is currently
recording her
second album
(AP) — Some people celebrate
their birthday with a cake. Alicia
Keys celebrated with a plaque rec
ognizing $ 10 million in salesofher
debut disc, “Songs in A Minor.”
The five-time Grammy Award-
winner marked both milestones
with a party hosted by her men
tor, J Records founder Clive
Davis.
Though she turned 22 on Jan. 25,
the crowd o f well-wishers sang
Singer Alicia Keys
celebrated her
22™ birthday
with a plaque
recognizing 1 0
m illion in
sales o th e r
debut disc,
"Songs in A
Minor." {AP Photo)
"Happy Birthday" to her four days
later as she received the plaque
from Davis.
With her long hair flowing from
beneath a brown fedora, it ap
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peared that Keys had taken out
her signature braids. But when
she removed the hat, the singer
revealed the top o f her.hair - still
in comrows.
“They're always in there,” she
laughed.
- singer Alicia Keys on her upcoming album
Keys is keeping busy in the stu
dio working on her sophomore al
bum.
going to be,” she told The Associ- an evolving person, it’s always
“Everything is going to be from ated Press. “The basis o f it is deft- going to be new and different be-
my heart, which is how it always is nitely going to be the same, but me as cause I ’ m new and di fferent.”
Everything is going to be from
my heart, which is how it always
is going to be.
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Get The Blues...
‘Secret Life of Bees’ Creates a Buzz
Story tells of women’s strength and rites of passage
The Secret Life o f Bees, by
Sue Monk Kidd. 3 2 0 pages,
published by Penguin Books.
Sue Monk Kidd’s ravishing de
but novel. The Secret Life o f Bees,
is the story o f Lily Owens, a girl
who has shaped her life around
one devastating memory - the
afternoon her mother was killed
when she was four.
Besides her harsh and unyield
ing father, Lily’s only real com
panion is Rosaleen, a tender but
fierce-hearted black woman who
cooks, cleans and acts as Lily’s
stand-in mother.
O ne sum m er afternoon in
964 in South Carolina - a place
and tim e o f seething racial d i
vides - violence explodes and
Rosaleen is arrested and beaten.
Lily is desperate, not only to
save Rosaleen, but to flee from
a life she can no longer endure.
Calling upon her youthful dar
ing, she breaks Rosaleen out o f
jail and the two escape into what
quickly becom es L ily ’s quest
for the truth about her m other’s
life.
They are taken in by three
black beekeeping sisters. May,
June and August. Lily is con
sumed by their secret w orld o f
bees and honey and o f the Black
M adonna who presides over
this household o f strong and
w ise women. L ily ’s jo u rn ey is
o f painful secrets and shatter
ing betrayals - but it is a pas
sage that ultim ately helps her
find the thing her heart longs
for most.
The Secret Life if Bees al
lows the reader into a world
apart - in a novel whose strong,
irresistible voice catches up
and doesn’t let go.
The Secret Life o f Bees is a
mesmerizing novel about the
divine power o f women, o f
women with extraordinary gifts,
coping with loss and finding
forgiveness and esp ecially
learning to forgive themselves.
It is the kind o f novel women
share with each other and that
mothers and daughters will be
sharing for years to come.
Magic Johnson Bounces Back into TV PIZZA
HIV-positive
A G O GO
" It s not about me.
basketball star will
It s about the street
We Deliver!
produce reality show
about street ball
(AP)— Basketball great Earvin
“Magic” Johnson is getting back
into the TV game after fouling out
in 1998 with his talk show.
Johnson said Wednesday he
will produce and occasionally
appear in the MTV reality show
“Who's Got Game, " document
ing the lives o f 12 street basket
ball players competing for fame
and a $ 100,000 prize.
Johnson said he’s trying to
play to his strengths as an athlete
after the ill-advised attempt to be
a comediatr-interviewer on his
own late-night talk show, which
was pummeled by critics and can
celed after two months.
“This is what I’m all about:
basketball. I grew up playing
street basketball. I w asn’t m yself
in “The M agic H o u r,“ said
Johnson, who will visit neigh
borhoods in cities such as Wash
ington, New Y ork, Chicago, Hous
ton and Los Angeles in the next
two months scouting for contes
tants.
“I want the guys who are just
street b a llp la y e rs,” he said.
"They’re not as famous as guys in
college and the NBA, but they’re
famous in theirown neighborhoods
or playgrounds.”
Contestants will be limited to
men over 18, but Johnson said he
would consider a new version with
women if the show succeeds.
Set to debut this summer, the
show would include 10 episodes
showcasing the history o f the play
ers, their interactions with each
other off the court and ending with
a basketball game.
Players would beeliminated from
the teams after each show and the
final episode would be a one-on-
one competition, Johnson said.
Besides the money, the winner will
get his neighborhood court refur
bished and renamed in his honor.
Johnson, who announced he
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- Earvin “Magic" Johnson on the
realltyshow, Who sGotGame’
was HIV-positive in 1991, helped sequently, he’s built a business
the Los Angeles Lakers win five empire including movie theaters,
championships during his National restaurants, shopping centers and
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ASCC and Clark College Welcomes
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