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Ashanti, Musiq Earn Soul Train Honors
(AP) — Ashanli and Musiq took
top honors, while Mariah Carey
and LL Cool J received career
achievement awards, at the 17th
annual Soul Train Awards.
Ashanti won best female R&B/
Soul Single Saturday fo r“Foolish”
and best album fo r“Ashanti,” „eat­
ing out works by fellow Grammy
winners Erykah Badu and India
Arie.
Musiq won for best male R&B/
Soul Single for the second year in a
row with “Dontchange." He won
best album in the same category
with “Juslisen.” beating Maxwell,
Justin Timberlake and last year’s
winner Usher.
“I feel very, very very good,”
Musiq said. “I feel honored and I
feel grateful."
“ Bump, Bump, Bump," by B2 K,
featuring P. Diddy, won in the best
single by a group or duo category,
while B2K won for their self-titled
album in the same category.
Queen Latifah and Arsenio Hall
co-hosted the event, which fea­
tured award presenters Baby Face,
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Rosa Parks
Undecided on
Oscar Appearance
(AP) — A documentary about
Rosa Parks has been nominated for
an Oscar, but the civil rights pio­
neer hasn’t decided whether she’ll
attend the academy awards.
She’s been invited to attend the
March 23 ceremony by civil rights
attorney Morris Dees.
Elaine Steele, co-founder o f the
Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute
for S elf Improvement, said the 90-
year-old Parks would like to attend,
and “w e’ll see ifw e’ll be able to go.”
Parks is the subject o f “Mighty
Times: The Legacy o f Rosa Parks,”
which is nominated for a best-docu­
mentary Oscar.
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Ashanti
Musiq
Jennifer Lopez and Chris Rock.
Rapper Nelly won the Sammy
Davis Jr. Entertainer o f the Year
Award.
“W e’ve only being doing this a Nelly said.
short amount oftim e, and you don’t
The Soul Train Music Awards
think you’ll be receiving awards celebrates artists in R&B, hip-hop,
like that so early on in your career," rap and gospel music.
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(AP) — Nobel Prize-w inning
novelist Toni M orrison is co l­
laborating on an opera based
on the life o f an escaped slave
w ho tried to kill her fam ily to
avoid returning to captivity.
M ichigan O pera T heatre and
opera com panies in Philadelphia
and Cincinnati com m issioned
th e w o rk by M o rriso n and
A m erican com poser R ichard
D anielpour. I t’s scheduled to
prem iere at the D etroit O pera
House in May 2005, with mezzo-
soprano D enyce G raves sing­
ing the title role.
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“ M argaret G arner" is based
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Toni Morrison
on G arner’s flight from Kentucky
to the fre^stiite o f O hio in 1856.
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M o rris o n ’s 1987 no v el “ B e­
loved.”
W hen slave-hunters tracked
dow n G arner, her husband and
c h ild r e n , sh e s lit h e r b a b y
d a u g h te r's throat as part o f a
thw arted attem pt to kill the family
to avert a return to slavery.
She w as found guilty o f "d e­
stroying p roperty” and returned
to slavery.
“ I wanted a work that had genu­
ine resonance for Detroit,” Michi­
gan Opera Theatre general director
David DiChiera said Wednesday.
A bout 83 percent o f D etro it’s
950,000 people are black.
P. Diddy to Open for Soul Food
(AP)— Sean “P. Diddy” Combs
plans to open a restaurant in down­
town Detroit, an associate o f the
hip-hop entrepreneur said.
The Justin’s restaurant will
open in four to eight months at a
location yet to be determined, said
Andre Suite, executive vice presi­
dent o f Justin’s. Combs will have
the final word on the location, he
said.
“We want to be right where the
rebirth is-oneoftheattractions in
the downtown area," Suite said.
There already are two Justin’s,
Go to Paris without leaving Portland
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Until March 23, the Portland Art Museum will feature
'Paris to Portland: Impressionist and Post-lmpressionis
Masters in Portland Collections. ’ The show includes 165 works
drawn from private collections in the Portland area and has work by
Cezanne. Renoir, Monet, Gauguin, Picasso and prints by Toulouse-
Lautrec, amongst others.
Sean “P. Diddy" Combs will
open a new Justin 's restaurant
in the heart of downtown
Detroit. Combs is the owner of
two other Justin’s, one in New
York and another in Atlanta.
JN M C N T
the original in New York and an­
other in Atlanta. The restaurants,
which offer soul and Caribbean
food, are named after Com bs’ old­
est son.
Besides the restaurants, Combs
owns the Bad Boy record label, the
Sean John clothing line and a m ar­
ket research company.
Fortune magazine once esti­
m ated th e G ra m m y -w in n in g
performer’sannual eamingsat more
than $50 million. Sean John did a
reported $325 million in sales in
2002.
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Smith is a Portland Psychiatrist specializing in
individual psychotherapy. During the opening
night o f his exhibit on March 7 from 5:30 to 7:30p.m .
a panel discussion entitled ‘Art, Psychoanalysis and the
C reative P rocess’ will be held with m em bers o f P SU ’s Art and
Psychology departm ents.
Margaret Cho‘Revolution Tour'
ReparationsThursdays
David Park’s new band. The Reparations, will play every Thursday at 9
p.m. with DJ Chill and special guest performers and DJs at The Red Sea,
318 S.W. Third Ave. Admission for those 21 and older is $5.
PCC Kit Kat Klub Cabaret
The Portland Community College Theater Arts department presents the
fabulous musical, the Kit Kat Klub, at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, March 7
through Sunday, March 9 and Friday, March 13 through Sunday, March
15. The show features an emcee that leads the audience through a wild
and decadent journey into Berlin's Kit Kat Klub in 1929. The play follows
thecharacterofC liffB radshaw ashem eets Sally B ow lesandthegirlsof
the Kit Kat Club. The production contains mature subject matter that may
not be suitable foryoungeraudiencem em bers. Ticketsare $8 forgeneral
admission and $5 for students and seniors. The play will be performed
at the Performing Arts Center at the Sylvania Campus, 12000 S.W. 49,h
Ave. For tickets or information, call 503-977-4949.
City of Angels
Mt. Hood Community College students are showcasing their talents with
a winter production o f City o f A ngels,' a musical spoof o f the private
eyem oviesofthe40s. Written by Larry Gelbart, thecreatorof'M . A S H .,’
the show is the interweaving o f two plots, one dealing with the writing
o f a screenplay in legendary 40s Hollywood, and the other involving the
enactment o f that screenplay. ‘City o f A ngels' debuts in the MHCC’
College Theater on Friday. March 7 at 8 p.m. For more information, call
503-491-7154.
The Faces of Art and Psychology
‘F aces’ by G ary Mac Sm ith will be show ing from Friday. M arch 7
through M atch 28 at Portland State U n iv ersity ’s Littnian G allery.
W ith the sam e unbridled, no holds-barred hum or that has m ade her
famous, M argaret Cho will tackle the axis o f evil, her travels through
Thialand s red light d istrict, the explosion o f child birth, bartering
sex for household chores, revolutionizing your self-esteem , the joy
o f bodily functions, her loosed ex-boyfriend, and o f course, her
w orld-fam ous m other and much more that cannot be printed. Cho
will perform in Portland on Thursday, March 13 at the A rlene
S chnitzerC oncert Hall.
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Black Cultural Affairs Board
Present:
1st Annual Ebony Ball
The Black Cultural Affairs Board at Portland
State University is hosting the "I” Annual
Ebony Ball" with one of the hottest DJ in Town
(DJ OG One).
This is a formal dance in celebration of the last
event for the calendar of Black History Month.
"Sail the night away."
Portland Spirit (Fountain) @ Waterfront
Friday March 14, 2003
Must Board by 10:30 p.m. and lasts until 2 a.m.
$15 students, $20 general, and $25 at the door.
Tickets are now on sale @ PSU box office, Ticket
master, and on sale in the cafeteria everyday
from 12 p.m. - 1 p.m.
If you have any questions please call or e-mail
us:
Black Cultural Affairs Board
503-725-5660
bcab@mail. pdx.edu
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Portland Symphonic Girlchoir
The Portland Symphonic (iirlchoir, a 170-member choir for girls ages six
through 18, will host its annual Informance Teacher Appreciation
Concert, on Monday, March 17 at 7 p.m. at the First United Methodist
C hurch, located at Southwest 18"'and Jefferson. Admission to the event
will bea free-will donation to the Goose Hollow Family Shelter. For more
information, call 503-226-6162.
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Back to the Doo Wop days
High school friends from D etroit’s North End. Levi Stubbs, Renoldo
“O bie" Benson, Abdul "D u k e" Fakir and Lawrence Payton began
m arveling their audiences w ith an infectious blend o f pure vocal
pow er and sw eet harm onies in 1954. Once they signed with M otown
Records in the 60s as the Four Tops, the group churned out hit after
hit eventually ending w ith an induction into the Rock and Roll Hall
of Fame. W ith 43 years o f playing history, the group will play at
C hinook W inds C asino on Friday, March 21 and Saturday, March
22 at 8 p.m. Tickets are $25 to $40 depending on scat location. For
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