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< Page P B2 December IO. 2003 (Elje Jlortlanh (ßbseruer ï Focus Book Looks at Softer Side of Ttipac An authorized novel "Inside a T hug's Heart” will be released in 1 May 2004, depicting the intimate sideof the slain rapperTupac Shakur. Tupac The book documents Shakur's Shakur thoughts during his 1995 incarcera tion, including poems, lyrics, short stories and an overall compelling portrait of the artist. Bixiksellers note that material Author Angela Ardis completed by or about Shakur sells extremely well, noting that one of the latest in the story with the intention of show a series of Shakur material. "Holler ing a gentler side of Shakur, who is if You Hear Me" went to press often portrayed as hostile. “Inside a Thug's Heart" will be twice, selling 80,000copies within released by Kensington Press. the first month. I Anmfvif SuMomr U h m . Changing Ihn. Helpline (Make The Call): 800-923-HELP Linea de Ayuda (Spanish): 877-515-7848 Youthline (Teen Helpline): 877-553-TEEN Spike Lee Takes Swipe at Rap (AP) — Continuing his criti cans by listening to their music,” cism of some o f the lyrics in rap. Lee said. "Some of this gangsta Spike Lee told an audience at rap' stuff, it’s not doing anybody Brown University that a lot of any good. This stuff is really dan popular music portrays blacks in gerous.” He said some black adults equate a negative light. Speaking to an audience of education, grxxl grammar and good more than 4 0 0 students Dec. I, grades with "being white," but when the director o f films including he was growing up, those things “ D o the R ight T h in g ” and were seen as positive goals. "You were not ridiculed if you “Malcolm X" repeated the com plaints h e 's made at colleges spoke correct English," he said. and universities over the past Lee urged the audience to make their voices heard by not buying or Filmmaker Spike Lee speaks to students at Brown University in “, v e always felt y ° u can teel viewing anything that portrays Providence, R.l. (APphoto) ,he Pro8ress ° ‘ A tncan A m en’ blacks in a negative way. year M t Í Í A IS M I M Running Cafe# EAT2 ^ t , K E)Tl!l OREGON PARTNERSHIP What a View! R Kelly Fights Pornography Charge Take in the Portland lights from the Stem wheeler for Christmas through Dec. 28. Admission ranges from $20 to $65 for dinner, dancing and holiday brunches. For more information, visit www.stemwheeler.com or call 800-643-1354. C n rik h c n r* 6 C a ju n C u is in e .4II0NE Fremont, 503-282-2118 Majestic Santa’s Late Find Santa at the Oregon Z oo's holiday simulator ride for the holidays through Dec. 28. Call 503-226-1561 or visit www.oregonzoo.org for more information. Ozzie's Birthday Join Oregon Zoo staff for a third birthday party for Ozzie, the famous otter, who was conceived, bom and raised by his mother in captivity. Birthday party guests receivecupcakes. For more information, call 503- 226-1561 or visit www.oregonzoo.org. M o rtg a g e S e rv ic e s In c . No up front cost Revel Rousers The Portland Revels presents the 2003 Christm as Revels Stage through Sunday, Dec. 14. Tickets are $25, and discounts are avail able. For more information, visit www.portlandrevels.org. (^losing cost and dawn payment ^Assistance programs. 100". financing options avtiiluhle Challenged credit O.K. ¥ ß Call Marlene Holiday for your Free Loan Consultation: 503-236-5599 m aileneh@ m ajesticniortgage.eom •4 ■ V I 431 NE Jarrett Street Portland, OR 97211 (503) 493-6027 Fax (503) 493-6029 com vwest@vwservices Charles Gayle Sax Flies West Charles Gayle, a New York jazz saxophone street performer, will have a rare West Coast perfor mance at Disjecta, 116N.E.Russell St., on Jan. 10. Free. Arts Benefit The Talisman Gallery presents “Foot Square." benefiting Habitat For Humanity, through Dec. 28. For more information, call 503-287-9529. Kwanzaa Gala Bridge Builders is holding its seventh annual Kwanzaa Gala and Initiates Ball at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 27 at the Portland Center for the Performing Arts. Tickets are $30. For more information, call 503-306- 2960. General Contractor CCB# 153199 Let us 6ui(cf it o r fis it within your 6udget All New Christmas Carol We like little jobs too! Licensed • Bonded • Insured Vernell West, President The Northwest Children's Theater and School presents the "All New Christmas Carol" at the Northwest Neighborhood Cultural Center, 1819 N.W. Everett St., through Dec. 24. Tickets are $20 for adults. For show tim es and more inform ation, call 503-222-4480 or visit www.nwcts.org. Happy Times fe aturin g Tosha T Siyftst/Mair Consultant Cell: 503-381-7095 Walk-Ins Welcome Style Solutions: BEAUTY & BARBER SALON shop: 503-280-4938 2723 NE 7th Avenue, Portland, OK 97212 The Children's Museum iscreating happy times for kids during the holidays including clay glazing workshops from 2 to 4 p.m. each Saturday this month. For more in formation, call 503-223-6500. Multicultural Carols Kathleen "Catalina" Juergens plays soulful, revolutionary folk music and multicultural Christmas songs at 7 p.m. Dec. 15 at the Red and Kathleen “Catalina ' Juergens Black Café, 2 138 SE Division St. $3 cover. For more information, visit www.redemmarecords.com. Taking A p p lic a tio n s For Next Year's 6th and 7th G rade Students MIDDLE SCHOOL 503-789-9099 R Kelly (AP) — Attorneys defending R&B star R. Kelly against child pornography charges have filed a host of motions, including one con tending the alleged victim could have been old enough to legally consent to sex. Also included in the 11 motions K elly's attorneys filed Dec. I in Cook County Circuit Court is the argument that the case should be dism issed because prosecutors failed to specify the date of the alleged crime in their indictment against Kelly, 36. Kelly, whose first name is Rob ert, was arrested in June 2002 after a videotape surfaced that allegedly , showed the Grammy winner having sex with a girl. By alleging that the illegal ac ts’ happened between November 1997 and February 2002, Kelly’s attor neys argue, the girl could be any where from 13 to 17 years old. If she was 17 at the time, she would have been old enough to consent to sex. Further, they argue, such a large window of time makes it impossible for Kelly to mount a fair defense. 1 ' Eminem Called on Racist Lyrics (AP) — The Source maga zine has Eminem on the defen sive over a deeade-old song that calls black girls “dumb” and depicts them as gold dig gers. In the latest chapter of the S ource’s cam paign against Eminem, Source principals David Mays and Raymond Scott held a press conference to play the recording. It fea tures Eminem, who is white, saying things like: "Black girls are dumb and white girls are good chicks.” There also is another brief song in which a rapper, who the Source says is Eminem, Eminem uses the n-word. The tape was provided to the “I'd just broken up with my girl- magazine by "three white hip-hop friend, who was African American, fans from Detroit who were peers of and I reacted like the angry, stupid Eminem in the early 90s, at the time kid I was. I hope people will take it of the recording,” the Source said for the foolishness that it was, not for what sometxxly is try i ng to make in a press release. Eminem acknowledged that he it into today.” Eminem has a history o f inflam made the song deriding black women. He said in a statement it matory and derogatory comments was "something I made out of an about women, gays, and just about ger, stupidity and frustration when everyone else in between, includ ing his mother and his ex-wife. I was a teenager." Urban Bush Women White Bird and the PSU Dance Series presents return of Urban Bush Women in “Shadow’s Child” at 8 p.m. from Dec. I l-13atPSU 's Lin coln Hall, Sorthwest Park and Market. Tickets are $24 with stu dent discounts available. For tick ets, call 503-224-4400. Give Your Child An Outstanding Education ¡ “We buy all this stuff, not even thinking about w hat's behind i t ... Think about the power that we have,” the 46-year-old said. “We can't just sit back and think it doesn't affect us. We have to do something about it. We have to be more choosy about the types of stuff we support.” Lee also urged students to fol low their dreams after graduation, “or you'll be sitting around, fat, divorced and miserable because you took some job, or you took some path that you didn't really want to do." 5250 NE Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd. Trippln' through Town Take a trip through time to find the hottest poetry, hip-hop and soul influencing Portland Wednesdays at the Ohm. $7cover. 31 N.W.First Ave. Wild Party Excite your child with a birthday party in the woods, meadow or near a pond, hosted by Portland P arks and R e crea tio n sta ff. Themes include forest fairies, In dian legends. Lewis and Clark ex ploration, animal tracking,camou flage critters and more. Parties begin at $ I (X) for 10 children, in cluding games, activities and fa vors. For more information, call 503-823-3601. Mystikal Sentencing Delayed h e a rin g on a tto rn e y D avid Bourland's complaint. Tyler. 33, and two bodyguards pleaded guilty in June to sexual battery, which has a maximum 10- year prison sentence. They'd videotaped themselves in forced sex acts with T yler's hair stylist. The woman said Tyler ac cused her of stealing $8().(XX) worth o f his checks and told her he w ouldn't go to police if she did something "degrading." according Mystikal to prosecutor Sue Bernie. The (AP) — The Louisiana judge woman has denied stealing money. Bourland said he and the fxxly- who accepted rapper Mystikal's g u ilty plea to sexual b attery guards’ attorneys would argue to shouldn't be allowed to sentence withdraw the guilty pleas next him because he has seen an “in month. “My client would not have en flammatory" videotape of the as tered a plea if he knew the tape was sault, his lawyer says. The rapper, whose real name is going to be shown, because it's Michael Tyler, had been scheduled inflammatory," he said. "The tape for sentencing last Wednesday, but doesn't reflect the entirety of the it was put off until Jan. 15 after a events." r