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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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“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."
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Wild Party
Excite your child with a birthday
party in the woods, meadow or
near a pond, hosted by Portland
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Themes include forest fairies, In
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vors. For more information, call
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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."
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