Portland observer. (Portland, Or.) 1970-current, May 18, 2005, Page 16, Image 16

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World Sounds at Children’s Museum
Rick Cregg’s metal sculptures por­
tray animals and abstracted forms.
Oil, Metal Artists Featured
The Guardino Gal lery, 2939 N.E.
Alberta, will feature two artists this
month featuring fabricated metal
sculptors and landscape oil paint­
ings.
Rick G regg’s metal sculptors
portray anim als and abstracted
form s. W ith a back g ro u n d in
blacksmithing and fabrication, he
uses torches to sculpt beyond nor­
mal boundaries of heating, bending
and welding to push the metal with
the flame in the way sculptors
w ould m ove clay w ith their
thumbs.
Michael Southern will be show-
ing a selection of his most recent
landscapes. Painting with oil on
woods, he’s drawn to bold natural
colors connected to the outdoors.
A reception for both artists is
scheduled May 26 from 6 p.m. to
9 p.m. during the Last Thursday
Art Walk on Alberta.
C A N N O N 'S
RIB EXPRESS
(FORMERLY CHUCK HINTON'S)
The Portland Children’s M u­
seum, 4015 S. W. Canyon Rd., across
from the Oregon Zoo, is offering a
celebration of the music, words and
rhythms of world cultures each
Sunday though June 26.
The W orldSounds series is pre­
sented by the Spirit Mountain Com­
munity Fund and showcases musi­
cians, dancers and storytellers from
traditions as diverse as Eastern
European Klezmer and Northwest
Native American to Caribbean ca­
lypso.
Show tim esare 1 p.m .and3p.m .
except when noted in the museum’s
Imagination Theater. Tickets are
free with museum admission.
On May 22, Harold Paul and
Family will perform Native Ameri­
can cultural songs, dance, and tra­
ditions. On May 29, Nava presents
Mexican songs and games. On June
5, Portland Taiko, the award-win­
ning Asian American drumming
ensemble.
On June 12, Viva La Cultura
brings its vivid retelling of Native
A merican, M exican and Cuban
folktales through theater, music,
song and movement. On June 19,
Lions of Batucada, a marching per­
cussion ensemble will play Afri­
can-influenced dance music of Bra­
zil. On June 26, Maria del Rey per­
forms children's songs and stories A member of the award-winning Aslan American drumming
from Latin America.
ensemble, Taiko.
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(AP)— “Gilligan’s Island" is get­
ting a little d iv e rsity . T iy-E
Muhammad, 35, a psychology and
human sexuality professor from At­
lanta, stars as one of the Professors
in the upcoming second installment
ofTBS' “The Real Gilligan’s Island,"
which premieres June 8.
“A black person on Gilligan’s
Island’? I think the only other time
they had a black person on there
was the Globetrotters,” Muhammad
said. (The Harlem Globetrotters vis­
ited the island in a 1981 TV movie.)
In the reality-show take on the
’60s stranded-on-an-uncharted-is-
land sitcom, two real-life versions
of the “Gilligan’s Island" crew live
together in a village reminiscent of
the CBS show