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Focus
Chappelle
Drops By
Show
Music Walk Features
Local Talent
(AP) — Is Dave C happelle
b ack? T he A W O L c o m ed ian
dropped in unannounced at two
popular com edy clubs last T hurs
day night, saying he had ju st ar
rived in Los A ngeles and felt like
performing.
D aily V ariety reported that
C happelle served up som e im
prom ptu standup to stunned au
diences at the H ollyw ood Improv
and the Com edy Store.
C happelle, 31, took o ff last
month to South Africa for a “spiri
tual retreat,” leaving his fans -
and even his agent and publicist
- w ondering w here he went.
A fte r C o m ed y C en tral a n
nounced that the planned May
31 debut o f the third season of
“C h ap p elle’s S how ” had been
postponed, the m agazine E nter
tainm ent W eekly reported that
Comedian Dave Chappelle on stage at the Laugh Factory in New York City in April 2004. (AP photo)
C happelle had checked him self view with Tim e magazine.
into a m ental health facility in
Instead, he fled to stay with
South Africa.
friends in D urban because he
But Chappelle denied check w asn’t happy w ith the direction
ing into a m ental facility or hav o f the show, which is behind only
ing a drug problem in an inter “ S o u th P a r k ” as C o m e d y
C entral’s most-watched program.
An unnam ed Com edy Central
representative told V ariety that
netw ork officials would be sit
ting dow n with Chappelle to talk
business “really, really soon.”
Former Soldiers Put Out Rap Album
War recording
recounts horror
(A P) - As S taff Sgt. T errance
Staves dodged bullets recover
ing a b u rn e d -o u t H um vee in
B aghdad’s Sadr C ity, he heard a
rocket-pow ered grenade zooming
tow ard him. All he could do was
hold his breath, he recalled, when
it crashed into the arm ored B rad
ley vehicle sitting ju st feet in front
ofhim .
Back at cam p. Staves w ent to
his m akeshift recording booth to
vent his anger and fear by sp it
ting rap lyrics. Som e o f those lyr
ics were used on “Live From
Iraq,” an album he and a few other
Fort Hood soldiers w rote, re
corded and produced while on a
one-year deploym ent in Iraq.
On the 15-track album, soldiers
Army soldiers from left, Mike Thomas, Edward Gregory, Terrance
Staves, Neal Saunders and Mike Davis in Killeen, Texas. (AP photo)
voice frustration at what they call me t o ... be able to get in the booth
shabby equipm ent and the lack and let all my anger out was won
o f support they feel from the derful. Because sometimes you
A m erican public. The album vig can’t let all your anger out there
orously defends soldiers charged because you might endanger your
with crim es for actions com m it self, your brothers or do something
ted during the conflict.
you’re not supposed to do. It was
“I was outside the gate a lot and a beautiful outlet.”
had a lot of stuff happen to me,”
The group led by Sgt. Neal
said Staves, 26, of Houston. “So for “ Big N eal” Saunders, includes
Sgt. Edward “G reg-O ” Gregory,
Staves, Spc. M ichael “Paperboi”
D avis, Sgt. Ronin Clay and Spc.
M ichael Thomas.
T h ey w ere d e p lo y e d w ith
Taskforce 112 o f the 1st Calvary
D ivision at Fort Hood on March
12,2004, and returned exactly one
year later.
W ithin tw o weeks, the CD was
m astered and the group had 2,000
copies made. The group has sold
about 1,000 copies through its
W eb site and a regional music
store chain has agreed to sell it.
The a lb u m ’s title track re
counts a particularly bloody day
last April when eight o f their fel
low soldiers were killed in a fierce
gunbattle:
“This here is blood of soldiers
o f w hich the streets are paved ...
And there is no reim bursem ent
for the price that we pay.”
T he 2 nd T h u rsd a y M u sic
Walk on M ississippi A venue,
show casing the diversity of lo
cal talent and businesses, takes
p la c e on Ju n e 9. T he new
monthly event features partici
p atin g b u sin e sse s on N orth
M ississippi A venue betw een
Skidmore and Fremont.
Events at the Music Walk in
May, such as the “Swing Mod”
show at Belle Epoque Salon, at
tracted huge crowds that backed
into the street.
Many restaurants, studios and
clubs will be featuring live music
throughout the night. Other par
ticipating merchants along the av
enue will be open late for business,
with some holding their own events
such as music, open houses and art
exhibits.
A few featured acts this month
include Dylan T hom as V ance,
Muckish and Jim Boyer. Arts and
c ra fts, a fa sh io n show and
firedancers will also be included.
Festivities begin around 6 p.m.
Play B enefits A ID S F ight
The hit Broadway play “D e
fending the Cavem an” will be
presented at Jesuit High School
on Thursday, June 16 at 8 p.m.
as part o f an ongoing effort to
help the AIDS crisis in Africa.
The play, a hum orous explo
ration of the differences be
tw een men and w om en, has
played to sold out audiences
around the world.
Proceeds from the perfor
mance will help defray costs for
local film m aker Peter G lenn’s
“ Into the Light: Exposing AIDS
in Tanzania” - a feature docu-
mentary that will follow sociolo
gist M ama Lyim o on a journey
across the A frican nation o f
T anzania to explore why AIDS
continues to devastate the re
gion.
The docum entary will be used
as a tool to educate A m erican
audienceson AIDS in A fricaand
in f u n d r a is in g to s u p p o rt
grassroots AIDS prevention and
treatm ent program s in Tanzania.
Tickets are available at Ticket
M aster outlets or by calling the
Ticket M aster hotline: 503-790-
ARTS.
Stevie Wonder a Dad Again a t 5 5
(AP) — There was quite a 55th
birthday surprise for entertainer
Stevie W onder - the birth of his
seventh child.
Wonder and his fashion de-
signerwife Kai MillardMorrisan-
nounced Monday that they are
the proud parents of a boy born
May 13, the singer’s 55 birthday.
It was the couple’s first child.
Mandla Kadjaly Carl Stevland
M orris w eighed 7-pounds, 8-
ounces and was 20-inches long,
publicist Howard Bragman said.
Mandla means Powerful and Defi
ant in Zulu and Kadjaly is Swahili
for Bom From God, the spokesman
said in a news release.
The Grammy-winning singer is
currently in the studio completing
his “A Time To Love” album, his
first in 10 years.
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Fan Tackled at Snoop Dogg Show
(AP) - King C ounty sh eriff’s
d e p u tie s a re in v e s tig a tin g a
con certg o er’s claim that he was
severely beaten onstage during a
perform ance by Snoop D ogg at
the W hite River A m phitheatre
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Richard M onroe, 24, said per
form ers had encouraged him to
clim b on the stage during the May
28 concert, w hich also featured
The Game.
Some perform ers and others
on the stage kicked and punched
him, poured alcohol on him, ripped
out his diam ond earrin g s and
stole his w atch, cell phone and
w allet, M onroe said.
“They beat me like a slave,” he
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P o st-
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ju st w ent too far.”
A m ateur video footage aired
on KING Television showed a
man being tackled by several oth
ers a fte r a p p ro a c h in g S noop
Dogg from behind and putting
his arm aro u n d the r a p p e r ’s
sh o u ld ers.
Relatives told the new spaper
that M onroe su ffered bruised
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