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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
near Seattle.
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
to ld
th e
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P o st-
Intelligencer. “It's horrible. They
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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