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Peter Pan is a Holiday Classic
Athena Patterson
and Brendan
Robinson
perform in
Northwest
Childrens
Theater's
Peter Pan.
Children’s theater presents beloved fairy tale
Since 1905, audiences have fol away to a magical Never Land W endy, p o rtray ed by A thena
lowed the "second star to the right filled with pirates, m erm aids and Patterson, growing up and her love
for Peter, played by B rendan
” with the holiday classic Peter Pan, Lost Boys.
Robinson.”
or the Boy Who Would Not
To that end, the play
Grow Up.
has
Wendy (Cecily Over
N orthw est C h ild re n ’s
man)
as a grown woman
Theater and school, cel
recalling
her girlhood ad
ebrates the centennial of
ventures
in Never Land.
J.M. Barrie’s masterpiece
Also
she
outgrows Peter
with performances from Fri
and u ltim a te ly has to
day, Dec. 2 to Dec. 31 at the
choose between growing
Northwest N eighborhood
up or remaining forever a
Cultural Center, 3819 N.W.
child.
It’s a choice every
Everett St.
young person has to make.
This marks a decade since
N orthw est C hildrens
Peter Pan ’ s first flight by the
T heater’s “Family Date
--John Monteverde, director
local theater group in a pro
Night” offers a fami ly-sty le
duction carefully adapted by
“At its heart Peter Pan is a love dinner before the Friday, Dec .9
John Caird and Trevor Nunn.
Everyone is fam iliar with the s to ry ,” said d ire c to r John performance.
For information call 503-222-2190
tale o f the m agical boy w ho Monteverde. He is directing the
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,, k id e w«»nsR, -mH hi>r h rn th p ix show fo r the fourth time.
At its heart Peter Pan
is a love story. Its about
Wendy, portrayed by
Athena Patterson,
growing UP and her lOVe
fo r Peter, played by
Brendan Robinson.
Industry Honors Kanye West
(AP) — Kanye West will receive
he Artist Achievement Award at the
’005 Billboard Music Awards, which
will be presented Dec. 6 in Las Vegas.
Past recipients of the award, which
'ecognizes both artistic excellence and
Billboard chart success, include Rod
Stewart, Eric Clapton, Madonna, Garth
Brooks, Aerosmith, Janet Jackson,
Cher and Destiny’s Child.
The awards will air live from the
Kanye West
MGM Grand Garden Arena on Fox,
KPTV Channel 12 in Portland.
“Kanye West has not only had a
huge impact on R&B/hip-hop, he has
transformed modem music as a whole,”
Tamara Conniff. co-executive editor of
Billboard, said in a statement Thursday.
The Billboard Music Awards recog
nize the year's leading artists and songs
as determ ined by perform ance on
Billboard’s weekly charts.
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Education Promoted as Cool
to find a way to make “Jungle Fever” and “M alcolm X,”
(AP)— Spike Lee says
being educated cool to show the diversity o f the black
re value of education is
experience.
again.
eing overshadowed by
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then,
we
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were not called sell
up glorifies.
outs for using our
“Y oung black kids
brains. And being
idn’t grow up wanting
intelligent was not
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upon,” Lee
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said.
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He likened the im
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from some rap
He drew two standing
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videos
to the d is
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torted
view
minstrel
shows
of the
eatured speaker at a conference on
19th
century
gave
most
of
the
world
ultural diversity at Middle Ten-
about
American
blacks.
lessee State University.
Lee said he has tried through
The 48-y ear-old filmmaker, who
his
film s, which include “School
s working on a documentary on
D
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“Do the Right Thing,”
Hurricane Katrina, urged students
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Down Home Soul
Down Home Soul,
a new album from
the Body & Soul
series that
features classic
soul singers like
Otis Redding, The
Staples Singers,
Al Green, Aretha
Franklin and
Solomon Burke is
scheduled for
release on Dec. 6
They’re all around you.
Gambling can have its own safety features
When you gamble,
Set a budget.
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Sam Cooke - The Memoirs
Soul legend
withstands test
of time
ErikGreenehascompiled the mem
oirs of his uncle, the legendary mu
sician Sam Cooke into the book “Our
Uncle Sam: The Sam Cooke Story
From His Family’s Perspective.”
The general public knew Sam
Cooke as a singer, songwriter, and
producer whose musical style has
often been im itated but never
equaled.
Now, Greene explores the inti
mate facets of his uncle’s life in
detail. From the driving force be
hind the soul masters’ success, to
the special moments spent with
family, to the pressing issues he
faced in the last years o f his life.
T h e b o o k p r e s e n ts Sam
C ooke’s story as the people who
knew him long before he became
OUF? U N C L E S A M
The Sam Cooke Story
From His Family's Perspective
ERIK GREENE
a household name.
Bom the fourth child of a Baptist
preacher, Cooke was raised in a
strict but loving household. He
learned the music business as a
young adult, and his u n p rec
edented accomplishments still im
pact today's artists more than 40
years after his death.
OREGON
LOTTERY