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Cheetah Girls
Set Portland Date
Tickets are now on sale at the Rose Gar
den Arena for a Sept. 17 performance by
The Cheetah Girls, featuring Adrienne
‘Chanel’ Bai Ion, Kiely ‘Aqua’ Williams and
Sabina ‘Dorinda’ Bryan. The Cheetah
Girls appeared on the scene in 2003
when a movie by the same name was
voted the No. 1 Disney Channel movie by
viewers. Tween girls across the nation
have been hooked ever since.
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Live, Funkyand Soulful
A mutual love o f live, funky
andsoulful music w illcom eto-
gether w hen the San D iego
band “On the O ne” com es to
Portland’s Good Foot Lounge,
2 8 4 5 S .E . S ta rk S t., on
W ednesday, Aug. 16.
The group features a diverse
arrayoftalents,includingdrum-
mer John Staten and saxophon
ist Jesse Molloy. guitarist Aaron
B lew eiss and bassist M att
Schumacher.
O ne on O n e ’s show s are
“get dow n like Jam es Brown"
dance parties with hard hitting
hip-hop beats.
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Saxophonist Jesse
Molloy (left) and drum
mer John Staten blend
soul jazz and high
energy funk in the band
‘On the One,' playing
Wednesday, Aug. 16 at
southeast Portland's
Good Foot Lounge.
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Classic Romantic Comedy
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Doris Brockell as a young
performer in 1920. Brockell
shares her experiences as
a longtime Portland resident
in a documentary sponsored
by the local Marie Smith
Health and Social Center.
A Spoken
History
continued
from Metro
community activist and edu
cator and other pioneers, in
cluding Mrs. Johnnie Maxey,
who worked alongside her
husband, the late Charles
Maxey, operating the first
A frican-A m erican owned
barbershop in Portland.
The film also features 98-
year-old, Doris Brockell, a
once accomplished dancer,
who shares a story of being
the 44th employee hired by
Teklronics.
To RSVP for the premier,
contact Linda Munsey at 503-
3 35-9980 o r Im unsey
@ v o a o r.o rg , or T iffany
McKenna at 503-802-0453
or tmckenna@voaor.org.
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The Rainmaker, a film made fa
m ous by B urt L a n c a s te r an d
K atherine Hepburn in 1956, is a
delightful rem inderthat we all need
to have faith in ourselves.
A stage play production o f the
classic rom antic com edy is now
playing through Sunday, Aug. 27
at the W est End Theater. 1220 S. W.
T ay lor St. Tickets are $ 15 for adults;
SlO forstudents. To make reserva
tions, call 888-287-6318.
The local production is directed
by D onna M cFall, w ho most re
c e n tly p ro d u c e d an d d ire c te d
Desdemona; A Play About A Hand
kerchief at the CoHoTheater. Nicole
Snyder leads the cast as the com
plex and susceptible Lizzie Curry,
Patrick D izney as the seller of
dreams. Starbuck, and Wi 11 iam Tate The classic romantic comedy 'The Rainmaker, ' now playing at
as Lizzie’s patient father.
the West End Theater, downtown.
Local Poet Publishes Book
continued
from Metro
herself, having brought up her
23-year-old son Danny, while
working full-time as a middle
and high school teacher and
earning a Master's Degree in
Education.
She said she doesn't make
any definitive statements in this
book, saying she’s just a person
who has seen the trauma in
young men without fathers, and
wanted to bring this discussion
to the community.
"I don’t want people to think
I have the solution,” she said.
"Because the solution is in the
process.”
"Fatherless Boys and Moth
ers On Their Own" is available
at www.AuthorHouse.com and
will soon be available at Port
land booksellers.
Live Music Every Night
Kick off your week with live jazz every Sunday at 9 p.m. at
The Blue Monk (3341 SE Belmont) • Participate in a mixed-
media open mic night each Monday
at the Back to Back Café (6 /4 East
Burnside) • The Thorn City Improv,
featuring members of Oldominion,
Quivah. The Chosen and The Black
Notes, perform at Conan’s (3862 S.E.
Hawthorne) every Tuesday at 10 p.m.
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Notorious B.I.G. Murder Re-examined
rapper Tupac Shakur in Las Vegas
six months earlier.
The investigators also are pur
suing allegations that W allace was
killed by a Blood gang member hired
by M arion "Suge" K night, the
ow ner o f Shakur's record label.
Knight has denied any involve
ment in the killing.
Probe follows
civil lawsuit
(A P )~ Six veteran hom icide d e
tectives are leading a new police
task force investigating the un
solved 1997 killing o f Notorious
B IG .
According to the Los Angeles
Times, the new probe com es in the
face o f a wrongful death lawsuit
filed by the rapper's mother, Voletta
W allace, and other relatives, who
claim rogue police officers were
involved in the killing.
The lawsuit ended in a mistrial
last year when it was discovered
that a police detective intentionally
hid statem ents by a jailhouse infor
mant linking the killing totw o former
officers.
A judge ordered the city to pay
$1.1 million in legal fees and other
expenses to the rapper's family. A
new trial was set forearly next year.
There was no new evidence that
prompted the formation of the task
force. But evidence discovered by
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W allace, was 24 w hen he was
g u n n e d d o w n M a rc h 9 ,1997,while
leav in g a party at a Los A ngeles
m useum . T he New York rapper,
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killed by a m em berof the Southside
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