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Page 14 VETERAN’S DAY Special Edition 503-288-0033 Subscribe ! Fill Out & Send To: Attn: Subscriptions, PO Box 3137, Portland OR 97208 $45.00 for 3 months • $80.00 for 6 mo. • $125.00 for 1 year (please include check with this subscription form) November 11, 2015 Arts & ENTERTAINMENT Name: Telephone: Address: or email subscriptions@portlandobserver.com This bicycle is a blender The motor is one body with a smile. Parties, promotions, weddings, birthdays--You name it! The Fender Blender Pro Brings Life Rentals, sales Call HILLS at 707-312-0856 Email Bicycleblendergypsy@gmail.com Children can explore the science of sound at the ‘Blue Man Group Making Waves’’ exhibit at the Portland Children’s Museum. Kids Explore the Science of Sound Blue Man Group inspired exhibit A national touring exhib- it, “Blue Man Group – Making Waves” is now showing through Jan. 10 at Portland’s Children’s Museum. The 3,000 square foot exhibit - designed to bring together science and art - takes the whole family through a multi sensory explo- ration of sound that provides an opportunity to play together while discovering the fun of music. Onstage, the Blue Man is one part inquisitive child, one part trickster, and one part superhero on a journey of discovery. “After years of being able to express ourselves creatively on stage, it has become increas- ingly important to us to develop experiences that encourage and expand the creative development of others-particularly children and their parents,” said Chris Wink, co-founder of Blue Man Group. The Portland Children’s Muse- um is located in Washington Park across from the Oregon Zoo at 4015 Southwest Canyon Road and is open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. dai- ly. Free entry is available the first Friday of every month from 4 to 8 p.m. For more information, visit portlandcm.org. From Black Power to the White House Book chronicles historical events, untold stories Showdogs is a full service salon. We do baths, all over hair cuts, tooth brushing, nail trims, soft claws, flea treatments, mud baths, and ear cleaning. We also have health care and grooming products to keep your pet clean in between visits. Show Dogs Grooming Salon & Boutique 926 N. Lombard Portland, OR 97217 503-283-1177 Tuesday-Saturday 9am-7pm Monday 10am-4pm Yo dawg is gonna look like a show dawg and your kitty will be pretty. Scholars Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Kevin M. Burke have come up with a gorgeous collection of black history in a new book that chronicles the lives of black Americans over the past 50 years. “And Still I Rise: From Black Power to the White House ex- plores the passage of the Civil Rights Act to the birth of Black Power in the United States, from having both a black president and black CEOs running Fortune 500 companies, to a large black under- class beset by persistent poverty, inadequate education, and an ep- idemic of incarceration. Gates, a Harvard professor and host of the PBS series of the same name, raises disturbing and vital questions about this dichotomy. How did the African American community end up encompassing such profound contradictions? And what will “the black commu- nity” mean tomorrow? Henry Louis Gates Jr. Gates takes readers through the major historical events and un- told stories that have irrevocably shaped both the African Ameri- can experience and the nation as a whole, from the explosive social and political changes of the 1960s, into the 1970s and 1980s—eras characterized by both prosperity and neglect—through the turn of the century to today, taking mea- sure of such racial flashpoints as the Tawana Brawley case, O.J. Simpson’s murder trial, the mur- ders of Amadou Diallo and Tray- von Martin, and debates around the NYPD’s “stop and frisk” pol- icies. And Still I Rise is also a cele- bration of the accomplishments of black artists, musicians, writers, comedians, and thinkers who have helped to define American popular culture and to change our world.