January 20, 2016
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O PINION
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M ETRO
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Bonnie Ratner (left) and Skeeter Greene focus on interracial friendships in ‘Hazardous Beauty,’ one
of the attractions at this month’s annual Fertile Ground Festival of New Works festival.
Hazardous Beauty
The intersection of gender, race
and class draws ire when a new
piece that focuses on interracial
friendships comes to this month’s
Fertile Ground Festival of New
Works.
“Hazardous Beauty” follows
two women - one black, one white
– as they become “critique” part-
ners in a memoir writing class.
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C LASSIFIEDS
C ALENDAR
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F OOD
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What starts out as a writing cri-
tique turns into a penetrating dive
into each other’s lives, including
hard choices in love, work, art and
aging. Can they be allies for each
on this writer’s journey or will
hard words ly, old wounds fester,
and women weep? And what does
it matter?
Written by Portland-based
playwright Bonnie Ratner, this
staged reading will be per-
formed at Portland Abbey Arts,
7600 N. Herford Ave., courtesy
of Community Dream Produc-
tions, on Friday, Jan. 29 and
Saturday, Jan. 30 at 7:30 p.m.
Tickets are $8 and can be pur-
chased at boxoficetickets.com/
go/event?id=307523.
Non-proits’ Spending under Cloud
Roy Jay, a prominent African
American business leader and
community advocate, is iring
back against an Oregon Depart-
ment of Justice investigation to
determine if he unlawfully proit-
ed from the non-proit groups he
headed.
A spokesperson, R. Weldon
Woodruff, issued a statement on
behalf of Jay on Friday, claiming
“a conspiracy to discredit one of
Portland’s hardest working busi-
ness and community ambassa- Roy Jay
dors.”
State investigators are trying
to determine if there was an in-
appropriate use of funds for Jay’s
tax-exempt Independent Develop-
ment Enterprise Alliance, an um-
brella organization for his African
American Chamber of Commerce,
Project Clean Slate and Ride Con-
nection’s shuttle program, the
Portland Tribune reported.
Jay, through an attorney,
Charles Paternoster, denied any
wrongdoing.