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Martin Luther King Jr. Page 36 2018 special edition January 10, 2018 Arts & ENTERTAINMENT 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 clean- ing. We also have health care and grooming prod- ucts 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. photo courtesy ArtMattan Productions Mriam Makeba, one of the first musicians out of Africa to win international stardom, is the subject of the film ‘Mama Africa: Mriaim Makeba,’ one of the many music documentaries featured this month at the Reel Music Festival sponsored by the Northwest Film Center. Celebrating Musicians and Film Reel Music Festival opens Friday for January run Sweet Street Food Cart on the corner of 15th and Alberta call 503-995-6150 to place order Monday - Friday, 11:00am - 7:00pm Sweet Street Market Special for Martin Luther King Birthday Buy one chicken dinner get 1 free chicken sandwich (Half-off with this coupon -- Expires February 28, 2017) The Northwest Film Center’s 35th annual Reel Music Festival kicks off this week with docu- mentaries about some of music’s most legendary acts, celebrating jazz, blues, rock, soul, classical, avant-garde and every genre in between. The month long lineup in- cludes films about everyone from rock legend Eric Clapton, to one of rock music’s founding fathers, Fats Dominos, to alt rock sensa- tion Deer Tick, folk legend Bob Dylan and singer Sammy Davis Jr., among many others. Mriaim Makeba, an African singer famous for blending Af- ro-pop, world music, and jazz to reach audiences all over the world, will be one of the subjects explored in the film “Mama Af- rica: Miriam Makeba.” Her life, music and political message of fighting against racism and pov- erty and promoting peace and justice are examined through rare footage of her electric per- formances and interviews from famous friends like Harry Be- lafonte, Paul Simon, Angélique Kidjo, and husbands Stokely Carmichel and Hugh Masekela. Also featured are films on the legendary Cuban group Buena Vista Social Club,” an explo- ration of electronic music pio- neer Suzanne Ciani, and “Mr. Handy’s Blues,” a portrait of W.C. Handy (1873-1958), called the father of blues, who brought the genre into the mainstream and first made it commercially viable. The Reel Music Festival opens Friday, Jan. 12 and runs through Jan. 30 at the Northwest Film Center’s Whitsell Auditori- um, located at the Portland Art Museum, downtown. Tickets and more information about each film of the festival, including trailers, descriptions, and play- times, can be found at nwfilm. org
