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Page 14 edition CAREERS special April 18, 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 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. Poet and children’s author Kwame Alexander, the award winning author of the basketball-themed novel “Crossover” and other bestselling works, will appear at the Alberta Rose Theater on Friday, April 20 in a free event sponsored by the Multnomah County Library. Library Hosts Celebrated Author You’re invited to an evening with poet, educator and bestsell- ing author Kwame Alexander who will appear Friday, April 20 at the Alberta Rose Theatre in northeast Portland for a free event spon- sored by the Multnomah County Library. Alexander’s works have en- gaged a new generation of read- ers. His basketball-themed nov- el-in-verse, The Crossover, won the 2015 Newbery Medal for the year’s most distinguished con- tribution to literature for young people. His latest work, Rebound (also a novel-in-verse and a pre- quel to The Crossover), explores the youth of Chuck Bell and his discovery of basketball and jazz over the course of one fateful summer. Kwame Alexander’s visit to the Alberta Rose Theater, 3000 N.E. Alberta St., begins at 6:30 p.m. A book signing precedes it at 6 p.m. Sou’ld Out Festival Begins Today C annon ’ s r ib e xPress 5410 NE 33rd Ave, Portland, Or Call to Order: 503-288-3836 Open (hours) Sun-Thurs: 11a-8p Fri-Sat: 11a- 9p Cannon’s, tasty food and friendly neighborhood atmosphere. Now in its ninth year, the Soul’d Out Music Festival opens its five day run of soulful music this week, bringing jazz, funk, electronic, fusion and hip-hop art- ists from around the world to some of Portland’s coolest venues. The festival opens Wednesday, April 18 with Grammy-winning singer and songwriter Erykah Badu, the “Godmother of Soul,” performing at the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, downtown. The group R&R=Now will open the show at 8 p.m. Other festival headliners in- clude big names like De La Soul, Wyclef Jean and the legendary NOLA Superstars Rebirth Brass Band. On Thursday, April 19: Nata- sha Kmeto, Maarquii, and Siren and the Sea will perform at the Holocene. On Friday, April 20, Noname, BJ the Chicago Kid, Gus Dapperton, and Fountaine will headline a show at the Crystal Ballroom; and the Rebirth Brass Grammy-winning singer-songwriter Erykah Badu will kickoff Portland’s Soul’d Out Music Festival when she performs Wednesday, April 18 at the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall. The festival runs through Sunday at venues all over town. Band performs at Revolution Hall. On Saturday, April 21, Cubanismo and the Tezeta Band perform at the Star Theater; and on Sunday, April 22, De La Soul, Silent He- roes, Lilla and DJ O.G.One are featured at the Roseland Theater and Wyclef Jean stars at the Won- der Ballroom. For a complete Sou’ld Out Mu- sic Festival schedule, visit sould- outfestival.com/#schedules.
