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OCTOBER 15, 2014
Tribal member performing
in Portland on Nov. 20
Photo courtesy of Spirit Mountain Casino
Danette Curry of Salem won a 1957 Thunderbird convertible when
she hit the Classic Slot Mystery Jackpot at Spirit Mountain Casino on
Saturday, Oct. 4.
Salem woman wins
mystery jackpot at casino
Danette Curry, 41, of Salem hit the Classic Slot Mystery Jackpot
at Spirit Mountain Casino on Saturday, Oct. 4, and drove home in a
1957 Thunderbird.
Curry was playing a 25-cent “5 Times Pay” classic slot machine
when her machine seemingly went haywire. She said she thought
the machine was broken and didn’t realize that she had just won the
mystery jackpot of a cherry red, classic 1957 Thunderbird convertible.
“I didn’t know I won the jackpot,” Curry said. “I thought the machine
was broken. When the slot attendant came back said I won the jackpot,
I was literally shaking.”
The mystery jackpot was set to randomly hit at any time, on any
pay line, once the odometer reading on the car reached between 4,000
and 20,000 miles.
Curry and her husband arrived at Spirit Mountain on Saturday af-
ternoon and checked into the lodge. Later that night, they were playing
at a Let It Ride table when the topic of the mystery jackpot came up
and how close it must be to hitting. After spending her allotted amount
at Let It Ride, she took $100 and said she was going to win the car.
As she stood outside the casino waiting to receive her new classic car,
Curry said quietly, “It’s so beautiful.” After climbing into the driver’s
seat, she said, “Oh, yes … this is a good fi t.”
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Tribal member Anthony Hudson, a Portland artist and performer, will
be staging a “cabaret spectacular” entitled “Carla Rossi Sings the End
of the World” at 8 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 20, at the Alberta Rose Theatre,
3000 N.E. Alberta St., Portland.
Hudson received a grant from the Regional Arts & Culture Council
to put on the show, which, he says, “marks a signifi cant moment for
my work and reaches further than ever before with what I want to
achieve as an LGBT Native artist. Carla Rossi is a project I’ve been
working on for four years, and I focused my thesis work around her as
a way of talking about my ‘mixed’ identity as a half Native/half white
and queer person.”
The semi-one-woman cabaret will tell the story of two star-crossed
lovers: Weimar Germany and contemporary America.
The show will compare the whirling, progressive creativity and
freedom of 1920s Berlin with America today via a piano-accompanied
songbook of Berlin theater standards and dance support from cabaret
girls The Dolly Pops.
Rossi will guide the audience through this doomed romance with a
winking eye and trademark banter, asking what became of Weimar
Berlin and could that happen to us?
Tickets, at $15 in advance and $20 at the door, are available through
the Alberta Rose Theatre’s box offi ce at albertarosetheatre.com.
The show will be presented with American Sign Language interpre-
tation and is intended for those 21 and older. n
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