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April 5, 2007Issue 6 Volume 9

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Diego Riveras daughter comes to Tacoma Art

Museum to share Frida Kahlos favorite recipes

Tacoma, WAIn conjunction wit h Tacoma ArtMuseums current exhibition, Frida Kahlo: Imagesof an Icon, Guadalupe Rivera Marn daughterof famed Mexican artist Diego Rivera, and Kahlosstepdaughter will come to the museum for aspecial event on May 3, from 11:30 a.m. to 2:30p.m.

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a compartir las recetas favoritas de Frida Kahlo

Tacoma, WAEn conjun cincon la exhibicin actual en elMuseo de Arte de Tacoma FridaKahlo: Imgenes de un Icono,Guadalupe Rivera Marn hija delafamado artista mejicano DiegoRivera, e hijastra de Kahlo vendr al museo para un eventoespecial el 3 de mayo de las11:30a.m. a las 2:30 p.m.

Rivera Marn pas mucha de suinfancia en la cocina de Kahlo. Sulibro de cocina el cual fue un xitoeditorial Las Fiestas de Frida:Recitas y Reminiscencias de laVida con Frida Kahlo, es su relatopersonal de las muchas celebra-ciones a lo largo de la vida deKahlo ilustrado con fotografasfamiliares int imas. Conocida comouna buena anfitriona, Kahlo fuefamosa por sus habilidades en lacocina al igual que en su arte. Sulibro contiene ms de 100 recetasque Kahlo sirvi a su familia yamigos. El programa tendr comoatractivo breves comentarios

acerca de su vida con Kahlo yRivera, un tour encabezado porun docente en el idioma espaol,yla firma del libro.

Hija de Rivera y GuadalupeMarn, ella es fundadora y presi-denta de la junta directiva de laFundacin Diego Rivera, unaorganizacin con base en Mxicodedicada a la preservacin delultimo legado de Rivera a travsde la investigacin, conservaciny actividades de difusin, y alapoyo del arte pblico contem-porneo y de los artistas. . Ellafue diplomtica, miembro delcongreso de Mxico, y una anti-gua directora del Instituto Nacio-nal para los Estudios Histricosde la Revolucin Mexicana. Unacompetente escritora y profesorade universidad, Rivera Marn vivein Cuernavaca, Mxico.

Frida Kahlo: Imgenes de unIcono presenta algunas 60 retra-tos fotogrficos de la artista mexi-cana Frida Kahlo a lo largo de su

vida. Comenzando con si infancia,estas imgenes traen a la luza lapintora, la esposa, la hija, laamante, y la amiga. Algunas deestas fotografas enmascaran aligual que revelan acerca de lamujer que se describa a s mismacomo "la gran ocultadora. Muchasimgenes proveen una mirada dela mujer detrs de la fachada, otraspermiten una vista en una de lasms intrigantes creaciones deFrida: la construccin de su propiaimagen. La exhibicin incluye tra-bajos de Edward Weston, ImogenCunningham, Lucienne Bloch,Emmy Lou Packard, FlorenceArquin, Manuel Alvarez Bravo,Giselle Freund, Fritz Henle, Guill-ermo Kahlo, Nickolas Muray, yLolaAlvarez Bravo. La exhibicin estabierta hasta el 10 de junio.

Para mayor informacin, llameal 253-272-4258, visite el sitio dered www.TacomaArtMuseum.org,o enve un correo electrnico ainfo@TacomaArtMuseum.or g.

Music Review:

Ozomatli triesfor pop success

with Don't

Mess with theDragon

Olivia MuozAssociated Press Writer

Ozomatli, Don't Mess With theDragon (Concord Records)

There's a reason Los Angelesband Ozomatli opens its newalbum with a raucous song calledCan't Stop, in which they singabout moving on, groovin' and notliving for yesterday.

The multicultural group with thehard-to-define sound has beenaround for more than a decadewith just-shy-of-mainstream suc-cess. They've won Grammys andhave been in movies and on TV,but their horn-heavy, bilingual, hip-hop-infused music makes themhard to pin down to one radiomusic genre.

So the group went decidedly popon their latest album, Don't Messwith the Dragon, hi ring K.C. Porter,who has produced music for RickyMartin and Santana.

Don't Mess almost feels like afirstalbum. It brings the nine-membergroup back to its L.A. roots with songslike After Party, a garage-bandgroove in the style of Los Lobos that'salreadya concert sing-along favorite,and Cityof Angels, a rocking ode totheir hometown.

There's a nod to reggaeton withsongs like Here We Go andCreo, though fewer songs are intraditional Latin forms or evenSpanish an obvious departurefrom past records that have

included more salsa, meringue,and ranchera rhythms.

For a group with such under-ground success, going radio-friendlywas a gamble that could have beendisastrous. Instead, Ozomatli hasproduced a fun, upbeat album thatthankfully doesn't totally abandonthe band's style.

Kahlos kitchen. Her best-selling cookbook FridasFiestas: Recipes and Reminiscences of Life withFrida Kahlo, is her personal account of many cel-ebrations throughout Kahlos life illustrated withintimate family photographs. Awell-known hostess,Kahlo was famous for her skills in the kitchen aswell as for her art. Her book features more than100 recipes Kahlo served to family and friends.The program will feature brief remarks about herlife with Kahlo and Rivera, a Spanish-languagedocent-led tour, and a book signing.

Daughter of Rivera and Guadalupe Marn, she isfounder and board chair of the Diego Rivera Foun-dation, an organization based in Mexico dedicatedto preserving the late Rivera's legacy throughresearch, conservation, and conferencing activi-ties, and the support of contemporary public artand artists. She is a former diplomat, a formermember of congress in Mexico, and a longstandingdirector of the National Institute for Historical Stud-ies on the Mexican Revolution. An accomplishedwriter and lecturer, Rivera Marn lives in Cuer-navaca, Mexico.

Frida Kahlo: Images of an Icon presents some

60 photographic portraits of Mexican artist FridaKahlo throughout her life. Beginning with child-hood, these images bring into focus the painter, thepatient, the wife, the daughter, the lover, and thefriend. Some of these photographs mask as muchas they reveal about the woman who describedherself as "la gran ocultadora," the great concealer.Many images provide a glimpse of the womanbehind the faade; others allow a view into one ofthe most intriguing of Fridas creations: the con-struction of her self-image. The exhibition includeswork by Edward Weston, Imogen Cunningham,Lucienne Bloch, Emmy Lou Packard, FlorenceArquin, Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Giselle Freund, FritzHenle, Guillermo Kahlo, Nickolas Muray, and LolaAlvarez Bravo. The exhibition is on view throughJune 10.

For more information, call 253-272-4258, visitwww.TacomaArtMuseu m.org, or ema il i nfo@Taco-maArtMuseum.org.

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Spanish edition of Obamas Audacityof Hope to come out in June

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Mexico City (AP) Ricky Martin

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come out of the closet, saying hefelt solidarity with Christ ianChvez of Mexican band RBD,who recently said publicly that heis gay.

Life is too short to live closed up,guarding what you say, said Mart in

whose sexual orientation hasbeen the subject of speculation in an inter view with The AssociatedPress. Christian has to be free inmany aspects. I wish him muchstrength.

Martin, who was named personof the year in 2006 by the LatinRecording Academy, has hitsincluding Livin la Vida Loca andShake Your Bon-Bon.

He said his nonprofit Ricky MartinFoundation inspires him in hissongwriting.

One of the foundations pro-grams, People for Children, works

toward the elimination of human

trafficking, especially trafficking ofchildren.

When you start to work withsocial problems, it gets the atten-tion of the media and people thinkits a farce, the 35-year-old singersaid. Its a spirit ual search. Thephilanthropic work helps me writemusic and the music helps me inthe philanthropic work.

Martin said it was great that morecelebrities are working with chari-ties.

If this is a fashion, then I hope alot more fashions like this comealong.

He will tour the U.S. in April andMay.

RBD, which spun off Mexicoswildly popular soap opera,Rebelde, has achieved successthroughout Latin America andamong Spanish speakers in the

United States.

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Mxico (AP) Durante su estan-cia en Mxico Ricky Martin ledese mucha fuerza a ChristianSnchez, uno de l os integrantesdel popular conjunto RBD, quienhace unas semanas revel serhomosexual.

El cantante puertorriqueo resaltla importancia de vivir sin pensaren la opinin de los dems.

La vida es bastante corta comopara vivir encerrado en el qudirn. Yo me imagino que l [Chris-tian] tiene que estar libre enmuchos aspectos y le deseo lomejor, mucha fuerza, dijo en unaentrevista telefnica con la APconmotivo del inicio de su gira Blackand White por Estados Unidos.

Desde hace aos muchos mediosde comunicacin han especulado

sobre la preferencia sexual deMartin.

No obstante, Martin ha logradosepararse del tema y su trabajohumanitario con la fundacinPeople for Children contra la explo-tacin infantil, que le vali la con-decoracin como Persona del Aoque otorga la Academia Latina dela Grabacin, ha ido sustituyendolos chismes.

Martin dijo que se toma muy enserio el aspecto social de su t ra-bajo y que no le preocupa que sevea como una moda crear orga-nizaciones porque a su juicio lacantidad de problemas que existenen el mundo es tan alta que mien-tras ms artistas se unan para

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New York, NY (AP) _ Sen. BarackObamas The Audacity of Hope,already a million seller in English,

will be coming out in a Spanish-lan-guage edition.

Vintage Espaol, a paperbackimprint of Random House, Inc., willpublish La Audacia de la Esper-anza in June with a first printing of50,000, a high number for a Span-ish release.

It will be our biggest book of theyear in Spanish, Vintage spokes-man Russell Perreault said lastThursday.

The Audacityof Hope, publishedlast fall, has received surprisinglystrong reviews for a political policy

book and has been credited withhelping the presidential hopes ofObama, a Democrat from Ill inois.

As Vintage noted in a pressrelease last Thursday, the bookalso includes passages of interestto Spanish-language readers.

As a young organizer, I oftenworked with Latino leaders onissues that affected both black andbrown residents, from failingschools to illegal dumping to unim-munized children, Obama writes.

Obamas previous book, DreamsFrom My Father, is not yet avail-able in Spanish, but such an edi-t ion is under consideration,Perreault said.

Cuandofuiorganizadorde jvenes,trabaj a menudoconldereslatinosentemasque afectabantantoa negroscomoa mestizos,comolasfallasenelsistema educativo,el excesode basuraensitios indebidosy la falta de vacunaspara nios.

Barack Obama

Nueva York, NY (AP) El aspi-rante presidencial y senadorBarack Obama debutar en el mer-cado literario hispanoparlante en

junio con su libro La audacia de laesperanza que ya vendi unmilln de ejemplares en ingls.

El libro, que es la segunda obradel aspirante demcrata, tendrun primer tiraje de 50.000 piezas,

un nmero considerable para unejemplar en espaol.

Ser nuestro libro ms impor-tante del ao en espaol, dijo elpasado jueves Russell Perreault,vocero de Vintage Espaol, laimprenta de libros de la editorialRandom House Inc.

El libro, publicado con el ttuloThe Audacity of Hope a finalesdel ao pasado, ha recibido crti-cas sorprendentemente favorablespara un libro de poltica y elogiospor estimular la aspiracin presi-dencial de Obama, senador porIllinois.

Vintage consider el pasadojueves en un comunicado que laobra contiene pasajes que son deinters particular para los lectoresentre la comunidad hispanopar-lante, con presencia creciente enla sociedad estadounidense.

Cuando fui organizador dejvenes, trabaj a menudo conlderes latinos en temas queafectaban tanto a negros como amestizos, como las fallas en elsistema educativo, el exceso debasura en sitios indebidos y lafalta de vacunas para nios,escribe Obama.

El libro anterior del senador,Dreams from my Father, est enconsideracin para una posibleedicin en espaol, dijo Perreault.

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Julie CortezReportera del El Hispanic News

Rebecca Rodrguez se corta su propio cabello. No es que ellaeste segura que va a hacer un mejor trabajo que una estilista pro-fesional, pero si alguien ha de ser culpable de hacerla verse

estpida, ella prefi

ere ser la culpable.Yo prefiero confiarme mi xito o mi fracaso, dice la directora depelculas independientes.

Es probable que hay solo una persona en quien el la confiara quese acercara a su cabello castao con unas tijeras: su socio denegocios, productor de pelculas Steve Herring.

Una vena compartida de independencia, emparejada con unaconfianza inquebrantable del uno por el otro los ha ayudado a losdos quienes han cread o un nmero de pelcul as cortas y unaproduccin de largo metraje bajo su pancarta independiente,Drink Me Pictures para permanecer a flote en las corrientes deaguas peligrosas de la industria cinematogrfica.

Pero cuando Rodrguez y Herring se dispusieron a financiar susegunda produccin, ellos aprendieron mucho acerca de la distri-bucin de pelculas y se dieron cuanta que era un negocio desa-gradable, especialmente para los realizadores de pelculasindependientes.

No hay un camino razonable y justo de obtener la distribucinindependiente de una pelculas, dice Herring.

Rodrguez explica que los estudios de pelculas pagan muchodinero por adelantado para hacer pelculas, y por lo tanto sondueos de todo lo que se genera una vez que son distri buidas. Porotra parte, l os realizadores de pelculas independientes pagantodo lo que tienen al principio del proceso creativo con frecuen-cia sin tomar alguna cosa para s mismos y esperan obtener unaganancia despus.

Ah es donde la produccin independiente y la distribucin delestudio se intersecan, dice Rodrguez. El sistema del estudioest establecido para poseer la ganancia final, y el realizador depelculas independientes estn contando con la ganancia final, ysta nunca regresa. Nosotros no pudimos aceptar que esto era lonico disponible para nosotros. Esto pareca ridculo.

Buscando mantener el control creativo, encontrar una audiencia,y hacer algo de dinero, Rodrguez y Herring decidieron abandonarla tica de Hollywood la supervivencia de los ricos y comoRodrguez y su cabello confiarse su xito o su fracaso.

Su modelo de negocios, Futures to Features, parece un a aprox-imacin ms lgica de realizar pelculas en nuestra sociedaddominada por la Internet, y es difcil de creer que nadie lo haba

intentado antes. (Y Rodrguez y Herring lo han revisado. Nadie loest haciendo y ellos aplicaron para una patente.)

Con Futures to Features, este par de directora y productor estbuscando financiar su actual proyecto una pelcula llamadaToast a travs de solicitar membresa de personas comunes ycorrientes. Por $10 dlares (ms envi y manejo), los miembrosllegan a tener la experiencia de participar en el proceso de elabo-racin de pelculas en el sitio de red www.drinkmepictures.com (elcual Rodrguez y Herring estn planeando traducir al espaol), yreciben una copia del DVD de Toast una vez est terminado.

Nosotros simplemente tomamos la decisin de porqu novendamos con anticipacin la experiencia de la pelcula a travsde ver la elaboracin d e la misma, di ce Rodrguez, y despus darla pelcula como parte de la dinmica, a cambio de algo como la

mitad del dinero que una persona norterminado.

Rodrguez dice que ella y Herring esteducarse ellos mismos en la parte del pelculas. Ellos reconocen que es msolo la magia creativa de escribir, fiEllos realmente quieren que las persoquisieran la posibilidad de no tener queel altar de los artistas muertos de ham

Cada cual en el lado independientede hacer sus pelculas y despus figupunto, dice Herring. Y esto no es susted est tratando de hacer ms que

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En adicin a proveer fondos para sFutures to Features, el cual ellos hanrealizacin de pelculas independienRodrguez y Herring a asegurar en lo qlo ms elusivo para los realizadores duna audiencia. Antes que puedan emellos necesitan 60.000 miembros 60.000 espectadores potenciales para

Los estimativos conservadores del pmadamente seis meses para alcanza

La realidad es que la cantidad de tieimporta, porque nosotros pasaramos dinero, dice Rodrguez. En vez de pedlares, estaramos buscando un pudarnos miles y miles de dlares.

Y nosotros aun no tendramos uneso, agrega Herring.

Mientras tanto, ellos estn comparticin previa con los miembros a traincluye todo, desde Rodrguez siendpraba escarcha brillante, pasando por los socios del negocio figurndose spara ellos el usar una cmara sumeraccin, para algunas de las tomas. Lcmaras est siendo filmada y editadador del premio Emmy por su trabajo de

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con un da rezagado al final di ce Hever, Washington.

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Rodrguez est especialmente dedi60.000 miembros para quienes Hegrandioso se registren.

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But when Rodrguez and Herring set out tofund a second feature, they learned a lotabout film distribution and realized it wasan ugly business, especially for independentfilmmakers.

Theres no reasonable, fair way to get afilmdistributed independently, Herring says.

Rodrguez explains that movie studios pay alot of money upfront to get movies made, andtherefore own everything that i s generatedonce theyre distributed. On the other hand,independent filmmakers pay everything theyhave at the beginning of the creative process

often without taking anything for them-selves and hope to turn a profit later.

Thats right where independent productionand studio distribution intersect, Rodrguezsays. The studio system is set up to own theback end, and the independent filmmakersare banking on the back end, and it nevercomes back. We couldnt accept that thatwas all that was available to us. It just seemedridiculous.

Seeking to maintain creative control, find anaudience, and make a little money back, Rodr-guez and Herring decided to abandon the sur-

vival of the richest Hollywood ethic and likeRodrguez and her hair trust themselves withtheir success or their failure.

Their business model, Futures to Features,seems such a logical approach to filmmakingin our Internet-dominated society, it is hard tobelieve no one has tried it before. (And Rodr-guez and Herring have checked. No one elseis doing it, and theyve applied for a patent.)

With Future to Features, this director-pro-ducer pair is seeking to fund their currentproject a feature called Toast by solicit-ing memberships from everyday people. For$10 (plus shipping and handling), membersget to experience the movie-making processat www.drinkmepictures.com (which Rodr-guez and Herring are planning to t ranslateinto Spanish), and will receive a copy of theToast DVD once its completed.

We just decided that why dont we pre-sellthe movie experience through watching themovie being made, Rodrguez says, andthen give the movie away as part of thatdynamic, in exchange for like half the moneythat a person would normally pay for a fin-ished DVD.

Rodrguez says she and Herring have workedhard to educate themselves on the businessside of filmmaking. They recognize that thereis more to their art form than just the creativemagic of writing, shooting, and editing a film.They actually want people to see their work

and theyd like to possibl y not have to sacri-fice themselves at the altar of starving art-ists.

Everybody on the independent side is justtrying to make their movie and then figureout what to do from there, Herring says.And that is not sustainable, certainly not ifyou want to make more than one or twomovies.

One of the reasons Rodrguez and Herringapplied for a patent for Futures to Featureswas so that they could help other indepen-dent filmmakers who were frustrated orthwarted by the traditional film financingmodel. They also want to make sure anyoneelse who uses it shares their dedication tolegality and fairness.

We knew we would do it right, Rodrguezsays. We knew that we would dot all of the i sand cross the ts.

And were not just taking peoples moneyand are gonna run away at the end of theday, Herring says.

In addition to providing funding for theirprojects, the Futures to Features model,which theyve dubbed the evolution of inde-pendent filmmaking, also helps Rodrguezand Herring to lock in what is often most elu-sive for independent films: an audience.Before they can start preproduction, theyllneed 60,000 memberships which alsomeans 60,000 potential viewers for theirfilm.

The pairs conservative estimate is that itwill take about six months to reach that60,000 mark.

The reality is that the amount of time that ittakes doesnt really matter, because wed bespending this time raising the money, Rodr-guez says. Instead of asking 60,000 peoplefor $10, wed be looking for a handful of fiveto 10 people to give us thousands and thou-sands of dollars.

And we still wouldnt have an audience atthe end of that, Herring adds.

In the meantime, they are sharing their pre-preproduction work with members online,which includes everything f rom Rodrguezbeing a dork while buying glitter for presskits to the business partners figuring out if itis logistically possible for them to use animmersive camera, which captures 360 ofaction, for some of their shots. The behind-the-scenes footage is being shot and editedby Pedro Peraza, an Emmy-winner for his edit -ing work at CNN.

When the 60,000th membership comes in,Toast will go into four weeks of preproduc-tion before jumping into a 19 -day shootingschedule six days a week for three weeks,with a straggler day in the end, Herring says

in Portland and Vancouver, Wash.For Herring, his favorite point on the Toast

timeline is now. The site, www.drinkmepic-tures.com, has been up and taking member-ships since the beginning of March, and heloves being able to tell people about it andencourage them to check it out.

Rodrguez is most looking forward to seeingthat 60,000th member for whom Herringsays there will be a hell of a prize signedup.

Thats going to be the day that Im going tobe jumping up and down like a crazy person,and hopefully Pedro wont be nearby gettingme on camera, she says, turning to Herringwith a smile. But you know he will.

FUTURES TO FEATURESn de p en d en t f i l m m a k i n g t h a t d e pe n ds o n e v e r y d a y p e o p l e

There is probably only one other personshed trust to come near her long brown hairwith a pair of scissors: her business partner,film producer Steve Herring.

Ashared independent streak paired with anunwavering trust in each other has helped t hetwo who have created a number of sh ortfilms and one full-length feature under theirindependent banner, Drink Me Pictures tostay afloat in the perilous currents of the filmindustry.

ulie Cortezspanic News Writer

ecca Rodrguez cuts her own hair. Itsat shes sure shed do a better job thanessional stylist, but if someone is goingguilty of making her look stupid, shed

r to be the culprit.ould much rather trust myself with myess or my failure, the independent filmor says.

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ROSALBAY LOS LLAVEROSEl6 al28 de abrilenelTeatroMilagro(525 SEStarkSt.).La obra ser presentada enespaol,

yse proyectarnsubttuloseninglspara todaslasfuncionesexceptolossbadosyla noche delestreno.Elcostode losboletoses$15 - $18 ($13para estudiantesoadultosmayores); tenemosdescuentosespecialespara grupos15 personasoms.Compre susboletosenlnea enelwww.milagro.orgollame al503-236-7253.

MIRACLE THEATRESROSALBAY LOS LLAVEROSApril6-28 at the MilagroTheatre (525 SE StarkSt.).Thisplaywillbe presentedinitsoriginalSpanish; subtitlesinEnglishwillbe projectedat allperformancesexcept openingnight andSaturdays.Ticketsare $15-$18 (only$13 forstudentsorseniors); additionaldiscountsareavailable forgroupsof15 ormore.Purchaseticketsonline at www.milagro.orgorbycalling503-236-7253.

NWINTERNATIONALFLAMENCO FESTIVALTickets for the opening nigh concert, Streetsof Flamenco,are selling quickly,and spacesa filling fast for festival workshops.The NW

International Flamenco Festival is the onlyfestival of its kind in the region.Organizedand presented byPortland nonprofit SoloFlamenco,the festival will take place July28-August 3.Most events will be held at thePortland Center for the Performing Arts indowntown Portland and courses will take placeat Solo Flamenco Arts Academyin SE Portland.Registration for courses can be completedonline at the Festival's official website: www.nwiff.com.Tickets for the opening night eventcan be purchased through www.ticketmaster.com or bycalling 503-224-4400.Information:Solo Flamenco,503-972-1178.

CALLTO ARTISTSLatingayartistsare invitedtoparticipate inPoderyFuego/PowerandFire,anexhibitionofart workfromthe Latino/Latina LGBTQcommunity.Thisspecialexhibit isa part ofPortlands2007 LatinoGayPRIDE Celebration,Noche de Fuego!,scheduledforJune 10,5p.m.-11 p.m.,at the JupiterHotel.Anextensionofthisyearscelebrationwillbe a month-longexhibit at the Onda Arte Latina Gallery(2215NE Alberta St.).Showdates: May31-June26; deadline forintent toparticipate: April15; deadline tosubmit images: April27.Toparticipate youneedtobe LatinoorLatina andbe a memberofthe LGBTQ community.Replytoondart@teleport.comwithanyquestionsand/oranintent toparticipate.Sendimagesbyemailtothe same addressorbyCDtolocationaddressabove.Youwillbe notifiedofacceptancebyMay5.

2007 ACADEMYNOMINATEDSHORTDOCUMENTARIESApril5(7p.m.)andApril8(6p.m.),inNorthwestFilmCenter'sWhitsellAuditoriumatthePortlandArtMuseum(1219SWParkAve.).AmongthefourshortdocumentariesbeingscreenedisRecycledLife,thestoryofthethousandschildrenandtheirfamilieshavelivedfordecadesinoneofthelargestandmosttoxicareasinallofCentralAmerica-theGuatemalaCityGarbageDump.Itsinhabitants("guajeros"),whorecyclethecity'strash,wereshunnedbysocietyandignoredbythegovernmentuntiladisastrouseventin2005foreverchangedthefaceofthislandfill.

ARMONIA LATINALatinjamsession,featuringlive musicandbeautifulsingingonSundaysat 7 p.m.at AztecaRestaurant,4252 Mercantile Dr.,Lake Oswego(503-675-0088).Native PeruviansingerConnieBieberachwillpresent a variedprogramofLatinAmericansongsfromArgentina,Colombia,Peru,Bolivia,Mexico,etc.,withguestsmusicians,accompaniedbya fourpiece band.Nocover.

WORLD CHAMPION SALSADANCINGAnightoflivedanceperformancesanddance

classesattheChelseaBallroom,1510SE9thAve.,Portland.April13;doorsopenat8:30p.m.Musicby:DJArmando(10p.m.2:30a.m.);M.C.:GustavoElGeneralofSeattle,Wash.Freedancelessons(beginnerandintermediate),9p.m.10p.m.withGeorgeCaceres;intermediateandAngelkoKrstanovic.Liveperformancesby:RumbaCaliente,SaborLatinoDanceCompany,RicoBravoDancers,andSalsaWorldChampionsAbelPeaandZulmaraTorres.Cashbar.Cost:$20advanceticket,and$25atthedoor.Dresstoimpress.Information:503-698-5313.Foradvanceticketssendaselfaddressedstampedenvelopeandacheckto:DianeDavis,c/oSilDavisProductions,P.O.Box237,Clackamas,OR97015.

BOBBYTORRESENSEMBLEThe live jazzquintet willbe performingona freeshowonApril14,9:30p.m.1:30a.m.at theBlue Dragonfly,1195 SE PowellBlvd.,Portland.More information: www.bobbytorres.com

FRIDAKAHLO: IMGENESDE UN ICONOElMuseode Arte de Tacoma presenta sesentaretratosfotogrficosde la artista mexicanaFrida Kahlotomadas a lolargode suvida.Comenzandoconla infancia yterminandoconla imagende Kahloensulechode muerte,estosretratosponenenperspectiva a la pintora,paciente,esposa,hija,amante yamiga.Lamuestra estar visible desde el3 de febrerohasta el10de junio.Para msinformacinllame al253-272-4258 ovisite www.TacomaArtMuseum.org.

FRIDAKAHLO: IMAGES OFAN ICONTacoma Art MuseumsexhibitionFridaKahlo: ImagesofanIconpresentssome 60photographicportraitsofthe MexicanartistFrida Kahlotakenthroughout herlife.Beginningwithchildhoodandendingwiththe image ofKahloonherdeathbed,these portraits bringintofocusthe painter,the patient,the wife,thedaughter,the lover,andthe friend.The exhibitionwillbe onviewFeb.3-June 10, 2007.Information:253-272-4258,www.TacomaArtMuseum.org,info@TacomaArtMuseum.org

BALLETHISPNICOBallet Hispnico's passion propels everymove and their unique blend of jazz,ballet,and contemporaryLatin dance will dazzle theEugene audience.This is the Eugene debutof this premier Hispanic-American dancecompany.April 21,8 p.m.in the Silva ConcertHall,at the Hult Center for performing arts.Tickets: $22-35,students/youth $6 off.Inaddition,Hult Presents a Sizzling Latin DancePartyon Silva Stage with dance instructionbyBallet Hispnico dancers and local Salsainstructor Jose Cruzon April 20,7:30 p.m.to 10 p.m.Tickets: $15.Information: www.

HultCenter.org or 541-682-5004

ARTON STAGE BYMABELASTARLOAHALEYCostume designsforballet andtheatre,April26-May29 at Onda Arte Latina/CrossCurrentsGallery(2215 NE Alberta St.,Portland).MabelAstarloa Haleyhasemployedherextraordinarydesignanddraftingskillsinhelpingcreatelargerworksofart forballet andtheatre.Foroverfortyyears,she hasworkedat the highestlevelsofherprofessioninhernative Argentina,inFrance,Switzerlandandinlarge Americancities.OpeningandArtist'sReception,April26,6p.m.-9 p.m. Information: www.ondagallery.com

JUNGLESWILDLIFEPHOTOGRAPHYJunglesisa personalexplorationofnature inthe tropics.Ina collectionofimagesmade overa periodof20yearsinjunglesfromthe lowlandsofthe Congotothe cloudforestsofthe Andes,FransLantinginterpretsthe splendorandthenaturalhistoryofthe tropicalrainforest--a realmofbewilderingcomplexitywhere nothingisthewayit first appears.Feb.24May6,at the WorldForestryCenterinPortland.Information: www.worldforestry.org

COOLJAZZON A SUNDAYAFTERNOONMusicbyLe Trip,April22,2 p.m.-5 p.m.LuckyLabPublicBrewhouse,7675 SWCapitolHighway.$25 ticket includessnacks,dessert,andlivemusic.Cashbar.Ticketsavailable at the door

oronline at www.voteruthadkins.comorcall971-207-5041.Fundraiserforthe Ruth AdkinsforSchoolBoardCampaign.

MELAO DE CAACubanmusic,performingfirst Fridays,9 p.m.to12 a.m.,throughJune at the MississippiPizzaPub,3552 N. MississippiAve.,Portland,503-288-3231,www.mississippipizza.com.Cover$5.www.mamboqueens.com/html/mevents

FENCESPortlandCenterStage,incollaborationwithHartfordStage CompanyandDallasTheaterCenter,presentsAugust WilsonsFences.Winnerofboththe PulitzerPrize forDrama andthe TonyAwardforBest Playin 1987,Fencesstandstoe-to-toe withplayslike DeathofaSalesmanasbothasnapshot ofatroublingtime inAmericanhistoryandanepicatemporalportrayalofthe humancondition.But Fencesistoldfromthe African-Americanperspective.April10-May6 onthe GerdingTheaterat theArmoryMainStage,128 NWEleventhAve.inPortland.PCS Box Office: 503-445-3700;information: www.pcs.org

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drid, Espaa (AP) Las autoridades inau-on el sbado las obras de ampliacin delleo Museo del Prado, diseo del arqui-Rafael Moneo.

ampliacin ana arquitectnicamente laa original. El museo es considerado eldel mundo en calidad y cantidad de los

tros anteriores al siglo XX, especialmentelzquez, Rubens, El Greco y Goya.

adrillo rojo y el granito de la sierra quea la capital espaola arropan el antiguotro de los Jernimos y la f achada acoge a

los visitantes a travs de unas monumentalespuertas de bronce encargadas por el arquitectoa la escultora Cristina Iglesias. En su interior sesitan tres plantas de acceso pblico unidaspor una doble escalera mecnica y otras cincoentreplantas para servicios internos delmuseo.

Uno de los elementos que da calor al interior,adems de los amplios ventanales, es el usodel roble en entarimados.

Moneo acompa a los periodistas por el inte-rior del complejo antes de que la ministra deCultura, Carmen Calvo, inaugurara la ampliacinde la pinacoteca nacional tras ms de cincoaos de obras. El museo ha ganado de estaforma 22.000 metros cuadrados de superficie.

Las obras comenzaron en el 2001 con unpresupuesto de 42,6 millones de euros (56,7millones de dlares) y deban haber sido con-cluidas en 23 meses. Empero, al final fueronnecesarios cinco aos y tres meses y 152 mil-lones de euros (202 millones de dlares) parasu terminacin.

El anexo cuenta con 1.386 metros cuadra-dos para exposiciones temporales reparti-dos en cuatro salas; un claustro en el que seexhibirn un conjunto de esculturas de losLeoni; un auditorio con capacidad para 400personas; un vestbulo de acogida y centrode atencin de visitantes; espacios pararestauracin y estudios tcnico; tienda ylibrera, una cafetera. Esta ampliacin secompletar con la reforma del Casn delBuen Retiro, que contar con la biblioteca,escuela, salas para investigacin y otrasdependencias.

Esta extensin permite al Prado respir ar. Nospone en lnea con los museos modernos msimportantes, coment el director de conserva-cin Gabriel Finaldi.

Agreg que la extensin dejar libre 40 salasdel museo original.

El Prado cuenta con 8.000 obras de arte,1.000 de las cuales son exhibidas, 3.000 distri-buidas en museo de toda Espaa y el resto encmaras de almacenamiento, dijo Finaldi.

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drid, Spain (AP) The Pradoum unveiled a modernist newx of red brick, granite, oak, ande, giving a first look at sorelyed exhibition space for one ofs main tourist attractions.igned by architect Rafaelo, the new space offers visitorsyof natural light and blends ineetly with the original galleryn the early19th century.sober addition completes the

phase of the planned expan-of the Prado, which is consid-to have the worlds richest

store of pre-20th-century masters,including Velazquez, Rubens, ElGreco, and Goya.

Moneo gave journalists a guidedtour of t he complex on Saturdaybefore Culture Minister CarmenCalvo formally declared construc-tion work finished. The annex willnot be open to the public until fall.

Extension work began in 2001with a budget of euro42.6 million,or US$56.7 milli on, and was sched-uled to be finished in 23 months.The building, however, took morethan five years and euro152 mil-lion (US$202 million) to complete.

We have finished the biggestextension to the Prado in its more

than 200 years of existence. It wasa question of modernizing thePrado in harmony with its past,Calvo said.

The complex adds 183,000square feet to the 312,000-square-foot museum.

Among special features are15,070 square feet of temporaryexhibition space, print, and draw-ings rooms that will allow the gal-lery to display 1,000 Goya printsthat are currently in storage.

The centerpiece of the extensionis a space for sculpture built fromthe relocated cloister of a church,which sheds daylight on exhibitionspaces three floors below.

This extension lets the Pradobreathe. It brings us in line withother major modern museums,said Gabriel Finaldi, the museumsdirector of conservation.

Finaldi said the extension wouldfree up 40 rooms in the museumsoriginal building.

The new exhibition space is con-nected by underground passage-ways to the original building.

Moneos design initially causedcontroversy because it incorpo-rated the cloister of the 15th-cen-tury Jeronimo church, which wasremoved stone by stone and reas-sembled inside the extension.

The work sparked several lawsuitsbya group of Madrid residents com-plaining that the project would dis-rupt the architectural harmony ofthe neighborhood and the cloisterwould be ruined. The suits were dis-missed byMadrid courts.

Madrids Thyssen-Bornemiszaand Reina Sofia museums alsohave recently completed exten-sions. The three museums arewithin 10 minutes walk of eachother, along the central Paseo delPrado boulevard.

Other works byMoneo, winner ofthe 1997 Pritzker Architecture Prize,include Madrids Atocha commutertrain station and the Cathedral of Our

Ladyof t he Angels in Los Angeles.

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Tokio, Japan (AP) Un gruponumeroso de msicos japone-ses se sobrepuso al cansancioe incluso a un terremoto, paraimponer el sbado el rcord delconcierto ms largo de la histo-ria, al tocar durante 184 horasininterrumpidas, en un pro-grama que incluy desde lostemas ms famosos de los Bea-tles hasta msica tradicional

japonesa de arpa.Ms de 900 msicos, de entre

6 y 89 aos se turnaron paratocar en el maratn de nuevedas con pausas de no msde 5 minutos entre cada acto.El concierto se realiz en unapequea estacin ferroviaria

en la ciudad occidental deHikone, de acuerdo con el orga-nizador Kunico Teramura, de51 aos.

Una funcionaria del Libro Gui-ness de los Rcords Mundiales,estuvo presente para certificarla marca, que se alcanz a las10.00 del sbado.

El concierto ms largo porparte de mltiples artistas fueofrecido por Kuniko Teramura ysus amigos en la estacin deToriimoto ... del 23 al 31 demarzo del 2007, seala unacopia del certificado, consul-tada por The Associated Press.

El rcord anterior fue impuestoen Canad, hace cinco aos.Aquel concierto dur 182 horas,de acuerdo con la pgina dellibro Guinness en el internet.

El domingo pasado, un sismode magnitud 6,9 en el noroestede Japn remeci el escenario,pero una pianista siguitocando, dijo Hiroshi Mizutani,de 51 aos, otro organizadordel concierto.

Una interrupcin habra impe-dido alcanzar el rcord, porquelos msicos no podan tocarmelodas de menos de dosminutos.

Esta pianista fue asombrosa.Todo el lugar se estremecapero ella sigui tocando, dijoMizutani. Ni siquiera un terre-

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