Last night around 7:30 pm, shots rang out on Alberta Street striking the glass in the bus shelter at 9th in front of the Alberta Street Market. Four males were seen to flee on foot up 10th Avenue, pursued by a car that circled around after them. According to a witness, someone in the car shouted: “I’ll kill you!” but there were no apparent injuries. Police closed three blocks of Alberta to investigate and traffic was diverted.
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Alberta Cleans Up on Earth Day
Alberta Main Street is organizing a way for you to help the Alberta business district on Earth Day. It’s the Alberta Street Clean Up! Go to their website and pre-registration form. Check out their facebook event page. People can just show up on the day of but since lunch is being provided (thanks to Burgers or Bust Cafe) and some other special treats, they would like some idea of how many people to expect.
The clean up starts at 10:00 am on Saturday April 23 (Meet at Alberta Central Plaza between Barista & Umpqua Bank) and will end with lunch and a celebration where they hope to unveil the prototype of new Alberta Street garbage cans and debut the Art on Alberta mobile Art Gallery.
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom at Portland Playhouse
Starting this week at your neighborhood theater on Prescott Street is another August Wilson play by Portland Playhouse. The third installment of August Wilson’s ‘Century Cycle’ or ‘Pittsburgh Cycle’, which chronicles the lives of African-Americans through the twentieth century, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom is set amid the initial rumblings of the Chicago Black Renaissance, an era that nurtured the extraordinary artists Langston Hughes, Louis Armstrong, and Margaret Walker.
Pulitzer Prize winning playwright August Wilson (April 27, 1945 – October 2, 2005) is one of the most influential writers in American theater. He is best known for his unprecedented cycle of 10 plays, often called the Pittsburgh Cycle because all but Ma Rainey is set in the Pittsburgh neighborhood where August Wilson grew up. The series of plays chronicle the tragedies and aspirations of African Americans during each decade of the 20th century. Radio Golf, a previous production of Portland Playhouse was from this cycle.
Most shows are sold out for the next three weeks. The run continues through May 15th. Check showtimes and purchase tickets online by clicking here.
New Subsidized Housing for Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd
According to the Portland Tribune, a new housing project will break ground next year just south of the King Neighborhood on NE Cook and Martin Luther King. The development will feature ground floor retail, LEED certification, and serve residents earning 30, 50, and 60 percent of median area income.
U of P Conference on Food Issues
After hosting a wonderfully successful conference on water in the spring of 2010, the University of Portland is back this year with Food for Thought, a conference on food issues from April 14-16.
The conference will be keynoted by best-selling author Michael Pollan and features an impressive array of both national and local leaders, including Kevin Concannon, Undersecretary for Food, Nutrition, and Consumer Services for the United States Department of Agriculture, and University of Portland alumnus Fedele Bauccio, founder and owner of Bon Appétit Management Co. and member of the Pew Commission on Industrial Farm Animal Production.
This will be an excellent opportunity for anyone interested in the many issues surrounding food and food production, from nutrition and genetic modification to justice and sustainability.
All events of the conference – including the Thursday evening meat tasting and lecture on meat production, the Friday evening screening of the film “Fresh,” and the four day-time plenary sessions on Saturday – are free and open to the public. Michael Pollan’s lecture, taking place at 7 p.m. on April 16 in the Chiles Center on campus, 5000 N. Willamette Blvd., requires tickets, which are available online at TicketMaster or in person at the Chiles Center box office.
For more information and a complete schedule of events: https://pilots.up.edu/web/foodforthought