Prince gets intimate

at Schnitzer
This show is rated “S & M” for sexy and mature. Prince will be playing a sexy and mature show sans back-up dancers in “One Night Alone with Prince.” The P-man will shake his thang at 8 p.m. Tuesday, April 30, at the Schnitzer Concert Hall in Portland. Featured selections include old-school tributes and material from “The Rainbow Children,” his newest album, released in 2001. Special guests at the jazz-tinged show will include saxophonists Maceo Parker and Candy Dulfer. In a surprising turn, there will be no set lists, leaving the audience open-mouthed in wonder as they enjoy the many spontaneous surprises for which Prince has become known.
Tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday, April 26, at all Ticketmaster outlets or by phone at (503) 224-0444.

— Alix Kerl

Journal announces

poetry prize
A local literary journal has started a new poetry prize.
CALYX, the Corvallis-based women’s literature and art journal, recently announced its first Lois Cranston Memorial Poetry Prize. Interested parties are asked to submit up to three unpublished poems, totaling no more than six manuscript pages. Visit the CALYX Web site at http://www.proaxis.com/~calyx/ for more details.
Winners of the prize will receive a $250 award, publication in CALYX and a one-volume subscription. Finalists will receive a one-volume subscription and will be noted on the journal’s Web site.
The submission dates are May 1 through July 1, 2002. There is a reading fee of $15.
Eleanor Wilner, author of “Reversing the Spell: New & Selected Poems” (Copper Canyon Press) will judge the contest. Winners will be notified by Sept. 30.

— John Liebhardt