The Sacramento Bee from Sacramento, California • 21

SECTION The Sacramento Bee Tuesday April 8 1997 BEE ON THE INTERNET- WWWSaCbOOCOm 1 I Allen provocative poetry of the streets still finds its voices in the What is hipP The beats revolutionized culture so thoroughly that some of their trademarks poetry jazz and espresso drinks are symbols of hipness more than 40 years later Others have long since been replaced a brief look at the influence i i i I A I Ginsberg The Clothes Then: Black turtlenecks khakis berets and black leotards Now: T-shirts blue jeans baseball By Alison apRoberts Bee Staff Writer The linoleum floors are well-worn the walls a stark white decorated by fine-art photographs It is a quiet Monday afternoon but in a few hours the seats will be filled Three poets will take turns reading from the small raised platform that serves as a stage in Coffee Gallery It could be the instead of the Not everything will be the same: There be any cigarette smoke AIDS has joined the atomic bomb as a dark metaphor and at the end rather than the middle of a century But the heart of the evening the poetry will sound much the same It will be an evening of free verse unfettered by meter and rhyme the rhythm of breath governing the shape of the lines Some of the poems recited Monday even date back to the They were written by Allen Ginsberg whose work shaped modern poetry and set the stage for evenings like this It is in tribute to Ginsberg who died Saturday at the age of 70 that local poets are reading his poems at at the artsy intersection of 16th Street and Broadway where the hip catch art movies at Tower Theatre browse at Ginsberg and other beats brought poetry out of academia and made it hip and often shocking The Arts Then: Poetry readings be-bop jazz and the novel the by Jack Kerouac (1957) Now: Poetry and rap acid jazz and the novel by David Foster Wallace (1996) Allen The Drugs Then: Alcohol nicotine pot and caffeine i Now: Alcohol nicotine pot and caffeine Religion Then: Buddhism and self-expression Now: Gate and the Internet Then: folk Now: Morissette Fahizah Alim Gladys taught us to love ourselves Gladys Knight walked briskly into the brightly decorated room and 1000 African American women jumped to their feet waving their white linen table napkins in the air This was the highlight of the weekend the keynote address that most of us attending the African American Women on Tour conference in Oakland had been eagerly awaiting We had left our workshops the ones about personal growth and money management and reducing stress and stood in line outside the banquet room at the Marriott Hotel for more than a hour before the luncheon to see Gladys Gladys! We never need to use her last name Everyone knows who we are talking about For most of us Grammy Award-winning singer Gladys Knight is an icon -a beautiful dignified triumphant example of gifted black womanhood Many of us grew up with her falling in and out of love marking our romances by her songs Songs like Beat of My I Were Your Heard It Through the Train to and the Overtime for But on this bright Sunday dressed in a colorful array of our festive best we come to hear Gladys sing Her message was not about loving someone else but rather about loving ourselves: valuing ourselves empowering ourselves and taking charge of our children takes all of us to get the job she told us is purpose so thankful to be a part of this reunion of sisters because we have to renew our faith in each other to get the job Often breaking into song and sounding at other times like a Baptist preacher or like her husband motivational speaker Les Brown Gladys re-educated us about the strengths of our mothers strengths that she said we need to rediscover to save our children and ourselves have to demand respect from your children in your homes like your mother demanded respect from she said She reminded us of the communities that many of us grew up in recalling how our mothers back in the and would share child-rearing responsibilities and strategies How we were admonished for inappropriate behavior by any adult who witnessed it And how we submitted if they (the youth) felt they were going to be confronted by all of us maybe it be so hard for one of she said Gladys used the letters of the word as a tie-in to the conference stands for spirit We have a certain spirit a steadfast spirit is for ingenious We had to be in order to survive is for softness Let us not forget how very powerful it can be stands for tired Carrying oftentimes the world on our shoulders we developed a direct line to spirit while on our knees in prayer You tell me it make a difference We are the nurturers of the world And we have to know how to get re-energized stands for empowerment For too long we thought we deserve the best is for relationships going to need each other more than ever are here because we are supposed to Gladys said looking around at the women who had traveled from all over California to attend have come a long way a won-3erful thing to break bread and get back to the spirit But in the upcoming seasons we must do it more We are going to need each other more than ever Forums like this can be the start of us making a I left one of the most inspiring conferences that I had ever attended believing that I can make a difference That we all can FAHIZAH ALIM is a Bee staff writer Her column appears in Scene Write her at PO Box 15779 Sacramento 95852 or call (916) 321-1068 Cuba Gooding Jr The Hangouts Then: Dark smoky coffeehouses Now: Clean well-lit Starbucks Sexuality Then: in an era of (safe) monogamy Now: Monogamy in an era of anything-goes (but unsafe) sex Politics Then: Freedom of speech (on campus) the civil rights Now: Freedom of speech (on the Internet) environmentalism gay rights Entertainment Movies like (1964) and My (1959) Musicians like the left-wing quartet the Weavers Movies like Fiction" (1994) and (1997) Musicians like dire divaAlanis New vision for Channel 19 Spanish-language network buys and revamps Sacramento station BROADCASTING Univision the largest Spanish-language TV network in the porter kept the people we knew would fit in with our said By Dan Vierria Turn for the better Turn to page 2 and you'll find something new in Scene a quick look: of the offers a quick read on a different topic each day Today's is entertainment The rest of the week we offer features on humor fashion publishing relationships and family Ann Landers and Dear Abby are still here daily as is the horoscope The columnists are Mike Royko (Monday and Thursday) Ellen Goodman (Tuesday) Donna Britt (Wednesday) From the Fronf and Miss Manners (Friday) and Connection" (Saturday) The comics and Sequitur" are still here The has been added: and now find 'n on the comics pages If you have any comments or suggestions please call Scott Lebar assistant managing editorfeatures at 321-1182 Delgado Xochitl Arellano who had been anchoring has been reassigned as the Sacramento correspondent Francisco Pinto will remain as the sports anchor Delgado said he decided whether Channel 19 will hire another weather reporter or let the anchors read the forecasts Christian programming will sign off Friday to make way for a full day of Univision network programs Viewers who have come to expect religious programs on Channel 19 for as many as 12 hours a day are understandably upset received some phone calls asking about the religious programming but in general the Latino community is extremely pleased with 24-hour said Delgado United States has purchased Channel 19 (KUVS) making KUVS the first network-owned-and-operated TV station The purchase price was $40 million The Federal Communications Commission gave its final approval to the sale two weeks ago and Univision has been busily making changes ever since Last week the call letters were changed from KCSO to a more Univision-like KUVS Later this week Univision will eliminate the lengthy blocks of religious programming that have long split air time with Spanish programs And before the year is out Channel 19 plans to move its main offices and studios from Modesto to Sacramento and add a second local weekday newscast at 11 pm keep a news bureau and sales office in said Jorge Delgado Channel new general manager want to be a Sacramento station Sacramento is a good sales area for The Sacramento area is the 15th-larg-est Latino TV market No 20 overall) in the United States Channel 19 which airs on Sacramento Channel 5 currently has a sales office in Sacramento and for the first time will add a news crew to cover the Sacramento area In the effort to expand local news the station's news operation is undergoing massive changes Channel 19 which currently has a 6 pm local newscast is seeking a news director and a male anchor to team with anchor Hilda Padilla formerly the weather re Please see VIERRIA page C5.