Elsewhere, though, "Graffiti" squandered this gifted quintet on rhythmically routine dance accompaniment. "If there were commercials at the end of these tapes, people would think I was recommending things just because I was getting freebies. Before taking a trip to an unfamiliar city, tourists have always bought travel books. Wheeler-Nicholson is a puzzling actress-she has the faint air of someone who's just stepped off a Rose Bowl float to give this acting thing a whirl, yet she's also quite endearing. Proceeds will fund future acquisitions for the museum's department of prints and drawings.

"When the Met began touring in 1883, the company's first year, we were the only show in town" said Crawford. Jacobson said the whole incident was a metaphor of the "political thicket" surrounding the project. The Minutemen's May 23 show at Safari Sam's in Huntington Beach has been canceled, but the group is expected to play the club during the summer. . PARIS — "There are no stars" the film's star says with winning, if inaccurate, modesty "No sex, no violence, no chases Nothing to entertain at that level. And this time, said Southland vice president Kenny Weissberg, the series will be bigger than ever, with more than 50 acts-ranging from traditional jazz trumpeter Miles Davis to the more commercial Windham Hill family of pop-jazz instrumentalists-scheduled to play from late April through October. Some of the most interesting chamber music being recorded these days can be found on a pair of small Los Angeles-based labels, Laurel and GSC, guided by the enterprising Herschel Burke Gilbert. He then danced with an impressive list of companies from both camps, frequently cast in the role of the outcast-rapist, lunatic, drunk.

Hosts of other more esoteric shows, however, will be asked to resign just as the local advisory board was, Anderson said. As the film's one true star, he just can't help giving off sparks-a successful adaptation of "1918" surely would have made him the central figure. Leave it to Paul Morrissey to find humor in a lethal drug war in Manhattan's Lower East Side. The rabbi's vision didn't show up in the picture, but that hasn't prevented Witkin from pursuing other equally elusive images. errr-I mean-Bono Hewson" The remark was a jab at both Hewson's idealistic bent and the spiritually tinged intent of U2's music. Sunday at the La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art's Sherwood Auditorium.

From the start, what has been extraordinary about the work is its lucidity. "Within nine months, the announcement of this 'discovery' will be made" he predicts, while refusing to name either the culprits or the credited composer. Out of her experiences, she has created referential abstractions that go beyond being merely decorative They seem truly to convey a sense of the places she visited. He signed off the air Wednesday night telling listeners, "The station has been sold, and you'll be hearing religious programming in the next few months" Most KWVE employees were officially informed of the impending sale Thursday. The overall result is that of a rugged landscape framed by a theatrical proscenium or multi-perspective viewfinder. I don't know if theater in America is a viable instrument for social change.

Everything is overgrown and overblown to a point of disintegration in Galloway's art. Later painters of the Yosemite region, such as Christian Jorgensen, Harry Cassie Best and William Clothier Watts, showed a more restrained and less romantic approach to their subjects. Artists throughout history have been inspired by California's spectacular mountain vistas. Rap music is usually more attuned to current events, but the Twin City Rappers have concocted a fun (and obviously unauthorized) history lesson about the Minneapolis Sound on a new 12-inch single called "The Twin City Rapp (A True Story" Written by Tim Lynch and David E. American Sampler (213) 461-5775) is a seriously trendy place: its textured orange walls, spatter-painted chairs and giant photos by Andy Warhol give it a look that falls somewhere between a cave and a cafe The menu is pretty trendy, too. Both works, for all their subtleties, have strong presences. LA JOLLA — Sculptor Jay Johnson, one of the pioneers in the development of the downtown art district, is having his first major solo exhibition in La Jolla at the Thomas Babeor Gallery. The miners' strike, ending in defeat for the miners, will evidently lead to more closures Unemployment is high and in some areas chronic. Weithorn for the "Sumner's Return" episode of "Cheers" on NBC.

While Carl Corry worked unevenly through the technical problems of the King of the Dandies, and Deborah Dawn flung herself into a spirited if sometimes broad charade as the Street Dancer, Caccamo danced with freshness, refinement and an inner glow that redeemed every virginal cliche of her role (the Eldest Daughter) and made it irresistible. NEW YORK — The Mark Taper Forum's production of "In the Belly of the Beast-a veteran of the Taper, Too (1984, the 1985 Festival of Sidney (Australia) and the Taper's main stage (last spring-opened Thursday at Off-Broadway's Joyce Theater with the same stark assault on our perceptions, yet with a considerably less spectacular effect on the sensibilities of some members of New York's critical community. After collaring tonight's killer in another state next week, by the way, Dane will become a special aide to a woman mayor, specializing in ferreting out city corruption. Is he kidding? This guy has too much integrity to run for the job. "The co-sponsorship was mostly a funding question, and a space question" Gamwell said "They (the museum) rented the show from us, basically.