The best thing Omata has going for her is a feathery, suave, lyric sense that is probably all her own. If there was one thing that was clear about the outcome it was that nothing was clear. "There are a lot of punk bands around who are doing the same stuff they were doing in 1980 It seems pretty ridiculous to me. The other figurative and abstract works (on view through Oct. Normally Lanyer is a clear, strong, uncluttered actor who finds a logic to his character before he looks to embellish it.

Premiering in 1984, the show progressed through several incarnations on its way to Off Broadway, "while Dennis (Deal, the composer/director) just kept working on it, making it tighter-and the reviews just kept getting better and better" Her good fortune was interrupted by a freak fall. "I tried to make a deal to bring Spago to New York" says restaurant owner Andre Sfez "I wanted to do a franchise, a partnership, anything. A couple of hours later, the plane touched down in the Dominican Republic. A talent lineup sheet obtained by The Times shows that the Pointer Sisters, Aretha Franklin, Mr. Britten covers a great deal of territory in 50 episodic minutes. Only minutes ago he'd pushed a slot-machine crank on a construction by Lee Roy Champagne and it lit up like a psychedelic light show in a gum-ball machine. "Torment" (citywide) is an ingenious little suspense thriller that deftly upturns the cliches of the lady-in-distress genre.

She also plays road show musicals for the Playgoers Series, Baroque music with the Allegro Quartet, chamber music with a flute trio and woodwind quintet, as well as jazz duos with harpist Sheila Sterling and with guitarist Jim Owen. While working on the symphony, Traugh came to California to do research in UCLA's ethnomusicology archives and decided to stay. There were a few first-timers, to be sure, who were seriously disappointed by the fare, expecting haute spa treatment-breakfast in bed with a flower on the tray, luncheon of poached salmon, dinner of roast veal and "calorie-conscious" Grand Marnier souffle a la Sonoma Mission Inn This wasn't that kind of place. There is now enough on view to activate a well-known syndrome among museum people-when you get enough on the walls to convince people that you are substantial, more donations are attracted and things that are already good get better I just hope they never get good enough to get dull. When Ernest Evans looked for a stage name in the late '50s, he thought of Fats Domino and came up with Chubby Checker. Maybe" If Konchalavsky's romance with Shirley MacLaine was newsworthy, it was his friendship with Nastassja Kinski that made for synergy, and the career launch.

And they entertained in their homes other well-known musicians, like Ernestine Schumann-Heink, Mischa Elman and Eugene Ysaye. Overlapping the final years of the quartet's existence, the four musicians of the Zoellner family opened a conservatory on Windsor Boulevard in Los Angeles in 1922. Local band Rough Cutt, a Dio protege, opened with a thoroughly unexceptional 45-minute set. . "At first I thought this was ridiculous stuff, but then I heard some people calling up with some serious problems and you guys help them out. Does she intend to continue entering musical contests? "I think so. Identity is not a fixed thing" Elaine Kendall took some respite from the heavy mantle of being a prominent local literary critic by writing a romantic comedy for the stage called "Prizes" which played the Megaw Theater in 1979 and was later adapted into a musical. But people know us around the country; we have three albums, all on Concord Jazz, and hope to make another very soon" The orchestra was organized through a lucky accident.

I just kept thinking, 'Look what they (Europeans) see us doing. The exhibitions go a long way to dispel the image of "glass artists" as makers of paperweights, perfume bottles and stained-glass windows. She developed the first museum studies course in Egypt and developed feasibility studies for the creation of regional conservation training centers. . Film making at the year-old studio was previously guided by President Gary Hendler, who resigned last month. The event fulfilled its primary function, drawing an estimated 700 supporters to the Palace and thereby becoming "a financial success" according to Filmex executive director Suzanne McCormick But "Night of 100 Stars" this evening wasn't. This was something that deserved to be seen here more than in any other market in the country" Judy Thomas, who manages Balaski, said her client had spent more than $900 for the ad in Variety and additional money on other publicity about her role as the homeless, mentally ill mother. Six "Almanac" editions have been broadcast so far, the last on Jan 27.

When he proposed his first outdoor "Whaling Wall" completed in Laguna Beach in 1981, the City Council insisted that he select another site, contending that the original location would have created a traffic hazard. "I really didn't see what the controversy was about" Extensive editing forced Powers to drop some songs. Alice Walker's book "The Color Purple" gives us a powerful feminist theology. Best of all for the Western Show enthusiasts, Videotoken has the salesmanship routine down to a science. "I like doing movies with meaning because the public can relate to them. I've only been able to work one more night into the story 21 times Pop stardom obviously isn't as easy as it looks. . 9, he was convicted of 13 felony counts of conspiracy and perjury relating to the financing of his 1983 mayoral campaign Then on Dec.

She studied color healing, ancient cave paintings and shamanic art. The contract with Fox Productions, which operated the theater under previous owner Charles Kendall of Los Angeles, gave Nederlander virtual control of the theater with first refusal rights on all Fox dates. According to Vecchione, the $8-million series was shot on locations in China over an 18-month period between 1981 and 1983. The Santa Monica Museum of Art is being launched as part of a new Main Street retail and office project. The former New York Dolls guitarist wasted no time demonstrating that his over-the-edge spirit, irreverent humor and major-league chops are still intact. I can't help feeling he's somewhere having a good chuckle over the whole thing" The irony deepens contemplating the fact that Getty loved England and spent most of his later life in the country that now regards his museum as a ravenous bete noir that feeds on its great artworks.