This is a homey place, yes, and a little quirky-you get your own drinks from a coldbox (opener at the cash register, glasses on demand, and the walls are decorated with religious art, a photo of Raul Iglesias and several signs pointedly reading, "Skinny Cooks Can't Be Trusted" Above all, though, it is a sterling little Mexican restaurant that resolutely makes everything itself, down to the tortillas and the chorizo sausage. It has excerpts from her novels and diaries and scenes between her and her husband, and her lover. Blood on the Saddle will make an in-store appearance at 4 p. m Saturday at Atomic Records in Huntington Beach prior to the group's show that night at Safari Sam's. . Actually, I think it's going to move further toward the listener" By example, the Cal State Northridge faculty composer points to the program he will conduct on Monday at the Japan America Theatre, when the Los Angeles Philharmonic New Music Group presents "Music From the Midwest" "All of these pieces are accessible" Kessner said, adding that he will only be on the podium for two of the four works One is by Salvatore Martirano.

Ameling ended the evening with three encores: Granados' "El majo discreto" Tosti's "Serenata" and Mozart's "Un moto di gioja". The other matters include New York theater, where Scott's acting career took off in 1957 when he starred in Joseph Papp's production of "Richard III" It is where he tends to be found nowadays when not fighting both sides of World War II for rival networks. Marsh, a past member of the Lennox Quartet (1959-81) and the Philadelphia String Quartet (1981-82, will leave his position as professor of music at Indiana University later this summer. The brashness came from a certain inbred British reserve (he was Welsh, with all its brooding implications, but the arrogance was a form of realism: He had a quick, impatient mind and a special talent-and he knew it. Stern also conducts intermittent foggy interviews in which he displays more a pride of peers than a pride of place.

Keller, 41, came to the United States in 1970 from his native West Germany to take a job as assistant professor of Baroque art at the University of Louisville He first became acquainted with the Stryker archive there. "Instead of existing solely for the artist's product, like we did in the '60s, or chasing after demographics, we're comfortable now with being somewhere in between. The raft belongs to the eldest, Pan Laowu (Li Wei, a wiry, agile man of perhaps 60, who has lived off the river all his life All three express their longing for their women. I found out through the girlfriend's friend that she was pregnant. Who are producers and what is it they do, and are they supervisors (and thus ineligible to be treated as a labor union) or aren't they? The Producers Guild has been arguing for years that its members, or many of them, are caught in a kind of limbo, with no participation in corporate pension and welfare plans, but also with no guild pension and welfare plans, such as the Directors and Writers guilds and other unions have, substantially funded by industry contributions. The group's second album, "When You're a Rebel" was released in August.

For Bartok's masterpiece, such an approach ignored the work's usual function as the occasion for virtuoso display; instead, Tilson Thomas engaged the listener by concentrating on the emotional life here described in sound: the bitterness and pathos in the first and third movements, the shadowed, anguished jokiness in the second and fourth, and the triumph in the finale Attendance: 8,928. . The curtain finally rose on a full, four-part dance program at 9:15 It was that sort of a night. That, in any case, is one possible explanation for the sudden spate of restaurant offspring that are popping up all over the city There's another explanation, of course. But it's an excellent first film, anyway-surprising, poignant, deeply disturbing.

A huge exhibition featuring 50 artists from the Southwest and Mexico dominates. "A Soldier's Story" released last week, is doing very good business, particularly as a rental It should debut high on the charts next week TOP VIDEOCASSETTES, RENTALS 1 "The Karate Kid" (RCA/Columbia 2 "Starman" (RCA/Columbia 3 "The Terminator" (Thorn/EMI 4 "2010: The Year We Make Contact" (MGM/UA 5 "Places in the Heart" (CBS-Fox 6 "The Flamingo Kid" (Vestron 7 "Missing in Action" (MGM/UA 8 "Protocol" (Warner 9 "Nightmare on Elm Street" (Media 10 "Micki & Maude" (RCA/Columbia TOP VIDEOCASSETTES, SALES 1 "We Are the World: The Video Event" (MusicVision 2 "Jane Fonda's Workout" (Karl 3 "Wrestlemania" (Coliseum 4 "Prime Time" (Karl 5 "Wham! The Video" (CBS-Fox 6 "Gone With the Wind" (MGM/UA 7 "The Karate Kid" (RCA/Columbia 8 "Star Trek III: The Search for Spock" (Paramount 9 "Life With Mickey" (Disney 10. New are Maxine Hong Kingston's "The Woman Warrior" (the Tom Cole/Joyce Chopra adaptation postponed from last year; Lanford Wilson's "Burn This" and Jean Claude Van Itallie's "The Traveler" inspired by actor/director Joseph Chaikin's recovery from a stroke. "A man is king of his castle" he menacingly tells Alice on one of the Showtime episodes. But those involved with band instruments such as clarinets, trumpets and trombones were less optimistic.

Since the (21) actors play horses, the theatricality parallels the story. Once, during a chance encounter in an elevator, Garbo mentioned to Logan, "You'll have to drop by and visit sometime" To Garbo's shock, Logan accepted on the spot. His specialty is banal images, recycled from advertising and tagged with hand-lettered bromides. Ninth in CC's packages of previously produced children's films, this 36-minute tape contains three stories about the futility and dangers of envy and greed. In fact, she said, checks and spinoff project proceeds have only increased in the past two weeks "It's hysterical" she said. EMI's burgeoning Offenbach operetta series here acquires a dollop of glamour with the arrival of Norman, who lends a voluptuous aura to the face that launched at least a dozen hummable tunes. was not planned and budgeted" and "could not be executed in time" and that "technical problems with raising the stage level to the optimum height for proper sightlines have not yet been solved" Declining to give dollar amounts, Kaufman said that the Opera Theater "at this time has a deficit from previous seasons" but that that deficit would not affect the organization's ability to produce "Cav/Pag" in March.

Holly has just enough humor (and insecurity) to enjoy Sandy's sarcastic, half-envious digs at her. Barry Goldwater, the GOP's candidate, would be quick on the nuclear trigger. No matter how much they fight, everyone in the village, and the audience, too, accepts that they belong together. "Legends" came off as a rational, left-brain sort of play, while "The Wash" came off as an emotional, right-brain one.

(New Line Cinema) "Cut and Run-Two TV reporters journey to South America in search of a military colonel, long presumed dead, who may have planned the Guyana massacre Lisa Blount, Willie Aames, Karen Black. But they're finally experiencing success after two hard years of ceaseless club work. "Cafe Man Ray" which opened over the weekend at the G. The one-hour opening set by the Charlie Daniels Band, in contrast, at least had the energy of music born of the barroom, not demographic surveys. His horrific faces-bloody, masked or mangled-cut straight to the heart of contemporary terror as they rise from starched collars or military uniforms. "What I really don't understand is why there should be any conflict at all" Iglesias said "It all seems a little absurd I just wish I knew what I could do (to help.

And over the past few years some brave upscale restaurants-the audaciously beautiful Rex, the seriously sedate Bernard's-have done their best to lure patrons downtown. "My mother was killed very early on, and my dad went straight into the Army" she says. Dame Ninette d e Valois, founder-director of England's Royal Ballet, saw Lynne perform when she was 16 and invited her to join the company. Opening the series July 16 will be Woody Herman and his Young Thundering Herd, celebrating a 50th anniversary. According to Pepsi's Ross, the decision was made "in less than 15 minutes" by Roger Enrico, president of Pepsico's domestic soft drink subsidiary. In this historic concoction, the Bauschians splash, sprawl, strut, stride, muse, roll, kick, languish and stroke their not-so-merry way through an increasingly chaotic nightmare that happens to take place on a stage full of water That's right Water At the stage apron it was four inches deep.