While you're decoding these faintly contradictory messages, you might see the sign in the window that explains it all: Home Made Tortillas. During his brief, influential stay in Peking (1957-1960, he began staging classical works such as "Swan Lake" and "Giselle" and also initiated a training program in choreography. The short, intense history of ballet in China is a saga of fortuitous circumstances (among them the proximity of Russia and an influx from its dance community after the Russian Revolution, familiar hardships, unusual setbacks and a growing relationship with the international ballet world. "There's a husband and his attorney on one side of the table and a wife and her attorney on the other side. Michael Newton, former president of the Performing Arts Council of the Music Center, will be formally honored Monday in the Senate Caucus Room in Washington by the American Council for the Arts. Today, at a regular meeting being held at Caltech in Pasadena, the Arts Council itself is dealing with the matter of the move and minority programs. Her relationship with Megaw Artistic Director Elaine Moe proved satisfying enough that they collaborated on a musical about women in history called "Stepping Forward" which played New York's Quaigh Theatre earlier this year under the title "To Feed Their Hopes; it opens Thursday at the Mayfair in Santa Monica.

Christo's dream materialized in unseasonably splendid weather in full view of thousands of strolling Parisians and battalions of reporters. This is not "The Cosby Show" Bill Moyers, a bespectacled white journalist who resembles a teacher's pet even in middle age, is interviewing young black mothers in a Newark, N. J, ghetto "Tell me, raise your hand if you're married" he begins No hands. They are: "Alf" starring Max Wright, formerly of "Buffalo Bill" as as "an ordinary guy caught up in something extraordinary when an Alien Life Force-identified as a furry puppet named Alf-joins his family. PHILADELPHIA — He spoke about Africa in an unusual way. 6, the network said "Body Language" will continue in CBS' daytime lineup until Jan 3. . If you turn away (from problems and responsibilities, that's the beginning of the end.

'GOODBYE, NEW YORK' A Castle Hill presentation of a Kole-Hill production Writer-producer-director Amos Kollek Camera Amnon Salomon Music Michael Abene Associate producer Mary Jane Cahill Film editor Alan Heim. But I remember a police detective standing at Inge's desk, idly hefting the playwright's Oscar as he made his report over the phone "So that's what they look like" he said. Sunday's Calendar will list all 125 movies scheduled for release during the next four months. HBO has just joined Black Entertainment's family of owners, Taft Broadcasting and Tele-Communications Inc (the nation's largest operator of cable-TV systems. "Dark of the Night" a $325,000 New Zealand thriller about a vintage Jaguar with a haunted past, comes to the Cineplex in mid-May.

(The familiar Jaffrey is most quickly recognized as Billy Fish in "The Man Who Would Be King" or Professor Godbole in "A Passage to India) At his big, noisy mixed parties, in addition to the omnipresent Aunties and Nasser's restless, angry daughter Tania (Rita Wolf, there's always an all-male salon in which he entertains wittily, reclining on his daybed like a figure in an Indian miniature painting. Says Garrett about the organization's impact, "When I came to Los Angeles in 1949, it took me eight years to find a writer's workshop. Anyone who has ever visited Australia can tell you that it is the last major bastion of male supremacy and chauvinism in the English-speaking world. Bunzel may not have the answers, but he at least suggests the questions, even if too perfunctorily.

We were the first incorporated township in central Minnesota to put up a Business District sign. OPENING THIS MONTH COBRA-Sly Stallone is back in action-as no-nonsense cop Marion Cobretti, assigned to protect fashion model Brigitte Nielsen (a. k. a Mrs Stallone) who's been marked for death by a serial killer George Cosmatos directs. No sooner had Eaton introduced McBride, than the audience members-sensing a target for long-pent-up frustrations with TV newscasters-homed in on her. While rock music radio stations like KIIS-FM (102. 7) and KRTH-FM (101. 1) continued to gut their news departments and "life-style" reporting (i. e, legal advice, restaurant reviews, movie criticism, fashion bargain hunting, personal fitness counseling, etc) replaced hard-nosed television news reporting and commentary on most Los Angeles stations, several news outlets did excel. Recent appointments: Writer and critic Beverly O'Neill is the new provost at CalArts. There is a growing feeling that if a story can't be told in 20 minutes, it shouldn't be told at all.

(He's playing at Chuck's Steak House in La Jolla on Sundays and will be at the Our Place Lounge in the Miki-San restaurant tonight and Saturday) "Sure, I could play pop-jazz and be working six nights a week at the top jazz nightclubs in town" Marillo said "But making money isn't my life's desire. VHD discs have the same length as CLV laser discs without sacrificing their capabilities. That's about a fourth of USA for Africa's total earnings so far. Nothing was as gripping as Bruce Springsteen's singing an impassioned "Who'll Stop the Rain" to wheelchair-bound vets at a Sports Arena show nearly five years ago, but it's nearly impossible to hit that kind of peak when you barely have time to play a couple of hits before moving on. Time serum has allowed Stefani to escape to 1985, taking over the body of an LAPD lieutenant. And it's also not true"Kuralt is the unofficial dinosaur of TV news.

The $15-million, four-theater Los Angeles Theatre Center opens on Spring Street in September, and the City of Beverly Hills has budgeted two theaters in its new civic-center complex. He's a master architect" Davis is also a tough customer, as Scofield found out. In fact, they wondered why all these crazy tourists were taking pictures of it when Piccadilly Circus was within walking distance. "Composing is rather like the poet's work-you force it bit by bit until it has a kind of bone structure" Only after a piece is "written" in his head (shades of Mozart) does Tippett take pen in hand. They were carryin' chains an' crowbars an switch blades, an' they were all surrounding me. And that means San Diego's four other college stations-KCR, UC San Diego's KSDT, Grossmont College's KGCR and Palomar College's KSM-have had to employ other methods to reach an audience. SAN DIEGO — Last week San Diego State University's campus radio station, KCR, nearly went off the air.

The Los Angeles Philharmonic and Orange County Pacific Symphony will be the first attractions when the Orange County Performing Arts Center opens its 3,000-seat main theater next fall, Center officials disclosed Tuesday. In the three years since Santa Barbara artist Sam Erenberg last showed a major group of paintings here, he has become infected by the Neo-Expressionist epidemic. "This is my seventh year and it's become one of the biggest events to cover, along with the Oscars" he said. "I'm still kind of amazed that the classical audience has taken to it so well because while it is a classical product, it has, I think, a mass-market appeal" Telarc plans to test that appeal this week with the release of a pop single featuring the third movement of the Italian Concerto "Presto" and "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring" whose title will be shortened to "Joy" While retail stores will sell a standard seven-inch version of the single, Telarc will send promotional compact disc versions to radio stations.

Set to Samuel Barber's "Adagio for Strings" Francisco Martinez's "Three Men" began formally, promisingly, with powerful reaches and extensions by the three that developed into muscular lifts and other interaction and, increasingly, into over-literal Christian imagery-a danced passion play, in fact. The best-record victory made "We Are the World" the first charity-oriented recording to win in a top Grammy category since the "Concert for Bangladesh" was named best LP in 1973. The work, in all candor, looks like a reversion to early 1960s Bay Area imagery, and not of the strongest. "BIG WORLD" Joe Jackson A&M.

So even though the quartet's latest tour, which came to the Pacific Amphitheatre on Sunday, is billed as "Fans Tour '86" the 75-minute show was almost identical to Tour '85 and Tour '84 and Tour '83. The very name "Akbar" in fact, honors that empire's most famous and enlightened ruler, who, the restaurants' menus declare, "lived daringly-at the table as well as in battle" But though the seat of Mogul power was Agra (and later Delhi) in the north of India, Kapoor says, the cuisine of the Mogul court was selective and eclectic, taking the best from many parts of the subcontinent, and even from nearby Persia-much as China's Mandarin cuisine is a collection of dishes from many regions, not a true regional cooking style itself. Landmark (owner of the Guild, Ken, Fine Arts and Cove theaters) is trying to continue the tradition of the San Diego International Film Festival, dormant since 1983, by bringing to San Diego a selection of international films, few of which normally would be seen here in commercial distribution. LeMasters was making his debut as keeper of the CBS lineup following the departure of Grant's former right-hand man, Harvey Shephard. The result was a fascinating, 90-minute documentary, "Marlene" which has been shown at several European film festivals and was nominated for an Oscar last year. Naked, alternately half-drowned and electric-shocked, she was in their hands 36 days, suffering "all their treatment" until she was finally released and fled the country.

She never ever comes if I want to be alone" Her mother, who recently said, "I'm so proud that Brooke's a virgin-though I wouldn't expect her to be one at 22" is, of course, the actress's manager. One feels in his stories that there is more to him than that, and in this production we see his strictness as a diagnostician. Still, people associate this band, which is performing Saturday night at the Beverly Theater, with "Miami Vice" all the time The title is largely to blame. On this occasion, as on sever previous ones, he was supported c,zl,8. 5 with wholehearted and balanced musicality by Spong, his paragon of a pianistic partner. "He counted wrong" Reagan was giving America the news, his news.

526-was hugely effective Sunday without quite making the listener oblivious to the disparity between his confident mastery of instrument and idiom and the pianist's less secure manner. But the type of programming used over the last three seasons-the San Diego Pops Orchestra made its debut in the summer of 1983-has come under fire from both winter subscribers and the city's music critics. Psychologists warn that they convert reality into a montage of meaningless surfaces of identical texture, tamper with our ability to fantasize and distort our sense of space and time. Fans who sample some of the 15 to 20 albums available in the States will discover that the sound is far removed from Nigeria's juju music, the most widely known African style here. They probably never understood that an essential part of his passion for historical art was in finding ways to share it. See, I commented on myself before you could! Then Krzysztof wanted me crying when I buried my mother.

Gurian says she was shocked, even more so when a WGA investigation determined that Bonney's alleged underpayment appeared to be the rule, not an exception. That implies that concertgoers give a high priority to music. SAN DIEGO — Brian Bedford is coming and "Cymbeline" is going, a switch in the Old Globe Theatre's summer schedule. What must have seemed a cute idea 18 years ago-having actors bring beloved comic strip characters to life in song and dance and thereby reinforce their humanity-is lost when the cartoon characters themselves perform. The choreographer-actually, he prefers to be called a constructor-was given whimsically economical props: a coffin, a door, a sofa, a pseudo-horse-designed in inimitable Gothic black, white and gray by none less than Edward Gorey, who also concocted the embellished unitards that served as costumes. "And the quality wasn't as high as in the past" He outlined some of the problems: Niger's Oumarou Gandi died in 1981 Sembene (now 62) hasn't made a movie since "Ceddo" in 1976. Now he's crossing his fingers that this highly unusual film-it all takes place on a remote planet in space-will stimulate the enthusiasm of critics and audiences.