ADVISORY/What's Up, Downtown -- Media Calendar, October 2000.

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ADVISORY...

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Following are highlights of the many events occurring this month in Downtown Los Angeles that may be of interest to the media. For a more exhaustive list, see www.downtownla.com or www.downtownnews.com.

THEATER & MUSIC


Oct. 1-22                 MARK TAPER FORUM
                          135 N. Grand Ave.  213-628-2772
                          www.taperahmanson.com
                          "King Hedley III"

Two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner August Wilson brings us the latest
in his extraordinary cycle of plays chronicling the African-American
experience through each decade of the 20th Century. With pulsing
energy Wilson paints Pittsburgh's Hill District in the 1980s, where
young men are lost to gangs and violence, and the extended-family
structure is broken.

Oct. 1-22                 AHMANSON THEATRE
                          135 N. Grand Ave.  213-628-2772
                          www.taperahmanson.com
                          "Death of a Salesman"

Brian Dennehy's towering presence ignites Willy Loman, Arthur
Miller's American Everyman. "Death of a Salesman" is a work of
tremendous emotional impact, as relevant today as when it premiered 50
years ago. Brian Dennehy, Elizabeth Franz and Ron Eldard recreate
their triumphant Broadway performances.


Oct. 18-31                DOROTHY CHANDLER PAVILLION
                          135 N.Grand Avenue  213-972-8001
                          www.laopera.org
                          "Peter Grimes"

Benjamin Britten explores the plight of a man caught in the maw of
tradition and convention; in this case, a lonely fisherman, clashing
fatally with the close-knit, gossipy community of an English fishing
village. Film Director John Schlesinger makes his Los Angeles opera
debut directing this new co-production.

Oct. 7                    JAZZ DAY L.A.
                          135 N. Grand Ave.  213-202-2200

A free, all-day jazz festival at the Performing Arts Center of Los
Angeles County, at First and Hill streets, with two jazz master
classes in the Grand Hall at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion at 10 a.m.
and pianist Shelly Berg and saxophonist Ernie Watts at 12:30 p.m. The
classes will be followed by a jam session in the Grand Hall at 2 p.m.


MUSEUMS

Oct. 1-31                 MOCA
                          250 S. Grand Ave.  213-621-2166
                          www.moca.org
                          "John Gutman: The Culture Shock"

The exhibition examines the achievement of this unique and
influential photographer through more than 50 years of work and
features 100 photographs.

Oct. 8-31                 "2000 BC: THE BRUCE CONNER STORY II"

Spanning Conner's varied artistic production from 1954 to 1998,
the exhibition includes assemblage, film, painting, drawing,
sculpture, collage, printmaking, and photography.

Oct. 1-30                 "MEDI(t)Ations: Adrian Piper's Videos,
                          Installations, Performance and Soundworks"

The first major survey of the artist's media work during the past
25 years brings together nearly all of Piper's video and Adrian
Piper-created pieces that bridged minimalism, conceptual art, and
performance art.

Oct.  14                   Adrian Piper

Join artist Adrian Piper in a rare Los Angeles appearance at 2 p.m.
for a lecture on her work in video, installation, performance,
and audio over the past 25 years.

Oct. 1-31                  THE LATINO MUSEUM OF HISTORY, ART AND
                            CULTURE
                           112 S. Main St.   213-626-7600
                           www.latinomuseum.org
                           "La Patria Portatil"

A retrospective exhibition of 20th Century Mexico as seen through
its popular art calendars. These vintage calendars feature historic
and romantic images, which have become part of the Mexican identity.

Oct. 1-31                  "An American Leader - Cesar E. Chavez"

This exhibition celebrates the life and times of Cesar E. Chavez
through a unique collection of artistic photographs and the historical
insight of the United Farm Workers and the American civil rights
movement.

Oct. 1-15                  LOS ANGELES PUBLIC LIBRARY
                           630 W. 5th St.  213-228-7287
                           www.lapl.org
                           "The Way Home: Ending Homelessness in
                            America"

An extraordinary exhibition of 150 photographs documenting the
lives of homeless and formerly homeless men, women and children.
Showcases images by many well-known photographers.

Oct. 7-31                  "Skeletons at the Feast"

More than 50 illustrations by the renowned Mexican artist Jose
Guadalupe Posada depicting the saints and sinners of
turn-of-the-century Mexican culture, are on display in "Skeletons at
the Feast."

SPORTS, ENTERTAINMENT & CONVENTIONS

Oct. 1-31                   STAPLES CENTER
                            1111 Figueroa 213-365-6300
                            www.staplescenter.com
                            Call 213-365-6300 for information.

Oct. 6, 7                   "STAIR CLIMB TO THE TOP"
                            633 W. 5th St.  213-624-2348

Over 1,000 participants will run, walk or crawl to the top of the
Library Tower, the tallest building west of the Mississippi.

Oct. 31                     "7th and Fig. HALLOWEEN SPOOKTACULAR
                             COSTUME CONTEST"
                            725 S. Figueroa St.
                            12-1 p.m.