BEST OF THE WEEKEND.MUSIC CONCH-ED OUT: Jazz trombonist Steve Turre Steve Turre (born September 12, 1948 in Omaha, Nebraska) is an internationally renowned trombonist, recording artist, arranger, and educator. In 1998, 1999, 2001, 2002 and 2006 he won the Down Beat Reader's Poll for best trombonist. may haul out his seashells tonight through Sunday when he brings his quartet to the Jazz Bakery The Jazz Bakery is one of the leading jazz venues in the world. It is situated in the former Helms Bakery on Helms Avenue off Venice Boulevard in Culver City, California. It was established as a not-for-profit company by jazz vocalist Ruth Price. . The Bay Area-bred Turre is well-known for his ability to play conch conch (kŏngk, kŏnch, kôngk), common name for certain marine gastropod mollusks having a heavy, spiral shell, the whorls of which overlap each other. shells, although he focuses strictly on the 'bone on ``T-N-T (Trombone-N- Tenor),'' his latest album. The Jazz Bakery is at 3233 Helms Ave., Culver City Culver City, city (1990 pop. 38,793), Los Angeles co., S Calif., a residential suburb of Los Angeles; inc. 1917. It is a center of the U.S. motion-picture industry, whose roots in the city date to c.1915. Its chief manufactures are rubber products and computers. . Show times are 7 and 9:30 nightly. Tickets are $22. Information: (310) 271-9039. - Fred Shuster HARMONIZING: Like Manhattan Transfer, New York Voices New York Voices is the Grammy Award winning vocal ensemble renowned for their excellence in jazz and the art of group singing. Like the greTat groups that have come before, such as Lambert, Hendricks and Ross, Singers Unlimited, Manhattan Transfer and Take 6, they have learned from the takes jazz harmony singing to new levels. The foursome, appearing in a free concert tonight with the Henry Mancini Institute Big Band at the Beverly Hills Civic Center Plaza, brings a fresh approach to the songs of the swing era. The Civic Center is at 450 N. Rexford Drive, Beverly Hills. Show time is 8 p.m., and there is no charge, although reservations are requested. Information: (310) 285-1045. - F.S. FAIR ENOUGH: Shy bard Elliott Smith has become more confident in the years since he took a bow at the 1998 Oscars holding hands with Celine Dion. Smith appears at 9:30 p.m. Saturday at the annual Sunset Junction street fair The Sunset Junction Street Fair is an event held annually in the Sunset Junction neighborhood of the Silver Lake community in Los Angeles, California. Occurring annually in late August, the two-day neighborhood festival was first held in 1980 as a way to quell tensions between the , sharing the bill on the Bates Bates , Katherine Lee 1859-1929. American educator and writer best known for her poem "America the Beautiful," written in 1893 and revised in 1904 and 1911. Stage with Tsar, Beachwood Sparks, Imperial Teen and other local favorites. The fair takes place in the 3600 to 4400 blocks of Sunset Boulevard in Silver Lake. Music starts at noon Saturday and Sunday. Admission is $5 and all ages are invited. Information: (323) 661-7771 or on the Web at home.pacbell.net/sunset80.- F.S. STAGE SQUEEZE PLAYS: When life offers you lemons, don't get sour. Write a play! The Westside offers a couple of citrus-y offerings. The Tamarind tamarind (tăm`ərĭnd), tropical ornamental evergreen tree (Tamarindus indica) of the family Leguminosae (pulse family), native to Africa and probably to Asia, but now widely grown in the tropics. Theatre is offering ``Lemonade,'' Michael Folie's comedy about a woman who discovers a man with amnesia at her kitchen table. Undisturbed, she offers him - yup yup adv. Slang Yes. [Alteration of yep.] - lemonade. Maxwell Caulfield, Heather Tom and Hugh O'Gorman star. Beachward, there's ``The Lemony Fresh Scent of Diva Monsoon,'' a one-woman performance by Ruth de Sosa (aka Diva M) playing Sunday afternoons at the Rose Alley Theater in Venice. No lemonade in this one, just ``a woman's search for love, the perfect potato kugel and a complete set of vintage turquoise Fiestaware.'' ``Lemonade'' plays at 8 p.m. Thursday through Saturday and 7 p.m. Sunday at 5919 Franklin Ave. in Hollywood through Sept. 16. Tickets are $15 to $20. Call (818) 906-0675 or (323) 930-9304. ``The Lemony Fresh Sent of Diva Monsoon plays at 3 p.m. Sundays for an indefinite run at 318 Lincoln Blvd. in Venice. Tickets are $10. Call (310) 535-7795. - Evan Henerson MUSEUM CREATURE FEATURE: As many a nature lover will tell you, John James Audubon took a shine to more than just birds. The Autry Museum of Western Heritage in Griffith Park is displaying 52 Audubon hand-colored lithographs from the exhibition ``John James Audubon in the West: The Last Expedition, Mammals of North America'' through Sept. 30. In 1843, Audubon made his only trip to the far West looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. mammals to include in his publication, ``The Viviparous viviparous /vi·vip·a·rous/ (vi-vip´ah-rus) giving birth to living young which develop within the maternal body. vi·vip·a·rous adj. Quadrupeds of North America.'' Tickets are $3 to $7.50. Museum hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday through Sunday; 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Thursday. The museum is located at 4700 Western Heritage Way in Los Angeles. Call (323) 667-2000. - E.H. FILM ROLLIN' ON THE RIVER: ``Apocalypse Now Redux'' is fascinating. And not because the nearly hour's worth of added footage makes Francis Ford Coppola's 1979 Vietnam epic a better movie; it can be persuasively argued that the new scenes hinder the movie's pacing and weren't all that good to begin with. But the added footage does clarify the film's great theme - its wholesale rejection of bankrupt authority - better than even Coppola, who probably still isn't sure what his movie's about, may have imagined. From the theft of Col. Kilgore's (Robert Duvall) prized surfboard to the blood- maddened Col. Kurtz (Marlon Brando) dismissively reading optimistic war reports from old Time magazines, the movie is now, more than ever, a '60s rebel statement as sweeping as its signature soundtrack tune, the Oedipal oed·i·pal or Oed·i·pal adj. Of or characteristic of the Oedipus complex. Doors epic ``The End.'' The new footage brings this viewpoint out in the great scenes we're familiar with, too. While the long-lost French plantation interlude is borderline silly and stops the narrative momentum dead, it's also the perfect pause for Capt. Willard (Martin Sheen) and his surviving shipmates Shipmates was an American syndicated television show that ran for two seasons from 2001 - 2003. Reruns later ran on the cable channel Spike TV. The show was created by Hurricane Entertainment and the executive producer was John Tomlin. Chris Hardwick was the host. , a figment fig·ment n. Something invented, made up, or fabricated: just a figment of the imagination. [Middle English, from Latin figmentum, from fingere, of colonialism's ghosts that gives way to the living, interventionist nightmare of Kurtz's compound. And it all looks and sounds incredibly terrific, in new dye-transfer Technicolor prints and Walter Murch-remixed sound. Most excitingly, ``Redux'' proves that there may never be a perfect version of ``Apocalypse Now,'' but that it's great in any number of different ways. - Bob Strauss TELEVISION DIRECT FROM THE BBC BBC in full British Broadcasting Corp. Publicly financed broadcasting system in Britain. A private company at its founding in 1922, it was replaced by a public corporation under royal charter in 1927. ...: ``Bowie at the Beeb,'' the BBC America television special, is a pleasant enough advertisement for ``Bowie at the Beeb,'' the CD collection. Unfortunately (well, I suppose it depends on your point of view regarding Bowie's best material), the concert presented is not of the early, Velvet Underground-inspired material that fill two discs of the set, but the live show from last year featuring quirkily revamped versions of hits like ``Ashes to Ashes Ashes to Ashes may refer to: As a metaphor:
``Bowie at the Beeb, which premieres at 5 p.m. Saturday. repeating at 6:30 p.m. and midnight Saturday, and 11 a.m., 12:30 and 6 p.m. Sunday, is part of a Bowie weekend on BBC America. The network will also present his film ``The Man Who Fell to Earth'' (not to be confused with the aforementioned world salesman) at 9 p.m. Saturday and 8:30 and 11:30 p.m. Sunday, and ``Cracked Actor,'' a documentary on the singer-songwriter's 1974 U.S. tour, at 5 and 7:30 p.m. Sunday. - David Kronke CAPTION(S): 7 photos Photo: (1) no caption (David Bowie) (2) no caption (John James Audubon in the West: The Last Expedition, Mammals of North America) (3) TURRE (4) New York Voices will perform in a free concert Sunday in Beverly Hills. (5) SMITH (6) Ruth de Sosa's one-woman show plays Sundays in Venice. (7) Frederic Forrest, left, and Martin Sheen search the Vietnamese jungle in `Apocalypse Now.'' |
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