THE BEST OF THE WEEKEND.MUSIC KILTING ME SOFTLY: Scottish singer-songwriter Dougie MacLean got a boost when one of his songs was covered by Mary Black Mary Black (born 22 May 1955, in Dublin, Ireland) is an Irish singer. Career She was born into a musical family. Her father had been a fiddler, her mother a singer, and her brothers had their own group. and used in the Jennifer Lopez film ``Angel Eyes.'' MacLean, whose latest album was recorded in concert in Glasgow and Australia, appears Saturday at CSUN's Performing Arts Center A performing arts center, often abbreviated PAC, is a multi-use performance space that can be adapted for use by various types of the performing arts, including dance, music and theatre. . His tune ``Caledonia'' has been referred to as Scotland's unofficial national anthem. The Performing Arts Center is at 18111 Nordhoff St., Northridge. Show time is 8 p.m. and tickets are $17 to $26. Information: (818) 677-2488. - Fred Shuster AMEN: Two of gospel's biggest stars, CeCe Winans Priscilla Winans Love (born on October 8, 1964), known professionally as CeCe Winans, is a prominent American gospel singer and winner of numerous Grammy Awards and Stellar Awards. and Donnie McClurkin, hit the Forum on Saturday with a flashy stage set, a top backing band and an extraordinary group of harmony singers. Winans' self-titled album hit No. 2 on the gospel charts while McClurkin's ``Live From London and More'' has clung to the pop charts for a year. The Forum is at 3900 W. Manchester Ave., Inglewood. Show time is 7:30 p.m., and tickets range from $27.50 to $47.50. Information: (213) 480-3232 or www.ticketmaster.com. - F.S. FILM IN 'TRAINING': Denzel Washington sneers, seduces, manipulates and maneuvers behavioral 180s on a dime in ``Training Day.'' An acid-etched, corrupt-cop drama that portrays the neighborhoods near downtown L.A. as the seven levels of hell, this charred-hearted thriller is oddly ennobled by Washington's bravura bra·vu·ra n. 1. Music a. Brilliant technique or style in performance. b. A piece or passage that emphasizes a performer's virtuosity. 2. A showy manner or display. adj. 1. performance as the nastiest piece of work the usually ingratiating in·gra·ti·at·ing adj. 1. Pleasing; agreeable: "Reading requires an effort.... Print is not as ingratiating as television" Robert MacNeil. 2. actor has ever played. Washington's bad detective heads an undercover anti-drug unit with an impressive efficiency record. But he's done so by blurring the line between enforcement and criminality so thoroughly that all he lives for now is testing how much he can get away with. Ethan Hawke holds his own as the naive, Valley rookie who spends a ludicrously eventful day trying out for the elite team ... and, by the wee hours, just trying to keep body and soul intact. A big leap forward for director Antoine Fuqua (``The Replacement Killers''), ``Training Day'' is tough and fast but not without its flaws. Washington's delicate bulldozer of an act, however, smooths over any potholes this symphony of street psychosis may hit. - Bob Strauss TELEVISION TOONFUL TUNES: ``Sonic Cinema,'' a new series exploring trends in music and video, offers an episode on animated music videos at 11 tonight on the Sundance Channel. Hosted by Rolling Stone writer Rob Sheffield (who underscores the show's big-budget aspirations by lounging on a futon in his best black T-shirt), the episode is hardly an exhaustive treatment on the topic (its brief historical perspective is virtually useless) but boasts a few nicely progressive videos nonetheless. Highlights include veteran animator Bill Plympton's sardonic faux-gospel ditty dit·ty n. pl. dit·ties A simple song. [Middle English dite, a literary composition, from Old French dite, from Latin dict ``Can't Drag Race With Jesus'' and the animated group Gorillaz, created by comic-book writer Jamie Hewlett (``Tank Girl''), and its oddball efforts ``Clint Eastwood'' and ``19-2000.'' Tim Hope offers an intriguing multimedia animated curiosity called ``The Wolfman'' (which technically isn't even a music video at all, sort of scrapping the show's whole conceit, but, well, they had an interview with the guy). Quasimoto's bizarro This article is about the fictional character. For other uses, see bizarro (disambiguation). Bizarro is a fictional character, a doppelgänger of DC Comics’ Superman. puppetry puppetry Art of creating and manipulating puppets in a theatrical show. Puppets are figures that are moved by human rather than mechanical aid. They may be controlled by one or several puppeteers, who are screened from the spectators. opus ``Come on Feet'' had my 11-year-old stepdaughter step·daugh·ter n. A spouse's daughter by a previous union. stepdaughter Noun a daughter of one's husband or wife by an earlier relationship Noun 1. , normally an MTV MTV in full Music Television U.S. cable television network, established in 1980 to present videos of musicians and singers performing new rock music. MTV won a wide following among rock-music fans worldwide and greatly affected the popular-music business. fan, questioning the very value of music videos, so that has to count for something. - David Kronke STAGE PAUSE FOR CELEBRATION: Harold Pinter just turned 70 and, fittingly, the Matrix Theatre is giving quite a ``Birthday Party.'' Andrew Robinson's production of Pinter's early play ``The Birthday Party'' is dark, twisted and more than a little seamy seam·y adj. seam·i·er, seam·i·est 1. Sordid; base: "seamy tales of aberrant sexual practices, messy divorces, drug addiction, mental instability, and suicide attempts" - in other words Adv. 1. in other words - otherwise stated; "in other words, we are broke" put differently , vintage early Pinter. A couple of shady types come to a seaside boarding house to track down a pianist with a past. But first, they throw him a birthday party (would that Tony Soprano could ever be so gracious). It's a night to remember. With a rotating double cast, audiences won't go wrong no matter whom they see. Particularly impressive in the performance I attended were Jay Karnes as the pianist, Lawrence Pressman as the more eloquent of the two thugs and Angela Paton as the boarding-house keeper. Tickets are $20. Performances are 8 p.m. Thursday through Saturday, 3 and 7 p.m. Sunday through Dec. 2 at 7657 Melrose Ave. in Los Angeles. Call (323) 852-1445. - Evan Henerson PIAF Pi·af , Edith Originally Edith Giovanna Gassion. 1915-1963. French cabaret singer. Her best-remembered songs include La Vie en rose and Non, je ne regrette rien. Noun 1. IN THE PINK: One performer, five influences, some music and a little bit of French. ``Piaf 'Sa Vie En Rose' '' is performer Torill's one-woman musical tribute to French Chanteuse chan·teuse n. A woman singer, especially a nightclub singer. [French, feminine of chanteur, singer, from chanter, to sing; see chant.] Edith Piaf. Directed by Jules Aaron, the play continues through Oct. 28 at the Court Theatre. In ``Piaf,'' the Norway-born Torill, who previously played Marlene Dietrich in the one-woman show ``Rendez-Vous With Marlene,'' pays tribute to Piaf as well as her influences: Piaf's idol, Marie Dubois; Marinette Cerdan, wife of boxing champion Marcel Cerdan; songwriting partner Marguerite Monnot; half-sister Simone Berteau; and Dietrich. Tickets are $29. Performances are 8 p.m. Thursday through Saturday, 3 and 7 p.m. Sunday at 722 N. La Cienega Blvd. in Hollywood. Call (310) 289-2999. - E.H. DON'T MISS THIS: Country stars Travis Tritt, Brad Paisley, Jamie O'Neal and guests gather Sunday at Irvine's Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre or Verizon Wireless Music Center may refer to:
CAPTION(S): 6 photos Photo: (1) no caption (CECE WINANS) (2) no caption (DOUGIE MACLEAN) (3) Ethan Hawk, left, and Denzel Washington are partners in ``Training Day.'' (4) no caption (PIAF TORILL) (5) Lawrence Pressman, left, Morian Higgins and Jay Karnes in a scene from ``The Birthday Party.'' (6) no caption (Characters from Sonic Cinema) |
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