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The Master's College was founded as Los Angeles Baptist Theological Seminary on May 25, 1927 to meet the need for a fundamental Baptist school on the West Coast. Music Building, 21726 Placerita Canyon Road, Newhall. Cost: $15 participants, $10 observers. The quartet will perform a concert featuring the music of Mozart, Brahms and Dvorak at 7:30 p.m. Friday in the Reese Academic Center at the same address. Admission: $10 general, $5 seniors and students. For more information, call (818) 892-8737 or (800) 568-6248, Ext. 329. The International Street Performers Festival, presented by L.A. Gear, will feature street artists performing 20-minute sets of daredevil fire stunts, comedy and dance, including the flamenco stilt stilt, common name for some members of the family Recurvirostridae, shore birds including the avocet. Stilts, as their name implies, have the longest legs of any bird except the flamingo. dancing team Spin Cycle, comic juggler juggler Entertainer who keeps several plates, knives, balls, or other objects in the air at once by tossing and catching them. The art of juggling has been practiced since antiquity. Bill Ferguson, hip-hop comedy duo Two's a Crowd, escape artist Matt Cooper and fire-eating unicyclist Robert ``Butterfly Man'' Nelson, 4 to 10 p.m. today and Friday, 3 to 10 p.m. Saturday and Sunday at Universal CityWalk, Universal Center Drive, Universal City. Call (818) 622-4455. The English-French Learning Academy and Barnes & Noble bookstores are offering free French lessons for children of all ages at 6:15 p.m. Friday at the Encino bookstore, 16461 Ventura Blvd. A variety of French-themed prizes will be offered. To enter a free raffle, you must arrive by 5:45 p.m. The lessons are offered on the third Friday of every month. For more information, call (818) 996-6754. The third annual Health & Life Enrichment Expo will feature internationally known speakers, products, books, tapes and workshops on topics including nutrition, natural foods preparation, homeopathy homeopathy (hōmēŏp`əthē), system of medicine whose fundamental principle is the law of similars—that like is cured by like. , acupuncture, tai-chi, nontoxic cancer treatment, yoga, meditation, biomagnetics and more, noon to 8 p.m. Friday, 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday, 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Sunday at the Pasadena Center Conference Building, 300 E. Green St., Pasadena. Admission: $6 Friday, $9 Saturday and Sunday (each day). Admission includes 50 lectures. Call (818) 795-5424 or (310) 316-4622. They Might Be Giants are often lumped into the novelty-rock category along with Weezer and Ween, but this New York-based duo actually approaches Randy Newman's style of wit. The Giants' new album, ``Factory Showroom,'' due next month, boasts complex arrangements and typcially goofy song titles such as ``How Can I Sing Like a Girl?'' and ``XTC XTC See Ecstasy, MDMA. vs. Adam Ant.'' The Giants appear at 9 tonight at the House of Blues House of Blues (HOB) is a chain of music halls and restaurants founded in 1992 by Hard Rock Cafe founder Isaac Tigrett and his friend and investor Dan Aykroyd. It is a home for live music and southern-inspired cuisine, whose clubs celebrate African-American culture, specifically , 8430 Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood. Tickets are $17.50. Information: (213) 848-5100. |
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