A. W / Tm P o ru and O bsirver • A 3HK jSSÎSisBKÿfiii.»"v .'Z.'; '■ i <ix ugust 7, 1996 • ■'. .- ? ; . ■ P age B 3 M ENTERTAINMENT H O R D E. Festival '96. WiH Yvu Marry M ft (6e 9tA, Artful Glass. Henry Halem, art ist, instructor and author, gives a lecture on the various aspects of glass and its practitioners., 7pm, The Bullseye Connection, 1308 NW Everett St., 227-2797. Encore! The Heathman Pub presents an encore performance of | acoustic and electric guitar by Ter ry Robb and bass by Albert Reda, beginning at 7pm through Satur day, Aug. 10,901 SW Salmon St., 227-5700. Gypsy Caravan. A tribal belly- dance troupe, the Gypsy Caravan, performs with special guests Barry Bruce and Daniel O ’Donnell at the Green Onion resaurant, 8 and 9 :15pm, 15 SW 2nd Ave., 288- 4355. Scitccidazf t6e f OtA Quartet. Leroy VinnegarQuar tet and Curtis Salgado & Friends perform at the annual concert se ries to benefit Community Vision Inc., beginning at 2pm, the Water Tower Mall in Johns Landing, 5331 SW Macadam Ave., 274- 2786. Be a writer. Willamette Writers present “Focus on Craft”, a 2-day writer’s conference featuring key note speaker, author Wh itney Otto and special sessions, through Sun., Aug. 11, Sheraton Hotel, Portland Airport, 452-1592. Sci-Fi Heaven. OMSI presents their first ever Science Fiction Col lector’s Fair, featuring rare col lectibles from Star Trek. Star (Cars, Aliens, and other sci-fi programs and movies. Special appearance by Tim Russ, who plays Tuvock on Star Trek: Voyager, IOam-4pm, through Sun., A ug.II, 1945 SE Water Ave., 797-4000. Sccttdcuf t£e f f (A, Blues & Food. The 1996 Blue Heron Concert Series concludes with a music festival featuring blues, food, and an environmental information fair, corner o f N. Edison and Pittsburgh streets, next to St. John’s Bridge, 289-5187. Jazz Trio. Jazz de Opus & Opus Too present the Dan Balmer Trio, 8:30pm, 33 NW 2nd Ave., 222- 6077. African Music. Kukuva Ma rimba, an eight-musician ensem ble, plays contemporary and tra ditional southern African songs. Bl ing picnic and blanket if you wish. 12-5pm, Mt. Tabor Park Crater Amphitheatre, 293-4942. Amid stagehand com m otion, Lenny Kravitz, one of Saturday’s specialty acts at the 1996 H O R D E. Festival, noticed a front-row fan try ing to get a note to his attention. It was a marriage proposal to the fan’s girlfriend. The star took off on his task and chimed, “Tara? Where’s Tara? He’s got the ring and everything, baby. He’s serious. Come on up, there’s some jewelry up here for ya.” Tara accepted, the audience ap plauded, and the show slid forward into hours o f great music, happy people, and an unusually peaceful mood. H O R D E made last Saturday a special one for Portland Meadows, its first Portland tour stop. Ted Mankin the event’s producer back in Atlanta, Georgia, said this weekend’s attendance came in at 13,500. The festival’s initial trips to San Diego and San Francisco recent- 'V /e Sr ’ I S m ik iw S a K A I \ ly attracted 8,000 and 26,000, re spectively. Mankin was positive about the Portland turnout and re marked, “That’s very, very good for the first time in this market.” The festivities featured talented. eclectic, and varied groups including Taj Mahal, Spirit of the West, Dave Matthews Band, and Pete Droge and the Sinners. Not only was fluid folk-rock present, but also information booths advocating Greenpeace and hemp cultivation, an on-site record store featuring the artists, and various ven dors selling toe rings, temporary tat toos and tie-dyed garments. Real, honest, vibrant melodies set the mood and everyone's focus was to simply have a good time. Though the show hasn’t reached the giant popularity status of other summer hit concerts, its feel-good undertones and idealism will reach beyond the realms of Portland to ensure a bigger turnout for next year. NBC sags ratings for Atlanta beat Barcelona NlCK L()t TH NBC said Monday its Nielsen rat ings for the first 10 days of its Olym pic coverage showed that it beat its performance at the Barcelona Olym pics of 1992 by 2 1 percent. “We had a rating of 22.5 and a share of 42. We are up 21 percent versus Barcelona,” said NBC spokes woman Rose Pietrzak. The rating is the percentage of all U.S. households with a TV tuned to a program during the average minute. The share is the percentage of house holds viewing a program out o f the total households using television, she said. The two highest-rated Olympic nights, women’s gymnastics finals for teams and individuals, are al ready past, but NBC said it has high hopes for viewing figures for the men’s 400 meter finals, Thursday’s 200 meter finals and the men’s bas ketball finals on Saturday. “Several o f our first nights have BY U of P orchestra auditions Openings are available for all musicians, especially string and brass players, interested in joining the University of Portland Community Orchestra. The 40-member orches tra, part of the University’s music department, is comprised of students, faculty, staff and musicians from the Portland-Vancouver area. Rehearsals will be held Tuesdays, 7-9 p.m., beginning August 24. The orchestra performs four times a year on campus with a repertoire ranging from classicai to pop. For more information, contact the University of Portland Community Orchestra conductor, professor Ken Kleszynski at 283-7294 or via e-mail at kkleszyn@uofport.edu. been 38 percent above (audience expectations given to advertisers),” Pietrzak said. Dick Ebersol, the president of NBC Sports was quoted by the New York Times Monday as saying the Olympics would make NBC $20 million in profits, a big turnaround after the $100 million it lost in Barcelona in 1992. This is more impressive when tak ing into account that NBC paid $454 mi I lino for the Atlanta rights, 10 per cent more than the $405 million it paid for the Barcelona rights. It augued well for the decision a year ago to offer a mighty $1.27 Rickie Lee Jones (above), self-accompanied by her soothing accoustic guitar, extended her mesmerizing, child like voice and clever lyrics to the H.O.R.D.E. Festival crowd at Portland Meadows last Saturday. Jazz Fest Still Northwest Favorite billion to secure U.S. television rights to the 2002 Summer Olympics in Mt. Hood Community College Sydney, and the 2002 Winter Olym hosted the 15"’Mt. Hood Festival of pics in Salt Lake City. Jazz last Saturday, as crowds lent NBC said it was hard to predict the lirst standing ovation to the Brian what effect the Olympic bombing Setzer Big Band. would have on ratings. Although The festival overflowed with NBC alone carries Olympic cover quality jazz this year, featuring age, all networks can share in news among many the Louis Bellson Big coverage. Band Explosion, Hank Crawford NBC has insurance in place should and Jimmy McGriff. terrorism cause advertisers to take As roaring sounds echoed from flight and cancel their Oly mpic slots, the main stage, a secondary stage but it should not in any case affect attracted many listeners out of sight ratings, analysts say. “ I don’t think and earshot of the primary' focus. anybody is going to turn their TV off Cyrus Chestnut and his trio held the because of that," Dougherty said. Call for extras in Eugene attention of many fans with their contemporary jazz improvisations. The festival took on several changes this year and was met with a fair share of complaints from the crowd of nearly 10,000. With the dual-stage set-up, many expressed discontent about having to make choices between bands and moving from good seats to catch another act at the alternative stage. The changes were said to be nec essary for the 23-act event to sur vive in an increasingly competitive summer music market. C R O W N IN G Warner Bros, and On Location Casting, Inc. are looking for thou sands of people to fill the stands at the U niversity o f O re g o n ’s Hayward Field on Saturday, Au gust 10 and Sunday, August I Gates will open at 6:30 a m. Film ing will begin at 9 a m. until 7 pm. Anyone interested in being an extra for one or both days in the fiimingof“PRE” should call (54 431-8130 for free ticket informa tion. “We’re calling it the Prefontain Party," says Tina Kerr o f On Lo cation Casting, Inc. “It should be fun day. Concessions will be open and there will be live enter tainment, raffles and prizes for the best 70s threads...something for everyone. Bringyour family, bring your friends, bring your family’s friends.” Parking will be available at Autzen Stadium with a shuttle run ning every lOminutestothe track. “PRE,” a film about the late Oregon running legend Steve Prefontaine. 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