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City Paper                               4/15/88
                                   April 15-21, 1988
                      CITYLIGHTS
                           Edited by Alona Wartofsky

St. N.W. FREE. 337-0593.
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This weekend is part two of the Washington Project for the Arts' ninth annual "Open Studio" tour, in which obliging artists open their homes and studios in hopes of educating (or making money from) the public. Today Maryland artists open wide; Sunday, Virginians. FREE. Pick up maps at WPA, 699 Indiana Ave. NW, or call 347-4813.
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Performing tonight and Sunday at the Dance Place is Kathy Wildberger & Company, known in a previous life as the Path Dance Company. This weekend's program includes the premieres of Black Iris, a Bach duet; and Excuse Me..., featuring a score by Mike Vargas. Plus, the popular Tennessee Waltz and Rose's Garden, which is based on the paintings of Remedios Varo and "portrays three women moving through a flurry of indiscretions which leads them to strip to their undergarments." Tonight at 8:30 p.m. and Sunday at 7:30 p.m. at the Dance Place, 3225 8th St. NE. Tickets are $7.50-10, 269-1600.
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The American Film Institute screens an afternoon of "Columbia Westerns," a program of new 35mm prints of four B-westerns: The Lone Rider, with Buck Jones as an outlaw-turned-lawman vs. villain Harry Woods; End of the Trail, with Jack Holt as a ranch hand in a Zane Grey story; One Way Trail, with Col. Tim McCoy bringing justice to a card cheat; and Two Gun Law, with Charles Starrett in a pre-Durango Kid western. Starts at 1 p.m., and admission is $6. Also worth noting is The Smile of the Lamb, part of the "Israel at 40" series, screening tonight at 9 p.m. and Tuesday at 6:30 p.m. The winner of six 1986 Israeli Academy Awards, it's a surreal fable that depicts the ever-widening gulf between Jews and Palestinians with both black humor and heartbreaking drama. Tickets are $4.50. At the AFI in the Kennedy Center, 785-4601.
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d.c. space hosts an evening of performance benefiting So Others May Eat (SOME), an ecumenical group of churches and organizations working to serve the homeless, the destitute, and the elderly. Organized by area poet Essex Hemphill, the evening includes performances by harpist Jeffmajors, vocalists Yasmeen and Kweli Smith, and jazz-fusion ensemble Blue Nefu. Starts at 10:30 p.m. at d.c. space, 7th & E Sts. NW. Admission is $10 or $8 with canned goods. 347-4960.

17 Sunday
For 50 years, Jacob Lawrence has been producing works that represent the struggles of black Americans and the poor.  His distinctive painting style-merging folk traditions and 20th-century modernism-and his "socially engaged" message has brought him to the forefront of the American art scene. And now they bring him to the Smithsonian, too, as the Resident Associates present "An Afternoon With Jacob Lawrence." The artist will present slides of his work as he links them to his life. Starts at 2 p.m. at the Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden, 8th & Independence Ave. SW. Admission is $5-10. For reservations call 357-3030.
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It has been said that there is nobody else quite like Eartha Kitt in all of show business. That's an assertion we don't dare dispute. With a career spanning film, theater, clubs, TV, and recordings, Eartha couldn't fit it all into a single autobiography-she's written two, neither of which was titled "I Want To Be Evil." Tonight the be-twitching one makes her Smithsonian debut in a 6:30 p.m. concert at the Museum of Natural History, 10th & Constitution Ave. NW. Tickets are $18. 357-3030.
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Israeli political scientist Shlomo Avineri speaks on "Israel and the Palestinians" tonight at the Jewish Community Center in Rockville. Author of The Making of Modern Zionism and Israel and the Palestinians, Avineri has served on the editorial boards of The American Political Science Review, Political Theory, and The Review of Politics. Guess you could say he'll have a lot to talk about. Starts at 7:30 p.m. at the Jewish Community Center, 6125 Montrose Rd., Rockville. FREE. 881-0100.
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Making its Washington debut tonight is the European Community Youth Orchestra, joined by mezzo-soprano Marilyn Horne, violist Nobuko Imai, and members of the Harvard Glee Club performing under the waving, distinguished, and thin baton of conductor Erich Leinsdorf. The program includes Brahms' Alto Rhapsody, Berlioz' Harold in Italy, Ruggles' Angels, and Wagner's Orchestral Interludes from Siegfried and Gotterdammerung. Starts at 7:30 p.m. in the Kennedy Center Concert Hall. Tickets are $15-24, and all proceeds will go to the Nancy Reagan Drug Abuse Fund. 254-3600.
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18 Monday
Spend some Monday at the Museum of American History, which has recently opened the permanent exhibit "A Material World." The exhibit measures America's cultural evolution and progress through the changing materials used in everyday objects. Before hi-tech, practically everything was made with wood or stone. Then steel and nylon and plastic came along and changed everything. The exhibit covers items from each era, including wooden bicycles, plastic radios from the '30s and '40s, an early '60s turquoise Maytag washing machine, and "Big Daddy" Don Garlits' dragster "Swamp Rat XXX," made of alloy steels, aluminum, titanium, and synthetic polymers. The exhibition includes a demonstration center where you can see nylon being made and a 17-ton test section of steel cable for the George Washington Bridge in New York. There are also several "interactive video stations" to give you a better idea of how materials are tested for strength, how they're put together, and why. Permanent installation at the Museum of American History, 14th & Constitution Ave. NW. Hours are 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. daily. And it's FREE. 357-2700.
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19 Tuesday
Popular amongst socialists, pseudo-socialists, and socialists who just like to wear the T-shirt, the strident political voice of Billy Bragg is back in town. No band, no gloss, yes, but it's not true to say there's no gimmmick. The gimmick is frugality. There's no visual style, no polish, no expensive sound system-it's politics without the razzle-dazzle. Armchair socialists can rest in their it's-all-right-if-I-wear-Gucci

32 APRIL 15, 1988 CITY PAPER