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Arts & Entertainment Quintet to perform at Thea's The Steve Haines Jazz Quintet will appear at Thea' Jazz, and Blues Club on June 8 at 9:30 p.m. Thea's is a 521 N. Liberty Street in downtown Winston Salem between Fifth and Sixth streets. The Steve Haines Quintet has a modem approach t< standards and original compositions, along with a tradi tional approach to rhythm. It is sometimes aggressive sometimes brooding, sometimes pensive, and alway: exciting! Members include Rob Smith (trumpet). Davit Lown (tenor saxophone). Chip Crawford (piano), Stevt Haines (double bass) and Thomas Taylor (drums.) Tickets are $8 at the door. For more information, cal (336) 722-4195. Patrons must be 21 years of age oi older. Singers to perform Piedmont Chamber Singers will present Maurice DuruflCs "Requiem" on June 2 at 3 p.m. in Hanes Audi torium of the Salem Fine Arts Center. Featuring guest soloists Cristy Brown and John Williams, the concert will include motets by DurufW and Francis Poulenc and organ selections played by accom panist David Pulliam. Tickets are $ 12 for adults. $ 10 for seniors, $6 for stu dents, and will be available at the door. For more infor mation, visit www.piedmontchambersingers.org or call (336) 722-4022. Friday to speak at arts school William C. Friday, a national leader in education, will make a return visit to NCSA as commencement speaker on Saturday, June 1. But unlike 1987, when he delivered the keynote address and received an honorary doctorate, Friday won't he the only one in the hot seat. The esteemed president emeritus of the University of North Carolina (of which NCSA is a constituent) is also the popular host of UNC-TV's long-running series "North Carolina People." Come June I. Friday will put his considerable skills as interviewer to work on two NCSA graduating students. About 280 college and high school students are expected to graduate with degrees and diplomas in dance, design and production, drama, filmmaking, music, and visual arts. "Higher education in North Carolina and, indeed, the nation would not be yyhat it is today without Bill Friday," said NCSA Chancellor Wade Hobgood. "His contribu tions to the advancement of education and the improve ment of the lives of the citizens of North Carolina are unequaled. One of Friday's three daughters, Betsy Friday David, graduated from the NCSA high school program in 1975 and college program (with a B.F.A. in dance) in 1978. She has had a successful career in New York as both a performer and as a producer. Friday served as president of UNC from 1956 to 1986, when he was named president emeritus. The graduation ceremony is not open to the public. Malachi House will host benefit GREENSBORO - Malachi House, a nonprofit I rehabilitation program reach ing out to men who are strug gling with life controlling issues such as drugs and alco hol, will host a benefit concert with comedian Jonathan Slocumb and artist Marvin Sapp on June 7 beginning at 7:30 p.m. All ? proceeds from this W I concert will benefit Malachi House. Slocumb The concert will take place at Evangel Fellowship COGIC, 507 Balboa Street in Greensboro. Pick up tickets at either the Evangel Bookstore or the Malachi House office, 101 S. Elm Street. Suite 212. For more information, call 215 9218 or 275-2500. Studio to hold recital Just 4 Kicks Studio of Dance will hold its first annual recital, at Salem College Fine Arts Center on June I. The first performance will be from 2-4 p.m., and the second performance will be from 6 8 p.m. Monica Johnson is a professional ballerina in this community. She owns and directs Just 4 Kicks Studio of Dance, teaching ballet, tap. jazz and tumbling. She is giving back to the community the knowledge and skills necessary to become a pro fessional dancer. Johnson is a graduate of N.C. School of the Arts and has danced professionally in New York and Atlanta. Her brother. Jerome Johnson, is a professional dancer with New York City Ballet. Also, her mother. Evelyn Johnson, plays a big role as the assistant director at Just 4 Kicks Studio of Dance. Monica Johnson teaches 3-year-olds to adults and senior citizens. She encourages children to get as much exposure in the arts as possible even if they never become professional dancers. Dance will give them other positive traits, wjiich will help them in other areas of their lives. The students enrolled are very excited, and they are a talented group. Tickets for the recital are $5 each. Tickets can be purchased by calling 794-0056 between 5 and 8 p.m. no later than May 30, or tickets can be pur chased at the door June I at Salem College Fine Arts Center. We are located pff Stratford Road at 1901-C Mooney Street. Ja Rule m __ - ______ survivor has first black winner BY FRAZIER MOORE THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK (AP) - Vecepia "Vee" Towery had to wait five months after coming home to find out, but it gateftjggH worln "(he wait: She won the gru eling "Sur vivor: Marj quesas" con test and the $1 million I 1 P"? _ Towery, a awry 36-year-old office man ager from Portland, Ore., beat Neleh Dennis, a 21-year-old psy chology student from Layton, Utah., after the parchment ballots were tallied live at the conclusion of CBS' "Survivor 4" Sunday night. In an interview after the tele cast, Towery said she had arrived in the South Pacific's Marquesas Islands last November ready for an early departure, with a parting speech in hand. "It's important to be humble. But I had the feeling that God would lead me (to victo Sei Survivor on C8 Network TV still earning poor marks on diversity BY LYNN ELBER THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LOS ANGELES - Network television has made scant progress toward ethnic diversity in pro gramming and even lost ground when it comes to the shows favored by young viewers, a new study says. A 1999 vow by the major networks to include more minorities in prime-time series has largely gone unfulfilled, according to an analysis of the cur rent season by Children Now, a research and advo cacy group. The networks are telling "essentially the same old tale." in which younger white males predomi nate. ethnic actors are relegated to supporting roles and female characters are often stereotypes, the report said. q Reality, variety and wrestling programs had "a fair amount" of diversity, said Children Now researchers, who looked at those genres for the first time. "Fall Colors 2001-02," the group's third annual study of prime-time programming, examined the first two episodes of each evening series airing last fall on ABC. CBS, Fox. NBC. UPN and WB. Children Now began the studies after broadcast ers. under pressure from the NAACP and other civil Hip-Hop Hooray CD offers a hodgepodge of hip-hoppers SPECIAL TO THE CHRONICLE NEW YORK - The labels that bring you the chart-topping series "NOW That's What I Call Music!?" are hitting the streets with "Off the Hook," the ultimate collection ofihe honest hits in contemporary R&B and hip hop music. "Off the Hook" was released recently. It includes recent hits such as Jennifer Lopez featuring Ja Rule - "I'm Real (Murder Remix)," Aaliyah's "More Than a Woman." and Mr. Cheeks' "Lights, Camera, Action!"; current chart-toppers such as Ruff Endz's "Someone to Love You" and Angie Stone's "Wish I Didn't Miss You"; and much more (full track listing follows). The album showcases the hottest sounds from chart topping artists with combined album sales of more than 87 million records. Stone The CD is the latest joint project of Sony Music Enter tainment, Universal Music Group, the EMI Group, and Zomba Music. The hugely successful "NOW That's What I Call Music!" series debuted in the United States in 1998 after the NOW brand had become an enormousp multiplatinum. international success for nearly 19 years with more than 50 install ments available international ly The NOW series has sold more than 30 million albums in the United States alone. Every album in the "NOW That's What I Call Music!" series has charted in the Billboard Top 10. The NOW series albums are the only non-soundtrack, multi artist collections to ever achieve #1 status. Here is a complete list of tracks featured on the CD: I. Jermaine Dupri featur ing Ludacris - "Welcome To See CD an C8 Red, White, Blue and Purple Business Wire photo The world-famous children's character Barney the Purple Dinosaur gives a super-dee-duper surprise sing-along performance for 800 children of military personnel at Ft. Shatter's Richardson Theatre in Honolulu, on his first-ever visit to Hawaii on Friday; April 26. Deja Rea Steoddard, 5, left, and Nia Davis, 4, right, hug each other during Barney's final song, "I Love You." The special patriotic per formance was Barney's way of expressing gratitude to all of the families who proudly wear the uni form of the U.S. military. Barney's visit to the island of Oahu included two free shows open to the public on Waikiki Beach, April 27 and 28, with a sneak peek screening of his new video, "Barney's Beach Party," followed by a 20-minute live sing-along performance by Barney and his friends, Baby Bop and BJ. * ?. ???M > Ming-Na plays Dr. Jing-Mei Chen on "tfl." rights groups, agreed to work toward more inclu sionary programming. Calls seeking network comment were not immediately returned. The latest report found shows in the 8 p.m. hour to be the most segregated on prime-time TV. Young viewers do most of their prime-time viewing during Sec Networks on C8 NCCU honors jazz artist SPECIAL TO THE CHRONICLE DURHAM - Jazz artist and vocalist Grady Tate received the N.C. Central University honorary doctorate of fine arts from Chancellor James H. Amnions during the university's 99th commence ment. For the past three decades. Tate's distinctive sound has graced literally hundreds of recordings with world-renowned artists such as Quincy Jones. Jimmy Smith. Lionel Hampton. Stan Getz, Pearl Bailey. Tony Bennett. Ella Fitzgerald. Aretha Franklin. Lena Home. Peggy Lee. Delia Reese. Sarah Vaughan. Michael LeGrand. Lalo Schriftn and Andre Previn. Tate graduated from N.C. Central University with a degree in English-literature/drama and a minor in psychology. He taught English and speech at Howard University in Washington. DC., but his desire to pursue an acting career led him to New York City and the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. Once in New York, however, his reputation as an outstanding musician resulted in work with Quincy Jones. Tate also performed six years as drummer for Johnny Carson's Tonight Show" and served as assistant conductor and drummer for Broadway shows "Lena Home and Her Music" and "Black and Blue." See NCCU on C8
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