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PAGE: F02PD1AE0715 Arts Entertainment F2 1 SUNDAY JULY 15, 2007 ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH STLTODAY.COM TALK TO US CONNIE BYE ARTS ENTERTAINMENT EDITOR 314-340-8314 ELLEN FUTTERMAN ASSISTANT FEATURES EDITOR 314-340-8141 JANE HENDERSON BOOK EDITOR 314-340-8107 BILL KEAGGY PHOTO EDITOR FEATURES 314-340-8776 To e-mail editors, use the rst initial AND last Nickelback will perform Aug. 31 at Verizon Wireless Amphitheater; Puddle of Mudd and Finger Eleven are also on the bill. Tickets are four lawn tickets are $99. Ticket- master.

Screamfest with T.I., Ciara, T-Pain, Yung Joc and Lloyd is at 7:30 p.m. Aug. 11 at Scot- trade Center. Tickets are Ticket- master. They Might Be Giants will perform at 8 p.m.

Sept. 15 at the Pageant; tickets are $22.50. Ticketmaster. An Evening with Mark Olson of the Jay- hawks is at 9 p.m. Aug.

24 at Blueberry Duck Room. Tickets are MetroTix. Grand Funk Railroad will perform Aug. 16 at Ameristar Bottleneck Blues Bar. Tickets start at $40.

www.tickets.com. Megadeth will perform Sept. 18 at with In This Moment and the Confession also on the bill. Tickets are $35. Ticketmaster.

A Tribute to Mae Wheeler is at 8:30 p.m. and 10:15 p.m. Thursday at Jazz at the Bistro. Tickets are $20. MetroTix.

Shady Deal will perform at 9 p.m. July 26 at Broadway Oyster Bar; the Loft is also on the bill. Tickets are $8, or $5 with a baseball ticket stub. www.broadwayoysterbar.com TICKET TRACKER By Deborah Baker THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SANTA FE, N.M. Summers in this tourist town are punctuated by art markets, a boon to collectors and an opportunity for serious oohing and aahing from throngs of visitors.

The newest, the 3-year-old Santa Fe International Folk Art Market, is a melange of textiles, pottery, basketry, carving and more by 100-plus artists from around the world. Organizers say the largest show of its kind in the United States. With entertainment that includes drumming, dancing, music and food a fair as well as a showcase for art. But a larger mission behind the event, which was held this weekend: to sustain world folk art and folk artists. know that these art forms that take hand work are endangered says Judith Espinar, a market founder and its creative director.

The artists who streamed into Santa Fe from 41 countries also have two days of training in marketing and running their businesses. That program is funded by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, which also gave the market nearly $1 million, part of it earmarked to train interns from southern Africa to start their own markets. also a showcase before the market for dealers sponsored by the United Nations Educational, and Cultural Organization at which artists can take bulk or- ders. The show is juried, with artists selected by a committee of folk art experts.

a prestigious gathering of artists from all corners of the world, some who come from very daunting says Charlene Cerny, the executive director and former head of the Museum of International Folk Art in Santa Fe. Many artists represent cooperatives or other community- based groups, so the ts that go home with them are shared. Ilma Paixao started a co-op a few years ago with lace makers of the Xuquru tribe in Brazil. Proceeds from the market which accounts for about 80 percent of the lace sales have paid for toothbrushes and school supplies for village children, a seed bank, college tuition for two women and computer courses for others. Sales of the Handeira lace garments and linens also provide income to poor families that otherwise rely on farming in the arid area, Paixao says.

one of the ways the women nd to be able to work and still take care of the says Paixao, a Brazilian-American Proceeds from this market will be used to reach out to the other 23 villages and involve them in the lace-making project, she says. Last year, the market had 14,000 visitors and $1.3 million in sales. nothing like it says Hank Lee, a collector and gallery owner in San Antonio, Texas. on the board and went to Hungary and Ecuador this year, checking out artists for future markets. Dealing directly with artists, he says, gives buyers a sense of the whole package: the person, the spirit of the work, and its history.

one of the few art fairs that really runs the gamut, because we have things for $1 and $2 all the way to The market is on Museum Hill, where the folk art museum is located Two venerable summer markets will follow on the Sante Fe Plaza: The 56th annual Traditional Spanish Market, July 28-29, with 250 artists showing handcrafted traditional arts, such as religious carvings, tinwork and regional embroidery, colcha. The Indian Market, Aug. 1719, attracts tens of thousands of art enthusiasts and visitors who browse the work of some 1,200 artists from 100 tribes. Come to the cabaret Four noted performers and teachers Lina Koutrakos, Rick Jensen, Amanda McBroom and Alex Rybeck will lead a professional development workshop for cabaret artists. The workshop will meet Aug.

23-26 at Unity Christ Church, 33 North Skinker Boulevard. Tim Schall is the producer of the workshop; Koutrakos and Jensen taught there last summer. This year, the focus will be on performance coaching, as well as show construction, arrangements and patter. Students from the 2006 workshop will perform at an alumni showcase Aug. 23; the conference will close Aug.

26 with a 2007 student showcase. For enrollment information, call Schall at RNI Productions, 314-721-4634, or send an e-mail to net. (JN) Contemporary meets Pulitzer challenge The Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis has met the terms of a challenge gift Emily Rauh Pulitzer made in 2005. The terms of the $5.4 million gift were complex.

Pulitzer agreed to pay $3 million in July 2005 if the Contemporary ended that scal year with a balanced budget, which it did. The museum also had to balance its budget in scal 2006 and 2007, and raise $5 million toward an endowment by June 30, 2007. The museum met the conditions, and Pulitzer forgave the nal $2.4 million in debt and interest. She was formerly the largest stockholder of Pulitzer which published the Post- Dispatch before the paper was sold to Lee Enterprises. (DB) Award-winning harmony The Ambassadors of Harmony, a barbershop chorus based in St.

Charles, won the silver medal at the Barbershop Harmony 69th annual contest earlier this month in Denver. The Ambassadors tied with the Westminster Chorus, based in Southern California, at 2,849 points each out of a possible 3,000. Points are awarded for singing, music and presentation. The tie-breaker rule kicked in, and the group with the highest singing score won. Westminster edged the Ambassadors by 11 points.

The Ambassadors returned to the festival this year for the rst time since winning the gold medal in 2004. (Gold-medal winners must sit out for three years.) Thirty-one choruses and about 75 quartets entered from all over the world. The Ambassadors will present a holiday concert in December, of the Season at the Touhill Performing Arts Center. More info: aoh.org. (JN) Fifth Dimension reissued Fans of the Fifth Dimension are in for a treat.

The melodic pop group of Bell Less Bell to and of fame is seeing its entire Soul catalog reissued Aug. 7 by Collectors Choice. The group featured one-time St. Louisans Billy Davis Ron Townson and Lamonte McLemore. Ten albums will be released on seven CDs, along with the rst post-group recording by Marilyn McCoo and Davis The tracks are remastered with bonus songs added.

(KCJ) Original theater from urban teens Teenagers working with St. Louis ArtWorks and That Uppity Theatre Company will present an original performance piece, Land? Your Land? A Theatrical Exploration of American this week throughout the area. ArtWorks hires urban teens to work with artists in the creation of commissioned works. In years past, the projects emphasized the visual arts, but this time theater arts were included. Working with Uppity, headed by Joan Lipkin, the teens created a piece that uses song, dance, improv, personal narrative, conversation, historical documents and other research to explore U.S.

history and democracy. Performances, open to the public at no charge, are at: 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. Tuesday and Wednesday, Missouri History Museum in Forest Park. 11:30 a.m.

and 12:30 p.m. Thursday, Centene Center for Arts and Education, 3547 Olive Street. Visual arts pieces by ArtsWorks apprentices will be displayed and for sale at the center. 7 p.m. Thursday, St.

Louis Place Park, 21st Street and St. Louis Avenue; part of the Whitaker Urban Evening Concert series. 6 p.m. Friday, Regional Arts Commission, 6128 Delmar Boulevard; part of the opening of the Up, St. art show.

(JN) Contributors: Judith Newmark, David Bonetti, Kevin C. Johnson TELEVISION Order of 7 p.m. Sunday on Lifetime Already on a roll with just renewed for a second season, Lifetime launches another new series worthy of attention. Order of which will remind some viewers of stars adorable Marisa Coughlan as Jenny, a magazine photographer who has second thoughts on the brink of her wedding. Telling more would spoil the twist in this involving comedy-drama, which stylishly blends the silly with the serious.

(GP) MUSIC Webster University Choral Society presents St. Louis Summer Sings. 7:30 p.m. Tuesday The Concert Hall, Community Music School, 535 Garden Avenue, Webster University. $10 at the door.

314-968-7035. There are few pleasures to match those of choral singing: the chance to make great music with others, the realization that the whole can be much greater than the sum of its parts. St. Louis Summer Sings offer a chance to check it out. The nal opportunity this summer comes Tuesday when Kathryn Smith Bowers leads Music is provided, and there are chances to socialize during the break that comes between learning the piece and singing it straight through.

(SBM) Union Avenue Opera performs and Union Avenue Christian Church, 733 North Union Boulevard, St. Louis. 8 p.m. July 20, 21, 27, 28. 314-361-2881.

three, one-act operas make for a long evening when performed together. why Union Avenue Opera is giving us two-thirds of them this time: and (The nal opera, is scheduled for the fall of 2008.) score includes the beloved aria mio babbino This take on a character from is also one of the most hilarious operas in the literature. This marks the rst time Union Avenue Opera has had a guest conductor; Kostis Protopapas Jolly Stewart will direct. (SBM) VISUAL ARTS Japanese lm series. 7 p.m.

Fridays, July 20-Aug. 17. St. Louis Art Museum Auditorium. $3 for museum members.

314-655-5299 or www. slam.org Over the next ve Fridays, the St. Louis Art Museum will show lms by the Japanese master of cinema, Kenji Mizoguchi. Under the title, and the series focuses on the tragic but lyrical lives of women who live on the edges of society, devoting themselves to love. (DB) STAGE Full Robert G.

Reim Theatre, Kirkwood Community Center, 111 South Geyer Road. Friday -Aug. 19. $46. 314-821-2407; stagesst- louis.org.

Unemployed steelworkers come up with a money-making scheme that reveals their insecurities, friendships and anatomy. Stages St. Louis, which is staging the musical, plans two post-show receptions where the audience can mingle with cast members. Night Out is Friday Night Out is July 22. Tickets for the show-plus-reception are $50; other special deals are available, too.

(JN) Man with a Load of Fontbonne Fine Arts Theatre, Wydown and Big Bend boulevards. 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday; 2 p.m. Sunday, July 22; July 26-27; Aug. 4-5.

$18; $15 for students and older adults. 314-725-9108; 314-534-1111; actinc.biz. When a nobleman with his manservant and a lady with her maid seek refuge at an inn, romance is in the English air. Ashley period comedy is exactly the sort of neglected- but-charming material that makes ACT INC special. Steve Callahan directs.

(JN) Grandel Theatre, 3610 Grandel Square. 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday, July 22; July 26-29. for older adults; $15 for students.

314534-1111; stlshakespeare.org. Alfonso Freeman, son of Oscar- winning actor Morgan Freeman, stars in tragedy of a brilliant military leader who succumbs to poisonous jealousy. Donna Northcott, founder and artistic director of St. Louis Shakespeare, directs the production, which opens the 2007-08 season. (JN) The Theatre Guild of Webster Groves 518 Theatre Lane.

7:30 p.m. Friday and July 21 1 p.m. July 22; July 27-29. St. Louis playwright and composer Kevin M.

Mitchell took plenty of liberties in creating a musical version of the fairy tale about a boy with his eye on a golden goose. It was a big hit when it played here 11 years ago. This revival is a fundraiser for Rainbows for Kids, which serves children who have cancer and their families. (JN) If you know the way to Santa Fe, folk fab ARTS NEWS BRIEFS CRITICAL MASS THE BEST BETS Performers grin and bare it in Full which opens Friday in Kirkwood. MILLIONAIRE MONEY only in the Post-Dispatch.

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