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O) CALENDAR 2 ANN LANDERS '3 TV TONIGHT 4 THE CLARION-LEDGER JACKSON, MISSISSIPPI TUESDAY, APRIL 2, 1991; 5) Al Green, Los Lobos, Roger McGuinn top Jam slate; FELDER RUSHING Gardening Columnist The Clarion-Ledger Then there's keyboardist composer Sun Ra, who claims to be from Saturn. By Sherry Lucas Clarion-Ledger Staff Writer "It's more festival-type music a lot of costumes, a lot of involvement with the audience." Members of Sun Ra's colorful troupe have been known to walk into the crowd on stilts, Barnett said. "This is the first year any of that has been done. Hopefully, we'll see more of it in the future. "These are groups that otherwise would not have the chance to perform in Jackson." Barnett predicts that planet.

Mapfumo's world-beat music combines political! militancy with the rhythms native to his people, the Shona in Zimbabwe. Puente and his orchestra percolate with Latin rhythms. Green, singer of sanctified soul, is the voice of Take Me to the River, Call Me, Love and Happiness and Living for You. His latest album is One in a Million, a collection of songs from Grammy Award-winning albums. East L.A.

band Los Lobos, rooted in the traditions of rock and folk in the Richie Valens vein, is perhaps best-; known for the La Bamba soundtrack. Their latest work is The Neighborhood. McGuinn, leader of the legendary Byrds, lit up Jubilee Jam 1988 as a solo act; he'll be with his band this time. Back from Rio, McGuinn's latest effort, is a reaffirmation of his Byrds roots. i Country singer Tippin is now on Billboard's country chart with the single You Ve Got to Stand for Something.

The gospel group Slim the Supreme Angels also performed at Jubilee Jam 1990. -S. Sun Ra Al Green, Los Lobos, Roger McGuinn, Aaron Tippin and Slim the Supreme Angels are among the Jubilee Jam 1991 headliners expected to be announced today, a music committee member said. Jackson's fifth annual downtown arts and music festival, May 18 and 19, also will feature some eclectic acts that will stretch the musical horizons of capital city jammers such as jazz keyboardistcomposer Sun Ra and his cosmic big-band Arkestra, Zimbabwean singer Thomas Map-fumo, and Tito Puente and his band, the Latin Jazz All-stars. "It's an exciting new development an exciting new opportunity," Arden Barnett said of their addition to Jubilee Jam.

Barnett is a member of the festival's music committee who is working with production and artist relations. Jubilee Jam's typically broad audience will get a kick out of these three groups even if they're not household names. "People are going to walk past the stage, hear it and see it and stop." Sun Ra's live performance of unearthly jazz promises spectacle: exotic costumes, headgear and ritualistic dancers. Swing, the blues, bop and jazz improvisation flow through this character, who claims Saturn as his home iw 1 GlFDDTn) Say bye-bye to those boring old braces now you can add color to your mouth's hardware. '1 i JJ i By Gary Pettus Clarion-Ledger Staff Writer I i Don't be blinded by the light; gardens in the shade are easy Every March and April I visit a secret woodland garden smack in the middle of a large city to look at the shade wildflowers.

Located between a low-income housing tract and a drainage canal, it's too removed to be developed, but close enough to have to be mowed by tractor when it gets dry enough in the summer. To many Southerners, a woodland garden can be one of the most idyllic settings on earth. Yet there are many gardeners who have lots of trees who don't enjoy their landscapes. Either they wish they had more grass, or they despair of the lack of decent plants for shady gardens. Or they don't know how to get started on designing a landscape in the shade.

Funny thing is, given a chance and a little time, almost all landscapes in Mississippi would head towards the woods. That's the "climax" of plant succession where soils and moisture are good. If you were to simply stop mowing the yard no, that's impossible to imagine. Let's look at it another way. If you were to move off for a few years, and nobody took care of the grass, what would happen? Growing process In west Texas, it'd dry up and blow away.

In the mountains, it'd freeze out and not be replanted. On the coast, it'd melt into sand. In most of the state, however, it'd simply get overgrown. First would come the normal weeds, the ones we deal with every year in the lawn: stickers, crabgrass, dandelions, onion, etc. They'd make room for broomsedge, a little Johnsongrass, then goldenrod and other wildflowers: Those are what botanists call "pioneer they are the first to arrive, and make room for the next group.

Then come woody plants. Rambling vines, leggy shrubs, small trees, and taller plants grow above the grasses and wildflowers, shading them out and taking over. Soon larger tree seedlings come in remember, this is all in your front yard, over three or four years and the sumac and other meadow plants begin to starve for light. Eventually, in the final stages of succession, huge trees shade out and dominate everything. There are, however, a few plants which can eke out a living from what little light makes it to the forest floor.

Vines, of course, send shoots up to the light, their stems making patterns across thin air. Smilax, poison ivy, honeysuckle, cross vine, jessamine these generally are not going to have leaves close to the ground in the shade, but in a woodland garden, can be thinned to become unique features. On the way down There are understory trees, those which make small umbrellas under the larger trees. Dogwood, beech, magnolia, buckeye, cherry laurel, hawthorn and hollies are easy to spot. Lower still are shade-tolerant shrubs.

Oakleaf hydrangeas, native (deciduous) azaleas, wax-myrtle, star bush (Illicium) and mountain laurel are all natives found naturally in most parts of Mississippi in deep woods. Also found commonly are sweet shrub (Calycanthus), huckleberries and native euonymus a'bus- strawberry bush). There are quite a number of herbaceous plants found on forest floors, growing in the leaf litter. In that woodland I visit each spring, I see sweet violets, trillium, Jack-n-the-pulpit and a number of different wild ferns. As far as the eye can see (I have witnesses) this time of year are wild blue phlox the same ones selling for three bucks apiece in the nurseries.

Because of the winter sun under those trees, dandelions and other spring wildflowers are also growing. None of this includes the many exotics brought in from Asia and other continents for shade: hosta, azaleas, mondo grass and liriope, camellias, aspidistra Who says it's hard to find plants for a shaded landscape? Just look around. Felder Rushing is a Mississippi Cooperative Extension Service horticultural specialist. Send questions to: Felder Rushing, co Southern Style, P.O. Box 40, Jackson, MS 39205.

if It seems that some things won't ever change when it comes to bracing kids for braces. "I guess the question we have to answer the most is, 'When am I going to get them said Jackson orthodontist Dr. Louis Guy Jr. But these days, a less strident question often comes to mind as well something on the order of: "Do you have these things in slime green?" The answer is: yes. And if they've a mind to, kids can trim their bicuspids in blue, their incisors in indigo, their very fangs in fuchsia.

That's right: Braces are now brought to you in gaping color an orthodontic trend that, in spite of its pervasiveness, still has no official name. "I guess we could coin one," said Jackson orthodontist Dr. Gene Brown. "Colordontics." Because of this relatively new Disney Dentistry, kids with braces have not only quit gritting their teeth in embarrassment, they have begun to bare them with pride. "It's really been amazing to me," Brown said.

"Foryears, people have been tryingto make braces less noticeable; now they're saying, 'Hey, look at me I've got green things on my Actually, it's the so-called ligatures, not the brackets, that the kids are showing off. The tiny elastic bands that surround each bracket on each tooth come in a variety of colors at no extra cost; kids can get a different color at each appointment. Kids like Michael Moore Jr. "I think they're cool," said the 12-year-old student at Southwest Academy in Jackson, who once adorned his teeth See BRACES, 2D v-, 1 Tom RosterThe Clarion-Ledger Michael Moore faces the world with a smile now that his orthodontist has added purple to his braces. Forget trying to tune in Majic 107 it no longer exists; Bunyard said the employee dismissals "concern me a lot.

We've provided severances, and we'll do everything we can to help any of them with new employment." Bunyard said increased competition, poor ratings and an "over-radioed" market led to his decision, although "in-1 ternal research showed a lot higher audience acceptance." Magee, who managed WJDX and WMSI-103 FM (Miss 103) from 1975-85, and who came back to Jackson a year ago to manage Majic, said, "My gut feeling was we were on the brink of coming out of the cold snap. I was feeling great with what was about to happen with the radio station." I Kevin Webb, general manager at WKXI and WTYX, said he hates "to see good radio people without jobs." But the arrangement is a good opportunity for WKXI on FM, Webb says. Such lease arrangements are "absolutely necessary for some markets, for the survival of all frequen- cies. Jackson has some 300,000 people, and 23 or 24 radio stations. Economically, it's the only thing that's sensible." Ironically, CSB Communications recently filed a peti- tion with the FCC, complaining about the WJDX-WSLI lease agreement.

Bunyard said he's had a change of views and will withdraw from the petition. tions for their FM station, which has become FM, or "Mix 96." WJDX on the AM dial became WJDS. Marshall Magee, who lost his job as WMJWs general manager in the deal, said, "As of 6 p.m. Friday afternoon, Majic 107 ceased to exist." Magee said, "From my position on down, jobs were eliminated. There is no more radio station.

(The lease agreement) is an unusual situation, which you will see more and more of across the country. When stations are not living up to the expectations of the ownership, you will see a lot of the staffs eliminated, and another broadcasting corporation taking over the frequency. "The bottom line is, 16 hard-working Mississippians are out of work." Magee said the decision probably was due to a combination of factors: Majic's local ratings problems over the past six months, and Bunyard' "major financial problems" with Olympia Broadcasting Services of St. Louis, Mo. But Bunyard says Olympia's problems have nothing to do with Majic 107.

"Olympia Broadcasting is in Chapter 11 (a debt reorganization plan), but I operate the Olympia Network, which is a wholly owned subsidiary." The station's 1 6 employees lost their jobs in a lease agreement with Opus Media. By Jeff Edwards Clarion-Ledger TV Editor Jackson's adult-contemporary radio station known as Majic 107 "ceased to exist" last Friday night, and 16 employees lost their jobs. The owners of Majic FM) entered into a lease agreement with Opus Media which operates Jackson's WKXI-1300 AM and FM. WKXI's "soft soul" AM took over Majic's 107 FM frequency, and Opus will handle all sales and marketing for 107 and its owners, CSB Communications Inc. WKXI remains on the AM dial as well.

Stephen Bunyard, currently the sole stockholder in CSB, described it an economic decision." The arrangement of leasing a competitor's signal, now allowed by the Federal Communications Commission, is similar to one employed last summer by the former FM and WJDX-620 AM. WSLI's owners leased the WJDX AM signal and sales staff of Capstar Communica Barb grins, smiles and smirks (or does she?) phin, just for their sonar capabilities." Actor River Phoenix, who has been touring the country with his rock band, Aleka's Attic. Phoenix was quoted in US Sir Stormin' Norman? British gossip-meister Nigel Dempster says that Norman Schwarzkopf wife, Brenda, told a source that she and the general "have had a personal request from the queen to present themselves, probably on the royal yacht Britannia" when Queen Elizabeth visits the U.S. in May. Her Majesty may be thinking of bestowing upon Schwarzkopf a title, says the latest edition of Newsweek.

Burke's Peerage director Harold Brooks-Baker, always ready with an authoritative opinion on royal affairs, said that the general is likely to receive an honorary knighthood, the highest honor the queen can bestow on a non-Briton. Dead solid hot The movie Ghost was so successful, that TV producers are jumping on board the dead bandwagon. Considered for fall: Moe's World, in which a dead 11-year-old loves basketball, hates girls and is able to observe the living (ABC). Till Death Do Us Part, in which a married couple killed in an auto accident are sent to Earth to give romantic advice to living couples (ABC). Cain, in which the first murderer comes to life in modern times and helps people who need help (NBC).

Esme's Little Nap, in which a coma victim watches her family from her bed (CBS). Star quality The New York Daily News reports that i when Maggie Smith was in New York appearing in the Broadway show Lettice and Lovage, she went to a dentist, Robert Hart, for emergency treatment It was such a pressing matter that Hart left his scheduled patient, an elderly woman named Goldie Hergenhan, sitting in the chair waiting for X-rays while he attended to the actress. When he returned, he bore a note: "Dear Mrs. Goldie Hergenhan: Do forgive me for stealing your dentist. The show must go on, as they say, and I guess without you, it wouldn't have.

Many, many thanks. Yours always, Maggie Smith." "I can understand why some won't (agree to be interviewed). (A Barbara Walters interview) is not a small thing. It's like doing the cover of Time. And, personally, I would rather do television than print.

I don't like to do print. You can write, 'she 'she 'she and it's the same face. In television, you've got a fighting chance. Even if they edit you, people can see a little bit of what you're like. I worry about print and do almost no print interviews.

I would advise everyone to do the same." Barbara Walters in a print interview in TV Time magazine. "I'd like to be reincarnated as a dol- Phoenix "The first thing I ever did at high school was to play one of Simon Legree's dogs in the ballet in The King and Best actress Oscar winner Kathy Bates about the roots of her career as an actress, in an interview with the Memphis (Tenn.) Commercial-Appeal, her hometown newspaper..