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The Windsor Star Entertainment FRIDAY, AUGUST 14, 1998 ASSOCIATE EDITOR: KAREN HALL 255-5741 FAX 255-5515 B3 The poster for the 1998 African World Festival was Illustrated by Julian Allen. Festival and museum spotlight many aspects of the black community r4 itK INSIDE TELEVISION Local show profiles voice of the Tigers Ernie Harwell can almost make you believe he knows the guy from Farm-ington Hills who just caught a foul ball at Tiger Stadium. See that man with his sons 10 rows up in the second deck? He and Ernie are on a first-name basis. It's Harwell's special magic that has put radio listeners and, for the last couple of seasons, TV viewers right in the broadcast booth of Detroit Tigers baseball games for four decades. On Sunday at midnight, In-Depth Detroit on WWJ celebration (channel 62, cable 15) profiles the Hall of Fame announcer.

Host Rich Mayk talks to Harwell about his career, his memories of 40 years broadcasting Tigers games, and what he sees for the team when it moves in Cm TED SHAW ENTERTAINMENT V'v- 1, By Craig Pearson star entertainment writer DETROIT Africa will be no further than the far bank of the Detroit River this weekend. The 16th annual African World Festival, which attracted 1.5 million people last year, brings Hart Plaza alive tonight through Sunday with a healthy dollop of food, music, culture and history. With headliners such as dancehall star Yellowman (tonight), the '60s and '70s crossover group War (Saturday), and calypso king Mighty Sparrow (Sunday), the party will heat up quickly. Besides the music, the African World Festival offers 150 African and African American vendors, 18 Food Court kitchens, public mural projects, open mikes, mask-making, drumming workshops, artifacts from African diaspora, and a traditional Step Show where compet to a new stadium in a couple of seasons. In-Depth Detroit is a weekly newsmagazine produced at WWJ's downtown Detroit studios.

With the help of the news department of sister radio station, WWJ-AM (950), the program takes a look at local issues and personalities. Hosted by Mayk, a longtime Detroit newsman who spent several years at WJBK (channel 2, cable 7), In-Depth Detroit is one of the Motor City's more informative programs. Most Sundays you can catch it at 6:30 p.m., but this week live coverage of the final round of the PGA Championship on CBS takes precedence. Jay Newman, CBS vice-president who manages the Detroit station, said (A IT In-Depth Detroit will have to suffice as the station's main contribution to local current affairs. A daily news show isn't in the cards just yet.

"We are always evaluating all of our tt -4 -l A operations," Newman said. With the completion of a new transmitting tower in Oak Park, WWJ's signal WfW ing organizations try to out sing, out step and out chant each other. Perhaps most importantly, since the African World Festival is the biggest outreach program of the grand Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, the festival also features politics with its call to discover "The Africa In You." The Museum of African American History will stay open from 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.

throughout the festival, offering return shuttle bus rides to Hart Plaza for just 50 cents. The Museum of African American History would do well as a high schoolrequirement (including Windsor). There's something strikingly different about the museum, which bills itself as the largest devoted to the black experience in the world. Its power will vastly increase its presence in Detroit's suburbs. The station's rise to respectability has been gradual since the days of lowly WGPR in the early 1990s.

That's when CBS, turfed from WJBK in A favour of Fox, had to buy the former The Mighty Sparrow headlines Sunday's entertainment at the 16th annual African World Festival. religious UHF station in order to remain in the market. Five years ago, there was a lot of talk of paving the way for a news pro gram to compete with the likes of WXYZ (channel 7, cable 8) and WDW (channel 4, cable 5). But a news magazine and occasional special live forums, like the one prior to the referendum on Detroit casinos, is all WWJ viewers will see for a while. "We have in the last couple of months upgraded the quality and topicality of the show," said Newman.

comes from more than the US building, with its cavernous rotunda and terrazzo floor. What immediately sets the museum apart from most is its ability to make you really ponder hatred. Much of the exhibit is not about beauty, as are most museums, but injustice. It's one of the few public museums to rate itself PG-13, since it includes disturbing pictures: of segregation, poverty, white men beating black men, and worse, a series of lynchings. It also features much on the slave trade, including a commemoration to the slave ships that shackles life-size grey plaster people in the hold of a ship.

Or you can read a pamphlet on how ship crew can properly "tight pack" slaves. "Our mission is to preserve the history and culture of African-Americans," says Rita Organ, curator of exhibitions. "We have a turbulent history and it's wrought with negativity and a lot of information that people African-Americans and non-African-Americans don't want to deal with. Please see Black culture B5 But as far as producing a nightly news program, that's something we're This life-size sculpture In the Juke Joint exhibit by North Carolina artist Willie Little Is titled Romie Dee, who had a golf ball-sized goiter on the side of his face. He suffered from an ailment my sisters and I referred to as 'the vomit We would mimic the cough on command." Deep Purple just keeps on rockin' still looking at for the future." The WDIV shuffle A chess game of sorts has been happening at WDIV (channel 4, cable 5), where familiar faces are doing new things.

Lila Lazarus has joined Ruth Spencer as host of Newsbeat at Noon, weekdays p.m. Lazarus will also continue to file medical and health reports to the news package. In addition to anchoring WDIV's early morning show, Newsbeat Today (four minutes every half-hour during NBC's Today Show), Steve Garagiola will provide special project reports to the evening and late news. Michael Ann Wolf joins Dan Mount-ney as host of the weekend evening news, Newsbeat at 6, and Lauren Campbell will co-anchor the weekend morning newscasts, Newsbeat Today was something about the bass drum and bass guitar hitting at the same time that had a mysterious power. And that's what I wanted." A decade later, he got his wish when Paice, Lord, Blackmore and original vocalist Rod Evans invited him to join Deep Purple.

Ian Gillan also soon replaced Evans. Superstar status During the early 1970s, the band's heavy-handed covers of Neil Dia lL id -I fa mond's Kentucky Woman and an old song, Hush, established a distinc tive sound. Then, a series of albums with original material, including the seminal bar-band favourite, Smoke on By Ted Shaw star entertainment writer You can tell Roger Glover is asked this question all the time. What does it feel like after 30 years? Thirty years of Deep Purple rock, the three-chord mayhem, the same repeated bass lines, the relentless drums. Thirty years of trying to make time stop.

"Well," said Glover, 52, "all I can say is: Is that all there is?" Glover joined Deep Purple 29 years ago, a year after charter members Ian Paice and Jon Lord formed the group with original guitarist Ritchie Black-more. Blackmore's gone, but Paice, Lord and Glover are still out there grasping for the brass ring. The tours go on, forever it seems sometimes. The albums get churned out, and Deep Purple's latest, Abandon, on Aquarius International, is close to being the 30th. Similar sound In all that time, the sound has changed little.

There's even a song on the new album, simply titled '69, that cryptically charts the group's history. It's got all the Deep Purple elements the Water, took Deep Purple to super star status. By the mid-'70s, however, things to unravel. It's a familiar storyline CBET anchors The summer lineup of anchors at CBET (channel 9, cable 10) changes again next week when Ravi Baichwal from CBC operations in western Canada does the Windsor Evening News, 5:305 p.m., Monday through Friday. You may have noticed Baichwal's reports on Newsworld and the main network.

David Kyle, who is filling in as executive news director, said Baichwal is regarded as one of the network's rising stars. Could he be in line for the job Carole MacNeil is leaving in September? That remains to be seen, said Kyle, quickly adding there are several would-be anchors already in CBETs newsroom. Ted Shaw can be reached by mail at Deep Purple: Steve Morse, left, Roger Glover, Ian Gillan, Jon Lord and Ian Paice. in rock internal squabbling, creative clashes, red tape. Glover even left the band for a while and concentrated on producing Deep Purple clone acts, like Judas Priest and Nazareth.

the driving electric guitar, the throbbing bass, the grinding organ lines, the furious drums, and the screaming vocals. If nothing else, Deep Purple is consistently, artfully one-dimensional. Glover prefers not to dwell on the past. But he recalls that defining moment that inspired him as a musician. "When I was 14 or 15," Glover said in a recent telephone conversation, "I was in a talent contest and of course we came hopelessly last.

"The band that won was called The Men of Mystery, and there were four of them. They had this insistent rhythm and sounded great. "I can't remember the songs they played, but I do remember vividly standing off-stage and thinking there "That's why we're not celebrating this 30th anniversary thing," said Glover. Pi see Deep Purple B5.