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vttTTY ths vr vr-rt! tT't tvrrrn tm mi 't TToryyfi a corr 2D THE HERALD WEDNESDAY MAY 7 1997 Fresh faces in charge of trends in cosmetics price tag ($12 apiece) but are tailor-made for the YM set they come with rubber candy-colored rings and boast names like and Fans include everyone from Batgirl-to-be Alicia Silver-stone to director Quentin World School by founding music dean John De Lancie Crawford who is delighted with his find intends to record the aria for the University of label Not even the Met has a copy as the music used by the company for performances of La Juive was sent back to France in 1936 Tickets to concerts cost $25 Call (305) 651-5525 The 19-year-old Brazilian pianist Adriana make hei US debut at 8 pm Saturday playing a recital ot works by Mendelssohn Liszt Debussy and Villa-Lobos in the University of Clarke Recital Hall Azulay winner ot several important competitions in Brazil hails from Belem capital of the state of Para in the Amazon region Admission is 1 2 10 for students- and seniors Call (305)255-0910 ters The Miami Art Museum is at 101 Flagler St (305) 375-3000 DANCE For the past three years Miami audiences have seen the acclaimed Dance Theater of Harlem in performance But most seen the valuable work the company has done in schools and community centers around South Florida teaching ballet and more general skills of discipline and achievement through a program called Through You can see Dance Theater of Harlem in a lecture-demonstration at 7 pift Friday at the North Miami Beach Performing Arts Theater 17011 NE 19th Ave Tickets $6 adults (free if accompanying a child) students and children free To reserve tickets call (305) 538-2121 Auditions for students wishing to take part in Dance Theater of summer program take place at 1 pm Saturday at the New World School of the Arts 25 NE Second St Miami You must make a reservation by calling Community Concerts at (305)538-2121 On The Arts Entertainment Beat CLASSICAL MUSIC heard of the Tenc concerts Now there are the )ne concerts During Key West Music Festival this weekend tenor David Crawford will join University of Miami Symphony conductor Thomas Sleeper in two concerts for tenor and orchestra at 8 pm Saturday and 4 pm Sunday at the San Carlos Institute 516 Duval St concert which celebrates the historic visit of tenor Enrico Caruso to Key West in May 1920 will showcase an aria from La Juive the last opera Caruso sang at the Metropolitan Opera that year but in a cut version he never recorded yet evidently sang at the Met Crawford bought the historic Met score for just 25 cents at New World School of the Arts which decided to discard some music from a collection donated by the Manhattan School of Music that it care to catalog The aria was part of a library of scores acquired for the New UNZIPPED FROM ID groovy platforms When her friends gave Moha-jer snaps for her fashion-forward thinking she started mixing the gooey stuff in her bathtub and selling it bottle by bottle to Fred Segal the chichi Los Angeles boutique where she worked Today she is majority owner of Hard Candy whose lipstick and nail polish are carried by Neiman Marcus Burdines and other major department stores Then there are Anna and Sarah Levinson the Ripe sisters Anna 20 is the brain: She runs the fledgling cosmetic business Ripe from their Southern California home Sarah 17 is the muse: She dreams up the nail colors pastels like Blue Jay and glitters like Acid Rain (That is when not shopping for her senior prom: dying to find a dress right Sarah confesses via phone in 1 7 In touch with the market So far the kids are proving hard to beat plugged into the pop culture scene and understand their target audience who are trendy consumers like themselves Before Ripe and Hard Candy who knew mint-green and sky-blue nail polish was the next big thing? just keep Hard Candy in says Martha Martin PR manager for Neiman Marcus in Bal Harbour soon as we put it on the shelves it would be gone in two Hard Candy made $10 million in its first full year of sales and is expected to earn $20 million this year Jump-started with a $50000 loan from mom and dad the Los Angeles-based company is run by Mohajer with her 29-year-old sister Pooneh her boyfriend Ben Einstein 24 and a recruited 61 -year-old CEO named William Botts the Mohajer know much about manufacturing and distribution when she started out But if one thing these baby entrepreneurs do know that gimmicks sell Hard cutesy bottles have a grown-up Timing trends Timing is key too: Another entrepreneurial pair Richard and Rachelle Walker the 20-something Orlando-based siblings behind the sunglass line Blinde Optics found that out on a sales call to a factory was talking about color combinations and his vision of what like to do and the gentlemen that were working with us were standing there looking at him like he was Rachelle says guy said pay a lot of money to obtain research about going to be the next big thing and just named a big percentage of The Ripe sisters hope to catch the same kind of wave Sarah and Anna got into business two years ago with a $40000 loan from 80-year-old grandma Pearl who wears the stuff likes this army green and she looks really good in Anna says) Now the duo has a collection of 64 colors available for $7 a bottle at Uncle Musicafe in Lauderhill and IOS in Coconut Grove and has agreements with and first major order for was 61 stores not in South Florida for Sarah says work out of my home She helped us pack Business 101 But even mom help with invoices Like Mohajer the Ripe sisters are getting a crash course in business economics really thought we could take it on Anna says sales charts? I know how to do that stuff We have consultants also experiencing a frustrating form of flattery as big companies copy their ideas a lot of that in this Charming classic On A Clear Day reincarnated at Shores Theater VISUAL ARTS The Miami Art Museum announces a new program Saturdays Are Free for Children and their families are welcome to drop in from 1 to 4 pm on the second Saturday of every month to enjoy interactive programs designed for all ages including hands-on activities for kids Admission is free On tap this Sunday is in which visitors take a look at the range of portraiture in Art Works: The PaineWebber Collection of Contemporary Mas THEATER REVIEW ON A CLEAR DAY Century Englishwoman whose past sparks interest and the drama Mauro and Silvers give the On A Clear Day its lifejacket Unfortunately director Kevin Dean shows little creativity in dealing with the obvious lack of resources at the Shores Some of the scenes like the one on a New York rooftop seem too spread out especially compared to London-past scenes where so much is happening Dean underestimates the power of fantasy His need to spell out where the action takes place when the clothes By MARTA BARBER Herald Staff Writer On A Clear Day the 1965 musical by Alan Lemer (of My Fair Lady and Camelot fame) and Burton Lane now at the Shores Performing Arts Theater dabbles in the intriguing world of reincarnation and self-discovery without seeking anything deeper than entertainment and it mostly succeeds Daisy Gamble (played with brio and charm by Christy Mauro) attends a class by renowned psychiatrist Dr Marie Bruckner (a convincing Louis Silvers who gives beautiful renditions of the title song and Come Back to Me) When Mark hypnotizes a fellow in the class easygoing Daisy reverts to Melinda a young and spirited 18th ment stories can be dry and boring and can turn people off Making government stories into good television is difficult but it can be WPLG devoted 124 percent of its surveyed news time to government and politics WTVJ led with 138 percent Ultimately Angotti says he hopes viewers and advertisers will take the survey results and put pressure on station owners and news directors to give issues other than crime more air time want to demonstrate that crime have to be the dominant he says news has abandoned its responsibility to do serious journalism in favor of sensational rules in broadcast news study says MARICE COHN BAND Herald Staff BOLD: Hard Sky lipstick and Dork nail polish says Rachelle Walker not a lot you can do about it If you want to defend your product and your company you have to enter into a lawsuit That takes a lot of Some start-up companies have decided to fight the powers that be One is Urban Decay a San Francisco-based cosmetics firm Urban Decay debuted in 1995 with aggressive lipsticks eye shadows and nail polishes called and Last August Revlon Cosmetics USA unveiled a line with edgy names like and Urban Decay President Sandy Lemer 41 was not amused She claims polygon-shaped caps names and packaging are knockoffs of her line The two rivals are set to battle in court over whether and are too much like and Mohajer whose polishes have been mimicked by everyone from Cover Girl to Wet Wild has there done it first happened I was a little Mohajer says a year later I get mad anymore I think tin Texas Researchers picked four random days in November 1996 and January February and April 1997 They tallied the time spent on each story and classified the story according to whether it dealt with crime government natural disasters or other categories The survey did not count segments on weather or sports unless they contained news items that related to one of the survey categories reporting is easy to do and require hardly any says Angotti a former senior vice president of NBC News journalists have to stand up and say here to tell people what they need to Time for other issues The station whose news programs seemed to contain the least crime according to the survey was WPLG-Channel 10 Crime news took up 155 percent of its air time devoted to news in the survey period while health and medicine garnered 204 percent and government got 124 percent Angotti points out that the news content at Channel 10 the longtime ratings leader proves that not necessary to go overboard on crime news to be successful want and will not allow crime to drive our says Channel 10 news director Tom Doerr Saturday Sunday May 10th lltii Here's a look at the percentage of news time devoted to subjects on four South Florida 6 pm newscasts The numbers are averages and are based on four newscasts surveyed between November 1996 and last month: The Ticket appears regularly inside the Living Arts section Got an item? Send it to The Ticket co The Herald 1 Herald Plaza Miami Fla 33132 Or fax it to (305) 376-2202 contributors: James Roos Elisa Turner and Jordan Levin or lack of them make it clear by constant changes in set and backdrop appear clumsy at best overbearing at worst (Perhaps the numerous technical difficulties counted for some of the distractions) And with the exception of Christie Mascoretto as Muriel the supporting cast lift that sinking feeling On A Clear Day is a charming musical that can almost survive a mediocre staging But the Shores should consider what it does well and stick to that As Daisy says good is reincarnation if you know who you Shores Performing Arts Theater 9806 NE Second Ave Miami Shores through May 25 performances 8 pm Friday-Saturday 2 and 7 pm Sunday 751-0562 hi SOURCE: Consortium for Local Television News Surveys TV CONTENT FROM ID Florida at a time when the city of Miami is in a financial crisis got 8 percent of air time Not surprisingly most South Florida television stations found fault with the study conducted by the Consortium For Local Television News Surveys The big picture Alice Jacobs vice president for news at WSVN-Channel 7 says that because the study looked at just four days and dealt only with the 6 pm programs rather than the full 90 to 120 minutes of local news that most South Florida stations offer on weekdays it register all the topics her station covers not a true picture of our newscast and every day is different To single out four days and a single half-hour and count up the minutes is so she says Jacobs points to the finding that her station devoted on average less than 1 percent of its newscast to education issues have two full-time reporters on issues and they make air every she said Nonetheless Jacobs defends graphic coverage of crime news such as her station showing the headless body in the cemetery as serving the public: we sanitize the news show the gruesome pictures people may not understand how horrible the crime is You want viewers Classifying the news When it comes to crime reporting Channel 7 which has the reputation of being the station where it bleeds it was not No 1 in South Florida according to the survey That distinction went to WFOR-Channel 4 which according to the study devoted 323 percent of its news time on the four broadcasts surveyed to crime and criminal justice were these stories asks Channel 4 news director Neil Goldstein just did a series on criminals who are walking away from the South Florida State Mental Hospital Is that crime news or is that government news? of our stories are stories We set out to cover crime at the expense of other Angotti says the hospital walkaway story had it been on one of Researchers at the universities of Miami Oregon Southern California and Texas and Columbia Northwestern Syracuse and Ball State (Muncie Ind universities watched the half-hour local newscasts that directly preceded the national network news or if the station was not a network affiliate the newscast closest to 6 pm The markets surveyed were New York Los Angeles Chicago Miami Syracuse NY Indianapolis Eugene Ore and Aus the surveyed newscasts would have been classified as government coverage The study he says drew distinctions between breaking crime news and features Prime viewing time At WTVJ NBC 6 executives expressed regret that the survey missed their 5 pm newscasts our station the 5 news is says Carla Nelson Channel vice president of creative services Complaints that the survey unfairly looked at just the 6 pm news programs are misleading Angotti says because that is the early evening time slot when the largest numbers of television sets are turned on News directors he says push stories that have sexy or shocking video to the segments when the number of viewers is not as high and are reluctant to devote the resources necessary to do in-depth coverage ESSERMAIM i Presents MIAMI Daij Over Get Get More Out rf Your Checld Open a Generations Gold Checking Account With Generations Gold Checking Account miles of savings await you and your family be cleared for take-off with discounts to destinations around the world And once there enjoy hotel discounts car rental discounts all this and a whole lot more with discounts on prescriptions eyewear and other valuable health services You even get your standard checks FREE all while your no minimum balance checking account earns you interest To learn more about Generations Gold Checking visit a BankAtlantic office near you or call: 1-800-74M700 BankAtlantic SAMANTHA FARR 140 Booths of Beautiful Arts and Crafts! 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