The Wichita Eagle from Wichita, Kansas • 21

-i nri "J'tVQt'MM-t iy-H If to 7' 1 fc" toifi "JFWk-' Ph LJ Au -t jw ipNl i l-a living Avjft i vt 4 -A' KaW--- VVi t-ef Pottery by Karen Tevis who lives and worksJn Wichita will be featured beginning Wednesday at the Coutts Memorial Museum of Art 110 Main Street El Dorado Tevis who has studted archaeology of the plains and southwest collected American Indian crafts and pots before becoming a potter The Tevis display as well as the Kansas Watercolor Society Invitational Exhibition will open with a reception from 5 to 7 pm Wednesday at the museum The shows wlH remain on view through April 25 If you have a news tip a a question or comment about a story or review Contact Kevin Sheedy 2686626 FRIDAY March 29 1996 BACK Look! Up in the sky! comet Hyakutake FUTURE MaflftWfcMaBrti Tales from (keek mythology done In art deco style tfiat encircle to 6000-equare fool lobby are the worts of Wichita Dave LeFleur i fbwe he was I Warren who has been perl of fho local movie I fleeter he buK to be Wichita By Bud Norman The Wichita Eagle The next time somebody complains that nothing to do In Wichita ten the poor tool that ifs a shame he not a litde bit more oflbeaL Then punch Urn In the nose tf necessary and point out that the bets are abundant tUs week tor anyone willing to stray OK the beaten path If yoiflra up lain The early-tohedeartytaise crowd may not have noticed but the latetate-night skies have lately been brightened by a rare occurrence Comnt ttyakutata called one of the brightest comets of the past 20 years has been hurtling across the heavens The fine folks at the Into Alton tabic Observatory 20 miles southwest of downtown Wichita on MacArthur Road at 247th Street West are offering a good look at the comet through their lfUncb telescope from 4 to 530 am on Saturday and Sunday AoiuSBon to tne $2 for adults and $1 for people ages 8 to 11 with people under 6 admitted free For more Information can 7943995 By the way keep In mind that the comet's name is pronounced "YabcootaMqy" lest you appear astronomkslly uflhjn mm TheyVe cased Even better than 76 trombones more than 100 French boms win be on foe bill during St si me raernSBorai run Society's Md-West Horn Workshop today and Saturday at Wichita State University French horn players and French bom fans from several states win meet for recitals master dass competitions and participation In a big Mass Horn Choir Concerts begin tonight at 730 pjn in Wiedemann Recital Hall with solo performances by some of this region's leading teachers The set list ranges from Mazarfs Concert Rondo played by 18th-century instrument expert Kristen Thdander toKaNln Chan honHmdriKtrfciape duet The Everlasting Voices" There's another concert at 1 pirn Saturday with the big finale at 7-JO pm at Wiedemann Recital Hall with Gregory Hinds Eugene Wade and Max Cripe and what Is being billed as The World Most Registration for aD foe events will be $30 with single day regts-don $20 The concerts cost $5 tration $20 The concerts cost each For more information get the School of Music on the horn at 6803101 Hold tat Igor of to north Fans of MexicanAmerican music Know mat coryuntos non come any cooler than Lon Tlpwa del Norte which will be playing at 8 pm Sunday at the CotilUon 11120 Wr Kellogg The band has become one of the living legends of Tejano music with a style that is based In traditional acconUoMndguttar norteno but with a very thirty mix of country and Weston pop jazz mariacM and a darned good time Tickets are $20 at La Moda Galindos Taco Loco Radio See OFFBEAT Page 28 Michael i i Mmm menappwr i Warren Theatre combines old-fashioned movie palace style with modem technology 16 aha In one fashioned moviegoing Tm like a kid with a new toy sure" Warren says beaming at an the gaudy finery around him percent of me is business but 50 per cent is frustrated architectardsl There are certain monetary restraints but anybody in this business should be a showman5 Warren has been in foe local movie biz since he became a ticket taker at 16 at foe old Miller Theatre downtown considered the richest most ornate Wkfotta theater unfit it was demolished In 1973 to make way for a parking garage Warren was the Miller's last manager and foe end of that era has haunted him He launched Ms own company at 19 by borrowing $1000 from Pizza Hut founder Flank Carney and opening foe Westway Theater In a soufoside shopping center In 1975 he built foe four-screen Cinemas East A till ppiwiM mp pi Q0 muraoex umiicr See THEATER Page 6B By BobCurWght The Wichita Eagle ove over Cheops You bad only a pyramid Bin Warren has the Warren Theatre OK OK Maybe foe new 10-screen multiplex at 21st and Tyler that opens its etcfaedasB doors to foe public today isnt exactly foe ninth wonder of the world But at $10 million ($7 million for foe bunding alone) it is foe largest and grandest movie paboe to be built in half a century In Wichita And Ifs the only new theater In the world with every auditorium fogy ornamented according to the artists and artisans who are providing foe Intricate plasterwork foe miles of recessed neoa lighting the marble granite and tenazzo floors and pUlara and themur murals that drde foe (OOOsquarefoot lobby covered by a golden dome Ifs monument to foe glory of old- toward the cettng In the pfcft-T fiHuil artists Dusty and Unde Dion pbquen vrtth the Warren Theatre logo trmHon adopted from the glory day of movie that dftfuses the pink neon butt brio aome piaster In the audHoriums Contemporary Christian conceit will indude performances by Jars of day ana Three Crosses Smith tour promises visual audio fireworks BySuaanLRHe JB a think IYe been honest in all of Smith said in a telephone conversation from Ms home in Franklin Teim where he lives with Ms wife and five children ages 12 10 7 5 and 3 probably should have used the word 1 think maybe on this record I talk about some of foe reel struggles of my He had to ask Mmsett he said what he was trying to hide if he concealed Ms own spiritual struggles mom ns audience Do I have a little pride thing going on he asked 'Breathe in from foe new recording is about a period in Smith's life when he flett that God was nowhere near and by music for more than a decade now with six million records sold As the best-selling male artist in Christian music he has won an American Music Award a Grammy Award seven Dove Awards and been named one of foe world's most beautiful people by People magazine His Mis Including In IMs Wifi Be Here for You and Love have topped both Christian and pop music charts His newest recording TD Lead You Home' is described in Smith's press material as his "most honest yet leading to foe obviouB question: Whafs been less than honest In your earlier records? The Wichita Eagle Prepare to be blown away by contemporary Christian musician Michael Smith's performance at the Kansas Coliseum on Saturday night The current show part of foe TO Lead You Home" Tour Includes a OOfoot-wide screen multiple videos six projectors and five cameras showing material Smith's team shot before foe tour started Ifs very powerful said Smith And audience response has hem Tm sure there might be some people who like it at all but I think people are Mown Christian music fens have been fotown Gourioy photo See SMITH Page 2B itinTnnr fit if -f-r Af M-f.