Path: bloom-picayune.mit.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!americast.com!americast.com!americast-post Newsgroups: americast.twt.life From: americast-post@AmeriCast.Com Organization: American Cybercasting Approved: americast-post@AmeriCast.com Subject: Headline Article Date: Sat, 31 Oct 92 14:00:15 EST Message-ID: \SE B;LIFE;TODAY'S BEST BETS \BY Laura Outerbridge \CR THE WASHINGTON TIMES MUSIC TO RAISE THE SPIRITS The early-music Folger Consort will perform uninhibited Italian songs, dances for phantasmagorical spirits, music from court masques and a musical contest between Bacchus and the American Indian god of tobacco tonight, tomorrow and Monday as part of its "All Hallow's Eve" concerts. Costumes are encouraged at tonight's 10 o'clock concert, but people might look at you funny if you show up at tomorrow's 3 p.m. matinee or 7:30 p.m. show dressed as Count Dracula. Monday's concert begins at 7:30 p.m. Tickets range from $14.50 to $17.50. The performances are set for the Folger Theatre, 201 East Capitol St. SE. Call 202/547-7077 to order tickets. CELEBRATING SATCHMO Lisner Auditorium is the place for jazz fans to be tonight. Wynton Marsalis, Dizzy Gillespie, Doc Cheatham, Benny Carter and Marcus Roberts all will be on hand to celebrate the legacy of Louis Armstrong and accept the Charlin Jazz Society's annual Satchmo Awards. Trumpeter Armstrong also is credited with inventing scat singing, so vocalist Jon Hendricks and trumpeter Clark Terry plan to re-create several classic Armstrong numbers. Mr. Chatham, 87, will team up with 18-year-old prodigy Nicholas Payton for a trumpet duet. Proceeds from the concert, which begins at 8 p.m., go to the City Lights and Jazz in the Schools programs. Lisner is at 21st and H streets NW. Tickets are $25 and $17 for students and may be purchased through ProTix, 703/218-6500. WORLDLY GHOST STORIES Storyteller Laura Simms will tell ghostly tales from different lands at the National Geographic's Grosvenor Auditorium today at 11 a.m. Costumes are welcome. Don't forget to stop in Explorers Hall to see the exhibit "1492: Two Worlds of Science," which closes tomorrow. Tickets for the storytelling are $9. The National Geographic building is at 17th and M streets NW. Call 202/857-7588. BLACK AND WHITE CATS Las Vegas entertainers Siegfried & Roy will bring five white tiger cubs and a 650-pound male white tiger to the McLean Super Crown bookstore today from noon to 2 p.m. for a book signing and tiger petting session. The German-born showmen are promoting a dual autobiography, "Siegfried & Roy: Mastering the Impossible," published by William Morrow. The duo own the world's largest collection of white tigers, which are extinct in the wild. The bookstore is at 1457 Chain Bridge Road. Call 703/893-7640. DR. FAD'S FUN RUN Ken Hakuta, better known as Dr. Fad of WETA's gizmo show, will host the fourth annual Halloween Young Run for children 12 and under at 9 a.m. today in Rockville. All quarter-mile and half-mile finishers get ribbons; one-milers get medals, and everybody gets a goody bag and refreshments. The run, sponsored by WETA and the Montgomery County Road Runners, is set for West Gude Road and Route 355. Call 703/998-2827. SKIPJACKIN' ON THE BAY The hardest-working sailboats on the Chesapeake will take time out to play today and tomorrow during the annual skipjack races, part of Chesapeake Appreciation Days at Sandy Point State Park. Amateur oyster shuckers will compete elbow to elbow, children in costumes will promenade in the Halloween parade, and everybody will stuff himself with crabs, clams and oysters. Sandy Point is off Route 50 next to the Bay Bridge near Annapolis. The park opens at 9 a.m. and closes at 5 p.m. Admission to the fair is $5 for adults, $3 for seniors. Children 12 and under get in free. Call 410/269-6622 or 410/269-5570. REASONS TO REMEMBER Oct. 31 goes by many aliases: Hallowe'en, All Hallows Eve, Hallowmas, Samhain. Whatever the name, the date has been associated with witches, spirits and goblins since about the sixth or seventh centuries. Ancient Celts celebrated the Feast of Samhain as a kind of New Year's Eve. Nov. 1, they believed, was the first day of the New Year and the first day of winter. Among magicians, Oct. 31 is National Magic Day, in commemoration of the death of Harry Houdini. In 1926, the famous escape artist died of peritonitis at age 52 in a Detroit hospital after a blow to the abdomen. Today is also the birth anniversary of singer Ethel Waters (1900-1977), poet John Keats (1795-1821), Girl Scouts founder Juliette Gordon Low (1860-1927), and Chinese soldier and statesman Chang Kai-shek (1887-1975). This article is copyright 1992 The Washington Times. Redistribution to other sites is not permitted except by arrangement with American Cybercasting Corporation. For more information, send-email to usa@AmeriCast.COM