THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Friday, August 11, 1995 TAG: 9508110199
SECTION: DAILY BREAK PAGE: E3 EDITION: FINAL
LENGTH: Medium: 84 lines
TUESDAY
FANS OF CONCRETE Blonde and Wall of Voodoo have a new band to catch. Pretty & Twisted is the offspring of the former's Johnette Napolitano and the latter's Marc Moreland. Their first album, produced by Napolitano, just appeared. The group, with opener Steve Wynn, arrive at the Abyss at 9 p.m. Tuesday. The club is at 1065 19th St., Virginia Beach. Tickets: $12.50 advance. 422-0748.
- Rickey Wright
SUNDAY
AFTER YEARS OF regional near-superstardom, Raleigh, N.C.'s Connells have broken big overseas. Their poignant single ``'74-'75'' from the two-year-old ``Ring'' album recently topped charts in seven countries including Germany, France, Belgium and Holland. In other band news, guitarist and songwriter George Huntley has a solo album due next month, the Connells' follow-up to ``Ring'' is due in early 1996, and they return to Hampton Roads Sunday for a 4 p.m. Strawberry Banks show with Del Amitri and the BoDeans. Tickets are sold out.
- Rickey Wright
ANYDAY
DURING WORLD WAR II, Hampton Roads was a major player as a port, ranking third after New York and San Francisco.
More than 15,000 negatives and photographs from the port's archives captured the moments from 1942 to 1946 - troops leaving home and returning as heroes, the transfer of German and Italian prisoners of war, soldiers and citizens in training.
A show of these black-and-white photos is on view at The Mariners' Museum in Newport News. ``The Hampton Roads Port of Embarkation'' commemorates the 50th anniversary of war's end.
The port photos were given to the museum in 1946 by Brigadier General John R. Kilpatrick, former port commanding officer.
The show continues through April 14 at the museum. Open daily 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Admission is $6.50; students, $3.25. Ages 5 and younger, free. Call (804) 596-2222.
- Teresa Annas
TONIGHT
After a bumpy ride in ``Speed,'' Keanu Reeves undertakes his first romantic role in the sun-drenched ``A Walk in the Clouds.'' Set in the lush Napa Valley wine country of northern California, the film is the first Hollywood production from director Alfonso Arau, whose ``Like Water for Chocolate'' is the most successful foreign-language movie in American history. Like that film, ``Clouds'' deals with romance and what the director calls ``magical realism.'' Bathed in surrealistic colors, it has Reeves as a World War II veteran who returns home to find he has nothing in common with his bride. He meets the beautiful Aitana Sanchez-Gijon and agrees to briefly pose as her husband. Under the moonlit nights of the grape-harvesting season, romance blossoms. Screen legend Anthony Quinn is the larger-than-life patriarch.
- Mal Vincent
ANYDAY
Enameling techniques have such lovely names: cloisonne, champleve, plique-a-jour.
The fine art of enameling is enjoying a comeback with artists worldwide. Some top examples, from the traditional to the avant garde, are on display this month in four area galleries.
The exhibits coincide with the International Enamelist Society convention, which takes place in Hampton later this month.
At the Peninsula Fine Arts Center (596-8175) in Newport News, two significant enamelists are featured in great depth - Latvian Valeri Timofeev and Canadian Fay Rooke.
The d'Art Center (625-4211) in downtown Norfolk and the Charles H. Taylor Art Center (722-2787) in Hampton are showcasing a wide range by professional and student artists from England, Switzerland, Germany, Australia and other countries. Hampton's Blue Skies Gallery (727-0028) is exhibiting work by three college art professors who are enamelists.
The shows are up through Aug. 24 - except for Blue Skies' exhibit, which ends Aug. 31.
- Teresa Annas ILLUSTRATION: Color photos
by CNB