DATE: Friday, May 16, 1997                  TAG: 9705160182

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HERE'S AN ART SHOW you can sink your teeth into: ``Food for Thought'' opens tonight from 6 to 8 at the Contemporary Art Center of Virginia in Virginia Beach.

On display (through July 6) will be chairs made of hardened salt (shown), a tower of caramel and a tattooed lemon.

Patrons also will be treated to a short modern dance performance called ``The Food Piece,'' choreographed by Beverly Duane and Todd Rosenlieb. At CACV, 2200 Parks Ave. 425-0000.

- Teresa Annas

WHOLE LOTTA music goin' on this weekend, with the Town Point Jazz and Blues Festival, tonight through Sunday at Town Point Park in Norfolk. Headliners: John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers (7:30 tonight), Arturo Sandoval (7 p.m. Saturday), Larry Carlton (8:45 p.m. Saturday), Blind Boys of Alabama (2 and 3 p.m. Sunday), Saffire - The Uppity Blues Women (5:30 p.m. Sunday and Bela Fleck and the Flecktones (6:45 p.m. Sunday). Hours: 5 to 10 tonight, 2 to 10 p.m. Saturday and 2 to 8 p.m. Sunday. Free. 441-2345.

And at the Virginia Beach Oceanfront, they'll be shagging in the sand at the Beach Music Weekend, at 24th Street Park and at 30th Street. Headliners: The Catalinas (7 tonight), Bill Deal, Ammon Tharp and the Rhondels (noon Saturday), Bill Pinkney & The Original Drifters (2 p.m. Saturday), Percy Sledge (4:45 Saturday), Band of Oz (1 p.m. Sunday), and the band pictured here, Chairmen of the Board (3:45 p.m. Sunday). Hours: 7 to 9 tonight, noon to 8:30 p.m. Saturday and 1 to 5:30 p.m. Sunday. Free. 491-SUNN.

- Roberta Vowell MEMO: [Complete text of this calendar can be found on the microfilm for

this date.] ILLUSTRATION: [Color Photos]

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