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Show Friday, February Folic song and dance group plans performance - SALT LAKE CITY On Monday, Feb. 8, the Don Cossacks invite Utahns to take a trip to historic Russia through song and dance. The Don Cossacks are a folk song and dance group which specializes in music that is indigenous to the people who, for centuries, have populated the area around the Don River in Russia. The group will perform at 8 p.m. in Abravanel Hall in Salt Lake City. The event is sponsored by the Utah Symphony. Tickets are $11, $16, $21, and $26 and are available at the Utah Symphony Box Office, and all Smith's Tix outlets. The Utah Symphony wil not perform on this program. The group includes dancers, singers and musicians who will perform "Listen, Boys," a song in which men are warned about the consequences of marriage, and "I'm No Spinster," which describes a young wife who, in her husband's absence, spends the family's fortune. There will also be dances which depict historic Cossack 533-NOT- 9 'The Mercha.it of Venice' 'TheFantasticks' half-doze- a bad thing at that! The best predictions, though, all claim that some of the 500 will be video-phone- s, exquisitely tuned "narrowcasts" aimed at tiny slivers of the audience say, a channel devoted only to telling you what you missed on the soap operas this morning; a opera channel; the Johnson channel) maybe even REVOLUTIONARIES of across. Here's an attempt: Take a long look at your TV. Stare it down, show mastery of it. If you do this today, show your TV who's boss, in a year or two or three you'll at least be able to recall the moment with the full pleasure of nostalgia. You think that television looms large in your life now? Get ready for Godzilla. He will stomp your- assumptions flat, and toss your conventional wisdoms about like toys. He will own you. It starts with 500 cable channels. That's 500. This will be made possible by the combination of several existing and hardly exotic technolc cable, ogies, including signal compression and digital transmission. We could go to the research and actually explain what these terms MEAN, but as there is as yet no compression available for typeface, it would take the rest of this column, and in any case, it just doesn't matter because think of it: 500 channels. Now, your first thought may well be, fine: I've got 50 channels now, and most of them are playing the same Chuck Norris movie. Will 500 channels merely mean more of the same? Well, yes. At least some of them will. One of the first programming tricks to be introduced, the techs it 24-ho- all-V- a jet-car- s, and the work week, it has been hovering out there in those documentaries, so we know it's possible, at least in theory. Now it's not theory any more. You'll be getting and giving real, moving images by the same computer screen on which you will soon be able to watch the 500 channels, or will be by the mid- - to an 20-ho- ur ll re hockey. But that isn't the fun part. Consider the problem posed by the simple bulk of 500 channel listings. Your television guide will look like the phone book. By the time you are done sifting through the listings, it will already be an hour the unwary later and time to t; MAY NEVER GET AROUND TO WATCHING TV AT ALL. So along with all the channels, which will start trickling into pioneer households within a year or so, will come the offer of an elec- - But like video-phone- ? meals-in-a-pi- late-'90- s. re-sif- fiber-opti- What will you be able to send, via a combination of home-vide- o and tronic television guide that will limit your options so you can get through the day without fretting over what you've missed in the effort to make sure you're not missing anything. For a small monthly fee, a combination of computer "menus" and electronic "filters" programmed by you will tell you only what you want to know about what's on. For instance, your guide screen will tell you about all the operas, and all the hockey, but you will never even have to know about The Next Sally. That's right: You'll pay to have Anything you want. Pictures of the grandchildren, slides of the Grand Canyon, home movies, charts, graphs, amateur pornography. That's right, this is the fun part. Close observers of the coming technology predict, among many other things, that by those who want to will be able to swap videos of their most private moments publicly over telephone lines that will be largely free of any sort of regulation. The Federal Communications Commission will still be snuffling after Howard Stern in an effort to bring the full weight of society's dismay on him for saying "penis" on the radio, while millions will be swapping "date" videos in a kind of .fiberoptic sexual Olympics. Consider that amateur porn is already the boom segment of the video business like it or not, and Mrs. Public likes to watch. What will be different is this: so many channels, so little time for blue pencils to check' on what we're doing. The simple fact is, within a few years video will be exactly what telephone is now. What we'll do is, we'll get away with it. And it's almost here. This isn't like the early and middle days of computers, when the pitch was, Hey: You'll be able to balance your checkbook by computer, and shop by computer, and . . . balance your checkbook. No, this one offers something different. The 500 channels. 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Uva Stage Piano recital BYU faculty member Jeffrey Shumway will present a piano recital at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 11, in the Madsen Recital Hall, BYU Harris Fine Arts Center. Admission is free. 12 LB. PRIME 4:30 7:00 9:30 " "The Star Spangled Girl" zt9 ' SOMMERSBEY -- AM TTeJtete Thursday 4 it s mix fLiASJin xvt . Center, Provo. 425 W. At The Best Price!? 1 SNIPER Sat. after 6 p.m. $1.50 show $1 except Frl. , , located at Monday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights through Feb. 22 at the theater, located at 225 W. 400 North, Orem. All performances will begin at 8 p.m. Tickets are $4 (Mondays), $5 (Thursdays) and $6 (Fridays and Saturdays). For reservations, call 4:45 7:15 9:30 I.,, ALHAMBRA THEATER f HOME ALONE 2 Puppet show TOP SIRLOIN BODYGUARD flttati Warning The Provo City Library will present the puppet show "Stand Back, Said the Elephant, I'm Going to Sneeze" on Monday, Feb. 8, at 7:30 p.m. Admission is free; the library is you and I. mid-decad- e, i Monday networks? computer-use- r All 'Mother Hicks' The BYU Theatre and Film Department will present the play "Mother Hicks" in the BYU Pardoe Theater tonight, Feb. 5, and Feb. 6 at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $8 for the general public and $6 for students, staff and faculty members. For tickets, call The Hale Center Theater Orem will present the comedy, "The Star Spangled Girl," on your options limited. You will be grateful. But even that isn't the fun part. A year or so after the 500 channels arrive, the full measure of the capacity of fiber optics and digital compression will begin to be taken, as interactive TV joins with your home computer to allow you to receive and send video messages. For decades now, we've been hearing about which allow two parties to a conversation to enjoy still images of one another while talking. It's not who actually has real, of course again every 10 minutes for an hour. Just what point this will serve is completely unknown, but I have a hunch that it's nothing more than an expression of sheer arrogance: We have so many channels n for you that we can waste a showing the same thing, and change. Literally: We don't know how to tell you. There's a revolution coming, and it's only now creeping out of the business pages and onto the fronts, and into the lifestyle sections of the glossy magazines, but even though we can see it coming we can't quite get the ALADDIN Bacik Entertainment will present "The of Godfry Smithers" through the arts of puppetry and storytelling Saturday, and Feb. 6, every Saturday until Feb. 27. Ail productions will begin at 1 p m. at the Children's Keep Theatre, 105 E. 100 North, Provo. Admission is $2. 'Star Spangled Girl' Mr- lub offers comedy in xive the Underground Provo niver'iitv Av .Siiti nt I'.t Saturday ' Members of the folk song and dance group the Don Cossacks will perform in Abravanel Hall in Salt Lake City Monday. The performance is sponsored by the Utah Symphony. Newspapers Town Bacik Entertainment for Godot," Samuel Beckett's absurdist classic of two tramps waiting for a man that never comes, will be performed Tuesday through Saturday through Feb. 14 at 7:30 p.m. in the BYU Margetts Arena Theatre. A 4 p.m. matinee will be performed Feb. 8. For tickets:, call Photo courtesy the Utah Symphony J flub . vvii. days. 'Waiting for Godot' We don't know how to tell you this, but everything is about to B Rntyur:.fil The club offers For reservations, call shows at 9 p.m. on Thursdays and 7:30 p.m., 9 p.m. and 10:30 p.m. on Fridays and Satur- "Waiting say, is the "staggered" showing of movies Chuck Norris will start Nightly 7:00 & 9:00 Sat. Mat. 2 p.m. Cm Sundance Indoor Theatre has its production of "The Fantasticks." Tins production will be performed on Friday and Saturday evenings at 8 p.m. in the Sundance Institute Screening Room at Sundance beginning tonight and continuing through May 1. Tickets are $12. For reservations, call t By BILL COSFORD . . call Provo Television's future: So many channels, so little time . formances are at 7 30 p.m. Tickets are 5 for adults, 4 for children, students and senior citizens and $20 per family. For reservations, Johnny '3 -- r ' lake The rotiiuii: l ..umeu iiuec aris" will be performed on Fridays, Saturdays and Center Mondays through Feb. 22 at Val!e Playhouse, 780 N. 200 East, Undon All per- Lakendtfe Junior High School will present its production of "The Merchant of Venice" as part of its Fourth Annual Shakespearean Renaissance Festival tonight, Feb. 5. and Feb. 6 and 8. Th evenings begin with I Greenshow at 6. 15 p.m. followed by the play, which begins at 7 pm. The junior high school is located at 951 S. 400 West in Orem. events. Knight-Ridde- TakeTrft. 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