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Show WHnaut9 gODlimg dDDD. Looking for something different to do this weekend? Here are a few suggestions, compiled by Park Record entertainment critic Rick Brough. Unless otherwise noted, events listed below will take place in Salt Lake Citv. MOVIES Variety is the word this week . at the Blue Mouse. "The Draughtsman's Contract," set in 17th-century England, is an unusual story of a sketch artist caught up in intrigue and passion. Cher, Sandy Dennis, and Karen Black meet for an unusual reunion in "Come Back to the Five & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean." And "Local Hero" is an excellent, wry comedy about the culture clash between American oilmen and local Scots scheming to sell off their land for drilling. The Mouse is located at 260 E. 100 South. The Claude Chabrol Festival continues at the Salt Lake City Library Thursday with "Just Before Nightfall." Night-fall." The central character, Charles Masson, accidentally acciden-tally kills the woman he is having an affair with, then is surprised when his wife and the woman's husband forgive him ! Admission for the 7 p.m. film is $2.50. The library is at 209 E. 500 South. The Salt Lake City Library also will show "Lillies of the Field" on Friday. Sidney Poitier plays the roving Homer Smith, who helps a group of German nuns build their church in the desert. The film won an Oscar for Poitier in 1963. It plays at 2 p.m. (for 25 cents) and 7 p.m. (for50cents). Doomsday and dancing are still featured this month th in the Utah Media Center film programs. In Robert Wise's "Day the Earth Stood Still," the Christ-like alien played by Michael Rennie says "Make peace or else!" The cast also includes Patricia Neal, Sam Jaffe and Billy "Father Knows Best" Gray. Klaatu barada nikto, which translates as "Don't miss this!" It plays at 7:30 p.m. on Feb. 11 and 12. The feature following is "The Boy Friend," Ken Russell's wierd homage to the musicals of the Thirties. It stars Twiggy and Tommy Tune, with Glenda Jackson in a cameo as the star replaced by an understudy under-study on opening night. It plays at 9:30 p.m. Admission for each film is $2.25 or $3 for the double feature. The Center is located at 20 South West Temple. "Stalker" is a Russian science-fiction film in a different dif-ferent vein from "Star Wars." In an unspecified future, a mysterious zone is probed by three men, representing reason, emotion and faith. This is part of the "Around the World in Film" series, shown at the University of Utah's Orson Spencer Hall on Sunday and the Media Center on Monday. Show time is 7:30 p.m. Admission is $4 for adults. MUSIC The Utah Symphony presents another New Audience Concert on Feb. 11 with guest soloist Reid Nibley, who was official pianist with the symphony for ten years. Charles Ketcham leads the orchestra in works by Mozart, Rachmaninoff, and Brahams. The program is Saturday at 8 p.m. in Sym-' Sym-' ; phony HallTicket prices range from $4 to $24. ' The Los Angeles punk band X will play Thursday at the Fairgrounds Coliseum, featuring such members as D.J. Bonebrake, John Doe and Billy Zoom. The San Francisco band Angst will also guest at the 8 p.m. concert, con-cert, a benefit for station KRCL, sponsored by Cosmic Aeroplane. Tickets are $8 in advance, $9 at the door. The Coliseum is at 10 West North Temple. The St. Olaf Choir appears at Kingsbury Hall on Thursday at 8 p.m. Tickets are $5, $6, and $8. Swing "At the Hop" with Danny and the Juniors at the Cherish Restaurant. They play two dinner shows nightly through Saturday, Feb. 11, at 139 East South Temple. Bonnie Raitt appears in a Valentine's Day concert Feb. 14, at Kingsbury Hall to benefit station KRCL. The Bump Band also appears, and special guests will be The Saliva Sisters. The show begins at 7:30 p.m. and reserved seat tickets are available at Kingsbury, Cosmic Aeroplane, and Datatix outlets. Prices are $9 in advance for University students at Kingsbury, $10 in advance for the general public and $12 at the door. THEATRE -"The Salmon Run" by Utah writer DavidKranes is presented by the Salt Lake acting Company. The story is about three old high-school high-school buddies who gather for a fishing reunion in Washington with their sons and (supposedly) no females. The production plays at 8 p.m. Thursday - Saturday through March 3. Tickets are $7.50 general admission and $5 for students. Exceptions to this are $5 for the Feb. 9 preview night and $15 for a Feb. 10 opening night gala. The Feb. 11 and 16 shows are sold out. Also a free show is scheduled on Sunday, Feb. 19 at 7 p.m., but tickets must be picked up in advance. The theaterbox office is at 168 West 500 North. Call 363-0525 for information. infor-mation. -David Anderson's "riuebner Against the Third Reich" is the second play about Helmuth Huebner, the young German Mormon executed by the Nazis for spreading pamphlets against the Reich. The play is presented by Shire West on Friday and Saturday. Then, it plays Wednesday - Saturday through March 3. Curtain is 8 p.m. It's presented by Walk-Ons at 915 West First South. ETCETERA -The Kimball Art Center in Park City will feature ceramic tile paintings by Guillermo Granizo and Lark Lucas, and paintings by Spike Ress. The .i i i 1 nn exhibit runs tnrougn r eu. m. Poet-author Maya Angelou and activist Kwane Ture (known in the '60s as Stokely Carmichael) appear at the University of Utah as part of Black Awareness Month. Angelou appears Feb. 9 in the University's Museum of Fine Arts Auditorium at 7:30. On Feb. 15, Ture will appear at a Hinckley Caucus press conference confer-ence at 9:30 a.m., a Union Building lecture at noon, and a 7 : 30 p.m. address at the New Pilgrim Baptist Church, 1624 South 1000 West. (Ture is now a political organizer in Guinea). All appearances are free. -The running Lady Utes of gymnastics meet UbC on Feb. 13 at the Special Events Center. The meet begins at7:30p.m. |