What's Happenin'

With the festivities of the past few weeks over, it's sometimes an effort to face the last few months of winter: but if entertainment keeps looking like what we've got coming up these next coupe of weeks, things will be quite bearable, even enjoyable.

Z. 1/8/75, MLB4, 7&9pm.

Z, Costa-Gavras' devastating masterpiece of revolution in Greece, will be shown Wednesday January 8, 7 & 9 pm, at MLB4. Z is the second of the International Film Series presented by the Friends of the Ann Arbor Sun. Donation is $1.50. One week later on January 15, the series will present the Midwest Premier of "The Promised Land", Chile's first widescreen color epic, completed only months before the military coup. That's at MLB3, 7 & 9pm, also for $1.50.

LOCAL JAMS abound with possibilities for a good time. John Nichols returns from Boston to play at the Blind Pig January 9 and 17. Up and coming jazz ensemble Synergy will also be at the Pig, January 10 & 11. Luther Allison plays Chances Are one night only Sunday January 12, 3 shows. The Human Rights Party is having a benefit at Mr. Rood's Party Sunday January 12, 8.00 pm C & W Diamond Reo will provide the tunes, for a mere $1.00. The Golden Falcon brings you the mime, magic and rock n' roll of The Friends Road Show tor three nights beginning Thursday, January 9. Chicago folk contemporary folk artist John Prine takes on Power Center Thurs., January 16 for $4 a head.

DETROIT MUSIC offers a high-quality variety of musical forms, three of which happen at the Savoy in the Shelby Hotel. Taking off with his inimitable brand of intergalactic jazz is Sun Ra and his Arkestra, Tuesday January 7 through Sunday January 12. Was it really seven years ago that the Turtles recorded "So Happy Together"? Yep, and now they're back from a different angle via Frank Zappa. Flo and Eddie and The Turtles at the Savoy Tuesday January 14-16. Elvin Jones, veteran drummer for scores of prominent jazz innovators including the John Coltrane quartet, along with bassist Richard Davis and tenor sax Joe Farrell will appear at the Savoy as well, Friday January 17-19. For the pop side of music check out Wishbone Ash and Camel at Masonic Auditorium, Wednesday January 15, 7:30 pm.

MARCEL MARCEAU does his inspiring pantomime at the Power Center January 10 through 12. Shows will be at 8pm Friday and Saturday and 3pm on Sunday. The Women's Community Center Coffeehouse will be showing the CBS News Documentary "Women in Prisons" at the Guild House, 802 Monroe St., 7:30pm Saturday January 11.

TUBE TIME . . . Channel 56 is presenting a new series on the People's Republic of China, entitled "One Man's China." The first episode will be broadcast at 9:30pm, Tuesday January 7, and documents China's ability to adequately feed all their population, one quarter of the world's. The second in the series will be on 9:30pm Tuesday January 14, entitled "Eight or Nine in the Morning". Also of interest is the Consumer's Survival Kit "Auto Repairanoia," the basic hows of car repair, and how to beware of rip-off repair shops. You can catch that at 7:30pm, Thursday January 9 on Channel 56. If you're up early in the day, Victor Marchetti, ex-CIA official and co-author of The CIA and the Cult of Intelligence will be a guest on TV2 Eyewitness News, at 7:30am, Thursday January 9.

[photo captions: Elvin Jones at the Savoy, 1/17, and China fees its people 1/7, 9:30pm, Ch. 56]