What's Happenin

What's Happenin'

LOCAL MOTION FILM FESTIVAL, an afternoon of evening of movies, takes place Saturday, April 26, at the Friends International Center, 1420 Hill St., with shows at 2 and 8pm. Movies scheduled include the acclaimed children's short The Red Balloon, as well as the ageless humor of Chaplin, W.C. Fields, Laurel & Hardy and the Marx Brothers. Donation is $.50, and all proceeds go to the alternative community funding organization, Local Motion.

MUSIC IN THE YPSI-ANN AREA gets a dose of Detroit jazz for the next few weekends at the Huron Hotel and Lounge when the Lyman Woodard Organization performs Fri. and Sat., April 25 & 25, Thur.-Sat. May 1-3, and the following weekend, May 8-10 ... The Silvertones, those fastpicking, hard blowing hurricanes of love and goodness make it at Mr. Flood's Party, May 2 & 3 . . . Mojo Boogie Band lets it out at the Hill Lounge May 2, 3 and 9 & 10 . . .

THE SAM RIVERS TRIO, featuring bassist Dave Holland and percussionist Barry Altshul, as well as the Roscoe Mitchell Quartet will perform at MSU’s McDonel kiva, in East Lansing. There will be two shows at 8 and 1:30pm on May 1, 2, & 3. Admission is $2.50 . . . There will also be a free open workshop Saturday, May 3 at 2pm in the McDonel kiva . . . At the Stables, also in East Lansing, Ahmad Jamal, Jazz pianist, will perform Monday April 28 thru Saturday May 3; there’ll be a one-nighter for ex-Byrd Roger McQuinn May 4, and Stanley Turrentine will be in to do some smooth cooking May 5-10 . . .

DETROIT JAMS get underway when former members of Cactus, Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels, and the Rockets get together as Ace High and play the Red Carpet Fri and Sat. April 25 & 26 . . . Lonnie Liston Smith, jazz pianist with a resume including Pharoah Sanders, will be at Baker's keyboard Lounge, May 2-6, excluding Monday May 5 . . . Earth Wind & Fire stir it up at Cobo Hall May 2 . . . Circle May 9 for a performance of two legendary guitarists, Jeff Beck and John McLaughlin, together at Masonic Auditorium, for two shows 8 & 10:30. As of press time the 8:00 is sold out.

THE ECOLOGY CENTER OF ANN ARBOR is celebrating the rite of spring with an organic garden opening. On May 3 at the Organic Gardens at Beal and Glacier Way (North Campus), you'll find available garden plots as well as information and workshops on composting, biological insect control and mulching. A wind generator and solar reflector will be on exhibit, tree seedlings and flower seeds will be given away free, as well as organic fertilizers. So get ahead of yourself, and your food bill this summer, and call the Ecology Center at 761-3186 for more information.

MOMMAS OF ANN ARBOR COME TOGETHER . . .On Sunday, May 4, all single mothers interested in forming consciousness raising groups, starting a day care cooperative and in general, getting their children together are urged to attend the first meeting of Ann Arbor MOMMAS, at the Corntree School, 1910 Hill St. Child care will be provided for those attending; please call Julie Emmons at 971-1643 or the Women's Crisis Center so ample plans can be made.

TUBE TIME . . . On Monday, April 28, at 7:30pm Channel 2 brings us the dramatization of the White House Transcripts, including just-like-life actors and actresses. WJBK's press sheet says that the discrepancies which led to the resignation of Nixon will be carefully examined in this special . . . If you missed any of the Political Crisis in America symposium that was held here last week, you can see it again through the wonders of cable television. Thursday, May 1, at 9pm, Victor Marchetti’s speech at Rackham Auditorium will be cablecast, and Friday, May 2 at the same time Mark Lane's address from Hill Auditorium will be shown. All on Cable 3 . . . Memoirs of "All That Meat and No Potatoes," the 2nd Annual Ozone Parade, can be seen Saturday, May 3 at 9pm on Cable 3.