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Wednesday, March 27, 1991

Good Morning

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ric Johnson has been carving up
guitarists twice his age since his
debut at age 15. In his home town
of Austin, Tex., he's been chosen the
city's best electric guitarist three years
running, and best acoustic guitarist for
six consecutive years. You can check out
Johnson's awe-inspiring blues/rock/jazz
fusion tonight at 86 Street Music Hall.
Tix 280-4444.
You can still pick up tickets for seats
behind the stage for Aussie rockers
INXS at the Coliseum at 7:30 p.m.

YORK

HOLT

□ TONIGHT'S TV

PICK: Stormin' Norman
Schwankopf talks to David Frost about the
Desert Storm campaign at 8 p.m. on Ch. 9.
D ELSEWHERE: Historically, Wednesday has
been jazz night in our town. Over at Hot Jazz
(2120 Main) the club offers· big band sound
each week. The Grunt Gallery (209 East 6th)
has been serving up great sounds every
Wednesday for years. Tonight it's Coat Cooke
Banned featuring Lunar Adventures saxophonist, Coat Cooke. Recently The Glass Slipper
( 185 East 11th) has joined the Wednesday goings-on. Their line-up for tonight is Hoying
Geronimo and Harumba Calzada.

Michael York, curiously
absent from movie screens
lately, is 49 this morning.
Expatriate cellist/conductor
Mstislav Rostropovich, whose
Soviet citizenship was recently
restored by Gorbachev, is 64.
Writer, TV/radio producer,
actor Fletcher Markle is 70.
Journalist and author Simma
Holt turns 69. I've been tearing
my files apart to find a letter

ROSTROPOVICH

Simma recently sent me. Call
me, SH, please.
Exactly 27 years ago today, a
powerful earthquake in Alaska
killed 117 people and caused
damage estimated at $750 million. The effects were felt in
B.C., as well.
This is the 92nd anniversary
of the birth of the 1.,_te Gloria
Swanson, an excuse to repeat
the great line she once got off
about her passport photo: " If I
look like this, I need the trip."
- Chuck Davis