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Movies Live Music WEEKEND SCENE Rudder Theater — Thursday 7:30 and 9:45 p.m., The Golden Voyage of Sinbad, 601 Rudder Friday and Saturday 7:30 p.m. and midnight, National Lampoon's Animal House Sunday 7:30 p.m., Seven Brides for Seven Brothers Cinema I & II — American Gigolo Coal Miner's Daughter Friday and Saturday Midnight: The Day the Music Died Call 846-6714 for times Campus Theater — And Justice For All Friday and Saturday Midnight: Rocky Horror Picture Show Call 846-6512 for times Manor East III — Tom Horn Little Darlings Cruising Friday and Saturday Midnight: The Fog Call 823-8300 for times Backstage Restaurant — Thursday 9 p.m.-midnight, Jazz, cover charge $1.50. Friday 9 p.m.-midnight, Triple Play, cover charge $1. Saturday 9 p.m.-midnight, Steve Mahar, cover charge 750. Basement Coffeehouse — Friday and Saturday 8 p.m.-l 2:30 a.m., The Bees Knees, a jazz-rock band from Dallas, admission $3.50. Cell Block Five — Thursday and Friday 8 p.m.-midnight and Satur day 9 p.m.-l a.m., Madison Express, country-western, cover charge $3 for guys and $2 for girls all three nights. Chelsea Street — Thursday 8:30 p.m.-midnight, no cover charge, Friday 8:30 p.m.-midnight and Saturday 9 p.m.-1 a.m., Southern Brothers, cover charge $1. Grins Beer Garden — Thursday, Friday 8:30 p.m.-midnight and Saturday 9 p.m.-l a.m., Kiwi, cover charge $3. Lakeview Club — Thursday 8 p.m.-midnight, Dennis Ivey and the Waymen, cover charge $2. Rosewood Junction — Thursday 8 p.m.-midnight, no cover, Friday and Saturday 8:30 p.m.-1 a.m., Elmo & Patsy, cover charge $1. Texas Hall of Fame — Thursday 8 p.m.-midnight, the Debonaires, cover charge $2. Friday 9 p.m.-1 a.m., Dennis Ivey and the Waymen, cover charge $2. Saturday 9 p.m.-l a.m., Bill Green and the Texas Greats, with special guest, John Wesley Ryles, cover charge $4. TJ’s Whiskey Bar — Friday and Saturday 8:30 p.m.-1 a.m., Fine Line, cover charge $3 or $2 with TAMU i.d. TEXAS EVENTS Austin Special Events Center: 1701 Red River Thurs day, April 24, the Ice Capades will open at the Center. They will give six performances, through Sunday, April 27. Tickets are $5, $6 and $7. Wednesday, April 30, Linda Ronstadt will per form. Accompanying her on vocals will be Wen dy Waldman, with Billy Payne, formerly of Little Feat, on keyboards. Danny Kortchmar, a guitar player from the West Coast, will open the show. Tickets, available at the SEC's North Terrace Box Office, will be $7.50, $9 and $10. Tickets went on sale March 30. (512) 477-6060. Thursday, May 1, Smokey Robinson, the Motown legend, will appear at 8 p.m. Robinson will play hits from his last two releases. "Warm Thoughts" and "Where There's Smoke,” plus songs from his early days of Smokey Robinson and the Miracles. SportsFest: The 1980 Austin SportsFest. the annual spring sports festival, will feature as second weekend attractions Southwest Senior Swimming Championships, WalkFest, South ern National Flying Disc Championships, Celeb rity Allstar Canoe Race, the first annual Sport sFest Hall of Honor and many other events. For a free SportsFest brochure with a schedule of events, write: SportsFest, P.O. Box 1967D, Au stin Chamber of Commerce, Austin, Texas. (512) 478-9893. Houston Exhibit: The Board of Trustees and the Director of The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, are present ing an exhibit of "Master Drawings and Waterco- lors of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries," from the Baltimore Museum of Art. It will be located at the Andrews Gallery. A preview of the exhibit will be Thursday, May 1, from 8-10 p.m. Sale: On May 30-31, the 5th annual Western Herit age Sale will be held on the front lawn of the Shamrock. Friday there will be a public exhibit of the 25 select Santa Gertrudis bulls, heifers and pairs and 26 Quarter Horses in tents from 10 a.m.-7 p.m., and again on Saturday from 9 a.m.- 1 p.m. The highlight of the Saturday livestock exhibit will be a demonstration of an embryo transplant in horses and cattle at 10:30 a.m. The public is invited to attend the free exhibits and the demonstration. For more information con tact: Joe Marchman, 1416 Ave. K, Plano, Texas, 75074, (214) 424-6605. Elsewhere Huntsvllla: The Texas Department of Corrections will hold its Annual Inmate Fine Arts Festival and Sidewalk Art Show, May 3, 1980. The Festival will be held in the Administration Building lo cated on 11 th Street and Avenue I, in Huntsville, Texas. Events will be scheduled from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. The general public is invited, no admission charge. Kerrvllle: Over 200 artists have been chosen to exhibit their artwork for the Texas State Arts & Crafts Fair, May 24-26 in Kerrville. Hours of the fair are Saturday and Sunday, 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.; Monday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Ticket prices are $2 a day for adults and $1 for children under 12 years old. A special three-day admission pass provid ing unlimited access to the fairgrounds during regular fair hours may be purchased for $7 for adults and $3.50 for children. Concurrent with the Texas State Arts & Crafts Fair will be the Kerrville Folk Festival, May 22-26. It will be held at the outdoor theater at Quiet Valley Ranch, nine miles south of Kerrville on Highway 16. Entertainment will include five evening con certs, a children's "singing circus,” a “great har monica blow-off,” and other activities. Round Top: A spring benefit will highlight weekend activities on Festival Hill at Round Top. The April benefit, April 26-27, will feature two pianists, Jeannette Haien and James Dick. The program will feature works for four hands by Beethoven, Samuel Barber and Vincent Persichetti. Per formances will begin at 4 p.m. each day. Pro ceeds will benefit the 1980 Scholarship Fund of the Festival Institute. Magnolia: The Texas Renaissance Festival for the 1980 season is holding auditions for Royal Countenances: Kings, Queens and other assorted royalty; and other non-royalty such as grave robbers, beggars, witches, dwarfs, belly dancers, giants and many others. On April 26- 27, open auditions will be held at the Festival site, 45 miles north of Houston, near Magnolia. For more information, call E.W. Forbes, (713) 524-0409.