THE ARTS

Christo Takes on Reichstag: Following a sharp, 90-minute debate, the German Parliament voted Friday to allow the artist Christo, who in 1991 dotted California’s hills with giant blue and yellow umbrellas, to wrap the Reichstag, the once and future seat of German Parliament, in silvery cloth. Christo, who previously wrapped Paris’ Pont Neuf, has been trying for 23 years to get permission for a “Wrapped Reichstag.” The 100-year-old building, which sat on the border between West and East Berlin before unification in 1990, was the home of Germany’s first democratic parliament in 1919. Christo plans a two-week Reichstag spectacle for spring, 1995, just before workers begin refurbishing the building for Parliament to move back into it in 1998.

* La La La Reschedules, Again: Hoping that the third time is a charm, La La La Human Steps, the acclaimed Montreal-based dance company that has twice postponed scheduled performances here because of a chiropractic injury sustained by principal dancer Louise Lecavalier in October, is now set to appear March 24 and 25 at the Wiltern Theatre. The company’s first L.A. appearance in six years will feature the American premiere of “Infante-C’est Destroy,” a work combining dance, live rock music and film.

* Playhouse Season Set: A drama about the 1962 Cuban missile crisis, Robert McElwaine’s “The Titans,” will join two familiar titles on the fall season at the Pasadena Playhouse. The season opens July 17 with Amanda McBroom’s musical revue “Heartbeats,” which was seen at the Matrix Theatre in 1986 and the Old Globe in 1990. “The Titans” rolls in on Sept. 18, to be followed by a revival of “The Lion in Winter” Nov. 13.

RADIO & TV

Indecency Case Settled: The Federal Communications Commission will issue guidelines explaining its ban on indecency in broadcasts as part of a settlement with Evergreen Media Corp., the owner of Chicago radio station WMVP (formerly known as WLUP-AM). As part of the settlement, the FCC will drop its claims of indecency and $39,750 in fines against the station. Evergreen, meanwhile, will pay $10,000 to the government without admitting any wrongdoing, and dismiss its counterclaim challenging the constitutionality of the FCC’s enforcement of indecency standards. The case has been closely watched in the industry because WLUP-AM was the first station to take its protest over the indecency standards to court.

* Audience Member Sues: A woman who claims she was pushed off a stage riser at a taping of Arsenio Hall’s talk show when singer Prince was the featured guest has sued both entertainers and the show’s producers. Elizabeth Diamante states that she was among several audience members who accepted Prince’s invitation to join him onstage at the end of the Feb. 25, 1993, taping. Her L.A. Superior Court lawsuit alleges that she was severely injured when two “security bouncer types” knocked her onto her back.

POP/ROCK

Blind Melon Singer Charged: Richard Shannon Hoon, the 26-year-old lead singer of the rock group Blind Melon, will be arraigned Monday on charges of battery, assaulting a police officer, resisting arrest, disturbing the peace and destroying telephone equipment. The charges, filed in Los Angeles Thursday, stemmed from a Feb. 7 incident at the American Music Awards show, in which Hoon allegedly punched a security guard at the Shrine Auditorium, tried to kick out the window of a police car, tore a telephone off a wall and spat twice on a detective. On that show, Blind Melon lost out on the best new artist award to the Stone Temple Pilots. On Tuesday’s Grammy Awards, Blind Melon is up for the same award; Stone Temple Pilots is not.

BENEFITS

‘Achey Quakey’ Aid: Helen Hunt, Tyne Daly, Mesach Taylor, Gregory Harrison, Carol Channing, Bruce Davison, Debby Boone, Stephanie Zimbalist and Stephanie Powers are among the headliners set for “The Achey Quakey Benefit: An Evening of Music, Merriment and Shakey Stories,” planned for 8 p.m. tonight on the Paramount Pictures lot at 5555 Melrose Ave., Hollywood. Proceeds will go to the nonprofit Dreams to Reality Foundation, which is establishing a grant program for small businesses affected by the Jan. 17 earthquake. Tickets are $37.50, $75 and $150, and must be purchased through Theatix at (213) 466-1767.

QUICK TAKES

Because of the large crowds attending the exhibition, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art has extended its hours for the exhibition “Picasso and the Weeping Women: The Years of Marie-Therese Walter and Dora Maar.” For that exhibition only, the museum will be open on Tuesdays from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., and will be open on Saturdays and Sundays from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. . . . A Los Angeles Superior Court judge has thrown out a claim by Roseanne Arnold’s sister, Geraldine Barr, that she was entitled to half of Arnold’s professional income. . . . Actor Jim Nabors, who underwent a liver transplant Feb. 7 and was expected to be hospitalized for a month, was released ahead of schedule from UCLA Medical Center in good condition and is now recuperating at home.