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THE ARTS

Museum’s Satellite Plans: Highland Park’s Southwest Museum, known for its vast collection of Native American art and artifacts, on Wednesday announced plans for a second museum site in Santa Barbara. The satellite would be near the city’s waterfront in the proposed 18-acre Cabrillo Plaza complex, which would also include a maritime museum and aquarium, and an IMAX theater and auditorium. “The extraordinary breadth and quality of the Southwest Museum’s collections . . . make it possible for us to develop a first-class American Indian museum in Santa Barbara,” said Thomas E. Holliday, the museum’s board president. “A second Southwest Museum facility would allow us to reach new audiences, expand our educational mission and display a greater proportion of our magnificent collections.” Officials of the museum, founded in 1907, previously investigated opening a similar satellite facility in the Palm Desert area. The entire Cabrillo Plaza proposal, including the Southwest Museum site, goes before the Santa Barbara City Council on Tuesday.

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‘Tenors’ Encore: KCET-TV Channel 28 will bring the “Three Tenors” concert back to the air tonight at 8, with a repeat broadcast of Saturday’s Dodger Stadium program. A spokeswoman for KCET said the broadcast, which was not planned to repeat again until August, was brought “back by popular demand.” However, the station will also use tonight’s airing as a fund-raiser, since Sunday’s two broadcasts have already brought in a record $571,000 in audience pledges. The performance will still repeat in August.

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Playhouse’s Season: The Pasadena Playhouse has announced a winter/spring season consisting of “Radio Gals,” a ‘20s tale from Mike Craver and Mark Hardwick, creators of “Pump Boys and Dinettes” and “Oil City Symphony.” “Radio Gals” is scheduled for Jan. 15-Feb. 19; Tom Dulack’s Mafia comedy “Breaking Legs,” March 19-April 23, and Frederick Knott’s “Dial ‘M’ for Murder,” May 14-June 18. Playhouse officials hope subscriber responses will help them through a financial crisis. The city of Pasadena last week loaned the Playhouse $200,000 to sustain its cash flow until subscription renewals come in.

TELEVISION

New Cartoons: Warner Bros. has ordered 65 episodes of “The Sylvester & Tweety Mysteries,” the first new cartoons featuring the classic characters to be produced in more than three decades. “Sylvester & Tweety,” along with a new animated series from director Steven Spielberg called “Freakazoid!” and Spielberg’s already existing cartoon “Animaniacs,” will be featured in “Kids WB,” a new programming block scheduled to launch in September of 1995 on the nascent WB Television Network. “Freakazoid!,” Spielberg’s first animated action adventure, is about a small-town teen who is transformed into a hip super-hero after an accident in a school science lab. In “The Sylvester & Tweety Mysteries,” the two characters will traverse the world as they attempt to solve great mysteries. Three additional cartoon series will be announced later. Last week, Warner Bros. licensed several of its older cartoons, including “Alvin & the Chipmunks” and Spielberg’s “Tiny Toons Adventures,” to cable’s Nickelodeon.

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Save the Dates: ABC will premiere “SHE TV,” an hourlong comedy-variety series with a “female voice” at 10 p.m. on Aug. 16. The series features a cast of newcomers plus celebrity guest stars. Also on ABC, “My So-Called Life,” an hourlong drama from the creators of “thirtysomething” about life through the eyes of a 15-year-old girl, premieres at 8 p.m. on Aug. 25.

PEOPLE WATCH

Stones Deja Vu: The lines started forming outside the 1,200-capacity RPM Club in Toronto at 8 a.m. Tuesday in anticipation of a surprise performance by the Rolling Stones. The fans were rewarded 14 hours later with a rollicking, 15-song set, ranging from such early hits as “Street Fighting Man” and “Tumbling Dice” to five songs from the group’s new “Voodoo Lounge” album. “It was a dream come true,” said Thomas Duncan, 19, after the show. “Seeing them in a place this small must have been like seeing the Stones back when they were getting started.” The band too must have thought that the show--a warm-up for a stadium tour that begins Aug. 1 in Washington, D.C.--was reminiscent of the wild ‘60s days. Among the items hurled at the group in the room’s sweltering heat: three bras.

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Caan Investigated: Police said they are investigating claims against actor James Caan that surfaced late Tuesday when a woman filed a lawsuit alleging that Caan beat and choked her at the Century City Inn earlier this year. Leesa Anne Roland, who says she began dating Caan in early 1993, claims in her lawsuit that Caan punched her several times, “picked her up by the neck with both of his hands, choking her . . . and threw her into the hallway.” In March, Caan was booked for investigation of brandishing a weapon during an argument. He hasn’t been charged but faces a city attorney’s hearing next week.

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More on Jackson/Presley Rumors: From TV talk-show host David Letterman’s Top 10 list of “Things Overheard at the Michael Jackson/Lisa Marie Presley Wedding”: 10. “Family to the left, plastic surgeons to the right”; 7. “I’ll have to ask you to check your snake at the door, La Toya”; 6. “I’m sorry, I can’t find a Brooke Shields on the guest list, ma’am”; 4. “I got you some his-and-hers towels. Split ‘em up however you like”; 2. “Ahhh! The ghost of Elvis is eating all the cake--oh, it’s just Liz Taylor”, and 1. “I just heard on the Weather Channel--hell froze over.”