ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT REPORTS FROM THE TIMES, NEWS SERVICES AND THE NATION’S PRESS.

POP MUSIC

Jill Scott Receives Three Soul Train Awards

Newcomer Jill Scott captured three awards, including entertainer of the year, at the seventh annual Soul Train Lady of Soul Awards. Several entertainers at Tuesday night’s event dedicated their performances and awards to up-and-coming singer Aaliyah, who was killed with eight others in a plane crash in the Bahamas on Saturday.

“I know, with her talent, she would’ve gotten this award too,” Patti LaBelle said as she dedicated her Lena Horne Award for outstanding career achievement to the young star’s memory.

Aaliyah, 22, was nominated for rhythm & blues, soul or rap song of the year but lost to Yolanda Adams.

Scott’s “A Long Walk” won two solo artist awards: R&B;/soul single and R&B;/soul or rap new artist.

The program, taped at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, is to be broadcast Sunday at 5 p.m. on KTLA-TV.

Hip-Hop Artists Sue Pasadena Police

Two artists involved in a melee at the Source Hip Hop Music Awards at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium last year sued the show’s sponsors, the city of Pasadena and the Pasadena Police Department on Tuesday, alleging inadequate security measures and civil rights violations.

The Los Angeles Superior Court complaint was filed on behalf of David Blake, who goes by the stage name DJ Qui, and Crawford Wilkerson, who goes by the name High-C.

The pair claim that “unnecessary force” was used by the police and that they were “falsely imprisoned and handcuffed.” They ask for medical expenses, restitution of lost earnings and compensation for pain and suffering.

Pasadena police declined comment, and Source Publications--which publishes the Source magazine--could not be reached.

THE ARTS

Kids Take Advantage of Free Museum Passes

The number of children visiting museums and art galleries in the United Kingdom has risen 20% since the abolition of entry charges in April 1999, Prime Minister Tony Blair’s government reports. “No child should be excluded from our national institutions because of the price of a ticket,” said Culture Secretary Tessa Jowell. The government is expected to expand the free access policy to adults.

QUICK TAKES

E! will premiere a half-hour special, “Aaliyah: A Life Cut Short,” at 7 tonight, including an interview with Gladys Knight, the singer’s aunt.... Naomi Campbell, Katherine Helmond and Daphne Zuniga will take over “The Vagina Monologues” at the Canon Theater, Sept. 11-30....Janet Jackson, who is expected to play the Arrowhead Pond on Sept. 29 and Staples Center on Oct. 2, postponed a sell-out concert on her All for You tour at Philadelphia’s First Union Center Tuesday night. Her promoters said the 35-year-old singer is battling influenza .... Oprah Winfrey will take calls on “Larry King Live” Tuesday at 6 p.m.... Costume designer Bob Mackie and Dick Cook, chairman of Walt Disney Motion Picture Group, are among the honorary chairs of the “Hollywood Comes to Pasadena” gala on Sept. 22. The event, which pays tribute to the relationship between the two cities, kicks off an exhibit on the subject at the Pasadena Historical Museum....Actor-director Billy Bob Thornton will be going on tour after Sept. 25, when his new CD “Private Radio” arrives in stores. He’ll play Los Angeles’ El Rey Theatre on Oct. 29.