Organist Karel Paukert and trumpetist Jonathan Fields will perform Mar. 30 at the Cleveland Museum of Art. The concert is part of the Curator's recitals and will feature festive music for trumpet and organ. The performance starts at 2 p.m. For more information call (216) 421-7340.

Authors Judith P. Hallet and Thomas Van Nortwick will discuss their new book, Compromising Traditions Mar. 29 at the Co-op Bookstore. A book signing will follow. The talk begins at 4 p.m. For more information, call (216) 774-3741.

Anne Frank in the World 1929-1945 will be honored with an opening reception from 5:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at the Cleveland Playhouse. Hannah Pick-Goslar, a close childhood friend of Frank's, recalls personal accounts of the pair's childhood. Reception is $15 for students. For more information call (216) 752-3000.

The Cleveland Museum of Art presents a showing of The Ascent (USSR, 1976, b&w, subtitles) Mar. 30 at 3:30 p.m. Directed by Larissa Shepitko, the WWII drama and religious allegory is just one of several excellent films by this Berlin Film Festival grand prize winner. Admission is $5. For more information, call (216) 421-7340, ext. 263.

A Pop Art gallery talk, led by Ginger Spivey, will be hosted at the Cleveland Museum of Art on Mar. 27. The discussion will be led off at 2:30 p.m. The talk will also take place on Mar. 30 at 1:30 p.m. For more information, call (216) 421-7340.

The Cleveland Cinematheque will host a showing of Small Faces, a film by Raul Ruiz, on Apr. 3. The show begins at 7:15 p.m. Also on that date, Dadetown, dubbed "Scathingly clever," by the NY Times. That show starts at 9:15 p.m. and will also be showing the following evening. Admission to each movie is $3 for students. For more information call (216) 421-7450.

Also not to be missed at the Cinematheque is the annual Animania `97. While half of the festival is sadly over with, tonight's inclusions are: Wallace & Gromit: The Best of Aardman Animation at 7 p.m., Seventh Annual Medicine Wheel Animation Festival at 8:30 p.m. and Spike and Mike's Sick and Twisted Festival of Animation 1996 at 10 p.m. Mar. 29's showings include a second showing of Wallace & Gromit at 7 p.m., Betty Boop Confidential at 8:30 p.m. and another showing of the Spike and Mike flick at 10:15 p.m. Admission to each show is $3 for students. For more information call (216) 421-7430.

Cake and Babe the Blue Ox put on a show tonight at Agora in Cleveland. Tickets available through your pals at Ticktetmaster. The number to call is (216) 241-5555.

For the die-hard late-80s rock fans, you're in luck Great White visit Peabody's Down Under Mar. 29. For more information, call (216) 241-2604.

Sure to be a wild hard-core show, Sick of It All, Snapcase and AFI come to Agora Mar. 30. Tickets available through Ticketmaster at (216) 241-5555.

And, returning to Ohio once again, punk-folkster Ani DiFranco will play the Lakewood Civic Auditorium Apr. 3. Tickets available through Ticketmaster. Call (216) 241-5555.

Arts...Out of Town is compiled weekly by Lauren Viera. If you know of any press worthy non-Oberlin events taking place in the coming weeks, give Lauren a call at x8123. Heck, it could be the start of your new career as a publicist.