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*indicates a performance as part of Solid Week of Dance 2006. Senior Dance Socials 55 or older? Join the fun with dance instructors on hand and music by the Ham Carson Quartet.

TOKYO -- Sony`s PlayStation 3 made its debut in Japan to long lines on Saturday, marking the first launch of the video game console that`s expected to become a global sellout.

Highlights-and otherwise-from this week`s music calendar.

Having dumped its celebrated new music series — the Monday Evening Concerts — this season, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art is now left trying to reinvent the wheel. It did so clumsily in the first of its new Art & Music concerts Thursday night. But I have good news to report. The spirit of MEC survives and possibly thrives.

Agent Scott Boras, who has negotiated 10 contracts worth at least $60 million, and his staff have done the groundwork preparing for this year`s free-agent class. His free-agent clientele is topped by Barry Zito, and also includes Japanese pitcher Daisuke Matsuzaka.

Apple`s "Get a Mac" campaign has been unleashed on Japan, with Japanese actors taking the place of John "I`m a PC" Hodgman and Justin "I`m a Mac" Long. Apple Japan has posted three commercials on its Web site, each "an almost exact translation" of the first three "Get a Mac" commercials launched in the U.S