Wanda'sPicks:Lavinia Currier; Women&GirlsLead; Beverly Lee

1. We open with director Lavinia Currier speaking about OKA!  2. Women & Girls Lead: A Public Media Iniatative to Focus, Educate, and Connect Audiences Worldwide: Shannon Farley, founding Executive Director of Spark, Deborah Holmes, Vice President of Communications for the Global Fund for Women, and  Gini Reticker, an executive producer of Women, War & Peace and directed both Pray the Devil Back to Hell and the third film in the series about Afghanistan, Peace Unveiled. 3. Beverly Lee: The Shirelles featuring Legendary Original Member & Co-founder Beverly Lee, The Originators Of The Girl Group Sound Celebrate Over 50 Years Of Making Music Together, perform, Tue-Sat, 10/18-22, 8 pm, Sun, 10/23, 7pm, $40-47.50. The Shirelles were an American girl group in the early 1960s, and the first to have a No. 1 single on the Billboard Hot 100. Formed in New Jersey in 1958, the quartet went on to release a string of hits. The Shirelles were the first major female vocal group of the rock and roll era, preceding Motown as a crossover phenomenon with white audiences. Unlike The Chantels, who had had their first hit in 1957, they were successful in Britain, first and foremost with "Will You Love Me Tomorrow" (1960).