Blue Nile is true to
its roots.

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, Star-Studded entertainment in a world-class theatre

FESTIVAL OF THE NILE

Sunday, March 19, 3 p.m.

Adult $20...Student/Senior Citizen $18

An extraordinary event that captures the full range of Egypt's rich cultural diversity in
music, song and dance, featuring Egyptian performers and old instruments.

Sponsored by

.The Blue Nile Ilestaurant6,

Also Enjoy An

ETHIOPIAN FEAST

Immediately following the performance

Dinner Only $15

Sample the greatest foods of Ethiopia! Detroit's finest Ethiopian restaurant, The Blue Nile
Restaurant, and owner Seifu Lessanework, will provide a variety of delicious native foods
and beverages for your enjoyment.

All proceeds will benefit the Macomb Center for the Performing Arts Endowment Fund.

Special Price $30 Show and Dinner

Coming Attractions:

• February 26: New York City Opera National Company, 'The Barber of Seville"
• March 3: Othello
• March 4: Flying Karamazov Brothers
• March 24: Hubbard Street Dance Chicago
• Soupy Sales

For ticket information or a free brochure
call the Box Office at (810) 286-2222 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday thru Friday
Group sales are available at (810) 286-2268

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MACOMB CENTER HALL (M-59) AND GARFIELD ROAD,

For The Performing Arts

ONE MILE EAST OF LAKESIDE MALL

A Community Service Program of Macomb Community College

DIRECT FROM THE ISRAELI FILM FESTIVAL

Coffee with Lemon

Moscow-Jerusalem

From the Land of Snow to the Land of Sun
Russian and Hebrew with English Subtitles

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 19TH 8:00 P.M.

at the

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Woodward, just north of 9 Mile
Fashionable Ferndale
Box Office: (810) 544-3030
Full Bar • Free Parking
No Admission Charge
Limit 4 tickets/person

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Presented by

THE (0t111-riAbbOW
CENTER MR
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FEBRU ARY

three years before leaving to open ball player at Northern. He was
in Trapper's Alley.
also a great player at Wayne. His
Blue Nile at its present second credentials have been sent to the
floor locale in Greektown's Trap- Jewish Sports Han of Fame for
per's Alley, seats 80 in four small review. I have played with and
intimate rooms with their very against Chucky as well as some
neat ambiances ... Upon enter- of the guys you mentioned and
ing the restaurant, customers see he was up there with the best."
the gift Chuck Muer gave Seifu
CHOCOLATE CHIP pie is a
on his opening ... a lavish chan- favorite dessert at Sara's Glatt
delier from Chuck's Grand Con- Kosher restaurant in Southfield
course in Pittsburg.
on Greenfield and 10 Mile.
All chairs and tables are from
BUSINESS DEPT. ... After
Ethiopia, surrounded by copies 11 years as buyer and store man-
of painting engravings of the ager of Valentina's in Southfield,
1800s in that country.
Arlene Greer has moved on to a
It is only open for dinner ... new post with another full-fig-
seven evenings a week ... Mon- ured lassies operation ... She is
day through Thursday, 3 p.m. to now consultant at Forgotten
10 p.m.; Friday and Saturday, 4 Women in Birmingham.
p.m. to 11 p.m.; and Sunday, 3
MOSCOW STRING Quartet
p.m. to 9 p.m.
that'll be presented by Lyric
A second Blue Nile by Seifu is Chamber Ensemble and hosted
located in Ann Arbor on Braun by Congregation Shaarey Zedek
Court, between Fourth and 3:30 p.m. Feb. 26 is all-female ...
Catherine ... operated by his sis- The four gals, two violins, viola
ter, Almaz Lessanework.
and cello, are graduates of the
There is a certain charm about Moscow Conservatory ... $18 and
Ethiopian dining ... Not only $15 tickets, with a $2 discount for
does it offer folks a rare opportu- seniors and students ... Russian-
nity to enjoy one of civilization's themed afterglow following the
oldest cultures, but the health concert will be at the home of
Marjorie and Saul Saulson $75
... For tickets and info about the
concert and afterglow, call 357-
1111.
GET WELL wishes ... to Sam
"Naughty" Finegood ... to Art
Plotkin.
ANOTHER "too big" to han-
dle story is the closing of Po-
and taste aspects have made reg- modoro Italian eatery on 12 Mile,
ular customers out of many between Farmington Road and
whose curiosity and need to try Drake ... Trouble wasn't the food,
something different have turned it didn't come too much better
the Blue Nile into a come-back than that put out by former Culi-
nary Olympics gold medalist
discovery.
Each meal is a delightful ex- owner/chef Joe Beato ... His
perience ... Since Ethiopians are crowded Il Centro restaurant,
on a meat-free diet for several which is still going strong on
weeks during the year, many Lothrup, behind the Fisher The-
nourishing and tasty vegetarian atre, would take up just a section
meals have been developed by of his former Pomodoro.
HISTORIC Botsford Inn is
them ... Simple dishes like lentil
and split pea or cabbage sauteed jumping with jive every Thurs-
with onions, among others, take day evening through February
on a new identity as part of the ... That's when the Jack Bro-
kensha Quartet swings its jazz
Ethiopian cuisine.
What Seifu Lessanework has rhythms ... Plus Jack on vibes
accomplished at the Blue Nile is are pianist, composer, arranger,
more than just the presentation conductor, etc. Matt Michaels;
of an adventure or experience ... bassist Danny Jordan; and drum-
Observation, participation and mer Jerry McKenzie ... Matt
knowledge of a culture have re- presently is also director of jazz
sulted in the acceptance of a won- studies at Wayne State Univer-
sity.
derful dining success.
Bet this kind of music wasn't
CONGRATS ... to Harry Ko-
robkin ... on his 80th birthday ... played when Henry Ford court-
ed wife-to-be Clara in the same
to his wife, Shirley Korobkin
on her 75th birthday ... to Helen Botsford Inn ballroom years back
Zimmerman, wintering in Pom- ... Admission is $5 per person
pano Beach, Fla. ... on her 75th and two-drink per person mini-
mum.
birthday.
MAIL DEPT. ... from Harry
PASTA, STEAK Diane and
Lipsitz "I am in Florida now other flaming dishes are big notes
for the winter, but I had to write at Giorgio's little counterside din-
about your article in the Jan. 13, ing on Greenfield and Lincoln (10
1995, paper. You forgot Charles 1/2 Mile) in Oak Park ... But
`Chucky' Frankel. He is not as old gathering a lot of palate atten-
as most of the guys you men- tion is the 12 to 14 ounce white
tioned. He went to Alger, North- fish sauteed with lemon butter
ern and Wayne. He was an and dry vermouth ... quite a full
outstanding basketball and base- dinner buy at $8.50.

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