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* More than a Bakery
* More than a Coffee House
*More than an Ice Cream Shop
* More than a Candy Shop
* More than a place for lunch...
It's a Sweet Dream come true!
Everything is baked fresh on the premises.
Stop in for coffee, lunch or dessert
and see what we have
in store for your
holiday celebrations!
Ask about a complimentary sample.
6558 Telegraph (at Maple)
in the Bloomfield Plaza
(810) 737-8900
64
Hours
Mon-Thurs 7am-11pm
Fri & Sat 7am-midnight
Sunday 10am-lOpm
Instead Of Chinese And A Movie...
LIZ STEVENS SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH NEWS
I
t ain't easy bein' Jewish — es- p.m.; suggested admission, $4.
pecially on Dec. 24, when the Call (313) 833-7900.
world as we know it shuts
down, leaving the Goldmans, GET LOST IN TIME ...
... at the historical houses and
the Bernsteins, the Feinbergs
and the rest of us no choice but farms on the grounds of Green-
to order in Chinese food and sit field Village, which have been
through another painfully cheer- decorated to reflect the traditions
ful Kenny Rogers Yuletide spe- of their era: an 1880s Victorian
farm bedecked in the glitzy trim-
cial.
mings popular at the time and an
Or maybe not.
This Sunday, Dec. 24, finds a 18th-century colonial village that
few empathetic venues keeping shows no signs of holiday frolic
their doors open on the day and since such festivities were then
night before one of the holiest considered pagan.
Inside the Henry Ford Muse-
Christian holidays. And it just
might be the best time to take ad- urn, an elaborate toy-train setup
vantage of shows or exhibits — five trains traveling through
you've been putting off all season. a real candy landscape — caught
Because most of the bars are the attention of talk-show host
shuttered (it's illegal to serve al- Tom Snyder, who featured it on
cohol after 8 p.m. on the 24th), a recent CNBC show.
Hours: 9-5 p.m.; $12.50
and most people are at home
preparing for their family cele- adults/$6.25 kids ages 5-12. Call
brations, good seats are easier to (313) 271-1976.
get, the museums are less crowd-
ed, the day is quieter and calmer TALK TO THE ANIMALS ...
... at the Detroit Zoo's new $8.2
than most — almost charming in
million Wildlife Interpretive
fact.
So don't loll around in your Gallery (WIG). Just opened, it is
the only exhibit of its kind in the
jammies. Take advantage.
country. It's an elaborate,
provocative and educational won-
THINK HIGHER
derland where the relationship
THOUGHTS ...
... at the Detroit Institute of between human and animal is
Arts. The museum's current ma- explored and celebrated.
Housed in the zoo's historic
jor exhibit, Speak to Us of Beau-
ty: The Paintings and Drawings Bird House, WIG boasts a 100-
of Khalil Gibran, consists of 71 seat theater featuring a series of
watercolors, drawings and oil short films produced by Acade-
paintings by the Lebanese-Amer- my Award-winning filmmaker
ican, who emi-
grated to the
United States 100
years ago. Gibran
is best-known in
this country as
author and illus-
trator of the prose
The
poem
Prophet, but he
was also a mas-
terful artist
whose work tran-
scends racial and
religious bound-
aries. The exhibit
illustrates the re-
lationship be-
tween Gibran's
writings and art
and the influence
his bi-cultural
heritage had on Kahlil Gibran, Self Portrait,1911.
both.
And, when you've finished Sue Marx and narrated by seven
transcending with Gibran, you Michigan celebrities such as Tim
can take a more contemporary Allen, Jeff Daniels, Julie Harris
approach to your day with Art and James Earl Jones.
In addition, there are high-tech
Works: The PaineWebber Collec-
tion of Contemporary Masters. interactive exhibits for kids, a 12-
The DIA exhibit features 70 foot long aquarium housing trop-
pieces from artists such as Susan ical-reef fish, art and changing
Rothenberg, Cy Twombly, Andy special exhibits galleries and a
Warhol, Anselm Kiefer and Roy 3,800-square-footbbutterfly/hum-
Mingbird garden. Entry is free
Lichtenstein.
Hours for both exhibits: 11-5 with zoo adiniSSion. Haut's: 10