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tress tag for a seminar on hotel-room
destruction, Yo La Tengo makes a
return visit to Detroit, with guest
David Kilgour. As Kaplan told The
Jewish News, "We're not trying to do
anything in that Straight A line; we
like to see where our intuition takes
us." Use your intuition and see Tengo
(pictured are Georgia Hubley, Ira
Kaplan and James McNew) Saturday,
Sept. 20, at the Blind Pig, 208 S.
First, Ann Arbor, doors at 9:30, $10,
(313) 996-8555; or Monday, Sept. 22,
at the Magic Stick, above the
Majestic, 4120 Woodward, Detroit,
doors at 9, $10, (313) 833-POOL.
scene of new exhibits and light
refreshments as the Detroit Art
Dealers Association presents a gallery
crawl 6-10 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 20.
Call (248) 988-1112 for details.
Ann Arbor's Detroit Street Gallery
hosts its first exhibition, running
through Oct. 31, featuring Barry
Avedon's paintings and drawings,
James Sandall's photographs, and
Karen Izenberg's paintings and col-
lages. Opening reception 7-11 p.m.
Friday, Sept. 26, at the gallery, 417 .
Detroit St., Ann Arbor. Call (313)
994-0291.
Whatnot
The Midwest Antiquarian and
Collectible Book Fair will be held
9:30-5:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday,
Sept. 19 and 20, on the first floor of
the Main Library, 5201 Woodward
Ave., in the University Cultural
Center. Call (313) 833-4084.
Springfield Oaks County Park hosts
the 12th annual Hot Air Balloon
Festival Friday-Sunday, Sept. 19-21.
Call (248) 8830.
Internationally renowned chef and
cookbook author Julia Child will sign
copies of her cookbook, Baking with
Julia, 2 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 21, at
Hudson's Marketplace, Somerset,
Troy., Call (248) 816-4736.
Margaret Wise Brown's Goodnight
Moon turns 50 years old and Barnes
& Noble celebrates with a storytime
pajama party 10 a.m. Monday, Sept.
22, and 7 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 23.
6800 Orchard Lake Road, West
Blomfield. (248) 626-6804.
"Author, Author," a program for
writers, features romance novelists Jill
Gregory and Karen Katz on "Writing
the Romance Novel." 7-9:30 p.m.
Tuesday, Sept. 23. $20. Southfield
Centre for the Arts, 24350 Southfield
Road, Southfield. Call (248) 424-
9042.
The Building Industry Association
of Southeastern
Michigan hosts the
Fall Remodeling
Show Thursday-
Sunday, Sept. 25-28,
at the Novi Expo
Center, at 1-96 and
Novi Road. Call
(248) 737-4478.
Elayne Boosler
Funny Woman
Elayne Boosler, a regular on the
comedy circuit, has appeared in clubs,
in one-woman specials and in numer-
ous television appearances with David
Letterman, Jay Leno and Larry King.
And now, she brings her special brand
of humor — much of it poking fun at
what it means to be a Jewish woman
in the '90s — to a benefit perfor-
mance for Kadima, the nonprofit,
nonsectarian mental health agency
which offers residential, counseling
and supported employment services to
adults with psychiatric disabilities.
Boosler will appear 7:30 p.m.
Thursday, Sept 25, at Orchestra Hall
in Detroit. Admission is $75. Other
giving categories are available. For
more information, call (248) 559-
8235.
It Takes
Three To Tengo
Pamped up by their hilarious new
video "Sugarcube," in which Ira
Kaplan enthusiastically rips off a mat-
Glass Act
Les Enfants Terribles, one of
renowned composer and performance
artist Philip Glass' experimental
music pieces based on the work of
French avant-garde writer Jean
For one night only at the Music Hall,
350 Madison, Detroit. 8 p.m.
Tuesday, Sept. 23. $36.50-$46.50.
Call (313) 963-2366.
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"I don't want knowledge, I want
certainty," sings David Bowie, age 50,
on "Law (Earthlings of Fire)," a song
on this year's Earthling album.
Concert goers who attend his
Earthling World Tour '97 concert per-
formance either Sunday, Sept. 21 (sold
out), or Monday, Sept. 22, can be cer-
tain to find the consummate musical
chameleon in yet another new phase:
"I wanted to couple my hard-rock
band with a melody-driven jungle
subtext," he says. In another change,
Bowie's recorded an entirely new
acoustic-based version of "I Can't
Read" that will appear in the forth-
coming film The Ice Storm, set to open
the New York Film Festival on Sept.
26. 6:30 doors/show at 8. $32.50.
The State Theatre, 2111 Woodward,
next to the Fox, Detroit. Call (313)
961-5450.
David Bowie
Les Enfants Terribles
Cocteau, forms the basis of the third
installment of the trilogy of
music/theater works that began with
Orphee and continued with La Belle
et la Bete. While in those works, film
and opera were combined to create a
hybrid form, for Les Enfants, Glass
invited choreographer Susan Marshall
to create a dance/opera where singers
and dancers share the stage. Les
Enfants is the story of a
young brother and sister
caught in a complex and
isolated world of their
own imaginations. "If
Orphee is Cocteau's tale
of transcendence and La
Belle et la Bete is his
romance, then Les
Enfants Terribles is his
tragedy," explains Glass.
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