%laud"
*6-
RESTAURANT & LOUNGE
EXCELLENT HUNGARIAN,
AND EUROPEAN CUISINE
APPETIZERS
• Broiled Garlic Shrimp
• Roasted Red Peppers with feta cheese
and olives
ENTREES
• Hungarian Goulash
• Grilled Lemon Pepper Salmon
• Chicken Paprikas
• Wiener Schnitzel
• Cabbage Rolls
DESSERT
• Homemade Hot Apple
• Strudel with French vanilla ice cream
• Rum Torte
• Dobos Torte
Strolling Gypsy Musicians
Closed Mondays
1235 Ottawa Street • Windsor
5 mins. from Tunnel • U.S. Exchange
For Reservations
1-800-963-1903
or (519) 252-0246
(mg*
t Side --,
Gt
The Chefs
formerly of Giorgio's & Peter's K
"'. 7:77,77:77 "77:77::7:77::71
(248) 626-3722 • OPEN DAILY
from 8 p.m.-9 p.m.
6393 Farmington Road
(Next to the Sports Club) • West Bloomfield
LUNCH BUFFET
Saturday & Sunday
$5.95
LUNCH PLATTERS
Vegetarian
Non-vegetarian
$3.50
$3.99
• Top quality catering and party planning is
Salaam Bombay's main specialty.
• In house catering holds up to 40 people.
-
•Competitive catering prices for
banquets,weddings, graduations, family events,
and other occasions.
TUES. SAT. Noon-8 p.m • SUN. Noon-8 p.m.
• MON. Closed
-
12/19
1997
126
5564 DRAKE ROAD
WEST BLOOMFIELD 48322
248-788-5131
Mixed Media
News 6- Reviews.
CURTAIN CALL
Lori Jacobs, no stranger to the the-
ater, soon will bring a musical message
about strangers to a Birmingham
stage: "Don't talk to strangers; they're
not all forest rangers."
The mes-
sage comes
packaged for
the holidays
as one of the
songs in the
new musical
Jacobs has
written for
the Village
Players of
Birmingham.
ology and exhibition curator.
"For Jews who could afford it,
commissioned portraits of themselves
and of their wives and children consti-
tuted a significant affirmation of their
right to belong."
In the exhibition book, Facing the
— Suzanne Chessler
Little Red
HANGING
Riding Hood
AROUND
will be per-
Two paintings, each
formed 4, 6
from a different near-
and 8 p.m.
by museum, are on
on New Year's
loan to the Jewish
Eve. Children
Museum in New York
Lori Jacobs' Little Red Riding Hood"
under 10,
will be performed by the Village Players
for its exhibit "Facing
accompanied
on New Year's Eve.
the New World:
by an adult,
Jewish Portraits in
get in for free;
Colonial and Federal
everyone else
America."
pays $5 per ticket.
Sara Rivera Lopez (Mrs.
"This has been a very interesting
challenge," said Jacobs, a lawyer whose Aaron Lopez) and Her Son
career portfolio details many years as a Joshua Lopez, painted by
Gilbert Stuart in 1775, is on
touring singer/songwriter and record-
loan from the Detroit
ing artist.
"My earlier songs were very person-
Institute of Arts. Major
al expressions, while the ones for the
Mordecai Myers, completed by
show have to express what the charac-
John Wesley Jarvis in 1 8 1 3, is
ters are and how they feel. I spent a
on loan from the Toledo
lot of time thinking about the people
Museum of Art.
in the story as I wrote the dialogue
The New York exhibit,
which runs through Jan. 11,
and the songs."
features 87 works — major
Jacobs has taken some poetic
portraits and intimate minia-
license for the musical, which is being
performed by adults with the excep-
tures — of prominent Jewish
members of early American
tion of two children appearing as ani-
mals in the chorus. Little Red Riding
society. Painters include
Thomas Sully, Rembrandt
Hood's mother is a widow being
Peale and Ralph Earl.
courted by a forest ranger.
"Despite the small size of
Jacobs was asked to write the play
based on a musical program she
the Jewish population, many
recently put together to benefit the
substantial portraits of Jews
survive from the Colonial peri-
community theater organization.
She went on to become the director
od and early republic, often
painted by the leading artists of the
as well as the musical director and will
be playing the piano, accompanied by
day," said Richard Brilliant, Columbia
University professor of art and archae-
a percussionist, for all three shows.
"
New World: Jewish Portraits in Colonial
and Federal America by Richard
Brilliant (Prestel, $49.95), the author
explains that the subjects of the por-
traits chose to identify with the
prominent merchant class rather than
with an ethnic group or religion. The
paintings show no Jewish artifacts that
could associate the people with their
heritage.
The exhibit tells the stories behind
the portraits.
Sarah Rivera Lopez, for instance,
lived among the wealthy Sephardic
families of Rhode Island and married
one of her father's employees, who
became an international trader.
Major Mordecai Myers, after serv-
ing in the military, was elected mayor
of Schenectady and to the New York
State Assembly. Although his wife was
not Jewish, he maintained a lifelong
interest in Jewish affairs.
•
From "Facing the New World: Jewish
Portraits in Colonial and Federal
America"• Detail of Solomon Isaacs by
John Wesley Jarvis.