In honor of our 40th Anniversary

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The City of Southfield

proudly presents a special

Celebration Concert

Featuring the legendary

Lou Rawls

Friday, May 8, 1998
at 8:00 pm
Southfield Centre
for the Arts

24350 Southfield Road
Tickets: $30 and $35

Tickets available at all Ticketmaster Ticket Centers
including Hudson's and Harmony House Stores.
To charge tickets by phone, call 248/645-6666. Tickets
also available at Southfield City Hall, 26000 Evergreen
Road, Main Reception Desk weekdays 8 am to 5 pm; or at
the Parks & Recreation Building evenings 5 to 7 pm and
Saturdays 9 am to 2 pm.

Afterglow reception immediately following the concert,
featuring pastries, coffees and wine. $5.00 payable at the
door.

For more information, call The City of Southfield
Community Relations Department at 248/354-4854.

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The Late Show

Allan Handelman's syndicated rock talk show
lands on "The Bear"

heading out on tour. He wanted me to
send a tape of my show to see if I
could fill in," Handelman explains.
t all started one Chanukah, 33
"Now, here I am [every week]."
Bevilacqua was more than happy to
years ago in Patchogue, Long
secure Handelman's show on his station.
Island. "My brother got me a
"In our previous format of hard
Remco Caravel Transmitter
rock, we were attracting an audience
when I was 13," says Allan
that would be too young for Allan's
Handelman. "It could broadcast on
radios within the house." It was the
show," he says. "Now that we're classic
rock, the audience has aged with the
gift that would change his life.
format change.
Years later, Handelman landed in
"I had always been a fan of Allan
Charlotte, N.C., where he currently
and his show. His great week in
hosts a syndicated rock talk show on
Detroit was the cherry on top."
Sundays-Thursdays from 10 p.m.-
Since the gift from his brother,
midnight on WRFX-FM. Only the
Handelman has focused
Sunday show is syndicated
— for now.
solely
on radio. By the
Allan Ha ndelman
time
he
was in high
The show secured a slot
works the radio in
in Detroit on WWBR-FM
school,
he
ran a pirate
Detroit as a substitute
radio
station
out of his
"The Bear" (102.7) a few
host for Te d Nugent.
months ago — six months
basement. At Concord
College in Athens, WV.,
after Handelman debuted in
he started a radio station while earn-
Detroit as a substitute for morning
ing his degree in early childhood edu-
show host Ted Nugent.
cation. "I never taught a day in my
"I interviewed Ted when he was
life," he says.
with the Damn Yankees in 1989, and
The talk radio format that he fol-
on my show I make sure the guest has
lows now grew out of a late night
an experience he doesn't forget,"
experiment in the 1970s.
Handelman says. "Ted became a regu-
"I was working as a disc jockey and
lar guest, intrigued with the show, and
a programming director and started
with talk radio.
going to a talk format, with less music
"[Last summer] Program Director
and really unusual topics," he says. "I
Joe Bevilacqua told me that Ted was

LONNY GOLDSMITH
Staff Writer

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