"Chicago Hope" 10 p.m. Wednesday,
April 29 and May 6. The Tony Award-
winning actress plays a famous artist
with an inoperable brain tumor who
develops a friendship with Dr. Aaron
Shutt (Adam Arkin) and "runs away"
with him to California. CBS, Channel
62. Check your local listings.
The Art Scene
The Sybaris Gallery holds its ninth
annual Basketry Invitational April 25-
May 30. The opening reception for
the group exhibition is 6-8 p.m. Sat-
urday, April 25. Public welcome at no
charge. The gallery and Cranbrook
Academy of Art will sponsor a special
symposium titled Universal Crossings:
Linking Basketry, Music and Archi-
tecture 7:30-10 p.m. Friday, April 24,
and 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Saturday, April 25,
at the academy. $10-$25. The Sybaris
Gallery, 202 East Third St., Royal
Oak. (248) 544-3388.
The Michigan Modernism Exposi-
tion, featuring the best of 20th-centu-
ry design, comes to the Southfield
Civic Center 11 a.m.-9 p.m. Saturday,
framed and unframed works. April 26-
May 3 at the William M. Costick
Activities Center, 28600 11 Mile Road,
Farmington Hills. (248) 646-3707.
Family Fun
The Birmingham Temple welcomes
Gemini in concert 11 a.m. Sunday,
April 26. The sibling duo of Laz and
San Slomovitz entertain with enchant-
ing songs about children's everyday
experiences. Free of charge. 28611
West Twelve Mile Road, Farmington
Hills. (248) 477-8295.
The Lyric Chamber Ensemble pre-
sents Babar the Elephant 11:15 a.m.
Sunday, April 26, at the Detroit Insti-
tute of Arts Lecture Hall. Local TV
personality Sonny Eliot will narrate,
accompanied by pianist Louis Nagel.
Brunch served at 10 a.m. in the Kresge
Court. An art workshop for children
ages 7-12 will be held in the DIA base-
ment studio at 9:45 a.m. Concert only
$18/$15, students and seniors/$10,
under 12. Art workshop and concert:
$15/child. Concert and brunch:
$30/$27, students and seniors/$22,
under 12. (248) 357-1111.
Whatnot
Sybaris Gallery opens its ninth annual
Basketry Invitational on Saturday.
April 25, and 12-5 p.m. Sunday, April
26. $8. A gala preview will be held 7-
10 p.m. Friday, April 24, to benefit
the Art Deco Society with hors d'oeu-
vres, wine and entertainment. $60.
(248) 547-5716.
A Spring Exhibit and Sale by the
Farmington Artists Club features
Bid on the wheels of your dreams
at the Michigan International Classic
Car Auction, April 24-26 at the Novi
Expo Center. 4-10 p.m. Friday; 9
a.m.-10 p.m. Saturday; 9 a.m.-5 p.m.
Sunday. $8/day, $12/three days.
From 1-3 p.m. Saturday, April 25,
Borders Book Shop hosts Dan Butler,
who will sign his book Unsinkable:
The Full Story of the RMS Titanic
and present new research findings.
31150 Southfield Road, Birmingham.
(248) 644-1515.
Jewish poets Lynne Meredith
Cohn, Mark Phillips and Susan
Knoppow will read from their pub-
lished collectiong'7:30 p.m. Wednes-
day, April 29, during this special
National Poetry Month celebration.
Borders Books & Music, 34300
Woodward, Birmingham. (248) 203-
0005.
It's "Final Exam Time" with the
zany Ask The Professor panel in its
final taping of the season. The panel
will tape two live programs at Borders
Books & Music, 30995 Orchard Lake
Road, Farmington Hills. 7:30-9 p.m.
Wednesday, April 29. Free and open to
the public.
The Girl Behind The Glasses
F
more than she studied and teamed
or avid dirt diggers and
up with Liz Mitchell to form a group
gossip groupies,
called
Liz and Lisa. "Yes, Duncan
singer/songwriter Lisa
Sheik
played
guitar in our band for a
Loeb's life leaves a lot to be
year. That is his real name. I think"
desired. "No stories about living in a
"The big break" came when Ethan
van in Alaska," she says.
Hawke
asked for a copy of her song
Instead, she begins her life story
"Stay
(I
Missed You)." He played it
with a tale her mom tells ...
for
Ben
Stiller,
who used it in the
"When my older brother, Ben,
soundtrack
for
Reali
Bites. "Stay"
was born, my mother's obstetrician
soared
to
No.
1
on
the
charts and
told her to put him in front of the
received a Grammy nomination.
hi-fi and listen to classical music. He
"Now even my parents believed I was
became a classical musician.
"I then asked my mother what she a musician," says Loeb.
Loeb's newest album is Firecracker,
made me listen to. She was a bit
a
name
she likes because it makes the
busier when I was born, so she
cover
image
of her lying on the
strapped me into my car seat as we
ground
seem
a little more enigmatic
drove around and listened to music
and
passionate,
instead of vulnerable.
on the radio. She said, 'Something
"To me, the songs are stories. Some
about a stairway to heaven.'"
are very close to my heart and per-
Loeb and her sister spent hours
sonal.
singing along with Olivia
Newton-John, while
immersed in music and per-
formance lessons after
school. She remembers play-
ing roles as diverse as Muset-
ta in La Boheme and Linus in
You re A Good Man Charlie
Brown at the local Jewish
community center.
Dad played the piano
constantly, "when he wasn't
at work looking in someone's
colon," and subsequently,
Lisa quit her piano lessons
and yielded the keyboard to
her brother, the world-class
pianist in the family. Instead,
she started playing the guitar,
like her hero Andy Summers,
of the Police.
It was at sleep-away sum- Lisa Loeb performs Tuesday at the Royal Oak
Music Theatre.
mer camp that Lisa made
her grand debut. 'Alma Doll
McCutchin and I did our rendition
"The best thing to do is just listen
of 'Stairway to Heaven' on acoustic
to
the
album and stare at the artwork
guitars. Alma Doll taught me how to
(yes, I'm back with the glasses)," says
pick."
Loeb.
At age 15, when Lisa started hav-
ing trouble remembering all of the
Linda Bachrack
John Cougar songs her guitar teacher
was showing her, she began to write
her own. "I bared my soul secretly in
the songs," she says. Her cryptic
Lisa Loeb performs at the
attempts were inspired by her
Royal Oak Music Theatre
favorite rockers, the Cure, David
Tuesday, April 28, at 8 p.m.
Bowie and Jimi Hendrix.
$22.50. 318 West Fourth
"So then I went to Brown Univer-
Street. (248) 546-7610.
sity," says Loeb. She played music
—
4/24
1998