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Friday, 7:30-9 p.m.

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Fashion In Film

Fashion historian Sandy Schreier, whose new book, Hollywood Dressed and
Undresse-d: A Century of Cinema Style, provides readers with an inside look at
Hollywood legends and their glamorous film images, appears at an author's
reception at the Book Beat tonight. In addition, the gallery displays an exhibi-
tion of vintage Hollywood photographs through Nov. 30. 26010 Greenfield
Road, Oak Park. (248) 968-1190.

Tuesday, 8 p.m.

You Don't Have To Be Irish

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Michael Flatley's Lord of the Dance returns to Detroit's Fox Theatre starring
19-year-old five-time Irish National Dance Champion John Carey. The Celtic
dance spectacular features a cast of 40 dancers who integrate gypsy, disco, fla-
menco and ballet with traditional Irish step dancing. Additional shows at 8 p.m.
Wednesday-Friday, Oct. 7-9; 2 and 8 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 10; and 1 and 6 p.m.
Sunday, Oct. 11. 2211 Woodward Ave., Detroit. $15-$60. (248) 433-1515.

Wednesday, 7:30 p.m.

Get The Message

The Jewish Historical Society of Michigan hosts a docent-led tour of the
exhibit "The Man and His Message," a tribute to the late Rabbi Leo M.
Franklin, at Temple Beth El. The tour will be followed by an afterglow. 7400
Telegraph, Bloomfield Hills. $10. (248) 335-2828 or (248) 661-7706.

Thursday, 7:30 p.m.

Cook By The Book

Cooking authority Mark Bittman, whose column "The Minimalist" appears
Wednesdays in the New York Times, discusses and signs copies of his new cook-
book, How to Cook Everything (MacMillan; $25), at Borders, 30995 Orchard
Lake Road, Farmington Hills. (248) 737-0110.

Friday, 7:30 p.m.

Kravitz In Concert

The son of Jewish television producer Sy Kravitz and the late Rosie Roker of
"The Jeffersons," psychedelic soul slinger Lenny Kravitz - sans his recently
shorn famous dreadlocks - takes the stage at Detroit's State Theatre on Oct. 9.
2111 Woodward, next to the Fox Theatre. $30. (313) 961-5450.

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10/2
1998

80 Detroit Jewish News

GAIL
ZIMMERMAN
Arts &
Entertainment
Editor

Seventy-year-old
jazz legend Mose
Allison brings his
classical and
blues-influenced
piano style to the
Magic Bag 8 p.m.
Friday, Oct. 2.
22920 Woodward
Ave., Ferndale.
$13. (248) 544-

1991.
Conductor Samuel T. Wong leads
the Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra
in Beethoven Festival Part 2 8 p.m.
Saturday, Oct. 3, at the Michigan
Theater, 603 East Liberty, Ann Arbor.
$16-$29. (734) 994-4801.
The Detroit Chamber Winds and
Strings perform "An Autumnal Diver-
tissement!" 7 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 4, at
the Birmingham Unitarian Church.
Woodward and Lone Pine, Bloomfield
Hills. $20/$16 students and seniors.
(248) 362-9329.
Alice In Chains guitarist Jerry
Cantrell plays the State Theatre 7:30
p.m. Sunday, Oct. 4. 2115 Woodward
Ave., Detroit. $20. (313) 961-5450.
Despite Severe Tire Damage (the
name of their latest CD), They Might
Be Giants roll into Ann Arbor for a
7:30 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 4, concert at
the Michigan Theater. 603 East Liber-
ty. $21.50/$17.50. (248) 645-6666.
Tanya Tucker brings her soulful
vocals to the Macomb Center for the
Performing Arts 7:30 p.m. Sunday
and Monday, Oct. 4-5. 44575
Garfield Road, Clinton Twp. $42/
$39/$34 students and seniors. (810)
286-2222.
The Detroit Symphony Orchestra,
under the baton of guest conductor
Paavo Jarvi, son of DSO Conductor
Neeme Jarvi, features Britain's "bad
boy of violin" Kennedy (formerly
known as Nigel Kennedy) in a classical
performance of works by Tuur, Brahms
and Sibelius 8 p.m. Thursday and Fri-
day, Oct. 8-9; 8:30 p.m. Saturday,
Oct. 10; and 3 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 11.
Orchestra Hall, 3711 Woodward Ave.,
Detroit. $13-$63. (313) 576-5111.
The Afro-Cuban All Stars, corn-
prised of four generations of Cuban

musicians, perform 8 p.m. Friday,
Oct. 9, in a University Musical Society
appearance at the Michigan Theater,
603 East Liberty, Ann Arbor. $20-
$32. (734) 764-2538.

On The Stage

The Walk and Squawk Performance
Project's Shameless Rainbow Youth
Theater presents Glass Slippers and
other reasons to Go Barefoot, an
exploration of what it means to be a
teenager today, including assumptions
about gender, sexuality, body image,
family, cupcakes, Nair and other social
realities, 8 p.m. Monday-Wednesday,
Oct. 5-7, at Performance Network,
408 West Washington, Ann Arbor. $5.

Lenny Kravitz performs at the State
Theatre on Oct. 9.

(734) 663-0681.
Sebastian Barry's The Steward of
Christendom, directed by Yolanda
Fleischer, is a play set in the time just
before the Irish War for Independence,
as Thomas Dunne, the last chief
superintendent of the Dublin Metro-
politan Police Force, takes painful
refuge in the memories of his children.
The play opens with a preview perfor-
mance 8 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 8, at
The Theatre Company on the Outer
Drive Campus of the University of
Detroit Mercy, and runs 8 p.m. Fri-
days and Saturdays and 2 p.m. Sun-
days Oct. 9-25. $10/$8 seniors and
students. (313) 993-1130.

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