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Meat Tray $5.90 per person
Dairy Tray $10.50 per person

• Expires 12-31-99
• One Per Custom

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• Not Good Holidays
• 10 Person Minimum

STAR DELI

24555W.12 MILE,

Just West of Telegraph,

Southfield

352-7377

KABUKI

Japanese Cuisine
Sushi Bar

"A TASTE OF PARADISE"

Seafood Grill

&

Banquet

Center

Open Daily for Lunch and Dinner

FRIDAYS

go

1 lb. King Crab Legs

includes redskins garlic mashed
potatoes, vegetables and
V Pompano's specialty salad

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$19.95
SATURDAYS

Surf & Turf

10 oz. prime rib and 6 oz.

BAR STARTING AT $700

INTRODUCING

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695

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lobster tail includes redskins
garlic mashed potatoes,
vegetables and Pompano's
specialty salad

CHOICE OF I ROLL (CALIFORNIA OR
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$19.95

INCLUDES SOUP AND SALAD

Live Entertainment every
Friday and Saturday

Guitarist, Vocalist

CHARLIE SAIAZ

is here thru February 20th

We have 4 separate banquet
rooms seating up to 300
We offer Hotel accommodations
and complimentary room
for the Bride and Groom

All Catering by Pompano's

38123 W. 10 Mile Road

At the Holiday Inn
Farmington Hills

2/19
1999

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(248) 478-7780

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(248)

28972 ORCHARD LAKE RD.

BETWEEN 12 AND 13 MILE ON EAST SIDE

FARMINGTON HILLS

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E. LANSING

Peter Himmelman: Smart lyrics and infectious arrangements.

style he developed through the '80s.
The most noticeable change hits
right
out of the gate on the album's
Peter Himmelman;
opener, "Eyeball." Added to the
Love Thinketh No Evil;
album just before its release and pro-
Six Degrees Records
duced by Nine Inch Nails program-
Despite his consistent ability to
mer Chris Vrenna, the track's elec-
churn out solid pop songs, Peter
tronic rhythms and densely layered
Himmelman is hardly a household
electric guitars and keyboards might
name. As an Orthodox Jew who refus-
suggest Himmelman is angling him-
es to perform on the Sabbath, a family
self toward a younger audience, but
man who won't exploit his connection
the 39-year-old songwriter is too
to his famous father-in-law, Bob
smart for that, well aware of how
Dylan, and a songwriter who has
absurd a trendy makeover would
spent the better part of the last decade
sound on his rootsy pop songs.
hanging out with his kids and scuba
Himmelman produced the rest of the
diving, Himmelman knows his major
album
himself, deftly mixing his pop,
impediment on the road to stardom
rock and folk leanings into a coherent,
has been his own stubborn insistence
accessible package. Religious and spiritu-
on doing exactly what he wants to do.
al themes pop up now and again, but he
Himmelman first popped-up in the
wisely avoids the preachiness and solem-
early '80s, recording two albums as
nity that can plague such subject matter.
part of the Minneapolis power-pop
Instead he uses his beliefs as a wellspring
combo Sussman Lawrence. In 1986,
of inspiration for his writing:
he broke off with three other members
"Seven Circles" is based on an
of the band to record his first solo
Orthodox
wedding ritual, but with
This
Father's
Day.
album,
heartfelt declarations like, "I love
Over the next six years, Himmelman
you in whispers/ I love you in
recorded four more solo albums, estab-
screams/ I love you in waking/ I love
lishing himself as a confident songwriter
you in dreams," it won't sound
equal parts Dylan, Elvis Costello and
empty deprived of its context.
John Hiatt. Then in 1992, he took a
Musically, Himmelman happily
to
concentrate
on
raising
six-year hiatus
wears his influences on his sleeve.
his four children, during which time he
Echoes of the Beatles, Al Green and
also recorded two children's albums and
English folk legend Richard Thompson
scored several TV shows and films.
can all be heard on the transcendent ))
Love Thinketh No Evil is his first
epic "Solitude," while "Time Just Flew
mainstream studio release since 1992,
bears an uncanny resemblance to late
working
with
a
completely
and despite
'80s-era Elvis Costello. And, of course,
only
musicians,
he's
made
new cast of
there's the familial connection.
subtle adjustments to the tried-and-true

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