Saturday, May 8; and 2 p.m. Sunday,
May, 9 at Detroit's Music Hall. $8.
(313) 963-2366.
The Marquis Theatre presents a
musical version of Rapunzel 7 p.m.
Fridays and 2:30 p.m. Saturdays and
Sundays, May 7-June 5. The Marquis
Theatre is a professional children's the-
ater located at 135 E. Main St. in down-
town Northville. $6. (248) 349 8110.

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The Art Scene

May 29 at Ann Arbor's newly opened
Washington Gallery, features a recep-
tion for Gray 7-9 p.m. Friday, May 7.
215 E. Washington. (734) 761-2287.
Our Visions: Women in Art, a
juried, multimedia, national women's
art exhibition, opens May 10 in the
Smith Theatre at Oakland University-
Orchard Ridge Campus, and runs
through May 28. An awards reception
and open house will be held 7 p.m.
Thursday, May 13. (248) 471-7602.

Attended by nearly 3,000 people
each year, the CCS Student
Exhibition, featuring more than 2,500
Southfield's Ice Company features
pieces of art and design work in all
more than 120 skilled figure skaters
media, opens with a special patrons
from the Midwest and Canada in its
preview 5-6 p.m. Friday, May 14
29th annual spectacular at the
($200), followed by a 6-9 p.m. public
Southfield Sports Arena
preview ($35; $40 at the door), at
7:30 p.m. Thursday
Center for Creative Studies, 201
and Friday, May 13-
E. Kirby, in Detroit. The stu-
14; 1:30 and 7:30
dent exhibition continues and
p.m. Saturday,
is open to the public at no
May 15; and 1:30
charge 10 a.m.-4 p.m. week-
and 5:30 p.m.
days and 11 a.m.-4 p.m.
Sunday, May 16.
weekends, Saturday, May 15-
$9.50 rinkside/$9
Sunday, May 30. The CCS
loge/$8.50 upper
rinkside. At 7:30 p.m.
student exhibition has
been a community
Wednesday, May 12,
there will be a special
event for more
benefit performance, fea-
than 75 years;
turing guest professional
last year, stu-
figure skaters Mikhail Panin
dents raised
and Irina Grigorian, for the
more than
Gail Purtan Ovarian
$105,000
Cancer Research Fund at
from their art-
Billy Dee Williams visits
the Karmanos Cancer
work sales. For
the Motor City Corn is Con,
Institute. Special patron
preview tick-
opening Friday, Ma y 14.
tickets are available/upper
ets, call (313)
rinkside and loge seating is
664-7464.
$10. For more information and tick-
The 1999 Cranbrook Academy of
ets, call (248) 354-9357 or (248)
Art Graduate Degree Show, featuring
354-9603.
the work of 63 students in 10 depart-
Wayne State alumnus Helen
ments who will be awarded a master
Thomas, who as White House corre-
of fine arts degree this spring, contin-
spondent for United Press
ues through May 14 at Cranbrook Art
International has covered every presi-
Museum, 1221 N. Woodward Ave., in
dent since John F. Kennedy, offers her
Bloomfield Hills. (248) 645-3323.
remarks at a reception at the Alumni
Galerie Blu hosts artist Tom Rice 7
House/McGregor Center 3-4:30 p.m.
p.m. Friday, May 7, in an opening
Thursday, May 13. She will sign
reception for his one-man show of
copies of her second book, Front Row
recent paintings, "Television Gone
at the White House: My Life and Times.
Mad." Rice pulls moments out of tele-
The Motor City Comic Con, fea-
vision programming and presents on
turing comic book creators, movie
canvas what we accept daily on our
stars and more .than 150 specialty ven-
screens. Through May 29. 7 N.
dors of pop art and collectibles, visits
Saginaw, Pontiac. (248) 454-7797.
the Novi Expo Center 1-8 p.m. Friday,
A graduate of U-M's School of
10 a.m. 7 p.m. Saturday and 10 a.m.-5
Architecture and Design, Joyce Gray
p.m. Sunday, May 14-16. $12 per
creates watercolors with subject matter
day/$28 for a three-day pass. For more
drawn from literature, mythology and
information, check the Web site at
her own personal dreams and feelings.
www.motorcityconventions.com .
"Personal Myths," running through

Whatnot

The Center for Creative Studies Student Exhibition opens Friday, May 14.

Dance Fever

The Small Screen

Michigan Opera Theatre's 1998-99
Dance Series concludes with a mixed
repertory program by the Paul Taylor
Dance Company 8 p.m. Friday-Saturday,
May 7-8; and 2 p.m. Sunday, May 9,
at the Detroit Opera House. Taylor,
one of the world's finest choreographers,
is the subject of Dancemaker, a recent
Oscar-nominated documentary film.
$15-$42. (313) 237-7464.

Mothers from all walks of life share
their child-rearing stories and celebrate
what it means to be a mom, circa 1999,
on Moms, airing 8 p.m. Saturday, May
8, on Detroit Public Television-Channel
56. The program, arranged thematically,
covers birth and infancy, discipline, wise
words, the birds and the bees, rejection,
separation anxiety and more. Proclaims
one grandmother: "Motherhood is a job,
and after 20 years you don't even get the
gold watch!" Check your local listings.
Jewish Cooking in America with
Joan Nathan, a new 26-part series pre-
miering on Detroit Public Television-
Channel 56 at 2 p.m. Sunday, May 9,
uses food to explore Jewish culture
and history and highlights the integral
role of food in binding families and
community throughout the genera-
tions. Check your local listings.

The Big Screen

Unreleased theatrically for a
decade, Louis Malle's My Dinner
With Andre (1981) will be screened
by the Detroit Film Theatre at the
DIA 7 and 9:30 p.m. Friday and
Saturday, May 7-8; and 4 and 7 p.m.
Sunday, May 9. The New York Times'
Vincent Canby called the film -
written by and starring Wallace
Shawn and Andre Gregory - " a
splendidly funny celebration of art,
life, theater, electric blankets,
Western civilization, transcendental
breakthroughs and the joys to be
found in everyday routine." $5.50.
(313) 833-2323.
Set during the Civil War, and
based on a true incident, Buster
Keaton's The General is an authentic
looking period piece, bringing the
images of Civil War photographer
Matthew Brady to life in a story that
includes one of the most hilarious
chase scenes ever filmed. The Historic
Redford Theatre will show this 1926
silent film classic, accompanied by
pipe organist Jack Moelmann, 8 p.m.
Saturday, May 8. $81$4 children.
17360 Lahser Road. (313) 537-2560.

Laugh Lines

He slices, he dices, he bores through
unsuspecting fruits, vegetables and
other snack items with motorized
metal, spewing his adoring fans who
come to performances dressed in rain
slickers and trash bags. If you're one of
them, you can catch Gallagher 7:30
p.m. Monday and Tuesday, May 10-11,
at Macomb Center for the Performing
Arts. $29/$27 students and seniors/$35
for the "wet zone." (810) 286 2222.

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Family Fun

Fagin and his band of pickpockets
take the stage in a TheatreWorks/USA
production of Charles Dickens'
Oliver Twist 11 a.m. and 2 p.m.

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1999

Detroit Jewish News