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Recent Paintings and Works on Paper
through Dec 11

CLASSICAL Naas

The Detroit Symphony Orchestra
presents Handel's Messiah at Orchestra
Hall 3 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, Dec.
4-5. $15-$68. (313) 576-5111.
Local lyric baritone Davis Gloff and
the Emerald Sinfonietta perform a "Best
of Britain" concert, featuring works by
Handel, Elgar and Vaughan-Williams, 3
p.m. Sunday, Dec. 5, at Detroit's Scarab
Club. $25. (313) 438-0780.
The Cranbrook Music Guild hosts
the Pacifica String Quartet in a program
of Beethoven, Mendelssohn and Gardner
8 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 7, in the library of
Cranbrook House. Afterglow follows.
$25/$15 students. (810) 751-2435.
The Boys Choir of Harlem per-
forms 8 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 9, at
Ann Arbor's Hill Auditorium. $12-
$28. (734) 764-2538.

PoP/RocK/JAzz

The all-female jazz quintet Straight
Ahead appears at Oakland
Community College's Smith Theatre
on the Orchard Ridge Campus 8 p.m.
Friday, Dec. 3. $12. (248) 471-7667.
The Manhattan Transfer takes the
stage at the Macomb Center for the
Performing Arts 7 p.m. Sunday, Dec.
5. $29-$36. (810) 286-2222.
Gregg Allman & Friends perform
at Detroit's State Theatre 7:30 p.m.
Wednesday, Dec. 8. $24.50-$28.50.
(248) 645-6666.

ON THE STAGE

Congregation Shaarey Zedek of
East Lansing presents a staged reading
of Neil Simon's comedy Fools 8 p.m.
Saturday, Dec. 4. $10 adults/ $5 stu-
dents. (517) 351-3570.
University of Michigan's School of
Music performs Shakespeare's The
Tempest 8 p.m. Thursday-Saturday
and 3 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 9-12, at Ann
Arbor's Power Center. $14-$18. (734)
764-0450.
Six legendary divas - Bessie Smith,
Billie Holiday, Dinah Washington,
Dorothy Dandridge, Josephine Baker
and Mahalia Jackson - come alive in
the musical Sang Sista' Sang, created
by Smokey Robinson and Mickey
Stevenson, Tuesday-Sunday, Dec. 7-12.
$20.50-$31.50. Call for show times.
(248) 645-6666.

FAMILY FUN

The Detroit Puppet Theater pre-
sents Chanuka, the Legend of the
Maccabees 11 a.m. and 2 p.m.
Saturday and Sunday, Dec. 4 and 5. $7
adults/$5 children. (313) 961-7777.
The West Bloomfield High School

Drama Department performs Roald
Dahl's James and the Giant Peach 2
p.m. Saturday and Sunday, Dec. 4-5,
in the high school auditorium. $3.
(248) 539-2539.
Cranbrook Institute of Science cele-
brates the completion of the museum's
three-year, $31 million expansion with
special events 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday,
Dec. 4. Free admission. 877-462-7262.
The Detroit Historical Museum
holds a Toy Train Family Workshop
11 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 11, for
ages 5-12. $5. Reservations: (313)
833-9720.
Jack & the Giant, a musical version
of the classic folk tale, takes the stage at
Royal Oak's Stagecrafters Youth Theatre
7 p.m. Thursday-Friday, 11 a.m. and 3
p.m. Saturday and 1 p.m. Sunday, Dec.
9-12. $5-$7. (248) 541-6430.

THE ART SCENE

The 1999 Winter Gallery Crawl,
visiting 35 Detroit galleries in the
downtown, New Center/Cultural
Center and Jefferson Ave. areas, runs 5-
10 p.m. Friday, Dec. 3. $10. For more
information, call (313) 224-9500.
The Woods Gallery presents The
Plein Air Society Artists, a metro
area group working in a variety of
media, through Jan. 13, at the
Huntington Woods Library. Meet
the artists 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday,
Dec. 4. (248) 543-9720.
Misbehaving! Works from the
Studio of Sandy Skoglund will be on
display through Feb. 14 at Detroit's
Elaine L. Jacob Gallery. Artist's recep-
tion 5-7:30 p.m. Friday, Dec. 10, fol-
lowed by a lecture at the Music Recital
Hall. Open and free to the public.
(313) 577-2423.
The Birmingham Bloomfield Art
Center's Gallery Shop remains open
through Dec. 30, featuring a "Small
Works Fine Art Sale" of more than
200 juried artworks priced under
$300. A student pottery sale will be
held Thursday-Saturday, Dec. 9-11.
Call for gallery hours. (248) 644-0866.

GROUP SHOW
PAINTINGS, WORKS ON PAPER,
PRINTS AND SCULPTURE
Berenice Abbott
Suzanne Caporael
Richard Diebenkorn
Gunther Forg
Sam Francis
Jane Hammond
Al Held
David Hockney
Hans Hofman
Roy Lichtenstein
Stephen Magsig
Will Mentor
Joan Miro
Robert Motherwell
Philip Pearlstein
Sharon Que
Robert Rauschenberg
Kiki Smith
Frank Stella
Wayne Thiebaud
Tom Wesselman
Terry Winters
through Jan 29

LEMBERG GALLERY

538 N. Old Woodward Ave
Birmingham, MI 48009
Tuesdays - Saturdays 11 am to 5 pm
T 248.642.6623 F 248.642.6628
www.lemberggallery.com

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WHATNOT

Celebrate the spirit of the season at
the Detroit Cultural Center's Starry
Night, with sleigh rides, art and craft
sales, theater, planetarium shows, a
book fair and more, 5-9:30 p.m.
Saturday, Dec. 4. (313) 577-5088.
The third annual Temple Israel
Book Fair will be held 9:30 a.m.-3
p.m. Sunday, 11 a.m.-6:30 p.m.
Monday and Tuesday and 9:30 a.m.-6
p.m. Wednesday, Dec 5-8.

Now traditions can be recorded in Southfield.
Same extraordinary difference.

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- Compiled by Sharon Luckerman

Reservations - 248-644 5330 • 30855 Southfield Road

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