WIMZIE WELCOME

song on your hands and you're singing it
intimately, you have this wonderful com-
munication with the public."
Bennett and Krall take the stage 7:30
p.m. Sunday, Aug. 20, at Pine Knob Music
Theatre. Tickets are $25 pavilion/$15
lawn. (248) 645-6666.

The Detroit Historical Museum hosts the exhibit
"Whatever Happened to Paint By Numbers?"
through Febtuary 2001. It features 80 different fin-
ished works using the Paint-By-Number process, a
work in progress, samples of different Craft Master
sets, archival photos and documentary films.
Also on display, is "The Detroit Publishing
Company: Looking at the World," focusing on the
company's images of Detroit, Michigan and the
Great Lakes region; and "Past Visions and Present
Insights: The Woodward Avenue Rephotographic
Project."
In conjunction with these two exhibits, on Saturday,
Aug. 19, the museum holds a special Photography
Family Workshop for children ages 8-12, incorporating
both historical and present-day aspects of photography
and its uses. The cost is $3 per participant.
For more information, call (313) 833-1805.

Wimzie's House, based on the award-
winning popular PBS children's program
of the same name and twice honored with
the Parents Choice Award for national TV
programming, will visit Meadow Brook
Music Festival for two shows, 11 a.m. and
7 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 24.
PICTURE/PICTURE
Wimzie, a happy, 5-year-old, fuschia-
GAIL ZIMMERN1AN
haired girl, lives with her grandmother
In the late 1940s, former Detroiter Dan
Entertainment
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Editor
Yaya, who runs a daycare home where
Robbins, a member of the Jewish commu-
Wimzie and her friends seek adventure
nity and a graphic designer at Palmer Paint
and discovery, exploring the social and family issues
Company , came up with the idea of creating pic-
that children face each day. The live stage production
tures, consisting of numbered outlines and the corre-
features music, dancing and audience participation.
sponding paint colors, that anyone could paint. In
Also appearing will be children's entertainer Linda
1951, the first Paint-By-Number kits were introduced
Arnold. Often described as the "Mary Poppins of
and soon became a wildly successful phenomenon.
children's music," she enchants young audiences
with magical songs that create a world of make
corners in Dallas.
believe where anything can and does happen.
CHICKS
RULE
The songs on Fly are all about
Tickets are $12.50 pavilion/$8 lawn. (248) 645-6666.
They're making country music more
women defining themselves in their
hip than even
way "Just about everybody can relate to
The Dixie Chicks, sisters Munk
songs about needing the freedom to
FOR. THE RoAD
Seidel (violin) and Emily Robison
chase your dreams or dealing with a
The career spans of legendary singer Tony
(banjo/guitars)
along
with
Natalie
broken heart or falling in love or even
Bennett, 74, and jazz vocalist/pianist Diana Krall,
Mames
(lead
vocals),
made
a
splash
just
wanting to be a little wild and
35, differ by decades, but both find inspiration in
Wide
with
their
debut
album,
1998's
crazy
now and then," notes Seidel.
the same great composers: Gershwin, Berlin and
the
biggest-selling
album
Open
Spaces,
The
Dixie Chicks perform 8 p.m.
Porter among them.
ever
by
a
country
duo
or
group.
Friday,
Aug. 18, at the Palace of
"The thing I've always heard in Tony is truth and
It
was
no
fluke;
with
their
latest
Auburn
Hills. We went nuts with
beauty," said Krall in a recent interview with
they're
again
on
Fly,
release,
1999's
this
show,"
says Maines. "We really
magazine.
"Tony
understands
Interview
Bennett in
top of the charts and molding a
want to connect with the audience,
about telling a story lyrically; he taught me about
crossover career that's winning audi-
and we finally have the money and
intimacy in telling a story." And, she added, he
ences
outside
the
country
genre,
the crew to do it." Tickets are $39.50
never sings the same song the same way twice.
With
Grarnrnys
for
both
albums
and
and
$32.50. (248) 645-6666.
Bennett concurs. "It's the moment that counts and
a
slew
of
other
awards,
they've
come
makes the show alive," he said. "There's nothing more
The I)ixie Chicks play the Palace.
a long way from performing on street
powerful than words. And when you have a great

Two

Bluegrass artists Alison Krauss & Union
Station perform 8 p.m. Saturday, Aug.
19, at Meadow Brook Music Festival.
$24.50/$12.50. (248) 645-6666.
Country/pop vocalist k.d. lang,
with Shelby Lynne, appears 7:30 p.m.
Tuesday, Aug. 22, at Pine Knob.
$35/$20. (248) 645-6666.
Australian pop/rock duo Savage
Garden takes the stage 8 p.m. Tuesday,
Aug. 22, at Meadow Brook Music
Festival. $27.50/$20. (248) 645-6666.
The Blues Music Festival, featuring
B.B. King, Buddy Guy, Susan
Tedeschi and more, visits Pine Knob

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6 p.m.-Wednesday, Aug. 23:
$35.50/$15.50. (248) 645-6666.
Pop star Christina Aguilera, with
special guest Destiny's Child, performs
7 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 24, at Pine
Knob. (248) 645-6666.
Singer/songwriter Bruce Cockburn
appears 8 p.m. Friday, Aug. 25, at The
Ark in Ann Arbor. $25. (248) 645-
6666.
The Detroit Film Theatre screens
last year's Cannes Film Festival Grand
Jury Prize winner, Humanite, the story
of a police investigation of a rape and
murder, 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday
and 4 and 7 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 18-20.
$6. (313) 833-3237.

Get a double dose of Elvis when
the Historic Redford Theatre screens
Jail House Rock and Viva Las Vegas, 8
p.m. Friday and 2 and 8 p.m.
Saturday, Aug. 25-26. Prizes for Elvis
look-alikes. Organ overtures begin
half an hour before show time. $4.
(313) 537-2560.
Birmingham's Robert Kidd Gallery
hosts the eighth annual International
Exhibition of the Colored Pencil
Society of America through Aug. 25.
(248) 642-3909.
Fanclub Foundation for the Arts
hosts "Caliente Dos," a Latin dance
party to benefit educational outreach
programs, 7:30 p.m. Friday, Aug.

25, at the former bank building at
30 N. Saginaw in Pontiac. $40. Call
(248) 584-4150.
The Charles H. Wright Museum of
African American History hosts the
18th annual African World Festival, 5-
11:30 p.m. Friday and noon-11:30
p.m. Saturday and Sunday, Aug. 18-
20, at Hart Plaza. (313) 494-5800.
Authors Timothy Freke and Peter
Gandy discuss and sign their new
book, The Jesus Mysteries, in which
they present evidence that the Gospels
are actually Jewish interpretations of
pagan myths, 7 p.m. Wednesday, Aug.
23, at Borders in Farmington Hills.
(248) 737-0004.

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