The Week's Best Bets MUSICAL NOTES Kissed a Girl" at the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLADD) media awards, visits Detroit's Magic Stick Wednesday, Nov. 29. Doors at 6:30 p.m. $12 advance/$15 day of. (313) 833-9700. Karla Bonoff is a songwriter from Southern California who first came to light in the mid-'70s, when Linda Ronstadt took note and recorded her song "Someone to Lay Down Beside Me." ON THE STAGE Bonoff also wrote "All My Life," the song sung by Ronstadt and Aaron Neville that Wayne State University's Bonstelle won the Grammy for Best Vocal GAIL ZIMMERMAN Theatre presents The Miracle Worker, Arts & Entertainment Performance by a Duo or Group in 1990. playwright William Gibson's telling of Editor Her other hits include "I Can't Hold teacher Annie Sullivan's true-to-life struggle On," "Tell Me Why," "Personally" and to rescue the blind and deaf "Home," songs recorded by other artists that Bonoff Helen Keller from her solitary existence, finally put on disc herself with the career retrospec- Dec. 1-10. The play, directed by WSU tive All My Lift: The Best of Karla Bonoff theater professor Lavinia (Columbia/Legacy Records). Moyer, is suitable for chil- Bonoff's great-grandfather David Borodanoff emi- dren ages 8 and up. grated from Russia to California in the late 19th. Performances are century. Somewhere between his arrival and her scheduled 8 p.m. physician father Karl's shortening his name to Friday and Saturday Bonoff, assimilation took its toll on Karla's Jewish evenings and 2 p.m. education. She didn't attend her first seder until she Sunday afternoons. was 25, she told the Jewish News. Still, a Jewish spark seems to light many of her songs, especial- ly "Daddy's Little Girl," a personal trib- ute to her father and the consequences of coming to grips with his mortality. Karla Bonoff per- form 8 p.m. Friday, Dec. 1, at the Ark in Ann Arbor. Tickets are $17. (734) 761- 1451. Above: The Bonstelle production Several other Jewish singer/songwrit- of "The Miracle Worker" features ers also come to town this week. Jamie A. White as Annie Sullivan and Former member of Veruca Salt Nina Tiffany Bedzvell as Helen Keller Gordon has released her first solo CD, Tonight and the Rest of My Life, and Right: Karla Bonoff plays brings a new harder guitar sound to The The Ark Dec. I. Shelter in Detroit on Sunday, NOV. 26. Doors at 6 p.m. $15. (313) 961-6358. Singer/songwriter/pianist/guitarist Warren Tickets are $8-$10 and discounts are available for Zevon, the son of Russian immigrants, brings his groups of 15 or more. (313) 577-2960. often edgy, satirical work to Ferndale's Magic Bag The interactive comedy Tony N' Tina's Wedding Nov. 27, after a recent stint filling in for band- opens Friday, Nov. 24, at Harmonie Club, located in leader Paul Shaffer on The Late Show with David Detroit's Harmonie Park. The beautifully restored, Letterman. Doors at 8 p.m.; $23 advance tickets. historic building features a separate chapel for the (248) 544-3030. ceremony, an expansive dance floor, seating for more Finally, folkie Jill Sobule, who received the than 200 guests and a cash bar. The Italian dinner Outstanding Song Award for the self-revealing "I will be catered by Intermezzo. Show times are 7:30 p.m. Thursdays and Fridays, 4:30 and 9 p.m. Saturdays and 4:30 p.m. Sundays. Thursday and Sunday shows are $55; Friday and Saturday shows are $60. Discounts are available for groups of 20 or more. (313) 961-5211. THE BIG SCREEN The Redford Theatre will screen the Frank Capra classic It's a Wonderful Life in its original black and white 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Dec. 1-2, pre- ceded by an organ overture at 7. The evening will be filled with Capra-like surprises, including an appear- ance by Karolyn "Zuzu" Grimes, who played the youngest child of Jimmy Stewart and Donna Reed in the film. $10. (313) 537-2560. THE ART SCENE The Janice Charach Epstein Gallery in the West Bloomfield Jewish Community Center holds a reception 6:30-8 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 30, in honor of the artists participating in the exhibit Tradition With a Twist: Contemporary Fiber Arts, which runs through Jan. 31. See next week's Jewish News for a Beaded dreidel feature article. (248) 661-7641. by Linda Billing itself as "the largest pottery Girard, at the sale in the country," the 25th annual Birmingham Potters Market, featuring the Bloomfield advanced ceramic students and guest Art Center. potters of Oakland Community College Royal Oak campus, returns this year Dec. 1-3. Hours are 10 a.m.-8 p.m. Friday, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Saturday and 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Sunday, at the United Food and Commercial Union Hall at 876 Horace Brown Drive near 13 Mile Road in Madison Heights. The sale features 130 pot- ters offering nearly 40,000 pieces of pottery, ranging from pots, vases, platters, tiles and mugs to bird baths, jewelry and more. All items are con- stantly restocked. Admission is free. For more information, call (248) 246-2686. The Holiday Shop and Fiber Art Sale, running Dec. 1-9 at the Birmingham Bloomfield Art Center, opens with a special preview 5-8 p.m. Friday, Dec. 1, with additional hours 10 a.m.-8 p.m. Monday-Thursday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Friday-Saturday and noon-5 p.m. Sunday. The show features the work of more than 150 local and national artists, including the beaded dreidels of Linda Girard of Clawson and amulet bag necldaces by Natalie Cohen of Walled Lake. For more infor- FYI: For Arts and Entertainment related events that you wish to have considered for Out & About, please send the item, with a detailed description of the event. times, dates, place, ticket prices and publishable phone number. to: Gail Zimmerman, JN Out & About, The Jewish News, 27676 Franklin Road, Southfield, MI 48034; fax us at (248) 354-6069; or e-mail to gzimmerman@thejewishnews.com Notice must be received at least three weeks before the scheduled event. Photos are appreciated but cannot be returned. 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