'At It's Just Lunch, a dating service with 35
offices nationwide, the matchmaking is in full
fury. ....it seems money is not the object, find-
ing someone is."

Theater in Ann Arbor. Orthodox
educator and therapist Dr. Marc
Kramer leads a discussion following
the screening. (734) 769-0500.

THE SMALL SCREEN

At 10 p.m. Saturday, April 6,
Detroit Public Television-Channel 56
presents Battle for the Holy Land, a
Frontline program reporting on the
latest cycle of violence between
Israelis and Palestinians. A compan-
ion Web site,
www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/
shows/holy/, provides an opportunity
for discussion. At 8 p.m. Tuesday,
April 9, Channel 56 hosts a rerun of
the documentary Holocaust on Trial.
Check your local listings.
Commemorating Yom Hashoah on
Tuesday, April 9, the Sundance
Channel airs two documentaries and
one short that address this dark peri-
od in human history: Karl
Nussbaum's Raw Images from the
Optic Cross (8:30 p.m.); Pola
Rapaport's Family Secret (9 p.m.);
and Marcel Ophuls' Hotel Terminus:
The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie
(10 p.m.). Check your local listings.

FAMILY FUN

Delfeayo Marsalis introduces chil-
dren ages 3-6 to jazz with the help of
some puppet friends 11 a.m.
Saturday, April 6, in a DSO Tiny
Tots Series concert at the Seligman
Family Performing Arts Center on
the campus of Detroit Country Day
School in Beverly Hills. $11; tickets
available at the door. (313) 576-
5111.
Barnes & Noble in West
Bloomfield celebrates Poetry Month
with The Poetry of Shel Silverstein,
a program of readings of the late
poet's work, plus some giveaways, 11
a.m. Saturday, April 6. (248) 626-
6804.
A national touring live production,
Scooby-Doo in Stagefright features
the Hanna-Barbera characters taking
to the stage to solve a classic Scooby-
Doo-style mystery, Wednesday-
Sunday, April 10-14, at Detroit's Fox
Theatre. $18.50-$29.50. Call for
show times: (313) 471-6611.

THE ART SCENE

Wayne State University's Elaine L.
Jacob Gallery hosts Rational
Euphoria, an exhibition exploring the
domestic object as a place marker for

time and inviting the viewer to con-
template the formal aspects of the
everyday object, through May 17.
Opening reception: 5-8 p.m. Friday,
April 5. (313) 577-2423.
Pontiac's Lawrence St. Gallery pres-
ents the ceramic and bronze sculp-
tures of Bloomfield Hills artist Benjie
Pearlman, as well as paintings by
Judy St. John and Lauren Everett
Finn, through April 27. Opening
reception: 7-10 p.m. Friday, April 5.
(248) 334-6716.
Ann Arbor's Washington Street
Gallery celebrates Michigan Glass
Month with the work of Annette
Baron, Janet Kelman and others
through April 26. Opening recep-
tion: 7-9 p.m. Friday, April 5.
(734) 761-2287.
Ariana Gallery in Royal Oak hosts
Reactions, Reflections and
Refractions, a glass exhibition, April
5-May 5. Opening reception: 5-8
p.m. Friday, April 5. (248) 546-8810.
Detroit Contemporary presents the
work of Susan Aaron-Taylor, Mary
Fortuna, Robert Herrick, Gilda
Oliver and the Cranbrook Academy
Collective April 6-May 19. Opening
reception: 6-10 p.m. Saturday, April
6. (313) 898-4ART.
Detroit's C-POP Gallery shows
more than 50 artists from the U.S.,
Canada and England in The Circus
Show, works based on the circus,
carnivals, freaks and oddities,
through April 28. Opening recep-
tion: 6-11 p.m. Saturday, April 6.
(313) 833-9901.
The Woods Gallery in Huntington
Woods presents Growing through
Adversity, a six-person breast cancer
survivor exhibit, through May 16.
Opening reception: 7-9 p.m.
Thursday, April 11. (248) 543-9720.

WHATNOT

Novelist Scott Lasser, a U-M grad-
uate, signs and discusses his latest
release, All I Could Get, a harrowing
journey into the heart of New York's
financial world, 7 p.m, Friday, April
5, at Borders in downtown
Birmingham. (248) 203-0005.
Dr. Shelley Wachsmann, associate
professor at Texas A&M University,
lectures on Tantura Lagoon, Israel:
Revealing Four Millennia of Seafaring
History 8 p.m. Tuesday, April 9, in
the Lecture Hall of the Detroit
Institute of Arts (use Woodward
entrance). He'll discuss seven ancient
shipwrecks from the third to the 18th
century C.E. Free with museum
admission. 313 833-7900.

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