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THE BIG SCREEN

The Detroit Symphony Orchestra celebrates the
DIA's Degas exhibit with Prokofiev's Romeo and
Juliet, conducted by Yan Pascal Tortelier, 1:30 and 8
p.m. Friday and 8:30 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 22-23, at
Orchestra Hall. $15-$56. (313) 576-5111.

The new Spike Lee documentary, Jim
Brown: All American, will be screened 2
p.m. Saturday, Nov. 23, at the Detroit
Film Theatre at the Detroit Institute of
Arts, followed by a live question-and-
answer session with Lee and Brown.
$10-$12. (313) 833-4005.
THE ART SCENE
Safe Haven in China: The Untold
Detroit's Tangent Gallery hosts a show of
GAIL ZIMMERMAN
History of the Jews, a planned three-part
new
emerging artists, including Shiva
Arts C Entertainment
documentary, is seeking interviewees who
Editor
Ahmadhi, Matt Hoffman, Peter Mallo,
interacted with, lived or still live in a Jewish
Jennifer Maiseloff and Caryn Millard, Nov.
community in China, as well as private and
22-Dec.
21.
Opening reception: 6-9:30 p.m.
corporate donors. Those interested in participating
Saturday,
Nov.
23. (313) 873-2955.
should go to the Web site at wwwsafehaveninchina.org .
Birmingham Bloomfield Art Center hosts its
annual Holiday Shop, featuring one-of-a-kind
THE SMALL SCREEN
Chanukah merchandise, Nov. 22-Dec. 1, (248) 644-
Will & Grace star Sean Hayes portrays Jerry Lewis
0866, Ext. 108; and Detroit Artists Market presents
and British actor Jeremy Northam is Dean Martin
its Holiday Show through Dec. 22, (313) 832-8540.
in the biopic Lewis and Martin, airing 9 p.m.
Sunday, Nov. 24 on CBS.
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Mystery of the Dakar, a one-hour documentary
Barnes & Noble in West Bloomfield presents
about the tragic loss of the Israeli submarine on its
Marianne Williamson discussing and signing her
maiden voyage in 1968 and its discovery 30 years later,
latest work, Everyday Grace, 7:30-8:30 p.m.
airs 8 p.m. Friday, Nov. 29, on the National
Monday,
Nov. 25; its annual local authors night,
Geographic Channel (NGC). Check your local listings.
featuring Robert Edward Levin ( The Glass Heart),
Rosalie Kramer (Dancing in the Dark: Things My
FAMILY FUN
Mother Never Told Me) and Joyce Weiss ( Take the
The Eisenhower Dance Ensemble performs The
Ride of Your Lift), 7 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 26; and
Land of Nod and Other Dances 3 and 8
Chanukah stories and crafts, 11 a.m. Saturday, Nov.
p.m. Saturday, Nov. 23, at Seligman Family
30. (248) 636-6804.

POP/ROCK/JAZZ/FOLK

Singer/songwriter Tori Amos performs in an inti-
mate, theater-style configuration at the Palace of
Auburn Hills 7:30 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 24. $37.50.
(248) 645-6666.
Four Chicago-area folk musicians perform the parts
of Ronnie Gilbert, Fred Hellerman, Pete Seeger and
Lee Hays in Weavermania, which reproduces the
original songs and sounds of the seminal folk group
the Weavers, 7:30 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 24, at The Ark
in Ann Arbor. $15. (734) 761-1451.
Michigan Performing Arts hosts Carol Burnett
Show regular Vicki Lawrence performing songs and
comedy 8 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 24, at Southfield's
Millennium Center. $28-$45. (248) 557-7529.
Pianist Ben Folds takes the stage with singer-song-
writer Duncan Sheik 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 26, at
Detroit's State Theatre. $25. (248) 645-6666.
Out with a new album, Red Letter Days, The
Wallflowers, including original members Jakob
Dylan and Rami Jaffee, appear Wednesday, Nov. 27,
at Detroit's St. Andrew's Hall. Doors at 8 p.m. $20.
(248) 645-6666.
Congregation B'nai Moshe holds its third
annual cabaret night, Music Schmusic: Jewish
Singers and Songwriters and the Mothers Who
Love Them, 8 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 7, at the syna-
gogue. $10 advance/$12.50 at the door; includes
refreshments. (248) 788-0600.

JEWISH MUSIC

The Zamir Chorale presents Burst of Light, a
program of old and new Chanukah music, includ-
ing a doo-wop version of "I Have a Little
Dreidel," 4 p.m. Sunday,
Nov. 24, at the Jewish
Community Center in
Maxine Gardners
Oak Park. Free. (313) 393-
mosiac-patterned
3709 or (248) 352-2282.

ON THE STAGE

chair will be featured
in "Chair-Edibles."

Lansing's Boarshead
Theatre stages the musical
I Love You, You're Perfect, Now
Change, tracing male-female relationships,
through Dec. 15. Call for show times. $8-$29.
(517) 484-7805.
The U-M School of Music's Department of
Theatre presents Marc Camoletti's Don't Dress
for Dinner, a farce about two clandestine love
affairs, 8 p.m. Friday-Saturday and 2 p.m.
Sunday, Nov. 22-24. $15-$20. (734) 764-2538.

TAKE
E A SEAT

Yad Ezra will be one of three beneficiaries
of "Chair-Edibles," an art exhibit and auc-
tion featuring chair themes and raising hol-
iday funds for food banks.
The exhibit, which runs Dec 1-31 at the
Woods Gallery in the Huntington Woods
Library, will feature 35 chairs completed by
area artists using many kinds of materials.
The auction will be held 7-9 p.m. Thursday,
Dec. 5, with proceeds also going to Gleaners
and the Capuchin Soup Kitchen.
Allan Ash, whose work has been featured
in Birmingham's Our Town" shows,
will be represented with a
painting instead of an actual
chair. Depicting a metal frame,
he added black and gray tones
as fabric and accented the work
with a colorful background.
"I liked the simplicity of the
design and used color for contrast,"
says Ash, a retired orthodontist
and Beth Shalom member. "I also
will be showing my figurative work

Performing Arts Center in Beverly Hills.
$10-$15. (248) 559-2095.
America's Thanksgiving Parade marches
down Woodward Avenue from the Detroit
Public Library (Putnam) to Grand Circus
Park (Witherell) beginning 10 a.m.
Thursday, Nov 28.

at two other shows, one at the Woods Gallery and
another at a Flint gallery."
Maxine Gardner found an antique chair with
three legs and covered it with mosaic patterns.
"I thought the chair itself looked like a piece of
art," says Gardner, who has helped promote art in
religious schools by participating in a program
sponsored by the Jewish Federation of
Metropolitan Detroit. "For the chair, I've used
multi-colored mixtures of patterns."
Jennifer Faber, a stained glass artist, found what
she calls a "pouting chair," painted it black and did
mosaic designs on the seat.
"When I saw the chair, I thought of it as one
used for children needing time out," says Faber,
also working on a Chanukah show sponsored by
Jewish Women International. "I like this chair
because it is tall and narrow"

-Suzanne Chessler

"Chair-Edibles" will be on view Dec. 1-31 at
the Woods Gallery in the Huntington Woods
Library, 26415 Scotia. The auction runs 7-9
p.m. Thursday, Dec. 5. $10 donation suggest-
ed.- (248) 543-9720.

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