E COMP ANY • Gift Baskets • Sweet Trays • Muffins • Soups • Cookies Best Bets Everything Made Fresh Daily Decorate s Cookies Chocolate Caramel Apples Chocolate Covered Pretzels Heart-shaped Brownies Voted Best. Challah Bread! $ 1.00 Off Any Bread Order 1 coupon per order Expires 02/09/04 Not good with any other discount or special offer. Not valid on holiday orders 24-hour notice please on specialty items (sonic exceptions) 6879 Orchard Lake Rd. in the Boardwalk Plaza 248-626-9110 emeraid F+1,,=uci Sertelce Catering & Banquet Services Since 1988 Temple Theatre. Call for show times. $19.50- $59.50. (248) 645-6666. Great Lakes Lyric Opera showcases local pro- Meadow Brook Theatre stages a dramatic evo- fessional talent in a gala concert of operatic cation of 1930s America in John Steinbeck's Of favorites 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 7, at Mice and Men, running Feb. 11-March 7. Call Metropolitan Church of God, 13400 Schaefer for show times. (248) 377-3300. (near Grand River, south of Schoolcraft), in Perestroika shakes things up in The Quick- Detroit. $12-$15. (248) 547-2027. GAIL ZIM MERMAN Change Room, Nagle Jackson's part farce, part Arts c Ente rtainment The Michigan Chamber Players, faculty allegory set in St. Petersburg's Kuzlov Theatre. It Edi for artists of the University of Michigan School of will be performed in a U-M School of Music Music, perform works by Brahms, Janacek and production 8 p.m. Thursday-Saturday and 2 Schubert 6 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 8, at Rackham Auditorium in p.m. Sunday, Feb. 12-15, at the Mendelssohn Theatre in Ann Arbor. Musicians include violinist Yehonatan Berick, Ann Arbor. $8-$20. (734) 764-2538. pianist Martin Katz and violist Yizhak Schotten. Free admission. (734) 764-2538. Twenry-four-year-old Grammy-nominated violinist LAUGH LINES Hilary Hahn takes the stage with pianist Natalie Zhu 8 Hosted by MSU Hillel, Mike Reiss, Emmy Award-win- p.m. Thursday, Feb. 12, at Hill Auditorium in Ann Arbor. ning producer and writer of The Simpsons, speaks 8 p.m. She'll play works by Mozart, Bach and Bloch. $10-$50. Friday, Feb. 13, in the ballroom of the MSU Union. Free. (734) 764-2538. (517) 332-1916. CLASSICAL NOTES POP/ROCK/JAzz/FOLK Singer Sarah Brightman brings her soaring soprano to the Palace of Auburn Hills 8 p.m. Monday, Feb. 9. $59.50- $125. (248) 645-6666. Featuring Jewish lead vocalist Steven Page, Canadian alternative music group Barenaked Ladies performs 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 12, at Breslin Center in East Lansing. $34.50-$44.50. (248) 645-6666. Erich Kunzel directs the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, with Broadway soprano Kathleen Brett and baritone Daniel Narducci, in From the Heart, a concert of love songs from the stage, screen and pop charts, 10:45 a.m. and 8 p.m. Thursday, 8:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday and 3 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 12-15, at the Max M. Fisher Music Center. $15-$54. (313) 576-5111. is proud to announce the opening of the new JEWISH MUSIC American-born acoustic,guitarist/vocalist Elyahu Reiter and violinist Yehonason Lipshutz, with Israeli-born classical guitarist Yonatan Tzarum, make up Simply Tsfat, a musical trio of lively Breslover Chasidim from Israel. The group per- forms 8:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 14, in the Young Israel of Oak Park Peter Weiss Center. The evening also features an Israeli-style buffet and door prizes. $20 adults/$12 students 14-21. Reservations required: (248) 967-1916 or (248) 352-6715. Bar and Bat Mitzvah's Wedding Receptions Bridal & Baby Showers Graduations Corporate Events Tbis is a s.woke and ii(111()r ON THE STAGE Director/lyricist Martin Charnin has added an extra orphan chorus" to -Annie, his Depression-era family musical that runs Feb. 10-15 at Detroit's Masonic (( THE BIG SCREEN Oscar nominated this year for Best Animated Feature Film, The Triplets of Belleville screens at the Detroit Film Theatre at the DIA 7 and 9:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday and 4 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 6-8. $5.50-$6.50. (313) 833-3237. THE ART SCENE The Detroit Institute of Arts displays an eclectic collec- tion of 100 recent prints and drawings, from 15th-century expressionism to American contemporary, through April 25. (313) 833-7900. Birmingham's Robert Kidd Gallery opens New Realism II, showcasing the talents of more than 30 realist artists, 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 7. (248) 642-3909. Washington Street Gallery in Ann Arbor features Three Photographers: Howard Bond, Robin Vincent, Bill Pelletier through Feb. 29. Artists' reception: 7-9 p.m. Friday, Feb. 13. (734) 761-2287. The College for Creative Studies hosts artwork of the winners of the Scholastic Art Awards Feb. 7-26. (313) 664-7400. The Elaine L. Jacob Gallery in Detroit presents The Royal Art Lodge, showcasing 500 collaborative drawings and mixed media works of this acclaimed Winnipeg artist collective, Feb. 13-April 2. Opening reception: 5-8 p.m. Friday, Feb. 13. (313) 577-2423. WHATNOT The Ark in Ann Arbor holds its 17th annual Storytelling Festival 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, $17.50; and 1 p.m. Sunday (family show), $10. (734) 761-1451. 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