• OW/ Ora/ cWahe Great Italian Food Master Storyteller Rated 3 1/2 Stars By The Detroit News 2080 Walnut Lake Road West Bloomfield, MI In the centenary of his birth, introduce the kids to author Isaac Bashevis Singer through a family-friendly presentation in Huntington Woods. Available for parties Call: 248-851-2500 for reservations Closed Monday • Tuesday - Thursday 5-10 Friday - Saturday 5-11 • Sunday 4-9 859560 There is a fresh face in the local restaurant scene. Deep Blue, owned by Geoffrey Browning and Chick Taylor, is a contemporary look to classic seafood. 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The Huntington Woods Public Library is hosting the free family presen- tation 7 p.m. Wednesday, July 21, as part of a network of 60 libraries across the country winning $450 grants to develop programs about Singer that are open to the public. The centennial cele- bration, "Becoming an American Writer: The Life and Works of Isaac Bashevis Singer," is being organized by the nonprofit Library of America in New York. The Detroit Puppet Theater, which has developed the play and uses record- ed klezmer music, takes audiences back to the shtetls familiar to Singer, who grew up in Poland and wrote in Yiddish long before immigrating to America in 1935 and receiving the 1978 Nobel C Don't be afraid to enter the Deep Blue - SUZANNE CHESSLER Special to the Jewish News 862060 i-Z-v:101:-:N I Dinner for Two ETHIOPIAN FEAST VEGETARIAN FEAST $ 30.00 $ 25.00 offer expires July 31st, 2004 - with coupon 545 West 9 Mile • Ferndale • 248-547-6699 221 E. Washington Rd. • Ann Arbor • 734-998-4746 Open for Dinner Only • Hours —Sun 3-9, Mon-Thurs 5-9, Fri-Sat 4-11 N101:-:Iffil% ..0:EfillIDCIERI:•:11E 860700 During Lahser construction use Telegraph service drive entrance. ■ BBQ Grill on the Table ■ Best Sushi Bar in Town ■ Traditional Floor Sitting Rooms Available ■ Free Karaoke 9:00 p.m. with dining or drinking I I off 10% food bill your TOTAL f%• ANY TIME 1%0 I Dine in only N ew S co uI i 7/16 2004 34 a Not ood with an other offer expires 07/31/04 G ar den Authentic Korean & Japanese Cuisine Phone (248) 827-1600 Catering Available g Open Daily www.newseoulgarden.com newseoul ■ • Isaac Bashevis Singer: "Singer went from an ethnic, Yiddish-speaking audience to a larger, English-lan- guage audience. He transformed himself and American literature in the process," says Max Rudin, pub- lisher of the Library of America and Singer centennial director: Prize in Literature. He was the seventh American and only Yiddish writer to receive the award. "When I learned about the Library of America grant competition, I decided to do puppet theater to involve children," says Shelley Gach, library director in Huntington Woods. "We're also glad to be receiving a three-volume edition of his collected stories." Close the Window, based on the tale "The First Shlemiel," is a funny piece about an old man who never seems to get anything right. The story celebrates traditions," says Igor Gozman, the puppet theater founder who had his training in Russia and will be working the production with Natasha Khusid, who has been a professor of performing arts in Russia. Collected Stories Max Rudin, publisher of the Library of America and Singer centennial director, says the centennial events recognize Singer — as he becomes the subject of the library's first national program — as a model of an immigrant author. The library, started in 1979 with seed money from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Ford Foundation, preserves the nation's liter- acy heritage by publishing authoritative editions of America's most significant writing. "Singer went from an ethnic, Yiddish- speaking audience to a larger, English- language audience. He transformed himself and American literature in the process," says Rudin, who calls attention to four new Library of America-pro- duced volumes being released this month. Edited by Ilan Stavans, an author and editor who also serves as the Lewis- Sebring Professor of Latin American and Latino Culture at Amherst College, they are Singer: Collected Stories — Gimpel the Fool to The Letter Writer (Library of America; $35); Singer: Collected Stories — A Friend of Kafkas to Passions (Library of America; $35); and Singer: Collected Stories — One Night in Brazil to The Death of Methuselah (Library of America; $35).