To Do!
Check It Out!
Around Town
Join the Bridge Club 1 -3:30 p.m. Wednesdays
at the Oak Park JCC. Duplicate bridge play-
ers are welcome. (248) 967-4030.
Become involved with the Art in the Woods
Art Fair 2006, July 1 2 at the Huntington
Woods Lutheran Church, by submitting art,
auditioning to entertain and/or volunteering.
(248) 336-1961. www.woodsgallery.org .
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Attend a free college and career night for all
high school students and their parents to
meet with representatives from colleges,
universities and other organizations that
offer special resources for students who
have learning challenges. The event is
scheduled 6:30-8:30 p.m. Wednesday, Jan.
25, at Eton Academy, 1755 Melton,
Birmingham. Call (248) 642-1150 for advance
information.
Join the Temple Israel Sisterhood Mah Jong
Tournament at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 26,
at 5725 Walnut Lake Rd., West Bloomfield.
Come alone or bring your group. $20 in
advance, $25 at the door. Call Renee at
(248) 661-1231.
Arts & Culture
line among its services. (248) 456-8150.
See scanner-produced digital photos and
sculptures from the Nightcrawlerz
Collective (Barry Roth and Cary
Loren) through March 20 at the
Book Beat, 26010 Greenfield, Oak
Park. The pieces are part of a
group exhibit. (248) 968-1190.
Browse new works in the Oakland
University Faculty Exhibition through Feb.
19 at the Meadow Brook Art Gallery, 208
Wilson Hall, Oakland University, Rochester.
Gallery hours are noon-5 p.m. Mondays-
Sundays and evenings during Meadow Brook
Theatre performances. A panel discussion with
artists starts 2 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 22. (248)
370-3005.
Discuss the book Kavalier & Clay by Michael
Chabon with the JPM/JCC Book Club at 1
p.m. Thursday, *Jan. 26, at the Oak Park
JCC. (248) 967-4030.
Visit the Rabbi Leo M. Franklin Archives of
Temple Beth El 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 29,
at 7400 Telegraph, Bloomfield Township.
Archivist Jan Durecki will introduce the pho-
tos, artifacts and materials. (248) 851-1100.
Cinema & Stage
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Submit entries by 5 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 28, for
The Body Eclectic '06 Figure Competition &
Exhibition at the Lawrence Street Gallery in
Ferndale. The exhibit runs Jan. 31 -Feb. 24. $25
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for 2 entries. (248) 544-0394.
Experience small works of art first
displayed as holiday gifts
through Jan. 28 at the Neal
Davis Gallery, 314 W.
Fourth, Royal Oak. Gallery
hours are noon-6 p.m.
Wednesdays-Saturdays.
(248) 296-0326.
View the images of prize-winning
photographer Marji Silk through Jan. 30 at
Port City Java Coffee House, 6931 Orchard
Lake Rd., West Bloomfield. (248) 855-1725.
Submit a short play for the Nei Works Play
Festival sponsored by Stagecrafters in Royal
Oak. Scripts must allow for no longer than 10
or 15 minutes of adult drama or comedy.
Send pieces to the Baldwin Theatre, 415 S.
Lafayette, Royal Oak, MI 48067 by Feb. 28.
(248) 541-8027. www.stagecrafters.org .
Laugh with the Players Guild of Dearborn,
21730 Madison, as they stage the comedy Epic
Proportions, which tells the story of two broth-
ers who go to Arizona to be extras in a biblical
film. The show starts at 8 p.m. weekend
evenings Jan. 20 28 and 2:30 p.m. Sundays,
Jan. 22 and 29. $6-$12. (313) 277-5164.
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Browse the drawings of Barry Avedon as
part of the three-artist show Kindred Spirits
scheduled through Feb. 5 at the Washington
Street Gallery, 120 E. Liberty, Ann Arbor.
Gallery hours are noon-5 p.m. Tuesdays-
Thursdays, noon-9 p.m. Saturdays and noon-
4 p.m. Sundays. (734) 761-2287.
Get and send in applications for Art in the
Park through March 3. The annual event runs
Sept.16-17 in Birmingham to benefit Common
Ground Sanctuary, which offers a crisis phone
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See the music revue
Let Freedom Ring! A
Celebration of
America's
Music
Tender Tales
Hear storyteller Corinne
Stavich present "Stories to
Warm the Heart" and have
refreshments at 1 p.m.
Wednesday, Jan. 25, at the
Oak Park JCC. (248) 967-
4030.
pre-
sented
by
Avon
Players
at 8 p.m.
Fridays-
Saturdays and 2 p.m.
Sundays Jan. 20-22
and 27-28, at 1185
Washington, Rochester Hills. $14-$16. (248)
608-9077.
Watch the puppet show A Banana for Turtle
at 2 p.m. Saturdays, Jan. 21 and 28, at
PuppetART, 25 E. Grand River, Detroit. $5 $7.
(313) 961 -7777.
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Critique new plays at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Jan.
23, at Meadow Brook Theatre's Downstairs
Rehearsal Room on the campus of Oakland
University in Rochester. The New Play
Reading Series is sponsored by the
Heartlande Theatre Company and features
works of Kitty Dubin's students. $5 donation.
(248) 377-3300.
See Keeping the Faith, a romantic movie
sponsored -by the Sisterhood of
Congregation Shaarey Zedek, at 7:15 p.m.
Wednesday, Jan. 25„ at 27375 Bell - Rd.,
Southfield. $2 members, $3 nonmembers.
(248) 357-5544.
7 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 29, at Temple Beth El,
7400 Telegraph Rd., Bloomfield Township.
$3. Contact Joan Halpern at (248) 737-0801.
See the film Ushpizin, exploring the
Orthodox world, at 7:30 p.m. Sunday, Jan.
29, at the Rackham Amphitheater, 915 East
Washington, Ann Arbor. The program is
sponsored by the University of Michigan Hill
and Chabad House of Ann Arbor. $2-$5.
(734) 769-0500 or (734) 99-LEARN.
Concerts
Attend the concert of pianist Roman •
Rabinovich with the Ann Arbor Symphony
Orchestra in a Mozart program to celebrate
the 250th anniversary of the composer's
birth. The program starts at 8 p.m. Saturday,
Jan. 21, at the Michigan Theater, 603 E.
Liberty, Ann Arbor. $10-$39. (734) 994-4801.
View the musical fable Once on This Island
written by Lynn Ahrens and Stephen
Flaherty and performed by students at.
Berkshire Middle School, 21707 14 Mile,
Beverly Hills. The play starts at 7 p.m. Jan.
26 28 and 2 p.m. Jan. 29. $6 in advance, $8
at door. (248) 203-4702.
Listen to Irish music at 8 p.m. Saturday, Jan.
21, at Congregation Beth Shalom, 14601 W.
Lincoln, Oak Park. Tom Dooley, Marilyn
Hotaling and Icie Marie Frady are perform-
ing. $12 in advance, $15 at door. Afterglow
follows the show. Call Bobbie Lewis at (248)
546-4255 or Gretchen Weiner at (734) 261-
6468.
Watch the film Unlikely Heroes, which chron-
icles the lives of seven resistance fighters, at
Experience klezmer comedy with the band
Yiddishe Cup at 8 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 21, at
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