To Do! E-mail items to calendar@thejewishnews.com Mail items to Calendar, the Jewish News, 29200 Northwestern, Suite 110, Southfield, MI 48034 Fax items to (248) 304-8885 • Deadline: noon, Wednesday, eight days prior to publication /Check It Out! Arts 6, Culture Send slides to be considered for next September's Art in the Park exhibit and sale sponsored by Common Ground Sanctuary. Submissions are due by March 2. $25. Get particulars by calling Cindy Hurley at (248) 456-8158, ext. 216. Look through the exhibit Mazel Toy! The Art of Marriage through March 8 at the Janice Charach Epstein Gallery at the West Bloomfield JCC. Gallery Hours are 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Sundays, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Mondays-Wednesdays and 10 a.m.-7 p.m. Thursdays. There will be a program about Jewish laws of marriage featuring Rabbi Michael Cohen of Keter Torah Synagogue and a wedding fashion show at 1:30 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 11. (248) 432-5579. Discuss the book Garlic and Sapphires by Ruth Reichl with Book Club 2007 at 7 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 1, at the West Bloomfield JCC. Discussion will be facilitated by Elisabeth Shubow of the West Bloomfield Public Library. Call Francine Menken at (248) 432-5546. Browse the exhibit Focus on Faculty: Sabbatical Exhibition through Feb. 24 at Center Galleries, 301 Frederick Douglass, Detroit. Gallery hours are 10 a.m.- 5 p.m. Tuesdays-Saturdays. (313) 664-7800. Submit possible entries for the Michigan Water Color Society's Annual Exhibition by April 4. $25- $35. Get details by calling Chris Recycle Media! Colossal Collection Day — to donate used books, tapes, records, video, CDs and DVDs for the Bookstock book and media sale — will be 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 4, at the Max M. Fisher Federation Building, 6735 Telegraph, Bloomfield Township. Tax receipts will be provided. For information, call (248) 645- 7840, ext.365. Presented by the Friends of Literacy, Schostak Brothers and Company and the Detroit Jewish News Oracle of Delphi Santoro at (248) 548-5776. Attend the Lenore Marwil Jewish Film Festival Preview sponsored by the National Council of Jewish Women Greater Detroit Section at 1 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 7, at the West Bloomfield JCC. $20. (248) 344-3300. Take part in "The Art of Giving," a selection of paintings and sculp- tures offered by Danielle Peleg Gallery for sale and auction at 7 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 10, at the Fine Art Warehouse, 2327 Willow Beach, Keego Harbor. There will be wine, hors d'oeuvres and dessert with proceeds benefiting stem cell research. $25-$30. (248) 683- 5030. Join a fine art auction at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 10, at Congregation B'nai Moshe, 6800 Drake, West Bloomfield. There will be a dessert and wine reception with music. $12 in advance, $20 at door. Take a second look 9:30 a.m.- noon Sunday, Feb. 11, with coffee and bagels. (248) 788-0600. Cinema & Stage See the play Same Time, Next Year through Feb. 4 at Meadow Brook Theatre on the campus of Oakland University in Rochester. $22-$38. Get a full schedule by going to www.mbtheatre.com . Take in the Lynn Ahrens-Stephen Flaherty production Once on This Island - A Musical per- formed by Stagecrafters through Feb. 4 at the Baldwin Theatre, 415 S. Lafayette, Royal Oak. ccA T - BET EVERYTHING'S RELATIVE 0 t E e by Jordan B. Gorfinkel • e H ©2004 BY GOR FTEXT PRODUCT IONS I NC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. gorfejewlshcartoon.com 40 February 1. 2007 IN SCHOOL, Z REMEMBER FILLING OUT A FORM TO DEDICATE A TREE IN X5RAEL. ANDA FEW WEEKS LATER, RECEIVED A C4R-7717CAT THAT ONE VIA5 PLANTED. Altruist Realist BERNIE The Idealist WOND E R WHAT EVER HAPPEN E D TO THAT LITTLE TREE... What lies ahead for the Delphi Corporation as it moves into the final phase of restruc- turing? Chairman Robert S. "Steve" Miller will discuss Delphi's future at the Federation Forum, noon-1:30 pm. Friday, Feb. 9, at the Reserve restaurant, 375 S. Eton at Maple, Birmingham. The dairy luncheon costs $30; a strictly Steve Miller kosher meal is available upon request. RSVP online at www.jewishdetroit.org/forum or by contacting Heidi Hirsch, at (248) 203-1459 or hirsch@jfmd.org . The event is sponsored by the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit with sponsorship of Paramount Bank. Lois Shaevsky is program chair. Performances are at 8 p.m. Thursdays-Saturdays and 2 p.m. Sundays. $16-$18. (248) 541- 6430. Watch the play It Should Be performed through Feb. 18 by JET at the West Bloomfield Jewish Community Center. Performances are at 7:30 p.m. Wednesdays-Thursdays, 5 and 8:30 p.m. Saturdays and 2 p.m. Sundays. The play also can be seen at 2 p.m. Wednesday, Feb.14. $24-$39. (248) 788-2900. Catch films presented by the Program for Holocaust Survivors and Families -- School Ties at 8 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 1, at the Meer Apts. in West Bloomfield; Cast a Giant Shadow at 1 p.m. Monday, Feb. 5, at the Oak Park JCC, A Brivele der Mamen at 1 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 7, at the Prentis Apts. in Oak Park and School Tiesf at 6:30 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 11, at the Fleischman Residence/Blumberg Plaza in West Bloomfield. (248) 661-2999. Experience the 2007 WB Film Festival, featuring student proj- ects, at 8 p.m. Friday, Feb. 2, at the West Bloomfield High School, 4925 Orchard Lake Rd., West Bloomfield. $5-$7. (248) 865- 6720. See Yiddish Music in Israel, a video presentation by Mike Burshtein, at 10:30 a.m. Sunday, Feb. 4, at Congregation Beth Shalom, 14601 W. Lincoln, Oak Park. Call Julie Grodin at (248) 300-3147. Listen to storyteller Aubrey Davis at 5:45 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 8, at Temple Israel, 5725 Walnut Lake Rd., West Bloomfield. The program is planned by the Grandparents Club, also serv- ing a pancake dinner. $5-$7. Reservations are required by calling Carol Murphy at (248) 661-5700. Take the family to the play Super Grover! Ready for Action Feb. 8- 25 at the Fox Theatre in Detroit. Times vary by performance date. $12-$32. (313) 471-6611. Concerts YAEL e LOUIS ZAY DS 44.A, The The Perplexed er T Rebel bel Traditionalist BUBS The Bubbe Listen to Beethoven Trios, featur- ing Louis Nagel on piano, at 8 p.m. Friday, Feb. 2, at the Kerrytown Concert House, 415 N. Fourth, Ann Arbor. $5-$25. (734) 769-2999. Hear violinist Joshua Bell at 8 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 3, at Hill Auditorium, 915 E. Washington, Ann Arbor. $10-$56. (734) 764- 2538. Experience the music of Yiddishe Cup at 8 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 3, at the Ark, 316 S. Main, Ann Arbor. $10-$20. (734) 763-8587.