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Architecture
Extraordinaire

In the 1910s and 1920s, there was more
steel going up in Detroit than anywhere
else outside of New York and Chicago.
The result was the country's first
high-tech metropolis, with works by
major architects, including Frank Lloyd
Wright, Mies van der Rohe, Stanford
White, Daniel Burnham, Albert Kahn,
Philip Johnson and others. The city's
public buildings were second to none
on overall scale, materials and detail-
ing.
Today, many are either endangered
or marginally in use; in 2005, the
National Trust for Historic Preservation
placed "the historic buildings of down-
town Detroit" on the list of the coun-
try's most endangered landmarks.
Drawing attention to these archi-
tectural treasures is "American City:
Detroit Architecture 1845-2005," a pho-

tography exhibit of 80 new color photo-
graphs of Detroit's most famous build-
ings. It is on display through March 31
at Wayne Community College District's
Brown and Juanita Ford Gallery, on the
downtown campus, 1001 Fort St., in
Detroit.
The exhibition, on loan from the
Detroit Public Library, is compiled
from photographs in the 2005 book of
the same title (Wayne State University
Press; $60) from photographer William
Zbaren and writer Robert Sharoff, who
on a 2003 visit to downtown Detroit
were overwhelmed by "the sheer beau-
ty of the buildings" they encountered.
Landmark photographs include Fort
Wayne, Michigan Central Railroad
Station, Wayne County Building, the
Penobscot Building, Orchestra Hall and
the Fox Theatre.
Gallery hours are noon-5 p.m.
Mondays-Fridays. For more informa-
tion, go to www.wccd.edu. Workshops
and lectures surrounding the exhibit
are available. For appointments, call
Melva Bradford at (313) 496-2570 or
(313) 496-2536. I I

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new and exciting projects.
ac. creator Josh Schwartz, 30,
will have a lot of work for Bilson if
his new series, Gossip Girl, from a
series of steamy novels of the same
name, is picked up for broadcast.
Right now, the CW network has told
Schwartz to make a Gossip Girl pilot
episode.
Girl is basically The O.C. trans-
planted to the East Coast, with most
of the characters being in their early
20s. Like on The 0.C., most of the
Girl characters are rich, morally
shallow and very good looking. They
are mostly WASPs, with a few well-
heeled Jews thrown in for spice.

Bottom Feeders

I'll satisfy the curiosity of many of
you. Yes, California attorney Howard
K. Stern, of Anna Nicole Smith
media circus fame, is Jewish.
Smith, by the way, was Stern's
only law client. California State
Bar rules frown on a lawyer having
sexual contact with his/her client,
although this fact alone is not auto-
matic grounds for discipline. But I
don't think a state bar investigation
is at the top of the list of Stern's
present worries.

As long as I have tipped my toe
in the "sea of sleaze," here are a
couple of additional tidbits:
Previously unknown Jewish fash-
ion model Isaac Cohen and singer
Britney Spears are over as a dat-
ing couple. They lasted a month.
Preceding the break-up was Spears
being photographed wearing a Star
of David and junk press headlines
that screamed,
"Britney is con-
verting for Isaac!"
Cohen will fade
from the tabloids,
but not so Brandon
Davis, 22, the
party-boy son of
Brandon Davis
the late Jewish
billionaire Marvin
Davis. He's a gossip-page fixture,
alternately hanging out with or
feuding with Spears, Lindsay Lohan,
Paris Hilton or Nicole Richie.
Some months back, Davis gave
Lohan a nasty nickname that is now
all over the Internet (a nickname
not suitable to mention in a fam-
ily newspaper). Now, at last report,
they have made up, and he is trying
to "help her" with her various prob-
lems. I

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