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Book Lovers' Paradise
Check It Out!
Arts & Culture
House, 5030 Orchard Lake, West
Bloomfield. (248) 683-5030.
Look through the exhibit A New
Class of Glass, featuring work
by students and alumni of the
College for Creative Studies,
running through May 10 at the
Janice Charach Epstein Gallery
in the West Bloomfield JCC.
Gallery hours are 10 a.m.-5 p.m.
Mondays-Wednesdays, 10 a.m.-7
p.m. Thursdays and 11 a.m.-4 p.m.
Sundays. (248) 432-5448.
Get to know Leora Tanenbaum,
discussing her book Catfight:
Rivalries Among Women at 7
p.m. Thursday, May 3, at Temple
Shir Shalom, 3999 Walnut Lake
Rd., West Bloomfield. The event
is sponsored by the Federation's
Women's Campaign & Education
Dept. $18. RSVP by May 2 by call-
ing (248) 203-1460.
Browse the Farmington Artists
Club Spring Exhibit and Sale April
26-29 at the Costick Activities
Center, 28660 11 Mile, Farmington
Hills. Hours are 10 a.m.-8:30 p.m.
Thursday, 10 a.m.-10 p.m. Friday,
noon-6:30 p.m. Saturday and
noon-5 p.m. Sunday. (734) 455-
9885.
Take a Downtown Rochester
Gallery Stroll 6-9 p.m. Friday,
April 27. Pick up an invitation
card with a map at any gallery.
(248) 651-4110.
Cinema & Stage
Experience the opera Turandot
through April 29 at the Detroit
Opera House, 1526 Broadway.
Performances are at 7:30 p.m.
Friday-Saturday, April 27-28, and
2:30 p.m. Sunday, April 29. $28-
$120. (313) 237-SING.
Submit an unpublished, short play
to Stagecrafters by April 30 for
consideration in its New Works
Play Festival. Send five copies
to the Baldwin Theatre, 415 S.
Lafayette, Royal Oak.
www.stagecrafters.org .
Hear Rabbi Sherwin Wine in two
programs for the Center for New
Thinking Library, 725 S. Adams,
Birmingham. He will review
Murder in Amsterdam by Ian
Burema at 10:30 a.m. Saturday,
April 28. $9-$10. He will discuss
"Pioneers of New Thinking" at
10:30 a.m. Saturday, May 5, when
he pays tribute to Marie Curie. $10
nonmembers. (248) 646-0416.
Play sleuth while seeing
the JET production An
Inspector Calls, run-
ning through May 19
at the West Bloomfield
JCC. Performances are at
7:30 p.m. Wednesdays (except May
9, when there will be a matinee
at 2 p.m.), 7:30 p.m. Thursdays,
5 and 8:30 p.m. Saturdays and
2 p.m. Sundays. $17-$39. (248)
788-2900.
Meet with the Book Discussion
Group of the Greater Detroit
Chapter of Hadassah to review
Rashi's Daughters at 10 a.m.
Monday, April 30, at Hadassah
Step back into the time of the
Andrews Sisters for The Sisters
EVERYTHING'S
RELATIVE
by Jordan B. Gorfinkel •
www.jewishcartoon.com
Bookstock, Metro Detroit's largest used book and media
sale benefiting area literacy and education projects, will
be held Sunday, April 29-Sunday, May 6, at Livonia's
Laurel Park Place on 6 Mile Road, east of 1-275.
A true book lovers' paradise, Bookstock has tens of
thousands of donated used books (including Judaica),
DVDs, CDs, books on tape, magazines and records for
sale at bargain-basement prices. Savvy shoppers and
collectors can get first crack at the Bookstock pre-sale,
8:45-11:45 a.m. April 29, $10. Sale hours are noon-6 p.m.
Sunday and 10 a.m.-9 p.m. Monday-Saturday. Free. Books
will be sold for half-price on May 6.
In four years, Bookstock has raised more than
$200,000 for literacy and education programs through-
out Oakland County and Detroit. More than 700 volunteers help make the event happen.
The sale is sponsored by the Detroit Jewish Coalition for Literacy, the Oakland Literacy
Council, the Detroit Jewish News, Schostak Brothers and Company, and a consortium of
Jewish communal nonprofit organizations that support education and literacy. Bookstock hot-
line: (248) 645-7840, ext. 365. Or visit www.bookstock.info.
of Swing through May 20 at the
Meadow Brook Theatre on the
campus of Oakland University in
Rochester. $22-$38. Get a sched-
ule at www.mbtheatre.com . See a
rehearsal and have Luncheon on
the Aisle with the Meadow Brook
Theatre Guild Friday, April 27.
$30-$50. (248) 377-3300.
April 27-May 6, at the Baldwin
Theatre, 415 S. Lafayette, Royal
Oak. The Stagecrafters production
starts at 8 p.m. Fridays-Saturdays
and 2 p.m. Sundays. $14. (248)
541-6430.
Catch the musical How to
Succeed in Business Without
Really Trying April 27-May 20
at the Players Guild of Dearborn,
21730 Madison. The show starts
at 8 p.m. Fridays-Saturdays and
2:30 p.m. Sundays, May 6, 13 and
20. $18. (313) 561-TKTS.
See The Lion in Winter presented
by the Oakland Theatre Guild at
7:30 p.m. Friday-Saturday, April
27-28, and 2 p.m. Sunday, April
29, at the Starlight Theater in
the Summit Place Mall, 315 N.
Telegraph, Waterford. $10-$14.
(248) 335-1788.
Watch the musical Into the Woods
at 8 p.m. Friday-Saturday, April 27-
28, and 2 p.m. Sunday, April 29,at
the Bonstelle Theatre, 4743 Cass,
Detroit. $14-18. (313) 577-2960.
Experience three dances — one
based on a story, another in the
Asian aesthetic and a third involv-
ing a mix of forms — in It's an Art
Thing at 11 a.m. Saturday, April
28, at Performance Network
Theatre, 120 E. Huron, Ann Arbor.
The program is for young families.
$7 - $10. (734) 663 0681.
at several theaters. Among the
family movies are Jewish Women
in American Sport: Settlement
Houses to the Olympics and Little
Heroes. A complete schedule can
be found in last week's Jewish
News or at www.djff.org.
Audition for the play Pass the
Ducks, being cast by the Players
Guild of Dearborn, at 7:30 p.m.
Monday-Tuesday, April 30-May 1,
at 21730 Madison. (313) 277-5164.
Watch more films at the 2007
Jewish Film Festival hosted
Sunday-Thursday, May 6-10, by
the Jewish Community Center
of Washtenaw County at the
Michigan Theater, 603 E. Liberty,
Ann Arbor. $10 per movie, $65 for
all 19. www.jccannarbor.org .
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View the revue Signature
Broadway featuring the music
of Jerry Herman, Andrew Lloyd
Webber, Stephen Sondheim and
Kander & Ebb Fridays-Sundays,
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Altruist
The
Realist
See a variety of films shown
during the Jewish Community
Center's Lenore Marvin Jewish
Film Festival April 29-May 10
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Rock with the Jam Society
Live — featuring Ari Teitel, Amir
Edwards and Tony Lannen — at
3:30 p.m. Saturday, April 28,
at CJ's Brewing Company, 8115
Richardson Rd., Commerce
Township. (248) 366-7979.
Presenting "ZAYDE'S STORY" • Chapter 4 of 10 • As Featured in the MUNICH JEWISH MUSEUM Permanent Exhibition
Listen to cantors David Propis,
Meir Finkelstein, Pamela Schiffer
and the Shaarey Zedek Choir per-
form inspirational music at 7 p.m.
Sunday, April 29, at Congregation
Shaarey Zedek, 1924 Coolidge Rd.,
East Lansing. $15. (517) 351-3570.
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