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See 14 top daytime TV soap stars plus
American Idol Matt Giraud in "Soap Stars
Live & Unscripted" at Detroit's Masonic
Temple Theatre. The 8 p.m. Saturday,
Oct. 10, event features a theatrical
variety show and spoofs, and the 1 p.m.
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Meet at 7:00 PM - CSZ B'nai Israel Center
For more information and to RSVP, please contact Tobye Bello at
248/357-5544 x45 or e-mail tbello@shaareyzedek.org
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at 556 W. Maple at Southfield Road.
(248) 530-1928.
ARTS & CULTURE
View local contemporary art dur-
ing Art Detroit Now at 75 venues
Friday-Saturday, Oct. 2-3. The Detroit
Institute of Arts will showcase a new
gallery installation called Fluxus: It's
an Attitude, which comprises 132
objects donated by the Gilbert B. and
Lila Silverman Fluxus Foundation. For
a list of artists, venues and activities,
visit artdetroitnow.com . For informa-
tion, call (248) 258-8808, ext. 29.
CINEMA & STAGE
Wayne State University's Hillberry
Theatre's season begins with the
musical The Fantasticks on Friday,
Oct. 2 through October. Tickets: (313)
577-2972 or at the box office, 4743
Cass, Detroit. Times: www.theatre.
wayne.edu ; www.wsushows.com .
See the 26-minute film Mount
Clemens: The Bath City of America,
about its mineral bath industry from
the 1880s to the 1940s. The Detroit
Historical Society presents the film
at 1 p.m. Saturday-Sunday, Oct. 10-
11, at the Detroit Historical Museum.
Free with museum admission. (313)
833-7979.
Join your sister readers at monthly
book club, Temple Shir Shalom
Bookworms, 7-8:30 p.m. Monday, Oct.
5, in the West Bloomfield Township
Library. Free. RSVP required to chair
Shelly Newman, (248) 737-0266,
sred@sbcglobal.net.
View artist Beverly Fishman's exhibit
"Kandyland" through Oct. 31 at the
Lemberg Gallery, 23241 Woodward,
Ferndale. (248) 591-6623.
See "Celebrate the Print — A
Juried Exhibition through Oct. 31
at the Lawrence St. Gallery, 22620
Woodward, Ferndale. (248) 544-0394.
Reminisce at the Birmingham
Historical Museum & Park's Vernor's
Ginger Ale exhibit through Oct. 17
See the first offering of Jewish
Ensemble Theatre's season, penned
by playwright-in-residence Kitty
Dubin: the world premiere of The
Blank Page. The play runs Oct.13 -Nov.
8 at the West Bloomfield JCC. Gillian
Eaton directs, and the cast includes
Sarab Kamoo, John Lepard, Naz
Edwards and Leslie Ann Handelman.
Times for preview week, Oct.13-17,
are 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Wednesday and
NA'AMAT Luncheon
Join NA'AMAT-Greater Detroit Council at its
combined Donor and Spiritual Adoption luncheon
noon Thursday, Oct. 8, at Adat Shalom Synagogue
in Farmington Hills. Cantor Daniel Gross will
perform Hebrew, Yiddish and popular music.
Charge. Chair of the day is Adele Staller. Minimum
contribution: $36. Guests welcome. RSVP: (248)
967-4750.
October 1 " 2009
hugs, photos and autographs. Tickets
begin at $35; a VIP dinner reception
with the stars is included in some
packages: CelebityEventsGroup.com ,
OlympiaEntertainment.com , Ticketmaster.
corn or (800) 745-3000. Information:
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See actors who play Ryan (All My Children), Chloe
(Days of Our Lives), Jesse (AMC), Brody (One Life to
Live) and Lucky (General Hospital) among others.
(313) 471-3099.
Thursday; and 5 p.m. Saturday.
Aid JARC by attending Legally
Blonde, The Musical, 7:30 p.m.
Tuesday, Oct. 27, at the Fisher
Theatre in Detroit. Tickets begin at
$60. Purchase online at www.jarc.org .
Call (248) 538-6611.
CONCERTS
See and hear Detroit Symphony
Orchestra Music Director Leonard
Slatkin bring together three pieces
by Samuel Barber with the music
of Richard Strauss in "Barber's
Adagio & Don Quixote" at 8 p.m.
Thursday, Oct. 1; 10:45 a.m. Friday,
Oct. 2, and 8:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct.
3, at Orchestra Hall. Tickets: Max M.
Fisher Music Center box office, 3711
Woodward Ave., Detroit; (313) 576-
5111; or www.detroitsymphony.com .
Hear the Bill Charlap Trio, presented
by the University Musical Society, 7
and 9:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 2, at Lydia
Mendelssohn Theatre in Ann Arbor.
$30-40. (734) 764-2538.
See Israeli rockers Monotonix Sunday,
Oct. 4, at Ferndale's Magic Stick.
Listen to cellist Alisa Weilerstein in
concert 8 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 8, at
Hill Auditorium, Ann Arbor. Contact
University Musical Society for tickets:
(734) 764-2538 or www.ums.org .
Enjoy the Detroit Symphony
Orchestra (DSO) as it teams up with
composer and pianist Dave Grusin
for five performances Oct. 8-11.
Tickets may be purchased at the Max
M. Fisher Music Center box office,
3711 Woodward Ave., Detroit; by call-
ing (313) 576-5111; or online at www.
detroitsymphony.com .
Watch magician David Copperfield
for "An Intimate Evening of Grand
Illusion," playing four performances
Friday and Saturday, Oct. 9-10, at the
Fox Theatre, 2211 Woodward, Detroit.
(313) 471-6611.
Enjoy celebrated and creative musi-
cians with a focus on reed instru-
ments at Edgefest, Oct. 14-17, in Ann
Cantor Gross
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Sunday, Oct. 11, show includes a Q&A
session and lots of opportunities for
Arbor. Tickets for individual concerts
are available as are Edgepasses for
the whole series at $135: www.kerry-
townconcerthouse.com or through the
Concert House, (734) 769-2999. The
public is invited to all educational and
"fringe" events free of charge.
Tickets are now on sale for Bob
Dylan and his Band's concert at
7:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 6, at Detroit's
Fox Theatre. $39.50, $53 & $70
at Hockeytown Authentics in Troy
(without a service charge); or at
OlympiaEntertainment.com and
Ticketmaster.com . To charge tick-
ets by phone, call (800) 745-3000.
Information: (313) 471-6611.
EVENT HOTLINE
The Jewish Gay Network Family and
Friends will hold its next meeting at 7
p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 6, in the library of
the West Bloomfield JCC. For informa-
tion, call (248) 432-5661 or e-mail
jlewis®jccdet.org .
Kibbitz, laugh, cry, confide — anything
but talk politics — at new drop-in
men's discussion group. Meets 2 p.m.
on second Wednesday in Room 201,
West Bloomfield JCC. Next date: Oct.
21. Free. Details: nherzig@jccdet.org .
Attend Hadassah's Fall, 2010, mission
to Israel planning meeting 7:30 p.m.
Thursday, Oct. 8, at Hadassah House,
5030 Orchard Lake Road, West
Bloomfield. For information, contact:
(248) 683-5030 or greaterdetroit®
hadassah.org .
EVENTS THAT HELP
Get in step with the three-mile fam-
ily-friendly Walk to Defeat ALS
Saturday, Oct. 3, on Belle Isle in
Detroit to support research and
patient care. Register at 9 a.m., walk
at 10. Afterward, enjoy the food at the
Ultimate Tail Gate Party. Bill Emerson,
CEO of Quicken Loans is corporate
chair, and Florine Mark of Farmington
Hills is celebrity chair. Both have lost
loved ones to ALS. Information: (248)
680-6540 or www.alsa-michigan.org .
Fight debilitating mastocytosis at
the Sarah Gittleman Research Fund's
1.5-mile walk 10-11 a.m. Sunday, Oct. 4,
at the Huntington Woods Recreation
Center, 26325 Scotia. Register at
9:15 a.m. RSVP: gittlemanfundraiser®
yahoo.com or mail the Gittleman
Family, 25490 Hereford Dr., Royal
Oak, MI 48067. Make donation
checks in any amount payable to the
Mastocytosis Society-Sarah Gittleman
Fund. (248) 545-7145.
Walk in the American Cancer Society's
2009 Making Strides Against Breast
Cancer five-mile walk 8-10 a.m.
Saturday, Oct. 10, at Detroit's Belle
Isle Park. Register or donate at:
(248) 663.3400 or www.cancer.org/
stridesonline.
Go "Behind the Scenes" to ben-
efit West Bloomfield-based Jewish
Ensemble Theatre Tuesday, Oct. 6,
at the home of Florine Mark. Melba
Winer will be honored at dinner gala
featuring a "Tin Pan Alley Tribute to
Jewish Composers." $125. Tickets,
journal ads: (248) 788-2900, www.
jettheatre.org .
Knights of Columbus is planning its
Tootsie Roll Drive for Oct. 9-11 at
Hiller's market on Commerce Road.
Proceeds go to nonprofits that ser-
vice psychiatric disabled including
Southfield-based Kadima.
Aid Adam Niskar, who was para-
lyzed in a 1999 diving accident. Join
Howard Stern sidekick Artie Lange
for a night of laughs with Southfield
native Mike Young opening at 8 p.m.
Friday, Oct. 9, at the Detroit Opera
House. For preferred and VIP seats,
contact Brooke Niskar, brookeniskar®
yahoo.com or (248) 346-1438. For
general tickets at $30 $47.50, visit
www.friendsforadam.com or www.
ticketmaster.com . For information, call
Brooke.
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Help laud artist Gail Rosenbloom
Kaplan, honoree at 25th annual
Holocaust Memorial Center dinner, 5
p.m. Sunday, Oct. 18, at Congregation
Shaarey Zedek, 27375 Bell Road,
Southfield. Keynote speaker is Irwin