L: To Do! CALENDAR E-mail items to calendar@thejewishnews.com Mail items to Calendar, the Jewish News, 29200 Northwestern Highway, Suite 110, Southfield, MI 48034 Fax items to (248) 304-8885 New deadline: noon, Tuesday, nine days prior to publication. Check It Out! ARTS & CULTURE See artist Fran Wolok's exhibit "Beauty Spots: Local Landscapes and Floral Portraits" through Nov. 8 at the Birmingham Unitarian Church, 38651 Woodward, Bloomfield Hills. Mondays- Thursdays 9-5 and 9-1 on Sundays. (248) 647-2380. Listen to Susan Messer read from her novel Grand River and Joy, in large part about the Detroit Jewish com- munity in the 1960s, at 2 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 25, at Book Beat, Lincoln and Greenfield, Oak Park. (248) 968-1190. Hear ex-Detroiter Scott Lasser talk on his new novel The Year That Follows, about the loss of a family member on 9-11. Free. Time: 7:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. 26, at Temple Beth El, Bloomfield Township. Information: Librarian Eileen Polk, (248) 865-0627. Shaarey Zedek Sisterhood Book Club will discuss Deafening by Frances Rani 1 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 27, in Southfield. Free. Guests welcome. Facilitated by Linda Cohen. (248) 357-5544. CINEMA & STAGE Cranbrook, Bloomfield Hills, through Nov. 1. $20/$18 students. (248) 737- 3587. CONCERTS Enjoy pianist Kirin Gerstein and the DSO Oct. 23-25 at Orchestra Hall, Detroit. Friday at 10:45 a.m.; Saturday at 8:30 p.m. and Sunday at 3 p.m. www.detroitsymphony.com . Groove to the show tunes, jazz stan- dards and original pieces as Jack and Hannah Waterstone perform on the piano and saxophone 8 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 25, at AJ's Music Cafe, 240 W. Nine Mile, Ferndale, (248) 399-3946. No admission charge; donations are accepted. Join the Pro Mozart Society of Greater Detroit at a chamber recital featuring Detroit Symphony Orchestra musicians 8 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 27, at Antioch Lutheran Church,13 Mile & Farmington Road, Farmington Hills. $ 25 (students $5). Send checks payable to the Pro Mozart Society to 37099 Sandalwood, Farmington Hills, MI 48331. (248) 788-2479 or (248) 683-9626 or www. promozartdetroit.org . 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 through Nov. 8 at the West Bloomfield JCC. Gillian Eaton directs, and the cast includes Sarab Kamoo, John Lepard, Naz Edwards and Leslie Ann Handelman. Ticket informa- tion: (248) 788-2900. Detroit Chamber Winds & Strings wel- comes DSO horn players to a program ranging from Bach to modern pieces by Kerry Turner and Lowell Shaw 8:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 6, at Hagopian World of Rugs, 850 S. Old Woodward, Birmingham. Advance tickets at $20 ($10 for students) can be purchased at www.detroitchamberwinds.org or (248) 559-2095. Price $5 more at door. Enjoy Frankel Jewish Academy's pro- duction of Pippin 7 p.m. Wednesday- Thursday, Oct. 28-29, and 2 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 1, at the West Bloomfield JCC. Tickets $10 for FJA students; $15 for others. Information, Mitch Master, (248) 592-5263, ext. 254. Prospective students may attend for free: Anne Van Prooyen, ext. 222. Hook up with Phish's fall tour Nov. 18 at Detroit's Cobo Arena. Tickets go on sale Oct. 23-24. Information: www. phish.com/tourdates. See Rent starring Dr. Gary LaKind at St. Dunstan's Theatre Guild of EVENT HOTLINE Browse the Bloomfield Hills Jewelry & Vintage Apparel Show 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 24, at the Birmingham Unitarian Church, 38651 Woodward, Bloomfield Hills. $5; under age 12 free. Exotic Jewish India Experience "Jewish Calcutta through Music and Memory" — a program that features award-winning journalist, singer, speaker and educator Rahel Musleah at 4 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 1, at Congregation Beth Ahm, West Bloomfield. The free program is sponsored by the synagogue's Walter Litt Family Jewish Music Fund. See her Web site: rahelsjewishindia.com . Event Information: Nancy Kaplan, (248) 737-1931 Rahel Musleah 50 October 22 • 2009 or nancyellen879@att.net . IN The Michigan Jewish War Veterans and Ladies Auxiliary will unveil a JWV Monument at the Great Lakes National Cemetery in Holly at 1 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 25. Chairs are Memorial Home President Stan Eisenberg and past Department President Shirlee Marshall. Rabbi Karen Companez of Temple Beth El in Flint will lead the ceremony. All are welcome. The Sisterhood of Adat Shalom will hold its annual Paid-Up Membership Dinner 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 28. Free, but open to non-members at $25. Following dinner, author Terri Orbuch, the "Love Doctor," will dis- cuss her book 5 Simple Steps To Take Your Marriage from Good to GREAT. Send a check payable to Sisterhood of Adat Shalom to: 29901 Middlebelt, Farmington Hills, MI 48334. (248) 851-5100. if ..... 0 .) 7 1 ,- - -(Si. i (6-- 541— I1,,- J:.,4 2 ._ ,,,:t.c_A,,,,I,