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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

Attend opening reception for exhibit
"Drive" 5-7 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 16,
at David Klein Gallery, 163 Townsend,
Birmingham. (248) 433-3700, www.
dkgallery.com .

Enjoy "Under the Watchful Eye: The

Chamsah Project," Janice Charach

Gallery's new exhibit of the good-luck
symbol by artists nationwide, through
March 7, inside West Bloomfield
JCC. Hours:10 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-
Wednesday; 10 a.m.-7 p.m. Thursday;
noon-4 p.m. Sunday. Free. Terri Stearn:
(248) 432-5579, tstearn@jccdet.org .

Attend "The Art of the Artist's Book"
at Oakland University Art Gallery on
the Rochester campus. The exhibit
through April 4 features one-of-a-
kind books by 25 contemporary artists
including local artist Lynne Avadenka.
(248) 370-3005, Oakland.edu/ouag.

CINEMA & STAGE

Come to Funeral for a Gangster, a
dinner theater murder-mystery set in
the Roaring '20s at Village Theater
at Cherry Hill, 50400 Cherry Hill
Road, Canton 48187. Evening with the
Spotlight Players begins 6:30 p.m.
Saturday, Jan. 16 (also Feb.13 and
March 13). $45. (734) 480-4945, www.
spotlightplayersmi.org .

Catch The Last Five Years, directed
by Frannie Shepherd-Bates with
musical direction by Michael Fiedler,
weekends through Jan. 23, at the
Furniture Factory, 4126 Third, Detroit
48201. Presented by Magenta Giraffe
Theatre, the play portrays the life, love
and demise of a relationship between
actress Cathy and writer Jamie.
Tickets/schedule: (313) 408-7269,
www.magentagiraffe.org.

Delight in the Russian National Ballet
Theatre 8 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 23, at
Music Hall, 350 Madison, Detroit. $30-
$50. (313) 887-8500.

Appreciate Eisenhower Dance Troupe
performance, "NewDANCEfestVIII,"
7 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 23, at Troy

Performing Arts Center, 4777
Northfield Parkway, Troy 48084.
Tickets ($8-$16): (248) 559-2095,

Audition for the musical Gypsy, by
the Farmington Players, Sunday or
Monday, Jan. 24-25, at the Barn
Theater, 32332 W.12 Mile, Farmington
Hills. Call for times: (248) 553-2955.

Attend Detroit premiere of a jazz
documentary, Chops, 6:30-9:30
p.m. Thursday, Jan. 28, at Main
Art Theatre,118 N. Main, Royal Oak.
Film by Detroit native director Bruce
Broder is about public school kids who
excel at jazz. Opening sequence filmed
at venerable Baker's Keyboard Lounge
in Detroit. Purchase tickets ($15-$100)
to benefit Upland Hills School. www.
uplandhills.org , (248) 693-2878.

COMEDY b MUSIC

Take in Detroit Chamber Winds &
Strings' Nightnotes concert, "Go for
Baroque," 8:30 p.m. Friday, Jan.
15, at Hagopian World of Rugs,
850 S. Old Woodward, Birmingham.
Detroit Symphony Orchestra oboist
Donald Baker and violinist Kimberly
Kaloyanides Kennedy will play music
from the 17th and 18th centuries.
Tickets: $20; $10 for students: $5
more at door. (248) 559-2095, www.
detroitchamberwinds.org .

Listen to the Detroit Symphony
Orchestra and featured performers

at Max M. Fisher Music Center, 3711
Woodward, Detroit. Tickets: (313) 576-
5111, www.detroitsymphony.com:
• Chris Botti: Grammy Award-winning
jazz trumpeter/composer 8 p.m. Friday,
Jan. 15. Civic Jazz Orchestra plays
6:30 p.m. $22-$92.
• Nareh Arghamanyan: Pro Musica of
Detroit presents rising young pianist
8:30 p.m. Friday, Jan. 15, in center's
Music Box theater. $45.
• "Hahn & Higdon": Conductor
Leonard Slatkin with featured violinist
Hilary Hahn perform 8 p.m. Thursday,
Jan. 21;10:45 a.m. and 8 p.m. Friday,
Jan. 22; 8:30 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 23.
$43.50-$63.50.

Getting Love

Enjoy a Couples Cafe Social (singles also wel-

come) hosted by the Shul-Chabad Lubavitch

7:30 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 16, at Jerusalem

Pizza inside the West Bloomfield JCC.

Features include Havdalah ceremony,

dinner, live music and clinical therapist

Marcia Ferstenfeld's present workshop

on "Getting the Love You Want." $18. No

RSVP needed. (248) 788-4000.

See the musical duo Genimi in their
family performance "Good Mischief
with Gemini" 2 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 17,
at the Detroit Institute of Arts. (313)
833-7900 or www.dia.org .

January 14 • 2010

featuring wine and cheese, a silent

Experience "Voices of the
Holocaust," with soprano Caroline
Helton and pianist Kathryn Goodson,
4 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 17, at Kerrytown
Concert House, 415 N. Fourth, Ann
Arbor. Recital includes music of Kurt
Weill, Robert Kahn, Erich Korngold,
Darius Milhaud and Oskar Morawetz.
Free. www.kerrytownconcerthouse.
corn, (734) 769-2999.

Hear folk-roots-blues artists Jorma
Kaukonen and David Bromberg 8
p.m. Monday, Jan. 18, at the Ark, 316
S. Main, Ann Arbor. $35. Later in the
week, enjoy klezmer sounds of the
Yiddishe Cup, playing 8 p.m. Saturday,
Jan. 23, Guest appearance by Groove
Spoon members Gerald Ross and
Seymour Posner. $20; $10 with stu-
dent ID. (734) 761-1800.

Take "A Night Out with the MOT,"
as select soloists from the Michigan
Opera Theatre perform Broadway
favorites, pop music and standards,
7:30 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 23, at the

Farmington Players Barn Theatre,

32332 W.12 Mile, Farmington Hills.
Tickets: $19; $17 for seniors and stu-
dents. Get tickets weekdays at Costick
Center, 28600 W.11 Mile, Farmington
Hills. Charge: (248) 4731848/1870.

See Arie Lipsky conduct the Ann
Arbor Symphony's Mozart Birthday
Bash 8 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 23, at Hill
Auditorium. $6-$49. (734) 994-4801.

EVENT HOTLINE

Hear local celebrities speak at Temple
Beth El Brotherhood's breakfast
programs, both on Sundays at 5725
Walnut Lake Road, West Bloomfield:
• Jan. 17: Detroit Free Press colum-
nist Brian Dickerson will discuss the
local scene. Light breakfast at 9 a.m.;
program at 9:40. Cost: $3, $5 per cou-
ple. No charge for just talk. Barbara
Grant: (248) 851-1100, ext. 3149.
•Jan. 24: Oakland County Executive
L. Brooks Patterson tells how he saved
money for employees' health care at
9:30 a.m. $18 for full breakfast; RSVP
before Jan. 17: (248) 661-5700.

Play as an individual or with your
team during B'nai B'rith Great Lakes
Region's 35th basketball season start-
ing Sunday, Jan. 17, at Walled Lake
Central High School. Register with
Marty Melton: (248) 921-1539.

Learn to "Dress for Success," an
event for job seekers, 10 a.m.-3 p.m.
Tuesday, Jan. 19, at National Council
of Jewish Women/Greater Detroit
Section's Council Thrift Shop 3297 W.
12 Mile, Berkley. Representatives from
JVS will give tips on resume writing,
networking and job search skills. Free;
no RSVP needed. (248) 548-6664.

Come along with the JCC's Center
Travel Dept. for these day trips:
Boeing- Boeing play, Wednesday, Jan.

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Stars Of Gold

Celebrate "Night Under the Stars,"

auction and cash-for-gold exchange 7

p.m. (following 6:30 Havdalah service)

Saturday, Jan. 23, at Cong. B'nai

Moshe, 6800 Drake, West Bloomfield.

Preview auction: www.bnaimoshe.org .

$10 at door. Jon Isenberg: jrisenberg

®comcast.net , (248) 408-7275.

20, at Meadow Brook Theatre; Detroit

Symphony Orchestra Coffee Concert,
Friday, Feb. 5, at Max M. Fisher Music
Center; Wizard of Oz play, Thursday,
Feb. 11, at Fisher Theatre. Check for
space on cruise to Italy, Greece, Israel
and Egypt, Jan. 20-31, and two Costa
Rica cruises, Feb. 8-18 and Feb. 9-16.
RSVP: (248) 432-5471, mwolfe@jccdet.
org , www.jccdet.org .

Get you feet tapping and hands clap-
ping with local folk music performer
Cliff Erickson, following a Havdalah
ceremony, 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Jan.
23, at Adat Shalom Synagogue,
29901 Middlebelt, Farmington Hills.
$18. Check due to: Frankel Jewish
Academy, 6600 W. Maple Road, West
Bloomfield, MI 48322. Details from
Sommer Brock: (248) 529-5263.

See collectable toys 9 a.m. Saturday,
Jan. 23, at Royal Oak Farmers Market,

316 E.11 Mile. (248) 797-2112.

The Couples Club of Temple Israel in
West Bloomfield hosts a wine tasting
8 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 23, at Johnny
Pomodoro's, 322906 Middlebelt,
Farmington Hills. $50 per couple.
RSVP: Michelle Lichtman, (248) 661-
5700 or michelle@temple-israel.org .

Taste the toppings at West Bloomfield
Temple Kol Ami's King Pancake lunch
noon Sunday, Jan. 24. $5 over age 2
with $25 limit per family (not includ-
ing grandparents). RSVP: Melanie®
tkolami.org or (248) 661-0040.

Join Zager- Stone-Tucker-Grant-
Oakland Century Unit of B'nai B'rith
for the movie, Journey To Justice, the
story of Howard Triest, and a petite
luncheon 12:30 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 24,
at the Farmington Library, 32727 W.12
Mile, Farmington Hills. Send $5 check
for lunch, payable to B'nai B'rith, to:
Harvey Olson, 2722 Greenlawn Drive,
Commerce Twp., MI 48382. Deadline:
Jan. 20. Harvey: (248) 366-1992.

Get lucky at Pisgah/Zeiger & Bloch/
Israel B'nai B'rith Units' Texas Hold'em
Tournament 6:30 p.m. Sunday, Jan.
31, at the West Bloomfield JCC. Dinner
at 5:30 from Leo's Coney Island.
Tournament registration: $50 paid
by Jan. 28; $60 members/$70 non-
members afterward and at door. Dinner
and Tournament Gallery only: $15. Rick
Sherline: (248) 613-5400.

Join Young Israel of Southfield's
Young Families Committee visit to

Creative Arts Studio,114 W. Fourth St.,
Royal Oak, at 7-9:30 p.m. Sunday, Jan.
24. $3 a person or $5 a couple. RSVP:
Monica Fischman, (248) 304-1910, or
monicafischman@gmail.com.

Climb aboard the USS Tikvah for a

Schmooze Cruise 6:30-10:30 p.m.
Saturday, Feb. 6, at Cong. Shir Tikvah,

3900 Northfield Pky., Troy. 48084.
Dining at ports of call, silent auction
and entertainment by Rick May and
his band, Schmaltz, featuring vocalist
Rachael Gray. Check payable to CST:
$18 member/$25 guest if received by
Jan. 20; $25 afterward. (248) 649-
4418, www.shirtikvah.org .

EVENTS THAT HELP

Assist Michigan Parkinson Foundation
at "Katie's Kause" bowling fund-
raiser, 1-4 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 23, at
Wonderland Lanes, 8265 Richardson
Road Commerce Twp. 48309. The
evening will include: glow bowling,
raffles, 50/50 and pizza. Registration:
$25. Checks also can be. Mail check to:
Katie's Kause, 9209 Little Farm, White
Lake, MI 48386, or drop off to Bowlers
Approach Pro Shop inside Wonderland
Lanes. katieskause@gmail.com .

"Pack the Palace for Charity," a
Children's Leukemia Foundation of
Michigan benefit, will feature the
Detroit Pistons playing the Portland
Trail Blazers 7:30 p.m. Saturday,
Jan. 23, at Palace of Auburn Hills
(also games on Feb.19 and March 31).
Discount tickets available at partici-
pating Buffalo Wild Wings restaurants,
or at www.leukemiamichigan.org or
www.nba.com/pistons/packthepalace.

Applaud for honorees State Sen. Gilda
Jacobs and her husband, attorney
John Jacobs, at annual fundraiser for
and at the Oak Park JCC. Event start-
ing 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 6, will
feature an interactive murder-mystery
dinner-theater, "The Two Faces of
Murder," followed by a murder-mys-
tery raffle. $90; proceeds will sup-
port scholarships for youth and older
adults. Purchase tickets by Jan. 29.
Miriam: (248) 967-4030, ext. 2006.

Pucker up for a "Most Kissable Lips
Contest" featuring Merle Norman
lipstick samples, a benefit for cancer-
support group Gilda's Club of Royal
Oak, Donations accepted through Feb.
27, at Changez Salon, 3210 Crooks,
Royal Oak. Details: (248) 288-3434.

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