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READY FOR
SUMMER
Check out the
Novi Home &
Garden Show
April 1-3 at
the Suburban
Collection
Showplace in
Novi for every-
Lynne Konstantin thing you need
Arts & Life Editor
for your home
and garden —
all under one
roof. Walk through 20,000 square feet
of landscaped gardens, outdoor kitch-
ens, water highlights and more, plus
listen to expert speakers at the Plant
Michigan Green Seminar Stage and
live broadcasts with “America’s Master
Handyman” Glenn Haege of WJR-AM,
enter for contests and giveaways, find a
landscape specialist and more. $9-$10.
Novihomeshow.com.
ON THE STAGE
Two Muses Theatre — formerly occupy-
ing space in the West Bloomfield Barnes
& Noble — has settled into its new
home, sharing space with Monster Box
Theatre in Waterford. To kick it off, the
Novi Home & Garden Show
artistic director has chosen the Pulitzer
Prize-winning How I Learned to Drive
by Paula Vogel (her father was Jewish)
— set in the 1960s, the play is narrated
by a woman telling of her dysfunctional
family and inappropriate relationship
with her uncle (who gave her driving
lessons). April 1-17. $18-$20. (248) 850-
9919; twomusestheatre.org.
MEET THE PRINCESS
Bring your princesses (and princes) to
see Disney’s Sleeping Beauty
Celebrity Jews
Nate Bloom
Special to the Jewish News
AT THE MOVIES
Jonathan Gold, 60ish, is the only food
critic to win the Pulitzer Prize — and he’s
the subject of City of Gold, a documentary
that opens on Friday, April 1. The son of a
Jewish probation officer and a Christian
Scientist mother who became Jewish,
Gold is an expert on all the immigrant
food offerings of his native Los Angeles
(including every style of Jewish deli as
well as more exotic Jewish food, like
Yemeni Jewish offerings). The film follows
Gold as he combs through colorful neigh-
borhoods in his pickup truck, looking for
the hidden immigrant restaurant gems
anywhere and everywhere. His razor
sharp wit and interest in people’s personal
stories turn his food journalism into some-
thing very universal.
On March 18, Netflix began streaming
a new Pee-wee Herman film, Pee-Wee’s Big
Holiday. Herman, of course, is the famous
character played by (and created by)
Paul Reubens, 63. A big star in the ’80s,
Reubens’ career was derailed by a 1991
sex scandal that seems almost quaint
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Reubens
today in light of much more serious
celeb scandals. He revived the Pee Wee
Herman character in 2009 in acclaimed
stage appearances. Holiday works, in part,
because Reubens has aged well, and Pee
Wee’s age was never specified — so even
at 63, viewers can accept Reubens in his
signature role. The plot has Herman leav-
ing his small hometown and traveling
to New York and, along the way, he gets
caught up in wacky hijinks. By the way,
Reuben’s late father served in the British
and American Air Forces during WWII and