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…Arts & Entertainment Family Affair Birmingham Fine Art Festival features artists with familial connections. Suzanne Chessler Specialto the Jewish News rt is a family venture — wife and husband, mother and daughter — for four artists participating in this year's Birmingham Fine Art Festival. Patti and Bob Stern, based in Ohio, divide up their projects to make whimsical furniture accessories, from large clocks to framed flowers. Rita Leeds a...…
…• Catering available at all locations Coupons are for all locations including Hercules Family Restaurant at 12 Mile & Farmington Mark and Rhonna Shatz of West Bloomfield examine a framed print at last year's Birmingham Fine Art Festival. Visit us at www.leosconeyisland.com Receive Receive Art For All Mark your calendars: A roundup of this season's art fairs. $100 Off $200 off Total Bill Total Bill Over $10 Over $20 Not valid with Spec...…
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…JN lifestyle magazine PLATINUM CONTENTS Happy Mother's Day JNonline.us May 2006 * Vol. 7, No. 5 A Jewish Renaissance Media publication A Special Mother's Day Greeting from Nina Eisenberg Features PASSIONS Go Faux ■ 0 here's nothing that says Spring 14 like Mother's Day. Surely we all remember a Style icons are snatching up vintage costume jewelry. time when our kids would FASHION COVER STORY Prom Bound wake up early on that s...…
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…AROUND TOWN He Wows 'Em! An NBC News correspondent talks news with a dash of charm at an ADL event. Betsy Kellman of Huntington Woods, speaker Dan Abrams and Judi Schram of West Bloomfield PHOTOGRAPHY BY ANGIE BAY-1.N community activism. reaking news didn't stop "I've heard several women go up to NBC's chief legal cor- him and say, 'I have a daughter who respondent Dan Abrams lives in New York,"' Kellman added. from addressing a group of ...…
…RUNNINGS :F"" t7NL BY HARRY KIRSBAUM I PHOTOGRAPHY BY ANGIE BAAN 12 • t could have been sweet. Imagine my surprise when I got to the dealership to test-drive the 2006 Lexus IS250 all-wheel-drive and found a bright orange "SOLD:Jewish News" sticker hanging from the rear- view mirror. What a great company car, I thought. A sleek-looking four-door sedan with a 2.5 liter, DOHC, V6 engine, 204 horses and 185 lb-ft of torque — it was peppy, yet ...…
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…Organized chronologically, beginning with the romantic Victorian era and cov- ering styles and periods in every decade to the present, the volume features major designers, including Marcel Boucher, who worked for Cartier in the 1910s, Czech enamel brooch designer Sandor, Chanel, Elsa Schiaparelli and more. Within each section, Tanenbaum offers details that encapsulate each period, shares pointers on collecting and includes an invaluable glossa...…
…FASHION Required reading for stylish high-school seniors. BY LYNNE KONSTANTIN STYLED BY DANA KUSHKIN I PHOTOGRAPHY BY ANGIE BAAN W hen Ashley Nathan was in the first grade, her family moved from Huntington Woods to West Bloomfield. On her first day of school, an adorable, friendly face made her feel right at home. Aviva Berlin was the first person to talk to Ashley, and the Bloomfield Hills Andover High School seniors have been great frie...…
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