…Arts & Entertainment ON THE COVER a Memories of the late Israeli prime minister shared as one-woman show spotlights Golds Meir. Suzanne Chessler Special to the Jewish News Valerie Harper: "It's such a profound honor to bring to life the representation of this magnificent human being," says the actress of her role in Golda's Balcony. nkt e November 3 . 2005 if alerie Harper is not Jewish, but it sure seems as if she is. Harper, who ...…
….iiiimpiimumpliMi0101111111NWIN111110111111111. Arts & Entertainment BEST BETS Gail Zimmerman Arts Editor Let It Rain Rain Pryor, daughter of comedian-actor Richard Pryor, is an actress, singer, writer, producer and comedian, as well as an edu- cator and activist for multiple sclerosis. In her one-woman show Fried Chicken and Latkes, she explored her Jewish rela- tives (on her mother's side) and her father's African-American family — as ...…
…The Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus comes to the Palace of Auburn Hills Nov. 9-13. Show times are 7:30 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday; 11 a.m. and 7:30 p.m. Friday; 11:30 a.m. and 3:30 and 7:30 p.m. Saturday; and 1 and 5 p.m. Sunday. Tickets are $12.50-$20, with a limited number of $35 VIP, $50 front- row and $70 Circus Celebrity seats also available. (248) 645-6666 or www.ticket- master.com. Rabbinic Stories New York University Profe...…
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…V I& 4 4 Arts & Entertainment Rock n R011 story Filmmakers who met at Hillel Day School screen film biography of Larry "Wild Man" Fischer at Detroit Docs International Film Festiva Derailroaded Producer Jeremy Lubin Suzanne Chessler Special to the Jewish News Derailroaded Director Josh Rubin November 3 2005 eremy Lubin's entry into pro- fessional filmmaking has a definite Hollywood twist. The former Hillel Day School of Metropoli...…
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…JN lifestyle magazine PLATINUM CONTENTS M.B. Jewelry Design JNOnline.com November 2005 * Vol. 5, No. 11 An everlasting love DESIGN C'mon, Get Happy 15 Designer Jonathan Adler wants our souls to sing. FASHION/COVER STORY Shoes We Love 25 Our favorite footwear of the season offers all you need. FOOD The Compassionate Confectioner 32 at M.B. Jewelers. A baker's cake-making dream reaches multi-layered heights. 15 V. 7 "I do ►...…
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…ALL'S FARE I n Italy, when you want some- thing to be lively or vivacious — from music to entertaining — you add the words con brio to the end of a sentence. It's as much an attitude as a descriptor. English idioms could loosely be "with piz- zazz" or "punch." That ending is a perfect beginning for a lively meal at the new Brio Tuscan Grille in the south side of the Somerset Collection in Troy. Though it's not all "Tuscan" fare as the name i...…
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…AROUND TOWN Laughs For JARC An evening of comedy raises the curtain on funding for people with disabilities. ne minute he was flitting around on stage at Detroit's Fox Theatre, singing show tunes, cracking jokes and channeling the various characters and personalities lie's famous for. The next minute, actor/comedian Martin Short (right) was drinking a beer at Hockeytown Café, signing autographs and posing for snapshots with dozens of JARC's...…
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…DESIGN C'mon, Get Happy Armed with a belief that colors can't clash, designer Jonathan Adler wants our souls to sing. BY LYNNE KONSTANTIN onathan Adler believes our homes should rize his style as schizophrenic. His work references muses make us happy. From his passion for pottery as diverse as the Scandinavian graphic designs of 1960s to furniture and textile design, to his latest Marimekko, the sleek, playful silhouettes crafted by 1950s ...…
…DESIGN Top, left: The Reform Temple Vases: "People think of Reform synagogue architecture as ugly," says Adler. "I think it's the apotheosis of organic modernist style — Reform Judaism happened when modernism was happening. It's a really unappreciated genre. So I made pots inspired by Reform synagogue architecture." On the horizon: "super-cute needlepoint yarmulkes and a groovy new menorah." Top right: "A whole new school of fish." Above, r...…
…NW" Continued from page 15 news source. "Instead, they found a pasty potter." Nonetheless, his parents, both lawyers, gave in to their son's pleads for a wheel and kiln of his own, which they put in the basement of their modernist, Knoll-filled house. "I spent my entire adolescence in the basement throwing pots," he says. At the same time, Adler, raised in a Conservative Jewish family and attend- ing a high school that was "incredibly WASPy ...…
…DESIGN Continued from page 17 ( J ti furniture.) Realizing his overnight success left him little time to actually make the doughnuts," he says, Adler began working with Peruvian weavers and potters through Aid to Artisans, a nonprofit organization that, says Adler, "connects artisans in developing countries to help make products for American markets in a very non-Kathie Lee Gifford way." "It's all been very unexpected and serendipitous," s...…
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…FOOD 111114 17.4111 _ 1 .....id CARE PROJECT The Compassionate Confectioner A baker's cake-making dream reaches multi-layered heights. BY SHELLI LIEBMAN DORFMAN PHOTOGRAPHY BY ANGIE BAAN B ill Knofsky can explain both the sweet success of his Wholley Molley Bake Shop in Eastpointe and his ability to help support the needy with the same two words: car- rot cake. The store's top-selling signature item, Miss Hilma's Sinfully Divine Carro...…
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…Arts & Entertainment Another Chapter Documentary sheds light on story of Jewish refugee GIs. I Tom Tugend Jewish Telegraph Agency were captured by the Germans. Ten of the Ritchie veterans, now mostly in their 80s but with sharp minds and memories, recall their expe- riences in the 90-minute film. "Our teams were bright," Victor Brombert says, "not always courageous, not the best military, but our hearts were in it." The Battle of the Bulg...…
