…JN lifestyle magazine PLATINUM CONTENTS M.B. Jewelry Design Detroit Jewish News JNOnline.com May 2005 * Vol. 5, No. 5 An everlasting love PLATINUM PERSONALITY Signs of Spring 6 West Bloomfield naturalist relishes the season. GARDENS Bloomin' Birmingham 20 Private backyard garden bursts with lushness all year. Secret Garden 23 West Bloomfield garden designed to attract birds and animals. at M.B. Jewelers. FASHION/COVER STORY ...…
…JN lifestyle magazine THE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS Gerard ter Bort Master orks FEBRUARY 27 — MAY 22, 2005 PLATINUM PUBLISH ER Arthur NI. Horwitz I I F. GENERAL MANAGER Kevin BrOWert ASSISTANT GENERAL MANAGER I Suzanne Sherman EDITOR Robert A. Sklar I Gail CREATIVE EDITOR I Alan Hitsky I ASSOCIATE EDITOR Zimmerman CREATIVE DIRECTOR I Deborah Schultz ART DIRECTOR i Michelle NI. Rcska I Keri Guten Cohen STORY DEVELOPM...…
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…BY Jonathan Schechter with some friends at his SUZANNE SHERMAN Brandon Township home. PHOTOGRAPHY BY ANGIE BAAN F or most, the first sign of spring is spotting a robin in the back yard. Not so for Jonathan Schechter, West Bloomfield's West Bloomfield naturalist relishes the season: 6 • NIA) . 2005 • JNPLATINUM naturalist and park ranger. Try turkey vultures. That's right, turkey vultures. "For me, the spring tease is the flow of mapl...…
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…AROUND TOWN Yes Israel! 3 Sheri Wagner of Birmingham and Michele Saulson of Franklin TV star's Jewish identity grabs spotlight at ADL night. PHOTOGRAPHY BY BRIDGET A. BARRETT ome of the Anti-Defamation League Michigan Region's biggest supporters spent an evening rub- bing elbows with prime-time television star Joshua Malina from the NBC drama The West Wing — and they quickly found out they have a lot in common with the actor who plays "...…
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…PASSIONS A Tiny World BY LYNNE KONSTANTIN ■ PHOTOGRAPHY BY ANGIE BAAN Amy Shapiro, Meredith Weston-Band and Rabbi Aaron Bergman live in a small world. They don't know how they got there, but it's where they belong. AMY SHAPIRO former executive assistant, Amy Shapiro opened My World of Small in Ferndale last October because, says the mother of a 9-year-old son, "I'm just a little girl who never grew up." More than just a seller of doll-...…
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