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A congratulation is in order; your newspaper has been needed here in Detroit for quite a while. Not only is it well put together but well written also, covering a wide variety of things the daily papers seem to ignore. Its also pleasant to see a crossover of advertising that spans the metro area, and your calendar is great. Good luck to you.
John Penick
Concerning the gambling issue, | hope the people in Detroit wake up before its too late. They still think the automotive industry is strong enough to make things work. We need to diversify, and gambling would save the billion-dollar deficit we are now, facing. Jobs would also be created to get the unemployed back to work, reducing crime committed because of unemployment. It would cut crime s direct link to -being poor and hungry for many Detroiters.
Eddie Carter
I find it hard to understand why a paper that is trying to appeal to a thinking audience should stoop to printing an obscene picture like that of Prince in the April 2 issue. Surely there must be a better way to take up space?
Andy Willis Grosse Pointe
Your story on the chronological facts of E] Salvador brought to light that the American government is and has been backing the wrong forces. It didn t surprise me that the Metro Times had enough nerve to serve the public notice onthis delicate subject. Its hard to keep track of all the negative one day, positive the next, reporting going on across the country. But found the coverage in your paper to get the story straight.
Herman Andrews Troy
would like to commend the DMT for two of its articles in the March 19-April 2 issue, El Salvador Opposition Grows and El Salvador s Bloody Legacy. The coverage given to El Salvador in the status quo newspapers has forced me to give up my New Year s resolution to stop swear-. ing. The TV coverage, if anything, has been even more disgusting. It is important that Americans realize that the U.S. government is siding with a brutal, reactionary, military dictatorship againt a broad-based popular movement if we are to stop further U.S. intervention. Thank you, DMT
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CHANGING FAMILIES: Today the American Association of University Women and the MSU Cooperative Extension Service co-sponsor a seminar, Families in a Changing World, whose sessions will cover stress management, hypertension and holistic medicine, among other things. Held at the First Presbyterian Church in Dearborn, this year's conference focuses on health and emotional aspects of family life. Child care available. 7216565 will furnish more information.
A DANCING SCRABBLE SET??: Well, that s what the press release says. The WSU Dance Company presents this and
other diversions in dance (i.e., Solitaire, Relay, Cutthroat, Racquetball and Statues) to an undoubtedly astounded audience at the Community Arts Auditorium. Whose idea is this, you ask? Amy Zell Ellsworth, a former Detroiter who is now Artistic Director of the Zellworth Dancers in Boston. The program will also include WSU faculty member Eva Jablonowski's Preludes. Call 577-4273 to reserve tickets.
ing Women in Philadelphia), Connie Rafferty (a collective bargaining authority from San Francisco), and Detroiter Wanita Allen, who stars in - Rosie the Riveter. Filmmaker Connie Field, Rosie s creator, will alsobe on hand. While this panel is in progress, men will be excluded and treated to a cash _ bar and another movie. Call 883-5588 arid prepare fora lively evening.
WHY DO YOU ASK?: Is It Love or Just Sex? is a rather personal question, to say the least. But that s the subject of a discussion tonight sponsored by a Birmingham group, the SingleAires. Call 855-3455 for location.
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screening at Detroit Focus Gallery. Sharits often uses multiple screens and projectors for his oeuvre, and his works should be real visual thrillers. Call the Film Project at 872-3903 for information.
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ONE-WOMAN SHOW: Tonight a one-woman show produced by the Washington-based Union Sisters Productions, Silkwood. Based on the life of Karen Silkwood, the show stars Jehane Dyllan as the Oklahoma martyr. The WSU Labor Studies Program is sponsoring, 5774625.
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by Keith Gunter
Two years ago, on March 28, 1979, the worst accident in the history of U.S. commercial nuclear power began at Three Mile Island near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
Although TMI has faded from the headlines, the accident is far from over. According to a recent federal report, if the damaged reactor isn t cleaned up soon, the process could restart releasing still more radiation and contaminating nearby water supplies. s
Besides the damaged core of the power plant, about 700,000 gallons of highly radioactive water remain to be disposed of. General Public Utilities, owners of TMI, would prefer that the water be dumpedin the Susquehanna River which is the source of drinking water for many area residents. The latest estimates of the cleanup indicate it may take up to nine years with costs exceeding $1 billion.
Many people who are skeptical of critics of nuclear power may say, What's all the fuss? No one died at Three Mile Island. First, it may be many years before we realize the toll in human lives from the accident due to the nature of radiation- being a silent killer. Already there are indications of higher infant mortality and hypothyroidism around the plant.
Second, many may ask what the results would be if the worst occurred; a huge release with the loss of the containment
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To follow this line of thought further, one might ask, How probable is something this bad likely to happen? After all, the nuclear industry says that an accident this horrible is almost impossible. To answer, the best risk assessors in today s society the insurance companies regard nuclear plants an an uninsurable risk.
The nuclear power industry alone enjoys the luxury of having limits placed on its financial liability in the case of a disastrous accident. The U.S. government and private insurance companies provide $560 million in coverage under the PriceAnderson _ Act. Compared with the potential liability listed earlier, $560 million is only a drop in the bucket.
What should the lesson of Three Mile Island be? A nuclear disaster can happen anywhere and anytime. This includes Detroit, with the dead Fermi I plant and Detroit Edison constructing Fermi II just 30 miles south of here. Mitchell Rogovin, an investigator of the TMI accident states flatly that Three Mile Island wasn t a fluke and that there will be more accidents as bad or worse than TMI. The citizens of Detroit and the rest of the country cannot allow it to happen again.
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Former CIA agent Ralph McGehee went to Federal court last week in an attempt to force his former employer to release material it censored from a Nation magazine manuscript he was obligated to submit to the agency.
According to Richard Lingeman, Executive Editor of the Nation, McGehee has particular expertise in analyzing alleged arms shipments to Latin America. McGehee alleges that some of the documents upon which the White Paper released by the State Department in February was based, were forged and manufactured by the agency.
The Reagan administration has used the White Paper in an effort to prove its allegation that the Soviet Union and communist bloc countries have been send-| ing arms to the opposition movement inside FI] Salvador.
Lingeman told Detroit. Metro Times that the Nation has joined the suit that McGehee has brought to allow publication of the deleted material and that the incomplete manuscript will be published with deletions noted in their April.11 issue (mailed to subscribers April 3).
The deletions appear to be facts vital to the case he is making, Lingeman said. It is important that the charges be heard so that arguments and general debates on possible U.S. intervention can be based on fully supported -evidence. Lingeman added that the government acted very expeditiously to stop publication. I hope the court will move as expeditiously to allow the information to be published.
McGehee was legally required to submit the manuscript to the CIA prior to publication according to an agreement all agency employees must sign when hired.
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The governing Salvadorean junta can expect to receive another $65.3 million in U.S. assistance, despite reports from the Roman Catholic Archdiocese that 798 people were killed by that government s security forces. during the second week in March.
President Jose Napoleon Duarte asked for assistance claiming that he war-torn country s economy was on the verge of collapse, and the U.S. State Department agreed. U.S. officials defend Duarte s government as centrist.
Just under 700 of the 798 March deaths resulted from government bombing of peasant sectors, the archwo
diocese reported. Thirty-seven were assassinated after curfew when forced from their homes. Diocesan sources say one-third of the 3,950 people killed since January died after curfew.
In the third week in March, 50 people were killed at the Honduran-Salvadorean arden: in a scenario which mirrored last May 14 s Sumpul River massacre.
Armed forces and helicopters surrounded a group of
peasants and drove them into the river where many drowned. The incident was discovered by a reporter who happened to blunder upon a massacre of unarmed older people and women with children, Eddy Hejka at the Detroit office of the Committee in Support of the People of El Salvador (CISPES) said.
The United Nations High Commissioner of Refugees reports that neighboring countries have absorbed 100,000 Salvadorean refugees, with an additional 60,000 hiding in the U.S. and 75,000 homeless in El Salvador.
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On March 23 and 24, thousands of Americans honored Archbishop Oscar Romero, an outspoken critic of El Salvador s military government and of the U.S. for sustaining it. Romero was assassinated while celebrating Mass March 24, 1980.
Nearly 350 Detroiters gathered for a memorial service for Romero at Mercy College. Earlier on the 23rd, 300 people demonstrated at the City National Bank Building downtown, chanting No Draft. No War. U.S. -Out of El Salvador!
The Detroit demonstration was preceded by a physical attack on a CISPES volunteer who was pushed to the floor while two unidentified men ransacked the Dearborn office March 20.
CISPES steering committee reported the incident to the police and issued a press release which stated that members consider the attack dangerous threat to our ment concluded, We vow not to be intimidated. We're trying to keep at least two people in the office at all times, Hejka said. The officeis located at the University of Michigan s Dearborn campus and is staffed by student volunteers.
right to freely protest U.S. foreign policy. The state-
A general membership meeting will be held at the CISPES office (5001 Evergreen, 593-1222) on April 8.
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On April 1, 2:and 3 there is a National Teach-In on El Salvador being held in Detroit. This is an extraordinary opportunity for people in the metro areato learn more about the civil war in E] Salvador and this country s continuing role. Reminiscent in-format of the early Viet Nam teach-ins held in the mid sixties, the programs will include a spokesperson for the State Department, former Ambassador to El Salvador Robert White, and a spokesperson for the Democratic Revolutionary Front of El Salvador.
Three highlights: April 1, 6:30 pm, at the Central Methodist Church (Woodward and Grand Circus), El Salvador: The Responsibility of the Church. Speakers: Robert White, former U.S. Ambassador to El Salvador; Bill Wipfler, National Council of Churches; and a Maryknoll Sister.
April 2, noon, at the Wayne State University Community Arts Auditorium, El Salvador: What s at Stake? Speakers: Robert White; U.S. State Department Representative; Democratic Revolutionary Front Representative; and Robert Armstrong of the North American Committee on Latin America (NACLA).
April 3, 7:30 pm, at the'Wayne State General Lectures Auditorium, El Salvador: U.S. Domestic and Foreign Policy. Speakers: William A. Williams, Oregon State University; Michael Harrington, author; Congressman John Conyers; Kenneth Boulding, University of Colorado; Blanche Cook, City University of New York; and Helen Kramer, International Association of Machinists (IAM).
There is no charge for any sessions and there are both day and evening events during the three days. For a complete schedule call 833-8573, 922-4380 or 897-6653.
\ by Scott Haas
A union organizing effort by AFSCME (American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees) is underway at the Detroit Receiving Hospital/University Health Center (DRH/UHC), according to both union and hospital representatives. The decision on whether or not the AFSCME union can hold an election among hospital employees, however, has not yet been ruled on by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), which received an election petition from the union in November.
This delay is natural given the fact that there is anew administration in Washington. It takes time, particularly when there is a political shift from Democrat to Republican, or Republican to Democrat.
The NLRB, according to Elizabeth Bunn, lawyer for. the union on this case, is not legally obliged to reveal why they shifted the case, but she is not pleased by the decision.
I m furious about it, she told the Detroit Metro Times. Usually its J. P. Stevens delaying, not the government. have no idea why the agency is causing the delay.
Bunn recently wrote he NLRB urging them to act expediently and has threatened to take legal action if
In what the union charges is a highly unusual move, the case has been transferred to Washington, D.C. The union further alleges in their Union News that, The hospital is a party to these delays and is blocking employees from having an election to determine their exclusive representatives. The hospital denies these charges.
The union is bitching, said Pat Grieves, Vice President of Human Resources at the hospital. This delay is not our move, its the NLRB s. The union ee out a pamphlet that indicates we re part of the case: We're
Probleme between AFSCME and the hospital accelerated, according to union representatives, when Detroit General Hospital closed and Detroit Receiving opened in its stead. The union, which had represented the workers at Detroit General, was denied immediate representation at DRH/UHC, a move which led them to file Unfair Labor Practices with the NLRB, because they considered the new management, the Detroit Medical Corporation, to be a successor employer.
In October the NLRB ruled that this was untrue. One month later, the uniom filed for the right to have a wallto-wall unit among DRH/UHC employees, meaning union representation throughout all employment classifications, except for professionals such as physicians and registered nurses.
Several pro-union employees at the hospital who spoke to the Detroit Metro Times believe that the hospital management is involved with delaying the election.
| defy anyone to conclude differently, said one woman. A lot of people are after AFSCME. If the delay is justified, it should be explained.
No one has influence like that, counters Grieves.
necessary. Grieves, who apparently obtained a copy of her letter, referred to it as very stinging.
Part of what complicates this situation are the other hospitals managed by the Detroit Medical Corporation, some of which have unionized workers employed at clinics in DRH/UHC. According to. DRH/UHC employees, these include people from. Wayne State: (with UAW representation), Hutzel (AFSCME), and Harper (Service Employees International Union).
Detroit Receiving is in the-red, claimed an employee, and_they want to do anything they can to lower expenses, even if it means keeping out a union. They don t want to see another one of their hospitals fall into union hands.
Complaints. from those pro-union employees interviewed were diverse and included the following: a general atmosphere of harassment by management, no job classifications that are adhered to, unclear and intimidating violations procedures and denial of hospital services to the indigent.
Grieves, a manager and lawyer, claims that he: hospital management is neither anti-union nor prounion.
Whether the allegations of the employees aré true or not, the election to decide union representation has yet to be held.
What is unusual in this situation, said Milt Tambor of the AFSCME interntional staff, is that everyone is mum about it. It is taking a longer period of time than most cases. haven t seen others handled like it. The facts of the case aren t that unusual.
According to Bunn, the decision to move the case to Washington was made by Bernie Gottfried, regional director of the NLRB. Gottfried was unavailable for comment.
° There is a problem with our children being unprotected. It seems like it is open season when some molester wants to grab a child, says Alfonso W. Scott, chairman of the Society to Protect Our Children (SPOC).
SPOC, which began two months ago as an out-~ growth of the Atlanta crisis, is a local non-profit nonpolitical organization concerned with the moral climate of the Black community.
Their objectives are to educate parca regarding child protection through a teaching process in schools and churches. Eventually they hope to set up a child watch programin the Detroit area. This program will encourage parents to watch out for not only their own children but any children in the area.
. Persons interested in sending money to Atlanta should send it to either of the following addresses: Atlanta Police Department Investigative Fund, 68 Mitchell St., S:W., Atlanta, Georgia 30334; or SCLC Foundation Children & Families Fund, PO Box 4485, Atlanta, Georgia 30302.
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With HUD s Homesteading program coming to a - halt due to Reagan budget cuts, new ways of financing home refurbishment are being sought. The Michigan Avenue Community Organization (MACO) feels that a bill toward that end sponsored by State Senator John Kelly that recently became law would result in extreme displacement and gentrification.
The law, and also a proposal to the city for its implementation authored by Kelly and the Community Resource and Assistance Center (CRAC), would establish a Neighborhood Development Corporation subsidiary of the Economic Development Corporation (EDC). The EDC has been used thus far only for business and industry financing.
CRAC proposes to finance the redevelopment of neighborhoods through Tax Increment Financing (TIF). A TIF program would float bonds to finance the refurbishment of homes. The bonds would be paid off by the increased property tax revenue that would result -in the upgrading of the property. MACO feels that people on fixed incomes would be displaced when they couldn t afford a higher tax assessment.
Bob Gordon
A national organization called the People s AntiWar Mobilization is planning a march in Washington, D.C. on May 3. Intended to bring together a broad coalition of progressive groups, PAM sees the event as focusing opposition to the Reagan administration s foreign policy and domestic budget cuts.
Detroiters should participate in the march because $3 billion of Detroit s tax dollars are going to the Pentagon in 1981. We need that money to rebuild our city and provide jobs for the unemployed, Cheryl LeBash, a coordinator of the local People s Anti-War Mobilization office, told Detroit Metro Times.
Plans for a different demonstration scheduled for May 9 some time ago have been dropped, according to a local Committee Against Registration and the Draft (CARD) spokesperson. At press time Detroit CARD _has not endorsed the May 3 event, but the spokesperson was hopeful that national discussions between various groups: would|result in a unified show of strength on May 3.
Interested persons may contact the Poodle s AntiWar Mobilization locally at (313) 833-8573.
by Lillie Guyer
The Moral Majority has little to do with: morality and does not come close to representing a majority of Americans says the newly formed Voice of Reason. And asthe Christian fundamentalist Moral Majority takes an increasingly influencial role in the American political arena, a grassroots response seems to be gathering both locally and across the country.
The Voice of Reason, headquartered in Farmington Hills, was. formed. several months ago and represents the principles of secular humanists, according to Lynne Silverberg, president of the local metroarea chapter.
The Moral Majority, she says, is quick to blame all of society s ills, from drug abuse to child pornography, on secular humanism. Anyone who disagrees with them is labeled un-American. haven t seen anything like this in a long time their tactics smack of McCarthyism.
At the heart of secular Ronee which {implies free inquiry and thought, are some very American principles, she says. These include the separation of church and state, civil liberties for all, and the free inquiry of sciences
Rabbi Sherwin Wine of the Birmingham
Temple in Farmington Hills, a national spokesperson of the Voice of Reason, was instrumental in organizing the first chapter in Libertyville, Illinois, last fall. He has recently returned from a national speaking tour, and there are new chapters in over a dozen states including seven in Michigan. Silverberg terms the response fantastic. With a backdrop of the country s new conservative mood and people searching for simple answers to complex problems, Silverberg believes that the Moral Majority operates very insidiously. We do not disagree so much with the
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issues Moral Majority raises as with the methods they use. Everyone is concerned about issues such as the future of American society. and the family. Its their methods we object to those who don t happen to agree with them are called antiAmerica, communists, homosexuals. These methods, she says, include targeting certain politicians and then distorting and smearing their positions and views. These methods interfere with the free election process as Americans know it, she claims.
The Voice of Reason, she says, is com-
- mitted to protecting the free-election process. We will present facts, information and distribute it to the public without intruding our own moral beliefs. The power of choice, to think freely and openly, she points out, is at the very bedrock of a free society.
Is the Moral Majority a true majority?
- Silverberg thinks not. The majority. of Americans are reasonable people who share our concerns. Its not moral to have such a narrow view of*what s right and wrong. Her view is borne out, she argues, by the incredible response to the group s fledgling organizing efforts.
Asked if the Moral Majority is being taken too seriously via lavish media attention of late, Silverberg replied, I think most people don t take it seriously enough. History shows us that democracy is a tenuous thing. We have to work to preserve it. We must be continual watchdogs or one day, without knowing it, you may find yourself stripped of. your rights.
The Voice of Reason, which includes members of many faiths and beliefs, has stated it will form a coalition with any group sharing their concerns and goals. Persons who want more information can write to Voice of Reason, PO Box 16, - Franklin, MI 48025. Regularly scheduled activities are also held at its Birmingham Temple headquarters.
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A first attempt at rebuilding the coalition forged by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in the 1960s will take place on April 4, the 13th anniversary of King s assassination. Teach-ins and meetings will be held in over 30 cities across the country that day, focusing on the application of King s ideals
Endorsed by over 70 organizations and 47 members of Congress, the events are being sponsored by the Congressional Black Caucus and the Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Non-Violent Social Change.
In a statement announcing the event, Rep. John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI) explained the purpose of the teach-ins. The historic coalition that Reverend King nurtured a generation ago needs to be rebuilt today. For the issues and injustices that King spoke to in his day are the current cross-
roads we face as a society and as a people full employment and economic - justice; equality of opportunity; safeguarding the rights of working men and women to a decent, productive life; peace in the world and a halt to violence at home; and the abolition of racism.
In rediscovering Dr. King s ideals, ideas and politics, we will necessarily be confronting what is wrong with the politics of the present, the priorities of the Federal government, and American policies toward the world.
The April 4 national events on Dr. King s legacy and applying it to the present will be an important stage of consciousness-raising, coalition-building and moving toward a new blueprint for social and political action.
According to a Conyers spokesperson, the reason for holding a widely scattered series of teach-ins and seminars rather than a single national event is to develop a net-
rights and union groups that will then be in a position to remain in contact with each other and become an effective political force. Everyone feels good after mass march, and we could have had another one of those, he said, but this is an opportunity to get down to the real nitty-gritty and talk politics.
There s a whole generation that doesn t know Dr. King, the spokesperson added, and this will enable them to rediscover the man.
The type of event to be held in aah city will be determined locally, and will range from simple memorial services in some cities to three concurrent Washington teach-ins led by members of the Black Caucus.
In Detroit, Rep. Conyers will lead a teach-in from 10 am to 1:30 pm at the Hartford Memorial Baptist Church at 18700 James Couzens Rd., Detroit. Call the church for more information, 861-
Brown, a member of one of the local jazz organizations, pointed out that if only one percent or five thousand of those who attended the Montreux concerts had memberships in one of the several jazz organizations in the city there wouldn't be so much talk about the jazz musician as an endangered species.
Harold McKinney, Vice Chairman of MUSIC (Musicians United to Save Indigenous Culture) and one of Detroit s musical patriarchs, puts all of this in perspective. 1 have my problems with the Montreux Festival but don t get me wrong, think it is good that we have it, and it should help the city and the local musicians. And you obviously can t blame Montreux for our present predicament.
However, what really galls me is the kind of Ivory Tower attitude that emanates from the Montreux affair. There is no feeling from this festival that it is a joint undertaking between grassroots music groups and the city s established institutions.
This second (Can we say annual?) Montreux-Detroit Festival promises to be just. as exciting as last year s highly successful pilot project. Not only are there more female artists scheduled Sarah Vaughan, Marian McPartland, Bobbi Humphrey, Joanne Brackeen and former Detroiter Betty Carter there are also additional musical sites, including Washington Blvd., the Pontchartrain Hotel, Grand Circus Park and on down Woodward to the Detroit Institute of Arts:
We are also adding more contemporary music, and we plan to have a better balance between local and national acts, cited Ken Cox, who is again serving on the festival s program committee.
ven the format for this year s concerts will be a bit different. We want to have local acts open for the national acts, said
Cox. We might have Lyman Woodard or Allen Barnes open for Donald Byrd, and have Jimmy Wilkins Band open for Sarah, you know what mean? But much of this, he advised, was stillin the planning stage and could not be decided until the various national acts were in place.
From Cox s remarks it is clear that some very serious attention is being given to one of the burning issues that last year s festival coordinators faced just how many and in what way would local musicians be utilized? Of course, if you were to poll some __of the 500,000 or more who attended the festival last year, this concern might never be voiced. And therein lies part of the problem.
Just as the local musicians are concerned about the rate of pay and their role within the festival, they also want to know what happens to all these jazz lovers during the other 360 days of the year. Russell Presents
All the decisions are from the top down, McKinney further noted, and all these Johnny-come-latelys have is the cash; they know nothing about the music. In fact, some of the people making all the decisions now were probably part of the problem before.
McKinney, a participant in the first feéti val, also let it be known that he was in no way satisfied with the racial composition of the festival s program committee, which selects both. the local and_ national performers.
Cox, one of two Blacks on the 12member committee, had similar reservations about minority representation but felt it would have made little difference even if five or six more Blacks were added to the committee. I don t believe the committee would have been any more effective if additional minority members were included in the decision-making process. I think the end result would have been pretty much the same. From a minority standpoint, he concluded, the quality is here if the quantity isn t.
Cox, when asked to what extent the Montreux Festival had affected the jazz
scene, said that it would be difficult to accurately determine its impact onthe
community.
Frank Bach, a long-time activist on the jazz front and manager of the Detroit Jazz Center, feels that last year s festival definitely had some effect on attendance at the Center s nightclub. We had quite a few visitors to the club who might not have come if it weren t for the activity around Montreux. Our feeling here is that Montreux is a good thing. And we're glad to see that there will be some happenings in nearby Grand Circus Park.
Its going to take more than a few visitors if the newly rejuvenated Jazz Center is to keep afloat. Typical of the jazz groups in the city which have wedded a gritty self- . determination with resourceful ingenuity, the Center s cash flow from grants is again available after a near total eclipse last fall due to finances.
Donald Byrd is scheduled to open the Center s resurrected and renamed World Stage Cafe next weekend. It will be left to Byrd and the talented acts that follow him at the cafe to insure that the Center will be around long enough to again feel the effects of Montreux.
The outlook at MUSIC is even more uncertain. According to Executive Director Malvin McCray, his organization is no longer located at the Music Station on Grand River. Apparently a dispute over the rent Jed to a constructive eviction, and this has forced the organization to seek another location.
For some time MUSIC was solely dependent on a few small mini-grants (including McCray s own) for its survival. The hope that substantial funding was only a proposal away vanished with the planned cuts from the Reagan administration. In the past, the National Endowment for the Arts did provide some semblance of assistance, but with its budget of $158 million about to be pared to $88 million, there is little room for optimism among Detroit s musicians.
Of course, unless you're one of those musicians interested in joining a U.S. military band. The $52 million budget there remains intact.
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We can t put our reliance on grants, McKinney warned. Yes, we should try to get all the grants we can, but to rely on them is foolish. We've got to develop our life-support systems right in our own communities. You see, this is one of the things that Montreux could do if they were truly serious about the music. It could take some time and show how and why jazz is in the shape its in today.
As far as I m concerned, Montreux places too much emphasis on entertainment and not enough on the economic and political conditions facing musicians. The music, he said, must be put into a larger cultural context. The festival could be an event that educated as well as entertained.
Other musicians told the Detroit Metro Times that they would like to see Montreux give special nights to some of the older jazz clubs and bars around the city. Many -felt that a Bluebird Inn Revisited concert would be a fitting tribute to the west side bar which was so pivotal for musicians during the 40s and 50s. USED HALF THE PRICERECOROREN TAGES
There have also been suggestions that a
special fund be established to assist ailing musicians and their families. It could be a fund.-for stricken musicians like pianist Ted Sheely and Terri Pollard. Or it could be used to help the families of Paul Leonard, the jazz tap dancer, and Sonny Red, both of whom died just last week.
Russell Brown wanted to know why couldn t Montreux just share some of its profits with the city s jazz organizations. With all the folks that came out last year, I m sure they made plenty of money.
This is a portion of the gut reaction that would have Montreux be something more than a mere festival. But as one wag cautioned Hell, bad as times are these days, brother, you better be glad you got a festival.
Beyond the hue and cry about what Montreux could and should be looms the Festival s primary mission: making Detroit more attractive to potential tourists. Robert McCabe, President of Detroit Renaissance, feels that as the festival gains in stature it will benefit the whole city, includ_ing the beleaguered jazz organizations and their musicians. The Montreux-Detroit International Jazz Festival helps us to continue to build Detroit s reputation as a major tourist/convention center.
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There are still a number of things to be complished fact. The national acts which were announced at the Strohaus (the Stroh Brewery Company is one of the Festival s major sponsors) still have to be signed, and there is already one change in the program.
The Art Ensemble of Chicago has been replaced by Archie Shepp and Mal Waldron. Before the Labor Day weekend there are sure to be other changes,-but it should still be a quality lineup.
And since the committee is trying to reel in the dynamic pianist McCoy Tyner, it would be nice to have our own Marcus Belgrave performing with him, especially since Marcus is now in New York cutting e an album with McCoy. (Just a suggestion, Kenny, and I imagine you've heard enough of them by now.)
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While last year s festival had a very rewarding blues segment that featured B. B..King and Sippie Wallace, no national blues artists have been mentioned for this year s festival, though a local blues act will probably open one show. However, it is good that two films on Betty Carter and Elvin Jones are scheduled to be shown. mileage.
If things go according to plan and the logistics of such an affair are gargantuan this year s festival shouldexceed the gains made last year. The word is getting around now, and folks are already planning their Labor Day with Montreux II in mind. Those who managed to catch some but not all of last year s events have a chance coming to improve their records. Its a second chance for all of us.
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They have all sorts of interesting discounts, like 25% on the plant of the month, and this weekend a sale-a-thon that will stretch from Friday at 8 am through 2 pm Sunday. Call, and they'll send those posies anywhere.
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RAY S ICE CREAM (4233 Coolidge, Royal Oak, 549-5254) is the North's answer to Alinosi s Eastside Homemade Ice Cream Challenge. The Stevens family has operated Ray s since 1958, and now a third generation is learning the business. With their own fine flavors (including cinnamon, banana and standards like fudge marble plus an apparently wonderful coffee), you'll 2 a scoop for four bits, and a uck'll buy you a double. They also make ice cream molds, a service unique to this area. Open 9-5, M-F; 10-5, Sa; and-1-5 Su.
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Could this be a trend? Since the recent rumor is that the Grand Circus Theatre on Broadway is now sold (and will open in the foreseeable as a rock palace), it seems so. Around the corer from the temporarily closed G.C. is the Madison Theatre, which is already showcasing new wave acts every so often. And, of course, across the park, the Park Avenue Club which will house the new Bookie s. - Should be a sonic boom.
Speaking of cultural centers, it seems that the Vanity Ballroom is hoping to get a little community of Kindred spirits started in several
new store fronts that have been put up for rent nearby. The Vanity has been putting on great new wave nights and reportedly has a giant Hare Krishna bouncer, plus an interior exotic enough to put you in the mood to Pogo. Sounds intriguing ...
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One of Detroit s favorite rock bands, Bitter Sweet Alley, has new wax out on Trillium Records, JUSTA ROMANTIC, early this month. Ditto The Look, on Plastic Records, simply titled THE LOOK. Aes Ls Sty
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It's time once again to check out what's happenin in this wonderful metropolis. Keep in mind that chaos can occur anytime, anywhere, and the following listings are subject to last-minute changes. If your event hasn't been included, it's only because I Address calendar info to Linda Solomon. Deadline for the next issue is April 8.
AIRPORT featuring INDIA: Thursdays, Cobb's, 832-7223.
ALEXANDER ZONJIC QUARTET: Agril 5, 12, Crash Landing, Warren, 7514444.
BILL MURPHY: Th-Sa, Crash Landing, Warren, 751-4444..
BIRD, TRANE, SCO-NOW: April 10, U-M University Club, Ann Arbor, 763-2071.
CAT'S MEOW featuring GAIL BAKER: April 3-4, Union Street I, GP, 331-0018. April 16-17, Song Shop, 832-8032. Tuesdays, Cobb's, 832-7223.
DENNIS. ROWLAND: April 2-12, Dummy George, 341-2700.
DR. DICK TAPERT: F-Sa, Tutag s on the Hill, Warren, 754-5555.
DUANE PARHAM: April 3-5, Jazz West, 927-9092.
EXPORT: April 15-16, Delta Lady, Ferndale, 545-5483.
FRANK ISOLA GANG: April 10-11, Cafe Detroit, 831-8820.
JEFF LORBER FUSION: April 17, Royal Oak Music Theatre, 546-7610.
JIM DANBURG & MIKE BLITZO: Th-Sa, Sparky Herbert's, 822-0266.
JIMMY McGRIFF: April 15, EEE George, 341-2700.
JOHN McLAUGHLIN/AL DIMEOLA/ PACO DELUCIA: April 4, Royal Oak Music Theatre, 546-7610.
KATALENIC-KWEK: Mondays, Jamie s on Seven, Livonia, 477-9077.
KERRY CAMPBELL & FRIENDS: F-Sa, Cobb's, 832-7223.
LAURA THOMPSON: Th-Su, Peppino s at Hamburger Mansion, Clarkston, 6250700.
LYMAN WOODARD: Th-F-Sa, Rembrandt's, 963-1053.
MARCUS BELGRAVE QUARTET: _April 3-4, Cafe Detroit, 831-8820.
MAYNARD FERGUSON: April 10, Royal Oak Music Theatre, 546-7610.
0.G.D. with CLARENCE JACKSON: MSa, Gallery Lounge, 963-8076. OPEN JAZZ JAM: April 7, U-M University Club, Ann Arbor, 763-2071.
ORANGE LAKE DRIVE: Thru April 13,J. Ross Browne's Whaling Station, Bloomfield, 334-4694.
PAT METHENY GROUP: April 12,8 pm, U-M Hill Auditorium, Ann Arbor, Sees 5924.
PROFESSOR HIROSHIMA COX: SaSu, Village Cafe, 331-3382.
ROY AYERS, JEAN CARN, BOBBIE HUMPHRIES, LONNIE LISTON
SMITH, STANLEY TURRENTINE together: April 5, 8 pm, Masonic Temple, 832-7100.
SILVER SHADOW: Wednesdays, Cobb's, 832-7223.
SOUL SEARCH: Sundays, Cafe Detroit, 831-8820.
STAN BOOKER: Thursdays, Detroit, 831-8820. ~~ Cafe
SUN RA & HIS ARKESTRA:April 13; Second Chance, Ann Arbor, 994-5350.
SUSKIND & WEINBERG: F-Sa, Union Street II, 831-3965.
- SYLVESTER & 2 TONS OF FUN: April 34, Watt's Club, 864-0240.
W.S.U. JAZZ LAB BANDI: April9, oe Community Arts Auditorium.
WAVE LENGTH: Thru April 4, Mountain Jacks, Troy, 689-7920. April 13-16, J. Ross Browne's Whaling Station, Bloomfield, 334-4694.
WENDELL HARRISON & PAMELA WISE: F-Sa, The Gnome, 833-0120.
CHICAGO PETE: April 2, 9, Soup Kitchen, 259-1734. April 10-11, Delta Lady, Ferndale, 545-5483.
CHRIS SMITHERS: April 10-11, Blind Pig, Ann Arbor, 996-8555.
EDDIE BURNS BLUES BAND: April 3-4, Delta Lady, Ferndale, 545-5483; April 10-11, Union Street I, GP, 331-0018. April 17-18, Alvin's Finer Twilight Bar, 832-2355.
THE ELITES featuring JOE DUNLAP: Wednesdays, Soup Kitchen, 259-1734.
JIMMY ROGERS: April 10-11, Soup Kitchen, 259-1734.
PROGRESSIVE BLUES BAND: April 34, 10-11, Blue Parrot, Southfield, 3574067. April 12, Delta Lady, Ferndale, 545-5483.
RENA SCOTT: April 17-19, Ethel s Cocktail Lounge, 922-9443.
SIPPIE WALLACE: April 17, & 10:30, U-M University Club, Ann Arbor, 7632071.
THE THEATRICS: April 10-12, Ethel s Cocktail Lounge, 922-9443. WEST SIDE BLUES BAND: April 5, Delta Lady, Ferndale, 545-5483. WILLIE DIXON: April 3-4, Soup Kitchen, 259-1734.
BLUE FRONT PURSUADERS: April 9, Blind Pig, Ann Arbor, 996-8555.
Blind Pig, Ann Arbor, 996-8555. DETROIT SHAKERS: April 5, 11-12, Tupay s, 521-1717.
DON TAPERT & THE 2ND AVENUE BLUES BAND: April 2, Star Bar, Ann Arbor, 769-0109. April 4, Blind Pig, Ann Arbor, 996-8555. April 9, Tupay's, 5211747.
JERRY BUTLER: April 13-18, db's, Dearborn, 593-1234.
LAKESIDE, CARRIE LUCAS, SHALIMAR, WHISPERS together: April 19, 7:30 pm, Cobo Hall, 962-5921.
MELBA MOORE: April 2-4, db s, Dearborn, 593-1234.
PAT LEWIS: F-Sa-Su, Blue Chip II, 3417656.
ROD LUMPKIN: M-Tu, Blue Chip II, 341-7656.
SOLAR FLIGHT: W-Th, Blue Chip II, 341-7656.
TF.O.: April 3-5, Ethel s Cocktail Lounge, 922-9443.
URBATIONS: Sundays, 5oup Kitchen, 259-1734. April 2, 16, Alvin's Finer Twilight Bar, 832-2355. April 3-4, Star Bar, Ann Arbor, 769-0109. April 10-11, Song Shop, 832-8032. April 14, Second Chance, Ann Arbor, 994-5350.
ADRENALIN: April 2-4, Harpo s, 8236400.
ASIA: April 1-5, Waystation, Lake Orion, 628-9721.
BAROOGA: April 1-5, Bentley's, Royal Oak, 583-1292. April 7-11, 14-18, Way Station, Lake Orion, 628-9721.
BITTER SWEET ALLEY: April 1-4, Jagger's, Pontiac, 681-1701. April 5, 24 Karat Club, 531-2332. April 9-11, Harpo s, 823-6400. April 13-14, September's, Warren, 756-6140. April 15-19, Sidestreet, Lincoln Park, 388-1186.
BLACK LACE: April 5-6, Token ie 2k 261-9640.
BOGART: April 2-5, Studio, Westland, 729-2540.
BUZZ TONES: April 2-4, Harpo S, 8236400.
CARL WILSON: April 6, Center Stage, Canton, 455-3094.
COBALT BLUE: April 7-26 (Tu-Su), Al's Dancing Club, 946-7510.
COMMANDER CODY: April 9, Second Chance, Ann Arbor, 994-5350.
DITTILIES: April 2-4, 9-11, Center Stage, Canton, 455-3094.
DODGE PARE: April 8, Tupay's. 5211717;
DON McLEAN: April 14, Center Stage, Canton, 455-3094.
DR. BOB & THE HEADLINERS: April 10-12, 60s R'n' R, Second Chance, Ann
Arbor, 994-5350.
FALCONS: April 16-18, Tupay s, 5211717
FLIGHT: April 5-25 (5 nights a week), Jamie s, Garden City, 522-7194.
FRANKIE LA MAR BAND: April 10, Tupay s, 521-1717.
FRIJID PINK: April 9, Uncle Sam's, 5388200.
GARLAND JEFFREYS: May 6, Center Stage, Canton, 455-3094.
HAMMERED: April 6-7, Exit Lounge, Madison Heights, 588-3121.
HARRY & THE JET BOYS: April 3, Eagle Theatre, Pontiac, 335-5470.
HOT LIPS: April 10, Tupay s, 521-1717.
HUMBLE PIE: April 24, Royal Oak Music Theatre, 546-7610.
JINX & BORAILIF: April 10, Eagle Theatre, Pontiac, 335-5470. April 12-13, Bentley's, Royal Oak, 583-1292.
LOOKOUT: April 2-4, The Struttin Club, 778-2650. April 14-19, Bentley's, Royal Oak, 583-1292. April 6-11, Papillon Ballroom, Dearborn, 278-0070.
MAGMA BAND: April 11, Eagle Theatre, Pontiac, 335-5470.
MANTIS: April 16-18, Tupay s, 521WAU E
MARIAH: April 13-19, Studio, Westland, 729-2540. April 6-11, Bentley's, Royal Oak, 583-1292.
MARINER: April 1-5, Papillon Ballroom, Dearborn, 278-0079. April 14-15, Token Lounge, 261-9640.
MEDALIST: April 4, Eagle Theatre, Pontiac, 335-5470.
MOOD: April 13-14, Exit Lounge, Madison Heights, 588-3121.
MUGSY: April 2-4, Token Lounge, 2619640.
NEW WORLD: April 1-4, pen Garden City, 522-7194. April 7-12, 1419, Coral Gables, 295-2201.
ONE AETY: April 15, Tupay's, 521L71T:
OUTLAWS: April 22, Royal Oak Music Theatre, 546-7610.
PULSTAR: April 8-12, Exit Lounge, Madison Heights, 588-3121. QUEST: April 9, Uncle Sam's, 538-8200. RADIO CITY: April 15-19, Second Chance, Ann Arbor, 994-5350. RAINBOW, PAT TRAVERS & KROKUS: April 17, pm, Cobo Hall, 962-1800. SALEM: April 7-11, Token Lounge, 2619640.
SCOTCH: March 31-April 5, Sidestreet, Lincoln Park, 388-1186.
SCRATCH: April 5, Slinky's, Redford, 535-6700. April 7-11, 13-18, Mr. Robert's, Romulus, 941-0777.
SHADOWFAX: April 3-4, Alvin's Finer Twilight Bar, 832- 5355, SKIDS: April 14-18, Jagger's, Pontiac, 681-1701.
SPRINGWELL: April 2-5, Exit Lounge, Madison Heights, 588-3121.
STINK & BOOZE BROTHERS: April 1213, Token Lounge, 261-9640. STROKE: April 15-19, Exit Lounge, Madison Heights, 588-3121.
SWEETLEAF: April 3, 10-11, Punch and Judy, 881-4510.
TEEN ANGELS: April 8-11, Jagger's, Pontiac, 681-1701.
TIGHT: April 7-12, Studio, 729-2540.
TILT: April 7-12, Sidestreet, Lingala Park, 388-1186. TOBY REDD: April 1-4, September's, Warren, 756-6140. April 7, Jagger's, Pontiac, 681-1701. April 9-12, 24 Karat Club, 531-2332.
TODD RUNDGREN & UTOPIA: April 3, Royal Oak Music Theatre, 546-7610.
VALENTINE: April 21-26, Studio, Westland, 729-2540.
VOYAGER: April 2-18, Pier Wyandotte, 282-7442.
CARSON II: Tuesdays, 832-5910. CENTER STAGE: Canton, Sundays, 455-3010. 500,
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CLUB U.B.Q.: Th-Su, 923-2357.
DILLON S: W-Sa, 546-4466. DOWNSTAIRS PUB: With DJ Ken Collier, 345-5970.
FACES: Nightly, 852-6450. 431 EAST: F-Sa, 836-8218.
JAY BEE S: Thursdays, 961-1121.
LESPRIT: Nightly, 963-6902.
OSCAR'S: Nightly, 353-6806.
ACTION: April 4, Red Carpet Lounge, 885-9881.
ART IN AMERICA: April 3-4, Bowery, 871-1503. THE ATTITUDES: April 9, Bookie's, 862-0877.
BAD HABIT: April 6, Red Carpet Lounge, 885-9881.
- BASICS: April 8, Second Chance, Ann Arbor, 994-5350.
BORIS SAVAGE & THE PRIMATES: April 8, Nunzio s, Lincoln Park, 383pol2i.
THE BROADCASTERS with THE NELSONS: April 10, Nunzio s, Lincoln Park, 383-3121.
THE CHEATERS: April 9, Red Carpet Lounge, 885-9881. April 15, Nunzio s, Lincoln Park, 383-3121.
COOL: METRO: April 12, Red Carpet Lounge, 885-9881.
DESTROY ALL MONSTERS: April 7, Second Chance, Ann Arbor, 994-5350.
DETROIT ON A PLATTER with DESTROY ALL MONSTERS, RERUNS, SILLIES, SNEAKY HAIRCUTS: April 3, Todd's, 366-8633.
DUEL: April 5, Red Carpet Lounge, 8859881.
ECHO & THE BUNNYMEN: April 9, Bookie's, 862-0877.
THE EJECTORS: April 8, Nunzio's, Lincoln Park, 383-3121. FIGURES ON A BEACH: April 16-18, Lil's, 875-6555.
4 OUT OF 5 DOCTORS: April 3, Bookie s, 862-0877.
THE GREASY WETIBACK: April 16, Nunzio s, Lincoln Park, 383-3121.
HOI POLLOI: April 3, Nunzio s, Lincoln Park, 383-3121. April 12, Red Carpet Lounge, 885-9881.
INCREDIBLE MOHAWK BROTHERS: April 3-4, Lili's, 875-6555.
INSANITY & THE KILLERS:. April 1011, Red Carpet Lounge, 885-9881. JET BOYS: April 5, Red Carpet Lounge, 885-9881.
JOHN BRIO SHOW: April 2, Lil's, 8756555. April 9, Nunzio s, 383-3121.
JONATHAN RICHMOND: April 11, Bookie s, 862-0877.
JOAN JETT and THE BLACKHART: April 6, Second Chance, Ann Arbor, 994-5350.
L SEVEN: April 2, Bookie s, 862-0877.
LOST LATINOS: April 16, Nunzio s, Lincoln Park, 383-3121.
MODERN RAGE: April 4, Bookie s, 8620877.
NATASHA: April 9, Red Carpet Lounge, 885-9881. April 10, Vanity Ballroom, 824-6310. April 15, Bookie's, 8620877.
P.LZ.: April 1-5, Second Chance, Ann Arbor, 994-5350.
PEGASUS: April 3, Eevmieg 871-1503. THE PRIVATES: April 16, Red Carpet Lounge, 885-9881.
RAW DOGS: April 11, Nunzio s, Lincoln Park, 383-3121.«
REPUTATIONS: April 4> Vanity Ballroom, 824-6310. April 11, Tupay s, 5211717.
ROCKABILLY CATS: April 3-4, Song Shop, 832-8032. April 10-11, be 8756555.
ROUGH CUT: April 10, Vanity Ballroom, 824-6310. April 11, Bowery, 871-1503.
SEATBELTS: April 3, Red Carpet Lounge, 885-9881. SECRET AFFAIR: April 4, Bookie s, 862-0877.
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SECRETS: April 4, Vanity Ballroom, 824-6310. April 7, Second Chance, Ann Arbor, 994-5350. April 10-11, Red Carpet Lounge, 885-9881.
SINGLES: April 3, Nunzio s, Lincoin Park, 383-3121. April 10, Vanity Ballroom, 824-6310.
STATIC: April 5, Bookie s, 862-0877. April 15-16, Bowery, 871-1503. April 17, Vanity Ballroom, 824-6310.
STINGRAYS: April 4, Vanity Ballroom, 824-6310. April 8, Press Party at Red Carpet Lounge, 885-9881. April 16, Bookie s, 862-0877.
SUIT 5: April 2, Press Party at Red Carpet Lounge, 885-9881.
THUNDER ROAD: April 3-4, Red Carpet Lounge, 885-9881.
TINY DESK UNIT: April 10, Bookie s, 862-0877.
U-2: April 18, Harpo s, 832-6400.
VIA SATELLITE: April 2-4, Tupay s, 521-1717. April8, Press Party at the Red Carpet Lounge, 885-9881.
X.T.C. & HAZEL O'CONNOR: April 8, Madison Theatre, 965-2060.
YOUNG & DIRTY: April 9, Nunzio s, Lincoln Park, 383-3121.
ZELLOTS: April 11, Nunzio s, Lincoln Park, 383-3121.
ARLO GUTHRIE: April 15, Center Stage, Canton, 455-3094.
BAKER'S BLUEJAY YAWN: April (F & Sa), Nemo s Fairlane, Dearborn, 3368550.
BILLY EDWARDS: Crackers Saloon, East Detroit, 777-3800.
BOB STARK: Mondays, Union Street I, GP, 331-0018.
DANIEL WARREN BAND: April 1-4, Inn. Between, Waterford, 682-5690.
DICK SIEGEL: April 10-11, Alvin's Finer Twilight Bar, 832-2355.
GEMINI: April 26, Cripple Creek Coffeehouse, Birmingham, 645-1173.
Saturday, April 18 9 pm at HARPO S
tickets $4 © available at: Sam's Jams @ Dearborn Music Peaches, Fraser @ Schoolkids A? and the HARPO'S box office A Son of Bamboo Production
HOLLY NEAR and JUDY ADAMS: May 1, Rackham Auditorium. Tickets $7 in advance, $8 at the door.
HOME GROWN GRASS: April 10-11, Griffs, Pontiac, 334-7651.
IRISH & EVORSOLE: April 1-4, Larry's, Warren, 574-1380.
JIMMY PERKINS: April (Su only), Four Green Fields, Royal Oak, 280-2902.
KAREN BOUCHARD: April 1-30 (Su only), Union Street II, 331-0018. April 130 (Tu-Sa), Brew 'n Kangaroo, Dearborn, 565-0660.
KATHLEEN WALTERS & KIM
DOMINIC: April 5, Cripple Creek Coffeehouse, Birmingham, 645-1173.
KEITH FERGUSON: Thursdays, Union Street I, GP, 331-0018.
LOST WORLD STRING BAND: April 1718, Griffs, Pontiac, 334-7651.
MARTY BURKE: April (F only), Four Green Fields, Royal Oak, 280-2902.
NEIL WOODWARD: April 12-14, The Back Seat Saloon, Keego Harbor, 6825777. April 20-21, Inn Between, Waterford, 682-5690.
PAT McDUNN & THE GAELS: April (Tu & Sa only), Four Green Fields, Royal Oak, 280-2902.
PATS PEOPLE: April (Tu only), Four Green Fields, Royal Oak, 280-2902.
PAUL KRASS: April 8-11, Larry's, Warren, 574-1380.
RICH & MAUREEN DEL GRASSO: April 3-4, Griffs, Pontiac, 334-7651.
RICHARD PINKSTON: Wednesdays, Union Street I, GP, 331-0018.
RICH MANDERHELD: April (W only), Four Green Fields, Royal Oak, 280- 2902.
RUFFWATER STRING BAND: April 12, Cripple Creek Coffeehouse, Birmingham, 645-1173.
SPRINGER & EVORSOLE: April 5-25, Larry's, Warren, 574-1380.
SUNNYSIDERS: April (F & Sa), Little Ceasar s, Southgate, 285-7474.
THREE PENNY OPERA: April (F & Sa), Alden's Alley, Royal Oak, 545-5000.
AMERICAN ARTIST SERIES: Kingswood Aud., 885 Cranbrook Rd., Bloomfield, 647-2230. April 12, 7 pm, Quadro Barocco & the AAS Strings & Piano. BRUNCH WITH BACH: DIA, 5200 Woodward, 832-2730. Sundays, 10 am & 11:30 am. April 5, David Cerone, violin, and Eunice Podis, piano.
BRUNCH WITH THE CLASSICS: The Gnome, Woodward, 833-0120. April 5, Corey Trager Janet Roehm. April 12, Bork-Em Riff.
CANTATA ACADEMY OF METROPOLITAN DETROIT: Orchestra Hall, 271-8946. April 5, 3:30 pm, in concert with the Michigan Chamber Orchestra, Bach Mass on B Minor.
CELEBRATION OF ANTAL DORATI: Orchestra Hall, lward at Parsons, 851-8934. April 5, 7:30 pm. Dorati as composer with comments by the Maestro proceeding each composition.
CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY OF DETROIT: Orchestra Hall, Woodward at Parsons, 832-7400. April 10, 8 pm, Beaux Arts Trio.
CLASSICAL BRUNCH: Union Street II, 831-3965. Michael Jeup, guitar. DETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: Ford Auditorium, Jefferson at Woodward, 961-7017. April 9 & 11, 8 pm, Antal Dorati 75th Birthday Festival.
NOONTIME CONCERTS AT THE DOWNTOWN LIBRARY: April 7, 12:15, Piano and flutes. April 14, 12:15, Oak- land University Mime Ensemble. Both are free.
RENAISSANCE CONCERTS: Edsel & Eleanor Ford House, 1100 Lake Shore Rd., Grosse Pointe Shores, 851-8934. April 5, 3 pm, Misha Rachlevsky, violin, and Chris Birs, guitar.
SATURDAYS AT FOUR: Madame Cadillac Hall, Marygrove College, 8628000, Ext. 240. April 11, 4 pm, Faith Foster, soprano, and James Waring, violin.
2,384 VIA SATELLITE 9 DON TAPERT & THE SECOND AVE. BAND 10 HOT LIPS & FRANKIE LAMARR BAND 11
April 3-4 Willie Dixon
April 10-14 Jimmie Rogers
Wed. Elites featuring Joe Dunlap Thur. Chicago Pete Sun. Urbations 1585 FRANKLIN STREET
BILL HODGSON: Sundays, Alvin's Finer Twilight Bar, 832-2355.
MAKAH RHYTHM TRIBE: April 5, reggae, Animal House Saloon, 9279175.
MARY ROBERTS: April 2, 8-9, Delta Lady, Ferndale, 545-5483.
ONXYZ: April 4, reggae, Nunzio s, Lincoln Park, 383-3121. April 9, Alvin's Finer Twilight Bar, 832-2355.
RALPH KOZIARSKI:Tu & W, Magic Pan, Troy, 649-0510.
SIRIUS ROOTS: April 4, reggae, Nunzio s, Lincoln Park, 383-3121.
ST. AUBIN STREET RAMBLERS: April 3-4, 11, Woodbridge Tavern, 2590578.
STEVE NARDELLA: April 2-3, rockabilly, Blind Pig, Ann Arbor, 996-8555.
ACTORS RENAISSANCE THEATRE:
Ren Cen btw. Towers 200 & 300, 5682525. Thru April, Th-Su, 8 pm, Tuscaloosa s Calling Me But I'm Not Going.
ATTIC THEATRE: 525 E. Lafayette, 963-7789. Thru April 25, Bent. Show times: Th, F & Su, 8 pm; Sa, 6 & 9 pm.
THE BIRMINGHAM TEMPLE: 28611
W. Twelve Mile Rd., Farmington Hills, 544-8350. April 5, Brecht, Brel and Friends. Show time 7:30 pm.
BIRMINGHAM THEATRE: 211 S. Woodward, 6443533. Every day except Mon. Thru May 10, Do Black Patent Leather Shoes Really Reflect Up?
DETROIT REPERTORY THEATRE: 13103 Woodrow Wilson, 868-1347. Thru May 3, Th-Su, Puntila and Matti. FOURTH STREET PLAYHOUSE: 301 W. Fourth St., Royal Oak, 543-3666. April 3 & 4, Relatively Speaking. April 17-19, The Wall Beyond Mozambique. Midnight performances after F & Sa shows.
9 THE THEATRE: U of D Theatre. Group performance at Marygrove Campus, 8425 W. 6 Mile, 927-1130. Thru April 21, F & Sa, 8 pm, The Apple Tree. WILL-O-WAY REPERTORY THEATRE: 775 W. Long Lake, Bloomfield Hills, 644-4418. F & Sa, 8:30 pm, April 24 thru May 16, Picnic.
* CENTER FOR NEW DIRECTIONS: green, Dearbom, 271-2750, Ext. 330. Saturdays beginning April 4, 9-10:30
Sherwin Wine will discuss Russia and Peter the Great. April 16, 10 am, the topic will be Egypt and Israel, also with Sherwin Wine.
DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS: 5200 Woodward, 832-2730. April 2, 8 pm, The New Museum of Modern Art in New York & Other Works, with architect Cesar Pelli.
DETROIT UNITY TEMPLE: 17505 Second, 345-4848. April 4, 9:30 am-
Henry Ford Comm. College, 5101 Ever-. 4 pm, Marilyn Ferguson, author of The Aquarian Conspiracy, will be the featured speaker of the seminar.
ballet will be offered.
am, an 8-week course in the basics of DETROIT FOLK DANCE CLUB: 380
Lone Pine, Bloomfield (Brookside School), 649-2878. Club meets every Friday evening 8-11:15 pm.
HARRIET BERG'S FESTIVAL DANCERS: Southfield Civic Center, 26000 Evergreen, 354-4717. April 14, 8 pm, dancing interlaced with poetry.
OHIO BALLET: Music Hall, 350 Madi-
son, 963-6943. April 8-12.
W.S.U. DANCE COMPANY: WSU Community Arts Aud., 450 W. Kirby, 5774273. April 3, 8:30 pm & April 4,2 pm & 8:30 pm, the Dance Company in Concert, featuring the choreography of guest artist Amy Zell Ellsworth.
MOTHERING ART: April 14, lecture/ discussion on Where Does Your Child Go When.S/he leaves the House at 8 am? Call 862-8139 or 399-8455 for time and location.
W.S.U. DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC: Community Arts Auditorium. April 15, 4 pm, lecture-recital by Charles Joseph, professor of music at Southem Methodist University, Texas. Free.
WORLD CONFERENCE: first Presbyterian Church of Dearborn, 600 N. Brady, 7216565. April 3, 8:30 am-3 pm, seminar topics will include The Weekend Athlete, Prescription and Non-Prescription Medicine and more. Dr. Paul Pearsall, Sinai Hospital, will give the keynote address. Child care will be provided. Advance registration is suggested. HIGH SCHOOL MATHEMATICS COMPETITION: LIT, 21000W. Ten Mile Rd., Southfield, 356-0200. April 12, 1-3 pm, 12th Annual Math Competition
833-0120
HILBERRY THEATRE: Cass at Hancock, 577-2972. Thru April 18, Love for Love. A LANGSTON HUGHES THEATRE: 13325 Livemois, 935-9425. Call for current schedule.
MEADOW BROOK THEATRE: Oakland University, Rochester, 377-3300. Thru April 19, Bus Stop.
MUSEUM THEATRE: Greenfield Village & Henry Ford Museum. April 4, 11, 18, 20-25, Aladdin. Curtain 2 pm.
Fri-Sat. Wendell Harrison & Pamela Wise
Sunday Brunch with the Classics April 5 Corey Trager & Janet Roehm April 12 Bork-em Riff. 4124 Woodward Ave., 4 blocks South of
New Entertainment Stuff
3rd and 4th Rockabilly Cats (New Wave)
10th and 11th Urbations (R & B) 16th and 17th Cat s Meow (Jazz). wsu Dance Company, CommunityArts Auditorium, April 3-4.
W.S.U. FOLK DANCE CLUB: Room 246, Old Main, Cass at Warren, 577-4273. Every Friday, 7:30 pm, open dancing until 11:30 pm. Any interested dancer is encouraged to participate.
BIRMINGHAM COMMUNITY WOMEN S CENTER: 746 Purdy, Room 201, Birmingham, 642-1132. April 2, 11:30 am, Professional Network presents Women in Finance with stockbroker Carol Ann Payne.
CENTER FOR NEW THINKING: Baldwin Library, Bates at Martin, Birmingham, 546-8928. April 9, 10 am,
HIGH NOON POETRY READINGS: Explorers Room, Detroit Public Library, 5201 Woodward. April 8, 12 noon, Faye 'Kicknosway, winner ofthe 1980 Michigan Arts Award.April 15, 12 noon, Kofi Natambu, WDET host accompanied by musicians Leonard King and Faruq Z. Bey. Free.
LINES: NEW AMERICAN POETRY: DIA, 5200 Woodward, 832-2730. April 9, 3 pm, informal talk in Holley Room; 7:30 pm, reading in Lecture Hall by Michael Brownstein.
P.R.C. POETRY FESTIVAL: The Poetry Resource Center asks that poets interested in reading during the festival submit tapes of no more than 30 minutes to Jim Allen, 550 Avalon SE, Grand Rapids, MI 49503. Enclose SASE.
POETS CORNER: Poetry and writers workshop every Tuesday, 4-6 pm, on the East Side at Inner City Sub-Center, Bs
CENTER FOR NEW DIRECTIONS: Henry Ford Comm. College, 5101 Evergreen, Dearbom, 271-2750, Ext. 330. Courses are being offered on Time Management, Separation & Divorce: The Woman's Experience. Also offered are one-day seminars on Starting Your Own Business, April 11, 8:30 am4:30 pm; and Overcoming Shyness and Loneliness, April 4, 10 ampm. Call for detailed: information.
CENTER FOR NEW THINKING: Somerset Mall Aud., Troy, 546-8928. April 5, 2:30 pm, learn about self-confidence and good-humored boldness with Sherwin Wine. April 12, Sherwin Wine leads a discussion on Negotiation and Dealing with Other People s Power. CRANBROOK VENTURES: April 11, 9:30 am-3 pm, Cranbrook is sponsoring an excursion to Monroe s Fermi II nuclear power plant. Discussion will be led by Dr. A. B. Van Rennes, former Bendix employee.
DOWNRIVER Y.W.CA: 3211 Fort, Wyandotte, 281-2626. April 11, 9:30 am-3:30 pm, Assertiveness Training Workshop.
SATURDAY FOR LUNCH
Margaritas & Tequila Specials
Reputation a Angelos, Vanity Ballroom, = 4 for $100, $50 and $25 prizes. opie tions must be in before April 7.
KARATE: Henry Ford Community College, 5101 Evergreen, 271-2750, Ext. 330. April 6-June 22, M W, 8-9 pm, learn the fundamentals of this ancient martial art.
MICHIGAN FOUNDATION FOR PREVENTIATIVE MEDICINE: Wholistic health lectures given by nutritionist Bob -Zuraw. For info call 882-3856 (East Side) or 967-2224 (Northwest).
OAKLAND UNIVERSITY DIVISION OF CONTINUING EDUCATION: Roches: ter, 377-3120. Non-degree courses begin April 6. Register for classes such as Intro To Condos, Listening Isn't Easy __and Drafting of Wills and Trusts.
RENAISSANCE CONTEMPORARY
MUSIC: 19033 W. Mile Rd.,531-0357. April 6, seminar providing info about the entertainment industry. Theory, Management, Recording aretopicstobediscussed. Call for specifics.
SINGLE-AIRES: 6540 Franklin Rd., Birmingham, 855-3455. April 7, pm, a~ discussion for adults 21 years and on Is It Love or Just Sex?
WILL-O-WAY APPRENTICE THE. ATRE: 775 W. Long Lake, Bloomfield, 644-4418. Thru April 9, open registration for spring acting classes. Classes begin April 4 and end June 28.
WINE TASTING WORKSHOP: Bir mingham Unitarian Church, 651 N. Woodward, Bloomfield, 547- 9184.
by Michael Betzold
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AMERICAN INDEPENDENT FILMMAKERS. Matinee series at Institute of Arts continues with rarely seen experimental classics: jonas Mekas (1971) Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania (April 1-5). Jerome Hills (1972) Film Self-Portrait (Apni 8-12). Hollis Framptons (1970) Zorms Lemma Apri 15-19). (Afiernoon Film Theatre) ANDY WARHOL'S FRANKENSTEIN: Asutsy
3-D movie by Paul Morrissey. Ifyou ve seen it in a flat version around town, you ve missed out on the Srossest aspects of this stomach turner. (Detroit Him Theatre, Apri 5) BACK ROADS. Martin Ritt and Sally Field, whe struck gold with Norma Rae, try to mine our sentiments again with this heardwarmind tale _of two traveling misits, BROKEN BLOSSOMS. Lillian Gish stars in this tinted silent D. W. Griliith flm about a lonely Chinese man in London. oe Film Theatre, Aor
April 8, 12:30 pm, taste and compare domestic white wines. Be sure to eat first as this is not luncheon affair. WOMEN S JUSTICE CENTER: U-D Law School, 651 E. Jefferson, Room 345, 961-7073. April 8, 6:30 pm, attomey Elfen Zuckerman will present Divorce Legal Overview. Free of charge. ¥V.W.CA. DOWNIOWN: 2230 Witherell, 961-9221. 12-week seminar entitled, Executive Grooming. Designed to give sraduates of this class the upwardly mobile professional look. Call for specific info.
Photo: Leni Sinclair
ZEN MEDITATION SESSION: 17700 W. Warren, 399-0431. Every Sunday, 7 pm, meditation with Hye Seong Zen Master.
CHILDREN S MUSEUM: 67 E. Kirby, 494-1210. April 4, 10-11.30 am & 23:30 pm, Kite Workshop. April 11, 10 am-noon, Easter Bonnets and Toppers Workshop. Both workshops are for children aged 6-12. Also April 11, 1,2& pm, there will be demonstrations on traditional Ukranian Easter Egg decorating.
CRANBROOK INSIITUTE OF SCIENCE: 500 Lone Pine, Bloomfield, 6453230. Planetarium demonstrations and lectures included with Museum admission.
DETROIT YOUTHEATRE: DIA, 5200 Woodward, 832-2730. April 11, 11 am & pm, Silent Comedy, featuring mime and oe clown. April 18, 11 am pm, The Magic of ios with magician Danny Orleans.
THE CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI. (**x*kWWW) There's been nothing made since to remotely compare to this silent 1919 German classic which extermalizes madman s world as place where walls and ceilings defy gravity and convention. surreal cubist painting on film which captures with horrifying, vertiginous accuracy the dizzying alienation of modern existence, Dr. Caligari is the landmark beginning of cinema as art, unlocking the movie camera's awesome power in the first true horror film. Guest lecturer Jim Limbacher, local film teacher and historian, will help kick off the Cinemas two-weekend Classic Horror Film Festival. (Cass City Cinema, April 10.) THE DEVIL'S PLAYGROUND. the debut film by Australian director Fred Schepisi (The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith) deals with growing up in Catholic seminary. Since everything in Australia is upside down, the film could be subtitled, Do Black Patent Leather Shoes Really Reflect Down? (Detroit lm Theatre, April 3.) EVERY MAN FOR HIMSELF. the DFI goes big time (and high priced) with the Detroitdebut of Jean-Luc Godard s most acclaimed film in decade. Eight showings in one weekend for five bucks head, but you save two dollars you use two subscription tickets instead. The ommission of Every Man for Himself fom Oscar consideration as the year best foreign film is considered scandalous. Godard comedy is major comeback film for the most political of all the French New Wave directors. lsabelle Huppert stars. (Detroit Film Theatre, April 10-12)
EXCALIBUR. King Arthur and the Kuch: ofthe Round Table retum, as John Boorman directs mew epic of chivalry and romance (Opens Apri 10)
INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE: 111 E Kirby, 871-8600. Apri 5, 3 pm, Ukranian Ethnic Sunday. - Y¥.W.CA DOWNTOWN: 2230 Witherell, 961-9220. For youths aged 9-12, 5 week seminar, Little Gents and Charmettes, will help develop appropriate skills for becoming successful individuals. For young ladies aged 13-18, Growing Up Female, is seminar for teenage women to explore their own identities. Call for times and more info.
ALL TOGETHER NOW: Tuesdays, pm. Metro Detroit's longest-running radio show produced by and forwomen - addresses events and music from feminist perspective. WDET, 101.9 FM.
COMMERCIAL-FREE JAZZ: M-F, midnight- am. M: the Revisited Series; TuW: Jazz Album Review; Th-F: assorted musicians. Hosted by Calvin Euseary. WJZZ, 105.9 FM. COOLING OUT: M-F, 6-7 pm. Cali 2592303 for an opportunity to air your views. Hosted by Larry Bird) WGPR, 107.5 FM.
DANGEROUS EXPOSURE: Sundays, pm, stuff that isn't normally heard in the market. WABX, 99 FM.
DETROIT BLACK JOURNAL: Airs every Friday at 9:30 pm & Sunday, 2:30 pm. WIVS, Channel 56.
FREE FOR ALL Fridays, pm, Mort Crim hosts talk show featuring panel of Detroiters addressing current issues. WDIV, Channel 4.
THE FINAL CONFLICI OMEN PART Ill.
Appropriately enough in this Moral Majority administration, the child Damien, the Antichrist, has now become trusted Presidential advisor. Hell's bells! (Opens March 20.) HARDLY WORKING. Jerry Lewis returns to the bis screen for the first time in over decade, and retarded children worldwide are rejoicing.
In Hardly Working, this bumbling, unemployed cloum plays guess what? a bumbling, unemployed clown. (Opens April 3.)
THE HOWLING. Werewolves terrorize people in hot tubs, dazzle audiences with special effects. Screenplay by John Sayles, who brought you The Secaucus Seven (f only briefly). (Opens April 10.)
LA CAGE AUX FOLLES Il. The first La Cage introduced to the world the first gay Laurel-andHardy team, Ugo Tognazzi and Michel Serrault, owner and star, respectively, ofa drag nightclub on the Riviera. Their slapstick parody of conventional sexual morality was either hilarious or deeply offensive, depending on whether you were ready to laugh at gay stereotype spoofs of straight stereotypes. Now you have another chance, Eduoard Molinaro again directs the sequel. (Opens April 3.)
MODERN ROMANCE. Albert Brooks Real Life, seen by seven or eight people here during the week played in the summer of 1979, was one of the funniest movies I've ever seen. Modern Romance is the zany Brooks {no relation to Mel) second try, spoofof current-day relationships (which badly need spoofing). (Opens Apri 10)
NIGHT HAWKS. Syivesier Stallone takes off his boxing gloves andjoins Billy Dee Williams asan undercover cop. (Opens April 3.)
Sidney Poitier
GORILLA: April 14, pm. This special examines the great ape true nature and attempts to dispel his image problem perpetuated in Hollywood films.
WIVS, Channel 56.
HITCHHIKER S GUIDE TO THE
GALAXY: Thursdays, 8:30 pm. This BBC-produced show pokes fun at contemporary social values and the science fiction genre. WDET, 101.9 FM. MORPHOGENESIS: Unique forms of creative music from all places and periods with Judy Adams. M-F, 3-5 pm. WDET,1019FM
MUSIC FROM THE ART INSTITUTE: Su, 1-2 pm. Classical concerts recorded at DIA music events, including Brunch With Bach. WOQRS, 105.1 FM. NOT FOR MUSICIANS ONLY: Monday, 12 midnight. Host Carl Coffey talks with people involved in all facets ofthe music biz. Charlie Martin, former Seger drummer, co-hosts. WRIF, 101FM. OLD GOLD: Sunday evenings, 6:308:30 pm. Featuring R&B and Rockabilly. WODTR, 91 FM.
RADIOS IN MOTION: Fridays, pm. Alternative rock for an alternative society. Hosted by Mike Halloran. WDET, 101.9 FM.
SOCIETY TO PROTECT OUR CHIL DREN: April 12, am, member of the SPOC will be on the June Brown Show. WDIV, Channel 4. 13th ANNUAL CHANNEL 56 AUCTION: Hosted by the official auction cowboy Dick Purtan, thousands of items will be auctioned off to provide operating funds for Detroit's public TV station. April 3-11, WIVS, Channel 56. YOU & YOUR PROBLEM: Tuesdays,
pm, Wison Brown helps listeners with problems. Phone yours in. 299-5226. WGPR, 107.5 FM.
W.D.E.T. BLUES AFTER HOURS: Saturday evenings, 12-2 am. Blues with the Coachman on WDET, 101.9 FM.
D.ES. ACTION/DETROIT: Needs DES exposed and others interested to help promote general information about diethylstilbestrol. Call Jan at 371-8696 for more information.
DETROIT SCIENCE CENTER: Needs people 18 & older for Volunteer Guides. Call Joan Knapp, 833-1892, weekdays, 95.
FRIENDS OF BELLE ISLE: Needs people to help clean up the island in preparation for the 1981 season. Call 823-3266 or show up Apri 4, 10 am, at the Woodside picnic area near the island's Coast Guard Station. Dress warmly and bring clean-up tools.
PLANNED PARENTHOOD: Needs workers interested in family planning issues. Opportunities also available in fundraising and office work. Call 8616704 for info.
RAPE COUNSELING CENTER: Needs volunteers to handle a variety of services for victims of sexual assault. Training is provided. Call Edna Davis, 832740%8)
= Tuesday Weld and James Caan in Thief.
NIGHT OF THE HUNTER. (** *WWW) An altogether unique and genuinely bizzare Hollywood gem of the 50s with Robert Mitchum asa spooky homicidal preacher (L-O-V-E tatooed on one hand and H-A-T-E on the other), sort of an embodiment of the Moral Majority. Charles Laughton s only directorial effort also stars Lillian Gish and Shelley Winters, both expertly cast and effectively realized in their portrayals. When Mitchum stalks two children down a. moonlit river, the movie touches strange mystical chords and evokes primitive atmospheric terror. Here is fable, set in the Depres-
AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY: Has free services that include counseling and transportation for cancer patients. Call 923-5144 for info ae
CHILD CARE SERVICES: For assistance in identifying and locating appropriate child care arrangements, call the Office of Child Care Services, 577-2332, weekdays 9-5.
FOCUS HOPE: Offers free health ca and counseling throughout April. Call 883-1187 for info.
FREEDOM FROM SMOKING: Amercan Lung Association has new selfhelp smoking cessation program. Leam to cope with the urge to start again by calling 961-1697.
MICHIGAN CANCER FOUNDATION: Cervical and breast screening clinics on T Th from 9 am-4:30 pm. Call 4940043 for appointments.
PARENT INFORMATION REFERRAL SERVICE: Call 874-2577 to find out about a wide variety of services available for your family.
PSYCHOLOGICAL COUNSELING: Low-cost training clinic sponsored by UD helps Detroit-area adults with their personal problems. For info or appoint: ment call 863-8881.
RENTERS RIGHTS: General questions about the law with regard to renting can be directed to the Michigan Consumer's Counadil Hotline, M-F, 8:30-4:30, 963- 6806 in Detroit; other areas, 1-800-2925680.
WOMENCENTER: Offers women help in identifying needs and developing skills to achieve personal fulfillment. Call 476-9400, Ext. 509.
COLLAGE CULTURAL FOUNDATION
FOR YOUTH: Life, Love and Lonliness is statement in art by Ron Scarbough
to benefit the Foundation. April 3-9at the CADE. Caley, 8019 pone 832 2466. EXPERIMENTAL PERFORMING ARTS ASSOC: 71 E. Ferry, 875-7441 or 8608947 April 3, pm, the Gerry the Fool Group performs Who's Fooling Who? in benefit for the Center for Humanistic Studies at the Merrill-Palmer Institute. NONCE DANCE ENSEMBLE: Grosse Pointe Academy, 171 Lakeshore Rd. 776-3593. April 10, 7:30 pm, The Annual Fundraiser: wine and cheese affair with mini performance by the Dance Ensemble.
SAVE THE VANITY BENEFIT: Vanity Ballroom, E. Jefferson at Newport. April 4, pm-4 am, dance to music by the Reputations, Stringrays and the Secrets, SPLASH FOR CASH: Downriver YWCA, 3211 Fort, Wyandotte, April 5, am-4 pm, marathon swim. Proceeds go to support your YWCA branch.
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sion, which can qualify as authentic American folk art. Not to be missed. Also: An American in Paris. (Detroit Film Society, April 10-11.)
NOSFERATU. (**«xWWW) Oniy Wemer Herzog s recent remake is faithful to this, the orginal Dracula movie, made in 1921. The great early German director Mumau introduces this most famous of all movie monsters as walking shcst, hungry, ugly and utterly inhuman. No cute or romantic vampires here; this is the real thing, much scarier than any ofits imitators. (Cass City Cinema, April 11)" JON THE RIGHT TRACK. Orphan So Cole-
CRIMINAL JUSTICE SEMINAR: April & 9, 9:15-12:15, a three-session semihar detailing the criminal justice system affecting adults and children in our society. Event at Team for Justice, 1035 St. Antoine, 965-3242. DETROIT: MANAGING THE UNCERTAIN 80s: of D, 4001 W. McNichols, 927-1200. April 4, one-day conference 281-2626.
SPRINGFEST: Holy Innocents Ae my, 23601 Ann Arbor Trail, Dearbom Heights, 336-9267. April 4, 10 ampm, Professional Demonstrating Arts Crafts Show. 50¢ admission, proceeds benefit the Academy.
sponsored by the of D Business School. Will analyze factors affecting Detroit's economy in the 80s. Speakers and panelists include GM President, F. James MacDonald and Sen. Don Riegel. DETROIT NEWS & LETTERS COM_MITTEE: 2832 E. Grand Blvd. April5,3 pm, Raya Dunayevskaya will speakon The Relationship of Marx's Philosophy of Revolution to Organization. FACING THE CONSERVATIVE TIDE: WSU, Affican Heritage Room, 91 Manoogian Hall, Third at W. Warren, 577-2321. April 15, 7:30 pm, the final in. three-part series will investigate Political Transformation and will feature Manning Marable, National Black Inde-
pendent Political = and Gerald McWhorter, People s College, Chicago. JOBS WITH PEACE: First Unitarian Church, 4605 Cass, 833-3197 after pm. April 12, 2:30 pm, statewide meeting to organize mass sentiment for human needs and against military madness. NATIONAL TEACH-IN ON EL SALVA_DOR: April 1-3, Wayne State Faculty Staff for Peace sponsoring teach-in that will include films on El Salvador and Nicaragua, panel discussions and lectures. Featured speakers will include former Ambassador to El Salvador, Robert White; Bill Wipfler, National Council of Churches; Congressman
man sleeps in locker at the Chicago train Station and has gift for picking the ponies that helps make bag lady Maureen Stapleton rich. If this sounds like a half-hour TV show, must be because its been conceived and executed by TV people. THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE. (*WWZ) Jack Nicholson is getting so sleazy as he ages that he may end up turing to pure scum before he dies. His performance in this new version of the steamy James Cain novel that was too hot for Hollywood in the 30s is masterful, and done with minimum of sarcasm. Jessica Lange is appropriately hungry and desperate as woman whose history director Bob Rafelson and screenwriter David Mamet never bother to explain, butwho lovesa fittle blood mixed in with rough sex. Why she cates for the disgusting creature Nicholson "portrays can only be explained by rather dismal view of female sexuality; how Nicholson gets reformed by this weird love can't be explained at all. Sven Nykvist's cinematography creates a sullen Depression setting, but the story is interminable, misleading oe oe mately unsatisfying.
PAUL SHARITS. Painter, sculptor one filmmaker Sharits uses multiple screens, slides and and movies to experiment with new cinematic modes; he is an internationally known innovator, and this will be his first Detroit appear ance. (Detroit Film Project, April 12,872-3903
RAGING BULL (ZZ) Italians crowing upin New York 30-40 years ago do nothing but mumble at and fight with their loved ones, if Martin Scorcese movies are true. Scorcese continues his moody evocation of that experience with this forgettable movie about forgettable boxer, Jake LaMotia, who afier retirement be
came an even more forgettable no-class nightclub act. The look and feel of the 40s are faithfully recreated in this black-and-white flick that meticulously follows all the conventions of B movies about boxers, adding little except the director loathsome fixation on spurting blood. Taxi Driver romanticized violence to an unforSiveable degree, and this time Scorcese adds dassical orchestral background to his choreography of mutilation, as if two people beating @ach other's face to mash had any class or grace at all. Robert DiNiro may have accom: plished more than just putting on 60 pounds to play the flabby retired LaMotta, but it hard to tell his acting s any good because he mumbles every line less distinctly than even Brando.
SPHINK. («ZZZW) Take your mummy . this romance-by-the Nile which has splendid Egyptian artifacts from the tombs of the Pharaohs that are far more authentic thanitscharacterizations. Frank Langella is adoe-eyed government official who looks to be on angel dust, Lesley Ann Downs ts visiting American Egyptologist who doesn't appear to know her own profession, and Sir John Gielgud ts trafficker in fake antiquities who looks silly in white robes. Director Franklin Schaffner doesn't take advantage of - | the exotic setting to infuse any interest in rather silly chase-em, shoot-em-up Spy story. (Opens ae a)
THIEF.
Games Caan) carries alittle collage of His Lifein his wallet With pictures cut out from magazines while he was serving fis time in the pen, Frank's collage-postcard reminds hin of his dreams of retiring to placid affluence with lucsday Weld and an adopted son. Unfortunately, his desire to make the collage real makes him (eeZW) Crack salecracker Frank
tum fom protescond freelance thievery to working for godfatherly underworld executive. Its standard B-movie me-againstithe world stuff, but what grabs you is Tangerine Dream's throbbing music, Donald Thorin s pulp-comic cinematography, and Michael Mann's firm direction. The best paris of Thief are like documentary shorts on the
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John Conyers; Michael Harrington, Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee and other labor and church leaders. Call for more info, 577-3416.
REBUILDING THE LABOR MOVEMENT IN THE*1980s: A conference sponsored by Labor Notes will be held April 10-12; Book Cadillac Hotel. Speakers and workshops dealing with critical issues facing the labor movement. Call 883-5580 for info and registration.
SENECA ELECTRIC STRIKE: 8300Grinnell. Mondays, 6:30 am & 3:30 pm.
If you are interested in supporting the striking workers, your presence is encouraged and appreciated.
SOLAR ENERGY ASSOCIATION OF DETROIT: Room 430, Criminal Justice Bldg., 6001 Cass, 771-0165. April 14, 7:30 pm, a general meeting to which the public is invited.
U.S. HANDS OF EL SALVADOR: May 3 the People s Anti-War Mobilization is marching on the Pentagon in an effort to stop the U.S. war build up. Call 8324847 for local information.
WS.U, NEWS & LETTERS YOUTH COMMITTEE: WSU Student Center Bldg, Room 289, 873-8969. April 7, 7 pm, author Raya will lecture on the Gang of Four trial and the Cultural Revolution.
WAYNE SAFE ENERGY COALITION
(SECO): April 9, 2:30-4:30 pm, WSU Student Center Bidg., Hilberry A & B, nuclear scientist and independent researcher Dr. Richard Webb will speak on nuclear reactor hazards. The lecture will be repeated later that day 7-9 pm in the Student Center Ballroom. April 15, 7:30 pm, Hilberry Lounge A, Shirley
Jones will speak on direct action to oppose nuclear power and weapons. John Donley will speak about environmental issues of immediate concern in the U.P. such as uranium mining. April 16, the play Silkwood will be coming to Detroit. For information about any of these activities call 5773480.
WORKING WOMEN: WHATS IN STORE FOR THE 80s: Book Cadillac, 1114 Washington Blvd., 883-5581. April 10, 7:30 pm, a panel ofwomenwill discuss issues of the '80s and how women workers can continue to move forward. Crystal Lee Sutton (Norma Rae) will be the featured speaker. The panel discussion is for women only. At 9:30 pm, The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter will be shown and the public is welcome.
WOMEN S INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE FOR PEACE AND FREEDOM: Central United Methodist Church,23 E. Adams, 961-3643. April 11, 9:30 am-3:30 pm, Women and the Federal Budget Strategy for Action. The conference will include speakers and a workshop.
CRANBROOK ACADEMY OF ART BIENNIAL ART/ANTIQUE AUCTION:
500 Lone Pine, Bloomfield, 646-8432. April 8, 6:30-9:30 pm, champagne preview. April 11° auction. Call for exact times.
DETROIT FILM PROJECT: Focus Gallery, 743 Beaubien, 872-3903. April 12, 8 pm, films by Paul Sharits.
Dick Purtan, Channel 56 Auction, April 3-11. i,
FLEA MARKET: Downriver YWCA, 3211 Fort St. Wyandotte, 281-2626. April 5, 10 am-5 pm.
FLEA MARKET: WSU Student Center Bidg., 577-3444. April 9, 10 am-3 pm, The Spring Bazaar sponsored by the Counseling Office. Free admission.
MICHIGAN STATE MODERN RHYTHMIC GYMNASTICS CHAMPIONSHIP: Crowell Rec. Center, 16630 Lahser, 224-1184. April 4, noon, group and individual competition.
RECORD COLLECTOR'S CONVENTION: American Legion, 12 Mile Rd. at Rochester Rd., Royal Oak, 967-037 for
info. April 5, 9 am-4:30 pm, buy, sell, trade.
SINGLE-AIRES: 6540 Franklin Rd., 855-3455. April 3, 9 pm, House Party with dancing for Livin Singles (ages 3144) and the Lively Ones (ages 41-56).
SHRINE CIRCUS: State Fairgrounds, Woodward at 8 Mile Rd., April 1-5, 3681000 for info. 10 KILOMETER FUN RUN: Lawrence Institute of Technology, 21000 W. 10 Mile Rd., Southfield, 356-0200. April 11, 10 am sharp. Advance registration required, $5 fee.
THREE STOOGES FILM FESTIVAL: Punch and Judy Theatre, 881-4510. Thru April 16, 4, 7 & 9 pm showings.
AAA GALLERY: 2805 W. Grand River, 961-8347. Call for current schedule.
ABOVE ALTIER S: 3965 Woodward. Opening April 17 thru May 16, Another Unruly Art Show," featuring the works of Detroiters Diana Bonner, June Hung, Bill Rzepka and Mike Zimmerman.
AFRO-AMERICAN MUSEUM: 1553 W. Grand Blvd. 899-2500. Thru June, exhibit featuring six old black insurance companies.
ALICE SIMSAR GALLERY: 301 N. Main St., Ann Arbor, 665-4883. Thru April 25, selected prints by Robert Motherwell. THE ART CENTER: 125 Macomb, Mt. Clemens, 469-8666. April 5-17, Macomb County Student Exhibition II (grades K-6). ART GALLERY OF WINDSOR: 445
Riverside Drive West, (519) 258-7111. Thru April 26, sculpture by Josep DeLauro.
BIRMINGHAM-BLOOMFIELD ART ASSOCIATION: 1516 S. Cranbrook, _ Birmingham, 644-0866. Thru April 25, a regional flat glass exhibition. Opening April 7, water color collages by Mary Jane Bigler.
CADE. GALLERY: 8025 Agnes, 3311758. Opening April 12 (reception 3-7 pm) thru May 7, paintings by James Poole and sculpture by Hugh Timlin. CANTER/LEMBERG GALLERY: 538 N. Woodward, Birmingham, 642-6623. Thru April 18, handmade paper paintings by Gamer Tullis. S. Bates, Birmingham, 647-3666. Thru April 30, Art for the Tabletop. CENTER FOR CREATIVE STUDIES: 245 E. Kirby, 872-3118. Call for current schedule.
- CAROL HOOBERMAN GALLERY:.155 - Thru April 12, - 80/81, an exhibition of sculpture and
CRANBROOK ACADEMY OF ART MUSEUM: 500 Lone Pine, Bloomfield. Michigan Artists, fibre works.
CRANBROOK INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE: 500 Lone Pine, Bloomfield, 6543210. Thru April 15, handcrafted objects from Africa.
DETROIT ARTISTS MARKET: 1452 Randolph, 962-0337. Thru April 25, Photographs, featuring the works of nine local photographers.
DETROIT ARTISTS MARKET'S OTHER SPACE: 7th Floor, Hudson's Downtown, 962-0337. Opening April 3 (reception April 10, 3-5 pm) thru April = J)
Bing Crosby
18, An Installation, Dickerson.
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DETROIT GALLERY OF CONTEMPORARY CRAFTS: 301 Fisher Bidg., 8737888. Thru April 6, an extensive collection of ovenware and tableware.
DETROIT HISTORICAL MUSEUM: 5401 Woodward, 833-1805. An exhibit celebrating Hudson's 100th year in Detroit.
DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS: 5200 Woodward, 833-7900. Thru April 19, Gods, Saints & Heroes: Dutch Paintings in the Age of Rembrandt. Thru April 12, David Smith: the Drawings and Ritzi & Peter Jacobi.
DETROIT PUBLIC LIBRARY: Main Branch, 5201 Woodward, 833-4043. Thru April 15, PUROREP EN: by David Battel.
DETROIT REPERTORY THEATRE
GALLERY: 13103 Woodrow: Wilson, 868-1347. Art by CETA workers.
DONALD MORRIS GALLERY: 105 Townsend, Birmingham, 642-8812. Thru April 11, recent bronzes by Clement Meadmore.
DREYFUSS GALLERY: 209!2 N. Main St., Ann Arbor, 996-1787. Thru April 18, lyrical paintings by Jack Oyier.
ELOQUENT LIGHT GALLERY: 145 S. Livernois, Rochester, 652-4686. Thru April, Howard Bond.
FEIGENSON-ROSENSTEIN GALLERY: 310 Fisher Bldg., 873-7322. Thru April 25, works by Gerald Horn.
FOCUS GALLERY: 743 Beaubien, 9629025. Thru April 18, an exhibition titled, "3 +:3=6"
G.M.B. GALLERIE INTERNATIONALE: 2610 Woodward, Royal Oak, 549-5970. General gallery selections.
Looking Glass Gallery, through April 20.
GALLERY RENAISSANCE: 400 Ren Cen, 259-2577. Thru April 11, paintings by Arlene Voelker.
GALLERY 22: 22 E. Long Lake, Bloom-: field, 642-1310. Regular gallery
GRAFISKAS: 218 Merrill St., Birmingham, 647-5722. Contour sculpture by R. H.Carol, art posters and limited-
HALSTED GALLERY: 560 Woodward, Birmingham, 644-8284. Thru April 11, photographs by John Ward. Opening April 16 thru May 16, photographs by Edward Curtis.
HEART GALLERY: 868 Dix, Lincoin Park, 388-7590. Painting exhibit.
HENRY: FORD COMMUNITY COLLEGE: 5101 Evergreen Rd., Dearborn, 271-2750, Ext. 448. Sisson Gallery: Thru May 3, Hyper-= of the
HABITAT: 28235 Southfield, Lathrup Village, 552-0515. Opening April thru 70s. May 2, 9th Annual National Glass Show.
HENRY FORD MUSEUM: Greenfield
Village, Dearborn, 271-1976. Opening April 11, Mass-Produced Elegance.
KIDD GALLERY: 107 Townsend, Birmingham, 642-3909. Opening April 4 thru May 2, recent paintings by Roy Slade.
KLEIN GALLERY: 4250 N. Woodwaid, Royal Oak, 647-7709. Opening April 4 thru April 25, pastels by Michigan artists.
LONDON ARTS GALLERY: 321 Fisher Bidg., 871-3606. pte gallery selections.
LOOKING GLASS GALLERY: 1604 Rochester Rd., Royal Oak, 548-1149. Thru April 20, photographs by Susan Kae Grant.
MEADOW BROOK ARTI GALLERY: Oakland University, Rochester. Thru April 19, Big Prints from Rome.
MUCCIOLI STUDIO GALLERY: 511 Beaubien, 962-4700. Jewelry and regular gallery selections by Nate & Anna Muccioli.
PAINTER'S PLACE: 140 N. Center, Northville, 348-9544. Thru April, watercolors and inks by Caroline Dunphy.
PEWABIC POTTERY: 10125 E. Jefferson, 822-0954. Thru April 11, clay works by Tim Mather on Georgette Zirbes.
PIERCE STREET PHOTOGRAPHY GALLERY: 217 Pierce, Birmingham, 646-6950. Thru May 2, fashion photographs by Debra Turbebille.
PITIMAN GALLERY: 300 Ren Cen, 259-2235. Thru April 20, Al Hollingsworth exhibit.
PONTIAC ART CENTER: 47 Williams St., Pontiac, 333-7849. Opening April 4 (reception 7-10 pm) thru April 25, Six Viewpoints from the Artist-in-the-School Program.
POSTER GALLERY: 304 Fisher Bldg.) 875-5211. Fine Art posters.
RUBINER GALLERY: 621 S. Washington, Royal Oak, 544-2828. Opening April 4 (reception 4-7 pm) thru April 20, recent paintings by David Tammany. SCARAB CLUB OF DETROIT: 217 Farnsworth, 831-1250. Opening April 6 thru April 25, 1981 All-Michigan Silver Medal Exhibition.
SHELDON ROSS GALLERY: 250 Martin, Birmingham, 642-7694. General gallery selections including works by Bearden, Grosz & Kollwitz.
SUSANNE HILBERRY GALLERY: 555 S. Woodward, 642-8250. Thru April 25, paintings by Elfen Phelan.
TRIKA GALLERIES: 1140 N. Telegraph, Dearbom, 562-2300. Classic and special-interest automobiles.
TROY ART GALLERY: 75 Big Beaver, Troy, 362-0112. Call for current schedule.
VENTURE GALLERY: 28235 Southfield, 552-1551. Jewelry by Patrick Irfa, plus a variety of clay, glass and fibre pieces.
WILD WINGS GALLERY: 975 W. Ann Arbor Trail, Plymouth. April 4-5, Diet mar Krumrey and Michigan wildlife woodcarver Michael VanHouzen.
WOODLING GALLERY: 42030 Michigan Ave., 397-2677. A craft gallery representing ovér 150 artists and craftspeople.
XOCHIPILLI GALLERY: 568 N. Woodward, Birmingham, 645-1905. Thru April 23, recent works by Maggie Citrin. YAW GALLERY: 550 N. Woodward, Birmingham, 647-5470. Thru April 22, original furniture by Douglas Hoppa. YOUR HERITAGE HOUSE: 110°E. Ferry, 871-1667. Thru April, puppets from the Orient.
by Ron Williams
DMT: As music director of WRIF, can you describe what your responsibilities are?
TOWNSEND: The most important thing that do is control the music that the jocks play. What pretty much control are the thousand tunes that are in there that they have to choose from.
DMT: These are tunes and not albums?
TOWNSEND: These are songs off of albums. It could be a single off of an album, or it could be the second or third track off of it.1 am talking about a thousand songs, which up until just recently was probably considered to be a small library of songs. Within the last six months, my library probably doubles my competition s library. They are running on half the tunes that we play.
So all of asudden we have got the largest library in town which is kind of nice. We don't have awhole lot of control on what the jocks play. We don't give thema pre-programmed list and say, Here is your music for the day. They pretty much set up their own show and play the music they want to play within the system. It is a very, very loose system. Two years ago it was extremely tight. When I became music director, it loos- ened up considerably only because the market indicated that it had to be amuch looser format. Basically, my job is the music. What spend most of my time doing is researching and analyzing information about music that will tell me whether these are the best tunes for me to be playing, and that consumes a vast majority of my time.
.DMT: The best tunes in the sense that the largest number of people will enjoy the tune?
TOWNSEND: Yes. The best tunes in the sense that these are the tunes that most people want to hear or will enjoy listening to. Those are the important things. Trying to decide what are the best tunes for 700,000 people who have their own taste and their own favorites, plus six moods a day, sometimes that gets pretty tough. My primary job is to research and analyze the music, both old stuff like records from the '60s and early "70s to find out if they are still relevant as well as new products.
DMT: Can you explain the Arbitrons? The ARB s and the concept behind them. I know that there has been a change in the way the sweeps are made now, the duration of the time they take the samples, etc. Can you explain briefly what they are and how heavy an influence they are on what you program?
TOWNSEND: Let's take a quick historical perspective. For those people who are critical and very upset about rock and roll music today, the thing that takes alot of that responsibility are the ratings. Prior to ratings, especially for the FM band, _ there was a lot more underground
experimental .music and innovativ programing going on, because it wasn considered a business at that time. Ther were no ratings, therefore, we did nc have to worry about how much we sol our air time for, because we did not hav to submit any profit to whoever owne: the company.
So there was a lot more experimente tion going on at that time. When th ratings kicked in, when Arbitron cam into the market and started takin ratings, all of a sudden it became impo: tant for anybody who wanted to b successful to do well, and when the happened you saw radio start formatin itself. It gave-itself an identity and limite tions. The disc jockeys stoppe programming the station, and they hire program directors or people to guid that group of disc jockeys. would sa ratings were probably the demise of free form radio.
DMT: One of the things radio station traditionally in larger markets use retail action, and I would imagine the you give telephone calls to local sale outlets in the market, and you woul
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definitely wont to continue programming something that is selling, moving on the retail level. But obviously there is people hear on the radio and what they are willing to go in and ask for. am wondering, there seems to be a chicken and egg thing e
some sort of relationship between what
accurate inforcation. and: if] had to wait until the record was in the top 20 before! added it, would be so far behind the market it wouldn't be good.
DMT: A good part of yourjob is research looking at demographics, looking at what yout listener profile is. In that statistical information that you have been gathering, has a group of people shown up, have you been able to ascertain that «there is a large or growing or at least substantial group of people who I would call disillusioned former-FM listeners? That _ there is a growing number of people ora substantial number of people who are disillusioned or disaffected with the three big rock and roll FMs and look toward their tape deck or their personal library or live music to fill that gap?
majority ofthe rock and roll listeners. | feel real bad for those people who used to listen to ABX for that reason, because you are right, they do not have a home and that is real sad. This town should have a radio station
DMT: And RIF is not going to be able because of constraints to provide that home?
ested in, or if they had been given the opportunity to listen then they would have shown up or sought the record out _at the record stores. So there is a real problem there in the key role that radio plays in the marketing of new music.
Detroit metro area to find out what:
TOWNSEND: People don t go out and buy records they never heard before, therefore, radio has got to play them before people will go out and buy them. That is the classic chicken and egg... or it used to be. Three or four years ago a record did not get added to this radio station unless it was retailing, unless people were out there buying it. That is when we had a healthy economy, when people were out there and able to spend their money to buy records and people were actively involved in the purchasing of music. We have found in the last two years that you can t do that anymore. Records are not selling. Sales of records are off terribly. We do spend part of every week calling most of the record stores in the people are buying. We use that information to reinforce what we have already put on the radio. So, we are working more now off the gut and ear toadd new music to the station as opposed to using retail information from the local stores. Only because it is so far behind, it is not
TOWNSEND: There are some people, probably a fairly significant group, although it is nowhere near the majority, that no matter what kind of radio station you are or what kind of music you program you will not be able to satisfy. don't think radio will ever be able to service them. think one of the most critical things that has happened in this market in the last six months is that people who are into new music, very experimental types of music, really don t have a radio home. ABX used to be. They used to be much more innovative and experimental in their music and that did satisfy a portion of the audience, although it wasn't the
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TOWNSEND: I wouldn't say that we will never be able to do it, because if in fact that s what we find out the majority of this market is dictating then we will do it. All we have to do is make sure that we --are successful at whatever we do. If we want to play Chinese punk we can play it, but we damn better be successful at it.
DMT: Which translates to ratings?
TOWNSEND: Yes, | suppose so. That's what tells us whether we are successful or not. So you are right, it does translate into ratings.
DMT: If people are not able to listen to certain kinds of music, then taste or knowledge or retail sales or live appearances in Detroit are going to grow very slowly because there is no real medium. It seems like radio is the key link in terms of retail sales or live appearances or whatever you are not going to be able to bring people in here if they are not being played in Detroit. They are goingto say, No, I am not getting air play in Detroit, and they will not booka date in Detroit. It seems to me that robs a lot of people of music that they are inter-
TOWNSEND: New music has always been very difficult for stations to deal with. Right now we are playing on our current play list double the amount that my competitors are. You are hearing stuff on this radio station that you are not going to hear anywhere else, which feel good about; because as far as Iam concerned it is very, very good music, and get real excited when I come across something that I think is really good, and it goes on the radio and everybody else agrees with me. There is nothing more exciting than that, but everytime do that itis a risk. For everyone that happens like that there are three of them that don't. You are always taking that risk. We have found that with the market being as tight as it is and the fact that people say they keep hearing the same records over and over again, we are finding a distinct advantage in providing them with new music that is different and they are not going to hear anywhere else.
DMT: It seems to be the trend in Detroit radio, if you use ABX and their original free-form programming in the late '60s as a starting point, it seems to me that
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overall but Near, as usual, pulls off combination of righteousness and polish that is exceptional. :
tends- her - language into a more commer-
Holly Near has a near flawless reputation for the quality of her live and recorded performances and for the level of well-articulated politicism she brings to her songs. Her brand new release, Fire In The Rain, exalready-powerful cial sound without losing its anger or spirit. This trend toward commercialism has been rife in women s music
The LP is roughly divided between the political and personal side one contains five relationship and one political song; side two the reverse. Standouts among the personal-emotional fare are the shimmering title cut and one dark horse, No Loss of Pride, that may be overlooked by those primarily interested in the album's politics. All of the six love songs do not croon but present complex, realistic portrayals of relationships we have all known and been ambivalent about.
Country music is a mystique that has been popular of late and that s all well and good, bat>:
Anyhow, all this got me thinking one night, and so I amused myself with an almost country blowout. I did some rockabilly roots things, some new country mainstreet artists, a little of the bluegrass/swing style, a tad of the hard core folklore stuff. After two nights of. this sort of thing and realizing the presence of a_developing addiction, braced myself and went cold turkey. Putting Grace_ Jones singing Pull Up to the Bumper on the turntable served to remind me that there are other musical virtues than those espoused by country artists.
Following are some fond memories of the nights that I was a country junkie. Almost.
Joe Ely ~_Musta Notta Gotta Lotta Southwest/MCA
Remember the sound of Sun Records? Not the Elvis Presley Sun, but the music of stalwarts like Johnny Cash, Charlie Rich and Jerry Lee Lewis with a little Junior Parker tossed in for seasoning. If you filter that energy and _ consciousness through 25 to 30 years of social upheaval, then you end up with Joe Ely. Along the way he touches some of the same TexMex roots that Sir Doug did and garners a fan club that includes members of the quintessential
Among the topical cuts, side two's near medley Working Women, Foolish Notion, Ain't Nowhere You Can Run, Wrap the Sun Around You and Voices deals with a - group of current woes as particular as the plight of secretariles and as general as freedom. ( Working Women would have made a fine theme for the film 9 to 5). Another interesting feminist effort is, the remake of Laid Off from Near's 1974 Live Album. Now titled I Got Trouble, its replacement lyrics shift the voice of the song from third to first person the woman, not her man, has been laid off in the new version.
new wave band, the Clash. Joe Ely is emphatically his own man. What rock re-creator Robert Gordon tries to do, Joe Ely seems to be. He may not have that falsetto that s a step above a counter-tenor like Roy Brown, but when. Ely does Brown s Good Rockin Tonight, he plays it for all its worth. Hold On and Dam Of My Heart, both penned by Joe, have some of the same newvoice-of-country _ sensibilities that imbue the work of Rodney Crowell, Guy Clark and John Prine. If all of this name dropping means nothing to you, consider the audacity of an act that also features a high quality rock and roll accordian player by the name of Ponty Bone. As a former squeeze box player (a childhood indiscretion), I can appreciate anyone who can make that instrument into something other than a support item for Lawrence Welk.
Emmylou Harris
Evangeline
Warner Brothers
Emmylou Harris is possess-
The weakest cut on the album is Sit With Me which verges on melodrama and gets a bit too easy to listen to. Whether you have followed Near as politico, feminist or articulator of your emotions, or
have never heard her before, Fire In The Rain will deliver what you came or will come to expect from this amazingly talented woman.
though to Jan Loveland
ed of a strong, beautiful voice and exquisite taste in her choice of the material she chooses to sing. Within the first two songs on side one, Emmylou goes from the haunting, Rodney Crowell-penned ballad, I Don t Have to Crawl, to a hoary chestnut, How High the Moon? Bluegrass star and former David Grisman sideman, Tony Rice, has an acoustic guitar break on Moon that should perk up the ears of pickers everywhere. Helping Emmylou put together this album of gems are noteworthies with names like Dolly, Waylon and Linda. The album has a pretty good credibility rating, although not as high as some of her other albums. Self recommending anyone with even the slightest interest in country-tinged music.
MCA Records
The rock and roll recluse of the seventies has just hada new album released. As a songwriter, Cale writes that decep-
tively lazy-sounding song that still pulses to a definite, pumping rhythm. Even in his almostballad songs, whereJ.J. can wax lyrical, the tension of the music mirrors the tension of the words. But, like I said, deceptively. His guitar playing is similar to, but blusier than, that of Mark Knopfler of Dire Straits. The songs tend to be short and pungent in the great tradition of previous albums of his. In fact, I think that this album should hold up well when compared to his first (1971) album, Naturally. Classics like After Midnight (covered by Eric Clapton), Bringing It Back (Yep. The same one Kansas did.), Magnolia and Call Me the Breeze abounded on_ that album, but J.J. didn t seem to be as consistently inspired on his later ones. This new one, Shades, has new classics like Wish I Had Not Said That, What Do~You Expect and a great remake of Mama Don't Allow (no guitar playin , etc.). Better sound than Naturally. ., too. Welcome back J. J., waiting ten years for this one was worth it. eee
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by Steve Holsey
In the case of Shirley, Brenda and Valorie Jonés known collectively and professionally as the Jones Girls it was never a question of whether or not big success would come. It was just a matter of when. Currently the ladies who are from Detroit find themselves sitting on top of the world. Their latest offering, entitled At Peace With Woman, is a concept album, and the concept deals with communication and love. Obviously the Jones Girls are proficient at one and exude the other. Their star is rising fast. Some say these stylish, sophisticated and soulful young women are heirs apparent to the Supremes (still unquestionably the most successful female vocal group of the rock-soul era and also from Detroit). But for now the trio is content receiving most promising designations.
To say that a Black musical act started out in church sounds akin to a cliche, but that is exactly what happened. The Jones Girls still profess a fondness for gospel music and say it is never far from what they do.
Mama Mrs. Mary Jones played a key role in the group's development. Recognizing their innate vocal abilities she, a singer herself, trained them comprehensively. Oftentimes this meant three little girls staying in the house to practice three-part harmony while the -other kids were out doing more fun things. The unpleasantries of the moment were deemed (by Mom at least) a worthwhile investment for the future. When Shirley, Valorie and Brenda reached their teens and wanted to change musical directions, from gospel to contemporary soul, Mrs. Jones was not too pleased. In time, she gave her
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By the early '70s, they were with Eddie Holland, Lamont Dozier and Brian Holland's Detroit-based Invictus record company. Their abilities and techniques were so close to perfection that everyone in the industry who heard them was deeply impressed. Trouble is, not too many outside of the industry got that same opportunity. ¢
The real turning point for the Jones Girls.came when they packed their clothes and hopes and moved to Los Angeles. Almost before they could get settled, the trio was in demand for background singing sessions. (In that capacity they have worked with everyone from Aretha Franklin and Linda gy
Clifford to Helen Reddy and Norman Connors.) When word reached them that superstar Diana Ross needed backup singers for live performances, the Joneses auditioned and Ross hired them on the spot. Making a decisionto leave such a sweet: situation after Kenny Gamble of Philly International made his offer was not easy. They knew they would have to step out there as a separate entity sooner or later. So they parted company with Ross and signed on Philadelphia International's dottéd line. It was the right decision. Much tender loving care went
~ ~The Jones Girls Shirley, Valorie and Brenda. into the production of the Jones Girls and their first single, You Gonna Make Me Love Somebody Else, was a million seller. The album it appeared on, The Jones Girls, did well also. Their latest LP, At Peace With Woman, a masterful piece of work if there ever was one, was called by one reviewer the best that any female group has made ever. It contains two hit singles, a marvelous title cut and a tour de force remake of Children of the Night, the Stylistics classic.
The Jones Girls plan to be around for a long time and to do it all in the process.
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by Joseph Zendell
What does Detroit have to offer young, talented Black actors and actresses? Not as much as it could, according to Broadway director and producer Woodie King, Jr, a former Detroiter internationally acclaimed for his work in film and theatre.
The scene is not totally grim Detroit is one of the top five commercial producers of film and video projects in the country. But King says that New York and Los Angeles are still the most important centers.for minority theatre talent.
King co-produced (with Joseph Papp) Ntozake Shange s 1977 Broadway hit, Tony: award winning For Colored Girls. Who Have Considered Suicide/Whenthe Rainbow is Enuf. From this nationals: perspective, he claims that the major professional regional theatres, theatres like Meadow Brook in Detroit, just aren't providing many opportunities (for Blacks).
Respected and admired around the world for his continuous string of successes in American Black theatre, Kingis a man to whom Detroit should listen.
Trained in Detroit's theatres of the 50s and 60s, he went on to create a solid flow of innovative and successful theatre training programs for minority youth and talks of the limited opportunities in this country for young Black actors with candor and just a hint of optimism.
King will offer his special brand of candor and optimism to 24 select Detroit-area actors and actresses April 5 during a one-day master class at the WillO-Way Apprentice Theatre in Bloomfield Hills. The master class culminates three weeks of intensive rehearsals for the 24 performers selected at open auditions by Will-O-Way Acting School Director Celia Merrill Turner.
A student himself of Will-O-Way during the '50s, King will give the current students, ranging in ages from 18 to 72, suggestions in technique, style and the fine points-of professional theatre.
King s ability to communicate his craft to young talent, particularly young minority talent, has brought him worldwide acclaim. During the late 60s he directed the Mobilization for Youth Arts
Program, the first such training program in New York for Black and Puerto Rican youths. Now, as Director of the New Federal Theatre at Henry Street Settlement s Art for Living Center, King coordinates one of the nation s most comprehensive programs to showcase minority theatre artists on Manhattan s Lower East Side.
He has also worked for years trying to train and showcase new Black and ethnic artists through projects outside the New Federal Theatre. He has directed Zoo Story, The Death of Bessie Smith and What the Winesellers Buy for the New York Shakespeare Festival and has produced a number of Drama Critics Circle and Obie Award winning plays off Broadway.
His work in film and documentaries is recognized and respected for its hardhitting insight into American Black culture.
A new project, a docu-drama on Detroit rhythm and blues of the '50s, will be shot in Detroit in the summer of 1982. During the filming King will be interview-
ing such legendary groups as the Eldorados and the Diablos, the musicians on which much of the Motown sound was based.
Through this and other similar projects, King hopes to encourage young minority artists to stretch their imagination and self-esteem and seek out the training necessary to work professionally.
There are thousands of people vying for a single audition in New York, says King. The problem for young Black talent is that they aren't getting the training they need to get the jobs.
King stresses that the kind of training in theatre and performance, the workshops in technique, -directing, basic theatre skills and production showcases for new talent offered through the New Federal Theatre are absolutely essential to the development of a healthy state of the art. And although such opportunities are primarily limited to New York and the West Coast, there are other initial trainingoutlets young talent can tum to. ane I got my first few years of trainingin
-Detroit, explains King, studying at WillO-Way and places like the Vanguard Playhouse and Concept East. You have to study seriously with a professional school that can give you the kind oftraining you ll need to make it here (in New York).
King names Wayne State, the Detroit Repertory, Will-O-Way, Meadow Brook, the Attic and Actors Renaissance Theatres as examples of local professional or near-professional. training.
Detroit has a lot of theatre activity, but it still needs to grow, says King, adding that it also needs to bea lot more responsive to minorities.
We used to be able to apprentice fora summer in Detroit. That doesn t happen anymore. And its too bad, because you need those opportunities to train with professionals.
Theatre training in a professional setting is available in the nation s major regional theatres, such as ACT in San Francisco, Washington s Arena Stage and, of course, Meadow Brook Theatre.
But according to King, minorities tend not to be involved at that level, because these theatres simply aren't doing many Black or minority plays.
Explains King, These theatres have subscription audiences that are nearly 95 percent white. They do plays aimed at that audience for the most part. The Atlantic Alliance tries to do Black plays and the Negro Ensemble here in New York is oo consistent but that s about it.
I believe that if a regional theatre would do plays for the inner city, urban population, it would find substantial new subscriptions.
But Woodie King is not one to wait for others to change their attitude. He has proven and continues to prove that the American Black theatre is a viable, lively and- important part of our artistic heritage.
His homecoming to Detroit and the Will-O-Way Theatre will be all the sweeter because King is coming home a success.
by Mary Bloomer and Jan Loveland
It's time to bteak out the brown bags and head out of your offices. Soon the warmest thing you'll need to brave the elements is a sundress or tee shirt. And its time to remember one of life s greatest pleasures enjoying a lunchtime bite al fresco. Perhaps watching the river traffic from Hart Plaza, or even visiting the pigeons and other wildlife at Grand Circus Park, you can get your mid-day sustenance while getting the color back in your cheeks. Or grab a bag and enjoy one of the noontime concerts at the Downtown Library.
There are all kinds of carryouts in the big city. Here are a few of them. If massproduced burger suffices for you, then so be it. But one of the privileges of surviv-~ ing a Michigan winter is basking in the slightest nod at spring. To celebrate such
a momentous occasion you need the right comestibles.
ASTORIA PASTRY SHOP (557 Monroe, Greektown, 963-9603) sells large, heavenly, melt-in-your-mouth pieces of spinach pie and similar fillo-encased cheese pie, at 50¢ a piece. Two pieces will make lunch for all but the very most hungry.
SARAH AT SILVER S (First Floor, Silver's World Headquarters, Congress at Shelby, 963-0000). Remember Cafe Harmonie? Sarah George is now serving, cafeteria-style, her famous ratatouille and brown rice, spinach mushroom quiche, chicken tarts with melon wedges all on take-out trays and each for less than $3. The quiche and tarts also come with salad. Last week's chicken cacciatore (again with brown rice) was spicy and succulent at $3.50. Sarah's menus generally include soup, her fine zucchini bread and cakes, and such
wonders as Chinese curried beef buns and Kiwi Fruit Tarts, all to go if you wish. Menus change daily, Monday through Saturday. The ultimate in brown-bag gourmet, though you can perch at one of a few small tables near the food line.
NIKI S (735 Beaubien, Greektown, 9614303) serves an unusual but mouthwatering square pizza with a blend of three cheeses (including Greek kasseri), mushrooms and a delightful change from pepperoni, a tasty Greek sausage, Loukaniko. Individual slices are a frugal 85¢, and two should do you. A small four-piece pizza is about $4, and an 8piece large just under $8. Green peppers, onions, lamb (how appropriate for spring!), anchovies and black olives are other®addable ingredients, and free Greek salad a pleasant accompaniment. Niki's gyros is exceptionally good at $1.65, despite. the rather unusual appearance of the meat, which is apparently sliced horizontally rather than
vertically. Its delicious yogurt and grated cucumber dressing and what tasted like real vine-ripened tomatoes top off this treat. Other sandwiches are available, and Niki s offers saganaki (flaming cheese) to go for $2.50. Opaa!
YE OLDE BUTCHER SHOP (1575 Lafayette, Lafayette Plaza Shopping Center, 567-0597) has such delectables as marinated artichoke salad at $2.99 the pound, Lebanese spinach pies and meat pies with pine nuts at $1.19 each, real croissants for a mere 69¢ and, in this writer s opinion, the very best Greek salad carryout in all of Detroit. For $2.99 a pound you get bright green greens, tangy feta, studded with hugh black olives, red tomatoes and smothered with a tart dressing. Unfortunately, the Greek,salad is no longer a regular feature of the deli case, so a call in advance to make sure this marvel is handy is advisable. Other goodies make this worth the drive to Lafayette Park, to say the least.
by Sue Stone
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Springtime usually means airing Plaza. You can't possibly leave this store those musty closets and acquiring some empty handed. Everything discounted 20% new bright plumage. It feels greattopeel or more, usually ne designerjeans in off those heavy winter wrappings and _ junior sizes. move around more freely. And this year, DOMINIC S WAREHOUSE there s one added bonus to putting your prea CONNECTION spring look together saving money. 16338 E. W Detroit 839-0577. Dracil
Perhaps because of constantly chang- di ce oll, 4 the Bae les, and maybe the generally scounts on designer jeans and other spring ing styles, things like jungle prints, bib overalls and lousy economy, the past year has Lacoste shirts. Also featuredare men s suits | graph Rd., Suite 1630, Birmingham, 642- she was a teenager. Lots of odds and ends af brought scores of discount clothing. outlets to Detroit.
Formerly discounting was considered declasse, almost a swear word among retailers; now it seems everyone's doing it. Ifa store doesn t offer every-day discount prices, their ads highlight them. We now know that discounters are legitimate. Most of them do take checks and credit cards, do allow refunds and/ or exchanges, and even throw in such frills as dressing rooms, sales people and.. carpeting.
Discounters are able to offer lower prices than department stores by locating in shopping centers instead of
and sport coats. Some discount clothes for big and tall men. Alterations and tailoring also available.
Michigan and Schaefer, Dearbom. Everything from silk dresses to jeans to lingerieis discounted 20% or more.
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Look for 20-50% off for Sasson, Vanderbilt, Klein, Cacharel, etc. Mostly junior sizes, but with a good selection, current season and no irregulars. Ten days for cash refund, or exchange. Check phone book for locations.
6884. Downtown 's answer to all the discount houses out yonder in the burbs. Everything in the store over $20 gets 20% shaved off the already reasonable cost. Clearance rack, too. A new store, B. J. s Closet, opened last week, and stock was reportedly similar and sensibly priced.
222 E. Maple, Birmingham, 644-6070. When all else fails, or to salvage leftovers, consider the services of a tailor shop such as Kathryn's of Birmingham. Lapels and pant legs can be narrowed, skirts lengthened or shortened, etc. Call for directions.
here, but sizes and quantities are limited. Designer evening wear in back. No refunds, no exchanges.
New Orleans Mall, Ten Mile and Greenfield, Southfield; also lobby of First National Bank Building, Detroit. Offers 20% discount on Jordache, Klein and Sasson, junior sizes. Designer velour tops for only $9, and unusual shoes.
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What this boils down to is that it won't cost you a fortune to look like a millionbucks this spring. Listed below are some great places to start.
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2911 Northwestern Hwy., Applegate Square, Southfield. 20% deducted from their high- quality merchandise, sizes 4-14. Cash refundwithin three days, or exchange.
Formerly known as BRANDS, they are a subsidiary of THE GAP, and don't be surprised to see some of the samewnerchandise in both stores. Ten days for cash refund, or exchange. Check phone book for locations:
401 Walnut, Rochester; 3324 Grand River, Farmington. Something for everyone under the roof of the V.O. Both locations feature four or more discount women s clothing stores and a shoe outlet. Rochestér also has lingerie and men s clothing.
by Michael Betzold
When spring rolls around, forget about alcohol, dope, cigarettes and coffee. The drug that claims the most addicts in Detroit is softball.
According to the American Softball Association, there are close to one million softball players in the metropolitan area. The disease, traditionally confined to men, has widely infected the female population in the last decade too. Softball respects no sex, age, race or class barriers. No cure has yet been found.
For well-heeled and/or very desper-ate sufferers, there s Softball City, a privately owned expanse at the State Fairgrounds whose 12 diamonds accommodate 1,000 teams in each of two back-to-back seasons. Play starts this Sunday, April 5, and continues, until around Halloween, seven days a week, from dawn until after midnight, ee less of the weather.
Getting the game in is the primary goal at Softball City. With playoffs extending well into November, players can expect to wade ankle deep in mud or to slide across frozen snowfields. Asked how cold it would have to get before games were cancelled, general manager Jone Arledge wasn't sure.
Well, if it got down to zero, we'd call. But at 25 or so, you could play ball. Any colder, my water pipes would freeze.
Hopelessly hooked victims of the soft-
ball plague, like John Burkhardt, a resident of Northville who plays four times a week, don t mind the cold or the wet. They'd play on ice skates if they had to. Such folks love the professional milieu of Softball City: well-manicured fields with dugouts and scoreboards, umpires that always show up for scheduled games, an atmosphere that is pure softball.
You can't equal the immersion that it provides, says Burkhardt. There s no distraction. All around you its nothing but people playing softball.
We offer the best product around, Arledge boasts. I defy anybody to tell me different.
But there is evidence of growing discontent. Umpires can be petty tyrants, say some players. Games proceed every 75 minutes like clockwork. The production-line efficiency makes theepee seem robotic to some.
They should re-name the place Softball Factory, says Burkhardt, a suggestion that s often heard.
. But the biggest gripe is the cost, which in many players eyes is becoming prohibitive. This year it will cost about $600 for a team to play a 12-game season at Softball City. Usually, sponsors pay the $240 registration fee plus the $5.50 per game that goes to the umpires. But players get socked with an additional $2 gate charge every time they play a
game.
Arledge defends the gate charge, saying its like an insurance fee which pays for ambulance bills for injured players and to replace car windows broken by prodigious homeruns or foul pops. Burkhardt calls that the biggest piece of bullshit I've ever heard, since Softball City only pays for ambulances and windows ifthey're uninsured losses, and most softball players are covered by their own insurance.
The gate charge is one of the most poorly concealed rip-offs ever, according to Burkhardt. Asked why the $2 charge isn t included in the registration cost, Arledge admitted that few businesses would pay that much additional money to sponsor a team.
Arledge defended annual price increases at Softball City by saying his labor costs have gone up. You used to be able to hire kids for a couple bucks, now you have to pay them minimum wage, he said.
Outside the factory, you can ee in -city-run leagues in Detroit and suburbs. Unlike Softball City, most have residency tules, which means if you want to playin Ferndale, 80 percent of your team must. live in Ferndale. Prices. vary, but the. cheapest league is in Detroit, where the $75 entry fee has remained virtually the - same for the past decade. (Teams must provide their own ball each game. )
The director of the city s women s softball program, Betty Peterson, says Detroit leagues expect to turn away a lot of teams. this year because so many people have been priced out of Softball City. Detroit will have about 300 men s, women s and coed teams playing this year at parks around the city.
We're servicing the community at a reasonable rate. We're not making money off this, Peterson noted. But with cheap prices come complaints: of umpires not showing up for games, of poorly maintained fields, of poor organization, and of too-short seasons (only seven regular season games plus playoffs for teams that finish above .500). Peterson admits to about a five percent no-show rate for umpires. ~~
An alternative that more people are turning to is forming their own leagues. Businesses and private associations can rent fields from the city for nominal fee and otganize their own leagues. (Until this year, field permits were free of charge.) Popular locations, like Belle Isle, are in great demand, but less-popular fields sit unused much of the summer.
Some upstart softballers, tired of ripoffs and bureaucracy, are considering just picking up a bat and ball and going out with some friends to a vacant field, playing the summer game, and not - paying anyone at all. After all, that s how this whole thing started out, isn t it?
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Continued from page 21 the direction of radio in Detroit become more and more rigid and more and more constrained in terms of the kinds of music, the variety, the diversity, that is played.Iwonder at this point with ABX turning around and LIZ on top of the market with its lowest-commondenominator programming, are we going to see any kind of shake up in local radio, or are we going to get down to ten songs that each radio station is playing? And then someone brings it down to eight songs.
TOWNSEND: No, don t think so, at least not with the direction this station is taking I can t answer for the other two. But not the direction that this station is taking. feel something about to burst. We have tapped a couple of different things with some of the special programming that we are doing. We intend on doing a whole lot more, but we don't . want to do it just for the sake of doing it. We want to make sure we have a reason for doing it and that there is in fact a listening audience out there that really wants this type of programming. We have been doing a show called Not For Musicians Only for over a year on Monday nights. It is a show that we as a radio station are extremély proud of. It's in a talk-show format, and Charley Martin co-hosts it with Carl Coffey, our disc jockey. It is show for and about not only the art and craft in the creation of music but also the business of music. DMT: We are called the home of rock and roll because of the tremendous role local rock and roll musicians have had
nationally or interntionally in terms-of developing the art of that kind of music. There seems to bea contradiction where Bob Seger can struggle for five or six - years locally and have a difficult time getting air play, and then go offtoLA. or New York and sign a contract, and when the band is brought back to the city they're the hottest thing and everybody is proud to say this is homegrown rock and roll. There is a contradiction there, and I am wondering what RIF, as an institution in the rock community here, what kind of obligation or responsibility or whatever do you think the station ~ should take in terms of promoting and giving exposure to local bands? It seems to me that there is a gold mine out there, and if some radio station in the city would take it seriously it would not only be good for the station marketing wise which, of course, we are always talking about, but basically you would be uncovering people who would. be important across the country. One thing I hear from local musicians is that it is very difficult to get on local radio.
TOWNSEND: With any consistency or regular rotation. That is very difficult. That is difficult for the hundreds of bands that! get albums from on a monthly basis. That they don't get air play because they are local, that really does not have that much to do with it. If could play a lot more local music, would. Their music is judged right along with everything else that comes through the station, and fit's. quality music, it stands up against everything else that I have got on the air, then it
has a shot just as muchas anything else. Unfortunately, there are very, very few bands here in Detroit that have gotten to the point where they can stand up against a Rush or anybody else. It is only that Rush has put in 15 years or Bob~ Seger has put in 15 years and struggled in order to develop to the point where competitively they can stand up against the best of them.
DMT: National acts certainly have an advantage. They do not have to work a day-time job and sneak their creativity in at night. I am saying that if you get an album by Rush, it is a million dollar operation in terms of promotion behind it, the state-of-the-art studio and the artistic direction. There is a real investment by the label. Whereas what you have locally are people saving and scratching up the money from their daytime jobs to get into any studio to cut a lesser, in qualitative terms, production. But at the same time I would argue that artistically much of what is going on locally in Detroit is much more interesting than bands like Rush.
TOWNSEND: Put yourselfin my position for a moment. Rush comes through town and sells out four nights at Cobo Hall, and a local band plays a club and sells 200 seats. As a programmer, what is the better shot?
DMT: Is it either or? .
TOWNSEND: Sometimes it is, because it is a push-button war out there. Ifyou are playing a local group on your radio station and the guy down the street is playing Rush, where are people going to
be? Those are the things I have to weigh in making those judgments.
DMT: What kind of role do you see for RIF besides picking up the outstanding locally produced single here and there? What other kinds of things will RIF do in. creating a more positive environment for local musicians?
TOWNSEND: You would be surprised how few local-records I really have. And for many who cry that they can t get air time, most of them have never delivered a record to this radio station. have got to have a record of play it.
DMT: Sounds like an invitation.
TOWNSEND: Absolutely I can't do anything for you unless I've got something to work with. Every year for the last three years, the Labor Day weekend has been entirely devoted to Detroit music, both new and old. That is something that no other station has done. WWWW hada home grown show that was once a week for an hour. We devote an entire weekend and a very important weekend for radio because you have a lot of people off work and listening to radios. There is a large audience out there. You would not believe what I had to go through to get bands from Detroit to bring metheir music. This was a prime opportunity for them, and had to go out and solicit music from them.
~ Local musicians take note: send your hot wax to Tawnya Townsend, Music Director, WRIF Radio, 20777 W. Ten Mile Road, Southfield, MI 48075. Tell her Metro Times sent you.
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MUSLIM MINISTER wants all past copies of Muhammad Speaks, Lessons on Supreme Wisdom (especially Minister's Advanced Lessons), FOI/MGT uniforms, Islamic jewelry, books, pictures, donafions and members for Muhammad's Mosque No, 1 & Muhammad's University, 1510 Woodward, Detroit, MI 48226, (313) 963-7777.
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GARAUD & WARREN We: could never have done it without you! Thank you Love, Living7in Luxury.
EM: Pack your bags for Motown! We're waiting for you!
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ORLANDO Happy Birthdgy Lots of Lovell! "Me
CAKER I'd do the stars with you, anytime! Juliet
SKAT: Welcome. to Detroit! Love you madly! It ain t the Glen but its home. promise to cook, read in bed, and be in general a W.C.C. WCC
MARY: Remberen No esta tu, esta el hefe. Dice est6 todos las mananas. Che.
ALAN Who would have ever thought that the Bag Event could actually become so many people's bag? The Wiggy Scene needs you, kid!
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SASHA: How about if you be the mom and be the kid? Is it o'clock yet? 1B
JERYLIN A plus in English. Mike
PENNY Have your clothes dried yet? April showers bring May flowers. Umbrella.
FRANK What happened to the sidebar. Eye Watcher
TO: Helen & Carl Best wishes to your new life together. FROM: DP & FS
DICKINSON = ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
Make Way for the Stars Talent Night, May 8, 1981.
TO: FS Love You! From dp
PAM Welcome to never never land. Dee Liverer
EDIE Have more eggs or are you on that weight watching gig? BABS
To the Three Musketeers A camping we will go, camping we will go, Hi Ho, Forget It Numero Uno.
READER Why is it that everytime |write a personal never sign my name? Secret
Dear Postmaster Detroit: Please send my DAMN W2 form so can show Uncle Sam how much you cheated me! Ex Clerk
HERMAN How s the weather in the big apple? Hope to be there soon. Fred
TO: Mary, Robert, Dad, Grandma & Plato. Flintstone Happy Easter to you all. Love The Big fF. 7 TOMMIE Where have you been keeping yourself. Mr. V
TO: D I love you kid, Happy Easter. Love
A LIL NOTE TO PUNKINPUSS
Am missing something, Punkinpuss? Every time pass you on the street or in the hall and say hello, you look at me as if to say, Just keep on movin in th opposite direction an keep your slimy salutations t yerself.
Well it wouldn t be much trouble for you just to nod your head, P.P., swear. Look at the pa pat bee of muscular energy I've committed but for nought: I ve expanded an@ contracted my diaphragm, and shot air up my respiratory tubes, and manipulated this surging cyclone behind my lips and tongue and teeth to mouth the paragraph, Hhh-elll-lo. But you only gape at me, you hatchetheaded idiot.
From time to time I've given you credit, you should know, for cheerless circumstances in your life n'times beyond my recognition: illnesses or deaths in your family; bad dreams; recalcitrant children and/or pets; homicidal mailcariers and paperboys or -girls; misplaced tie clasps; rectal/anal difficulties and so forth; burgeoning lawn-care bills; slashéd galoshes and don t know what else. But the passage of time has shown that you transcend none of your life s perquisites, let alone help me to transcend mine, if only for a fractions of an instant. You are a miserable son of a bitch, P.P. lll tell you what, though: It not give up altogether. I'll acknowledge you persistently, in fact, and if you don t respond (| know you hear me), rack me up as.a regular annoyance and just maybe I'll annoy you right into your. \um. _, Aw, shucks n stalks, P.P.; have a pillleasssant dayyyyy. Tell yourself said hello, 00, will ya? > S ghee SHS 4 - H tLo-
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NATURAL PETROLEUM: Looking forward to your sojourn to the Motorized City. Kid 10-W-40
LIZ E. Congrats! J.L.
JAN You tempt me with your column always. Preppie
TERRY: I'd like to get to know you better. B.
LINDA: Hope you find happiness in KMart s backyard, MSV
JIM S.S. wouldn't have it any better in Boston-Edison. Need a paint brush? Mike
SUNSHINE Sunshine on my shoulder makes me happy?
TONI B Meet you in the dark room any time. Developer
ROCK BAND needs heavy bass player. Call Bob, 368-4553; or Paul, 643-0563. FOR YOUR WEDDING CEREMONY Female vocalist/guitatist. 273-6716.
IF YOUR GROUP wants a piano player to play free for sing-along fun, phone Lester Baker, 883-6200, leave message.
MOTHERING. ART Lecture/discussion on Where does your child go when s/he leaves the house at 8 am? Call 862-8139 or 399-8455 for time and location.
PETER THE GREAT & RUSSIA, a lecture by Sherwin Wine at Baldwin Library, Bates at Martin, Birmingham, 546-8928. April 9, at 40.am. On April 16 at.10 am the topic will be Egypt and Israel, also with Sherwin Wine.
POETS! Poetry and writers workshop is held every Tuesday, 4-6 pm, on the East Side at Inner City Sub-Center, 8411 E. Forest; and Wednesdays, 4-6 pm, U-D Student Activities Bldg., 491-2164.
LIKE TO FOLK DANCE? Join us every Friday at 7:30 pm, open dancing until 11:30pm. Any interested dancer is encouraged to participate. WSU Folk Dance Club, 5774273, Room 246, Old Main, Cass at Waren.
BALLET Course in the basics of ballet offered at Henry Ford Community College, Saturdays for weeks beginning April 4, 9-10:30 am. Call 271-2750 for more information.
AQUARIAN CONSPIRACY, a lecture by author Marilyn Ferguson at the Detroit Unity Temple, 17505 Second, 345-4848.
LEARN. TO NEGOTIATE Sherwin Wine leads a discussion on Negotiation and
Dealing With Other People s Power, 2:30 pm, April 12 at Somerset Mall Aud., Troy, 546-8928.
ASSERTIVENESS TRAINING 9:30. am-3:30 pm, April 14, 3211 Fort, Wyandotte. Call 281-2626 for more info.
TOUR FERMI Il April 11, 9:30 am to3 pm, Cranbrook is sponsoring an excursion to Monroe s Fermi || nuclear power plant. Discussion will be led by Dr. A B. Van Rennes, former Bendix employee.
DIVORCE Legal overview presented free by Attomey Ellen. Zuckerman, 6:30 pm, April 8, U-D Law School, 651 E. Jefferson, Room 345, 961-7073. Sponsored by the, Women s Justice Center.
KARATE Learn the fundamentals of this ancient martidl art at Henry Ford: Community College, 5101 Evergreen, 2712750, Ext. 330. April 6-June 22, M & W, 8-9 pm.
BRADLEY GT Il unassembled body kit for W. White with black interior. Retails for $7,000. Asking $4,750 or trade. 261-6637. 4968 MERCEDES-BENZ 4-door sedan. Body and engine in excellent condition. Transmission needs some repair. Call 8337051 after 6 pm.»
BLUESMOBILE 1970 Plymouth Fury, 2door HT, PS, PB. Good tires, recent work 869-3583; $400, 1976 CORVETTE. Excellent. condition. Loaded. Call Jane, 545-2692.
LARGE MODERN wood wall units, glass doors, interior lights. $250. Call Karen at 582-5986 after 6 pm.
FOUR-PIECE Starlight drum. set with small cymbal, bass drum, snare drum, tomtom and floor tomtom. Like new. $225. Call 922-2339.
DIAMONDS at very affordable prices. 721-1666.
FOR SALE: Six lithographs by Afro-Ameri-, can artist Elizabeth Catlett, matted & glass braquette framed. $75. 875-3799.
WANTED: Illustrator for collection of children s poems. Send samples of work SASE to 23841 Moritz, Oak Park, MI 48237. For information call Zev at 544-0611. SORES EXPERIENCED BOOKKEEPER to join Detroit Metro Times staff. Part time. Call Laura Markham at 961-4060.
PHOENIX Swimming Pools Chemical Business. No exp. nec. Will train. Ideal for husband and wife. $50,000 full amount required. Will net $40,000 plus. Call collect M-F, 11. am-7 pm, (408)379-6080.
PHOTOGRAPHIC MODELS wanted. Call Mr. Lawrence, Keller Photographic and Casting, 0 am-2 pm, M-F, 961-8534. Sb eas iis Seals ee
4,500 SQ. FEET FOR RENT. Ideal downtown location, income-producing area in Greektown. Great opportunity with Ren Cen view. Call 962-9028, Tu-Sa, 12-6.
BRICK DUPLEX, 5 rooms, 2 bedrooms. New roof, basement tiled, gas heat, st. & screens, fenced. Greenfield-Joy area. Reasonable at $14,250. Call 393-0646 before 8 pm. %
3,000 SQ. FOOT COMMERCIAL building, Livernois. and Grand River. X-way access. Must sell, cash or easy terms. Miss Murphy, 964-0800.
4-BEDROOM COTTAGE near Torch Lake, Bellaire, Ml. Needs some work. Sacrifice at $34,900, cash or terms. Miss Murphy, 9640800.
RAMBLING, OLDER SUMMER HOME overlooks Torch Lake. Needs minor repairs. Must sell easy terms available. Bob Bailey, (616)533-6114.
HISTORIC Boston-Edison Area: Carriage house for rent, $300/month. 1 bedroom/ kitchen/stove/refrig., living room, 3 skylights, swimming pool, large fenced yard, _Children and pets welcome. After5, 8831234.
LARGE FLAT, remodeled bath & kitchen, carpet & oak floors, dining room with build-in oak china cabinet, fireplace, bay window. Credit report & security, $300, heat inc. Recording, 849-5685.
COLORADO OlL SHELL COUNTRY 3 bedrooms, 1-3/4 baths, living room, dining room, den, utility room, 2 fireplaces, 2-car garage, fenced. $69,500. Call (303) 243-0498.
APARTMENT to rent Large studio with kitchen, heat included, on Detroit River east of Belle Isle Bridge. $245/month. 8243789 evenings, or 559-4738.
FOR SALE OR RENT with option, Indian Village, lroquois, large Albert Kahn house with side drive. $98,500 cash or $800/mo. Evenings, 821-6988.
SPACIOUS, WELL-KEPT home, large kitchen, bathroom, Southwest Detroit (Dragoon near Vernor), $17,000. 8438879. re SENS TE ROYCOURT APTS. 1720 RANDOLPH
Outstanding apts. in Detroit. Quiet, well-maintained & 2-bedroom apts. within 5 min. of the Medical or Professionals with references.
Sponsored by Friends Of The Vanity Ballroom 14201 East Jefferson (2 Blocks West of Chalmers, 7 Blocks West of Grosse Pointe) DETROIT, Mi 48215
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