s they say in the trade, A. Louis got a pretty good ride in the nation s newspapers when he died. Since he had been seriously ailing for years, the morgues in the large dailies were ready with a story written in advance and periodically updated.
The coverage wasn t bad. The tone was respectful. There were copious testimonials to Louis unfailing dignity. His awesome record was laid out in print fight by fight. There was a skeleton outline of his life born into semi-slavery on an Alabama plantation, picking cotton as a kid moving with determined mother in a Grapes-of-Wrath pilgrimage to - Detroit to find something better, a few years on the River Rouge assembly line, his unstoppable rise to the most publicized single title in sports-
dom: the world heavyweight championship. Yet with all of journalism s good writing and editing and galloping technology there was something missing. As in bland, overprocessed food, the heart of the matter wasn t quite there. Those who grew up after the era of Joe Louis
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have just finished reading your article concerning the legal action several members of Congress and I filed in Federal Court seeking the application of the War Powers Resolution to the administration incursion in E] Salvador (DMT, May 1428).
think you have done an excellent job setting out the issues as well as the historical background of the U.S. intervention in El Salvador.
I would like your permission to circulate your article to interested persons in my district. Would you please let me know if that is agreeable to you?
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Your story titled The Immaculate Lawn Syndrome was both immature and preposterous. can tell just by reading this sort of hyped-up journalism that your staff is probably made up of people under the age of 30 who don t know the meaning of the word responsibility and are working for that rag sheet only because no one else will hire them.
Its obvious to me that none of your staff understands what it is like to live in an intensely competitive suburban community where you can tell a person s worth as a human being by the color of their lawn. Having beautiful lawns makes a neighborhood proud and strong in a uniquely American sense of the word spirit.
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If they fed McDonald s hamburgers to laboratory rats, they'd probably develop some sort of cancer or birth defect. Personally, for years I ve been of the belief that the mice used in those tests are very susceptible to diseases, and I d also like to believe that a human being can stand up to a lot more than a creepy rat can. think once someone on your staff grows up and decides to accept some sort of responsibility, like taking care of alawn of their own, you'll stop printing this sort of nonsense which is obviously intended to generate newspaper subscriptions.
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HEAVENLY THEATRE: Tonight, or before the weekend is out, consider catching the final weekend of the Peddy Players gospel version of the rock musical Jesus Christ Superstar. It runs at the Madison Theatre through Sunday, and you can get the particulars at 961-0681. Or you can catch tomorrow. night s opening of Godspell by the Mobius Theatre at the Paradiso Cafe in Palmer Park. The show runs Saturday and Sunday only. Call 332-6754for reservations. Your final chance _at salvation is to meet Vinnette Carroll, actress, author and otiginator of Your Arms Too Short to Box With God, at the Music Half Center next Sunday at 6 pm. The musical itself will open at Music Hall on June 29 for one week. Call the Music Hall box office at 963-7680 ae 4more information.
aa DEBUTS: Also in a gospel vein is tonight's world premiere concert by the Omega Dance Theatre, a new troupe in
town whose artistic director Winston Poe is an alumnus of Clifford Fears company. The concert is a gospel celebration entitled Praise with the Sacred Portals Church of God in Christ and the Gospel Choirs. Aaron Myers and Poe will choreograph the Masonic Temple show. The box office can give you further info at 832-7100.
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SPY VS. CITIZEN: This morning at the Central Methodist Church, downtown, the Michigan Coalition to End Government Spying sponsors its second Confer-ence on Police Spying. Speakers will include Ann Fagan Ginger, an attorney and president of the Meiklejohn Civil Liberties Institutein Berkeley, California. Richard Sobel of the National Lawyers Guild, the attorney for the plaintiffs in the Michigan Red Squad suit, will also share his experiences. A film, Intelligence Network, will discuss covert activities across the country. Workshops: include how to analyze your very own red squad file once you get it. Call the National Lawyers Guild -office at 963-0843 for more information.
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/A bill designed to protect communities and employees from plant closings in Michigan has passed the House Labor Committee. The bill, Industrial Commu-
nity Preservation and Recovery Act, is sponsored by State Representative Perry Bullard (D-Ann Arbor). The Industrial CPR now goes to the House floor for approval.
The Act would require foe corporations, which employ more than 100 people, to give 12 months notice to the community and workers involved before relocating or laying off large numbers of employees. Bullard says passage would help employees and small business owners to prepare themselves for the problems which come along with plant closings.
A tremendous loss occurs in an area when a large employer shuts its doors. Also,-a significant increase in unemployment, in any community, is especially detrimental to retail businesses which suffer losses in sales and are forced to lay off workers, thus compounding the problem evenmore, Bullard explains.
In addition to giving a 12month notice to workers and the community, the employers would be required to\provide one year of medical insurance to employees who will bé affected by the plant closings. Under the bill, employers would also provide additional leave time for employees to locate new employment.
The bill would also provide for a Community Council which, ona voluntary basis, will work with plant managers, employees and the state in trying to prevent-or delay the plant closing or find alternative industry, as well as
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Governor William Milliken is one of the major opponents of theIndustrial CPR. The bill is extremely shortsighted, he says. It would seriously harm our ability to attract new industry and encourage the establishment of new
plants in Michigan. We cannot attract new jobs by imposing such restrictions on business activity, according to Milliken.
John Thodis, President of the Michigan Manufacturers Asso-ciation, also maintains that the bill would hurt businesses. If such legislation is passed, another disincentive for doing business in
Michigan will be created, he says. Such a measure will not be viewed by any corporation as a positive reason for moving to or staying in Michigan. This bill is unnecessary.
The business climate argument is a red herring, argues Bullard. General Motors has already implemented a policy of notifying its workers and affected communities with six months
notice, and don t see how this
particular legislation could pos/ sibly harm their profit-making ability, says the Ann hee Democrat.
The bill has the strong backine of organized labor, and William Marshall, President of the Michigan AFL-CIO, says its passage is workers.
necessary to help the state s the needed options for respond-
Passage of House Bill 4330 will help Michigan workers and their counterparts in small businesses plan for a shut-down situation, and it will give them time and ing, he says. It is the citizens of this state who are at present being held hostage to the economic decisions of private corporations usually made without community consultation or warning by corporate management.
Michigan, which has been racked by the closings of hundreds of auto and steel-related plants, is one of a handful of states where plant closings legislation is pending. Wisconsin and Maine are the only states which have passed legislationgoverning plant closings and relocation.
Gite is the Detroit correspondent for the National Black Network.
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Michigan residents could be paying 50-100 percent more to heat their homes next winter if the Reagan administration and the major energy producers get their way. Coming on the heels of the deregulation of oil, the president has begun a campaign to completely. decontrol natural gas prices.
The 43 million residential customers who heat and cook with gas will see their gas bills double within two years and triple by 1984, estimates the Citizen/ Labor Energy Coalition (C/LEC) which is fighting the proposed deregulation. And according to the Congressional Budget Office, higher gas prices will also push inflation at least three percentage points higher.
Faye Gates of the Michigan Citizens. Lobby (MCL) Detroit Metro Times deregulation would be devastating to Michigan residents.
With one half million people out of work, if decontrol is allowed to take place, it would be impossible for people to meet their bills, Gates says.
have to pay higher prices to our suppliers and would have to collect that higher price in payments.
Michigan Consolidated is a member of the American Gas Association which is also opposed to immediate deregulation.
This chart will give you an estimate of the @nnual increase in your gas bill after deregulation.
- According to figures releasedby Michigan Consolidated Gas, 100,000 people sought emer: gency assistance in order to pay their bills last winter.
Under decontrol, an average household will pay an estimated $3,500 more for natural gas over the next three and a half years. In addition, higher gas prices will be reflected in many consumer goods and services, costing the average household another $400 per year.
The chief beneficiaries of de-_
control would be the major oil companies which own 70 percent of the nation s natural gas production. Immediate decontrol would increase gas producers revenue by $370 billion to $600 billion by 1985, according to C/LEC. Limited decontrol is already taking place under the Natural Gas Policy Act of 1978. This act allows 20-25- percent annual price increases for different categories of gas until 1985, when, subject to Executive review, prices would be poo de-
controlled. Reagan and the oil companies are proposing immediate decontrol against the wishes of many gas utilities. spokesperson for Michigan Consolidated Gas says the company is opposed to any attempt to speed up deregulation. We believe the Natural Gas Policy Act of 1978 is working, Burns says. We're opposed to the president s proposal because it would present too difficult a situation for our customers. We'd
Eileen Haggerty, Director of the Michigan Coalition on Utilities and Energy (MCUE), says Reagan s proposal is expected to be brought before Congress in September. Unlike oil price decontrol, the administration does not have the authority to decontrol natural gas prices by Executive order but will need Congressional approval.
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Early opposition in Congress is headed by several Michigan representatives who sponsored House Resolution 77 opposing deregulation. The resolution was tabled by a vote of 66-27.
Citizens Lobby,
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Continued from cover would have to look elsewhere to understand what he was_all about. What was missing was no less than the social context in which Joe Louis came to prominence, and his interaction with changing American reality.
In no story that read was the-fact that in 1935, when the young Louis knocked out Primo Carnera, Readers Digest came out witha strident article by one John B. Kennedy entitled Why Joe Louis Must Never Be phere Riots and all that.
New generations reading the obit stories about the beloved, dignified gentleman saluted in editorials and buried in Arlington couldn t have the foggiest notion of the way the young Louis was portrayed in the 30s as a semimoronic automaton, a sullen panther who did it all naturally.
This eased the anguish and concern of the white supremacists at the fact that in this sportsconscious land a black youth was too much for the mightiest white man to handle inside the roped arena (where, a later black fighter named Henry Armstrong was to observe, You can t jimcrow a left hook ). Remember, when Joe Louis came along, baseball, our national pastime, was lily white and was to stay that way for another decade.
At racism s festering heart lies the necessity to portray the victims of inhuman treatment as not really as human as their oppressors, without the same feelings and needs. This is necessary to dull the conscience of otherwise decent persons to what they are doing to fellow-humans for their own gain. This was especially urgent for our own institution of slavery, followed by lynch law, disenfranchisement and social and economic discrimination against those with dark skins.
fistic art, how he would come home bone weary, bruised and discouraged. But he stuck with it, she said, watches, which was the prize for amateurs. She paused and thought back. Her son had been world champion for three years now and living was easier. We pawned those watches, all but the one he kept for himself.
The cartoon image of a sleepy, animal-like man of sub-par intelligence died hard. Like most fighters, Joe was uneducated. Thrown into the sharp-edged bedlam~ of shouting reporters, photographers and radio mikes, the young Louis maintained an impassive exterior, an-
and soon began to_ bring home swered questions tersely and obviously would rather be elsewhere.
Ah, but those of us sports writers who came to know him saw a different Joe Louis in the leisure of training camps and at.the boxing offices in Madison Square Garden, discussing with those he knew and trusted boxing techniques, telling anecdotes, talking with knowledge about the baseball races, holding forth on current hot Jazze
When I took the black writer Rachard Wright up to Joe s Pompton Lakes training camp, the two said excuse us and had an animated 15 minutes off by themselves. What did they talk about? Oh, life in the South and the North and lots of things, Wright said. In the war years and after, in somewhat different atmosphere, Louis, though .never long-winded, became noted for sharp, incisive replies to all questions in the hubbub of post-fight interviews.
What he meant to the black people of this country is not for a white writer to finally assay, but a few things can easily be added to the obituary stories. Like the look of Harlem after perhaps the most exciting moment in American sports. history the first round knockout of the. German Max Schmeling, who had inflicted the only pro-defeat on a less-experienced Louis two years earlier. Hitler himself hung the swastika right on. Schmeling s chin with a telegram sai
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Oh, he meant something in this country, did Joe Louis. That same year there wasa sneering item in a South Carolina paper about a black being led to his execution crying out, Joe Louis, save me!
In the Pacific during WWII,.a guy in my outfit who was a gee-whiz spots nut asked me endless questions about famous athletes when he found out was a sports writer. Imagine, someone in his own tent who actually spoke to Joe DiMaggio! He was a white guy from rural Alabama and one night in Bougainville during an attack on a surprise beer ration he asked me in his heavy Southern drawl if saw Louis knock Smellin. At my yes he made me recreate the fight punch by punch, nodded and said with a touch of provinciat pride, Old Joe s from Bama, you know. That too was the impact of Joe Louis. This fairly archetypal Southerner, to whom sports was the most, identified with his fellow Alabaman against the German, rather than with his fellow white man against the black man.
was doing there, he replied, What am | doing here? I m listening, and I m liking some of the things these people are saying. He liked them. enough to contribute $100 to the collection. Louis later years were hardly peaches and cream. He had marital problems and big alimony payments, and his generosity was exploited on and around the golf links. He went broke and had to fight well past his prime. In his 50s, the man just extolled in editorials and buried in ~ Arlington had 'to descend-to the buffoonery of wrestling to get cash for back taxes to satisfy a relentless government that didn t seem to remember all the War Bond money he brought in with wartime exhibition bouts and appearances. (He wryly told appalled sports writer friends at the wrestling arena, It ain t stealing. )
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In September, 1939, | went to Detroit to cover Louis second fight with Bob Pastor. The day before the fight, obtained the address of Joe s mother from the champ, and taxied out for an interview, joined by Lester Bromberg of the, then New York World-Telegram. asked Joe s mother, Lily Brooks, how she felt about a cartoon in one of the Detroit papers that very day showing Joe reclining under a tree dozing, with a chicken in one hand, training for the fight.
Mrs. Brooks smiled gently and said, Now how -could anybody be lazy and get to be the best in the world at what he sets out to do?
She related how young Joe, after swinging heavy parts on the assembly line all day, would _ go straight to smoky little gym to learn the
ing that Naziland was confident he would defeat» the untermensch again. An appeal by New York anti-Nazis to boycott an event with a Nazi participant expired in the much stronger desire to see Joe let him have it. As Schmeling was battered to the canvas for the third and last time, 90,000 spectators erupted in tumultuous celebration, and Louis was rushed through the baseball dugout to his dressing room. Mayor Fiorello La Guardia entered, huge hat in hand and wild look in eye, and wordlessly raced across the room to embrace Louis, who said, I didn t like some of the things Schmeling been saying.
Over to Harlem, a few subway stops away, where at the magic moment totally deserted streets were transformed into curb-to-curb parades of people raising their arms in hilarious parody of the Nazi salute. That was a night, my friends.
There was one time when Joe Louis caught strong negative vibes from many black people. At his Greenwood Lake, N.J., training camp, where he was training for his fight with Buddy Baer shortly after Pearl Harbor, with all proceeds to Navy Relief, he took me back to his room to show me huge stacks of mail. They were from black folks all over the land, asking in one way or another why he was risking his precious title for an organization (the Navy) where his people could not get to be more than a mess helper. What did he feel about that question, asked, and how would he answer the letter writers? He explained how he felt very simply, in words which would later be broadcast over national radio. Il know. there s lots of things wrong in this country, but Hitler ain t gonna fix them.
Joe was not a politico, and was hardly predictable as between Democratic and Republican presidential candidates. Yet doubt that many or any of the obituary stories mentioned that in 1948 when reporters covering a Progressive Party meeting for Henry Wallace at the Golden Gate Arena in Harlem saw him standing in back of the hall and asked what he
How est a fighter was Joe Louis? When covered his fights, older sports writers who had also covered Jack Dempsey, in their majority thought he would have knocked out that great champion. The only post-Louis champs who could be given a chance with himin his prime were Marciano and Ali, and am hardly alone in the strong feeling that neither could have staved off the man with the fastest moving pair of explosive fists in heavyweight history.
It bears recalling that Louis, unlike those before him and-after him, gave anyone who wanted a shot at the title a chance, a second time around if they weren t satisfied. (Dempsey, bowing to the racist pressures of his time, refused to meet his most logical challenger, the black fighter Harry Wills.)
There was only one Joe Louis.
The most interesting thing in one of the better obituary stories was the recollection that Louis used to be called a-credit to his race, a phrase seen now for what it was then, patronizing white racism. That little change is indeed a credit to the militant assertion of black self-pride and worth, and its educating effect a development in which Joe Louis played no small role. @
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Ps Music usually comes out of doors about now, but this year it seems everyone is getting into the act. Try Zukin s for gypsy violins during the weekday lunch crunch or Spectra playing jazz on Saturdays. WJLB and WRIF are both sponsoring concert series at Hart Plaza, so you can catch, of a Tuesday noontime, Shaun Murphy and Automatix next week, and Bittersweet Alley and the Frankie LaMarr Band in weeks to come, courtesy of WRIF. The next day try a little soulfiud luncheon fare, with bands like the Wednesday, June 17 S at Dazz Band, TFO and Doug Brown and the Ones. Or catch some jazz next Z REGGAE Wednesday at Music on the Boulevard, in the amphitheatre in front of St. B J une 1 3 Aloyisius Church on Washington Bivd., where Harold McKinney and Rebirth will play.
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A warm welcome to the Ann Arbor-based Detroit Music Times, a new monthly trade publication for area musicians and the industry. Their debut issue has hit the streets and has an interview with Seger guitarist Drew Abbot, a talk with the owners of A2 Studios, and a smattering oflocal record reviews. Although we wonder just how they arrived at their name and we hope not to be confused due to the similar handles we.are pleased to see a quality local talent advocate surface. Good fuck!
Another welcome to The Mary, a coffeehouse with all that implies including cappucino, after-hours jazz on weekends and poetry readings. Its also rumored that this will be a bistro for the eighties, with video screenings and the Hollywood Bar's former jukebox providing the multi-media.
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Hometown Heroes can be heardon WPON, 1460 AM, Saturdays at 2 pm. The Pontiac-based station plays country music and now you can bring homegrown downhome to your very own turntable with the album of the same name-The LP features tunes by eleven local country, bluegrass and country-rock bands, and is available at most Harmony Houses. Coordinated by Scott and Dennis Forbes, host and engineer of the radio show, respectively, the record s sales will benefit the Pontiac-Oakland Symphony. Me
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Those of you who thought you'd like to check out Lyman Woodard in unusual circumstances sorry, but he won't be at the Finnish Pori Jazz Festival next month. Woodard told Detroit Metro Times that his tour there was cancelled about a month ago but never really corrected by the press. Sorry to be the bearer of bad tidings, Lyman. .But thoseof you who have done all the jazz festivals national and international may want to check out Imacom Travel s tour to the Pori fest July 7-14. Call 646-2200 for info.
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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 lastminute changes. If your event hasn't been included, its only because missed hearing about it. Address calendar info to Linda Solomon. Deadline for the next issue is June 17.
MUSIC JAZZ
AL HEINIZLEMAN DUE: F-Sa, Union Street Too, 831-3965.
AL JARREAU: Aug. 4, pm, Meadow Brook Music Festival.
ANDREA CHEOLAS JAZZ TRIO: Th-Sa, Sir Charles Pub, Royal Oak, 541-9593.
BARNEY KESSEL: June 25-28, Baker's Keyboard Lounge, 864-1200.
BOB SZAJNER S TRIAD featuring ED PICKENS and FRANK ISOLA: June 1920, Cafe Detroit, 831-8820.
CATS MEOW Peoria: GAIL BAKER: June 11-13, Metro Hilton, 292-3400. June - 19-20, 2 25, Delta Lady, Ferndale, 545-5483. Tuesdays, Cobb s Comer, 832-7223.
CHICAGO PETE: June 12-13, Delta Lady, Ferndale, 545-5483.
DAKOTA STATON: Thru June 14, Dummy George, 341-2700.
DAN CANTWELL: Tuesdays, Lady, Ferndale, 545-5483. ae
Ron Jackson, Cafe Detroit, June 12-13. ~-
HASTINGS STREET JAZZ EXPERIENCE: June 25, 7 & 9:30 pm, DIAJazz at the Institute Cabaret concert, 832-2730.
HOWARD WHITE TRIO: June 12-13, The Earle, Ann Arbor, 994-0211.
JACKIE McLEAN with KENNY COX, ED PICKENS & TANI TABBAL: June 12-13, World Stage Cafe, 962-4124.
JENSEN BROTHERS: Mondays, Union Street I, Grosse Pointe, 331-0018.
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KO KO TAYLOR and her BLUES MACHINE: June 17, Rick's American Cafe, Ann Arbor, 996-2747. June 19-20, Soup Kitchen, 259-1374. STREETLIGHT KNIGHTS: June 23, Rick's American Cafe; Ann Arbor, 9962747.
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BOOGIE WOOGIE RED: Mondays, Blind Pig, Ann Arbor, 996-8555. June 14 2-6 pm, Jefferson-Chalmers Concerts by the River, free, 822-0007 for info. DECISION: June 12-13, Blue Chip No. 2, 538-4850.
DICK SIEGEL: June 19-20, Blind Pig, Ann Arbor, 996-8555.
DON TAPERT: Sundays, Union Street I, Grosse Pointe, 331-0018. MIDNIGHT SKY: Tu-W, Blue Chip No. 2, 538-4850.
ROD LUMPKIN TRIO featuring GRETTA HENDRIX: Su-M, Blue Chip No. 2, 538-4850.
OUTSIDE BAND: June 17, Delta Lady,
Ferndale, 545-5483.
MIKE GRACE TRIO: June 19-20, The Earle, Ann Arbor, 994-0211.
MISSING LINKS: June 19-20, Union treet I, Grosse Pointe, 331-0018. ~
MOTOR CITY JAZZ QUINTET: Wednesdays, 8 pm-midnight, World Stage Cafe, 962-4124.
pm, DIA Jazz at the Institute, cabaret concert, 832-2730.
VIKKI GARDEN: Su, W-Th, Union Street Too, 831-3965.
WALTER JACKSON: June 12-14, Watt's Club Mozambique, 864-0240.
WENDELL HARRISON & PAMELA WISE: aobsdays. Cobb's ore 832F223:
SPANKY WILSON: June 17-July 12, Dummy George, 341-2700.
URBATIONS: June 14, 2-6 pm, Jefferson-Chalmers Concerts by the River, free, 822-0007 for info.
REGGAE
DAVE WILBORN & THE LITILE COTION PICKERS: June 20, World Stage Cafe, 962-4124.
DYNAMIC THREE C s: June 21,5-9 pm, Cafe Detroit, 831-8820.
EARL KLUGH: July 16-19, Baker's Keyboard Lounge, 864-1200.
FRANK ISOLA TRIO: June 14, 5-9 pm, Delta Cafe Detroit, 831-8820. Fridays, 5-9 pm, Shannon's, 961-3043.
GARY WEINBERG: Thursdays, The Gnome, 833-0120.
GEORGE (tenor sax) BENSON QUARTET: June 18-20, 7 & 9:30 pm, DIA Jazz at the Institute, cabaret concert, 8322730.
JILL PHILLIPS: June 14, Delta Lady, Femdale, 545-5483.
KENNY PANCHO HAGOOD: Thursdays, 8 pm-midnight, World Stage Cafe, 962-4124.
KENNY PANCHO HAGOOD with the II-V-I_ ORCHESTRA: June 19, World Stage Cafe, 962-4124.
KEVIN O'CONNELL: Mondays, The Earle, Ann Arbor, 994-0211.
LARRY MANDERFIELD: June 11, Blind Pig, Ann Arbor, 996-8555: LYMAN WOODARD ORGANIZATION: June 14, 2-4 pm, Belle Isle Band Shelter, free. W-Sa, Rembrandt's, 963-1053.
MARK HERSHBERGER and the EXTRATERRESTRIALS: Wednesdays, Cobb's Corner, 832-7223.
MARY ROBERTS and the INSIDE/
NOEL POINTER with WENDELL HARRISON & PAMELA WISE: June 20, 7:30 pm, Orchestra Hall, 833-3700.
PARADE: June 12-13, Union Street I, Grosse Pointe, 331-0018. Sundays, Pappy s North, St. Clair Shores, 7919050.
PHENIX: F-Sa, The Gnome, 833-0120.
RALPH KOZIARSKI: Wednesdays, The Gnome, 833-0120.
RON BROOKS TRIO: Tu-Th, The Earle, Ann Arbor, 994-0211.
RON JACKSON and the PEOPLE'S CREATIVE ENSEMBLE: June 12-13, Cafe Detroit, 831-8820. June 19-20, Hollywood Bar, 875-1650.
SONNY STITT and the CLAUDE BLACK TRIO: Thru June 21, Baker's Keyboard Lounge, 864-1200.
STANLEY COWELL: June 11, 7 & 9:30
APPEARING
June 12-13 CHICAGO PETE
June 14 JILL PHILLIPS
June 17-18 MARY ROBERTS & INSIDE OUTSIDE BAND June 19-20, 24. CATS MEOW
with GAIL BAKER
Every Monday is Talent Night Tuesdays feature Dan Cantwell & Guests
BLUES
BILL HODGSON: Sundays, Alvin's Finer Bar, 832-2355.
BLUE FRONT PERSUADERS: Thursdays, Soup Kitchen, 259-1374. DETROIT. BLUES BAND: June 10-12, The Code, 259-0677.
FALCONS: June 13, Annie s Dugout, Ann Arbor, 665-8644, June 16, Rick's American Cafe, Ann Arbor, 996-2747. Sundays, Soup Kitchen, 259-1374.
_GLEMI DERRALL & HIS BLUE BOYS: June 11, Delta Lady, Ferndale, 5455483.
GUITAR JUNIOR: June 11, Rick's American Cafe, Ann Arbor, 996-2747. June 12-13, Soup Kitchen, 259-1374.
D-ALIENS STEEL DRUM BAND: June 21, 2-6 pm, Jefferson-Chalmers Concerts by the River, free,822-0007 for info.
HERBAL EXPERIENCE: June 12; Nunzio's, Lincoln Park, 383-3121. I-TAL: June 12-13, Rick's American Cafe, Ann Arbor, 996-2747.
ONXYZ REGGAE BAND: June 21, 2-6 pm, Jefferson-Chalmers Concerts by the River, free, 822-0007 for info. Thursdays, Alvin's Finer Bar, 832-2355. SIRIUS ROOTS: June 17, Star Bar, Ann Arbor, 769-0109. June 19, Nunzio S; Lincoln Park, 383-3121.
SUN MESSENGERS: June 21, 2-6 pm, Jefferson-Chalmers Concerts by the River, free, 822-0007 for info. WELDERS: June 18, Bookie s, 8620877.
Cheap prices til midnite FRI. & SAT. Reduced drink prices til 10:30 NOW
VINTAGE& NEW CLOTHING FOR MEN AND WOMEN
0. Alvin's Finet Bat: june 19-2 ROCK wories.
ALICE COOPER: June 10- 11, pm, Joe Louis Arena, 962-2000.
AUTOMATIX with SHAUN MURPHY: June 11-14, Second Chance, Ann Arbor, 994-5350. June 17-20, Traxx, 3722320.
BAROOGA: June 22 -23, Bentley's, Royal Oak, 583-1292.
BILLY SQUIRE: July 9, Royal Oak Music Theatre, 546-7610.
BITTERSWEET ALLEY: June 11-13, Harpo s, 823-6400. June 16, Sidestreet, Lincoln Park, 388-1186. June 17-20, Jagger's, Pontiac, 681-1701.June 24-27, Main Act, Roseville, 778-8150.
BROPHY SCHLONG and the LONG
DONGS: June 18, Rick's American Cafe, Ann Arbor, 996-2747.
COLONE: F-Sa, Cobb's Comer, 8327223.
CRYSTAL HAZE: June 22-28, Exit Lounge, Madison Hts., 558-3121.
-DANGER POINT: June 15-21, Exit Lounge, Madison Hts., 588-3121.
DITTILIES: June 11-13, 18-20, Center. ~Stage, Canton, 981-4111. June 16, Jagger's, Pontiac, 681-1701. THE EDGE: Thru June 28, Pier 500, Wyandotte, 282-7442.
CITY: June 19-20, Rick's American Cafe, Ann Arbor, 996-2747.
FRANKIE LA MARR BAND:June 16-17, Angie's, Farmington, 851-2990.
FRIJID PINK: June 12-13, Traxx, 3722320. 1.0.U.: June 11-14, 300 Bowl, Lae ford, 682-6300.
IVORY TOWER: June 11-13, Pad Ss, 823-6400.
LESLIE WEST and MOUNTAIN: June 16, Second Chance, Ann Arbor, 994-5350. LIZ LACHMAN:June 26-27, Traxx, 3722320. LOOK: June 19-20, Second Chance, Ann Arbor, 994-5350.
LOOKOUT: June 10-14, September's, Warren, 756-6140. June 15-16, Token Lounge, Livonia 261-9640. June 18-20, Main Act, Rosebille, 778-8150.
MAJESTY: June 16-21, Studio, Westland, 729-2540.
MAYHEM: June 15, Studio, Westland, 729-2540.
MARIAH: June 24-28, Bentley's, Royal Oak, 583-1292.
MABRINER: June 24-28, Token Lounge, Warren, 261-9640.
MIKE CATON BAND: June 17-18, Second Chance, Ann Arbor, 994-5350.
MILLERZ KILLERZ: June 24-25, Traxx, 372-2320.
MITCH RYDER: June 24, Alvin's Finer Bar, 832-2355.
MISSILES: June 15-16, Bentley's, Royal Oak, 583-1292.
MUGSY: June 11-14, Studio, Westland,
729-2540. June 16-21, Token Lounge, Warren, 261-9640.
OL SPICE: F-Sa, Carter's: Bar, 5219216.
PHOEBE SNOW: June 18, pm, Royal Oak Music Theatre, 546-7610.
PULSTAR: June 22-27, Studio, Westland, 729-2540.
QUARTER MOON: June 11-14, Exit. Lounge, Madison Hts., 588-3121. QUEST: June 22-23, Token Lounge, Warren, 261-9640. RADIO CITY: June 17-21, Bentley's, Royal Oak, 583-1292.
ROCK BOTTOM: June 24-27, Jagger's, Pontiac, 681-1701.
ROUGH CUT: June 19-20, The Bowery, 871-1503.
SCOTCH: June 11-15, Sidestreet, Lincoln Park, 388-1186.
SCRATCH: Tu-Sa, Slinky's, Redford, .535-6700.
SHADOWFAKX:June 12-13, Alvin's Finer Bar, 832-2355.
SKIDS: June 10-14, Bentley's, Royal Oak, 583-1292. June 17-21, Papillon Ballroom, 278-0079. June 23, Second Chance, Ann Arbor, 994-5350.
SKY DANCER: June 15-16, September s, Warren, 756-6140.
SPYRO GYRA: July 18, pm, Royal Oak Music Theatre, 546-7610.
STAGE: June 18-20, Harpo's, 823-6400.
STEVE NEWHOUSE: June 21, rockabilly, Second Chance, Ann Arbor, 9945350.
STRUT: June 18-20, Harpo's, 823-6400. June 21-24, September's, Warren, 7566140.
TEEN ANGELS: June 11-13, Jagger's, Pontiac, 681-1701. June 17-20, Sep- tember's, Warren, 756-6140. June 34,
WHAT'S
Second Chance, Ann Arbor, 994-5350.
THUNDER: June 24-25, Traxx, 3722320.
TOBY REDD: June 10-13, Main Act, Roseville, 778-8150. June 17-21, Sidestreet, Allen Park, 388-1186.
TOM PETTY and the HEARTBREAK-
ERS: June 18, Cobo Arena, 962-2000.
TYRANT: June 11-14, 17-21, 24 Karat, 531-2332. June 23-28, Side Street, Allen Park, 388-1186.
WHITE HEAT: June 15, Token Lounge, Warren, 261-9640.
ZZ. TOP with LOVERBOY: June 13, pm, Joe Louis Arena, 962-2000.
NEW WAVE
ATTITUDES: June 17, Bookie's, 8620877.
BORIS SAVAGE and the PRIMATES: June 24, Bookie s, 862-0877.
BUZZTONES: June 11, Traxx, 3722320.
CAR SICKNESS: June 13, Red Carpet Lounge, 885-9881. -
THE CHEATERS: June 12, Red Carpet Lounge, 885-9881.
COOL METRO: June 12, Red Carpet Lounge, 885-9881.
CULT HEROES: June 13, Nunzio s, Lincoln Park, 383-3121.
- DANCING CIGARETTES: June 19-20, Lil's, 875-6555.
THE FACTS: June 18, Bookie s, 8620877. June 24, Nunzio s, Lincoln Park, 383-3121.
THE FANGS: June 13, Red Carpet Lounge, 885-9881.
FLEXIBLES: June 22, Second Chance, Ann Arbor, 994-5350. GARY PRYKA & THE SCALES: June 18,
Blind Pig, Ann Arbor, 996-8555. June 21 Rick's American Cafe, Ann Arbor, 9962747. GEORGE FABOR & STRONGHOLD: June 19-20, Traxx, 372-2320. HOI POLLOI: June 18, Red Carpet Lounge, 885-9881. INCREDIBLE MOHAWK BROTHERS: June 11-13, three days of peace, comedy and music, Lili's, 875-6555. June 25, Red Carpet Lounge, 885-9881. IVORIES: June 13, Bowery, 871-1503. June 19-20, Alvin's, Finer Bar, 832-2355. MARK, DAVID & THE CHAPMANS: June 24, Bookie s, 862-0877. MISSING PERSONS: June 11-13, Traxx, 372-2320.
MISSION OF BURMA: June 13, Bookie s, 862-0877. June 15, Second Chance, Ann Arbor, 994-5350. MOHAWES: june 11-13, Lil's, 8756555. THE MOTION: June 11, Red Carpet Lounge, 885-9881. MOTIVES: June 18, Nunzio s, Lincoln Park, 383-3121. THE MUTANTS & THE STINGRAYS: June 17, 8:30 pm, Center Stage, Canton, 981-4111.
NITSEY BOOTSIE & THE TSE TSE FLIES: June 18, Lili's, 875-6555. ONE-TWO-THREE GO: June 24, Rick's American Cafe, Ann Arbor, 996-2747. PATHETE: June 13, Nunzio's, Lincoln Park, 383-3121.
PHOBELEX: July 11, Nunzio s, Linco Park, 383-3121. THE PLASMATICS: July 17, pm, Masonic Temple, 832-2232. POSTER CHILDREN: June 18, Red Carpet Lounge, 885-9881.
R.U.R: June 12-13, Paychecks, 8728934. June 20, Red Carpet Lounge, 8859881.
born June 12, 1929.
RAYZE: June 12-13, sist oe 8728934.
RERUNS: June = Red Carpet Lounge, 885-9881.
REF,20: June 19-20, Alvin's Finer Bar, 832-"2355.
ROCKABILLY CATS: June 13, Bowery, 871-1503. June 25, Lili's, 875-6555.
ROUGH MIX: June 17, ged s, Lincoln Park, 383-3121.
SECRETS: June 17, Red Cape Lounge, 885-9881. June 18, Traxx, 372-2320. SEMARITANS: June 20, Nunzio s, Lincoln Park, 383-3121.
SOPHISTICATES: June 11, Bookie's, 862-0877. June 12, Nunzio s, Lincoln Park, 383-3121. THE STINGRAY & SERVICE: June 12, Carpenter Hail, 893-8640.
STRANGERS: Ju.ie 14, Rick's American Cafe, Ann Arbor, 996-2747. June 19, Red Carpet Lounge, 885-9881. TIES: June 11, Traxx, 372-2320. TRAINABLES: June 22, Second Chance, Ann Arbor, 994-5350.
ULTRA MODERN: June 11, Red Carpet Lounge, 885-9881.
URBAN VERBS: June 12, Bookie s, 8620877.
VIA SATELLITE: June 20, Red Carpet Lounge, 885-9881:
VICTIM EYES: June 12, Bowery, 8711503. June 19-20, Paychecks, 8728934.
X-WHITES: June 19, Nunzio s, Lincoin Park, 383-3121.
COUNTRY
ElaMiyY LOU HARRIS & LEON RUSSELL: July 21,°8 pm, Meadow Brook Music Festival. IRON MOUNTAIN COUNTRY: Thru
June 13, M-Sa, Phoenix City, Berkley, 542-9797. KENNY MILLER & THE COUNTRY LADS: W-Su, All Around Bar, 292-6838. SOUTHERN BREEZE: Tu-Sa, Filthy McNasty s, Warren, 757-1120. E COWBOYS:June 15, Rick's American Cafe, Ann Arbor, 996-2747. June 23, Blind Pig, Ann Arbor, 9968555. June 25, Star Bar, eee 7690109.
FOLK
BAKER'S BLUE JAY YAWN: oo Nemo's Fairlane, 336-8550. BARBARA BAILEY-HUTCHISON:
ay Michael Betzold
NO I'M NOT SWEARING AT YOU or WHAT THOSE WEIRD THINGS IN PARENTHESES MEAN
The first 3-D rating system in filmdom was developed and tested in Chrysler laboratories right here in Detroit. Here's what each scale
STARS measure movie's overall quality: tor Wonderful ee Worthy Weak
WWW's are for Weird: -
Ww Passes for Straight (none) Prim.and Proper
ZZZ's measure the Slumber Quotient of the Viewer: ZZZ Comatose ZZ Deep Sleep Naps (none) Wide Awake
Unrated movies betray that the reviewer is not omnipresent, but lives in Detroit, does not frequent Hollywood or New York, and sometimes goes to baseball games instead of
ATLANTIC CITY. (x«**xW) Louie Malle s remarkably perceptive vision of the bulldozing of an older, romantic way. of life and the erection of new, sanitized, heartless, corporatecasino existence is pleasingly entertaining, sometimes Altman-like, tour de force. Using the destruction and rebirth of. Atlantic City as back-
drop and metaphor, John Guare 's_ story examines what happens when 30s gangster groupie and small-time numbers runner (Burt Lancaster) gets mixed up with an aspiring legal blackjack dealer (Susan Sarandon), her cosmically insipid young sister (Hollis McLaren), and their jointly owned husband Dave, a luckless cocaine dealer from Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan. Must viewing for anyone considering bringing casino gambling to Detroit, Atlantic - City is frightening and entertaining all at once. It's richly interwoven, flawlessly executed story that says more than any movie in memory about what is really happening to American culture in an era where what was once sinful is now practiced by nuns and Boy Scouts, and the state skims off fixed percentage of everyone's lives while giving the citizenry the illusion of being participants in the game. A movie like the movies which ee don't make movies like anymore.
BREAKER MORANT. (**xW) War crimes didn start in Vietnam, and following orders didn't start at Nuremberg, as this powerful movie about the Boer War proves. When the British Empire needed scapegoat for its brutal war policy in South Africa in- 1900, it courtmartialled three Australian soldiers who were part of special Green-Berets-type guerilla force. The charge: shooting Boar prisoners andGerman missionary. No matter that shooting prisoners was British army policy; the Germans had to be mollified. Morant is courtroom drama about the Australians military trial, with flashbacks detailing the truth of the incidents being testified to. Bruce Beresford, the director of The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith, doesn't apologize for what the Australians did, but he places it firmly in context of barbarous colo-
nialism. The parallels to Vietnam are obvious. Beresford s exposition is brilliant. Jack Thompson, as the back-country solicitor who tises to the challenge of defending his countrymen, gives a brilliant performance, heading superb cast. Breaker Morant never wavers, never flinches, never ducks the issues; its courtroom arguments prefigure all the debates about government atrocities that will mark the new century. Its hard thesis: abnormalmen don't commit war crimes, normal men following orders do. Its target: the many faces of imperialism. Its perspective: an unfailing, comic humanism. Stupendous, invigorating and intelligent a remarkable film.
BUSTIN LOOSE. Imprisoned in Stir Crazy, - bey Richard Pryor is out on parole here, driving Cicely Tyson and busfull of bad young kids across the country, trying to raise enough money to finance that free-base habit.
THE CANNONBALL RUN. Vwrtroocommm. .. squeeeeeeaaaal. crash! go the race cars, but unfortunately Burt Reynolds, Farrah Fawcett and Roger Moore survive. (Opens June 19.)
CHEECH AND CHONG'S NICE DREAMS. The Good Humor Man never put this kind of stuffin his Toasted Almonds. Who sez potheads are passe?
CHRONICLE OF A SUMMER. One of the first films to be labeled Cinema Verite, this Jean Rouch documentary explores the memory of war in five survivors of decade of French colonial wars, during the first summer of peace after Algeria, 1960. (Afternoon Film Theatre, June 17-21.)
CLASH OF THE TITANS. Classic Greek mythology goes big screen with Laurence Olivier, Burgess Meredith, Claire Bloom and
a Mae ee
lot of. specialefiects eas goddesses and beasts, in this story of Perseus and his flying horse Pegasus. If these adventures are that great, how come it took 2,500 years to get them on film?
DEATH HUNT. Yet another Charles Bronson movie, with Lee Marvin and Angie Dickinson giving chase to Bronson s outlaw trapper across the Canadian Northwest. Sort of a Dudley Do-Right meets The Rifleman. EXCALIBUR. (xZZW) What's the matter with John Boorman s Arthurian epic? It has battle scenes reminiscent of Kagemusha, an epic scope worthy of Tess, and restrained, sensitive command of its material. The problem: it's boring. Linking all the disparate legends of the Knights of the Round Table together becomes tedious; it's cataloging of heroic tales, none of which is allowed to blossom sufficiently. And the all-star British cast? Too much devil-mayca¥z cockney and insufficient heroic stature. Despite occasional brilliant touches, was reminded of Monty Python's Holy Grail I kept expecting Merlin to break into scurrilous ditty. That how preposterous the dialogue and its delivery could get.
LAW AND ORDER. (x WWW) The practice of police brutality is placed in context, not as an aberration of few crazy cops, but as part of routine procedure in difficult situations, in this stunning 1969 documentary by Frederick Wiseman which details the everyday work of the Kansas City police department. How Wiseman got his subjects to allow him to photograph them roughing up suspects is mystery, but it's clear that these cops believe in what they're doing: Wiseman s method simply recording, without comment, what goes on in EN life produces stronger indictment of
Le 11, Union Street I, Grosse Pointe, 331-0018. BOB PHILLIPS: Wednesdays, Union Street Grosse Pointe, 331-0018. THE GAELS: Tu & Sa, Four Green Fields, Royal Oak, 280-2902.
HOMEGROWN GRASS: June 12-13, Griffs, Pontiac, 334-7651.
JIM PERKINS & JOE VERMILION: Sundays, Four Green Fields, Royal Oak, 280-2902.
JOEL MABUS: June 12-13, fa Bluegrass Festival.
LARRY McNEELY: June 14, Flint Bluegrass Festival.
LOST WORLD STRING BAND: June 1920, Griff's, Pontiac, 334-7651.
MARTY BURKE: Fridays, Four Green Fields, Royal Oak, 280-2902.
RICH MANDERFIELD: Wednesdays, Four Green Fields, Royal Oak, 2802902. SHAR: Sundays, Griff s, Pontiac, 3347651. STRING FEVER: June 21, Griffs, Pontiac, 334-7651.
TREES: June 12-13, Blind Pig, Ann Arbor, 996-8555. =
CLASSICAL
"BRUNCH WITH BACH: DIA Chrystal Gallery, 5200 Woodward, 832-2730. Sundays, 10 11:30 am.
DETROIT CONCERT BAND: Redford Theatre, Lahser at Grand River, 8860394. June 19, 8:15 pm, musical tribute to Patrick Sarsfield Gilmore and Victor Herbert.
Union Street I, June 11.
MUSIC EIC.
RICK JAMES with ATLANTIC STARR: June 19, 8 pm, commercial power-funk, Joe Louis Arena, 962-2000. SAN FRANCISCO GAY MEN'S CHORUS: June 11, 8 pm, Ford Auditorium, 224-1070. VOICES: June 18-25, acapella entertainment, Union Street Grosse Pointe,
NOONTIME CONCERTS
DETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: June 16, pm, Yack Arena, Wyandotte, 285-0700, Cabaret Pops concert, Richard Hayman, conductor. June 1920, pm, Ontario Level, Detroit Plaza Hotel, 962-5524, special tribute to John Lennon and the Beatles. NIGHTCAP WITH MOZART: Birmingham Unitarian Church, Woodward at Lone Pine, 851-8934. Fri., 11:30 pm, Chamber music and afterglow. RACINE, WISCONSIN MUNICIPLE BAND: Redford Theatre, Lahser at Grand River, 886-0394. June 20, 8:15 pm, highlight from the Conference ofthe Association of Concert Bands of America. -
the law and order mentality than any kind of overt propaganda. (Afternoon Film Theatre, June 24-28.)
LEGEND OF THE LONE RANGER. Re-spinning the famous radio myth by director William Fraker.
LION IN THE DESERT. Historical drama featuring Anthony Quinn as the Libyan patriot Omar Mukhtar and Rod Steiger as Benito Mussolini. Plot: Quinn tells Se eet of my country!
LOCAL FILMMAKERS. Open screciing eon sored by the Detroit Film Project at the Focus Gallery. June 20.)
MEL BROOKS HISTORY OF THE WORLD PART little movie about an obscure episode or two in history, namely what hap-pened between the Garden of Eden and. .~ 1800. The usual Brooks gang are undoubtedly up to the usual Brooks tricks. Think there might be sequel planned?
OUTLAND. (ZZ) The Wild West goes to Outer Space, specifically, to mining colony on lo, one of Jupiter's moons, where brave federalmarshall (Sean Connery) fights alone againsta corrupt company man (Peter Boyle) who supervises amphetamine distribution for workers to speed up production. Hopelessly cliched, Outland features comic-strip heroism with few noteworthy special effects and lot of breathless, frantic, close-up camerawork. There are Black Holes in the simplistic plot large enough to drive spaceship through, with Connery being both a helpless puppet of the corporation and super-cop with wide-ranging surveillance powers. Absolutely no excitement in the very transparent aac unless you
get thrilled by watching computer consoles, in which case, go to bar and play 16 games of Space Invaders for the same price and three times as much entertainment.
RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK. The two greatest merchandisers in American filmdom, George Lucas and Steven Spielberg, have gotten together, but their product doesn t sound all that saleable an American archeaologist as hero, with Harrison Ford (taking break from Star Wars sequels) the biggest name they could find for the part, World War II Nazis as enemies, and an ancient relic that gives its owner majestic powers as the object of everyone's desires. But with Lucas and Spielberg, rest assured plenty of -money has been spent and plenty of comy adventure cooked up.
ROCKERS. A new Jamaican reggae film with the energy of The Harder They Come. Shot in 1978 in West Kingston, Rockers features cast of professional musicians, including Horsemouth Wallace, the late Jacob Miller, Winston Burning Spear Rodney, and Junior Murvin. On the same bill: Word, Sound and Power, 1980 examination of the Jamaican reggae band, the Soul Syndicate, which goes beyond the recording studios to depict the squalor of Kingston and the splendor of the island s rural areas. (Cinema Two, June 12.)
SUPERMAN II. With the Man of Steel already grown up and tested, this sequel can swing with more action, sadly missing from the first Superman. Christopher Reeve, Margot Kidder, Gene Hackman, Valerie Perrine and most everybody else except Brando are back; but three years later, Superman is just one entry in the comicbook-hero movie sweepstakes, so will be interesting to see how the sequel fares at the box office. saat 19.) made in Dallas?
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speaker Victor Rubio, official spokespefson for the Revolutionary Democratic Front (FDR) of El Salvador. Sponsored by Committee in Solidarity with the People of El See Detroit Chapter.
0.C.C. WOMENCENTER: Building, Room 308, Orchard Ridge Campus, 476-9400, Ext. 509. June 17, 7:30-9 pm, Mary White, director of OCC Womencenter will lecture on Re-Entry forWomen: Jobs/School. June 24, 7:309 pm, a new film, We Will Not Be Beaten, produced by women who have been in battering situations.
PEOPLE'S LAW SCHOOL: Dave Miller Retiree Center, 8731 E. Jefferson, 2244950. Free courses offered to Detroiters to learn about legal rights and how to handle legal problems. Classes meet at 6 pm. June 16, Landlord/Tenant Rights and Homeowner Rights, June 23, Family Relations (Divorce, Custody, Juvenile Justice).
SECOND MICHIGAN CONFERENCE ON POLICE SPYING: THE DETROIT/ MICHIGAN RED SQUAD CASE: Central Methodist Church; 2nd Floor, 23 E. Adams. Call National Lawyers Guild, 963-0843 for info. June 13, 10am-1 pm, conference includes: speakers Ann Fagen Ginger, attomey and president, Meiklejohn Civil Liberties Institute, Berkeley, Cal.; and Richard Sobel, attorney for plaintiff in Detroit/Michigan Red Squad suit; workshops and a questionand-answer period with attorneys. Sponsored by, Michigan Coalition to End Spying.
WOMEN S SURVIVAL PARTY MEET.
AIRWAVES
ALL THINGS CONSIDERED: National Public Radio's award-winning nightly news magazine is broadcast weekdays 5-6:30 pm and weekends 5-6 pm. WDET, 101.9 FM.
ALL TOGETHER NOW: Tues., 7 pm.
Metro Detroit's longest-running radio show produced by and for women. addresses events and music from a feminist perspective. WDET, 101.9 FM.
BILL MOYER'S JOURNAL: June 14, 5 pm, The Ordeal of Jacobo Timerman, an Argentine newspaper editor kidnapped in 1977 by Argentina's military.
CARIBBEAN CONNECTION: Tuesdays, pm. Music, interviews and news from the Carikbean hosted by Horatio Bennett. WDET, 101.9 FM.
COMMERCIAL-FREE JAZZ: M-F, midnight-1 pm. 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. Call 2592303 for an opportunity to air your views. Hosted by Larry Bird. WGPR, 107.5 FM.
DANGEROUS EXPOSURE: Sundays, 9 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. June 19, Rhythm and Blues focus on the Detroit group Five Special. WIVS, Channel 56.
JAZZ 'N JAM: M, Tu, Th, 9 pm to.mid-
born June 10, 1915
Su, 1-2 pm. Classical concerts recorded at DIA music events, including Brunch With Bach. WQRS, 105.1 FM. NOT FOR MUSICIANS ONLY: Monday, 12 midnight. Host Carl Coffee talks with people involved in all facets of the music biz. Charlie Martin, former Seger drummer, co-hosts. WRIF, 101 FM.
OLD 'N GOLD: Sunday evening, 6:308:30 pm. Featuring R&B and Rockabilly. -WDTR, 91- FM.
RADIOS IN MOTION: Fridays, 1 pm. Alternative rock for an alternative society. Hosted by Mike Halloran. WDET, 101.9 FM.
SPORTSWRAP: Mondays, 7:20-10 pm. Featuring in-studio guests from Detroit's major sports teams plus.an opportunity for listeners to call in their questions. Hosted by Frank Beckman. WJR, 7.6
- BAMILIES
BELLE ISLE ZOO: Belle Isle, 398-0903. Open Daily 10 am-5 pm.
BOBLO: Depature from behind Joe Louis Arena. Triple-deck boat ride to Boblo Island. Amusement Park. Call 962-9622 for info.
DETROIT SCIENCE CENTER: 5020 John R, 833-1892. Open Tu-Su, exhibitions and two films, The Eruption of Mt. St. Helens and Ocean, projected on a 180-degree domed screen.
DETROIT ZOO: W. 10 Mile Rd. near Woodward, 393-0903. Open daily 10 am-5 pm.
WAVE POOL: Waterford Oaks CountyPark, 1702 Scott Lake Rd., Pontiac, 858-
ASSOCIATION: 1516 Cranbrook, Bir-, mingham, 644-0866. Summer registration begins June 15 for classes in painting, calligraphy, enameling, jewelry and more.
CENTER FOR NEW DIRECTIONS: Henry Ford Comm. College, 271-2750, -Ext. 330. June 18, 10 am-2 pm & 47 pm, vegetarian cooking demonstrations. 2
INFORMED HOMEBIRTH: Waldorf Kinder House, Birmingham, 357-2223. June 20-24, intensive training workshop with Rahima Baldwin.
OAKLAND UNIVERSITY CONTINU UM CENTER: Rochester, 377-3033. An opportunity to examine your own career and/or educational decisions with other who are facing similar changes.
LECTURES
CENTER FOR NEW THINKING: Grosse Pointe Hunt Club, 546-8926. June 18, 10 am, Sherwin Wine will discuss James Michener, author of The Covenant. June 25, 10 am, Wine discusses Carl Sagan, author of Cosmos.
DETROIT HISTORICAL MUSEUM: 5401 Woodward, 833-1805. June 24, 7 pm (refreshments begin at 6 pm), Free Press artist Dick Mayer talks about his craft and newspaper graphics.
MUSIC HALL: 350 Madison, 963-7650. June 14, 6 pm, Vinnette Carrol, originator of Your Arm's Too Short to Box With God, will discuss her hit gospel show.
with the, exhibit, Black Women: Achievement Against the Odds. WOMEN'S ECONOMIC CLUB: Cobo Hall Ballroom. June 16, Elizabeth Dole will be the main speaker with an introduction by Helen Milliken.
58th ANNUAL PUBLIC PARKS TENNIS TOURNAMENT: = Harvery Barcus, Tennis Complex, Farwell Field, E. Outer Drive near Mound, 894-2950 for entry forms. June 25-31, Adult Tournament; June 29-July 2, Junior Tournament. Entry deadline is June 18. EMILY'S FUN RUN: June 13, 10 am, start at Emily's Across the Street, Congress and Shelby. Look for DMT's aid Station in Grand Circus Park. INTERNATIONAL FREEDOM FESTIVAL RUN: Meet at Hart Plaza, June 27, 10:30 am. Entry deadline is June 19, late registration day of the race 7:30-8:30 am. Call 259-8065 for info.SS. PETER & PAUL FESTIVAL: Westwood at Sawyer. June 12, 6-10 pm; June 13, noon-10 pm; June 14, 1-10 pm. Giant rummage sale, casino,
June 20-21, juried street art fair. WINDSOR ARTFEST 81: Atop the Park-Peissier parking garage, Windsor. June 19-21, 11 am on, Art on the ParkGreenteld, Ste.-200, Oak Park 363. Jones WHE, B30. AM, | 0006.Colm periods altemate withwave TTS acc Hall june 2, ing Gata Including works of over 50 3 5; a 0819 or 548-7370. Two slide shows MORPHOGENESIS: Unique forms of 2*tion at
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THEATRE: 2475 W. Big Beaver, Troy, 643-8865. Thru July, F & Sa, Sleuth. BOOK CADILLAC IN DETROIT: 1114 Washington Bivd., 288-0450. Opening June 19, Americana Struttin a Vegasstyle revue.
MUSEUM THEATRE: Henry Ford Museum, Greenfield Village. Thru July 25, F & Sa, Little Mary Sunshine. MR. MAC S STABLE: 1 Parkland Tower, Dearborn, 288-0450. Thru June 27, The Apple Tree.
MACOMB THEATRE: 31 N. Walnut, 468-6285. June 19-20, 25-27, A Streetcar Named Desire.
PARADISO CAFE: 17630 Woodward, 332-6764. June 12-13, the Mobius Theatre presents Godspell.
ROBERTO S: 2485 Coolidge, Berkley, 546-7800. Thru June 28, I Do! I Do!
STOUFFER S DINNER SHOWCASE: Northland Inn, Southfigld, 569-4700. Every F & Sa, The. Gonzo Theatre. THE WINE TASTER S RESTAURANT THEATRE: 17 Mile Rd. and Van Dyke, Sterling Heights, 288-0450. Thru June 27, The Owl and the Pussycat.
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ACTOR'S RENAISSANCE THEATRE: Ren Cen btw. Towers 200 & 300, 5682525. Thru July 4, Th-Su, Good Evening from Beyond the French, written by Dudley Moore and Peter Cook. ATTIC. THEATRE: 525 E. Lafayette, 963-7789. Thru July 4, Bleacher Bums. Midnight performances F-Sa, An Evening at the Paradise.
BIRMINGHAM THEATRE: 211 S. Woodward, 644-3533. ThruJune 28, Do Patent Leather Shoes Really Reflect Up?
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\ COMEDY CASTLE: Stafford s, W. Bloomfield, 545-2576. June 10-13, Mike Binder; June 17-27, Bob Saget. DETROIT REPERTORY THEATRE: 13103 Woodrow Wilson, 868-1347.° Thru June 28, Th-Su, Bosoms and Neglect.
FISHER THEATRE: Fisher Bidg., 8721000. Thru June 13, Bob Fosse s Dancin . Opening June 17July 12, Fiddler on the Roof.
FOURTH STREET PLAYHOUSE: 301 N. Fourth St., Royal Oak, 543-3666. Thru June 27, F-Su, Uncommon Women and Others. Midnight performances F-Sa, Reunion and Baron's Wife.
LANGSTON HUGHES THEATRE: 13325 Livernois, 935-9425. Thru June 28, F-Su, Why Old Men Sit on Park Benches.
MADISON THEATRE: Grand Circus Park, 961-0681. Thru June 14, The Peddy Players present Jesus Christ Superstar.
MASONIC TEMPLE CATHEDRAL THEATRE: Second and Temple Ave., 832-6648. June 12, 8 pm, The Omega Dance Theatre premieres works by Winston Poe and Aaron Myers.
OAKLAND UNIVERSITY BARN THEATRE: Rochester, 377-2245. Thru June 20, F-Su, Hair.
RED DOOR PLAYERS: First Unitarian Church, Cass at Forest. June 12-14, You Can't Take It With You. Be SOUTHFIELD CIVIC CENTER: 2600 Evergreen Rd., 354-4717. June 16, John Puchalski's Crossroads Theatre presents Lovers and Other Shakespeare.
W.S.U. THEATRES: Hilberry Theatre: Cass at Hancock, 577-2972. W-Sa thru June 20, 8 pm, Something's Afoot. Stadio Theatre: Cass at Hancock, 5772972. W-Sa thru June 20, 8:30 pm, Thinking of You: Tales from Black America. WILL-O-WAY REPERTORY THEATRE:
Opening June 14 July 26, works on paper by Guido Molinari. ARTRAIN GALLERY: 316 Fisher Bldg., 871-2910. Thru July 22, New Sprayed! Paintings by Karin Linder. C.AD.E. GALLERY: 8025 Agnes, 3311758. Opening June 14 (reception 3-7 pm) thru July 9, works by John Gerard. CANTER/LEMBERG GALLERY: 538 N. Woodward, Birmingham, 642-6623. Thru June 20, D. K. Semivan. CAROL HOOBERMAN GALLERY: 155 S. Bates, Birmingham, 647-3666. Thru June, Southwest American Art, includ--ing paintings by Veloy Virgil and contemporary pottery by Jody Folwell. CENTER FOR CREATIVE STUDIES: 245 E. Kirby, 872-3118. Sarkis Gallery: Thru June, faculty exhibit. Yamasaki Gallery: Student exhibit.
CRANBROOK ACADEMY OF ART MUSEUM: 500 Lone Pine, Bloomfield. Opening July 1, Student Summer Show 1981.
CRANBROOK INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE: 500 Lone Pine, Bloomfield, 6543210. Thru Aug., Navajo textiles exhibit.
DETROIT ARTISTS MARKET: 1452 Randolph, 962-0337. ThruJune 27, portraits by Carol Backus, Douglas Bulka, Sybil Oshinsky, Carlo Vitale and Robert Wilbert.
DETROIT ARTISTS MARKET'S OTHER SPACE: 7th Floor, Hudson's Downtown, 962-0337. Thru June 27, paintings/constructions by Ruth Goldfaden.
DETROIT GALLERY OF CONTEMPORARY CRAFTS: 301 Fisher Bidg., 8737888. Thru June, flower containers by various artists.
DETROIT HISTORICAL MUSEUM: 5401 Woodward, 833-1805. Thru November 15, Victorian Crazy Quilts and Throws.
DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS: 5200
Photographs by Lucia Gratch, Detroit Public Library. Photogallery opening June 18.
Woodward, G53-7900. Thru September. The Nude: Prints, Drawings and Photographis from the Permanent Collection. Thru June 21, Constructivism and the Geometric Tradition.
DETROIT PUBLIC LIBRARY: Main Brarich, 5201 Woodward, 833-4043. Gratch. DONALD MORRIS GALLERY: Johnson.
Photogallery: Opening June 18July 29, photos of exotic children by Lucia 105
DOSSIN GREAT LAKES MUSEUM: Stand Drive, Belle Isle, 824-3157. ThruAugust 2, highlights of the past 65 years of powerboat racing in Detroit.
ELOQUENT LIGHT GALLERY: 145 S. Livernois, Rochester, 652-4686. Thru September, group show featuring A. Adams, J. Sexton, Y. Karsh.
FEIGENSON GALLERY: 310 Fisher Bldg., 873-7322. Thru July 4, works by Sally Young.
FOCUS GALLERY: 743 Beaubien, 9629025. Thru July 3, a sculpture exhibition featuring a variety of approaches to the medium by a variety of artists.
G.M.B. GALLERIE INTERNATIONALE: 344 Hamilton Row, Birmingham, 6426647. Thru July, paintings on canvas and paper by Robert Natkin.
GALLERY RENAISSANCE: 400 Ren Cen, 259-2577. Thru June 19, works on paper by Jon Strand.
GRAFISKAS: 218 Merrill St., Birmingham, 647-5722. Fine Art posters.
HABITAT: 28235 Southfield, Lathrup Village, 552-0515. June 13July 13, works by Erwin Eisch and Harvey Littleton.
HALSTED GALLERY: 560 Woodward, Birmingham, 644-8284. Thru July 11, photographs by WilliamA. Garnett.
HEART GALLERY: 868 Dix, Lincoln -Park, 388-7590. Thru June 26, graphics by Pat Vartanian. ILONA AND GALLERY: 31065 Orchard Lake Rd., Farmington Hills, 855-4488. Thru June, works by Barbara Freedman, Fran Levin and Sandra Levin.
KLEIN GALLERY: 4250 N. Woodward, Royal Oak, 647-7709. Thru June, gallery selections. including 19th and 20th century prints and paintings.
LOOKING GLASS GALLERY: 1604 Rochester Rd., Royal Oak, 548-1149. Thru June 22, photographs by Doug Aikenhead.
MUCCIOLI STUDIO GALLERY: 511 Beaubien, 962-4700. Gallery regulars. NORTHWEST ACTIVITIES CENTER: 18110 Meyers, 224-7575. Black Women: Achievements Against the Odds, photosof 150 black women.
PEWABIC POTTERY: 10125 E. Jefferson, 822-0954. June 14-July 12, 11th Annual Student Art Exhibit and Sale.
PIERCE STREET PHOTOGRAPHY GALLERY: 217 Pierce, Birmingham, 646-6950. Thru June 20, Lisette Model. Opening- June 21-July 30, various approaches to landscape photography.
POSTER GALLERY: 304 Fisher Bldg., 875-5211. Posters to remind you of a
day in Hollywood or a night in New York.'4
RUBINER GALLERY: 621 S. Washirigton, Royal Oak, 544-2828. ThruJune 30 recent works by gallery artists including Larry Zox, Susan Dalton and Darryl Hughto.
SCARAB CLUB OF DETROIT: 217 Farnsworth, 831-1250. ThruJune 20, All Membership Art Show, SHELDON ROSS GALLERY: 250 Martin, Birmingham, 642-7694. Opening June 13-July 11, etchings and drypoints by James Ensor.
SUSANNE HILBERRY GALLERY: 555 S. Woodward, 642-8250. Thru June, group show.
TROY ART GALLERY: 75 Big Beaver, Troy, 362-0112. Thru summer, Mixed Media by Michigan artists. WOODLING GALLERY: 42030 Michigan Ave. 397-2677. A craft gallery representing the works of over 150 craftspeople.
XOCHIPILLI GALLERY: 568 N. Woodward, Birmingham, 645-1905. Thru June 27, Paradigm Series by Felice Shecter.
YAW GALLERY: 550 N. Woodward, Birmingham, 647-5470. Thru June 16, works in paper by Margie Hughto.
GETS SERIOUS
by Bill Rowe
Gang of Four Solid Gold
Warner Brothers
olid Gold ain't the same sort of Hot Poop Entertainment was, the same violent blast of fresh air out of some hot nether of nowhere. Entertainment was one ofthe most timely albums in pop history, absolutely necessary to the fetid stiffness of late '79. Punk was clutching at its neck for air: new wave needed to wretch up its cutesy pointlessness: funk needed spine and purpose: creeping avant and minimal
tendencies needed strong arms of.
emotional law. All of these elements had an inevitably savage mating: they begat the Gang and Entertainment. And the perennial lover's lament: Oh, the first time! How do we feel that again?
You don t. With genes this strong, you get a rabidly strong pack of siblings, like the Bush Tetras, The Delta Five, Material, Information, A Certain Ratio, DeFunct, L7, and countless other U.S. and U.K. bands who probably would never have been born without the Gang of Four. But, you still don t get that first time again.
Instead, when things are strong through experience and trial, you get refinement, maturity, a crystallization of ideas, breathing room, a feel for subtlety and variation. All of which, and much more, are what Solid Gold is about. The Gang secured the services of renowned
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disco producer Jimmy Douglas to round out their sound, keeping alive the nasty edge of Entertainment without its painful abrasiveness. Solid Gold is much more listenable; out with violent elite appeal, in with daily fare for the heart, mind and loins.
Johnson, the revulsion for rules of Sonny Sharrock, the lust of loud metal, and the scratch-and-search of deployed reggae rhythm. Some would find Gill onedimensional: sure, in the same sense as Robert Fripp, Jimmy Reed, Blood Ulmer, B.B. King and other pioneers. Its called new language. ee
Vocalist Jon King has become more of a singer, capable of melodic inference and quick change of face. For being so damned serious, King s awfully likeable, due to his barely restrained emotionalism. Drummer Hugo Burnham is a jewel, a non-basher who purveys power through intelligence, consistency, determination and invention. I've always found bassist Dave Allen irritating. Why would a guy with so much body of tone, surity of convolution, aggressiveness and sense of immediacy regurgitate so many funk cliches? The answer concerns anchoring, in providing the Gang an accessibility they deny elsewhere. Allen s back in running for M.V-P.
The songs on Solid Gold are of similar fare to Entertainment, funk marches bracing manifestos of personal politics. Contrary to their reputation as flaming Marxists, the Gang pose questions and situations about individual action within an ever more right wing western world. Humanitarians, as opposed to theorists. The lyrics are compact, thoughtfully to the point, framed by a new feel for the traditional hook that gives them greater weight. > Pace is essential to Solid Gold: everything, contrary to convention, is midtempo or less, and all the more convincing for it. There are moments of great beauty: Gill's hemispheric solo on the outstanding Keep It For Myself, King s pain on Hole in the Wallet, the slow hypnotism of Paralyzed, Allen and Burnham's bulldozing fury on Outside the Trains Don t Run on Time.
Douglas ain't the whole story to the band s growth, however, as the Gang, unlike similar bands of their genre, are just as much about the strengths of individuals in democracy, musically and politically, as about the modernity of their ideas. Andy Gill continues to justify his monster status with guitarists, by adding depth to the psychedelic-madman-on-inverse-logic style he pioneered on Entertainment. He embodies the passionate search for Hendrix, the R&B locomotion of Mick Green and Wilko > LSZAD ZS 4145 Woodward 831-3965 Detroit
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Don't listen to any cynical dismissals of Solid Gold. The goods are most decidedly in evidence. Or, if you need even more dynamic evidence, they are rumored to be headed for Detroit on their upcoming tour. If their 80 Bookie s show was any indication, we're in for trouble. They will not be polite, pushy, playfull, patronizing or popishly pouty, prissy or pithy. They will be positively pulverizing. Prepare.
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Cris Williamson
Olivia Records LF927 (Reissue)
There's not much question Cris fans will want this vintage work for its novelty, its quality and its delightful 1971 nearinnocence. You can tell that it's the work of a feminist the portraits of women ( Joanna and Rebecca ) and other cuts like Frontier give Williamson away.
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As a local album, Organic Dream, really-isn't too bad. On the plus side, there s Miche Braden, a vocalist of national quality. There was an article on her in one of Detroit Metro Times past issues, and alll can say after listening to her singing on Peace of Mind from this album is that hervoicing, phrasing and overall tone can transcend the material she s given to sing. was impressed to say the least.
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But this is ten years ago, right, and so if you're hoping to get your consciousness raised on this disc, you're going to be disappointed. There s a you're-somean - but - come - back -to -me tune about; a possible flout James which place the LP squarely in its pre-feminist time frame. What is -least though, is the sameness of all the cuts all medium tempo, relatively quiet stuff. Williamson's voice, for connoiseurs, is well showcased, but the similarities to Judy Collins of the same era and at time others like Carole King and Barbra Streisand makes you wonder how her music was being packaged. There.is little question why the effort, despite immaculate performances by all concerned, wound up in the cutout bin where Meg Christian, ultimately found it and Williamson in 1972. The question is, how much control did Ampex give Williamson over her debut? It's ultimately important just to have this pre-women s music nostalgia around to contemplate how good it is that Olivia et. al. have existed for nearly a decade.
Wendell
appealing,
As for the rést of the album, well, it's uneven. Wendell Harrison has written a tune called The Wok which features some pleasant melodies and a nice clarinet solo from Harrison that is mixed so far back that it can get frustrating listening for it. Winter, written by Pamela Wise, is another vehicle for Wendell s clarinet playing but with a better mixso that you can clearly hear what's going on. It s also quite possibly the strongest tune on the album, with a fluid piano part and some background percussion to add to the feeling of a cold night spent warming oneself in front of a fireplace.
Wendell Harrison has been playing his instruments (sax, flute, clarinet) around the Detroit area for some time now... Back in the early '70s he was a major figure within a local communal endeavor called Tribe, which was caught up in the political and social ferment of the times. To quote Harrison from a phone interview that had with him, Tribe was more interested in the sharp aesthetics of modern music. Now, however, Harrison wants to get music out there that everyone can dig.
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Organic Dream
Wenha Records WHR 016
I hate the idea of being an apologist for local musicians. If. they're as good as or better than some nationally known artist, then they deserve to be treated as such. If the locals don t cut it, don't necessarily feel that they should be puffed up beyond their intrinsic worth just because they're neighborhood heroes.
I realize that musicians have to eat and pay the rent like the rest of us, and, gosh, society should but doesn't support the uncompromising artist, but hanging around in the gray area between art and commerciality sometimes robs music of. its focus, its direction.
Overall, the album leaves me with the impression that here. are some musicians who could develop into something interesting (Pam Wise for her writing and Miche Braden for her singing). It also leaves me with the desire to throttle the person who mixed this album down from the raw tapes. If the sound had been clearer on the record, Wendell Harrison would have had his commercial album.
Bob Szajner Triad RMS Records
It's amazing really. Three local jazz musicians (Szajner, Roy Brooks and Ray McKinney) playing basic bop with assurance, verve and originality for three whole records. That's six sides of the best piano trio music that's graced my ears in many a month.
Triad is actually three different albums. One, called Jazz Opus 20/40, was released on the local Seeds and Stems label. The other two, Sound Ideas and Afterthoughts, are due out as Garaud MacTaggart single LPs in June and July re-
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spectively, on RMS, which is Szajner s own label. These albums are actually a labor of love more than anything else.
As Szajner says, Playing for pleasure rather than pressure.
Recorded during a six-hour session back in 1978, the tunes stood out so much during the playback that it was decided to release all of the session in album form.
Jazz Opus 20/40 received good reviews nationwide, but there were some problems with the actual sound of the disc, which has since been remedied when the discs were remastered a couple of months ago. The remaining songs now sound clean as a whistle. They range from the latinesque 17 Mile Drive to a beautiful up-tempo ballad, Reminiscence, to the more mainstream bopper like
Strange Change, and all are interestingly played and written to a uniformly high standard. All the records in this set should be available from your local record emporium within the next few months, but the limited edition three-record set -is available through: Daybreak Express, Van Brundt Station, Brooklyn, NY, Attention: Jim Eigo.
Szajner and his new trio of Frank Isola and Ed Pickens will be playing at Cafe Detroit from June 19-20, and at the Montreaux-Detroit wingding on September 7, Monday from 45:30 at the Pyramid section of Hart Plaza. Bob thinks that he appeals to the obscure, nonentity, mainstream jazz market and think that he could go beyond.that.
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Pat Metheny 80/81
ECM Records
John Clark Faces
ECM Records
Among other things, Pat Metheny likes Ornette Coleman. At least, one can say that he is someone who has learned a few things from the legendary alto-saxophonist, composer enough that several of Coleman s collaborators evidently feel comfortable playing on this record.
What is good about 80/81 is that many of the songs here are pleasant and exhibit the kind of modernized jump blues form that Coleman introduced into modem music. But instead of that blues feeling, there is another type of feeling here.
That feeling, common to both releases under review, is of a kind of music which is as contemporary as any but, it seems, almost goes out ofits way not to offend anyone. Its the kind of thing that makes, for example, Keith Jarrett popular. _ :
John Clark
Many of the records on the ECM label have the airy feeling one finds in this latest Metheny release. The records sound as if they are trying to evoke a feeling of being extraterrestrial. But, unlike the master of Space music Sun Ra you don't get a feelingof a brave new world but of being lost in space. Yet this. music is also very contemporary. There are some startling moments ofimprovisation on these albums. Especially on Faces, some of the sounds produced are downright
astounding.
Of course, the, musicians on 80/81 put in some good time with Metheny. How can one argue against Dewey Redman on tenor sax, Jack DeJohnette on drums, Charlie Haden on bass and Mike Brecker on tenor saxophone?
There are some boring moments on these albums, as with Silver Rain on side two of Clark's record, which fails, to my ears, to live up to the promise of side one. Mike Brecker has a strong opening on Two Folk
Songs on the Metheny disc, but the excitement doesn't last.
But I'm certain that to many people s ears, these problems will only be evidence of some momentary lapse. Metheny fans will be pleased with this record, especially if you were lucky enough to catch the guitarist during his last stint in town.
This is my first hearing of Clark, and I have to say that at its best, the combination used here of French horn, vibes, cello and percussion yield some very
and
interesting sounds. After listening to this, I suggest that you get a record of Chicago trumpeter Leo Smith. You'll be primed after a few listenings to Faces, and I'm sure
that you'll find Smith, who more or less invented this kind of sound (and, for me, still does it best),. and. Clark compatible even if they're fundamentally different. Smith, for instance is just as light and airy, but he still has that swing (though not in the traditional sense) that Clark lacks.
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W.D.I.V., Channel 4, is offering a training program for persons enrolled in broadcasting at the college level. The disadvantaged are encouraged to apply. Multi-faceted experience opportunity. Program lasts 6 to 12 months, trainees will be paid. Possible full-time employment thereafter. Send applications to Personnel Administrator, WDIV, 622 W. Lafayette Bivd., Detroit 48231. Applications must be submitted by 6/30/81.
NEED A DISC JOCKEY? Call MEGA COM SOUNDS. Professional performances for all occasions. (313) 353-1916 (24 hours).
PARIS-Six-member Band, Plays jazz, rock, new wave for any occasion. Playing and singing. Call 922-1386 or 925-4012.
NOTICES
ALL TOGETHER NOW Detroit s 10-yearold Feminist Radio Collective (WDET 101.9 FM) is encouraging new membership. You need only have interest/and share a perspective. Regular meetings monthly. For info call 837-2469 or leave word at 577-4146.
PERSONALS
Boguslaski, 3950 Wall Ave.; Allen Park 48101. Phone: (313) 928-8395.
FLUSHED with spring, the Lifeblood, blushing purple, strikes strains of an upper scale. XLP DOES JOHN MALLOY really wear pink underwear? Inquisitive
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY, Ron!
25 yr old single female, 5'8 ,; Catholic, enjoys outdoors, white wine and being active desires an unconfused happy male to share fun-filled times. Reply to DMT Box 41.
YOUNG, professional man wishes to form or join existing men s discussion-support group. Please write DMT Box 42. Includea phone number.
Well, you ARE a Darling! TW
RICK I'm bound to give my heart away, when do, its for you. Cheryl
KEN Thanks for the drink at Teardrop Explodes. Hope to see you again soon. Chris.
SASHA Help! I'm stopping. TB
JIM Happy Birthday! The rest of us
FRANKINFERTER 8,395 days after birth your head is still covered with placenta. Pa of Moosey
JIM Will you take Caitlin? Thanks.
Dear Editor and someone said we all must be under thirty Ha-Ha. The Purple Drifter
BOB PAGE and EL! ZARET Why are both of you broadcasting at 7:30 am. can't listen to both of you at the same time. The Fan
RON C mon now, it sgreat being senile. Who says you can't be trusted now?
MIRIAM Burger's D is done. Lessing who? Beautiful words. Thank you. Tonushkala
BOOKS of or about Haiku; info on nonOriental Haiku would be especially helpful. Call Tim at 584-9435. S, FEMALE SENIOR, Ford Hosp. area. Wants tide with dependable older persons to Baldwin area, M-37. Weekend or longer. June. Share expense. 871-0284 evenings.
KEITH JARRET Sun Bear Concert 10-record set. Will pay $35. Call Bob at 758-5694.
NEED RIDE from Southgate (near Fort) to Downtown Detroit to work. Work approx. 8-5. Will pay. Phone E. Sawicki, 256-3467 (office); 284-9775 (home).
NEWLY ORGANIZED CHURCH needs donation of usable piano for sérvices. Call 836-4013 after 7 pm.
VEHICLES
4976 MALIBU CLASSIC, couple, ps, pb, air, auto, am-fm, burgundy. $1200 or best offer. 369-2930.
SALE OR TRADE 1974 Continental, stretch limo, 9 pass., bar, tv, partition, new tires. 821-6988.
VOLUNTEERS
GOOD NEIGHBOR UNION needs nonsmoking volunteers, Projects for Peace, Ecology for Great Lakes; City Farms, Folk Music Concerts. 838-6733.
HILTON CONVALESCENT HOME in Ferndale needs Activities Aides to share their time in leisure activities with older adults. Call Lynn-Marie Pietrazak at 547-6227 weekdays between 10-5.
MACOMB COUNTY Dept. of Social Services istecruiting volunteers to trainas Office Aides. 6-hour weekly assignment, 6émonth commitment. Call Don Porter at 469-7729, 8-5, M-Th.
OAK PARK SENIOR CENTER needs Persons
to visit homebound seniors. One-hour visits twice a month, Wed. momings. Contact Marcia a 641-0900, 9 am4 pm, .M-F.
ST. JOSEPH MERCY HOSPITAL seeks help at nurses. station in Intensive Care Unit,circulate bookmobile, and more. Call Marianne Kasper at 858-3035, weekdays, 9-5.
UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY of Detroit seeks Recreation Aides, 18 or older, to assist clients in physical activities. Flexible commitment. Call Carmen Hawkins at . 871-0177, M-F, between 9-4.
ROOMMATES
-WANTED Responsible person to. share home in Ferndale. Rent plus 1/2 utilities. 398-7209 after 5 pm.
HOUSING/REAL ESTATE
FURNISHED DOWNTOWN OFFICE space for rent in modern, underused suite of public interest organization. Phone, copier, mimeo, phone answering/conferencing devices, air conditioning, meeting and storage rooms, security, night and weekend access, nearby parking, 25th floor views, etc. Reasonable, 963-2200.
A FEW APARTMENTS LEFT in beautifully restored buildings near river, Indian Village and East Indian Village. Minutes from Ren Cen, Med. Center and WSU. Studios from $170, 1 bedrooms from $230 and 2 bedrooms from $280. Contact Higgins Management, 824-8280.
4,500 SQ. FT. FOR RENT, ideal Downtown location, income-producing area in Greektown. Great opportunity with Ren Cen view. Cail 962-9025, Tu-Sa, 12-6.
COLORADO OlL SHELL COUNTRY 3 bedrooms, 1-3/4 baths, living room, dining room, den, utility room, 2 fireplaces, 2-car garage, fenced, $69, >, Call (303) 243-0498.
