vard, for Chrysler at Dodge Main, for the old Hupp Motor
sh hey broke their backs making cars for Packard on the BouleCompany on Mount Elliot.
With pennies saved from their scrawny paychecks they barely met mortgage payments on their frame houses, but they kept their yards clean and their homes painted.
They watched in horror as their community was torn in two by .the Ford Freeway so that fatter fellow Detroiters could drive the cars they had built away from the city, leaving it barren and desolate.
Still they fought for survival, kept alive their neighborhood and its traditions, and dreamed of revitalization.
Now they are simply in the way.
Their valued homes and small businesses will be leveled by edict of the world s largest corporation so that it can build a new plant and manufacture more cars.
They are the people of Poletown residents of a neighborhood: about to be forever wiped off the landscape of Detroit
so that General Motors $40 billion retooling project can proceed, helping the giant automaker modernize and automate its production facilities.
With only Kenneth Cockrel dissenting, the Detroit City: Council earlier this month gave final approval to the dismantling of
over 1,000 homes and businesses in the area between Hamtramck and the Ford Freeway. Area residents now have in hand offers from the city for their homes and businesses. Within a month a Circuit Court judge is expected to rule in favor of the necessity of the project, and the people of Poletown will be relocated in a hurry.
Chrysler's Old Dodge Main plant, abandoned by the struggling car company a year ago, occupies one corner of the new plant site. It. will start being demolished within weeks. The city of Detroit will turn over the remainder of the property to GM in stages after it has cleared out residents and demolished all existing structures. The first heavily residential area to be affected by the demolition plans will have to be completely cleared of people by next spring.
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Bravo! I ve just seen your paper for the first time (Vol. 1, No. 2) and was delighted. It is only because I m still in school that don t sign up for a one-year sustaining sub. The news is intelligently written, and the strong emphasis on local artists is perfect. The Artspace feature, . Songbirds in the Night, was sensitively done, as indeed were the other arts features and reviews. The layout is very impressive and the banner headings to each séction are tasteful. (I especially like the old record labels on page 16.) And finally, you all deserve a
Push Comes to Shove, by Michael Betzold
Women s Justice Center Threatened, by Elissa Clarke
Conservatives Are Born Again, by W. B
Squatters Seize HUD Home, by James Delcamp
Bob Talbert Faces Charges, by Bruce Hoepner
FEATURES
Fresh Fortnightly, edited by Jan Loveland
Dialogue, by Dan Aldridge
Used Records: Tracking Bargain Wax, by Jan Loveland Flicks, by Michael Betzold ................
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It is evident you have assembled a very creative team of people, and wish you all the best of luck and success.
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wish you luck in your venture of a new newspaper for the city. But, I m afraid, you'll never make it. You are more or less imitating the other entertaining papers. As soon as spotted your exaltation of the Mayor, you have nothing different to offer.
Top Black people are not aware that we, mostly Black, in the inner city are angered at the neglect of the inner city and of the Mayor s wasteful sports projects and toadying to downtown speculators. A subway, too?
There is secret speculation that His Honor has visionary dreams of inviting the 1988 World Olympics. The inner city, through deliberate neglect, arson encouragement, lackadaisical public service is a genocidal plot to hurry us elders out of this ideal site for the plans, either through death or by the bulldozers.
When the Blacks have the courage to face their shortcomings and criticize the false prophets, then Detroit will emerge as a great city.
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FRI. NOV.
GIANT STEPS: Tonight, the New Playwright s Theatre of Detroit opens its second season with Take a Giant Step at the Robeson Theatre in the Northwest Activities Center. Louis Peterson s drama about a young boy's coming of age is a departure from the NPID s usual policy of producing local scripts. But a February production of a new script by company artistic director Alan Miller, Strangers in the House, will continue the old routine. For more information on the current production call the Activities Center, 224-7595.
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KIDS ONSTAGE: The Wayne State University Dance Dept. presents a special concert for children, On Stage, today at 2 pm at the Community Arts Auditorium. The concert will give some of the audience the opportunity to participate in the fun. Judging from the dancers pictured above, it should be a great time! Contact the Dance Dept. at 577-4273 or 368-0557 for details concerning your child's stage debut.
MALE HAZARDS: You can let your imaginations run wild, but Bruce Tabashneck s workshop/lecture, The Hazards of Being Male, at the Samalona Center in Birmingham will deal with the special problems that men face, especially, says Tabashneck, the impossible standards that men are supposed to live up to. The center is an educational branch of the private mental health clinic, which is sponsoring these evening drop-in sessions
on yattous topics until late December. Call 642-5650 for more information.
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JUSTICE ON TRIAL: Tonight at 7:30 pm, the future of the Women s Justice Center will be discussed at the Board of Directors meeting of Wayne County Legal Services. If you are moved to voice your opinion after reading Elissa Clarke's story on page 5, then call 962-9015 for further information.
SINGING THE BLUES: As the old saying goes, you've got to sing the blues to lose them. This fortnight (two weeks, okay?) will be prime time for losing the blues, in that case. That's not a reference to the elections just passed, or to the economy, or to the inevitable approach of winter. Instead, Detroit's about to come down with the blues from all sides. Tonight, however, you get a crack at some homegrown, which gets ignored around here a little too frequently. At Alvin's, harmonica dynamo Little Sonny will demonstrate the musical talent and showmanship that knocked out the howling hoardes of Detroit Blues Festivalgoers last September. Sonny rarely gigs in town, and if you like the other blues bands like Detroit, Big Mouth or Progressive, you may want to check out an original. Also tonight, our local blues booster BoBo Jenkins will open at Cafe Detroit, and Chicagoan Mighty Joe Young will open at the Soup Kitchen. Check listings for Blues in WHAT'S HAPPENIN for more info.
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DIALOGUE
Dialogue is a regular feature of Detroit Metro Times and is intended to offer a diverse range of opinion on subjects of, importance to Detroit-area readers.
This issue s Dialogue column is written by Dan Aldridge, longtime community and civil rights activist.
The ascendancy of Ronald Reagan to the nation s highest office as well as the arrival of a conservative Republican majority in the Senate is a clear indication that the political pendulum has swung decisively to the right. Signs of such a shift were evident long before the so-called moral majority flexed its muscles in the voting booths of America.
A harbinger of this developing trend toward the right can be seen in the Bakke and Weber cases of a few years ago. The message to the Black community was unmistakable: affirmative action was not going to be conceded without a fight.
As forces gathered to protect the advances of affirmative action, other gains made through civil rights agitation and the Black liberation movement were suddenly jeopardized.
Police brutality, which often goes handin-hand with a rising reactionary trend, has also been more and more visible over the past few months. It was such instances of police misconduct that triggered the Miami rebellion and the disturbance in Philadelphia earlier this year.
When the Nazi/Klan activities began to erupt this past summer, perhaps the best signal of the approaching right was in full view. It was beginning to look like the Twenties all over again the Klan was marching in the streets, running for public office and unleashing its brutal intimidation against the Black community.
Of equal concern to the Black community has been the widespread, but hardly isolated, incidents of sniping and murder which have made such cities as Atlanta and Buffalo the focus of national attention. And we stand aghast at the notion that a Joseph Paul Franklin, the alleged killer of two Black joggers in Salt Lake City and a confessed racist, might be symptomatic of a spreading and more dangerous form of hard-core racism.
It is difficult enough to survive in this country when you have to deal with record-
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high unemployment, inadequate housing and spiraling inflation.
Now, on top of all these problems comes a Ronald Reagan, who, if he has his way, seems more intent on returning the country to those idyllic days of his youth when Black people were virtually unthought of.
Accompanying Reagan will be Strom Thurmond, the ardent Dixiecrat, whose job it will soon be to oversee the Senate Judiciary Committee. The fox is again guarding the hen house.
As is often the case, the general shift to the right now presently in motion across America is also taking place in many other parts of the world. In Canada, France, Great Britain and in the Caribbean, which Reagari called the Red Lake, there are clear signs of reactionary thought and action.
All of this does not augur well for the world s progressive forces. And the anticipated increases in military spending will definitely undercut the various social programs for the poor in this country while a more devastating missile is aimed at the rest of the world.
It is not difficult to analyze the deplor-
attract a big name like Karras here to shoot a film. Meanwhile, two local groups of filmmakers, the Detroit Film Project and Projections, help promote focal work and get it shown on a regular basis. There s been a temporary hiatus in the DFP showings due to the Cafe Harmonie s demise; Projections is showing local filmmakers and some footage by Chicagoan Bob Smarz tonight at the Scarab Club at 7:30 pm. For further information about Projections call 837-5446 in the evening or the Scarab Club during the day.
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MYSTERY MEETING: Mysterious flyers recently appeared around Grand Circus Park announcing a public meeting on Riverfront West slated for this morning. They soon disapd. Not even a local political figure whose interest in Riverfront West is well known could tell us when, but sometime today the City Council will be discussing the fate of the project. Call the City Clerk's WE aes for more info. ee 26
ZAPPAD: An appropriate way to pass Turkey eve, Zappa. Call Masonic, 832-6648.
Dan Aldridge able prospects facing the country and Black Americans. What is difficult is proposing a plan of action that can effectively combat the onslaught of problems. To draft such a plan will call for unified action and principled commitment, and there is every reason to believe that the Reagan administration will be just the thing to weld us all together.. Hopefully, with this struggle we will spend less time reacting and more time organizing.
Wayne State University Dancers
Women s Justice Center Threatened
by Elissa Clarke
The future of the Women s Justice Center is in question following a 9-8 decision by the Wayne County Neighborhood Legal Services to terminate funding for the Center s attorney.
For the past three years the Wayne County Neighborhood Legal Services (WCNLS) has paid the salary of the Justice Center s attorney, Jan, Leventer. In an explosive meeting on Oct. 30, the WCNLS board of directors voted to: (1) establish an Sn-house women s law reform unit, (2) offer Leventer a position in that unit or some other position within WCNLS, (3) direct the WCNLS board to negotiate an ongoing relationship with the Women s Justice Center, and (4) terminate funding for the Justice Center s attorney.
At the meeting, WCNLS director Jim Jackson described the position s salary as a grant that was intended to be seed money for one year. But Peggy Beadle, the first president of the Women s Justice Center (WJC) read from minutes reporting on her meeting with Jackson in 1976 that describe the funding as an outreach attorney.
Deputy director Rodney Watts expressed concern that WCNLS does not have the legal authority to give a grant to the Justice Center. However, an out-reach attorney, placed in a community organization, would be within the federal guidelines for the legal services program. WCNLS currently has an attorney placed atithe Arab Community Center in Dearborn one day a week:
Center May Close
Beverly Scott, current WJC president, believes that the Justice Center may be forced to close if it does not have an attorney. The reality is that without an attorney the other work of the Justice Center is very limited, restricted and damaged, E
Without ~-an attorney, we would not get volunteer law
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students. Without an attorney to take cases or give information to women who call in, our credibility is reduced. Without an attorney, we would probably lose the office space donated to us by the University of Detroit Law School, says Scott.
The Women s Justice Center conducts impact litigation aimed at reforming the laws that affect women. The Center's referral service directs over 4,000 women annually to the legal services they need. Last year, WJC sued the Detroit Police Department to force a halt in the use of lie detector tests on rape victims.
In fact, Leventer s work on sexual harassment is_ nationally known and has helped to open up the courts as an avenue of relief for harassment victims. WJC instigated community coalition to address the issue of domestic violence. When the Justice Center celebrated its fifth birthday this September, Mayor Coleman Young proclaimed. the date Women s Justice Center Day.
Over the past five years, the Justice Center has submitted over 50 proposals for funding to various foundations. But after a grant from United Community Services ran out a year ago, WJC s efforts to find funding
shave been unsuccessful.
The referral service operates on a volunteer basis, and over 100 educational programs annually are offered to the community by attorneys who donate their time.
WCNLS. has never formally expressed dissatisfaction with the Justice Center. When pressed, Avis Holmes, chairperson of the board, told Detroit Metro Times, There is no problem. To Holmes, the only issue is the grant. We did give that corporation (Women s Justice Center) some assistance for three years, and | think we should be commended for that, she stated. But I don t think we should be pressured because we have decided that we no longer wish to
continue. That s a decision for the board to make, which they made.
e Women s Justice Center led fight against lie detector tests. Justice Center is not serving Black people. Having worked shere for three years, know that we have served many, many Black people, and many, many Legal Services eligible people. | have no question that we meet the income guidelines.
Other individuals from WCNLS have expressed doubt that the Justice Center s cases have met the federal eligibility requirements~ for low-income clients. Some complain that Leventer s case load is not high enough.At the board meeting, Jackson stated that the proposed women s law reform unit could not spend all of its time on law reform because there were not enough cases.
Leventer strongly disagrees. I think its a sexist view that there isn't enough women s law reform work for one attorney. If you look at the poverty statistics, more than half of all poor people are women. I also think there s a misconception that the Women s
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Decision to be made
How WCNLS will interpret the motion passed on October 30 is unclear. A_ three-person committee to negotiate an ongoing relationship with the Justice Center was appointed and will report back to the next board meeting scheduled for Nov. 20 at 7:30 pm.
Denise Hood, a new member of the board, and a member of the. negotiating committee, offered her interpretation of the
task of the committee to Detroit Metro Times. I realize that the Women s Justice Center has become an_ institution in the community. Women are used to contacting it for certain kinds of things, and they re used to contacting it at U of D where it is, at the phone number where it is. They re used to being able to get some kind of legal information, whether it be a referral, or a service, or just someone to talk to about a problem.
My concern is that WCNLSnot do anything to the detriment of that set up. My preference is to house a women s law reform unit in the Justice Center s present location. .that will be my recommendation to the committee.
However, Nate Townsel, another member of the negotia-ting committee, feels differently. The obvious solution is that the Women s Justice Center raise their own money. They have that authority no matter what. If the grant was illegal, and it is illegal, and we were giving them an opportunity to get started as Mr. Jackson indicated, they were duty bound to go out and get their own thing. And they didn t.
Beverly Scott anticipates that if the Justice Center is forced to close, it will have a major impact on women in Wayne County. There isn t anyone else to do what we're doing, Scott explained. s Sometimes we are criticized for the cases we take, say the case involving sexual harassment of waitresses at the airport. Some people- said we shouldn't have taken that case because the women were employed. But we're doing law reform. What about the hundreds of thousands of waitresses who are poor?
The lie detector case had an enormous impact on poor women because the majority of women who are raped are poor. If the Women s Justice Center isn t there, don t think there will be anyone to do the work that we are doing.
pay $130. Five years ago my mother had on Wendell Harrison s new album. Where who really care are the musicians. Everyone else wants everything for free your latest record; their name on the guest list, or your gig money. Its a very small-time,semi-pro scene.
In Detroit, where people would rather bitch than do anything, I m surprised its lasted at all, much less three years. We can all thank the bands, and very few others, for that. As usual, it is a case of too many. letting too few get away with too much for too long. How disgustingly, despairingly, disappointingly typical. Bob Tremain
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W. Bryce -
Evangelical Christians have discovered what Madison Ave. has known for years. With the Lord as their channel command-~ er, they now control 35 TV stations and more than 1,400 radio stations. Ben Armstrong, executive director of the National Religious Broadcasters, _ esti| mates that each week at least 14,000,000 people watch a religious TV show and 115,000 more listen to an evangelical radio program. Time Magazine in arecent article profiled the stars of the new cathode church.
The most Tonight Show-like of these programs is Jim Bakker s Praise the Lord Club (PTL). the layed-back Bakker, who draws a salary of $90,000 a year and lives in a $200,000 house, is a former associate of Pat Robertson, one of the founding fathers of born again television. Robertson s program is called the 700 Club and is carried daily by 140 television stations. The last of the big three of evangelical broadcasting is Jerry Falwell, whose program The Old Time Gospel Hour is carried by 324 television stations.
Falwell is the most politically by James Delcamp
2-4-6-8, we want houses, we - won't wait chanted over 100 members of the Squatters Rights Organization (SRO) as they sat in at the Carter-Mondale State campaign headquarters in Detroit. They occupied the headquarters for about eight hours on Oct. 23 in an attempt to pressure the government into action on its Urban Homesteading Program.
The occupation was a coordinated tactic, with SRO members simultaneously occupying the Philadelphia Carter-Mondale headquarters.
The SRO, organized by ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now), is demanding that the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) release 500 abandoned houses in Detroit to be sold for $1 to lowincome families willing to fix them up and live in them. SRO members charge that the government has been too slow to process homes through the program.
Frustrated with government inaction, SRO members illegally broke into a vacant, boarded-up house to begin repairs on Saturday, Nov. 1. Plans call for a family to be moved in when re-
active of the TV preachers. He is a close associate of Presidentelect Reagan and co-founder of the formidable national political machine called the Moral Majority. Many political analysts feel that the Moral Majority in states like Michigan played a key role in tipping the popular vote to the Republicans. An examination of some of the personalities and policies involved indicates there is more involved than giving the devil a black eye.
The easiest way to understand who is behind the new right or the new right wing, as these ultra conservatives are often called (by themselves as well as others), is to look at the development of the term right in politics. Before the French Revolution in the late 1760s, the French Congress which was called the Estates General was divided between the representatives of the common people and the representatives of the nobility.
Those representatives who defended the power and privileges of the elite, the nobility, sat on the right side of the room. Ever since that time, those who represented and defended the elite in society have been identified with the _ right. (This explanation was
Counter-demonstrators at the ERA march last July.
developed by Greg Denier of the International Association of Machinists.)
Because the majority of Americans have not been particularly sympathetic to the historically pro big business biases of the Grand Old Party, the New Right has developed a new way to sell the same message. The I Love
America rallies of the Moral Majority successfully mobilized thousands behind the Reagan ticket.
The following is an example of a Moral Majority appeal to undecided voters this year: Dear Friend, Do you believe America was destined for the avalanche of pornography, abortion, homosexuality, murder, rape and abuse that has befallen it?
.Because of Mr. Carter svocal show of faith we Christians hoped that Jimmy Carter would back moves to cut government paid abortions, help push for prayer in the public schools and strongly deny the phony claims of equal rights for militant homosexuals.
.,. -Mr. Carter is afraid of offending Gloria Steinem, the National Organization of Women and the ERA crowd but not afraid of turning his back on God.
.This is exactly what has brought America to the crisis point we are in today.
George Hamsen, a director of the National Pro-Life Political Action Committee, is. also a member of the American Conservative Union (ACU). Hamsen_
Squatters Seize HUD Home
pairs are completed.
HUD Public Information Officer Ken Barnard claims SRO members are making illegal entry onto federal property, and warns that HUD will take proper steps in referring the case to the U.S. Attorney. and the local police. People doing such things are not aware of the severe penalties says Barnard.
HUD has given 48 homes to the city this year, but the city has awarded only six. HUD is not slow: in house delivery and wishes the city would go ahead Barnard told Detroit
feels the city has been doing well with the program. Barnard claims that such a small number of houses have been awarded because it is a pilot program and projects an expansion of the program in the near future.
Bob Brown, chief property officer for HUD, blames a recent court case for the delay in processing HUD-owned properties.
Times,. quickly adding that he are
The Chicago court case held up all HUD sales from December through May and has caused a partial moritorium on sales through Nov. 15. If sales had_ proceeded as usual, HUD would
have fewer than 2,000 properties rather than the 4,100 it now holds.
Not all of the 4,100 properties homes.
mately 500.are empty lots, 1,000 are occupied by tenants, 350 are up for sale, 350 are under repair, and some are outside of Detroit. It
headed the Stop the Baby Killers Project. His concern with human life apparently has some limits, however, because he also directed the ACU s Stop OSHA Project. That Hamsen and others of the New Right place the unborn ahead of the lives and safety of American working people is an indication of the ideological nature of the ostensibly moral movement.
Even more interesting is the fact that not once have the TV preachers and various other right wing groups supported an antichoice candidate who is also prolabor. John Tower, for example, an extreme right wing Republican on all issues except abortion (he s pro choice) has never been attacked by the so-called prolife forces.
The Conservative Digest lauds the work of Falwell, Bakker, Robertson and other TV evange-lists in helping to create a new moral order. If these self professed conservative Christians have their way, that order will not include such un-Christian notions as unions and collective bargaining, a social security system, OSHA, a consumer movement, or civil rights guarantees for anyone. LET US PRAY.
costs HUD an average of $9 a day ($3,300: a year) just to maintain vacant houses, and Brown says HUD is anxious to get rid of them.
City administration officials have beén unavailable for comment -concerning their plans and attitudes toward the squat-
ters. Three years ago, when the city had 16,000 vacant HUDowned properties, the city administration opposed involvement in the Urban Homesteading Program because they felt the project was too small in scale to be worth the administrative effort required. The City Council favored involvement at that time. Last year, HUD, the Council and the administration finally cooperated in launching the present city program.
The SRO feels that the current rate of six homes per -year is simply too slow, regardless of who is to blame for the snail s pace of the program. The squatters plan to continue and expand their repair efforts in abandoned houses, with or without government sanction.
In the words of SRO member Jeanette Davis, I feel the bureau~ crats are messing us over. I m 30 and have been ready to get a home since age 20. I had to have five babies to get a house (under HUD guidelines). I ve got three. I have saved money to fix up a house. Its no. problem. Owning is cheaper than renting. I m ready to take over HUD house in two weeks.
Photo: Jim Woodward
Bob Talbert Faces Charges
by Bruce Hoepner
Bob Talbert, feature columnist for the Detroit Free Press could be stuck with a rather hefty fine if it is proven that he crossed Teamsters Union picket lines to work during the July, 1980 strike against the Free Press. Talbert has been brought up on charges by co-workers who allege he indeed worked throughout the strike. Such an action would be in direct violation of a decision by the Newspaper Guild of Detroit, Talbert s union, to honor those Teamster picket lines.
On July 12, just before the start of the Republican National Convention, Teamsters Local 372 went out on a surprise strike against Detroit s morning daily over a. contract dispute. The strike did not at all please many of the Free Press employees, especially the writers, who were anxious to immerse themselvesin the madness of the city s first national political convention. But almost immediately the Guild leadership ordered its members to honor the picket lines and, later, all the writers joined with other union members to vote in approval of that decision. All the writers except one.
At that later general Guild meeting the membership voted to support the union s no-work order regardless of ill feelings about the strike. Only 50 or so members voted against the move, Talbert included. All of the other dissenters were from the business staff on the paper.
Talbert s blatantly defiant actions, accentuated by a column explaining his reasoning for ignoring the union order, angered enough of the Guild s rank and file for some to bring him up on charges before the union officialdom. Guild president Lou Mleczcko then appointed a trial board, in accordance with the union constitution, to review the charges made against Talbert and the other dissenting unionists.
The trial board, the first convened since the lengthy 1967 newspaper strike, is made up of five union members from separate units of the Guild. Its function is to hear the charges and decide the penalty, case by case. The union s constitution demands a mandatory fine of 100 per cent of the worker s earnings from throughout the duration of the strike, plus an optional fine of an additional 25 percent of the same earnings that is left'up to the discretion of the board, according to Mleczcko and others.
Each Guild member accused can answer the charges. The additional fine of 25 percent can be passed up by the trial board if
there are mitigating circumstances such as financial hardship. But if one takes into account the fact that some of the members no doubt suffered financial troubles because of the strike and still did not cross the picket lines, it seems likely those brought up before the trial board would have to have an exceedingly compelling reason if they expect to get off.
- A widowed mother eke eight mouths to feed and a mortgage due could undoubtedly plead unusual duress as an explanation of a decision to defy the union order. But it is unlikely a wellpaid popular columnist of, Talbert s. stature could plead financial -hardship and be believed. Perhaps he felt an overwhelming loyalty to his readership. Or perhaps his decision was linked to the abrupt change in personal philosophy revealed in his column July 18, while the strike continued. In it he announced his doubts about the validity of his liberal beliefs. He wrote: For years was among the vanguard of opinion-writers and activists operating from the left. was a gung-ho civil rights worker on many a long, hot summer s day. was a champion of the downtrodden. Underdog s - best friend. Your basic flamecolored liberal.
It was painful. .I looked around at what my own permissive attitudes had wrought in our society. I had been Mr. Lenient. stood guilty as charged.
It might be that Talbert s conservative shift prompted him to defy the strike, which was already unpopular among his fellow writers. Or it might be the opposite that the confusing and ultimately fruitless strike situation itself was the catalyst that motivated his turn to the right. Those are fascinating questions, but hard to answer.
When Detroit Metro Times contacted Talbert and asked for his side of the story, he replied, I don t have a side to the story.
Talbert s case has not come before the trial board yet. The board meets only once a week and cases are heard in alphabetical order. According to the Guild hierarchy, the proceedings will go on for several months. The board s decisions may also be appealed up through the ,union ranks to be national level and theninto the federal courts.
Talbert, who makes a good deal of money, could lose hundreds of dollars, but it is not known if he intends to fight the seemingly inevitable verdict against him. It will be a good while before the controversial case is concluded.
Don t Touch That Dial
For several years now WDET-FM, Wayne State University s public radio station, has been beset by problems between the station s management and a number of minority community producers. Of the more publicized instances of disagreement, pledge periods the station s fund-raising drives appear to be the main bone of contention.
From the management's perspective certain community producers have either neglected, or have been less than enthusiastic when carrying out, their on-the-airpledging responsibilities. The community producers feel that they have met their Yequirements and are disturbed by management s pushy insistence.
Recently, the problems really reached a head whenGeoffrey Jacques, the host of Kaliedophone, had Kofi Natambu on his show to discuss the issues surrounding WDET s cancellation of Natambu s show Sound Projections. But the show was interrupted when an engineer, on orders from management, pulled the plug on them. The show was off the air for five Minutes.
At press time, no accord has been reached between management andthe producers. A group calling itself the Concerned Public for Public Radio has launched a petition in support of the producers and are demanding their reinstatement and a full disclosure of thesstation s income and expenditures. Stay tuned.
Short-Circuited Democracy
Anti-choice forces in the Michigan Senate have pulled a fast one. In a surprising legislative maneuver last month, they successfully deleted the entire wording of an amendment related to federal home heating assistance, and replaced it with a completely unrelated _three-sentence bill severely restricting the use of state funds except to save the life of the mother, making the bill, if passed, more restrictive than the federal Hyde Ainendment
By achieving this substitution just before the Senate vote, the anti-choice advocates successfully shortcircuited the legislative process. They conveniently avoided having to announce the bill, hold public hearings, or research and publicize its possible impact on poor women.
On Monday, November 10, Michigan NOW, ACLU and Planned Parenthood held a joint press conference in Detroit, threatening a lawsuit if the bill is passed. In the words of Michigan ACLU executive director Howard Simon, The constitutional provision that was violated by the state senate is designed to prevent just the sort of backroom, closed legislative process that went on last month.
On September 30, the all-new Senate Bill 124 was sent to the house social services committee chaired by outspoken anti-choice representative Thaddeus C. Stopczynski, D-Detroit. The bill is not expected to have trouble being reported out of that committee and may face a final vote within the next week.
Nevada Rejects MX
With a Reagan White House on the political horizon, such hotly contested military projects as the MX missile system and the B-1 bomber have moved much closer to reality. But even as the state of Nevada lined up under the Reagan column on election night, residents of 17 Nevada counties went on record as opposing a local MX missile installation.
Such opposition appears to be widespread and growing in the Southwest. An unusual coalition of Utah and Nevada residents has come together to form the Great Basin Alliance and fight the conversion of their homes into the number one target in North America in the event of a nuclear war. The alliance is composed of farmers, ranchers, miners, sportsmen and women, environmentalists, small business people and native Americans.
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Local 372 member on the picket line last July. SL TIS LITER
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You talk about jobs, said Cockrel, but what you re really doing is paying for GM s automation.
This timetable may yet be disrupted by community opposition. The Poletown Neighborhood Council filed~a lawsuit in Circuit Court on Oct. 31, the day of the City Council s decision to approve the project, challenging the constitutionality of the proceedings. The community group failed to get an injunction to stop the city from sending out its offers to purchase property in the area, but the court agreed to begin hearings on the Poletown suit Nov. 14. Richard Hodas, of the Poletown Neighborhood Council, says the group has no choice but to file suit after getting no response whatsoever from the city or General Motors to a list of demands it sent. out in July. The group wants the courts to determine whether the project is worth the destruction of its neighborhood.
DEATH RAY
In science fiction movies, people and buildings can be wiped outby one blast ~ from a ray gun. It happens in real life too. Poletown s death ray came at the end of June. when General Motors announced that a sprawling new assembly plant would be built there if the city could find the money to buy out the property owners and clear the land quickly enough so that - smaller Cadillacs could begin rolling off the new assembly line in time for the 1984 model year. i
With its industrial overlords in ill health, packing their bags and leaving to recuperate in Sun Belt climes with cheaper taxes, weaker unions and still-unpolluted skies, Detroit was like a starving dog eager for any bone one of its masters might toss it while hotfooting out of town. General Motors was closing down its aging Fleetwood Fisher Body and Clark Avenue Cadillac assembly plants on the southwest side, adding 10,000 more workers to the swollen unemployment rolls. If it built its replacement plant in Poletown, 6,000 of those jobs would stay in the city.
In the middle of the worst auto slump in history, the loss of 4,000 jobs was heralded as a triumph for the Motor City after all, it was better than losing 10,000 jobs. The threat of that larger loss if GM built its new plant outside the city was like a gun held to~ the heads of Poletown residents.
HOMES OR JOBS?
In essence, the Arabs, Albanians, Blacks, Poles and other minorities who lived in the community, who shopped at neighborhood bakeries and attended the old Catholic churches in the area, were being asked to sacrifice their community to prevent a further increase in_ local unemployment.
Citizens groups fighting the GM plans found themselves cast in the role of smallminded enemies of progress.
There are péople in this city who are going to blame us if GM ends up going elsewhere, predicted Tom Olechowski, leader of the Poletown Neighborhood Council. I say to them, hey, if you re so anxious to keep GM in town, why don t you sell them your property?
x Homes or jobs? It was a choice the people of Poletown didn t like being faced with, <
* Working-class people should not have foisted upon them a choice between their own interests and the interests of the rest of the community, argued Olechowski.
General Motors insisted, however, that what was good for GM was good for Detroit.
Each individual in the (Poletown) community will have to ask himself what is the greater good for the entire city, said GM spokesperson Don Postma.
Residents opposed to the project charged the job issue was a red herring.
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thereby avoiding monitoring by the Environmental Protection Agency. Why couldn t General Motors simply replace Dodge Main with another structure instead of leveling an area eight times as large? Eins
Nobody -builds multi-story factories these days, scoffed Postma, explaining that modern flow-through design development necessitated a single-story plant. In square footage, the new Poletown plant (3 million sq. ft.) would be about the same size as the old Cadillac and Fleetwood plants combined (2.6 million sq. ft.), but it would occupy a much bigger parcel of urban land.
stretched this fabric to the breaking point. The motor car, responsible for the city s boom, now was the vehicle for its disintegration. Freeways cut tornado swaths of destruction through the inner city and paved the way for businesses and residents to flee to the suburbs.
For Poletown, it was a death blow, recalls Olechowski, who saw the Edsel Ford Freeway, completed by 1950, cut the community in two. (The northern portion is the area targeted-for the GM plant.) Soon after, the Packard Motor Car Company closed its plant, as the Hupp Motor Company had done before, leaving Dodge Main as the only major factory in the area. Crime and blight followed the dismemberment and abandonment of the neighborhood.
DELIBERATE BLIGHT?.
Olechowski s Poletown Neighborhood Council has demanded compensation from GM and the city for blight by announcement. The area south of the Ford Freeway the part of Poletown that will not be. leveled to make way for GM needs assistance if revitalization isto occur.
<a neighborhood of neat houses, small green lawns and wellswept sidewalks where children of all races play together.
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It s going to be a robotic plant, scoffedDon Ludwig, an engineer formerly employed by GM.
Postma confirmed that mechanical handling equipment, what the media likes to call robots was in place at several new GM facilities, and that the company expects to have somewhat more of that kind of thing at the Poletown plant.
You talk about jobs, said Cockrel during debate on the city s application for federal grants and loans to pay for the project. But what you're really doing is paying for GM s automation.
WHY POLETOWN?
Planned obsolescence is a well-tested strategy in automobile manufacturing; the GM invasion of Poletown proves that the same concept can be applied to neighbor_hoods as well.
Why were the people of Poletown being asked to sacrifice their homes to.keep alive Detroit s image as the Motor City when so much land sat vacant elsewhere in the inner city? GM said it was because no other parcel had the right size and shape and sufficient access to railroads and freeways.
But an added bonus was the presence of the abandoned Dodge Main plant in one corner of the proposed site. Chrysler was willing to give the plant to city developers virtually for nothing, according to city acquisitions director Thomas Cunningham. And if GM built on the site, it would only have to meet the lax pollution standards set long ago for Dodge Main,
Hodas said the Poletown Neighborhood Council repeatedly has tried to meet with the city and General Motors to question the necessity of the project size. Hodas said the factory could be built primarily on the Dodge Main site, and that two-thirds of the proposed project site will not be factory at all but parking spots, loading areas and trees.
Characterizations of the area as a blighted district by developers and the media are hard to reconcile with a careful inspection. Only short blocks away from Dodge Main is a neighborhood of neat houses, small green lawns, and well-swept sidewalks where children of several races play together. As it has for a century, life centers around the parish church and the corner store. Residents can walk to 278bed St. Joseph Mercy Hospital (due to be bulldozed to make way for GM). The Cultural Center, the Medical Center, the Eastern Market, Wayne State University and downtown all are just afew minutes away by bus or car.
In fact, Olechowski and his cohorts had already raised $30,000 from local merchants and financiers to begin a renovation of the Chene Corridor business district when the GM announcement hit. The Community Economic Development Department, the same agency now presiding over the neighborhood s demolition, last year awarded the Council a grant to undertake a housing rehabilitation program for senior citizens. But the city has kept silent about these renovation efforts since GM made public its desires. GM has no plans to-invest in the neighborhood, according to Postma.
If we provide a plant there and jobs and a significant portion of it is lawns and : opportunity foremployment for people in the area then that s a useful thing, said Postma. Our responsibility for the neighborhood begins when we get a site that we - can build on, get a plant erected, and start paying taxes. Then we'll look and see what else we might do for the community.
The spokesperson for General Motors said the company had been stung over unwarranted criticism about its intentions in renovating the New Center area, where local poor residents are being moved out in order to make way for middle and upperincome housing.
Our motives have been maligned, Postma complained. We're a little cautious about doing it elsewhere.
This area was still countryside when immigrant Polish Catholics first arrived in the 1870s. Within a few decades they had built six magnificent churches, monuments to several separate religious and political viewpoints. The merchants whose shops lined Chene Street all lived in the neighborhood and provided.employment and services. The family and the church anchored the community in _ stable traditions.
Detroit was a quilt of such ethnic enclaves, but post-World War II mobility
Part of the deal struck by the City Council will provide the auto company with a dozen years of tax abaternents, as a giftfor GM s decision to build its new plant in Poletown.
Area residents will undoubtedly remember that present as they begin packing their bags and moving out of their community this Christmas.
(Next issue: How the cityy the federal government and the courts are helping GM steamroll the project through in a hurry despite opposition from residents.)
A CONSUMER S GUIDE TO LIVING BETTER AS TIMES GET ROUGHER
wiatraa Used Records: Tracking Bargain Wax
Let s face it, brand new records aren't ever going to be $2.98 again. Even in the bargain bin of your local wax emporium, $2.98 is an average price for last year s flop by your favorite obscure band. But these discarded cutouts are only one solution to the classic record hound s dilemma how to support an expensive jones.
Increasingly, ardent buyers are turning to used records as a source of cheap thrills. They've always been a decent if not lucrative way to dispose of those trash tracks you'd just as soon never lay ears on again. Since the recession hit, say those who know, more and more people are peddling their leftovers to earn little extra cash.
Records are not a luxury item to most people, says Sam of Sam's Jams, perhaps the most noticed used record spot in the area. Still, when he started, he observes that he had to educate the public to buy used records. Ironically, his used stock is returned for flaws like scratches far less frequently than either new or cutout discs at a rate ofone percent as opposed to 10-15 percent. Peter Dale of Car City Classics (perhaps the newest Motown recycled-record store) echoes the statistic, but points out that he s real fussy about what he buys. Some stores, including Sam's and Car City, guarantee their stock against such defects. Others allow you to listen before you buy. Either way, the threat of finding the Grand Canyon in the midst of your favorite symphony is very much reduced.
Given the right frame of mind, usedrecord stores can provide the enterprising sleuth with a chance to catch some real treasures The 101 Strings Play the Fugs or Twisting with Beverly Sills. They also seem to provoke prolonged browsing but that s no surprise when the records are so varied and at times disorganized. Over in that
pile may be just what you're looking for..
The following are the results of my safari, high points and low: Ardmore Record and Video Exchange, 14091 Schoolcraft, Detroit, 836-9200. Gleaned from the yellow pages, Ardmore turned out to be a lumberyard with a couple of bins of used records. Owner Clem Mehecic plans on taking all the LPs he has 100,000 of them and opening a record and video store in Livonia after the first of the year. Meanwhile you'll find LPs for 95¢ and up, 78s for 50¢ and up and 45s for a quarter up. Even the other record store owners pricked up their ears at this place they hadn t passed through its portals, probably meaning there are some gems there if you hurry.
Cappy s Record Mart, 12575 Gratiot, Detroit, 527-4000. This is more a collector's store, specializing in fifties rhythm and blues (read: doowops) and little else. 45s and 78s are three for a buck and up; LPs a buck and up. He'll also buy records, but declined to say his usual price. Cappy also auctions records to an international crowd of R & B buffs. Car City Classics, 8845 E. Jefferson, Detroit, 331-2700. Car City has finally been noticed by media folk, and justly so. Smaller than Sam's, the eastside storefront has a variety of tunes that amazes even this jaded forager owner Peter Dale has assembled an especially large classical and jazz selection, and also provides some new LPs (in certain areas like women s music and avantgarde jazz). He also writes a pretty fair record review see page 16. No 45s, 78s or tapes here. Of course, he'll buy your schlock, but is a stickler on surface damage.
Classic Movie Center, 33404 Grand River, Farmington, 476-1254. This was too much for my ailing fuel budget, but by phone was told that, with only 4,000
rock albums priced at $3 and under, the center was not really into used records. It sounds pretty good to me, especially when you consider that they also sell movies and other cinema paraphernalia.
Coachman s Records, 6340 Charlevoix, 571-2222 and 11110 Jefferson, 8249256, Detroit. What can you say about Coachman 's? The voice of the blues on late-night radio also buys and sells a few used records and, at the Jefferson store, some not particularly cheap but kinda hard-to-find oldies. This is another place to look for blues and R & B material, soul and disco finds.
Mays* Records, 328 E. 8 Mile, Detroit, 368-0021. The oldest used record store in Metro Detroit, Mays is a legend among area collectors, buffs and folklorists, and will celebrate its fourteenth birthday in February. Mays , too, has international fame for its rarity offerings. Mays sells used and cutout LPs ($1.00 up), 45s (10¢ up) and 78s (10¢ up). The cheaper records are unsorted, so you may have to look through boxes to find that Beatles tune. No guarantees, but you can play them on this great old Garrard turntable the likes of which I haven't seen since my older brother sold his in 1960. Also, great variety of stuff including a unique Hillbilly section. Worth a trip for the atmosphere alone.
Off the Record, 22293 Michigan, Dearborn, 278-8304. Originally explained to me as new wave oriented, OTR turned out to have a wider range of music than that, and some interesting innovations like record rentals. Used LPs were separated from the new/cutout sections, anda collectors section with kinda reasonable prices offered some sixties collectables. Also a great new wave batch of T-shirts, buttons and cult publications (like Wet, the magazine of gourmet bathing). Worth the drive to
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Dearborn for the Beatlemania sunglasses alone.
Sam's Jams, 327 W. 9 Mile, Ferndale, 547-7267. I was impressed with the options open to the would-be bargainhunter at Sam's. Also impressive were the capsule album/group reviews/ annotations on index cards along the wall displays. There s at least more than one price category for each kind of music and cutouts are separated from used stuff. Some is guaranteed, some not. New albums are also available. Only those who knew Sam's in its infancy can say how it's changed over time, and why some oldtimers seem to prefer its good old days. Nonetheless, a wide variety of music, as well as a good (but not cheap) rarities section. Sam will also add a mail order service soon.
Record and Tapes Liquidating, 13859 E. 8 Mile, Detroit, 775-0330. Tucked away in.a large shopping center along Eight Mile, this store mainly sells cutouts but has a small used section at the back. One interesting deal is that they'll give you 50¢ to $1.00 in trade for each album you bring in and swap one-to-one for another. They have a sizeable country section, too, and used cassettes and eight tracks, a distinctive feature. No guarantees, but you can listen before you buy.
Toon Saloon (formerly Looney Toons), 5200 Dixie Highway, Drayton Plains, 623-1800. Wherever Drayton Plains is, it sounded far out, but too much so for this tired wayfarer. By phone I learned that I was missing Waterford Township's answer to rock and roll salvation at decent prices, of course. Only half usedcutout stock, the rest new product, the store also sells used tapes cassettes and eight tracks. It was also explained that the emphasis is on rock and roll, as well as oldies 45s, and not so much on other kinds of music.
TOP DOLLAR PAID FOR QUAUTY USED LPs
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FOLK, JAZZ, ROCK, CLASSICAL, SHOWS, SOUL, COUNTRY & WESTERN, FEMINIST, SPOKEN, DDCELAND, GOSPEL, COMEDY, FOREIGN, KIDS, BLUES, POP and CHRISTMAS.
MAGIC 95 PRESENTS THE WEEKLY TOP THIRTY!
America s most popular music plus the excitement of the countdown combine to make this an outstanding Magic 95 weekly special . Mark Elliot plays the week's 30 top hits and mixes in interesting highlights and sidelights ~ plus interviews with the stars who have recorded the week's top hits. Sundays 7-10 p.m. and only on Magic 95.
ATMOSPHERE: Nov. 21-22, Union St.I, Grosse Pte. Park, 331-0018.
ALLAN BARNES BAND: Nov. 16, 23, Alvin's Finer Twilight Bar, 832-2355; Nov. 21-22, Jazz Gallery, 964-9044.
BROOKSIDE JAZZ ENSEMBLE: at Cranbrook School Performing Arts Center, 550 Lone Pine Rd., Nov. 23, 3-6 pm; vocalist, Ursula Walker, vibist, Jack Brokensha.
ST. AUBIN RAMBLERS:Nov. 14-15, 22, Woodbridge Tavern, 259-0578.
SUNDAY AFTERNOON IN THE CRYSTAL GALLERY: DIA, 5200 N. Woodward, Sundays 1:30-4:30 pm. Detroit keyboardists will be featured. THP: Nov. 19, 26, Cobb's Comer, 832-7223.
BIG MOUTH BLUES BAND: Nov. 14-15, Song Shop, 832-8032; Nov. 19-20, Delta Lady, Ferndale, 545-5483.
BLUE FRONT PERSUADERS: Nov. 16, 23, Soup Kitchen Saloon, 259-1374. BLUES MONDAY: Ethel s Lounge, 9229443. Featuring local artists.
EDDIE BURNS BLUES BAND: Nov. 1415, Blue Parrot, 357-4067; Nov. 13, 2627, Delta Lady, Ferndale, 545-5483. DETROIT BLUES BAND: Nov. 20-22, Kegabrew, 343-9558.
Guitar & All String Instrument Repair by Paul Gilbert for Anderson Music Company "CUSTOM INLAY, WIRING, BRIDGES, SETUPS, REFRETS, YOU NAME IT ANDERSON MUSIC 850 N. Telegraph, Dearborn 278-0100
Bar, 832-2355. PROGRESSIVE BLUES BAND: Nov. 19, 26, Soup Kitchen, 259-1374; Nov. 2122, Blue Parot, 357-4067.
GIP ROBERTS REVUE (featuring Pinky Smith and Alberta Adams): Nov. 14-15, Ethel s Lounge, 867-0388.
indoor/outdoor SUEDE SKATES in five unique colors were $120 now $84 SPECIAL WITH THIS AD: Black and white leather skates with precision wheels WERE
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Bobby Biue Biand and B. B. King at Phelps Lounge Nov. 20
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MARK ILER: Nov. 13, 20, 27, Union StreetI, Grosse Pte. Park, 331-0018.
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WORLD STRING BAND: Nov. 2122, Grifs, Pontiac, 334- 7651.
FATHER PAT McDUNN and the GALES: Tu-Sa, Alden s Alley, Royal Oak, 545-5000.
BOB and LINDA MILNE: V-Sa, Diggers. 478-3800.
MUSTARD'S RETREAT: Nov. 26, Hinge
Nov. 22, Cub Sandwich, (619)2565794.
DENNIS RUSH: Nov. ae Hinge Cofcehouse, 835-3084.
DEAN RUTLEDGE: Su-M, WE, Alden s Alley, Royal Oak, 545-5000.
SCOTIA: M-Tu, Old = 9640007.
BILL SIMPSON: Nov. 16, 23, Union - StreetI, Grosse Pte. Park, 331-0018.
JEROME SPARLING: Nov. 17, 24, Union Street I, Grosse Pre. Park, 33 0018.
RICK STAHL: Nov. 23-26, Midtown
«Gris, Pontine 334-7651.
BAROQUE BISTRO: at DIA Crystal Gallery, 5200 Woodward. Nov. 13, 7:30 & 9:30 pm, Mozartean Players; Nov. 20, 7:30 & 9:30 pm, Se Oe oo 832-2730.
BRUNCH WITH BACH: at DIA Crystal Gallery, 5200 Woodward. Sundays, 10 & 11:30 am. Nov. 16, Walter Verdehr, violin, Ralph Votapek, piano; Nov. 23, Richard Piippo, cello, Fontaine Laing, piano. 832-2730.
CONCERT A LA CARTE: at Tweeny's Cafe, 280 N. Woodward, Birmingham. Nov. 17, The President's Trio of Oakland University (Micha Rachlevsky, violin, Paul Silver, viola, and David Saltzman, cello.) Nov. 24, Micha Rachlevsky, violin
Chorale and Cantata Academy, featured guests. DETROIT962-5524.SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA POPS CONCERTS: Nov. 14, 8:30 pm: Nov. 16, 3:30 pm. Mitch Miller, conductor, Ani Kavafian, violinist. Includes singalong with Mitch. oe 5524.
INTERNATIONAL YOUTH SYMPHONY: at Athens H.S., 4333 John R, Troy. Nov. 16, 3 pm, Eric Brewer, clarinet, and Stephen Romanov, dancer.
NIGHTCAP WITH MOZART: at Birmingham Unitarian Church, 651 Woodward, Bloomfield. Nov. 21, Micha Rachlevsky, violin, Toma Schwartz, piano. 851-8934.
OAK PARK CIVIC CHORUS: Mondays, 7:30 pm, Oak Park H.S. 968-1078 for more info. ORCHESTRA HAIL PRAELUDIUM SERIES: at Orchestra Hall, 3711 Woodward. Nov. 15, 8 pm, Nathan Milstein,
HAPPENIN:
Alex Linden, persecutes Teresa Russell in this, Nicolas Roeg's fifth feature film? Russell is strong, sultry and surlyintelligent and Harvey Keitel is laughably miscast in this filmic essay on voyeurism. Roeg is probably deliberate S| cast of
BORDERLINE. This title for movie about Charles Bronson as Mexican border patrol agent who has compassion for illegal aliens seems to be missing something. Fill in the blank yourself: Borderline (Psychotic?) (Schizophrenic?) (Neurotic?) AseSoe also?) On
steals the show with an cee looking frame of surrealistic contempiation on industrial society. Ultimately, the movie lacks cohesiveness and power and becomes something more to be thought about than felt despite some genuinely moving passages. With his detached, eccentric focus on human deformity, Lynch is on his way to becoming the English-language answer to Wemer Herzog.
BADE TO BLACK. Marilyn Monroe clone Linda Kerridge and Breaking Away bicyclist Dennis Christopher ina
SUNDAY BRUNCH: at Union St. Too, 145 Woodward. Michael Jeup, tar. 831-3965 for more info.
DETROIT: at Orchestra Hall, 3711 Woodward. Nov. 14, pm, Musici. 832- 7400 for more info.
WSU CHAMBER CHOIR: at Commu- nity Arts Aud., Cass at Kirby. Nov. 22, 18) ee Harry M. Jenastore
Church, St. Antoine and Monroe, Nov. 25,12 noon, Dennis J. Tini, conductor.
community Arts Aud., Cass at Kirby. Nov. 18, 8 pm, Michael Bryce, guitar; Susan Caroselli, soprano; Zoran - Mindorvic, cello, and Meg Murphy 2 Fedorowicz, flute. 577-1795.
651 Woodward, Bloomfield Hills. Nov 7:30 pm, Beethoven's works for
wsuU SYMPHONY: at Community a ud., Cass at Kirby. Nov. 19, 8:30 a Harold Armoldi, conductor.
SUNDAY BRUNCH: at Gnome, on ays. Nov. 16, Bassoon Quartet; Nov. Paul Burns, pianist. 833-0120. Laura Dean Dance Co.
the doctor who rescues him from the carnival freak show only to put him ina more comfortable high-society freak show as the toast ofLondon s charitableupper class. Oscar-level performances, oe director oe Lynch (Eraserhead)
direction. And haven't oy been enough movies Bey about the perils of show biz?
FATSO. (4) We still are awaiting definitive film statement on the system atic persecution of overweight people skinny-conscious America, but this Anne Bancroft soap opera will have to do in the meantime. Dom DeLuise surprisingly effective as the forlom, unloved fatty rescued from his pligh old-fashioned lovein whatis teallym: of an Italian ethnic drama than m _On excess poundage. Hancrot s ap lg
ing is unoouan and her acting fie, but nonetheless it's promising debut for her. Take along lots of popcom; youll want to have oe toeat
mate Ci Grodin (with whom she shares lot of space ) fora weekend fling with washed-up baseball star Michael Douglas (looking like he got blown away in a nuclear plant explooS sion) is that Ineed to be more connect
_ SHOGUN ASSASSIN, Hece-giii! They sure spill a lot of blood on Japanese IV, this remake ofa popular Oriental boob es is any indication.
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Featuring D'Aliens and Universalice Bands. 868-8223, 569-5732.
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NONCE DANCE ENSEMBLE: Nov. 14, 8 pm, Rackham Auditorium. Four new modern dance works. 832-7400.
UKRANIAN FESTIVAL DANCE COMPANY: Nov. 29, 8 pm, Fitzgerald Auditorium, Warren. Modem dances and mime by Canadian company. 757-2570.
U ofM DANCE COMPANY: Nov. 14-15, 8 pm, Power Center, Ann Arbor. Fall concert of works by guest choreographers Gus Solomons, Jr., Willie Feuer and Susan Matheke.
WSU DANCE COMPANY: Nov. 15, 2 pm, Community Arts Auditorium. Public performance concert. 368-0557 or 577-4273.
COMMUNITY ARTS AUDITORIUM: WSU, Kirby and Cass, 368-0557 or 577-4273. Nov. 15, 2 pm, 27th Annual Dance Concert for Young Folks.
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ATTIC THEATRE: 525 E. Lafayette, 963-7789. Opening Nov. 14, The Robber Bridegroom, Th, F, Su, 8pm; Sa, 6 & 9pm. ThroughJan. 2, An EveningAt The Paradise, a new wave love story, FSa, midnights.
DETROIT REPERTORY THEATRE: 13103 Woodrow Wilson, 868-1347. Through Dec. 31, Istvan Orkeny's Catsplay. Th-Sa, 8:30 pm, Su, 7:30 pm. EASTLAND DINNER THEATRE: Stouffer's Eastland, 18000 Vernier, St. Clair Shores, 371-8410. Through Dec. 20, Last of the Red Hot Lovers.
FREEZER THEATRE: 3958 Cass. Open readings and discussion every Sunday, noon to 2 pm. 833-4215.
POET'S CORNER: U of D Student Activities Bldg., Weds., 4-6 pm; at Inner City Sub Center, 8411 E. Forest, first and third Tues., 4-6 pm. Workshops by Ibn Pori. 491-2164.
POETRY RESOURCE CENTER OF MICHIGAN: PO Box 1322, Southfield, 48075. Publishes monthly newsletter and guide to Michigan small presses. Contact above address for more info.
LECTURES
CRANBROOK ARI MUSEUM: 500 Lone Pine Rd., Bloomfield. Nov. 20, 8 pm. A slide lecture by Designer Neils Diffrient who will also discs works by Henry Dreyfuss.
CRANBROOK INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE: 500 Lone Pine, Bloomfield, 645-3225. Nov. 14 & 15, 8 pm, William Walter on Lasers & Holograms: What Next?
DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS: 5200 Woodward, 833-7900. Nov. 18, 8 pm, Celtic Invaders in the Eastern Mediterranean World; Nov. 19, 7:30 pm, American Glass in the New Republic, 17851850.
SAMALONA CENTER: 240 Daines, Birmingham, 642-5650. Nov. 18,8 pm, Bruce Tabashneck on The Hazards of Being Male.
POLISH GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY OF MICHIGAN: Detroit Public Library, 5201 Woodward, 833-7924. Nov. 22, 2 pm, monthly lecture featuring Hans Birk.
WORLD ADVENTURE SERIES: DIA, 5200 Woodward, 832-2730. Nov. 16, 2:30 pm, The Three Rivieras (France, Italy and Spain); Nov. 23, 2:30 pm, The Glories of Spain. of children s
CRANBROOK INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE: 500 Lone Pine, Bloomfield, 645-3230. Nov. 15, Nature Gets Ready for Winter; Nov. 22, Light and Sound.
DETROIT YOUTH THEATRE: DIA, 5200 Woodward, 832-2730. Nov. 15, Beans; Nov. 22, Head Over Heels. MUSIC HALL: 350 Madison Ave., 963-6943. Nov. 25-30, The Wizard of Oz, presented by the Puppet Theatre of Israel.
BENEFITS
ANNUAL HADASSAH GIFT BAZAAR: 21550 W. 12 Mile, Southfield. Nov. 18, 11 am-9 pm. Proceeds go to Hadassah.
ANTIQUE APPRAISAL DAY: Birmingham Unitarian Church, Woodward at Lone Pine, 862-6250. Proceeds go to the Michigan Religious Coalition for Abortion Rights.
ART AUCTION: Nov. 14, 7 pm, 21209 Eureka at I-75, Taylor. Proceeds go to the Families of Irish Political Prisoners. 962-3300.
ROCK AGAINST RACISM BENEFIT: at Freezer Theatre, 3958 Cass. Nov. 14, The State; Nov. 21, The Sunday Blues Band, Motor City Monster Slayers.
DISCO: at Cobo Hall Ballroom, Nov. 28, 8 pm, for former anti-poverty workers. Proceeds to buy food certificates for needy families. Public invited. 224-6904 or 833-5630 for more info.
WDET BENEFIT: at Bookies, 870 W. McNichols, 862-0877. Nov. 19, Coldcock and Retro. Proceeds to Radios in Motion Show.
ACTORS RENAISSANCE THEATRE: Ren Cen btw. Towers 200 & 300, 5682525. Through Nov. 29, Myrenna Phase I, W, F, Su, 8 pm; Sa-Su, 3 pm. Through Dec. 29, Cat On A Hot Tin Roof, Tu, Th, Sa, 8 pm. ALFRED'S SOMERSET DINNER THEATRE: 2475 W. Big Beaver, Troy, 643-8865. Through Nov., Chapter Two. in the Heart of the Eastern Market
FISHER THEATRE: Fisher Bidg., 872-1000. Through Nov. 22, They're Playing Our Song, Tu-Sa, 8 pm, Sa-Su, 2 pm, Su, 7:30 pm.
FOURTH ST. PLAYHOUSE: 301 W. Fourth, Royal Oak, 543-3666. Opening Nov. 28, When You Coming Back, Red Ryder?, F-Sa, 8:30 pm; Su, 7:30 pm. HENRY FORD MUSEUM THEATRE: Dearborn, 271-1620. Nov. 14-15, 8:30 pm, Ghost Train.
LIGHTHOUSE DINNER THEATRE: 24230 W. McNichols, 535-9411. Through Nov., Dames at Sea.
MEADOWBROOK THEATRE: Oakland University, Rochester, 377-3300. Through Nov. 30, Thornton Wilder's Our Town, Tu-F, 8:30 pm; Sa, 6:30 & 9:30 pm; Su, 6:30 pm; Wed. mat. 2 pm.
MICHIGAN OPERA THEATRE: at Ford Auditorium, 963-3717. Nov. 16, concert by Met Stars Franco Corelli and Jerome Hines. Tickets through Music Hall, 963-7680.
MR. MAC'S STABLE: 1 Parklane Tower, Dbon., 288-0450. Opening Nov. 15, The Owi and the Pussycat.
MUSIC HALL: 350 Madison, 963-6943. Nov. 13-16, Th-F, 8:30 pm; Sa, 7 & 10 pm; Su, 2 & 6:30 pm. Ben Vereen in a song and dance revue kicks off the Headliner Series.
NEW PLAYWRIGHTS THEATRE OF DETROIT: at Northwest Activities Center, 18100 Meyers Rd. Opening Nov. 14 (Nov. 15 sold out), Take a Giant Step. 224-7597 (days) or 861-4842 (710 pm).
RED DOOR PLAYERS: at First Unitarian Church, Cass at Forest. Opening Nov. 28, Our Town.
ROSEDALE COMMUNITY PLAYERS: Upstage Playhouse, 21728 Grand River, 838-3235. Nov. 14-15, 21-22, 8 pm, How the Other Half Loves. Dinner Theatre Nov. 15.
SOUTHFIELD REP/STOUFFER S SHOWCASE: at Stouffer's Northland, Northland Inn, Southfield. Opening Nov. 15, Gonzo, a musical satire. SOUTHFIELD REPERTORY THEATRE: Southfield Parks and Rec. Auditorium,
WILL-O-WAY REPERTORY THEATRE: 775 W. Long Lake, Bloomfield Hills, 644-4418. Nov. 14-15, 22-21, 8:30 pm, Man of La Mancha. WINE TASTERS DINNER THEATRE: 39909 Van Dyke, Sterling Heights, 2640200. Through Dec., Play It Again, Sam.
COMMUNITY
BOARD OF POLICE COMMISSIONERS COMMUNITY MEETING: Nov. 20, 7:30 pm, 16th Precinct Station House, 21400 Grand River. To confirm:
CRIMINAL JUSTICE: Nov. 18, 7:30 pm, Marygrove College, Library Lecture Hall, 8425 W. McNichols, 862-8000 Ext. 255. COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
- Neighborhood City Halls.
BLOCK GRANT (CDBG) PROGRAM: Informational Public Hearings sponsored by the Planning Dept. & Nov. 13, Columbus School, 18025 Brock, 7-9:30 pm; Nov. 17, Wayne State East Side Center, 3127 E. Canfield, 7-9:30 pm.
DETROIT COMMUNITY COUNCIL: Final meeting for 1980. Tues., Nov. 25, 7:30 pm, NW Goldberg Community Center, 6188 Rosa Parks Bivd., 2243768. FAIR HOUSING CENTER: Nov. 15, Tester-Training (volunteers test for housing discrimination), Tobin Bldg. on Broadway, 963-1274.
WOMEN S CONFERENCE OF CONCERNS: Juvenile Justice Task Force Hearing. Nov. 15, 9 am-5 pm, at Hartford Memorial Baptist Church, 18700 James Couzens. 962-2022.
DETROIT AGLOW NIGHT: Nov. 24, 5 pm, Hart Plaza.
EBONY FASHION FAIR: Ford Aud., Nov. 23, & 8 pm. Sponsored by Plymouth Congregational Church, 831-2460.
MULTI-TOURNAMENT CLASSIC 80 : Nov. 15-21, Northwest Activities Center, 18100 Meyers Rd. Contest ranging from dominos to arm wrestling with Police and Fire Chiefs. Call 224-7595 for specific events and times.
BIRMINGHAM COMM. WOMEN S CENTER: 746 Purdy, Birmingham, 642-1132. Support groups offered on regular basis for women in various situations, i.e., Divorced, Transferred, Professional Women. Call for schedules. CONCERNED CITIZENS OF THE CASS CORRIDOR: Cass Methodist Center. Nov. 18, 6:30 pm, Housing Seminar. DETROIT HISTORICAL DEPT.: 5401 Woodward, 833-1805. Nov. 15, 11 am3 pm, Bisque Doll Workshop; Nov. 22, 10-11:30 am or 1-2:30 pm, Bread Dough Cornucopia. HENRY FORD COMMUNITY COLLEGE: 510i Evergreen, Dearborn. An 8week seminar beginning Nov. 10, From Loss to Exploration: The Widow's Experience. Every Monday, 1-2:40 pm, 271-2750.
MERCY COLLEGE: 8200 W. Outer Drive, 592-6000. Now accepting applications for the Winter semester ofWeekend College, beginning Jan. 10, 1981. Call for info.
OAKLAND CTY. CULTURAL COUNCIL/CULTURAL COUNCIL OF PONTIAC: Nov. 19-20, various times, locations. Workshops/Lectures for those in community arts organizations by Dr. Joseph Golden, Onondaga Civic Center, Syracuse, NY. 858-0415 or 673-0306.
ROYAL OAK LIBRARY: 222 E. 11 Mile, Royal Oak. An Evening with ECK. Mondays, 7 pm, 646-2394. Learn about Eckankar.
SCHOOLCRAFT COLLEGE, WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER: Sat., Nov. 22, 10 am-4 pm, Communications Between Parents and Teens. Call 591-6400 to register.
WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY: 150 General Lectures (Anthony Wayne Dr. & W. Warren Ave.), Nov. 15 & 16, am-5 W. Warren), Nov. 15 & 16, 9 am-5 pm. Conference on Work Reform. 5574625. Includes workshops on flex-time, QC circles and other management innovations in labor.
UNIVERSITY COURSES IN ADULT EDUCATION: 60 Famsworth, 5774665. Nov. 29 and Dec. 6, 10am. Workshop on Grantsmanship and ing.
YWCA DOWNRIVER BRANCH: 3211 Fort St., Wyandotte. Nov. 20, 10 amnoon. Pine Cone Wreath Workshop. Call first- 285-2010. Next issue deadline is early because of Thanksgiving Nov. 18. Please include a phone number so we can contact you. Thanks.
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Hours: 11-5 Mon-Sat and by appointment Corporate services available
WHAT'S
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EXHIBITIONS
AFRO AMERICAN MUSEUM: 1553 W. Grand Blvd. 899-2500. Ongoing exhibits of Black Inventors and African Art.
ARTISAN'S GALLERY: 19666 W. 10 Mile, Southfield, 356-4449. Through Nov., structural designs by Harriet Hanson.
THE ARTS CENTER: 125 Macomb St., Mt. Clemens, 469-8666. Opening Nov. 28, Holiday Art Fair 80. Various media by Michigan Artists.
ARTRAIN GALLERY: 316 Fisher Bldg. Through Nov. 21, paintings by Greg Mark.
BIRMINGHAM-BLOOMFIELD ART ORGANIZATION: 1516 S. Cranbrook, Birmingham, 644-0866: Through Nov. 22, Faculty Show.
CAD.E. GALLERY: 8025 Agnes, 3311758. Through Nov. 14, soft sculpture by Robin Bishop, libidinous drawings by Janet Cole. Opening Nov. 16, paintings/drawings by Russell Keeter, sculpture by Phillip Campbell.
CANTOR-LEMBERG: 539 N. Woodward, Birmingham, 642-6623. Through Nov., Contemporary Printmakers.
CENTER FOR CREATIVE STUDIES: 245 E.Kirby, 872-3118. Opening Nov. 19, Fine Arts Faculty Exhibition.
CRANBROOK INSTITUTE OF ART:
500 Lone Pine, Bloomfield. Through Jan. 11, The Road Show, billboard artwork by Victoria Stoll and others; and Cranbrook Fibre, works by Cranbrook faculty.
CRANBROOK INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE: 500 Lone Pine, Bloomfield. Through Nov., Tangata, photos and artifacts from the Maori people of New Zealand; Our 50th Anniversary historical exhibit of the museum. 645-3210.
COACH HOUSE GALLERY: 7828 Van Dyke Place, 821-2850. Through Nov. 24, paintings by Miriam Marcus.
DETROIT ARTISTS MARKET: 1452 Randolph, 962-0337. Through Nov. 15, sculpture and paintings by Bill Reid, paintings and drawings by Victoria Stoll, sculptures by Lois Teicher.
DETROIT GALLERY OF CONTEMPORARY CRAFTS: 301 Fisher Bidg., 8737888. Through Nov., Ceramics by Scott McDowell, Dorothy Hafner; woven garments by Sandi Lummen, Rebecca Noble, jewelry by Krupp-Bryan, Marsha Zion, leather by Gayle Anderson.
DETROIT INSTITUTE OF THE ARTS: 5200 Woodward, 833-7900. Through Jan. 4, Romantics to Rodin, 19th Century French sculpture. Through
Nov. 18, selected works from permanent collections. Through Nov. 23, Japan: Photographs 1854-1955.
DETROIT REPERTORY THEATRE GALLERY: 13103 Woodrow Wilson, 868-1347. Through Nov., works by Howard Weingarten.
DOSSIN GREAT LAKES MUSEUM: Belle Isle, 824-3157.
DUMOUCHELLEART GALLERY: 409 E. Jefferson, 963-6255. Opening Nov. 14, preview of Nov. auction.
FEIGENSON-ROSENSTEIN GALLERY: 310 Fisher Bldg., 873-7322. Through Nov. 29, paintings on paper by Michael Luchs.
FOCUS GALLERY: 743 Beaubien, 9629025. Through Nov. 22,Six Artists in a New Space.
FRIENDS OF POLISH ART/CITY OF SOUTHFIELD: Parks and Rec. Bidg. Lobby, 26000 Evergreen, 354-4717. Opening Nov. 16, watercolors by Anna Rak.
GMB GALERIE INTERNATIONALE: 2610 N. Woodward, Royal Oak, 5495970. Through Nov. 15, paintings by Kegham Tazian, and other works.
GALERIE DE BOICOURT: 315 Fisher Bidg., 875-7991. Through Nov., multicultural folk art with emphasis on textiles.
GALLERY 22: 22 E. Long Lake, Bloomfield Hills, 642-1310. Through Nov. 18, Contemporary Painters and Printmakers, works by 40 French and American artists from naive to abstract. Opening Nov. 20, Holiday Art Show featuring various media, artists.
HABITAT: 28235 Southfield, Lathru, Village, 552-0515. Through Nov. 29, works by Dale Chihuly.
HALSTED GALLERY: 560 Woodward, Birmingham, 644-8284. Through Nov. 29, photos by Harry Callahan.
HAMPTON-TVEDEN GALLERY: 330 Hamilton Row, Birmingham, 646-2030. Through Nov. 28, opening show featuring Michigan/international artists.
HILBERRY GALLERY: 555 S. Woodward, Birmingham, 642-8250. Through Nov. 22, paintingsby Ron Gorchov.
KIDD GALLERY: 107 Townsend, Birmingham, 642-3909. Through Nov. 29, paintings by Edward Evans, raku pottery forms by Robert Piepenburg.
KLEIN GALLERY: 4250 N. Woodward, Royal Oak, 647-7709. Through Nov. 22, some funnythings by Dick Cruger.
LONDON ARTS GALLERY: 321 Fisher Bidg., 871-3606. Through Nov., 20th Century Art.
McGREGOR PUBLIC LIBRARY: 12244 Woodward, HP, \252-0288. Through Nov., photos by John Miller.
Exciting New Menu with many Middle Eastern Entrees added Plus American & Middle Eastern Daily Specials
4124 Woodward Ave., 4 blocks south of Cultural Center in Detroit's New Medical Center Entertainment Wednesday - Sunday Sundays 14.am- 3 pm Brunch with the Classics
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MORRIS GALLERY: 105 Townsend, Birmingham, 642-8812. Through Nov., paintings, watercolors and drawings by Earl Kerkam.
MUCCIOLI GALLERY: 511 Beaubien, 962-4700. Through Nov. 20, stained glass by Richard Miller and Charles Schweigert. Opening Nov. 22, prints and watercolors by Keith Brown.
MULLALY GALLERY: 1025 Hayes, Birmingham, 645-2741. Through Nov., original prints by James A. Rome.
NORTHWEST ACTIVITIES CENTER: 18100 Meyers, 224-7595. Through Nov., Workers and Allies: Female Participation in the Union Movement, 18201976. Photos assembled by the Smithsonian, and sponsored by THREADS, a program of the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union.
OAKLAND COUNTY CULTURAL CENTER: in Oakland County Courthouse Lobby. Through Nov. 28, wildlife prints by Sidney Courtney. Wildlife sculpture by Birmingham sculptors.
PEWABIC POTTERY: 10125 E. Jefferson, 822-0954. Through Nov. 15, raku pottery by Susan and Steven Kemenyfly. Opening Nov. 23, Annual Holiday Sale of Pottery.
PHOTOGALLERY: Detroit Public Library, 5201 Woodward, 833-1000. Through Nov. 30, Photographs: Politics 80, photos by local artists.
PIERCE ST. GALLERY: 217 Pierce, Birmingham, 646-6950. Through Nov. 25, photos by Mario Giacomelli.
PITTMAN GALLERY: 300 Ren Cen, 259-2235. Through Nov., paintings by Allie McGhee.
THE POSTER GALLERY: 304 Fisher Bidg., 875-5211. Through Nov., floral posters, plus gallery selections.
PYRAMID GALLERY: 240 Grand River, E. 963-9140. Through Dec., drawings by Carl Owens, original silkscreens by Romare Bearden, prints by Mathais Muleme, photos by P. H. Polk.
RAMAYAN ARTS: 400 Ren Cen, 2596220. Through Nov., antique and contemporary arts from the Far East.
RUBINER GALLERY: 621 S. Washington, Royal Oak, 544-2828. Through Dec. 3, watercolors by Marjorie Hecht. SCARAB CLUB OF DETROIT: 217 Farnsworth, 831-1250. Through Nov. 21, Michigan photographers (juried exhibition.)
TRIKA GALLERIES: 1140 N. Telegraph, Dbn., 562-2300. Through Nov., classic automobiles, sculpture, jewelry, etc.
TROY ARTI GALLERY: 755 W. Big Beaver, Troy, 362-0112. Through Nov. 22, Japanese woodblock prints.
WILLIS GALLERY: 422 Willis. Through Nov. 23, paintings by Mary Bruns, W-F,
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KITCHEN HOURS
Mon.-Thurs. 10-6
Friday 10-9
Bar until 2 am 267 Jos. Campau 259-0966
4-7 pm, Su 1-5. WOODLING GALLERY: 42030 Michigan, Canton, 397-2677. Through Nov., craftspeople.
various media by local.
YAW GALLERY: 550 N. Woodward, Birmingham, 647-5470. Through Nov. 19, John Glick, ceramics. Opening Nov. 21, Textiles of Sumba.
YOUR HERITAGE HOUSE: 110 E. Ferry, 871-1667. Through Nov., photos by Hugh Grannum. Regular exhibits, tours booked by reservation.
XOCHIPILLI GALLERY: 115 E. Fourth, Rochester, 652-0337. Through Dec. 7, paintings by Daniel Morper. (Joint exhibit with Lawrence Institute of Technology.)
AIRWAVES
COVER STORY: Nov. 26, 9 pm. Adoption in America looks at process and problems; local follow up at 10 by commentator Dennis Wholey. WIVS, Channel 56.
DANCE IN AMERICA: Nov. 17, 8 pm, Pilobolus, those dazzling, comic gymnasts and serious dancers precede the Noguchi special at 9. WIVS, Channel 56.
DETROIT BLACK JOURNAL: Nov. 21, 9:30 pm (repeat Nov. 23, 2:30 pm). Host Gene Elzy interviews musician Roy Ayers; also featured are highlights from recent Watts Club performance. WIVS, Channel 56.
HOMEGROWN: Mondays, midnight. Local rock talent gets a chance. WWWW, 106 FM.
METRO TIMES co-publisher Laura Markham and associate editor Herb Boyd are interviewed by Linda Wright Avery at 11:30 am this Sunday on FR
WJBK, Channel 2. NOGUCHI: Nov. 17, 9pm.An hour-long film documentary on the man who brought you the aluminum doughnut. WIVS, Channel 56. NOT FOR MUSICIANS ONLY: Sundays, 11:30 pm. Host Carl Coffey talks with people involved in all facets of the music biz. Charlie Martin, former Seger drummer, co-hosts. WRIF, 101 FM.
OPTIONS IN EDUCATION: Nov. 22, 9 am, Children of Single Parent Families" relays study showing effects on kids. WDET, 101.9 FM. PEARLS: Six-part series, beginning Nov. 25, 8:30 am, on history and culture of Asian-Americans. WIVS, Channel 56.
PRISONER: CELL BLOCK H: M-F, 11 pm. This intellectual soap from Australia has attracted a cult following for its realistic portrayals of women in prison. WKBD, Channel 50. A QUESTION OF PLACE: Nov. 20, 8 pm, Simone De Beauvoir: A Portrait In Sound. Actress Viveca Lindfors portrays the writer/philosopher. WDET, 101.9 FM.
THE RELUCTANT ROBOT: Nov. 27, 9 & 11:30 am. Nationally acclaimed program for kids explores the outer reaches of the universe using Star Wars and Empire Strikes Back"" like characters. WKBD, Channel 50.
STEVE DAHL BREAKFAST CLUB: Weekdays, 6-10 am, live from Chicago the master of gonzo radio. WABX, 99.5 FM.
SPORTS WITH ELI ZARET: MF, 6, 7:30, 8 am, 5:15 pm. Sports pundit knows all, tells all. WRIF, 101 FM. TURKEY ON PARADE: Nov. 27, 9 am. Macy's annual strut, live from New York. Hudson's local procession interrupts at 10 am. WDIV, Channel 4. W4 PLAY: Sundays, 11 pm-midnight, an hour of alternative new music, commercial free. WWWW, 106 FM.
POLITICAL
BOARD MEETING OF WAYNE COUNTY NEIGHBORHOOD LEGAL SERVICES: Nov. 20, 7:30 pm, Women's Justice Center will be discussed. Call 962-9015 for location.
MARX'S CONCEPT OF WOMAN: Nov. 17, 7 pm, 2832 E. Grand Bivd., Rm. 304. Sponsored by Women's Liberation News & Letters. 873-8969.
RIVERFRONT WEST: Nov. 14, 9:30am, City Council preparatory discussion for public meeting. Nov. 25, Public Meeting on proposed tax break. Call 224-3270 to confirm times and locations.
FRIDAY Nov. 14 AND EVERY SAT. IN NOV. GERRY O'CONNOR & i JONES Nov. 21
Nov. 17 Gamma, featuring Ronnie Montrose, Harpo s, 823-6400.
Nov. 17 Thin Lizzy, Center Stage, 455-3010.
Nov. 19 Dire Straits, Royal Oak Music Theatre, 546-7610. 4
Nov. 20 B. B. King/Bobby Blue Bland, Phelps Lounge, 867-2311.
Nov. 20, 999, Madison Theatre
Nov. 20 999/Athletico Spizz '80, Madison Theatre, 961-0678. Nov. 28 Joe Cocker, Royal Oak Music Theatre, 546-7610.
Nov. 20-23 Lonnie Liston Smith/Gil Scott-Heron, 20 Grand, 873-1100. Nov. 29 Jimmy Cliff/Third World, Royal Oak Music Theatre, 546-7610.
Nov. 21 George Thorogood and the Destroyers, Royal Oak Dec. 3 Jack Bruce/Ciem Clempson/Billy Cobham/David Sancious, Music Theatre, 546-7610. Harpo's, 823-6400.
Nov. 21 Prince, Masonic, 832-6648.
Dec. 4-5 -Rocky Horror Show, Royal Oak Music Theatre, 546-7610.
Nov. 28 Norman Connors & The Starship Orchestra featuring Adaretha/ Music Theatre, 546-7610. Jean Carn/Ahmad Jamal, Masonic, 832-6648.
Dec. 16 Steve Forbert/Billy Burnette, Harpo's, 823-6400.
[: to catch Gil Scott-Heron and the ~
Midnight Band each time they come to the Detroit area. From hisinception by way of poetry in the sixties to his latest LP Gil Scott-Heron/Brian Jackson 1980, his poetry has been fused with the music that touches Black people closely. Be it blues/jazz or rhythm and blues, his poetry and music are rich with feeling and the style from which the Afrikan strains have endured all through slavery to the present. You can feel this when you hear his words; his poetry is about a people.
The eighties has just eincted Ronald Reagan as President and swept the Grand Old Party into power in the Senate. His new record shows the continued concern that Gil Scott-Heron has « in being a poet of his people the ability of seeing into a people s soul and spirit, and projecting that essence of their Scorching and improvisational rhythm of surviving in a hostile environment.
Listening to the record 1980, as it begins with the conquest of space, we pick up how his music, with Brian Jackson at the helm, rocks with blues that rich deep bass line with its feeling and style that has permeated AngloAmerican music in all its varied forms.
Exemplary of this balance oflyrics and music is the title tune. The blues bassline of the guitar with the back beating of the drums gives funkiness, pull the youth and those of us still into dancing, then the words of his rich romantic voice spill fortiG
Robot dignitaries there to welcome you. Aliens applaud as you pass on review. Nourishment/encouragement for the captain and his crew
Includes a ticker tape parade down their main avenue.
publisher of Black Graphics International/A Journal on Literature and Art. He is also an active artist, playwright and poet in the Detroit area.
Gil Scott-Heron:
The People s Poet
by Aaron Ibn Pori-Pitts
And: you're captured by the Dream Machine.
(Chorus)
It's 1980 and there ain't even no way back to "75 much less 1969. It's 1980 and ain t nobody asked me no time lately how we gonna open the door for 1984.
God will continue to look out for the children
But the fools will have to look out: for themselves.
While rhythm and blues make up the basic element of the music with riffs of jazz and even hints ofragtime, the record is displayed in the jazz category. Why?
Why not in the rhythm and blues or contemporary pop category? I think its because of the ideas that his lyrics -
project. The musical direction is innovative and establishes an unforgettable urban folk sound that s international in scope and spirit.
Fewer people listen to jazz than rhythm and blues or contemporary pop music. This country will do anything to keep the masses of people in an automaton state even to the point of not thinking seriously about your own individual worth or work. Gil Scott-Heron is serious and committed, his work poetry and music reflects his understanding of ourselves in this society.
Music is the common thread that knits together the souls and spirits of
humanity. The transmission of its sound gives the feeling as it vibrates through the ear channels that its an extension of the human voice even though we might speak in different languages. Gil ScottHeron s lyrics have that same tonality like a vocalist extending his or her voice in that imaginative and innovative improvisational lyricism that gives it that tonal beauty as ifit is possessed by the spirits. The mobility and unpredictability is unbelievable. Gil acts with that type of motion constantly changing as he~ solves old problems and deals with the new ones. He acts as a 21st century poet/prophet with a mission. Eugene B. Redmond speaks of this motion in his monumental research Drumvoices/The Mission of Afro-American Poetry: A Critical History. Drumvoices comes as a rebuttal to those who say poetry's impact on humanity's consciousness has been insignificant. Gil Scott-Heron is a testimony to that thesis.
In summary, if you've never seen this man perform then you should, and if you've seen him before, go catch him: again in the unique setting of the new 20 Grand, which in itself has a history in terms of the cultural evolution of Black people. One day we'll speak on that. But go and catch a living revolutionary who uses his poetry and music to help in the struggle of our survival ask him to sing Willing.
What my life really means is that the songs that I sing are just pieces of a dream that I've been building. We can make a stand And here, I And here, I'm reaching out my hand Cause know damn well we can If we are willing.
Gil Scott-Heron will be appearing at the 20 Grand Noy. 20-23. See WHAT'S - HAPPENIN for further info. _
Aaron Ibn Pori-Pitts is editor and
= Brian Jackson and Gil Scott-Heron
PHILIP GLASS DANCE
NOs, |AND 3
Brian Eno/Harold Budd
Ambient 2 The Plateaux of Mirror :
EG Records
Brian Eno/Jon Hassell
Fourth World Vol. 1 : Possible Musics
EG Records
Philip Glass Dance No. 1 and 3
Tomato Records
Brian Eno s _pedigree -is impeccable. He was one of the early members of Roxy Music, worked with David Bowie and Robert Fripp and produced albums for the likes of the Talking Heads and Devo. Basically considered a synthesizer player, Eno~ has teleased a number of his own albums, both solo and in collaboration with others, over the past few years.
With Ambient 2 The Plateaux of Mirror Eno in partnership with pianist Harold Budd has generated another album much in the vein of his earlier Another Green World and Music for Films, in that the music is essentially static. It seems to be an exercise in establishing a calm mood through the use of repetitive, subdued and subtle modulations throughout the length of the record, While this approach is initially interesting for its apparent subtlety, it quickly becomes obvious that there is no real inner movement or development under the surface modulations which might induce a person to really listen to this record more than once. Generally, it sounds like background music much of it played from the bottom ofa swimming pool. This is not music to tap your foot to, but music to nod your head to. Eno (in collaboration with Jon Hassell) has created a much more interesting disc in Fourth World Vol. 1 Possible Musics.
Dire Straits MAKING MOVIES
- Warner Brothers
This third and latest album for Dire Straits, Making Movies, is plagued with contradictions; with Making Movies, Dire Straits has come closer to their own, original sound, yet there is that nagging feeling that you've heard this before, somewhere. It is the clean, almost sparse but evocative guitar work of Mark Knopfler, along with the drummer, Pick Withers, that keep the seven tunes on this album from sounding rehashed. Yet you can listen to the
Here his tendency to get absorbed in spacey, repetitious garble is neatly countered by some very intense and arresting polyrhythms played on acoustic instruments as well as on the synthesizer. The use of Third World --musics and instruments lends a definitely exotic tone and _ rhythmic influence to the music. Unlike Ambient 2, there is a tension and drive to their music whichis both appealing and rewarding. The blurring of the lines separating pop from classical music is nowhere more apparent than in the world of avant garde. Philip Glass Dance No. 1 and 3 is Stmilar to much of Eno s creations in its use of repetitive modulations and counter-
Knopfler
entire album without realizing that John Illsley is back there, on bass; he takes no chances, and none are given him.
Here Dire Straits again shows its penchant for doing rather long and wordy ballads, with better-than-average results ( Tunnel of Love and Romeo and Juliet are the best). Others, such as Espresso Love, Solid Rock . and Skateaway may actually offer the listener something to tap his/her feet to, but then you have to ignore the prominent lyrics by Knopfler on a selective basis, which range from catchy to plainly banal ( Skateaway . describes the
strength one must have to bea pretty girl on skates, wearing portable headphones, and dodging downtown traffic). Yet, if you can handle the inconsistencies, you might want to give Making Movies some relaxed listening; there s not much to get worked up about.
Sam Mills
(For those of you interestedin catching Dire Straits live, the group will appear in concert at the Royal Oak Theatre, Nov. 19. See WHATS HAPPENIN for further info.)
thythms to generate a mood and tension. Here again accoustic instruments (saxophones and voice primarily) are used in conjunction with synthesizer. The tesult is a generally pleasant, upbeat sound that just keeps percolating along. Unfortunately, the effect is that of a renaissance band gone amuck. This record, too, does not hold up under repeated listening.
Peter Dale
Minnie Riperton LOVE LIVES FOREVER EMI
Minnie Riperton, coloratura soprano of contemporary music, is at her usual excellence ~in this, her last gift to her listening public.
Love Lives Forever is as diversified and flexible as Minnie s voice. Using such great vocal additives as Roberta Flack, Peabo Bryson, Michael Jackson, George Benson and Patrice Rushen, enhanced by the instrumental skills of Tom Scott, tenor sax, Hubert Laws, flute, Michael Boddicker, synthesizer, Stevie Wonder, harmonica, Gerry. Vinci, violin, and Patrice Rushen, -electric piano, this record is, indeed, a musical beauty.
It is liquid. It flows with precision through pianissimos and fortes. It has magic and merit. Is this recording blues, rock, disco? No! It defies categorization. It simply has its own meaning and its own validity.
Here We Go, I'm In Love, and Give Me Time are ballads that will hold their own. They are emotional statements that will compete for time and space in the musical hemisphere and ultimately be accepted as standards.
Strange Affair . You Take My Breath Away and The Song of Life (La, La, La) permit, as well as suggest, that the listener loosen up and dance.
Island In The Sun is pure jazz.
Minnie did her own thing, her own execution, her own material, clearly stating, I want to share. I want to give. accept this as a personal gift.
Reva Mitchell
Mark
oz Minnie Riperton
Photo: Ebert Roberts/Musician Magazine
Concert Previa
by Geoffrey Jacques
One of the outstanding features of the major performing groups in the history of jazz music is the deep spirit of collectivity which pervades the creation of this music.
Such collectivity is hard to maintain because each performer must create music that is unique, indeed strikingly individual, thereby setting up a strong tension between the need for a music which reflects the specific character of each performer and a unified group music in which three, four, five or two dozen musicians have the sound of one.
AIR, a five-year-old trio of musicians from Chicago's south side, now based in New York, is one of the outstanding musical ensembles in the United States today precisely because of the success they have had in tackling this problem creatively.
Scheduled for their Detroit / premiere at the Detroit Jazz Center the weekend of November 14 (see WHATS HAPPENIN ), this group, which consists of saxophonist-flautist Henry Threadgill, bassist Fred Hopkins and percussionist Steve McCall, will attract crowds eager to hear a fresh, exciting music full of movement and theatre, with constant surprises stored in the collective improvisations of the performers involved.
An indication of the trio s nightclub and concert performances is given in their recording Open Air Suite (AristaNovus AN 3002). This recording, called the group's masterpiece by New York Times critic Robert Palmer, is an accurate example of the pan-harmonic, exploratory and rhythmically free for which this group is world famous.
Switching from _ baritone saxophone or flute to alto saxophone or tenor, Threadgill s
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voice, as the most obvious in the ensemble, is a melodic swirl, here in a nursery-song groove, there in thundering percussive statements recalling the sound of marching bands
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only this march is a space-age strut. These statements and songs take place in constant dialogue with the bass and drums. Hopkins is a virtuoso who con-
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structs smooth, if complex, melodies, while McCall can one minute sound like a whole percussion ensemble and, almost immediately, disappear to the point you just barely feel the velvet sound of his cymbals. He has been called, and rightfully so, the only drummer alive who can break your heart with a drum solo:
AIR is a product of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians, an artists collective based in Chicago which has produced such outstanding creative musicians as Muhal Richard Abrams, Anthony Braxton and the Art Ensemble of Chicago.
Everyone _ interested ina stimulating musical experience, as. well as an example of the * state of the art of today's creative music should check out AIR this weekend. It is an expetience likely to be well remembered.
French Cuisine for
by Ron Aronson
What looks like The Clock or The Nugget, serves the same kinds of food and just as quickly, but has a three-foothigh blue fleur-de-lis above its family dining sign to advertise its moderately priced and sometimes delicious French cuisine?
Give up? Well, its Chez Robert, in St. Clair SAores.
In an unusual combination the kind one might expect, say, on Ottawa Street in Windsor, but scarcely ever in the United States six-month-old Chez Robert serves breakfast, lunch and dinner in a-red_plastic-and-formica dining room, but also has high aspirations.
Its owners are well known to Detroitets who for years ate at their Mama and Daddy Coney Island on Beaubien. The menu includes Reubens, patty melts and four different kinds of fried seafood dinners priced from $3.25 to $4.50. But for lunch it also includes genuine French onion soup au gratin (made with several cheeses at $1.25), Crepe Farcie Maison (filled with chicken breast, mushrooms and sweetbreads, at $4.25), Quiche Lorraine ($2.35), an intriguing ham and
asparagus roll au gratin ($3.50) and Brochette Parisienne (beef on a skewer, at $4.25). The lunches are served with salad and a roll and butter.
In addition to all of these, dinner at Chez Robert includes Canard al Orange ($8.50), breast of chicken a Ia Parisienne (the chefs own recipe with an original stuffing and Sauce Tarragon, at $7.25), their highly popular monk fish with an original Sauce Duglere ($6.95), and a nightly special. On a recent Friday visit the special was broiled cod Provencale with a sauce of herbs, celery, mushrooms, tomatoes and spices ($4.25).
The kitchen is dominated by its fussy' ~ French chef, Jean-Robert Guiboux, who will call waitresses back into the kitchen with plates that are not arranged just so. He will also cook, on request, his special dinner for your party, and will serve it on linen, crystal and silver.
Beginning as early as 6 am, cheflear-. Robert makes a fresh soup every day which might be the thick, piping -hot mushroom soup we had, or New England clam chowder, bean, lentil or pea. He also makes his own salad dressings, including an excellent herb-filled creamy garlic.
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almonds, a glaze, cinnamon and whipped cream, and itself would have been worth the trip to St. Clair Shores.
The dining room of Chez Robert is run by Anica Guiboux, whose accent (she is from Yugoslavia) and warmth give the place much ofits pleasant air.
Lunch served from 11. am to 4 pm
Cocktail Hour
Hors d oeuvres and sandwiches served from 4 pnruntil 6 pm
Banquet and meeting room facilities for 10 to 1200.
Phone 259-0677 for reservations or information regarding meeting rooms or banquet facilities.
Open 11. am to 7 pm Mon. - Fri.
On recent visit his cooking ranged from fair to excellent. While his steak Bordelaise was not thick enough and its sauce more gravy than a true wine sauce, the Canard a l 'Orange was moist, tender and had an excellent, pungent orange sauce that was made to order. Although the skin on the duck was too soft to be the crisp delicacy it deserves to be, the dish was well prepared, looked good on the plate and was thoroughly enjoyable. It was served with peas anda marvelous ham-scented dish of potatoes au gratin.
For dessert we had-creme caramel, which was delightfully light and not too sweet, but lacked some of the burnt sugar taste that usually makes this dish so delicious. A second dessert, a tarte maison devised by Jean-Robert only because he couldn t get fresh strawberries, was the highlight of the meal. It consisted of a thick home-made pastry, covered with thin-sliced apples, slivered
Don't go to bright and bustling Chez Robert for a romantic evening out; and don t go for a consistent experience ofle haute cuisine. Indeed, you won't find a leisurely meal, wine, or a feeling of pampered elegance.
But by all means do go for a family dinner with the kids if you want French cooking while they eat hamburgers. And do go for a friendly atmosphere and, after the evening rush, chatter with Anica and the waitresses. Go if your companions are addicted to fast food but you insist on sole Amandine, and if, by picking and choosing, you want to eat some very special cooking relatively cheaply. Above all, go to Chez Robert ifyou want ~ to be in on the carly stages of a new success story and a find among Detroit-area restaurants.
(Chez Robert, 26400 Harper, St. Clair Shores, 774-8860, ee 8amto9pmdaily.)
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Catering to the needs of adults. Every Friday from 5 pm-8pm something special for all downtown employees, admission is only $3 before 8 pm. From 8 pm - 4 am Friday nights come alive with disco dancing and live entertainment. Admission is $6 and you must be 21. B.Y.O.
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Review by Joseph Zendell
Bruce Millan s Detroit Repertory Theatre season opener, Istvan Orkeny s Catsplay, is a winner in many ways. Always a theatre that attempts to break new or at least overlooked ground, DRT has chosen as its first play ofits 15th year a moving and jarring drama of intense feeling for our human condition.
Playwright Orkeny takes us to his native Budapest ofthe 1960s, into the life of one Bela Orban, solidly acted by Dee Andrus. Andrus, an accomplished DRT actress, draws us a wonderful portrait of a funny, complex, lying woman of about 65 who refuses to believe that life can t be enjoyed when you're old. Mrs. Orban s passion, an unrelenting and almost naive acceptance of her humanity whenever and wherever she can, is at the heart of this play.
Providing us with a measuring stick for Mrs. Orban's un-old ladylike activities is her wheelchair-bound sister, Giza. Giza is tightly played by Barbara Busby, also no stranger to the.DRT stage. A fearful and somewhat unfulfilled woman, Busby s Giza is a tragic reverse image of her more vital, inspirational, life-grabbing sister. She presents us with the awful
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Dee Andrus as Bela Orban alternative to not taking life s risks and ending up old having never been young. Both actresses bring to the stage startlingly good performances of depth and intelligence. The sisters, so very different, combine their lives to teach us something important about choice and the fear of choosing. In the end, it is Mrs. Orban for whom we cheer. The loser, but the fighter. We see through her the truth that you can t win if you choose not to play.
William Boswell, a booming actor of maturity and strength, plays Mrs. Orban's old and current lover, former opera star Victor Vivelli. He is the focus of much of Mrs. Orban s joyous and ageless lust for life. Even as he flirts and woos Mrs. Orban's friend, Paula, ably played by Ruth Palmer, Victor remains the symbol of Mrs. Orban's grand fight for life and rejection of old age.
Monika Ziegler is also quite strong as Mousie, Mrs. Orban's appropriately named next door neighbor, friend and confidant. Ziegler's supportive role is a carefully constructed characterization of a simple Hungarian whose adoration of Mrs. Orban serves to reinforce our positive feelings about this lusty woman. It is only near the final curtain, however, that we are shown the real depth of their relationship as, with the now-visiting Giza looking on, the two women play out a familiar cat game, crawling and laughing with abandon on Mrs. Orban's living room floor.
As Mrs. Orban's daughter, Ilona, Alisa D. Foster imparts her small role with a sleek vigor and vitality. Other supporting roles, Robert Williams as_ Ilona s husband, Barbara Henderson as Victor's mother and John Baird as a waiter, lack
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power due mainly to the script which, simply doesn't provide them with much substance.
Millan s direction suffers from designer Dick Smith's ill-conceived set that very nearly hides Mrs. Orban's friend, Paula, from perhaps a quarter of the audience until the end of the first act. Smith s lighting is, unfortunately, just as distracting.
Though technically flawed, Millan's production is well acted. It is also a valuable piece of theatre, one that speaks of joy and triumph, and the ageless feelings of life on which we sometimes lose our tenuous grasp. Of perhaps minor significance to the more stolid DRT fans, but probably important to the suburban audiences fearful of coming into the city and not finding a place to park is the extensive renovation program at DRT. With a spacious parking lot and a lovely new facade, Millan's facility is now a well-lit and quite striking theatre making it among the finest looking theatrical plants in the city.
In addition, DRI is exhibiting a number of paintings by Howard Weingarden, a Detroit artist.
Catsplay runs through December 31.
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MELVIN JACKSON, Bass
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The Mess That Bi
by Eli Zaret
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One of the major misconceptions on the Detroit sports scene is that Dick Vitale was the architect of the revolting situation otherwise known as the Detroit Pistons. That it was indeed the dometopped fast talking former coach who orchestrated a 16-66 season and led this current joke of a franchise to such depressing depths so keep that it could very well require five years of shrewd drafting and dealing to mold a top-contending team.
But that is not the case.
Tf there s something that s been bothersome to me, Vitale says, it s that very misconception. When was let go last year the team was 4 and 8, and | missed two of those losses when my father got sick. My point is, who traded Bob Lanier? Who cut John Shumate? Who didn't use the checkbook to re-sign M. L. Carr? And who won only 12 of the last 70 games? So I'm sick and tired of hearing people say that that was Dick Vitale s tearm.
Fact is that the team that began last season wasn't bad at all. Certainly eons ahead of this young, brave, but sorry cast that began the season with a 1-10 record, and going back to last year, managed to accumulate a record 22
Bill Davidson, Piston owner straight losses. No, the man ultimately responsible for the deplorable mess is owner Bill Davidson, a remarkably successful builder a miulti-millionaire genius in his field. How frustrating it must be then, to continually fail so miserably at his hobby, his first love, and suffer public scorn. Davidson's love for the sport began
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some four decades ago when he was a student at the University of Michigan. That love was shared, then and now, by his close friend and Piston partner, Oscar Feldman. Feldman has held various front office positions, and for years actually masqueraded as the general manager, despite a complete lack of playing or coaching credentials.
The wisdom that put together the present squad comes from general manager Jack McCloskey, who dumped Lanier and then built the youngest team in the NBA from a core of young talent that survived the Vitale purge. McCloskey is the so-called sound basketball man brought in last year. But his front office credentials are tough to find. He s been an assistant twice. Period. McCloskey was shocked to get the offer. In fact, the whole scenario is shocking.
Detroit is a hotbed for basketball. NBA rosters are dotted with the names ofa dozen outstanding talents from this area. In recent years you couldn't find an empty seat at the University of Detroit, or at Michigan and Michigan State. But the crowds are down to a trickle at the Silverdome. Only 3,000 recently showed up to see the Phoenix Suns, a dynamic team with the best record in the league. This is not to say that Davidson's team is doomed to continue forever in the failing ways of his first six years of ownership. But at least Bill Davidson realizes now that he and Ozzie can't do it all themselves. Vitale would tell him that, too.
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WATERBED 12-door pedestal with vibatron. Like new with headboard. Excellent condition, $600. 399-1579.
NIKKORMAT ELW w/50mm Ai & winder, F 1.4 Nikkor Lens $300. Nikkor 200mm f4 lens, $150. 6464098.
BRUNSWICK AIR HOCKEY GAME, 4x8, like new, $225; RCA Video Game, 4 cartridges, $80. 3880969.
L.L. BEAN HUNTING BOOTS, both sock shells, etc., $15. 836-4537.
CUSTOM DOLL HOUSE, colonial charmer. Value $1,500, must sell, asking $350 or best offer, like new, all features. 838-7069.
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BOOKS WANTED by the Library Company, 16129 Mack at Bedford. Cash paid. Also unique kites available. Closed Sun. & Mon. 881-5800.
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1973 DATSUN 240Z runs great. Dent in front, no extra charge. $2,000. 646-4098.
1980 CHEVETTE 2 door, 4 speed; AM/FM with tape deck, undercoated. Must sell $3,900. 571-5028.
1979 TRANS AM velour trim, auto trans, air, Sanyo AM/FM cassette, Special Edition stripe, electric rear defog. Rally wheels, Lamp Group & more. $6,200. Call Hank, 547-7500.
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KITCHEN REMODELING, basements, attics, recreation rooms, licensed and insured. $10 discount to end of Nov. JEB Construction. 7572944. If no answer, 757-2944.
GENEALOGICAL HISTORIES researched with your assistance. Free. Find lost adoptees. Information. Send SASE, National Research Service, PO Box 361, Dbn. Hgts., MI 48127.
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A-ONE BAND available for Christmas and New Years, all occasions. 354-2292.
FREE POLKA BANDS get a lead sheet of my hit Calumet Polka with lyrics. Large SASE, Jake Jarvela, 28210 Berkshire, S fld, MI 48076.
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LEARN THE EXQUISITE ART OF AFRIKAN HAIR DESIGN the plaitweave, hair-wrapping and braid extensions. Two sessions, Mon. & Tues., Dec. 1-2, 7-9 pm at Resurrection Lutheran Church, 15025 Fenkell, four blocks east of Greenfield. $5 per session, $8 for both sessions. Register in person on Nov. 17, 24 or Dec. 1-2, or phone 863-4821. Sprasored by Ngoma Za Amen-Ra anu supported by Detroit Council of the Arts and National Endowment for the Arts.
EGYPTIAN MARTIAL ARTS An introduction and demonstration by Kilindi lyi of the Osirica School of Martial Arts. For the serious student of combative arts. FREE. Tues., Nov. 18, 7-9 pm at Resurrection Lutheran Church, 15025 Fenkell, four blocks east of Greenfield. For information and early registration call 863-4821. Sponsored by Ngoma Za Amen-Ra, and supported by Detroit Council of the Arts and National Endowment for the Arts.
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THREE STEPS TO WEALTH SEMINAR. Nov. 16, 10 am to 4 pm. Lunch included. $25. School of Metaphysics classes to gain confidence and selfesteem. 8344 Michigan, Det. 48210. For info call 584-5820.
PIANO & VOICE LESSONS Harmonic & melodic dictation. 493-9276.
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FREE BLOOD PRESSURE PROGRAM every Tues. from 12:30 to 2:30 pm at Fitzgerald Comm. Council, 6337 W. McNichols, 8434960.
RON WALFORD, the Greektown cowboy artist has moved from his window to his new working studio at the corner of Lafayette and Beaubien. Visit him.
SEEKING HOST groups/individuals for Thurs. Social Hour for U.S. and International students at Wayne State University. Call 577-3422.
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