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stream of people converges towards the John R entrance of the Detroit Institute of Arts. The lobby of the auditorium is lit up with anticipation and excitement. That : n the brisk evening, a steady unmistakable aura which precedes. great premieres lingers about, sweeping people s faces as they exchange greetings, happy to be here.
Everyone has come, it seems. Detroit s intelligentsia, usually so hard to move, already adorns a few rows, patiently waiting. The crowd, this elusive entity, betrays
its composition graciously. The strata bear the usual labels: teachers, students, radicals, punkoids. They walk in, the way they ve always walked in, to any public place. Poets and musicians are easily spotted by that extra eye or ear they wear on their lapels. Undoubtedly, quite a number of others, lucky ones, get by without being pigeonholed. What is going on? Is this a French movie? A nuclear teachin? A thousand people are here to see Allen Ginsberg. It is a -demonstration of loyalty and_ respect to America s best known public poet. Allen Ginsberg, that 55-year-old beatnik, Buddhist
Stockman Lets
VOL. 2,NO.4 NOV. 26-DEC. 10, 1981
The Poet Hasa New Beat
Allen Ginsberg returns to read and sing at the Detroit Institute of Arts.
Jew, boy lover, America s dark mouth, its troublesome conscience.
In the few minutes before Allen s appearance | feel an electric thrill connect each row to the next, all the way to the balcony. We are together. The hall settles down and I almost expect the houselights to go out. Butof course we must see.
A small low table with teapot, a chair. Allen Ginsberg walks out onto the stage, dressed in dark suit, striped tie. He sits down promptly and begins playing a harmonium as a preface to his reading. This sweet-voiced traveler who likes to sit on rail-
road tracks at nuclear plants is sitting down to a Blakeian song. And when Thy heart began to beat, What dread hand?
What dread feet?
The audience is already his. What happens next is a narrative voyage through These States by a poet markedly unashamed of speaking the truth, of baring his heart, his armpits, his very navel. The language seems to be a mineral block, so accurate and clear as to withstand the erosions of time and its servants. America stop pushing! the poet once said and now
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Cat Out of Bag
Remember candidate George Bush calling Reagan s economic plans
Voodoo economics ? Now Stockman, the man who spent the last year implementing those policies, has something to add...
by David ananen
eeze, David Stockman has J really done it this time, hasn t he? He went and told the truth about Reaganomics and made the president mad. For that, Stockman had to contritely offer his resignation and apologize to Reagan, claiming he really didn t mean those nasty things he told
the Atlaatne. Better he should apologize to the American people for lying through his teeth for the past year about the true nature of supply-side economics. That s not likely to happen, however.
- Stockman likes his job too much to jeopardize it again.
Its interesting casting, Stockman as a whistleblower on the policies he helped sell to Congress. Of course, the
whistleblowing was unplanned. The whiz-kid budget director thought he was speaking off therecord when he let down his blowdried hair and dissected Reaganomics by allowing that:
@ Government budget cutters made snap judgments about what programs to slash during thesearch-and-destroy hysteria of last summer.
@ The Pentagon is a swamp
awash in blatant inefficiency, poor deployment of manpower (and) contracting idiocy.
@ The Kemp-Roth tax-cut plan is a Trojan horse designed to hide tax breaks for the rich.
@ Supply-side economics is just a trendy name for traditional conservative trickle-down policies,in which the rich are allowed to do what they want in hopes
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BIGOTRY
David Armstrong s column in the Oct. 29, 1981, issue of DMT contains the following descriptions of several U.S. presidents:
Grant was a drank. Coolidge was a mummy, Harding was a backroom card shark, and Johnson was a reincarnated snake oil salesman.
The American Medical Association long ago classified alcoholism as an illness with a defined disease symptomology. Yet, alcoholics are still ridiculed as drunks with no willpower and are routinely classified with criminals, cheats, liars and other unsavory characters.
I find it particularly disturbing that DMT chose to highlight this piece of bigotry in bold-face type. A paper that claims to be progressive and enlightened has chosen to promote the same hatred that was once directed toward lepers and epileptics. assume you hold more favorable opinions about cancer victims or diabetics.
Steve ShankDetroit
AN APOLOGY?
In the last issue of DMT, Dennis Vatsis wrote you a letter commenting about your biased reporting. In your own defense, you replied that the Detroit News is biased too. If was a member of your staff, I d be ashamed of the accuracy.of that ene son.
A truly liberal ahenative newspaper would present both sides of an issue and let
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its readers decide how to think rather than presenting only one side of an issue, the editor of the paper deciding how the reader should think.
You admit to being as bad as everyone else in town. Is the alternative journalism you are presenting away of making money off the left wing since the right wing market is already cornered?
I think your staff owes your readers an_ apology anda promise to correct this problem.
Jim Erwin Plymouth
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CRITICS CHOICE: Filmgoers who have been yearning for celluloid commentary are in for a treat tonight when Andrew Sarris, film critic for the Village Voice will speak on The Golden Age of Film: Pros and Cons. Sarris has been reviewing films for 30 years and is the chief proponent of the auteur theory of film criticism which maintains that the director is the sole creative force in a film. The lecture starts tonight at 7:45 p.m. in Friends. Auditorium at the Main Detroit Public Library. For ticket information, call 8334048.
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by Howard C. Miner
lot of people have been wonAes about the state of Monthly Detroit magazine which, of course, is owned by a corporation based in Ohio. Well, okay, I ve been wondering for a few months myself.
For most of its existence, Monthly Detroit has had a slightly schizophrenic nature. But recently, under: the editorship of Kirk Cheyfitz, the magazine seems to be at peace with itself. z
Advertising has won out over editorial whether through drugs, psychoanalytic therapy, _ electroshock or what is not known. The good, upscale, trendy, suburban advertising base has knocked off what used to be the bad, occasionally gritty, slightly irreverent city oriented editorial side.
Recent hard-hitting articles have welcomed the charming Kathy DuRoss (Mrs. Henry Ford II) to mass acceptance as a social leader despite her slightly seedy proletarian origins; revealed that there might be organized crime in Detroit, probably under the leadership of a group called the Mafia, (which produced a circulation-boosting lawsuit) and offered a contorted defense of the necessity of General Motors doing what is good for Detroit and America specifically in Poletown.
The magazine has also mounted a vigorous, running campaign against. GM defector John DeLorean and come up with some of the cleverest little excuses you ever saw for putting scantily clad females on the cover.
Surprisingly enough, however, the same Kirk Cheyfitz who has lead these developments turns around in the November issue and punctures one of the most sacred cows in all of modern journalism. Except when you stop to think about it, he doesn t have it quite right.
But listen or read if you will: It is not particularly startling that different newspapers and different journalists have different political views. What is very startling is the lengths to which modern newspapers go to hide and deny. these_ political biases.
It is the fiction of the modern newspaper that opinion is confined to the editorial pages and to occasional columns. All else in the paper, we are told, represents some objective ,view of the universe; a view so blandly universal N AIL 645-1838
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_-and without bias that everyone -who reads it will shout in unison, Yes, by golly, that s exactly what happened. That s precisely the way things are.
Well, by golly, that is the way things are. But in citing in his column a rare instancein which the News and the Free Press were diametrically opposed with their. headlines to a news. story, the larger point has been missed. For it is the rareness of that occurrence that is more revealing than the instance itself.
The political spectrum which exists is far broader than that which can find its way into mass media. As someone once said, the political outlook of U.S. journalism runs the gamut from A to B. And if anything, it is shrinking.
The diversity of viewpoints in the mass media in the U.S. is far less than virtually any other capitalist country. We have Freedom of thé Press, but in the entire nation there is not a single openly avowed Marxist with an outlet on a regular basis.
Or to put it another way, there are as many capitalist ideologues writing for the Soviet press as there are ideo~ logical socialists writing for the U.S. press.
Socialists do, of course, have the fragile right to publish their own papers as do other dissenters. In - qualitative terms, there is surely more diversity within the socialist and alternative press, small though its circulation: may be, than there is between the liberal New York Timesand the conservative Detroit News.
Murray Kempton is probably the most left columnist in the U.S., and he is not widely syndicated. Mike LaVelle used to weave a mishmash of right-wing ideology together with a kind of blue collar, anti-rich people tilt, but he apparently isn t currently published anywhere atall. Nicholas Von Hoffman, who like Kempton has never been carried in Detroit, has evolved from a kind of liberal Saul Alinskyism into the right-wing anarchism of the Libertarian Party. There is no regularly published pro-labor writer who consistently defends the trade-union movement.
And most importantly, since shortly before Reagan, the op-ed and commentary pages have been increasingly devoted almost exclusively to the vituperative likes of Joseph Sobran, Gary Wills, John Chamberlin, Anthony Greely, etc.
The particular reasons for all of this
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Continued from cover they'll toss a few crumbs to the rest of us when they ve finished their repast.
Stockman even acknowledged that, Whenever there are great strains or changes in the economic system, it tends to generate crackpot theories, which then find their way into the legislative channels. Thank you, David. Fhat s just what some of us have been. saying for some time, and-you put it very nicely.
Stockman will apparently keep his ee least for now because of his. high visibilityand encyclopedic knowledge of the budgetary maze. If only that were the case with less entrenched but more civic-minded government employees. You know the type federal workers who go public with criticisms of pet Pentagon projects and end up manning a desk in Tierra del Fuego. Or, say, the diplomat in ~ the Carter years who was so impolitic as to actually apologize to an international conference for destroying the Allende government in:Chile and was then made to apologize for apologizing.
As for Stockman, his mea culpa to the White House is a case study in the fine art of ~ covering one s behind. While sputtering that he didn t mean to embarrass the president, Stockman didn t deny saying what the Atlantic reported, and his explanation that his words don t mean what they say is as strained as Nancy Reagan s smile.
The real point of all this, in any case, is not
Continiied from page 5 are another question= perhaps for some future Adventure. But our thanks to Kirk Cheyfitz for at least letting a small dirty littie cat out of the media bag.
UNDERPA N TS
Perhaps by way of illustrating the above, it is intéresting to note the reception afforded the recent Detroit engagement of Napoleon. There was an.excellent critique of the music in the Detroit Free Press by music critic John Guinn. Indeed, the music was often in contradiction to an enjoyment and understanding of the film and appeared under Carmine Coppola s grandstanding to be projecting itself as a greater attraction than the film itself.
But none of the movie critics or anyone else paid any attention to what the film was/ about. In fact, Napoleon is appropriately compared with D. W. Griffith s Birth of a Nation. That film also was technicalTy innovative and brilliant. It also~ extolled the virtues of the Ku Klux Klan.
Napoleon projects most of the
whether Stockman s career is or isn t in jeopardy, but what:the policies he s promoted _mean for the country and the world. A hint of that can be gleaned from some statistics out of Washington in recent weeks.
One is the eight percent unemployment rate, highest since the recession of 1975. The other is the U.S. s continuing double-digit inflation, a skyrocketing stat that will continue to climb despite the Tweedledum and Tweedledee policies of the Republicans and Democrats, and despite a sly bureaucratic decision to stop including soaring housing costs in the inflation index. That s the way to whip the economy into shape just jiggle the numbers and redefine your problems out of existence.
Clearly, that solution so comforting in the suites of Capitol Hill and the chic restaurants of Georgetown won't wash in the lengthening unemployment lines elsewhere in the country. Reaganomics, as our budget director has acknowledged in spite of himself, is simply a restatement of 19th century laissez faire capitalism, and laissez faire never-worked for any but the few millionaires whose descendents now back Ronald Reagan. That s why the reforms of the New Deal were so hastily enacted during the system s mostsevere crisis. As Reagan and his. advisors .. with or without David Stockman undo those reforms, they will not salvage the system. Rather, they will hasten another fiscal collapse, maybe the final one. a
values arisingin Europe in the late 1920s which came to be associated with the rise of fascism. Jt presents Napoleon the man in a totally uncritical fashion asa strong-willed individual whose nationalism and territorial conquésts represent the path to greatness. To say his role in: the turbulent times in French history depicted in the film is oversimplified is putting it mildly.
Did figure this all out myself?
Actually not. An article by Peter Pappas in a recent issue of the film criticism journal Cineaste was critical to my understanding.
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Finally, it shouldn t be surprising that the Detroit News not only put out a paper that said that the Space Shuttle Columbia had taken off when it hadn't, but that they did their best to cover up the mistake as well.
Despite widespread coverage of the goof by other media, they didn t get around to admitting their mistake in their own publication until days later. Then it was treated as a joke. With docu-dramas, non-fiction novels, and the like, the whole defini-
writing contingency .
tion of truth as-we might have known it probably needs some examination. Included should be the practice of eye--witness leads.
Certainly the issues are more serious than the News wants to admit at least when they are the ones caught ,red-handed. Consider the following words from editor Bill Giles in his days-later column (the only acknowledgement the News ever carried) if they were applied to
thexJanet Cooke episode:
But how could such a smart, swift news operation make such a dand mistake? It wasn t easy, and it wasn t devious. The timing had to be perfect, which it was. The circumstances had to be exactly right, which they were. And the news coverage had to be dedicated and sincere, which it was.
Thanks, Bill. That s at least as good as the one about the non-existent three-martini lunch. |
The pseudonymous Mr. Miner is a media professional working in Detroit.
NEWS \City Moves to
Regulate |Boarding Homes |
by Chuck Fogel
&6 Ts fire began around midnight on
April 1 and burned for several hours. . Twenty-five of the 37 residents scien at the time of the fire died >of smoke inhalation. Many of these were burned beyond recognition. The home did not have heat detectors. It did not have a sprinkler system. Neither the fire department nor any other state agency had inspected the facility. The building was not required to meet any fire safety standards. From a report before the federal House Subcommittee on Health and Long-Term Care
The incident described above took place ya
. denied entrance. Although CBC was told being fed, we were unable to locate a city or home. In theory, this money is used to provide for the basic needs of thé residents, but -and others who must live in boarding
Sweaters in V-Neck 1+Cowl Neck Pullovers From $14.95 $21.95 Casablanca & Play It Again Sam oe > ae Dress Slacks of the residents had gone, CBC staff were Reg. $46 Now $25.95 KNICKERS (wool and that residents of the Rudd home were not corduroy) Now $23.95 state agency to intervene.
In many room. and board homes, it is common for funds in the form of individualSupplemental Security Income checks to be given directly to the operator of the
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others
who boarding houses are left vulnerable to exploitation by boarding home
in a boarding home for the elderly. The fact that this particular institution did not have to meet anykikind of safety standardsiis an unfortunate ~ characteristic of boarding homes across the nation.
In the- Detroit area, there are an undetermined number of dependent adults living in such facilities. Unlike nursing homes and adult foster-care institutions, room and board homes are not uniformly regulated by state or fedéral laws. Al-though Michigan regulates the operation of boarding homes which have 11 rooms or more, there are an untold number of boarding homes which escape official monitoring either because they are under the 1-room limit or because they have simply. gone unrecognized by the city. Judging from the complaints received by such consumer agencies as the Citizens for Better Care (CBC) and the Detroit Area Agency on Aging, there is a desperate need for some kind of official jurisdiction in this area.
Last winter we had a complaint that residents of a boarding home at 199 E. Grand Blvd. were being forcibly evicted and their belongings set out in the street, said Sue Rourke, executive- director of Citizens for Better Care.
Investigation revealed that HUD \was repossessing the building because the owner had not paid back rent. Meanwhile, the residents were dumped on the street. When we attempted to follow up on these residents by visiting: the Rudd boarding home at 1057 E. Grand Blvd., where some
must livein operators.
~ homes are left vulnerable to exploitation by boarding home operators.
ment of a special task forceto investigate
Recently, the Detroit City Council passed a resolution calling for the appointand license boarding homes in the city. The task force would set minimal fire, health and safety standards for group homes under the 11-room. limit and require the strict enforcementof the standards.
Council President pro, tem Maryann Mahaffey, working with several local advocacy groups such as the CBC and the Detroit Area Agency on Aging, introduced the resolution and pointed out that cedure- may translate into the misuse of public funds.
_the absence of an effective licensing pro-
Nocity or state agency has ths assigned responsibility for boarding homes. In the meantime, our tax dollars Supplemental Security Income and General Assistance are paid to boarding homes for sometimes questionable care and unsafe conditions, she said. >
The time has come to protect SeAalb and tax dollars through licensing boarding homes in Detroit where the elderly and 3510 mentally or physically disabled must live. We dward
The City Council expects to make the 00 War necessary appointments to the task force in Det. 832-9330 January. Until then, residents of unlicensed or substandard b._ ing homes,
the elderly and the handicapped, can do little more than shake their fists at the sky. & ae al
Conservatives Target Labor Corruption
by Michael Mariotte
enator Sam Nunn of Georgia is S probably best known, especially to liberals and leftists, as a hawk s hawk, with a single-minded devotion to defense, a spend more money to build more weapons and forget social goals kind of guy. Antiwar lobbying groups that try to defeat his views~on defense issues must stand nearly in awe of him. Unlike many in the defense establishment who rely on tired simplistic pronouncements like Peace Through Strength and whose world view has been fashioned by a stark good guys (us) bad guys (communists) cowboy melodrama, Nunn does his homework. In a conservative Republican controlled Senate, this conservative Democrat has his way more often than not.
But Nunn is no one-dimensional cold warrior. In fact, he may turn out to be the best friend the left, and especially the labor movement, has had in a long time.
In the tradition of two other southern Democrats, Estes Kefauver and John McClellan, Nunn has, in his quiet fashion, declared war on organized crime. And judging by his performance thus far, ridding the unions of the mob is one of his major goals.
Some labor activists and progressives belittle the threat of the mob. They prefer to fight the real enemy Reaganomics, the war build-upy«the corporations. All enemies worth fighting but not the only ones. Other liberals, such as Ramsey Clark when he was attomey general, cast a suspicious eye towards the FBI and doubt if the mob even exists; maybe its just another, justification for a higher budget. Still others, especially civil libertarians, find the FBI s tactics for investigating the mob too repulsive tosupport. .
But the mob, or whatever you want to call it Mafia, Cosa Nostra, syndicate, underworld does exist. It kills, it destroys, it steals from union members while they re working and steals
from their pensions when they ve retired. For honest workers in unions like the International Longshoreman s Association, the Laborers International, -and especially the Teamsters, it is the single largest stumbling block in the way of union democracy. and reform.
None of this should be news. The mob has been around for decades; it has been glorified and vilified in movies, on TV, in countless books and articles. But it seemshat every 20 years or so the American people must be reminded, _ preferably through large-scale congressional hearings, that the mob is stealingthem blind. Sam Nunn wants to remind you.
Last year, as chairman of the Senate Governmental Affairs Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, he went after fellow Georgia Democrat Jimmy Carter s Labor Department for blowing a five-year, $8 million investigation into the corrupt Teamster Central States Pension Fund. Inthe 1960s and 70s, the fund funneled millions of dollars, mostly through intermediaries, to organized crime figures to build Las Vegas casinos and resort country clubs, among other properties. The Labor Department s blunders were extraordinary.
For example, the-department limit-. ed itself to investigating the intermediaries, never reaching the mobsters who received the benefits of the Teamster money. Nunn said that Labor had wasted a historic opportunity to get the mob out of the = Teamsters and described: the department s probe as a textbook case of how not to run an investigation. The General Accounting Office, in a stillunreleased _ report, with Nunn s assessment.
- This year Nunn js the ranking minority member of the subcommittee, but chairman William Roth (Ragrees Del.) seems content to let Nunn run the show. Already, Nunn has chaired further hearings of the Central States investigation, as well as lengthy hearings on corruption in the International Longshoremen s Association.
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Those hearings led to Nunn s introduction of S-1785, the Labor Management Racketeering Act of 1981. S-1785 would make payoffs of over $1,000 to union officials a felony (these payoffs are currently a misdemeanor). More significantly, the bill would force union: officials convicted of most union-related crimes to leave their union offices and; would forbid them from holding union office for ten years. Currently, union officials convicted of abuse of union office are. prohibited from holding office for five years, but the prohibition takes effect only after all appeals are exhausted. Thus, union officials can file appeal after appeal, meanwhile continuing their profitable Under S- shakedown operations. 1785, an official would be kicked out of office immediately upon the first conviction, but the official s salary would be held in escrow. If the official won the appeal, then he would receive all back pay and be allowed to return to office.
If S-1785 were currently law, for example, Michigan Teamster organizer Roland McMaster, who reportedly has been convicted of 32 counts of labor extortion, would not hold his present position as international organizer, nor his powerful grip on the Michigan Teamster heirarchy.
McMaster, who serves at the pleasure of Teamster president Roy Williams, has been tied in several recent articles to Lyndon LaRouche and the curious U.S. Labor Party. McMaster endorsed LaRouche for president in 1980 (the Teamsters endorsed Reagan), and an associate of McMaster s reportedly received $96,000 in consulting fees from LaRouche s partially public- financed campaign.
Williams, who was identified in hearings before Nunn s subcommittee as a long-time member of the Kansas City mob branch run by Mafia boss Nick Civella (Williams was described as being under Civella s complete domination ), may well become the first major union leader to be removed from office should S-1785 pass. Williamsis cur-
Senator Sam Nunn of Georgia. rently under indictment for attempting to bribe Nevada Senator Howard Cannon.
In hearings before Nunn $< subcommittee in August of 1980, Williams took the Fifth Amendment 23 times to the 23 questions asked of him about his finances and organized crime ties. In the same week, Wilhams had a private meeting with then-candidate Ronald Reagan.
As things now stand, S-1785 has a reasonably good: chance for passage. AFL-CIO President Lane Kirkland s endorsement of the billin early November not only boosted its chances but also marked the first time a major labor leader has supported a bill aimed solely at union corruption.
Acknowledging that the labor movement needs government help in rooting out the racketeers, Kirkland said, Union office is a calling, not a business. The morals of the marketplace will not suffice. Those who enter that calling are, and should be, held to a higher standard. If a person holding union office takes an employer payoff for a substandard contract, misuses the right to strike for his own benefit or pilfers from the union treasury, that person does not simply stain his own honor. He tarnishes the bright efforts of the scores of men and women who have labored to create and maintain organizations worthy of the members we are privileged to represent and of society s good judgment.
Teamster spokesman Dave Sweeny said his union has not yet taken a position on the bill. Callingit a
sticky, sticky issue, Sweeny said that the union s public relations people were leaning toward supporting the premises of the bill, while others in
the union oppose it. In a possible indication of which way the tide is running at Teamster headquarters, Sweeny said, I was a little aghast that Kirkland came out the way he did and supported nearly the entire bill. Sweeny also suggested that it might be unfair to pass a bill singling out racketeering in unions.
But a Senate staff member pointed out, Give me a similar organization which keeps in office people convicted of crimes related to abuse of their office.
Ken Paff of Teamsters for Democratic Union, a Teamster reform group, said that the TDU has not taken an official position on the bill. However, Paff said, We'd like to see our own union come out in favor of this, but you can bet they'll be against it so
S-1785 perhaps does raise a troubling civil liberties issue: should a person whose case is still on appeal be deprived of his livelihood? And a renewed FBI war on organized crime might raise other problems. But the only way the Teamsters, and the few other corrupt unions, can be returned to their members will be if the corrup_tion is first ended.
Politics makes strange bedfellows, the saying goes. Union reformers and activists may soon find themselves in alliance with what many of them probably once thought of as enemies: organizations like the FBI and peoplelike Sam Nunn. For in the real world, where ideology and pragmatism merge, one s friends and foes are not always clear-cut.
As Lane Kirland said, Throughout organized labor s history, there have been racketeers who have sought to prey upon, and to misuse, unions for their own benefit. They are not part of the trade-union movement. They are our natural enemies.
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365 GIFTS
Every year I give the same three gifts; calendars and books (the third gift is unprintable). To that end, there is one place that has it all: The Birmingham Bookstore. They carry a wide variety of calendars of many different subjects everything from Birds of America to Women Writers. Among the more popular are the Page-A-Day Wall Calendars. Each page features either sports facts, jokes, Bible verses, new words or other pertinent facts. The Natural Cat Calendar, which offers usefid tips on cat grooming such as how -to prevent cat dandruff, was another winner. Nearly 40 different calendars are available, including the I Hate Cats, Art Treasures and controversial Men of MSU
calendars. They have a nice variety of book subjects, with a wider choice of children s books than most stores offer. They really do have something for everyone. The Birmingham Bookstore is located at 263 Pierce, Birmingham, 6424404.
PALATE TEASERS
Holidays offer the perfect excuse to indulge ina few hard-earned ex- travagances. Maybe you're searching to add a little class to your Christmas party, or maybe you need a gift for someone who appreciates the finer nuances of gourmet cooking. You will find it in The Silver Palate a variety of sauces, nut oils and vinegars from New York. They come in traditional -American-looking jars attractively covered with checkered cloth. We sampled the Caramel Pecan Sauce, made with real cream and butter, and pronounce it sinfully rich and more delicious than any other. Try it heated on baked apples or ice cream and see for yourself. Available at Silver's, 151 W. Fort, Detroit, 963-0000. kk kK ok *
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_Post-Ascetic Productions, new local concert production company is showcasing three jazz bands
at the New World Theatre in Highland Park with a little help from the Detroit Council for the Arts and WDET. The show will be taped for possible submission to National Public Radio. Ticket information can be had by calling 577-4146. Speaking of WDET, their latest ten-day fundraising drive netted $118,000. Kok kw kk Pete Seeger will be coming to Detroit Feb. 13 to perform a benefit concert at Wayne State University. Ticket information is not completeat this time, but money raised will go toward a scholarship fund to | commemorate Spanish Civil War Veterans. RS kK ok kk
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Crash Landing, Warren, 751-4444. EXPEDITION with RALPH KOZIARSKI: Nov. 27-28, Old Detroit, 222-2972. FOSTER & RITCHIE: Nov. 27-28, Andrew's, 259-8325. -
LYMAN WOODARD ORGANIZATION: Th-Sa, Larned Place East, 963-1053. McKINNEY REUNION: Dec. 4-5, Old Detroit, 222-7972. <
ONE STEP BEYOND: Dec. 3-6, Watt's Club Mozambique, 864-0240.
ORANGE LAKE DRIVE: Dec. 9, Cafe Fior, Southfield, 357-3280.
PARADE: Nov. 27-28, Cafe Detroit, 831- 8820.
Prince, Joe Louis Arena, Dec. 4.
Here s another two weeks worth for all you calendar junkies. Inevitably, lastminute changes are bound to occur, so call first to make sure your event is still happening. And keep sending your info to Linda Solomon, DMT, 2410 Woodward Tower, Detroit, MI 48226. Deadline for the next issue is Dec. 3.
MUSIC JAZZ
AIRPORT featuring RON JACKSON: Wednesdays, Lamed Place East, 9631053.
AL HIBBLER, PAT LEWIS & GENE KEE TRIO: Thru Dec. 6, W-Su, Dummy
George s, 341-2700.
ANDREA CHEOLAS TRIO: Th-Sa, Sir Charles Pub, Royal Oak, 541-9593.
BESS BONNIER: Sundays, 1-4 pm, DIA Crystal Gallery, 832-2730.
BIRD-TRANE-SCO-NOW!, GRIOT
GALAXY & STRATA NOVA: Nov. 28, 8 pm, New World Theatre, 577-4146 for info. Tickets available at all CTC outlets and New World box office, BOBBY THOMAS & THE CHRIS RUTKOWSKI TRIO: Mondays, Jimmy D's, 341-3050.
CHANGES: Th-Sa in December, Stage Door, Ann Arbor.
CHARLES GREEN QUARTET: Dec. 913, Baker's Keyboard Lounge; 8641200. CHICAGO PETE & THE DETROITERS:
FRIDAY, DECEMBER i AT THE UNIVERSITY CENTER BALLROOM
Doors open from 8 to 2 p.m. SOUNDS BY
Nov. 27-28, Union Street I, Grosse Pointe Park, 331-0018. Sate
CITY LIMITS QUARTET: Nov. 25-29, Baker's Keyboard Lounge, 864-1200. CREATIVE ARTS COLLECTIVE featuring ANTHONY HOLLAND & GEORGE VARY: Dec. 5, 8 pm, DIA Recital Hall, 832-2730.
CUT GLASS: Th-Sa, Piper's Alley, Edison Plaza.
DAVE BRUBECK: Dec. 15, 8 pm, U-M Hill Aud., Ann Arbor. Tickets at CTC outlets.
DAVE WILBORN & THE LITTLE McKINNEY COTTON PICKERS: Dec. 36, Baker's Keyboard Lounge, 864-1200.
DOUG JORDON: Nov. 27-28, The Gnome, 833-0120.
DR. DICK'S GOOD VIBES: Mondays, T-SHIRT: MONTH! SHUT UP GREEN&BLKSTOCKMAN!" onWHITE.
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RON ENGLISH QUARTET: Dec. 3-5, Belcrest Hotel, 831-5700.
RON JACKSON & MARK MOULTRAP: F-Sa, Money Tree, 961-2445.
ROY BROOKS TRIO: Nov. 26-28, Belcrest Hotel, 831-5700.
SHEILA LANDIS & HER BANDITS OF BEBOP: Nov. 30, Holiday Inn, Farmington, 477-4000. Mondays in Dec., Baker's Keyboard Lounge, 864-1200.
W.S.U. JAZZ LAB BAND I: Dec. 3, 8 pm, WSU Community Arts Aud., 577-1795. Free. YELLOW JACKETS: Dec. 1-2, Baker's Keyboard Lounge, 864-1200.
JUANITA McCRAY & HER MOTOR CITY BEAT: Nov. 27-28, Delta Lady, Ferndale, 545-5483. L J. REYNOLDS plus ALICIA MEYERS: Nov. 28, 8 pm, Grand Circus Live Theatre, 965-5563. URBATIONS: Sundays, Soup Kitchen, 259-1374.
BOW WOW WOW plus LOS MICROWAVES: Dec. 8, Second Chance, Ann Arbor, 994-5350.CADILLAC KIDZ: Dec. Chance, Ann Arbor, 994-5350. CRASH RATZ: Nov. 26, Paycheck s, 872-8934. Dec. 3, Bowery, 871-1503. CUTBACES: Dec. 3, Lili s, 875-6555. THE END: Dec. 7, Cafe Fior, Southfield, 357-3280.
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0877. STORK & THE SHRUBS: Dec. 5-6, Free Style Club, 357-3280. 33-173: Nov. 26, Bookie s, 862-0877. Dec. 4-5, Paycheck s, 872-8934.he Dec. 4, Royal Oak Music Theatre, %46-7610.
DOMINIC BERTUCCI: F-Sa, J. Michael Bottoms, Windsor, (519) 255-1503. NIGHTCAP WITH MOZART: Birmingham Unitarian Church,.851-8934.-Nov. 27, 11 pm, Debra Fayroian and Maria Marielles.
OAKLAND UNIVERSITY CHORUS:
Recital Hall, 377-2000. RENAISSANCE CONCERTS: Orchestra Hall, 851-8934. Nov. 25, pm,-Misha Rachlevsky, Halo Babino, Jonathan Shames. W.S.U. SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: Dec. 9, pm, WSU Community Arts Aud,. 577-1795. Free.
AUTHOR'S PARTY: Alvin's Finer Deli, 5756 Cass, 532-2355. Dec. 6, 3-6 pm, party for Steven Tudor on the publication of his new book, Tudor s Anatomy. Music by Mr. Unique and the Leisure Suits. 414 POETRY SERIES: 414 W. Willis. Dec. 11, 7:30 pm, Dennis Teichman and Jerry Stormer.
WALKIE TALKIES: Nov. 27, for Lili s birthday and Nov. 28, Lili s, 875-6555. WARLORDS: Dec. 1, New Miami, 833- 4897.
WOMEN WITH MEN: Nov. 27, Bookie s, 862-0877. Nov. 28, Paycheck's, "872-8934.
ZOOSTER: Nov. 30 & Dec. 6-7, Baby's, Wayne, 722-3060. Dec. 1-2, Main Act, 7-8, September's, Roseville, 778-8150. Dec. 8-13, Sidestreet, Allen Park, 388-1186.
NEW WAVE
RETRO: Nov. 27-28, New Miami, 833-
by Michael Betzold
snob appeal? Want to impress your friends at parties with your knowledge of film noir, auteurism, mise en scene and other French words which no one understands? Here s quick and sleazy film rating system which will guarantee that you can one-up even Jack Mathews. Here s how it works: xk Stars are for quality WWWW W's for weirdness
ZZZZ Z's for sleeping.
The more (up to four) the more. Four Z's isa sleeper; four W's is Strangeness itself; but don't bother to look for four s, cuz Mr. Controversy is snob. He don't give four stars to anything that comes down the pike. If movie doesn't have any rating, missed it; and you can figure out whether did it on purpose.
ANN ARBOR FILM FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS.
The first 19 years of one of the world s foremost experimental festivals are excerpted in three separate programs, proving Brian DePalma was young once. (Ann Arbor Cinema Guild, Dec. 6-7.) BLOW UP. (x***xWWW) Follow the nonexistent bouncing ball as M. Antonioni takes you on pop-art joumey into the world ofillusion, circa 1966 London. In a masterful cinematic game, which works both as a suspense/thriller and as character study of modern personality, Antonioni anticipates the chic misogyny of "70s advertising and explores the jagged edges of 60s experimentation. (Cass City Cinema, Nov. 27-28.)
BREAKER MORANT. (eexW) War crimes didn t start in Vietnam, and following orders - didn t start at Nuremberg; as this powerful movie about the Boer War proves. When the British Empire needed scapegoat for its brutal war policy in South Africa in 1900, it courtmartialed three Australian soldiers who were part of special Green Berets-type guerrilla force. The charge: shooting Boar prisoners and German missionary. No matter that shooting prisoners was British army policy; the Germans had to be mollified. Morant is courtroom drama about the Australians military trial, with flashbacks detailing the truth of the incidents being testified to. Bruce Beresford, the director of The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith, doesn't apologize for what the Australians did, but he places it firmly in context of barbarous colonialism. The parallels to Vietnam are obvious. Beresford's exposition is brilliant. Jack Thompson, as the back-country solicitor who rises to the challenge of defending his countrymen, gives brilliant performance, heading superb cast. Breaker Morant never wavers, never flinches, never ducks the issues; its courtroom arguments prefigure all the debates about government atrocities that will mark the new century. Its hard thesis: abnormal men don't commit war crimes, normal men following orders do. Its target: the many faces of imperialism. Its perspective: an unfailing comic humanism. Stupendous, invigorating and intelligent a remarkable film. (Ontario Film Theatre, Dec. 1-2.)
CAGNEY FESTIVAL
An early and alate look at Jimmy and the gangsters. Cagney is paired with Jean Harlow in one of the most popular of the early gangster flicks, Public Enemy, made in 1931 (Dec. 4). In 1949's White Heat, Cagney plays ruthless killer who meets his end atop an off tank near the River Rouge (Dec. > ees
City Cinema.)
CALIGULA. Having 1978 X-rated flesh epic finally arrive in an R-rated version provides the same sort of satisfaction one would (presumably) get from thumbing through tattered old Penthouse magazines that have their-centerfolds torn out. Does it sound like bargain to all you heavy breathers in the crowd, or would you rather pay few bucks more and get the real trash atthe Krim?
ERASERHEAD. Go WWW WWW WWWWWWWWWWWW) Infinite weirdness. See review this issue. (Classic Film TheatrePunch Judy, Fri., Cinema Guild, Dec. 1.) EVERY MAN FOR HIMSELF. Godard s comeback film. (Punch Judy, Nov. 28.) THE FRENCH LIEUTENANTS WOMAN. (xZZWW) This film of John Fowles unfilmable novel continually sabotages the feelings it engenders by interrupting its Victorian saga with an annoying and unilluminating series of vignettes about the affair between the movie actors who are playing the Victorian parts. As an intellectual game, the modern parallel segments may have worked in the book; in the movie, it transforms what might have beena moving period drama into stale, cynical exercise. Probably the Victorian tale of Sarah Woodruff, who exhibits confused defiance of the ludicrous sexual mores of her day, and Charles Smithson, who overthrows respectability to pursue his mad love for the enchanting bad woman, would have stood alone as pretty fair film, given the acting talents of Meryl Streep and Jeremy Irons, and fluent directing by Karel Reisz. The script, however, offers rather muddled view of Sarah's rebellion, indulging itself in the misconception that she must be suffering some sort of madness, and Streep doesn'thelp much Sat. midnights; Wayne
FLEXIBLES, RAGNAR KVARAN plus STREET LIGHT NIGHTS: Nov. 30, Second Chance, Ann Arbor, 994-5350. HOI POLLOI: Nov. 28, Paycheck s, 8728934. THE JETSETTERS: Nov. 26, New Miami, 833-4897. NEWT & THE SALAMANDERS: Nov. 27-28, Alvin's,832-2355. THE RESISTORS: Nov. 27, Paycheck s, 872-8934. ROOMATES: Nov. 27, Bookie s, 8620877. Dec. 4-5,.Paycheck s, 872-8934. ROUGH. CUT: Dec. 5, Bowery, 8711503. SEATBELTS: Dec. 4-5, Lili s, 875-6555. SLANDER: Nov. 28, Bowery, 871-1503. SOCIAL CLIMBERS plus POST RAISIN BAND: Dec. 3, Bookie s, 862-0877. STEVE NARDELLA BAND: Nov. 27-28 Dec. 4-5, Star Bar, Ann Arbor, 7690109. STINGRAYS: Nov. 28, Bookie s, 8627, Second -
LINES: NEW AMERICAN POETRY: DIA, 5200 Woodward, 832-2730. Dec. 3, National Poetry Series presents Helen Adam. Informal talk, pm, Holley Room; reading, 7:30 pm, Lecture Hall. POETRY RESOURCE CENTER: 743 Beaubien at Lafayette, 964-0888. Dec. 6, pm, Talt Malone will discuss Etheridge Knight and the Black Aesthetic.
30, 7:30 pm, speakers include workers fired from Lockheed Aircraft on issues involving free speech for unionists. Sponsored by Political Rights Defense
E.RA: OCC Womencenter, Orchard Ridge, 476-9400, Ext. 509. Dec. 2, Carol King lectures
NEIL WOODWARD: Sundays, Alberdeen s, Northville, 348-3490. Dec. 1, Mr. Flood's Party, Ann Arbor, 995-2132.
RICK AVERY JUDY GREENHILL: Nov. 27, 8 pm, Folktown, Southfield Civic Center, 855-9848.
CLASSICAL
BACH BACON & EGGS: Sundays, live classical brunch, Cafe Detroit, 83120. BRUNCH WITH BACH: DIA Crysfal Gallery, 832-2730. Nov. 29, James Forger and Deborah Moriarty. Dec. 6, Pastiche Wind Quintet. BRUNCH WITH THE CLASSICS: Sundays, live classical brunch, The Gnome, =
Carolyn Striho of Rough Cut, THe Bowery, Dec. 5. Dec., pm, O-U Varner Recital Hall, 377-2000.
OAKLAND YOUTH SYMPHONY: Dec. 6, pm, Troy High School Aud., 3772000.
PRESIDENTS TRIO OF OAKLAND UNIVERSITY: Dec. 6, O-U. Varner
with her sometimes distant performance in evoking our strong sympathies for her character's plight, as was accomplished in the somewhat similar tale of Tess. We'll never know how good movie the central story would have made, though, given the mess this version, with its modern counterparts included, became. HEARTLAND. (*«ZZZ) The first major motion picture funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities plays like humanities class a generally dull treatise on the rigors of life in early-20th-century Wyoming. Heartland looks at first like long-overdue portrait of what it like to be woman on ranch in the remote West, but Conchata Ferrell fails to inject much life into her character's actions, and the script fails miserably in following through on its premises, ending up being typical story ofa woman's dependence on her husband (played by Rip Torn). Director Richard Pearce eschews Hollywood conventions but ends up instead with tasteless soup, slice of life that lacks dramatic tension, resolution and purpose.
HITCHCOCK. The first series of the planned retrospective concludes with the master of suspense s last English film, The Lady Vanishes (Nov. 29), and his first American film, Rebecca (Dec. 6). (Detroit Film Theatre.)
MARRIED WITCH. Rene Clair s Hollywood heyday is epitomized by this eccentric film about reincarnated Salem witch (Veronica Lake) who haunts. a descendant of the Puritan judge (Frederic March) who baked her at the stake. (Afternoon Film Theatre, Dec. 1-6.)
THE LAST WAVE. («xxxWWWW) A highpitched masterpiece of suspense, Peter Weir's Australian horror show has fine feel for small details that build to metaphysical proportions. More than other Australian films that deal with the clash of aboriginal and modern cultures, The Last Wave presents convincing case that
non-Western modes of knowledge have force. As the lawyer who dares not step too far outside:his own belief system, Richard Chamberlain gives the performance ofa lifetime: superrational human being who is too smart to deny the importance of his dreams. The genuine spookiness of The Last Wave ig created not by technical grandstanding but by V.-u delicate ways of connecting us to childhood bogeys, our civilized fears of the natural and the supernatural. few loose ends and muddled bits of symbolism can be excused by the power of the movie's assertion (made by Chamberlain to his father): We've lost our dreams and they come back and we don know what they mean. (Palmer Park Film Forum, Dec. 3-4.)
MESSIDOR. Switzerland's Alain Tanner, director of the delightful Jonah Who Will Be 25 in the Year 2000, has fashioned complex psychological adventure about two young women @Bendering across the countryside. Messidor has been hailed as unique approach to filmmaking. (Detroit Film Theatre, Dec. 4.) (NOSTALGIA). In conjunctionwith the opening of Hollis Frampton s photography exhibit at the Detroit Focus Gallery, free screening of Frampton s classic avant-garde film will be pre@®enied. (Detroit Film Project, Nov. 28.)
PERSONA. («***xWWWW) Bergman's masterpiece has cinematographer Sven Nykvist and actresses Liv Ullman and BibiAndersson at the height of their considerable powers. A haunting evocation of personality, an exploration into the limits of human identity, and principled statement on human performance both real world and theatrical, Persona is the ultimate experimental art film of the 60s, as well as lasting landmark of the cinema. Persona continues to baffle, enrage, depress and exhilarate even after repeated viewings. pteue remotely like has ever been attemmpt-
.ed by ae other director. like this movie. (Detroit Film Theatre, Nov. 28.)
PRIEST OF LOVE. D. Hy Lawrence gets what's coming to him.
REDS. Diane Keaton dna Warren Beatty meet the Russian Reyolution, in what is sure to be politically incorrect ea talment (Opens Dec. 4.)
A SLAVE OF LOVE. Binnpinus 1978 Russian epic about film crew engulfed by the Revoltition. (Wayne Cinema Guild, Dec. 3.)
SOUTHERN COMFORT. («xWW) Walter Hill's thinly veiled Vietnam allegory about a platoon of Louisiana National Guardsmen who precipitate small guerrilla war against the Cajun backwoodsmen of the bayou country is full of ambivalence about militarism and male bonding. Somewhat comparable to Deliverance, Southern Comfort revels in blaming rednecks for the excesses of American imperialism, while smugly supposing that the two intellectuals in the band (played by Keith Carradine and Powers Boothe) are superior to their comrades both as survivors and as social commentators. Hill does an excellent job of depicting soldierly disdain for the indigenous population, their land and their possessions, but ends up making the Cajuns~as despicable as the Guardsmen' s stereotypes of them. Hill wants to have it both ways: military invasions are stupid and unjust, but they are also exhilirating tests of manhood. Despite the pulsating rhythms of Ry Cooder s score, the forboding canvas of Andrew Laszlo s cinematography and generally competent acting, Southern Comfort smacks of dime-store liberal sociology and an all-too-easy disdain for the bigoted bimbos among the Guardsmen and the villainous bad Cajuns of the bayou. STRIPES. (xWWWZZ) Bill Murray s postanarchist Beetle Baileyis consistent represen-
tation of the new rock-and-roll patriots who _Citizen Kane (Nov. 24); the stylish The Lady sang Bomb Iran to the tune of Barbara Ann a year ago. To Murray and his Army buddies, putting some funk into weapons drill redeems it, and shooting at Commies from inside Winnebago that is a Pentagon-designed urban assault vehicle is great fun, as long as the enemy soldiers are just so many Space Invader blips on video console. Despite the apparent anti-authoritarianism of the film first hour, Stripes doesn't question the values of the New Army. To accommodate Murray and his gang, the military brass need only add adancing beat to the lock-step marching and give each of them video game to play with. Which is exactly what the New Army is doing, and that s no laughing matter.
f£ATTOO. Bruce Dern and friend use some strong body language.
TIME BANDITS. (x*xWWWW) By far the most satisfying Monty Python movie, Time Bandits, the story of renegade employees of the Supreme Being who flit through holes in the -unfinished timescape of creation merely for the sake of gleeful plunder, is the best adventure fantasy of the year. Wild costumes, fantastic sets and the usual Python craziness create History of the World that makes Mel Brookslook like fuddy-duddy. Sean Connery is Agamemnon, John Clesse is prissy Robin Hood, Shelly Duvall is thwarted maiden, David Warner is the Evil One who worships microwave ovens and computers, Sir Ralph Richardson is God in rumpled blue suit, anda whole band of dwarves, rescued from the awful Under the Rainbow, are the delightfully perverse heroes. Time Bandits is theological tale whose moral is clean up this mess you've made around here. ORSON WELLES FESTIVAL, Three from the talented wunderkind of 1941: the Se
From Shanghai, with Rita Hayworth (Dec. 1); and the mysterious Touch of Evil, with Charlton Heston and Janet Leigh (Dec. 8). (Classic Film Series at U of M Dearborn, 593-5555.) THE WORLD OF APU. (« xxx) Satyajit Ray's fantastic trilogy concludes with one
party and performance of A Lesson From Aloes. All proceeds go to the support of YWCA Interim House, a spouseabuse shelter.
BENEFITS
THE CROOKED BEAT: Formerly the Freezer Theatre, 3958 Cass, 581-3886 or 831-4037. Nov. 28, 9 pm, featuring music by World Music Society and John Sase.
DETROIT LABOR HISTORY: Detroit Commianity, Music School, Kirby and John R, 872-8371. Dec. 6, 1-4 pm, film premiere of Detroit: The Making of a Union Town, 1900-41, auction of labor art, labor-oriented tour of the- Diego Rivera murals, and wine and cheese reception. Benefit helps fund publication of new labor history book.
PARENT SUPPORT ORGANIZATION: Dec. 6, 7 pm, Heaven Can Wait presented by. Players Guild of Dearbom to benefit the P.S. For info, 721-6565 or - 563-2950, Ext. 250.
FAMILIES
BIRMINGHAM COMMUNITY HOUSE: Bates at Townsend, 644-5832. Dec. 5, 1-2 pm & 3-4 pm, Santa Claus Christmas Party.
CHILDREN S MUSEUM: 67 E. Kirby, 494-1210. Open M-Sa. Parent/Child and Discovery Workshops every Saturday.
DETROIT HISTORICAL MUSEUM: 5401 Woodward, 833-1805. Antique Doll and Toy show. Workshops every Saturday for all ages.
DETROIT SCIENCE CENTER: 5020 JohnR, 833-1892, Open Tu-Su, exhibitions and two films, The Eruption of Mt. St. Helens and Ocean, projected on a 180-degree domed screen.
DETROIT YOUTHEATRE: DIA, 5200 Woodward, 832-2730. Nov. 28, 11 am
THEATRE:
and 2 pm, WSU Movin Theatre presents Best Foot Forward. Dec. 5, 11 am and 2 pm, Feliz Navidad. HENRY FORD MUSE Greenfield Village, Dearborn. Opening Dec. 5, Sleeping Beauty with a comic twist.
HIKING WITH NATURE: Kensington Nature Center, Brighton, 685-1561. Nov. 29, 1:30 pm, three-mile, family nature walk. Advance registration required.
ICE SKATING: Hart Plaza, 224-1000. ~ Beginning Nov. 30, daily thtough March, free ice skating on the Plaza s rink. Rentals available.
PUBLIC LIBRARY BOOK SALE: 5201 Woodward. Dec. 5, 10 am-4 pm, children's used books on all subjects.
LEARNING
ALTERNATIVE CAREERS FOR TEACHERS: Sponsored by the OCC Continuum Center at Troy Hilton, 3773033 for registration. Dec. 5, 9:30 am4 pm, workshops and information on transferring skills to other careers. CAREERS IN BUSINESS: Mercy College, Science Center Aud., 592-6102. Dec. 2, 7:30 pm, business leaders discussing careers.
IN WILDEST TIBET: Southfield High School, 10 Mile Rd. at Lahser, 6493421. Dec. 3, 8 pm, color slide lecture narrated by Galén Rowell. Sponsored by Detroit Sierra Club. POLAND TODAY AND TOMORROW: WSU Manoogian Hall, Warren at Anthony Wayne Dr., 577-4665. Dec. 1, 7:30 pm, Poland, the U.S. and the Soviet Union, lecture by Dr. Richard Burks, WSU history professor. WORLD ADVENTURE SERIES: DIA, 5200 Woodward, 832-2730. Nov. 29,sr eae THANKSGIVING Dec Nov 5 ST. AUBIN CoREET RAMBLERS Nov. 25, Dec 2.9, HAPPY HOUR} WILL POWERS & HYRIDERS 47 Dec. 4 GERRY O'CONNOR & YOLANDA JONES MON.-FRI. BeTu & Th win HENRY PRZVBYLSKI 289 ST. AUBIN 259-0578
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ANNUAL HOLIDAY HIKE: Nov. 28-29, au bon pain the french bakery REAL french bread and pastries = 97 W. Warren (at Wayne State) 833-8932 other locations at Fairlane Town Center and Lakeside Mall
WHAT: A new restaurant and bar ee WHERE: with entertainment. In the Warehouse District
12-5 pm>Royal Oak antique dealers cooperate in a holiday sale. ARTS & CRAFTS SALE: Downriver YWCA, Wyandotte, 281-2626. Dec. 6, 10 am-5 pm, specializing in Christmas gifts. CARIBBEAN THANKSGIVING
TIONS: 301 W. Fourth, Royal Oak, 5433666, after 6 pm. Nov. 29-30, auditions 500 E. Fourth Street @ Royal Oak, Mich. 547-7916 Loe natural foods cafe a magical atmosphere!
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Philobolus Dance Theatre, Music Hall, opening Dec. 2.
Ireland with Chris Borden. Dec. 6, America s Secret Places with Francis Reidelberger.
DANCE:
pm, second
the Carib-
International Association (CIA).
STREET PLAYHOUSE AUDI-
or The Mound Builders. Men and women*needed; by appointment only.
HARRY CHAPIN TRIBUTE: Whiting Auditorium, Flint, 1-742-1230. Dec. 7, 8 pm, various musicians from around the.state perform An Evening of the Words and Music. of Harry Chapin. Sponsored by the tees of the Flint Voice.
NOEL NIGHT: Cultural Caer Woodward between the Library and the DIA. Dec. 9, 6-9 pm, exhibits and entertain-ment-at the Historical Museum, International Institute, DIA, Scarab Club, Public School Bldg. and other buildings in the area, plus caroling in the streets.
PROJECT BAIT.. ANNIVERSARY: Cottillion Club, 13221 Puritan, 3685684 or 341-5973. Dec. 4, 8 pm, celebrating 11th anniversary of Black Awareness in Television and Radio.
SELF PORTRAITS: Dec. 5, deadline for accepting entries for future self--portrait exhibition at the Detroit Focus Gallery. all 962-9025.
TIFFANY TOUR: Dec. 5, 9:30 am-4 pm, Christmas bus tour to Detroit sites housing stained-glass works by Louis Tiffany. Call 544-3812 for reservations.
DINNER THEATRE
ALFRED'S SOMERSET DINNER THEATRE: 2475 Big Beaver, Troy, 6438865. Thru Dec., F & Sa, Tribute
KOMEDY PLAYERS DINNER THEATRE: Bambi's Welcome Mat, 5835 Allen Rd., Allen Park, 661-1383. Dec. 45, My Heart Reminds Me, written by Tom Sharkey.
MR. MAC'S STABLE: 1 Parkland Tower, Dearborn, 271-2010. Thru Nov. 28, Sea-scape. Opening Dec. 4, At Last... Entertainment.
THEATRE: 18000 Vemier, St. Clair Shores, 371-8410. Thru Dec. 19, A Musical Salute to Vaudeville and Burlesque.
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THEATRE: 17 Mile Rd. and Van Dyke, Sterling Hts., 288-0450. Nov. 26-28. At Last Entertainment. Murder at the Howard Johnson's opens Dec. 5.
born December 1, 1936 Lake Rd., Bloomfield Hills, 644-4418. Thru Nov. 28, Sleuth.-
PHOTOGRAPHY
DETROIT PUBLIC LIBRARY: Main Branch, 5201 Woodward, 833-4043. bien, 962-9025. Opening Nov. 28 (reception 6-8:30 pm) thru Jan. 2, juried exhibit of 30 photographers. Nov. 28, 8:30 pm, Detroit Film Project presents Nostalgia by Hollis Frampton in conjunction with the exhibit. ELOQUENT LIGHT GALLERY: Birmingham Camera, 145 S. Livernois, Rochester, 652-4686. Thru Jan. 1, group exhi-
U of D THEATRE: at Marygrove College, 8425W. McNichols, 927-1130. Nov. 2728, Dec. 4-5, 11-12, Arms and the Man by George Bernard Shaw.
-W.S.U. THEATRES: HILBERRY THE- ATRE: Cass at Hancock, 577-2972. Nov. 27, Dec. 5 & 10, Cyrano de Bergerac. Nov. 28, Dec. 3, 4, 9, Invalid. BONSTELLE THEATRE: 3424 Woodward, 577-2960. Dec. 4-6, A Christmas Carol. STUDIO THEATRE: Nov. 27-29, Sexual Perversity in Chicago. WILL-O-WAY THEATRE: 775 W. Long
PHOTOGALLERY: Dec. 2-Jan. 2, Fields 1978-81," photos by Robert Mosher. Lecture by Robert Mosher Wed., Dec. 2, 7:30 pm, On Understanding Photographs: A Slide-Illustrated Talk on Aesthetics. Free.
DETROIT REPERTORY THEATRE
GALLERY: 13103 Woodrow Wilson, 868-1347. Thru Dec. 31, photos of Solidarity Day and UAW Art. Photos by B. Buchta, R. pier B. Weinberg andJ. West.
DETROIT FOCUS GALLERY: 743 Beaurans
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bit featuring Brett Weston. HALSTED GALLERY: 560 Woodward, Birmingham, 644-8284. Opening Dec. 1-Jan. 14, recent acquisitions and portfolios by Marsha Burns, Michael Burns, Bernice Abbott, Christopher James, John Ward, Misha Gordin and Cole Weston.
MASONIC TEMPLE: 350 Temple, 8327100. Thru Nov. 29, The King and I. MEADOW BROOK THEATRE: Oakland University, Rochester, 377-3300. On Golden Pond thru Nov. 29. Noel Coward s Hay Fever opens Dec. 3. MUSIC HALL: 350 Madison, 963-7622. Dec. 2-6, Pilobolus. Opening Dec. 9, holiday musical Ebenezer. OAKLAND UNIVERSITY THEATRES: Rochester, for info on all programs, 3772000. STUDIO THEATRE: Thru Nov. 29, Candide. Concurrently, thru Dec 6A Month in the Country.
ONSTAGE
ALIVE & WELL DETROIT: Book Cadillac Hotel, 1114 Washington Bivd., 2880450. Thru Dec. 19; A Cabaret. Dinner available at Motor Bar.
ATTIC THEATRE: 525 E. Lafayette, 963-7789. Thru Dec. 19, Watch on the Rhine. Monday evenings only thru Dec. 14, New Playwright Forum, series of previously unstaged performances. BIRMINGHAM THEATRE: 211 S. * Woodward, 644-3533. Thru Nov. 29,Do Black Patent Leather Shoes Really Reflect Up?
COMEDY CASTLE: Maximilian s, 4616 N. Woodward, 549-2323. Thru Nov. 28, Mitchell Walters. Dec.. 2-5, Dave Couwlier. Dec. 9-12, Mike Binder. DETROIT REPERTORY THEATRE: 13103 Woodrow Wilson, 868-1347. Thru Dec. 31, A Lesson From Aloes. DOROTHY ROBINSON PLAYHOUSE: 24 Winder, 964-5055. Creative Express Theatre Co. presents The River Niger. thru Dec. 12. FISHER THEATRE: Fisher Bidg., Grand Blvd. at Second, 872-1000. Starts Dec. 1 thru Jan 9., Children of a Lesser God. FOURTH STREET PLAYHOUSE: 301 W. Fourth. St.; Royal- Oak, 543-3666.Thru Dec. 5 Seascape:
HENRY FORD COMMUNITY COLLEGE: Mackenzie Fine Arts Center, Dearborn. Dec. 46, 11-13, 8:30 pm, Tennessee William's Summer and Smoke. Great ground rounds, Greek salad, spinach pie! Mon. thru Sat. 17. am to 2. am Open Sundays 4 pm to 1 am
SOFT JAZZ EVERY THURSDAY THROUGH SUNDAY EVENING - Brunch with the Classics every Sunday featuring live classical entertainment and Eggs McMozart.
Photos by John Gruen, Pierce Street Gallery.
LOOKING GLASS GALLERY: 1604 Rochester Rd., Royal Oak, 548-1149. Nov. 20-Dec. 21, photographs by Les Krims. Hours: Sa, 10-7; Su, 12-6, and by appointment.
PIERCE STREET PHOTOGRAPHY
GALLERY: 217 Pierce, Birmingham, 646-6950. Thru Nov. 28, Objects as Still Lifes, photos by John Gruen.
EXHIBITIONS
ALPHA ART GALLERY: 8166 Macomb, Grosse Isle, 675-1156. Thru Nov. 30, mixed-media paintings by Joe Dabbs. THE ART CENTER: 125 Macomb, Mt. Clemens, 469-8666. Thru Dec. 24, Holiday Fair 81.
BIRMINGHAM-BLOOMFIELD ART ASSOCIATION: 1516 S. Cranbrook, Birmingham, 644-0866. Nov. 30-Dec. 19, Holiday Sales Show, featuring hundreds of well-priced, unusual gift items with more than 100 artists participating.
C.AD.E. GALLERY: 8025 Agnes, 3311758. Opening Nov. 27-Dec. 11, Inuit Art from the Canadian Arctic. Special movie presentation Nov. 28 & Dec. 5, Spirit in a Landscape: The People Beyond.
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CAROL HOOBERMAN GALLERY: 155 S. Bates, Birmingham, 647-3666. Thru Thanksgiving, blown glass by Stephen Dale Edwards and Jody Fine.
CRANBROOK ACADEMY OF ART
MUSEUM: 500 Lone Pine Rd., Bloomfield, 645-3312. Thru March, Masks from Around the World. Thru Jan. 17, oils, tapestries, constructions and models by George Ortman.
DETROIT ARTISTS MARKET'S OTHER SPACE: 7th Floor, Hudson's Downtown, 962-0337. Open Dec. 4 (reception 4-5:30 pm) thru Dec. 30, recent works by Richard Jerzy.
DETROIT COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS: Lobby, 47 E. Adams, 224-3482. Premiere exhibit features works by local artists of children and the Buy a Brick fundraising campaign.
DETROIT GALLERY OF CONTEMPORARY CRAFTS: 301 Fisher Bldg., 8737888. Thru Dec., holiday show ofAmerican handcrafts with emphasis on functionalism.
DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS: 5200 « Woodward, 833-7900. Thru Nov. 29, The Golden Age of Naples. Thru Dec. 6, European Embroideries and Laces.
works by Mark Peiser.
watercolors by Fritz Mayhew.
Open Saturday 12-6 Thursday 3:30-6 16360 Grand River THE EVERYTHING ART STORE
Displaying and selling artwork by community artists
Thru Feb. 14, A Selection of 17th Century European Masterworks from the Premanent Collection. Indefinitely, paintings by Helen Ciesla Covensky. DONALD MORRIS GALLERY: Townsend, Birmingham, 642-8812. Thru Dec., group exhibit featuring works by Lester Johnson, Avery, Hinman, Barr and Wilbert.
KINGSWOOD LOWER GALLERY: 885 Cranbrook, Bloomfield, 645-3142. Thru Dec. 16, works in clay by Tom Phardel.
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FEIGENSON GALLERY: 310 Fisher. Bidg., 873-7322. Opening Nov. 27, ° recent works by Robert Sestok.
G.M.B. GALLERIE INTERNATIONALE: 344 Hamilton Row, Birmingham, 6426647. Thru Dec. 12, paintings by Judith Dolnick.
GALLERIE DE BOICOURT: Fisher Bidg., 875-7991. 16th Annual Folk Art of Christmas, featuring American, Mexican, Latin American, Central and East European, and Scandinavian items now thru Christmias eve.
GALLERY RENAISSANCE: 400 Ren Cen, 259-2577. Thru Dec. 8, exhibition of sculpture by Morris Brose and antique quilts.
GRAFISKAS: 218 Merrill St., Birmingham, 647-5722. Fine art posters.
HABATAT: 28235 Southfield, Lathrup Village, 552-0515. Thru Dec. 9, recent
KLEIN GALLERY: 4250 N. Woodward, Royal Oak, 647-7709. Landscapes Ancient and Mysterious by A. G. Smith, thru Dec. MARYGROVE COLLEGE: 8425 W. McNichols, 862-8000. Thru Nov. 30, Dante s First Curtain, an installation by Joan Livingston. Opening Dec. 4 (reception 6-9 pm) thru Dec. 18, mixed-media exhibit organized by Michigan Artists Equity.
PARK WEST GALLERY: 29469 Northwestern Hwy., Southfield, 354-2343. Thru Jan. 15, Sculpture Now, exhibition of contemporary American sculpture.
PEWABIC POTTERY: 10125 E. Jefferson, 822-0954. Invitational Christmas Sale, featuring 75 Michigan potters. Open 7 days.
POSTER GALLERY: 304 Fisher Bidg., 875-5211. Fine art posters.'
PRINT GALLERY: 29203 Northwestern Hwy., Southfield, 356-5454, Fine art posters, limited-edition prints and reproductions.
RUBINER GALLERY: 621 S. Washington, Royal Oak, 544-2828. Thru Dec. 2,
SHELDON ROSS GALLERY: 250 Martin, Birmingham, 642-7694. Thru Dec. 19, etchings, lithographs and woodcuts by Kathe Kollwitz.
SCHWEYER GALDO GALLERIES: 330 Hamilton Row, Birmingham, 647-0390. Thru Dec. 3, Stairied Glass Series, acrylics on paper by Bertha Cohen. SUSANNE HILBERRY GALLERY: 555 S. Woodward, Birmingham, 642-8250. Thru Dec. 19, Photems by Robert Rauschenberg.
VENTURE GALLERY: 28235 Southfield, Lathrup Village, 552-1151. Thru Dec. 9, Enamels '81 a national survey of contemporary enamels.
WILD WINGS: 975 S. Ann Arbor Trail, Plymouth, 455-3400. Dec. 5-6, carvings and paintings by Larry Hayden, and decoy carvings by Bob Bolle.
XOCHIPILLI GALLERY: 568 N. Woodward, Birmingham, 645-1905. Thru Nov. 28, Baroque Hearts and Snakes by Claudia De Monte; Dec. 12-Jan. 8, new bronze work by Kirk Newman and paintings by Ken Giles.
YAW GALLERY: 550 N. Woodward, Birmingham, 647:5470. New Works in Clay Ill, a group exhibition of ceramic work produced at the Syracuse Clay Institute, thru Jan. 1.
Clearly the ground has been laid for an_ American stained-glass revolution. The first matter to address is the lack of quality glass work; the second is to go back to 14th century basics, to learn the art of glass anew and adapt it to modern design principles. To these ends, Cutters Art Glass artists now turn their energies.
hutters on Solidarity _
On The March _ Photographs of Solidary Day & UAW Art and Images
CREATE JOBS OF POVERTY =O by Dan Acoma
S Detroit Repertory Theatre 13103 Woodrow Wilson
122 UAW | t was a match for jobs and justice, and apparently lots of Americans felt there weren't enough of either to fill an organ grinder s tin cup. No matter how cute the bonzo.
Nearly a half million people gathered in Washington, D.C. last September 19 Solidarity Day to protest against cutbacks in social programs, high unemployment, inflation and injustice. And four Detroit photographers were there to record | the event for the UAW. oe
The Detroit Repertory Theatre now presents On The March, Solidarity photos by Bob Buchta, Russ Marshall, Barbara Weinberg and Jim West. Their images capture diverse and sometimes festive coalition of people and their concerns ERA, the environment, South Africa, the economy. iS¥virt OABID Veod?
Each photographer noted. they... «..~ moment with the signature of his-or her separate shutter. Bob Buchta and Russ Marshall often concentrateon «individuals. Barbara Weinberg personalizes her black and white photos with color tints. And Jim West documents the vitality of mass of people in action together. +
Farmworkers, white collar workers,. handicappers, senior citizens, '60sstyled bubble blowers all are showing their disetichantment as a group. But this is not a faceless mob, and that s what s best about this exhibit: these are pictures of people we can care about.
Buchta creates an absorbing portrait of an elderly man in a double-breasted suit and a union baseball cap with = _. stars and stripes. He holds his head in a hand gnarled from many years of labor, his lips are pursed as he gazes pensively from behind bifocals. Its unsettling-to hazard what this man is thinking, but hazard we do.
Also on exhibit are some of the winning entries in the UAW s national art competition for their members an interesting mix of naivete and the complicated.
The Detroit Repertory Theatre will = have a reception for the photographers and artists Tuesday, Dec. 1, from 7:30
to 9:30 p.m.
exhibit will continue in the Lobby Gallery through the run
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Photo: Barbara Weinberg Of the performance of A Lesson From Aloes, Dec. 31. &
Photo: Russ Marshall
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Rodney CrowellWarner Brothers
One word review; its simple: Masterpiece. Rodney. Crowell possesses a rare musical magic. Somewhat akin to Kenny Rogers in diversity and vocal style, Crowell adds the consummate craft of his lyricism to this collection.
From the top, I'll admit to being an unabashed fan. was first turned on to Crowell with Ain't Livin Long Like This from a couple of years back an album that remains one of my all-time favorite LPs. While that was a veritable Who's Who of contemporary country (Emmy Lou, Nicolette, Willie, Skaggs, Cooder, etc.), this collection sticks with a core band featuring the ever-present and everamazing Albert Lee on guitar backed by guitarist Hank DeVito and bassman supreme Emory Gordy. =
If you think you don't-like _ country music, this is a perfect introduction. If you don t like this one, you're probably not gaing to come over. It rocks, it wails, it moans and it groans, all with consummate musicianship. My favorites are the raunchy-rocky Old Pipeliner and the ballads All You've Gotta Do and Shame On the Moon, but they're all gems.
As a songwriter, Crowell has been well documented and interpreted, most notably by Emmy Lou Harris (he used to be leader of her Hot Band). Asa singer he is his best interpreter, whichis more often than not not the case for most great writers. His crystal-clear voice echoes his sentiments beautifully. This certainly ranks among my favorite albums of 1981.
Mark E. Gallo
Kid
Creole
and the Coconuts Fresh Fruit in Foreign Places
ZE/Sire
- metamorphosed
Having tired of working with Dr. Buzzard and the Savannah Band under older brother Stony Browder (a.k.a. Dr. B), our hero into Gichy Dan. After a few seminally successful recorded ventures in this incarnation, primarily in the East, Gichy Dan further mutated into Kid Creole. Through it all,
Marianne Faithfull Dangerous Acquaintances A Island
The earliest surprise ihe 80s had for the recording industry was- the dramatic return of Marianne Faithfull. Sure she had a Top Ten hit ( As Tears Go By ) 17 years ago and has co-written Sister Morphine with ex-beau Mick Jagger, but who would have suspected that this English lady was a truly gifted lyricist capable of making. her own records. The intriguingly brilliant Broken English went on to pick up gold and platinum discs worldwide. Faithfull s offering Dangerous Acquaintances merely picks up where the debut album left off. Most importantly, it confirms Marianne Faithfull s artistic stature latest
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August Darnell (a.k.a. GD and Kid C) has not only survived but.thrived and shown an increasingly impressive penchant for lyricism. Wildly outrageous and funny lyrics. Good old potpourri American wit. And through it all, Darnell has stuck with Andy Hernandez (a.k.a. Coati Mundi, writer of the hit, Que Pasa?/ Me No Popi ). Through their -many various zoot suits, they've been very impressive. They've hot come of age but only reached anew plateau: Fresh Fruit continues their Salsa - Reggae - Creole - PunkCha - Cha heritage. The disc
traces Kid Creole s trek around the globe in search of his beloved Mimi who, we discover, never left New York. Assuming, though, that he did, she marries a rich cat. Heavy sigh! Hold back the tears, though. The trip was not in vain, for our hero's journey took him to many foreign places, where he picked up a tad here and a tad there of the musical language.
You can see why its hard to pes the group. By the half-way point, its getting to look like the musicial UN. Where the UN may have language barriers, requiring interpreters, music needs no its predecessor.
Some of the most interesting tracks include Eye Communication, taken from William Blake s The Tyger, Sweetheart, a proclamation of a women s emancipation
Marianne Faithfull and dismisses any notions of her being a flash in the pan. Faithfull s prose flows effortlessly, complemented by pulsating rhythms, superb musicianship and her husky vocals.Produced by Mark Mundy Miller, Dangerous Acquaintances once again includes the. musical talents of: Jo Maverty, Barry Reynolds, Terry Stannard, Steve York and Steve Winwood. Although this record isn't as gothic in its intensity,it does embrace the passion and commitment that distinguished
My freedom means too much. to give up now / ain't sacrificing, sweetheart, even for you, and Tenderness, which drivesalong on some incredible percussion work. Unfortunately, nothing matches last year's controversial Why D'Ya Do It, _adapted from a poem of sexual jealousy by playwright Heathcote Williams.
Marianne Faithfull s songs are wrestled from the depths of her scarred heart. They're potent, powerful and moving. The kind of music that Detroit radio can't find the time to play. Why should they when they've got Pat ( I'm not cerebral ) Benatars?
Mitch Stanley
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such assist. It's a joy to hear so much world music in dance Definitely five-star material.
Mark E. Gallo
Natalie Cole Happy Love Capitol
When you're hot you're hot, and when you're not. well, you know the rest. It is no secret that in the last couple of years the popularity of Natalie Cole at least as a recording artist has been on the decline. Moreover, sales of her last three albums have beera far cry from what they consistently were between the years 1975 and 1978 when practically everything went gold or platinum. Cole is fortunate in that she has become an established star, but clearly she is not a hot record star right now and with material such as that found on her current Happy Love album it is no wonder. It's not every day you hear such mediocrity. Oh, a few of the selections are satisfactory, but -not one is even in the same league as such great Cole hits of the past as I've Got Love On My Mind, Inseparable and Our Love. What happened? Furthermore, on at least one occasion the sophisticated lady tackles material she is not qualified to deliver. refer to the remake of Percy Sledge s great soul classic When a Man Loves a Woman which is totally uneffective as rendered here.
Probably Natalie Cole will get back in the hit-making groove. But in the meantime, take this album. please.
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SWEET HONEY TO JUSTICEBENEFITCENTER
by Sharon Luckerman_
or those of you, looking for a F musical experience that both delights your ears and fills your soul with the struggle and celebration of life, treat yourself to Sweet Honey in the Rock in a benefit performance for the Women's Justice Center.
This unique black women s quartet weaves a. range of black musical forms (gospel, rhythm and blues, field Hollers and jazz) into songs of spirited social commentary. and protest. Their Subjects range from Fanny Lou Hammer, love and feminism, to Soweto, Chile and the neutron bomb. They don t skirt the issues of the times, yet their music is anything but rhetorical. It expresses the warmth and strength of people's lives. I've seen these singers move an audience to tears, foot stomping and sing along.
Sweet Honey s uniqueness fies in their a capella vocals, accompanied only by the occasional use of a shakere,.an - African gourd. Their sound is so full that any additional instruments would seem intrusive. The voices play, flirt, cry and
harmonize with one another as each of the four women takes a lead. As one Vancouver critic stated, They are, quite simply, terrific.
Sweet Honey evolved out of a vocal workshop started by Bernice-Reagon at
the Black Repertory Theatre Company in Washington, D.C. A PhD. in oral history and a cultural ,hisforian with the Smithsonian Institute; Reagon brings a strong sense of black history to the group that blends with her personal experiences and those of the other ~ members Ysaye Barnwell, | Evelyn Harris and Yasmeen Williams.
Besides performing live, the group has recorded two albums on the Flying Fish and Redwood Records labels. A third album is scheduled to be released soon.
It seems appropriate that the Women's Justice Center chose a concerned group of women singers singing about women to do a benefit for them. In 1975, the Women s Justice Center was formed to address legal problems of women, especially those with low incomes. Today the center receives about 400 calls a month, mostly dealing with spouse abuse, credit discrimination and divorce. The center is one of its kind not only in Detroit but in the United States, cites member of the Board of Directors.
The 1981 Feminist Award of the Year went to the Justice Center for its
Domestic Violence Workshop. Yet even as its services are more and more in demand, its doors will close next month if the board cannot raise the $¥9,000 needed for minimal staff salaries an attorney and a secretary.
It's. important that women. start questioning why women s organizations are folding, says Candy Avery, a mayoral appointee to the board. She points out that the Women s Health Center and a women's business organization have already closed down.
The performance Saturday night is literally for the survival of the Women s Justice Center, while the music is about surviving: the-courage and love tapped in hard times. The music speaks*to our human potential.
As Bernice Reagon once coaxed her audience, Imagine a land so rich that when you crack the rock, honey flows from it. We say that black women are that land because it expresses our richness and strength.
Sweet Honey in the Rock will per-form Saturday, Nov. 28, 8 p.m., at Orchestra Hall. Call 961-4057 or 3425326 for ticket information. - Ef
WELCOMETO MY NIGHTMARE
by Michael Betzold
great man once said, Slime is A the agony of water. (You can look it up: Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, page 774.)
David Lynch s Eraserhead is a movie about slime. Actually, ifs a science-fiction/satire/character study dealing with the strangely disturbing psychologicaleffects provoked by life forms that seem to slip between the categories of solid and liquid. This truly bizzare movie visits the murky corners of the human psyche where lurks the dread of oozing, reptilian life forms.
Lynch, who had a hit with The Elephant Man, shot Eraserhead in 1978 on an abandoned studio lot with a shoestring budget underwritten by a grant: from the American Film Institute. Itis a work of dangerous genius and a cult classic virtually everywhere but in Detroit.
Realizing its word-of-mouth potential, the folks at the Classic Film Theatre are showing Eraserhead at their midnight shows at the Punch and Judy every Friday and Saturday through December. The film will also be screened by the Wayne State Cinema Guild in the es Library Dec. f.
Eraserhead is certainly not for the squeamish. One viewing of it disturbed me in a manner I was not prepared for, and I did not fully recover for days. So be forewarned. But if you've steeled your nerves, and fully digested your last meal, and you appreciate experimentation in cinema, see it.>
Lynch's movie dares to ask questions which Hollywood hasn't ever conceived of, though it shares with Hollywood's Bmovie monster genre an attraction for the sort of creepy, crawly things that
cause our skin to shudder. It doesn'tjust scare us with monstrous spectacle, it poses unnerving possibilities: What ifwe gave birth to half-human creatures? What if our skin itself stopped marking the boundary between interior and exterior? What if matter burst the categories we have used to circumscribe it? know this description makes Eraserhead sound unbearably metaphysical and it is but it is also outrageously comic. The odd universe inhabited by its bushy-haired nerd of a hero (John
- Nance) is a dark city of steaming, pulsating machinery (the same sort that embroidered Elephant Man). Nance s nameless nebbish sees crazy drama behind his hissing radiator in his bare, peeling apartment, and his worst fears are realized at diriner with his girlfriend's parents, as a plateful of Cornish hens comes alive in a rumbling, rubbery way beneath his carving knife. Such is Lynch's satire of the classic anxieties surrounding meeting the folks. Middle-class habits are mocked, as when Eraserhead and his girlfriend produce a half-reptile baby, and their parenting is all reflex and no substance. __ Eraserhead has the logic, of dreams and evokes a borderline world which must be possible only because we can imagine it. Lynch s stew of Freudianism and science fiction is sometimes hard to stomach and often incomprehensible, but his.first feature film is a magnificent _achievement because it opens up a realm of the human psyche which the camera until now has had no way of evoking. Eraserhead invents a new language for the cinema, a series of images which we have never before encountered in our waking hours and thus have no clue as to how to assimilate.
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Continued from cover it still begs saying. We applaud after each poem, taken with the emotional delivery, the honesty, the generosity of speech. The audience
responds to particular lines with uhms and right ons just like rally or sermon. The long Plutonium poem grabs all of the no-nuke lovers by the lapels. The blues poems about his dying father elicit a silent show of emotion: His velvet armchair facing the window will be empty Ged He won't see the moon over house roofs or sky over Paterson s streets
A Few Words With | the Poet .
by Scott Haas
DMT: ! heard that you sang with The Clash when they were in New or Last June?
GINSBERG: Yeah, when they were at Bond s. Its in my neighborhood, and knew the guy that had invited them so he took me backstage. to introduce me.
DMT: What did you think?
GINSBERG: Well, they were really nice. Joe Strummer said: When are you going to run for President? And then he said: You got any poems to read? Cause he said they had some guy trying to give a rap on El Salvador and people threw tomatoes. So I said got a poem that mentions El Salvador in it, its got chord changes, wanna try it out? So he said sure. So we went over the chord changes for about ten minutes,strumming along, and then they put me on before their encore session. They do a set, then they take a break, and then they do encores. So we just went out and knocked it out and it was good. have a tape of it still.
DMT: I read in an interview that you were the first to have Ezra Pound sit down and listen to Dylan and the Beatles, and I was wondering if you still feel that way about rock music s visionary power.
GINSBERG: See, Pound was always interested in words and music. And he was really the man who took poetry back to music in the twentieth century.
Brought it back to where it began to music. Cause Sappho was among the first poets of the Western world and she played a five-string tortoise-shell lyre. And sang. It was a song. So poetry and music have always been together. Pound recollected that. He did a lot of work on troubadour songs and Renaissance music. So I knew it would be sort of right up his alley. Which it was, and so it was no big shock introduction to music and poetry it was just the most modern form. He didn t say anything about it. But he sat and listened and tapped his cane. played him Sgt. Pepper and Blonde on Blonde whatever could find in the shops in Venice. And Donovan. | like one or two of Donovan s things. Mellow Yellow.So then asked his wife what did he think of it was he bored or something. But she said no, if he had been bored he would have gotten up and walked away. So he sat through, oh, a side and a half of Dylan, almost all of Sgt. Pepper, and a couple songs of Donovan.
DMT: Do you still feel that way about rock music?
GINSBERG: Its poetry.
DMT: But I mean that there are many _people now turning toward music, more than in the past perhaps, and in an intensified sort of fashion for solutions, for feelings toward people like David Bowie or The Clash. \
GINSBERG: The Clash s song Washington Bullets on the Sandinista album is as articulate.as anybody else on the political commentary scene. They
And onto the last segment of the evening. Two young musicians, Alan and Ralph Franklin of The Layabouts, accompany Allen Ginsberg on electric guitars. Presently, he grabs the mike, stomps his feet and yells Let s go! like a 20-year-old lead singer of an aspiring rock and roll band: I m beside myself. This is too much, some whisper. Bird Brain hits us through the P.A., powerful chords driving the simple message with conviction and humor. An
ode to corporate stupidity, with a quasipunk stance, the song comes off as a
delirious yet serious number.
rock at my party anytime, Allen, someone jokes behind us. -
This wise, sweet old man not only keeping up with youth and its revolutionary promise, but leaping ahead, microphone in hand, getting away with murder (i.e., the truth), putting his
queer shoulder to the wheel, - we're not about to forget.
Allen Ginsberg were the first ones to cut through the ideology and point out that both China and America are sending bullets out.
DMT: I heard that you were at an international poetry conference this past summer in Morelos, Mexico, and I m thinking that there must have been a lot of political information exchanged there you don t see in the U.S. press.
GINSBERG: Yeah, had a really interesting meeting in Mexico City with a guy from the Knight-Ridder newspapers. He was sort of intelligent and literary. So he arranged a breakfast with me at the hotel where was with Christopher Dickey who is the Washington Post correspondent and the, son of a poet, James Dickey. And also the guy from UPI, the girl who s the correspondent from Newsweek, ABC TV all of whom work in Central America and cover the situation. And was trying to ask them to tell me what they knew. So they said:
1. Its a popular revolt in El Salvador. It s not Russian inspired or Cuban inspired.
2. The junta government, being R. STEINER
unpopular, is kind of demoralized and not really that well trained. They can t cover the country and so, finally, if Reagan insists on having his policy, the - only way he can have it enforced is by sendingin American troops this winter.
3. The media has bowed to the State Department request in February that they downplay the El Salvador news.
4. They can t possibly cover El Salvador themselves because there-are death threats against them if they write anything serious.
5. They can t possibly cover it
where from Mexico to Venezuela so they can maybe get to El Salvador once every two months.
So actually there s a mechanical blackout of the news as well as an intentional downplaying of it. But their one prophecy was that they all thought the junta army was so weak or demoralized that if Reagan wanted to stop popular change in government, he d have to do it by force with American troops. And then saw in the paper Haig talking about that this week. And nobody noticing. »
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PROJECT START has begun GED (high school equivalency) classes. All interest-ed probationers and parolees lacking a high school diploma are encouraged to obtain a GED certificate to improve their employability. For info; call Project Start at 965-3517.
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EXPERIENCED ROCK BAND needs bass «Player, guitarist and singer. Call Jeff, eg 6284, after 6 pm. NEED MUSIC COLLABORATOR for published, unpublished material. R & B, MOR or Ballads. Call 823-2155 for Pat. ROLLING STONES TICKETS available (8) at face value for Nov. 30 performance: Call Joe at 776-6804.
WANTED: Black & White glossies of-local bands to be used exclusively in What's Happenin . Send photos to Linda Solomon, DMT, 2410 Woodward Tower, Detroit 48226.
CANADIAN SURVIVAL PROPERTIES. Security, stability, peace and quiet. Lots, farms, away from population centres, with or without buildings. Some heavy woods, arable land, some streams. Invest now and prepare for the future. Your U.S. $ -buys more in Canada. Call 1-519-2274339 or write A. D. Murray, RR 2, Lucan Ontario, Canada NOM 2J0. (Representing Sharen Realty Limited.)
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THE CROOKED BEAT Altemative music, theatre, poetry. Seeks all talents; etc. Call 831-4037 or 581-3886.
4F 2W1B10 wish that redhead W/Mwould give them the rest of the day off.
It s too bad Peter wasn t as interested as his mother was. Actually, it was me who wasn t interested in Peter.
nice people without embarrassment. Send long, stamped envelope to: PO Box 62, Wyandotte, MI 48192.
AMAZING what a couple of good rookies can do for lost franchise. Keep pushing, Pistons! The Fan MARK HOWTING: Your place or mine? Kisses, Heidi.
TICKLE HIS/HER FANCY! Three original ticklers for only $2. Ppd. DMT Box 110.
What-You-Know,
MANY OF DETROIT s MOST CREATIVE artists can be found in the pages of Solid Ground: ANewWorld Journal. We feature _ essays, reviews, poetry, philosophy and interviews. A Quarterly of the Arts, Politics and Culture. Get your copy of the Fall, 1981 issue today. Published by Go-ForInc., 4929 Scotten, Detroit 48210, 898-0367.
TEN INTERNATIONAL MAIN DISH RECIPES, send $1.00 and stamped, addressed envelope, 74 Arden Park, Detroit 48202.
TO PERCEIVE IS TO BELIEVE. Psychic Development Seminar, including auras, colours, chakras, meditation, regression experiments to test and develop your ESP. Ferndale Community Center, 5469740.
MUSIC
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LISTEN TO WOMEN: Tuesdays, 7 pm, WDETFM (101.9), All Together Now, Detroit Women s Radio Workshops meets monthly to plan shows collectively. New members welcome. Call 837-2469 for more info, or leave message at 577-4146.
NUCLEAR POWER: Unnecessary and too dangerous! Stop Fermi Il! Call Safe Energy Coalition (SECO), 531-8943.
SECOND COMING APPEARANCES & Salvador Lighting Co. present a benefit for WDET at TRAXX on Monday, Dec. 7, 1981, 8 pm-2 am. Rock& Roll/New Wave. Donation $4. 372-2320.
WAYNE STATE STUDENTS& FRIENDS: Help support architectural diversity and humane, innovative, user-oriented campus planning. Join Preservation Wayne. We meet each Wednesday, 6 pm, at the WAYN radio office, 672 Putnam.
PERSONALS
RAINBOW SINGLES NEWSLETTER Meet~
CHIPMUNKS OR OTHER FALSETTOS, interested in forming R & B or folk group, write to Alvin at DMT.
ALWAYS HAVE IT READY FOR THE KORK. Keep up the good work Korkie! Guess Who
HIGHLY EDUCATED, traveled and exciting adult white male loves music, movies, vegetarian, seeks woman to share. DMT Box 104.
SENIOR CITIZENS Sick and shut in? Need someone to talk to? Drive for you? Shopping? Reading? Cooking, other services? 961-5684, 9-3:30.
SWM-5O0ish, interested in eine his wildest fantasies, particularly his gray cat fetish.
LOOKING for women that get into kinky sexy leather. Call Roman at 563-3334.
ENJOY SIMPLE PLEASURES (tea and a fire, sincere talk, soft jazz, camping and sky, getting silly). Also like photography, cultural events (concerts, dance, etc.), sports. Am attractive, professional, shy, SWF, Christian, 27. Love the Lord and
desire real friendships. Would like to get to know people with similar interests and life values for honest, enriching, fun times together. DMT Box 119.
HOPELESS ROMANTIC seeks dreamy suppressed writer for object of mild infatuation.
DETROIT WILL MISS THE CHEATERS! Your original material and vocal arrangements are unforgettable. Please reconsider!
GOOD-LOOKING male grad student from New York, 25, seeks attractive, blonde female.with boots/high heels, for walking, talking, coffee, etc. 832-2384.
SINGLE ARTIST-WRITER-LOVER gent seeks woman (any race). Will answer all. Send phone number. DMT Box 103.
TAKE STOCKMAN. The Big Lie tells on itself. TO THAT GROOVY DMT CARTOONIST: Especially liked LS s first love and RW s teenage self. The Czar. 1 IS AN ANCIENT JAPANESE TRADITION that journalists offer gold and silver benwa balls to important interviewees. If only the Washington Post knew. HEY -SCOTT Just remember Transcity would be nothing without Recom. Another giant jerkoff.
FREE TO GROUPS, SCHOOLS, CLUBS, churches, etc. Evangelist will sing and praise God with you. DMT Box 115.
SINGLE BLACK PROFESSIONAL, male, 33,
tall and handsome, desires warm female lover over 40 seeking long-awaited satis-
faction with experienced and discreet younger lover. Feeling neglected? Race no barrier. Immediate reply. Photo and Phone. Special surprise for European ladies. Box 1086, Southfield, MI 48075.
SINGLE WHITE MALE, 65 years old, looking for woman to share good times. Enjoys music, dining out. Rely DMT Box 7, or call Henry after 7 pm, 576-4586.
LAURA Let s get together soon and talk newspapers. Call me in Flint. Typesetter-in-Chief.
TO THE QUEEN OF HEARTS You'te the cat s pajamas. love you. Zippy
STRETCH Everything s so much_ easier with you by my side. love you! TootsyDingle.
WHITE, NEAT, CLEAN GENTLEMAN, 37, 6, 190, clear complexion, well educated, divorced, Looking forwhite woman 24-33 around average weight, for a normal relationship. Larry, Box 575, Roseville, MI 48066.
TERESA, KEN, JEFF, MIKE, GV SENATE Absence makes the heart grow fonder. DMT Ad Assistant.
WARM, SENSITIVE SWM vegetarian, 34, interested in politics, nutrition, folk music, running, cooking, conversing: Seeks progressive female to have good times together. Write describing. yourself to DMT Box 117.
SWM, early 20s, blonde and handsome, into pursuing earthly pleasures: with mature older woman. Call FACTS, 6822998.
CARING, ATTRACTIVE MALE desires relationship with warm, progressive woman under 40, DMT Box 120.
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THE UNDERWEAR HEADS, now we are four - less is more. Tangin Mania has hit Detroit!
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Hauling cases of mixes up the stairs; descending into the swirl and buzz from the balcony. Well, how many. tickets CAN get for $13? Backing into a coatcheck
W. Lafayette (Lafayette Bldg.) 963-1999
service. The music. The last slice of salami on the platter. Pouring drinks in the dark. Holding partitions for Nonce. The music. Even the cauliflower went! Everybody was everywhere, like the lattice in the basement. What music. Quite the - alternative. Great party.
VOLUNTEERS
FRANKLIN WRIGHT SETTLEMENT of Detroit seeks persons with academic backgrounds to tutor children in math, spelling and reading for three hours after school. Call Derrick Brown, 923-2300, 106, M-F, HELP AN EX-OFFENDER get STARTed back in the community. Call Project START at 965-3517.
HELP NURSING HOME RESIDENTS know their rights. Workshop in December. Call Citizens for Better Care, 962-5968.
UNITED CHILDREN AND FAMILIES HEADSTART in Detroit needs Office Assistants for mailing, filing and typing. Also, there are openings for classroom aides (preschool kids), lunch preparers and component helpers to distribute information to the community. Call David Hearst, 865-1800, Ext, 7, 9-4, M-Th.
WIVS/CHANNEL 56 needs telephone operators with good manners and good handwriting for their pledge campaign, from Nov. 28-Dec. 13. Contact Carolyn Meldrum, 873-7200, Ext. 201, 9-5, M-F.
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BUYING Avant Garde 2, Punk 9, Creems, Crawdaddys, Undergrounds, Fawzines and other music-oriented magazines. Also records and badges (music promos). Call Anya, 839-3008, noon fil 2am.
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EXPERIENCED WOMAN to do general cleaning; also, child care full or part time. 841-3835.
OUTBOARD MOTOR with Electric Start -wanted should be reasonable and between 18 and 40 HP. Richard, 465-2855. ROOMMATES
QUIET NONSMOKER with cat, appliances,
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by Elizabeth Hansen
e O h, no. Its Thanksgiving again. Don't get me wrong, love turkey and cranberries. like the idea of giving thanks for the harvest (although can't help wondering about the Native Americans who were part of that first Thanksgiving). love Detroit's - first snowfall around Dates every year.
Every year many of us exchange cynical remarks about the commercialization of Christmas, and then go
on to celebrate in a fairly conventional manner. And every year we wish there was something more meaningful about the holiday season.
There are options. Some of us who grew up with Chanukah or Christmas are finding new meaning in old rituals, - putting less emphasis on store-bought gifts and more on renewing family and community ties. And some of us are developing brand-new holidays from old traditions.
Many Black Detroiters will celebrate Kwanza this year instead of Christmas. Kwanza, which originated from an African harvest celebration, is described by Omonike Weusi-Puryear, author of the Kwanza Handbook, as a cHance for Black people to come together to celebrate our African heritage, to give thanks to our ancestors, to reaffirm the belief that elders should. be respected, and to reinforce our value framework for our children.
Kwanza gifts are given but are modest and practical, promoting
values of sharing and showing concern rather than materialism. Guiding principles for gifts are that they be expressions of Black history andy culture, giving of oneself, and commitment to education as a liberating force.
Other Detroiters, who no longer feel a spifitual connection to Christmas, choose to celebrate the Winter Solstice, Dec. 21. Solstice is a version of the Winter celebration that marked the beginning of longer days and shorter nights in Europe long before the birth of Christ. Solstice, like Christmas, Chanukah and Kwanza, is an opportunity for the reaffirmation of family and community. While gifts may be given, they are generally small symbols of appreciation, often made by the giver.
Whether you celebrate Soleties Kwanza, Chan ce or Christmas,-the option of more meaningful holiday is yours. If you're celebrating Christmas or Chanukah, try experimenting with your yearly traditions. Spend time with
family or friends making ornaments, gifts or food. Do some creative thinking about the messages of gifts you give, especially to children, and experiment with new kinds of presents.
/Consider giving gifts that are cultural or political expressions, that reaffirm value systems, that are eduational. Try homemade gifts, but don't feel obligated to create a major work of art for everyone on your list. Give a simple musical instrument or support a local artist by giving their work-as a gift. Whatever presents you choose, the point of the ocak istear caring, not the gift.
This is the first of two Holiday Guides published by the MetrojTimes. this season. We hope these guides do more than make your shopping easier and give you creative ideas for that perfect gift. We hope they also help you celebrate the holidays in a way that expresses your sense of the holiday spirit. a
HOLIDAY CALENDAR
by Diane Livingston
NOV. 20-DEC. 20: Craft Village fea-turing a potter and pottery, basketry, a hat factory, lace making, cookbooks at Northland Mall.
NOV. 21-DEC. 19: Caroling groups almost everyday at Northland Mall.
NOV. 21: Soap opera stars Brandon Kingsley of All My Children and Ted Clayton of One Life to Live will both appear at 12 noon and 4 pm at Westland Mall.
NOV. 25: Twelve food baskets will be ® given away in a drawing at 5:30 pm at Southland Mall.
NOV. 26: Christmas parade sponsored by Hudson's and the Detroit Renaissance begins at 9:30 am at the DIA down Woodward to Hudson's. A special shuttle bus from the Ren Cen to the parade for 50¢.
NOV. 26: Annual turkey dinner at Cottam United Church in Windsor to share in the American Thanksgiving holiday from 12 noon to 7 pm for a small fee. (519) 839-4827.
NOV. 26-DEC.: 24: Santa Claus at Hudson's. Displays of Santas from many lands and photos with Santa available at the downtown Detroit store.
NOV. 27-30: Goodfellows Dolls on display at Southland Mall.
NOV. 27-DEC. 24: Choral groups and bands entertain every day at the Ren Cen.
NOV. 27: Santa's Parade inside the Ren Cen, including a drum and bugle corps, at 11 am.
NOV. 27-JAN. 1: The Ren Cen has Christmas scenes from around the world displayed.
NOV. 28-29: Pottery exhibition and sale at Willistead Park in the Coach House in Windsor. Free apple cider. Tourist info: (519) 255-6530.5.
NOV. 28-29: Holiday Hike through eight antique stores from 12 noon to 5 pm. For more info call the Royal Oak Downtown Business Association.
NOV. 29: A Christmas Craft Demonstration at the Kensington Farm Center in Kensington Metropark at 7 pm. 6859105...
NOV. 30-DEC. 19: Holiday Sales Show by the Birmingham-Bloomfield Art Association features quality hand-crafted gifts at 1516 S. Cranbrook Rd. in Birmingham.
NOV. 30: Lagniappe Night (a little something extra) from 6-9 pm at the Northhill Shopping Center in Rochester.
NOV. 30-DEC. 30: Monday-Friday evenings: Christmas music by different local organizations at 7 pm at Westland Mall.
DEC. 1-13: In Colchester, Ontario: Christmas in the Country, a re-creation of Christmas in the 1850s, at the J.R. Park Homestead. At Country Rd. #50 and Iler Rd. on Lake Erie. Tourist info: 255-6530.
DEC. 3-5: 34th Annual Greens Market sponsored by the Rochester Branch of the Women s National Farm and Garden Assoc. Christmas wreaths, ropes, gifts, herbs and party centerpieces. Thursday and Friday, 10 am5 pm and Sat. 10-12 noon, at the Rochester Community House at 816 Ludlow.
DEC. 4: The Bonstelle Theatre will present Dickens A Christmas Carol the first three weekends in December. 5772960.
DEC. 4: Fashion show Aibisaaastied to music at 11 am and 7 pm atthe Westland. Mall.
DEC. 4: Ladies Night featuring Andrea Cheolis Trio and the Sheila Landis Quintet. This is part of the ongoing First Friday Jazz Series presented every month by the Northland Mall.
DEC. 4: Senior Citizens Christmas Party. Free to seniors at the Southland Mall.
DEC. 4-5, 10-12: Old-Fashioned Christmas at the Fairlane Mansion. $20 for an elegant Christmas dinner by candlelight. Dinner at 7:30 pm and, after a tour of the mansion, carol singing. 5935590.
DEC. 5: A Christmas Show with organist Ron Gnaster and the Fairlane Ballet Company, at 8 pm at the Redford Theatre. 961-9105.
DEC. 5: Annual Christmas parade at 10 am in downtown Windsor. Tourist info: 255-6530.
DEC. 5: Santa arrives by helicopter to the Dearborn Civic Center on Michigan Avenue at 12 noon. Free gifts for kids from Santa. Christmas displays and. strolling carolers will be inside the Civic Center.
DEC. 5: Children violinists will perform at 12 noon and 2 pm. This is part ofan ongoing event called Kids Fun Factory held the first Saturday of every month at Westland Mall.
DEC. 5: Windsor Symphony Orchestra at Cleary Auditorium in Windsor at
8 pm. (519) 254-4337.
DEC. 5: Holiday Fashion Show at 1 pm and 7 pm at Southland Mall.
DEC. 6; 30th Annual Christmas Parade (second largest in Michigan) at 2 pm in downtown Rochester.
DEC. 6: Concert by the Rochester Tuesday Musical Choral at 7:30 pm at St. Andrew's Church in Rochester.
DEC. 7: Singalong at 7 pm with Dick Purtan at Westland Mall.
DEC. 7: The Gregory Performers do Christmas musical pantomimes in Sear s court at 6:30 and 7:30 pm at Fairlane Mall.
DEC. 7: The National French Orchestra will perform at the Ford Auditorium.
DEC. 8: High school and local choral groups perform thru Christmas at Eastland Mall.
DEC. 9: Noel Night in the Cultural Center. Fourteen institutions including the DIA, the Detroit Historical Museum, the International Institute and the Detroit Public Library will be open with special exhibits, refreshments, entertainment, etc. at no charge..Woodward Avenue will be blocked off, and the public is invited to join the caroling with DEC. 9-10: Mona, the puppet from the Hot Fudge Show on Channel 7, will perform in The Gift of the Juggler which includes mime and autographs, in Penny's court at 6:30 and 7:30 pm at Fairlane Mall. -
DEC. 12-20: The 20th Annual Christmas Carnival at Cobo Hall. Sponsored by the City of Detroit, there will be four acres of fun, including animated figures, fantasy playground equipment and artificial
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snow ball thow, a 25-foot-tall Santa Claus and 12,000 pounds of artificial snow. Free.
Greenfield Village has numerous activities. For info: 271-1620. ~
The Detroit-Children s Museum also has many events: 494-1210.
Santa Claus will also be located at the following until Christmas eve: down-town Royal Oak, the Westland Mall, Southland Mall and Northland Mall.
TRANSPORTATION AND PARKING RATES IN EFFECT:
The Semta train, the Train Deer, has a special Christmas round-trip rate of $3.50, and the Semta Semta Claus bus has a round-trip rate of $2.50 from _ all.13 Park and Ride locations to the downtown Detroit area.
Special downtown Detroit parking rates from Nov. 26-Dec. 24 will be 50¢all day Saturday and Sunday and 4 8 pm on weekdays at the following parking lots: Kennedy Square, Grand Circus Park, 500 Brush, 101 E. Grand River and 121 Monroe.
The Ren Cen has new Christmas validated parking: $1.00 for any three hours between 11 am and 9 pm weekdays -and during weekend business hours.
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ALTERNATIVE CHRISTMAS CARDS
by Darlene Johnson
his array of alternative holiday y ie cards is just the tip of the iceberg of what is available this season. Before you start feeling overwhelmed by the idea of compiling all those lists of names and addresses and buying all those 20-cent stamps, try reevaluating just what holiday cards mean to you. Holiday greetings, in the form of a card or not, should be a way of making contact with people-you care about but just don't manage to stay in touch with during the year. Many people make the decision not to send cards to people they see every day, or people who live close enough so they could see each other, but don't. The point is, holiday cards can be fun, a way of reaffirming your relationships. Do only as much as you feel moved to do. You may decide to skip Christmas cards altogether and send your friends cards at some other point in the year. One Metro Times staffer who sent out Season s Greetings cards with rare updates on her life last July reports that her friends loved it. Whatever your style and whenever you send them, the sampling of cards on this page should give you lots of ideas on warm ways to tell your friends you care.
While the Campus Resale Shop on Cass (located in the heart of the WSU: campus) is not a conventional gift or card shop, one can easily spend an afternoon browsing through the selection of original vintage greeting cards. From Betty Boop motifs of the latter 1940s and World War II-era Soldier Come Home themes to early Art Deco and Andy Warhol soup cans, the investment for these nostalgic treasures can range from 30¢ to $2, - depending on the rarity of the card.
A Choc-O-Gram from Somerset. Mall's Chocolatissimo can assure you a greeting that won't be tossed out with the Christmas gift wrap. The solid chocolate messages in your choice of Merry Christmas and Noel are available for $10 fora6x4inch card.
Would you spare a friend a greeting to save a tree? If your concern for the ecology saps your holiday spirit, it might be worth your while (not to mention Mother Earth s) to plan a short excursion to the Ecology Center, 417 Detroit St. in Ann Arbor. The popular Recycled Paper Products card line is a feature here, including the witty Animal Farm series. On a more humorousbut slightly warped line, John McDonald provides us with a new twist on traditional holiday themes and characters. Among the creme-de-la-creme is a card depicting
a huddle of reindeer passing among them a suspicious-looking cigarette, with the inside caption How do you think they stay up there all night?
Another satirizes several Christmas songs, including a graphic of an elf being burned at the stake by a coven of angry nuts, bearing the caption Jack Frost Roasting on an Open Fire/ Chestnuts nipping at your toes...
Or, if you're an original art buff, you might want to check out their selection of nature prints created by local artists. Recycled Paper Products greetings are 75¢; original art prints vary from $1.50 to $3.00.
Speaking of art, ethnic print collectors would delight in receiving a Japanese fold-out greeting from Paperbacks Unlimited, 22634 Woodward, Ferndale. You won't find any rosycheeked Santas in this line but the delicate reproductions of original Japanese art classics come witha holiday salutation, or opt for the blank variety and write your own greeting. Prices start at $2.50. _
Celebraté the end of the harvest and the spirit of giving with Kwanza greetings, a holiday which traces its roots to Africa. Available at the Shrine of the Black Madonna Cultural Center/Bookstore, 13535 Livernois, in northwest Detroit.
In the true spirit of giving, if you d like the dollars you spend on cards to go for a good cause, the American Lung Association offers a choice of seven charming winter scenes. The cards come either imprinted with your name and message (deadline: Dec. 4) or non-imprinted to inscribe your own greetings. For a brochure showing all the cards, call the American Lung Association at 961-1697. Cards are packaged in boxes of 25 and range in price from $7.50 to $11 per box.
Have a new wave Christmas with Paper Moon graphics at Silver's in downtown Detroit. The colorful and creative air-brushed themes offer an imaginative upbeat alternative to the standard fare in cards, including a punk-influenced tot perched on Santa's knee, Santa greaser, complete with leather jacket and crewcut, and even a punk pig to snort a Season's Greetings. Most of the cards include a simple message, but some are blank, awaiting your personal touch. Price at 65¢.
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IF YOU'RE GOING TO_ GIVE THE GIFT OF MUSIC
by Garaud MacTaggart
Let s pretend. It's Christmas or whatever, _and you don't have much in the way ofcash. Still. . there s this deserving fellow, a music junkie, and you know that a record or two might get him drunk with gratitude.
Here s what you can get me.
Patti Austin Every Home Should Have One Qwest/Warner
Bros.
The title of the album says it, so it must be so. Patti Austinis one of the voices in back of ~ everyone (i.e., Michael Jackson, Steely Dan, etc.) that gets to step
out front occasionally. After many years and a few records, the word on this album is strong. Take notice Natalie, look out Aretha, and watch it Diana, there s a new queen on the scene and we're talkin about steppin out. This is the album to party and/or nightcap with when such activities are deemed necessary.
U2
Island
Young and arrogant in their craft, these Irish lads blessed us with Boy, their first album, towards the beginning of 1981. Side one was arguably the best lead-off side released by any new rock group this year. Out of Control is still:my personal anthem for the events of the summer of '81, and guess the clincher for meis that the album still sounds good towards the end of this year. Boy is also better than their new album, October, which isn't bad as much as it is ultimately boring.
The new album illustrates the old adage about rushing a band into the studio too fast with too little material for too few results. Don t confuse the two.
Sir Roland Hanna Swing Me No Waltzes Storyville Records
Roland Hanna is a former Detroiter who has taken the long road honing his keyboard skills over the years. He left Detroit in the '50s for New York City, studied for a while at one of those prestigious East Coast -. music schools, was knighted by the president of Liberia in 1970, and made the New York rounds playing with Charles Mingus, the Thad Jones-Mel Lewis Band, etc., etc. With an impressive keyboard technique that includes a strong left hand and an acute sense of the history ofjazz piano playing, Hanna is admirably equipped to play a solo piano recital better than your average block-chord bopper. The variety of styles covered on this album ranges from ragtime waltzes and boogie woogieto bop and who knows what else. Great stuff.
Miles Davis The Man With The Horn Columbia
Yes, Miles is back. The focus these days seems to be less on his trumpet playing and more on the groove that he creates. In some ways this album reminds me ofa leaner, more subtle version of Davis soundtrack for Jack Johnson. This is electric funky jazz that plays around the concept of aural space in a manner befitting one of the founders of the style.
Police Ghost in the Machine A&M
think that the Police have proven themselves to be the thinking person s pop band. Everything that wrote about this album a couple of issues ago still applies. This isn't an album without flaws, but it is an album with the overall strength of material and performance to counter those flaws. And let's not forget that a great single, Every Little Thing She Does is Magic, inhabits the grooves of this record.
Leo Kottke Guitar Music Chrysalis
This is my favorite new acoustic guitar album of the year. No vocals, just solo guitar for the most part with some over-
dubbed guitar lines in just the right places. Leo, as most folkies know, has an awesome way with the frets. Side one is real strong, and there s even a great cover version of that old western classic, Tumbling Tumbleweeds.
Desmond Dekker Compass Point Sti
This album fills the gap this year that Jimmy Cliffs Am the Living occupied last year. One thing that helps is Dekker's ability to not only sing the standard upbeat reggae tunes in fine fashion, as he does with That s My Woman, but also his way. with reggae ballads like I Do Believe that makes this album convincing. If Desmond Dekker is only familiar to you from his hit of the early '70s, Israelites, then you should be made aware of this album. If like most of the present day record buying public, your rasta respectability is low, then its time to end your naivete and boost your reggae ratings.
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STALKING THAT PERFECT GIFT
by Toby Goldberg
t looks like another outstanding I year for the annual Holly Mart in Grosse Pointe. This is one arts and crafts show that benefits not only one good cause (local artists) but two. The Grosse Pointe Inter-Faith Center for Racial Justice sponsors the holiday fair, and the funds raised will go towards maintaining the center s programming.
The Inter-Faith Center is a community civil rights organization, started in 1967, which is dedicated to promoting racial understanding through education and action. Their programming is diverse; the center recently started a petition drive urging the continuation (in total) of the voting rights act and has maintained a yearly Martin Luther King, Jr. essay contest in the Grosse Pointe school system.
- Funding comes primarily from churches and individuals. The Holly Mart is one of three fundraisers held each year, and it promises to be a delightful way to select holiday gifts.
Something for everyone is the key. Over 40 artists will display their work, and a disparate collection it will be. For example, you will see pen and ink drawings (look for Janet Anderson's design on this year's greeting card for the Inter-Faith Center) next to batik wall hangings and children s clothing next to gold and silver jewelry next to hand-carved wooden boxes. The common elements are that everything is handmade and for sale. Reasonably priced, too, according to co-director of the center, Katie Elsila. She believes that this year s art represents the very best available from Detroit and the surrounding region.
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The artists are all professionals, dedicated and accomplished in their - disciplines. Some will even be ~ displaying their talents for all to see with ongoing demonstrations. In particular, look for John Beers, a Detroit artist, who will perform the art of glass blowing; members of the Dearborn Handweaving Studio, who will demonstrate different weaving techniques; and for a unique gift, all are welcome to try making their own 1 British brass rubbings with assistance from the Impressions shop.
And for those with ceramic in their soul, this year s Holly Mart will feature the work of eight Michigan potters, arranged in a section of their own and offering a wide variety of styles and materials to choose from.
One of the potters, Barbara Dalton, is bringing her very unique hand-built work to the Holly Mart for the first time this year. She impresses different types of cloth and antique lace in her pottery to add a textural dimension and then hand paints it, giving the pottery a look rarely found but widely acclaimed.
With the view of Lake St. Clair to look at while browsing and freshbaked goods and complete lunches being offered, there couldn't be an easier and more pleasant way to choose the gift that is just right for friends and family (or treat yourself)!
Note: Since racial justice is largely an economic question, one way to encourage it is through more support for minority artists. This year s Holly Mart is trying to do just that, and all artists are welcome to inquire about inclusion in. future Inter-Faith Center fundraisers.
The Seventh Annual Holly Mart, Friday, Dec. 4, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., and Saturday, Dec. 5, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Grosse Pointe War Memorial, 32 Lakeshore Dr., Grosse Pointe Farms. Donation of $1.00 requested, children free. 882-6464. @
