Metro Times 12/241980

DOES ART IMITATE LIFE?

Secretaries Talk about 9 to 5

If the women s reactions are any indication, the film hits home. They dismissed the extreme characterizations and preposterous situations as Hollywood , and began relating similar situations they had encountered on the job.

Unacknowledged and uncompensated extra duties hostess, counselor, chauffeur, administrator, idea person, sex object, etc. put secretaries in the unique position of being indispensable to an organization while remaining underpaid, accorded low status and easily replaced. While only one of the women had had a boss who compared realistically with Mr. Hart, all four women agreed that the abuse portrayed happens regularly in the clerical workplace. And even though Hart is an unbelievable arch-villain whom most bosses wouldn t dare to emulate, said Mary, Many deep down would like to act that way.

In the film, Hart takes credit for ideas originated by Vi (Lily Tomlin). There s a lot of that, was the consensus of the women interviewed.

by Jan Loveland and Michael Betzold

a film which brings a long-overdue glimpse of 9 to 5 9 the office as workplace to mainstream Hollywood audiences is finally out. It has been released amid the flurry of holiday season bids for the end-of-the-year box office bonanza. It isa funny but important film it deserves a broad audience.

Detroit Metro Times took four area secretaries to the movies to see what they thought; after all, it is a story about their day-to-day lives. Their reactions, we assumed, would flesh out the stereotypes that comedic cinematic license provided in the film.

Our small sample was hopefully balanced and representative of the larger workforce two of the women interviewed were black Detroiters and two white suburbanites. One woman works for a large hospital, one for a legal firm and two for major corporations. Mary, Sarah, Dee and Jane (not their real names) had much to say about both the film and their lives behind a desk.

T had: an idea, recalls Sarah, I saw how there was a lot of time being wasted on my job, and made some suggestions to change things. At the time, no one wanted to. make a move on it. We'll have to think about it, they said. Then a year and a half later they took my idea and everybody said, Wow, we should have been doing this all the time. The boss got the credit, not Sarah.

Another common office excess is a boss requests for and expectations of extra chores like making coffee and running errands.

An interesting dialogue between Mary and our fourth interviewee, Jane, was exchanged over this very issue. Mary felt that her boss (a lawyer) time was more valuable than hers and that she should therefore be willing to get his coffee. Said Mary, I don t get coffee. feel I could be doing something else rather than making coffee. Answered Jane, What s more important, you doing something else or your boss doing something else? Replied Mary, I think my time is just as valuable as his.

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EDITOR

Ron Williams

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CONTRIBUTORS

Ron Aronson, Michael Betzold, W. Bryce

Elissa Clarke, Lloyd Gite, Timothy Hughes

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VOLUME I, NUMBER 6 NEWS DEC. 24, 1980-JAN. 15, 1981

Registration Looms for 30,000, by W. Bryce

Ford Worker Blasts Apartheid, by Lloyd Gite.........

State Moves Toward Divestment, by Lloyd Gite ............0.00000008s

UFW Steps Up Boycott, by Elissa Clarke ..........

Briefs: Women s Justice Center Refunded, Historic Sites Endangered, March on Washington Planned ..............+++++ Sanaa

FEATURES

Secretaries Talk About 9 to 5, by Jan Loveland and Michael Betzold.....

Fresh Fortnightly, edited by Jan Eoueland 5.2

Dialdgue<by Carol Ningic ee ne ae ee ees eee

Spend the Holidays Without Buying In, by Jan Loveland ..............

Kwanza: An Alternative Holiday, by Herb Boyd ................0000:

Flicks. bycMichael Betzold ie fo. GR

Suite Almer by Bul Rowe.

Jimmy Cliff, Jack Green, by Garaud MacTaggart......

Petesibincby SarieMulls | Sires ooh OSs

Detroit s Whirl of Dance, by Efua Korantema...........2.0000c0

Sun Ra: Intergalactical Event, by Geoffrey Jacques

LETTERS

The following is a taste of the kinds of responses we have received from the reader survey printed in the last issue. The winners of the Sam s Jams gift certificates will be announced in the next issue which will appear Jan. 15. Hold on to your entry blank with the number on it!

What our readers liked least about the Detroit Metro Times:

hard to find over emphasis on pop music letters the ink comes off on your hands not enough of your good articles, also too short too much editorializing that haven t seen it before now too many ads some of the political articles are very weak your headlines

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T use the material from your paper as a filler on air at school radio station.

1 think its great that you care enough to send out this survey to your readers. Potential to become a weekly. Do it.

Best I ve seen. Take 5 is amusing but not very informative. Metro Times is very informative.

It fills the void that the regular newspapers leave open.

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THE EAGLE FLIES ON FRIDAY: Tonight the latest in a series of area movie theatrespremieres as arock palace. Pontiac's Eagle Theatre, now known as Eagfe Theatre Live!, will be filled with the sounds of area rockers The Look.Hal Thomas and Christine Ivory are mounting the show and promise another with the Kingbees in the next couple of months, as well as some country music later on this spring. Call the theatre at 3355470 for more information.

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CREATIVE PHASES: Tonight, the latest in an ongoing series of concerts by theCreative Arts Collective with support from the Michigan Council of the Arts. The opening concert features saxophonist Roscoe Mitchell backed by locals Spencer Barefield, Jaribu Shahid and Tani Tabbal: Next Saturday, Marcus Belgrave, Faruq Bey and Anthony Holland join the local trio to form the New Chamber Jazz Sextet. Both at the DIA Recital Hall. 832-2730.

RANDALL'S FAREWELL: Poet

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mainstay of local literati, but is now leaving Motown to take a teaching appointment in Florida. This afternoon, his poetry reading will also feature the many talents of Wardell Montgomery, Faruq Bey, Ali Muhammed and Poet's Corner organizer Aaron Ibn Pori-Pitts. The amalgamated talents of all of the above should result in a lively mix of poetry, jazz and arban folk musik. Call 4912164 for more information.

FANTASTIC MEMORIES: The Fantasy Theatre seems an appropriate group to headlinea benefit for the now-defunct Detroit Free School. So while you're freely fantasizing at Alvin's Finer Twilight Bar, help the friends of the school pay off debts left by its closing. Call 893-2480 for details.

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RING IN THE NEW: Well, once again, it's New Year's Eve, andI frankly can t decide whether to hit my friends soggy canape circuit, clean my sock drawer or go out and catch some of the interesting music that abounds in town tonight. For example, a national spotlight will fall on Dummy George s tonight as the Jazz Alive broadcast which is swinging through nightspots nationwide hits town at the

Person, Etta Jones and the Shirley Scott Trio entertain. Downtown, there s Eartha Kitt at Music Hall, Sun Ra at the Jazz Center, and for those into something a little more commercial, there's Freda Payne at Studio 54 and Evelyn Champagne King at 431 East. Speaking of the East, Harpo s will have Mitch Ryder, as well as Doug Podell and his Ragg Band, and the Buzztones (perfect for getting buzzed to). And for you who'd sooner greet 1981 on higher planes, the Rance Allen Group will provide some Gospel. Check the various music listings for times and numbers. an.9

matic Band, which has been absent from the local scene for awhile, is back to help raise bucks for the ERA, which can use all the help it can get at the moment. Instead of their usual appearance on the local bar scene, they're at Masonic. Call 832-6648.

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KIDS ON THE ASSEMBLY LINE: Your son or daughter can assemble his/her very own wooden truck and learn the history of assembly lines today at the Detroit Historical Museum. The workshop is geared to 8-to-12-year-olds, if you'll pardon the expression. Dudley Randall has been a West side club. Houston AIMING TO PLEASE: The Pris- 833-1805 for more info.

METRO SHOWCASE

Dec. 26-31 Suan Ra and His Omniverse Jet-Set Arkestra, Detroit Jazz Center, 964-9044.

Dec. 27 Roscoe Mitchell, DIA Recital Hall, 832-2730.

Dec. 27 Junior Walker and the All Stars, Bookie s Club 870, 862-0877.

Dec. 28 Romantics, Masonic, 832-6648.

Dec. 30 Charfie Daniels Band, Cobo, 962-1800.

Dec. 31 Alvin Lee, Cobo, 962-1800.

Dec. 31-Jan. 3 Four Tops/Dells, 20 Grand, 873-1100.

Dec. 31 Mitch Ryder, Harpo's, 823-6400.

Dec. 31 Freda Payne, Studio 54, 963-0045.

Jan. 2-3 Evelyn Champagne King, 431 East, 961-8137.

Jan. 11 Stevie Wonder, Cobo Arena, 962-1800.

The Look, Eagle Theatre, Dec. 26

Registration Looms for 30,000

by W. Bryce

For approximately 30,000 nineteen-year-old males in the Detroit area, the new year will bring more than hangovers and new year s resolutions. During the week of Jan. 5-9, these young men will have an opportunity to take the first step down the road to the next Viet Nam. It is on these days that the next wave of draft registration is to occur.

According to Russ Bellant of the Committee Against Registration and the Draft (CARD), the organization has 400 chapters in all 50 states. Locally, CARD has chapters at Cass Technical High School, Wayne State University, Plymouth, Mich., and a chapter is being formed in Oakland County. Over the last year it has carried out a series of protests and educational activities around the issue of the Carter administration s registration program.

Bellant debated the assistant director of the Selective Service in a series of debates throughout the Detroit area last fall. With the new year, additional activities are planned, including an appearance by Ramsey Clark in January and the CARD national convention in February.

Tammy Rosenfeld of the Cass Tech chapter of CARD stressed the importance of getting high school students involved. She outlined a proposed demonstration Jan. 5 at the Main Post Office (on Fort Street) at which many Cass Tech students are expected to participate. CARD hopes to leaflet and picket at least six post offices in the Detroit area during the upcoming registration week. In addition to the organizing efforts of CARD and other anti-

draft groups, there is a well developed counseling network across the metro area.

Dennis James, a Detroit-area attorney, discussed with. Detroit Metro Times several points potential draftees should be made aware of. First, people should understand that it is technically a felony to fail to register. This fact makes prosecution a possibility. James pointed out, however, that the government itself has predicted a non-compliance rate of

DIALOGUE

by Carol King

Dialogue is a regular feature of Detroit Metro Times and is intended to offer a diverse range of opinion on subjects of importance to Detroit-area readers.

Believe it or not, the most serious threat to American life as we know it is a federal bill called the Family Protection Act. In an age where only 14 percent of Americans live in traditional families (with father the breadwinner and mother the homemaker with children), the New Right has decided to enact a law to restore family unity, parental authority and traditional morality.

Introduced in September, 1979, by Senator Paul Laxalt (R-Nev.), and cosponsored by Senators Orrin Hatch and Jake Garn, both Republicans from Utah and Senators Thad Cochran (R-Miss.) and Jesse Helms (R-N.C.), the bill exposes the regressive, reactionary attitudes of the New Right. Its proyisions apply to areas of education, welfare, taxation and domestic relations.

The bill would withhold federal monies from states that do not allow voluntary prayer in public buildings, including schools. The Constitution clearly man-

dates the separation of church and state.

This basic concept has been upheld by the courts as an inviolate principle. The obvious influence of groups such as the Moral Majority and the National Christian Action Coalition cannot be overstated.

The bill would prohibit federal funds from being used for educational materials that denigrate, diminish or deny the role differences of the sexes as historically understood. The New Right s attack on the hopes and aspirations of women for equality in our society is clear.

Another attack on women is the bills provision that decisions regarding the intermingling of sexes in sports and schoolrelated activities shall be made by local school authorities. This would cut the backbone out of Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 by removing implementation from federal jurisdiction.

Another major impact of the Family Protection Act would be the restriction of activities of the Legal Services Corporation, which provides legal services to lowincome Americans. The bill prohibits the use of Legal Services money for litigation involving abortion, school desegregation, divorce, gay rights and civil rights. To deny poor people equal access to legal

time to appeal their status. The new law allows draftees only ten days to challenge an induction order. Given this, James stressed the importance of advance planning and counseling.

The notion that only Quakers and members of a limited number of other religious organizations can quality as conscientious objectors (COs) is a widely held misconception. James stated that with competent counseling, in reality a large number of registrants may quality for CO status.

The new Selective Service law differs from the old law in that there is no longer an advance classification system which in the past has given potential draftees Es E

four percent. The costs of prosecuting these 300,000-500,000 felons are, of course, prohibitive, but registrants should be aware of and prepared for the possibility of some form of selective some for of selective enforce-' ment.

Another form of exemption is that of a physical deferment. Armed Forces medicals are > notoriously lax, but the list of ailments that exempt people is actually very long, James said. The key here again is advance preparation and documentation. If you are required to participate in the next round of registration between Jan. 5-9 and want to have the law explained to you, the following are places to contact: National Lawyers Guild, Tues. evenings from 5-8 pm, 963-0843.

The Wesley Foundation (WSU), 577-3451. Neighborhood Legal Services, 962-9015.

- assistance is the grossest form of class discrimination.

It would write into law a statement that discrimination against homosexuals would never be considered an unlawful employment practice. The mere fact that one segment of the American population could be legally discriminated against is a threat to anyone who deviates from the norm as defined by the New Right.

The bill requires that federally funded clinics cannot provide treatment for venereal disease, abortion counseling and services to minors without informing their parents. The decision to inform one s parents should be left to the minor. The punitive, moralistic attitude of this act manifests itself as the New Right seeks to protect parental interests by depriving minors of health care and medical attention.

- Churches would be redefined so as to protect church auxiliaries, such as hospitals, from affirmative action requirements and unionization attempts. The church could interfere in government by imposing moralistic values while the government could not regulate the business activities of the church.

The Family Protection Act would also prohibit federal funds from being used for the establishment of child and spouse assault shelters if the state does not recognize the need. The idea is to leave family violence in the family. Providing shelters for victims is seen as governmental interference in the family and is, therefore, evil.

The message from the New Right is clear. The mentality of the so-called ProFamily movement is to return to the good old days, when women stayed barefoot and pregnant, blacks knew their place, children adhered to parental morals and the father was supreme.

The Family Protection Act is a threat to all of us who are among the 86 percent living in anything other than the traditional family. It may not pass in its present form, but each aspect of this bill will appear attached to other legislation. Rest assured, the New Right will not give up.

For further information contact: Michigan NOW PO Box 18063 Lansing, MI 48901 (517) 485-9687

Carol King is a National Board Member of the National Organization for Women (NOW).

Ford Worker Blasts Apartheid

Exiled South African leader Tozamile Botha is currently touring the U.S., speaking out against the apartheid system in his white-ruled country. Botha is a former worker for Ford Motor Company South Africa. He became one of the leading figures in the recent walkout by black workers at Ford who were protesting the company s employee policies. Because of his political involvement, Botha was placed in detention. Afterwards he was put under house arrest until he fled to neighboring Lesotho.

by Lloyd Gite

Q: There are currently 350 U.S. corporations doing business in South Africa, with billions of dollars of investments. There is an ongoing debate as to what kind of impact those U.S. companies have on government policy. What are your views?

A: Most investors in South Africa today claim that by investing in the racist country they are helping to improve the quality of life for black people. believe the existence of those corporations helps to strengthen the apartheid regime militarily and economically.

Corporations like Ford and General Motors are building police, commercial and military vehicles for

the South African government, and that is definitely not to. the benefit of the black people. The same corporations are refusing workers the right to form trade unions. We are not only fighting the racist government, we are fighting the foreign corporations which have investments in South Africa because they too are contributing to our oppression.

Q: The Sullivan Principles, which are a code of conduct for American companies doing business in South Africa, have been attacked by a number of people as being unworkable and unenforceable. Do the Sullivan Principles prevent American companies in

South Africa from practicing racial discrimination?

A: The Sullivan Principles are a fraud aimed at deflecting criticism rather than bringing about a meaningful change. The Sullivan Principles make it possible for corporations to continue the exploitation of black people under the protection of the racist government. Most corporations hide behind the Principles.

One example is Ford Motor Company, which we went on strike against. Ford is regarded as number one in terms of progress and in terms of implementing the Sullivan Principles. But during the strike our demands

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State Moves Toward Divestment

by Lloyd Gite

The Michigan Legislature has sent a tentative message to those state banking institutions and private corporations which invest in South Africa. State Representative Virgil Smith, Jr. (D-Detroit) who was instrumental in achieving passage of new state legislation, hopes that message will grow into a major campaign which will eventually require complete divestment of all state funds from what he refers to as the modern world s bloodiest and most illegal regime.

Smith and a handful of other Michigan legislators have been working for years to get the state to put pressure on companies which do business in the Republic of South Africa. The bill, recentlypassed by both houses, prohibits state surplus funds from being deposited in state or federally chartered banks making loans to South Africa, or Michigan corporations which do business in that

country. Over $900 million is currently invested by Michigan businesses alone.

Michigan banks which currently make loans to the white minority government include: City National Bank of Detroit, Bank of Lansing; First Citizens Bank of Troy; National Bank of Rochester and Union National Bank and Trust of Grand Rapids. Of these, only City National Bank of Detroit is a depository of state surplus funds. The bill, once enacted, could force state officials to remove millions of surplus dollars from City National because of its policy of making loans to the Republic of South Africa.

As the bill stands now, Smith concedes it is more bark than bite.

He says strong opposition from Governor William Milliken, Treasury Department officials and banking representatives forced him to settle for compromise bill which diluted the strength of the

legislation. The bill in its original form would have also prevented Michigan surplus funds from being invested in banks which give loans to subsidiary companies in South Africa. Under the bill now, South African-based subsidiaries of U.S. companies can still apply for loans from those banks and get funds. Smith emphasized that the current bill is just one of.a series of related South African bills he will push in upcoming sessions of the legislature.

Michigan-based firms with affiliate or subsidiary operations in South Africa include Ford Motor Company and General Motors, which are among the largest U.S, companies in South Africa. Those two auto giants employ almost 10,000: South African workers and have sales and assets in the ten of millions of dollars annually. Other Michigan-based companies involved in South Africa include American

Motors, the Bundy Corporation, the Kellogg Company, the Upjohn Company, the Burroughs Corporation, National Standard Company, Parke, Davis and Company, the Sperry Vickers Division of the Sperry Rand Corporation, the Valeron Corporation and Dow Chemical.

Michigan companies and other U.S. companies with operations in South Africa help bolster the economy of that country and in doing so promote the principle of white supremacy which keeps the black masses politically disenfranchised and economically disadvantaged, says the Detroit Representative. Smith adds that a number of Michigan-based companies produce equipment and products used to control black South Africans. Our auto companies are exporting technology to South Africa which is used by that government to police blacks. Ford and General Motors build

military vehicles and police cars and trucks which are used against black South Africans. Dow Chemical produces substances which are being used by the South African government for crowd control.

Smith admits the battle to force Michigan companies to divest their South African holdings will not be easy. The Michigan legislator hopes the state will take the lead in a campaign to force complete divestiture. The first step, says Smith, is to make the people aware of Michigan s dealings with the white-controlled government of South Africa.

I'd like to see this movement go around the country. Id like to see every state in the union and the national Congress pass legislation which would stop U.S. involvement and investment in South Africa. I think the beginnings of that national campaign have started here in Michigan.

Tozamile Batha, exiled Ford striker

Photo: Jim Woodward

Borman Foods: The only large chain selling Red Coach lettuce

by Elissa Clarke

Piled up on the produce counter at Farmer Jack s, Red Coach brand iceberg lettuce looks pretty innocuous. But the farmworkers who harvest that lettuce have been on strike since January, 1979, and they are asking Detroiters not to buy Red Coach lettuce until they get a contract.

Lettuce pickers work in teams. Two cutters work down parallel rows, bending all day to slice the thick stalks at the ground. Behind them, a packer gathers the heads and packs them 24 to a box. The aguador, often a teenager, sprinkles the heads with water to keep them fresh. Then the closer staples the boxes and heaves them onto trucks that follow the workers through the fields. The work is so strenuous that most lettuce pickers must go on to easier jobs by the age of 40. Cutters often suffer lifelong back problems.

Without a union contract, many farmworkers earn minimum wage and less. With a union contract, lettuce pickers are guaranteed $5 per hour.

Until 1979 most lettuce growers had contracts with the United Farm Workers (UFW). But when the contracts expired, the growers refused to renegotiate. The union called a strike against 28 companies.

The growers response was swift and violent. They harvested their crops by hiring labor contractors to recruit undocumented workers from Mexico and Central America. Picketers were beaten. One striker, Rufino Contreras,

was shot in the face by three foremen when he attempted to talk to strikebreakers. Despite many witnesses, charges were dropped.

Nineteen of the original 28 companies have signed contracts with the UFW. The new contracts guarantee wages of $5 per hour (possibly more with piece rates), a medical plan, a hiring hall based on seniority, a grievance procedure, paid holidays and protection against pesticides.

Red Coach is a label of Bruce Church, Inc., the largest of the remaining iettuce producers without a contract. In Detroit, Red Coach lettuce is sold at Farmer Jack s and other small groceries.

Bruce Church, Inc. has led growers opposition to the unions since the 1930s. When the California Agricultural Labor Relations Act was passed in 1975, Bruce Church workers were among the first to petition for a union representation _ election. The company brought in goons to beat up and intimidate workers and organizers. So many unfair labor practices were filed that the Agricultural Labor Relations Board ordered a new election, which the UFW won. The company bought two years time by challenging the election, but the UFW was certified as the bargaining agent on Dec. 13, 1977.

A year ago, the UFW decided to concentrate its efforts on winning a contract at Bruce Church and launched a_ nationwide boycott of Church s Red Coach brand lettuce.

The boycott in Detroit appears to have the mighty Bruce Church, Inc. a bit worried. Many com-

munity organizations have written to Farmer Jack s urging the supermarket to stop selling Red Coach lettuce. On Nov. 6, Bruce Church sent company vice president Mike Payne and two other executives to Detroit to tell our side of the story. Payne met with groups who had written to Farmer Jack s. Leo Lechtenburg, director of Campus Ministries at the University of Detroit, described his meeting with Payne to Detroit Metro Times:

I was amazed that they came out and talked to us. guess they re hurting.

They tried to snow us with contradictory facts: the union says there are no toilets in the field; we say there are. .. Then they said they had no objections to unions, but that Chavez (UFW President) is dictatorial. They didn t feel that the union should be allowed to run the hiring halls or

determine who is in good standing in the union. det¢rmine who is in good standing in the union.

They finally admitted that 95% of what the farmworkers have gotten has been through the union!

Mark Sharwood, a UFW boycott organizer in Detroit, urged Detroiters not to buy Red Coach lettuce. He pointed out that it is an easy item to boycott because it is clearly labeled Red Coach on the cellophane wrapper and because there are plenty of substitutes.

Sharwood also urged supporters to write to Farmer Jack s and ask them to drop Red Coach lettuce. (Address: 18718 Borman, Detroit, MI.)

Women s Justice Center Refunded

At the board meeting of the Wayne County Neighborhood Legal Services on Dec. 18, aninterim decision was reached to refund the staff attorney position of the Women s Justice Center (WJC) for a six-month period. I am very pleased with the agreement which was struck, Jan Leventer, current WJC attorney told Detroit Metro Times. We feel we will be able to fulfill our own goals and the goals of our funder, she said. The decision provides a raise for the staff attorney position, a new part-time secretary and an evaluation after three months of the new agreement. The center is expected to engage in both law reform and direct service activities. Their number is 961-7073.

Historic Sites Endangered

A coalition of historic preservation groups and residents of the East Ferry Historic District has been formed to stop the Center for Creative Studies (CCS) from further extending its boundaries onto E. Ferry, between John R and Brush. According to spokesperson, Hilanius Phillips, a city planner with the city of Detroit, CCS has already acquired the former site of Lewis Business College and has made plans to demolish property that has received both state and federal designation.

On Dec. 22, the coalition met at 263 E. Ferry and boarded up the building as a first move toward gaining complete restoration. The coalition plans to meet with officials from CCS in hopes of devising a program to retain the integrity of this historic neighborhood. Those interested in participating in tis effort can contact Hilanius Phillips at 933-7225.

March on Washington Planned

Progressive forces, eyeing the Reagan White House, the conservative Senate and now the prospective Cabinet appointees, are planning to take the offensive. On Feb. 4, there will be a national march on Washington sponsored by a broad coalition of women s groups, labor unions and civil rights organizations. The four demands of the march will be: Equal Rights, Peace, Economic Rights and Reproductive Rights. Planning locally is still in the beginning stage, but look for more details in the Jan. 15 issue of Detroit Metro Times.

Photo: Jim Woodward

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( orporate sexism that deeply entrenched American institution is still intact. The hoped-for on-screen secretarial revolt in 9 to 5 is a disappointment and amounts to little more than some harmless rattling of the cages.

Maybe its too much to expect Hollywood to seriously treat the topic of exploitation of office workers in a major motion picture. But Jane Fonda didn t flinch from taking on the nuclear power industry in The China Syndrome, and so one hoped for a hard-hitting movie about on-the-job sexism, a primary locus of women s oppression that has until now been noticeably neglected in American film.

Instead, 9 to 5 is like the bite of an angry dog suddenly afflicted. with lockjaw in mid-chomp. After a cursory but damning examination of the relationship between a sexist egotistical lying hypocritical bigot of a boss (Dabney Coleman) and three of his underlings (Lily Tomlin, Dolly Parton and Fonda), the film degenerates into a screwball comedy, good for laughs, but too ridicu-

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S- bosses cross the line into sexual favors in their expectations of their secretaries. Accurate statistics on sexual harassment are, like rape statistics, difficult to find because the phenomenon often goes unreported. Redbook s 1976 survey on workplace harassment reported 88% of all women as victims and is one of the few available. Since it is likely that the respondents chose to answer the survey because they had experiences to relate, the figure may be high but points to the commonplace occurrence of harassment.

Just as Parton-Doralee was subjected to the boss roving eyes, groping hands and ceaseless propositions, Mary was on the receiving end of unwanted attention.

People in the office were thinking we were having an affair. He never actually touched me it was Meet me after work, or If you want to get a promotion, Ill show you how. He asked me to come into his office and showed me dirty pictures just to wear me down.

lous to take as seriously as the subject demands.

_It s not that the necessary points need to be made with heavy drama. Comedies can be effective in consciousness raising even more so than the serious treatments if they use their laugh hooks to grap larger audiences. But because the secretaries don t act out of conviction, but fall into rebellion accidently via a madcap chain of events, the film is less satisfying somehow. 9 to 5 doesn t give us anything but impossible fantasies and management-approved reformism, which only buys off the trio with a larger stake in the company.

For the first half of its two hours, 9 to 5 fairly smokes with righteous anger thinly disguised as comedy. The boss, Mr. Hart, combines the worst qualities of male chauvinist executives. He steals the ideas of Violet (Tomlin), the 12year-old rung on the company ladder of success, and would rather keep her making coffee and buying presents for his wife than give her the promotion she has long deserved. ( I ve never seen anyone leap-frog to the top so fast,

went to my boss and confronted him. The next day when I got to work, he said, How dare you tell those lies? All was doing was just being friendly.

Mary s boss insisted that she rescind her allegations, but she instead met with her boss supervisor who allowed her to stay and had her boss transferred.

The supervisor told her he had been aware of the situation. She remembers, I sat there thinking, If you knew about it all the time, why didn t you make this man stop harassing me all these years?

: he similarity between wife and secretary may not be limited to doing busywork chores or absorbing unwanted sexual favors. One of the secretaries interviewed clearly feels that she can be a target for her boss aggressions, whatever form they come in. You have to expect that your bosses are going to vent whatever pressures are building up inside of them on you. You just have to let it roll off. You can t take it personally.

Jane disagrees. Some people don t see you as a helper they see you as a little flunky. I can t stand it when a boss yells and screams at me.

Are the fantasies in the film just an excess of the screenwriter or reality? If the women could play them out, would they do it? All four said they wanted to get revenge at times, and one admitted wanting to kill one of her bosses.

Perhaps male bosses could laugh off the movie because Hart s character was drawn in such exaggerated terms, and the secretaries revolt was so unrealistic. The women indeed agreed that Hart was a composite of the worst behaviors of many bosses rather than a believable person.

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Violet says of Hart, and have the bad back to prove it. )

He chases and fondles and pinches his personal secretary, Doralee (Parton), in an unsuccessful attempt to get her to bed. He lectures the newcomer Judy (Fonda) with locker-room pep talks and yells at her for losing a battle with a mad Xerox machine.

The trio s frustrations reach a boiling point in the space of a few minutes. Violet is told she is losing a promotion to aman with 5 years less seniority, Doralee finds out Hart s been telling everyone she s his mistress, and Judy gets enraged by the firing of a co-worker for some treasonous lavatory talk overheard by the Company stool pigeon Roz (Elizabeth Wilson). The first major credibility gap of the film is created when his firing drives the heretofore docile Judy to exclaim We've got to do something, and to take the afternoon off to join Violet and Doralee at the bar, when just a few frames before she was shaking in fear at Hart s every command.

The funniest moments come next

But realistically, they said, an office could be run without a boss or as the saying goes, Secretaries run the world. Mary describes secretaries power as silent control. She alone of the four is in favor of unionizing the office.

Clerical unionizing appears to be one of the most promising new frontiers of the labor movement, with the UAW, Communications Workers and Service Employees beginning to actively pursue office workers. In addition, two non-union groups, Working Women and the National Association of Office Workers, have been using pressure tactics like press conferences, litigation and demonstrations to win victories in the form of pay increases and back pay settlements for sexual discrimination.

Karen Nusbaum of NAOW was in Detroit last Thursday, Dec. 18, to address the audience at a benefit screening of 9 to 5 for the Women s. Justice Center. In her talk, she commented that the 80s would be to clerical workers what the 30s were to industrial workers in terms of organizing and winning collective bargaining rights. Her group was consulted by Patricia

when the film gives life to each of the trio s outrageous fantasies about how they would do in the boss. Its clear that such fantasizing is the only recourse for the powerless secretaries, and the first step toward doing something about the situation.

Despite fine acting, the movie falls on its face. Tomlin is wonderful, Parton a natural, and Fonda competent, though uninspiring compared to other recent films, but the sum cannot save the script. Worst of all, the changes the secretaries do make when they unwittingly take power are of the enlightenedmanagement type, pleasing the omnipotent Chairman of the Board because they have raised productivity, and making him the instrument of the trio s final salvation.

9 to 5 may have value as a way for exploited office workers to let off steam with vicarious enjoyment of their boldest fantasies of getting the boss. But we'll have to keep waiting for a movie that really tackles the business-world baseline for women s oppression the continuous scandal of office sexism.

Resnick, the film s screenwriter. Sarah, Dee and Jane voiced fears about unionization, worrying that it would kill your incentive or make it impossible to be Sudged as an individual. A third concern was that additional benefits, like day care, might result in lower pay.

Changes like flex-time and job sharing would be welcome, all agreed.

But just as the company backs down from equal pay in the film, so do the reallife secretaries have doubts about what form it should take in their offices. Pay should be based on your performance, argued Jane. It shouldn t be based on a chart or how long you've been employed.

As to how reforms might be instituted, the anti-unionists were vague. But if secretaries were to strike, said one, I m sure the world would stop.

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Apparently many office workers are not yet ready to hit the pavement, though 9 to 5 and the issues it raises to public debate +may make it possible for clerical working women to do a little

After two years, I spoke to his boss secretary who told her boss about it. He

Continued from page 6 were still equal pay for equal work, scrapping of job positions reserved for whites only, promotions of blacks to senior positions and integration of training facilities. What improvements has Ford made if there are still jobs reserved for whites only and if there is no equal pay for equal work? The disparity between the white and black worker at Ford is still 1 to 5.

Here is a good example of how Ford Motor Company treats its black workers: | started a job the same day and went through the same training as a white man. We were sent to the same office. We found two black men who had been there two years earlier. The man I started with became a supervisor over those men. This same man was being paid more than twice as much as I was being paid. All this because he was white.

Q: What you're telling me is that in fact the Ford Motor Company subsidiaries located in South Africa are not abiding by the Sullivan Principles?

A: The fact that there is still racism at Ford shows how toothless the Sullivan Principles are. They are meaningless as far as our struggle is concerned. We are not fighting for the improvement of wages in South Africa. We are fighting for the total scrapping of the racist apartheid policy that allows those corporations to operate in South Africa.

The reason they run to South Africa is because there is a guaranteed cheap labor system. There is a law protecting them in their exploitation and oppression of the black people. The law is made by the racist government which the foreign government is oppressing black people because the government is protecting their investment. from striking black workers. These militias are formed from the white personnel.

General Motors started such a program in 1977. At

that time two secret memos were sent from General Motors South Africa to General Motors in the U.S. stating that whites within the plants up to the age of 65 would be trained to do two functions: part-time guard duty and part-time production work.

Q: There are those who say the U.S. government does not want to see majority rule come to South Africa and that the U.S. government itself is trying to undermine the attempts of the black masses in that country. Do you think the U.S. is in collusion with the South African government in its attempts to subvert the black movement there?

A: The fact that there is talk of furthering business with South Africa or continuing to sell arms to South Africa is evidence of collusion. In fact, the U.S. is not in favor of seeing an end to that racist government. In Africa don t know of any country which was ever helped by the U.S. to be liberated. In all the countries including Guinea-Bissau, Angola, Mozambique and Zimbabwe, not one has been helped by the U.S. That s because this country always has investments in these countries, and they would like to see the status quo maintained because it benefits them.

- Q: If the U.S. government was willing to help the black masses in South Africa what would you suggest as a first step?

As: First it has to stop allowing arms sales to South Africa. For example; U.S. and Canadian-based Space Research holds about 50 percent of ARMSCO, which is an arms manufacturing company in South Africa. They should also put pressure on the corporations which have investments in South Africa to pull out and stop any further expansion of business there. It is theblack people who say these companies should divest from South Africa.

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SEASONAL ALTERNATIVES Spend the Holidays Without Buying In...

by Jan Loveland

As you sit down to read this article, you've probably done all your Christmas shopping. Perhaps you spent a bit more than you intended and feel guilty and resentful of the annual obligatory spendathon. Perhaps like me, you've run out of money but have a few last-minute gifts to get. The picked over crap in the stores excites you even less than a month ago, because you are now facing a tight budget in January and February.

What follows is a few last-minute gift suggestions that will cost you time and effort later on but nothing now. Use your imagination to embroider them or tailor them to the recipient's needs. Keep in mind that if there were more time, you might anticipate and make a gift, but this list is geared toward you last-minute folks and therefore avoids the area of makeables. If you're still worrying about gifts by the time you read this, you're probably too late to consider making anything anyway.

1. Do you have a skill that your friend always remarks on or could use? Give him/her a certificate for so many hours of instruction in your area of expertise.

That goes for any kind of skill from speaking a foreign language, to making fancy pastry, to carpentry, to mime.

2. Instead of taking your friend out to dinner, offer her/him a sumptuous repast in the location of choice bed, bathtub, rooftop, Belle Isle, you name it. You, of course, will buy, prepare and deliver the edibles.

3. Remember that spring is lurking, even in the face of three months ofMichigan winter. Promise to do your friend's spring cleaning when the time comes.

4. If you know someone who has just moved to Motown, offer him/her a personal tour of the hot spots, or perhaps a series of tours to highlight different

aspects of the city dining, shopping, recreation, funk, etc.

5. Your friend travels a lot? Give her/him a book of coupons for animal, vegetable or mineral care while s/he is absent. Perhaps add a coupon for clean laundry and a full fridge on their return.

6. Agree to drive your carless friend to any number or kinds of places.

7. Again, with thoughts tuming to spring, give your friend a garden. Agree to spade or till and plant the plot, then tum it over to them for weed-andwatering.

8. Is there something your friend haswanted that you can make? Don t rush to do it now but promise the article by a certain date.

KWANZA Az Alternative Holiday

Ifnone of the preceding alternatives to the commercialization of Christmas appeal to you, why not try Kwanza?

No, it isn t a special holiday brainnumbing concoction but an enlightened celebration that has been practiced by some Afro-American families for more than a decade.

Kwanza, in the East African fanguage of Swahili, means first and

more literally, first fruits, to denote the harvesting of the first crops. This traditional African ceremony was given new meaning in this country in the late sixties through the efforts of Maulana Ron Karenga, leader of the political group United Slaves.

According to Karenga, Kwanzaisa time and week of gathering in of ourselves, rather than harvests as with

our ancestors. Beginning Dec. 26 and continuing through Jan. 1, Kwanza captures the spirit of Christmas without getting caught in economic entrapment.

The week of ceremony follows a very strict ritual, but only a few objects are necessary to fulfill the principles a straw mat, a candleholder for seven candles, and an ear of corn. Each SKATES & ACCESSORIES FOR

HOURS:

Mon.- Fri., Noon 6 Sat.

9. Set up a reminder service for your friends who always forget times, birthdays, bill payments, whatever. Offer to call them and help them remember on a regular basis.

10. Give your significant whoever some interesting surprises in coupon form. Not the cutesy love coupons that are available in some gift shops, but some break from norma! that is unexpected and delightful. Give him/her a book of coupons for winning arguments, that special long backrub s/he likes so well, absolute freedom for some period of time, or whatever stretch of time to be absolutely coddled. Most of these work best if both sides participate in giving.

11. Offer to provide a joke-of-themonth, dessert-of-the-month, or obscure-music-of-the-month club. This works best when several recipients are included. Make sure a regular schedule is possible. Invite them to your place for one of the above each month. Happy Holidays!

night at mealtime, a candle is lit to signify an aspect of Nguzo Saba seven principles that dictate a way of life.

Though it is a family ceremony, Kwanza is a collective sharing among all the people. The exchange of zawadi (gifts) must include a personal touch. Nothing bought can substitute for something of your own creation.

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MUSIC ROCK

ARTIST: Dec. 29, Bentley's, 583-1292. BITTERSWEET ALLEY: Dec. 26-Jan. 4, Jaggers, 681-1701;Jan. 7-10, Main Act, 778-8150; Jan. 12-13, September's, 756-6140; Jan. 531-2332.

BUZZ TONES: Dec. 823-6400.

SALEM: Dec. 29-Jan. 3, Token Lounge, 261-9640.

SCOTCH: Jan. 2-4, Off Broadway, 683-1977; Jan. 583-1292.

SHADOWFAKX: Dec. 31, Alvin's Finer Twilight Bar, 832-2355.

CLUE: Dec. 28, Silverbird, 542-3630. DITTLIES: Dec. 29-31, Jan. 8-10, Center Stage, Canton, 455-3010.

FORTRESS: Dec. 26-28, 31, Jan. 1-4, Al's Dancing Club, 946-7510; Jan. 5-11, Struttin Club, 778-2650.

RICK HALL: Dec. 31, Piper's Alley, Grosse Pointe, 885-9130.

IOU: Dec. 26-Jan. 4, 300 Bowl, Pontiac, 682-6300; Jan. 7-11, 14-18, Way Station, 628-9721.

IVORY TOWER: Dec. 26-27, Harpo s, 823-6400.

KNUCKLES: Dec. 26-31, Exit Lounge, 588-3121; Jan. 8-10, Harpo's, 823-6400.

BOBBY LEWIS: Dec. 26-30, Piper's Alley, Grosse Pointe, 885-9130.

LOOK: Dec. 26, Eagle Theatre, Pontiac, 335-5470; Dec. 27, September's, Warren, 756-6140; Dec. 29-30, Papillon, 15-18, 24 Karat, 31, Harpo's, 278-0079; Dec. 31, Silverbird, 542-3630.

LOOKOUT: Dec. 16-21; Bentley's, 583-1292; Dec. 23, 26-28, 30-Jan. 4, Way Station, Lake Orion, 628-9721.

MARINER: Dec. 29-31, Bellevue Tavern, Windsor, (519) 253-9471; Dec. 26-27, Uncle Sam's, 538-8200; Jan. 8-10, Center Stage, Canton, 455-3010.

MORIAH: Dec. 26-27, Silverbird, 542-3630; Dec. 29-31, Jan. 2-3, Token Lounge, 261-9640.

MUGSY: Dec. 26-31, Studio, 729-2540; Jan. 5-6, September's, 756-6140;Jan. 710, Papillon, 278-0079; Jan. 14-18, Jaggers, 681-1701.

PULSTAR: Dec. 26-27, 31, 24 Karat, 531-2332; Jan. 6-10, Token Lounge, 261-9640.

RADIO CITY: Jan. 8-10, Tupay s, 521-1717.

DOUG PODELL and the RAG BAND: Dec. 31, Harpo s, 823-6400.

ROCK BOTTOM: Dec. 26-27, Kegabrew, 343-9558;Jan. 9-10, Piper's Alley, Grosse Pointe, 885-9130

SKIDS: Dec. 26Jan. 4, Bentley's, 583-1292; Jan. 7-11, Jaggers, 681-1701; Jan. 14-18, Slinky s, 535-6700.

TEEN ANGEIS: Dec. 26-27, Harpo s, 823-6400.

TEEZER: Dec. 26-28, Papillon, 278-0079; Dec. 31, Jan. 1, Uncle Sam s, 538-8200.

6-11, Bentley's, TILT: Dec. 26Jan. 4, Sidestreet, 388-1186; Jan. 611, 24 Karat, 531-2332.

TOBY REDD: Dec. 26, September's, 756-6140; Dec. 28-30, 24 Karat, 531-2332; Dec. 31, Jan. 2-3, Main Act, 778-8150; Jan. 8, Uncle Sam's, 5388200; Jan. 9-10, Harpo's, 823-6400; Jan. 13-14, 24 Karat, 531-2332; Jan. 1517, Harpo's, 823-6400.

COUNTRY

COUNTY LINE BAND: W-Su, Flying Dutchman Motor Inn, 744-4800.

COUNTRY ROSE: F-Sa, Doug's Body Shop, 399-1040.

FREELAND STAR: M-Sa, Phoenix City, 542-9797.

GOLDEN COUNTRY: F-Sa, CB Lounge, 824-9818.

NEAL KRANE and the COUNTRYMEN: Th-Sa, Tom s Tavern, 721-3860.

CAPTAIN LEWIS and the BULLROPER BAND: Tu-Sa, Crystal Pistol, 782-4400. MARTY PARKER: Urban Cowboy, 326-3500.

ROSS SOUTHERN BAND: F-Sa, Greg's Emergency Room, 728-2629.

JERRY TITTLE and SOUTHERN BREEZE: Nightly, All Around Bar, 292-6838.

MUSIC EITC.

RANCE ALLEN GOSPEL GROUP: Dec. 31, Renaissance Upper Room, 964-5100.

APPLICATIONS are being taken for a Trax On Wax competition for new local groups. Prize, recording studio time. Write ATC Music, 104 W. Fourth, Royal Oak, for application.

LS.B.N. NEW YEAR'S EVE CELEBRATION: First Unitarian Church, 869-4045. SHANDOR and his GYPSIES: Jan. 15, Alvin's Finer Twilight Bar, 832-2355. SIRIUS ROOTS REGGAE BAND: Dec. 27, Club 1800, 839-5993.

TALENT SHOW: Dec. 30, Jan. 6, 13, Union St. I, 331-0018.

MUSIC HALL: 350 Madison, 963-7622. Dec. 31, Eartha Kitt.

FOLK

BOSOM BUDDIES: Jan. 9-10, Griffs, 334-7651.

KAREN BOUCHARD: Dec. 28, Union St. I, 331-0018.

THE CAROLINA BOYS: Dec. 27, Downriver YWCA, 281-2626.

ART DE MOULDER: Jan. 5, 12, Union St. I, 331-0018.

FINGERPICKING GUITAR WORKSHOP: Jan. 4, Cripple Creek Coffeehouse, 645-1173.

VICKIE GARDEN: Jan. 4, 11, Union St. 1, 331-0018.

GINGER BRANDY: Jan. 11, Cripple Creek Coffeehouse, 645-1173.

HOMEGROWN GRASS: Dec. 26-27, Jan. 2-3, Griffs, 334-7651.

MARK ILER: Jan. 1, 8, 15, Union St. I, 331-0018.

JOHN JACQUES: Jan. 7, 14, Union St. I, 331-0018.

LOST WORLD STRING BAND: Dec. 31, Griffs, 334-7651.

ROY McGINNIS and the SUNNYSIDERS: Dec. 26-27, Jan. 2-3, 9-10, Little Caesar's Pizza, Southgate, 285-7474.

MIKE O'MARA: Jan. 8, 15, Nemo's Fairlane, 336-8550.

REAL HAPPY CHRISTMAS BAND: Dec. 23, Gregory's, 832-5732.

ROUSTABOUT: Dec. 31, Griffs, 3347651.

BILL SIMPSON: Dec. 31, Jan. 7, 14, Nemo s Fairlane, 336-8550.

STRATITEN BROS. W-Sa, 574-1380.

JOSH WHITE, JR: Dec. Roberto s, 546-7800.

Larry's, 26-28,

YA YA: Dec. 29, Union St. I, 331-0018.

BLUES

BLUE GALAXY/JUANITA McCRAY: Dec. 26-27, Delta Lady, 545-5483. BLUE MONDAY: Jan. 5, 12, Ethel s, 922-9443. Features local musicians.

EDDIE BURNS BLUES BAND: Dec. 26-27, Jan. 9-10, Blue Parrot, 357-4067; Jan. 2-3, Alvin's Finer ae Bar, 832-2355.

DETROIT BLUES BAND: Dec. 26-27, Alvin's Finer Twilight Bar, 832-2355;: Dec. 31, Kegabrew, 343-9558.

BRIAN LEE: Jan. 9-10, Soup Kitchen, 259-1374.

LEGENDARY BLUES BAND: Jan. 9-10, Soup Kitchen, 259-1374.

LITTLE MILTON: Dec. 31, Jan. 1-4, Ethel s, 922-9443.

PROGRESSIVE BLUES BAND: Dec. 26-27, Union St. I, 331-0018; Dec. 30, Jan. 7, 14, Soup Kitchen, 259-1374.

EDDIE SHAW and the WOLF GANG: Dec. 26-27, Soup Kitchen, 259-1374.

R&B

DELLS: Dec. 31-Jan. 4, 20 Grand, 873-1100.

DRAMATICS: Dec. 26-27, 20 Grand, 873-1100.

FOUR TOPS: Dec. 31-Jan. 4, 20 Grand, 873-1100.

J. R. FUNK and the LOVE MACHINE: Jan. 8-11, Henry's Palace, 341-9444.

GENTLEMEN and I KLASS BAND: Dec. 26-28, Jan. 1-4, Jan. 8-11, Blue Chip Lounge, 538-4850. SLICK: Jan. 8-11, 341-9444.

EARTHMEN: Dec. 28, Red Carpet Lounge, 885-9881.

EXCITABLES: Dec. 27, Red Carpet Lounge, 885-9881. THE JEM TARGAL BAND: Dec. 31, Bowery, 871-1503.

GUESS: Jan. 9-10, Bowery, 871-1503. HOI POLLOI: Jan. 2-3, Bowery, 8711503.

INCREDIBLE MOHAWK BROTHERS: Jan. 31, Bowery, 871-1503.

IVORIES: Dec. 27, Tupay s, 521-1717; Jan. 9-10, Alvin's Finer Twilight Bar, 832-2355.

JOHNNYS: Dec. 26, Tupay's, 521-1717; Dec. 31, Nunzio's, 383-3121; Jan. 2-3, Bowery, 871-1503.

MISSING PERSONS: Dec. 31, Bowery, 871-1503;Jan. 2-3, Nunzio s, 383-3121. NATASHE: Dec. 28, Bookie s, 8620877; Jan. 2-3, Nunzio s, 383-3121. PUPPETS: Dec. 30, Nunzio's, 3833121.

RERUNS: Dec. 26, Bookie s, 862-0877.

ROCKABILLY CATS: Jan. 9-10, Alvin's Finer Twilight Bar, 832-2355.

ROOMMATES: Dec. 31, Red Carpet Lounge, 885-9881.

ROUGH CUT: Dec. 26-27, Tupay s, $21-1717.

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DISCO

CARSONS II: Tu, 832-5910. DILLON'S: W-Sa, 546-4466. DISCO FACTORY: Nightly, 259-5244. FACES: Nightly, 852-6450. Henry's Palace, JAY BEE'S: Th, 961-1121.

L'ESPRIT: Nightly, 963-6902. OSCAR'S: Nightly, 353-6806.

NEW WAVE

ATTITUDES: Dec. 26-27, Nunzio s, 383-3121.

CHARACTERS: Dec. 871-1503.

CHEATERS: Jan. 15, Lili's, 875-6555.

RUNNERS: Jan. 8, Lili s, 875-6555. SEATBELTS: Dec. 26, Red Carpet Lounge, 885-9881; Dec. 30; Nunzio s, 383-3121; Dec. 31, Red Carpet Lounge, 885-9881; Jan. 9-10, Lili's, 875-6555. SERVICE: Dec. 26-27, Bowery, 871-1503.

SILLIES: Dec. 31, Pretzel Bowl, 865-6040.

STINGRAYS: Dec. 26, Dec. 31, Red Carpet Lounge, 885-9881. TORPEDOS: Dec. 27, Red Carpet Lounge, 885-9881; Dec. 31, Tupay's, 521-1717.

THE TOYS: Dec. 31, Tupay-s, 521-1717. USED RAGS: Dec. 31, Harpo's, 8236400.

VIA SATELLITE: Dec. 28, After Concert Party, Red Carpet Lounge, 885-9881. WALRIE TALKIES: Dec. 26, Bookie s, 862-0877; Dec. 31, Lili's, 875-6555. YOUNG & DIRTY SHOW: Jan. 8, Nunzio s, 383-3121.

CUBES: Dec. 26, Pretzel Bowi, 8656040.

CULT HEROES: Jan. 9-10, Bowery, 871-1503.

DASH NORTON & THE TRAITORS: Dec. 26, Nunzio s, 383-3121. 31, Bowery,

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BRUNCH WITH THE CLASSICS:Jan. 4, Corey Tragger and Janet Riehm. Jan. 11, Bob Saden. Jan. 18, Paul Burns. Jan. 25,

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EILEEN ORR TRIO_ $15/ person reservations

Trio Berganesque. All Events at the Gnome, 833-0120.

DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS: Baroque Bistro, Thursdays, 7:30 9:30 pm, Chrystal Gallery. Brunch with Bach, 10 & 11:30 am. Call for holiday schedule, 832-2730.

DETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: Holiday Festival, Ford Auditortum: Dec. 26, 8:30 pm, Chamber Concert; Dec. 27, 830 pm, Singatong version of Handel's Messiah. The Messiah returns on the 28th at 3:30, however audience particiption is not encouraged during this performance. All three are conducted by Vittorio Negri. Jan.8, 10, 8:30 am, Ford Auditorium, Michael __ Tilson Thomas conducting Jan. 9, 10:45 Tilson Thomas conductmg Jan. 9, 10:45 am, NBD Lobby, morning concert with complimentary colfee and donuts.

GROSSE POINTE SYMPHONY:jan. 11, 3:30 pm, Mozart's Concerto No. 4, Parcells School, Mack at Vemier, 8246186

NIGHICAP WITH MOZART: Dec 9, 11 pm, Chamber Music, Birmingham Unitarian Church. 851-8934 for more information.

ORCHESTRA HALL Jan. 9, pm, Oxana Yablonskaya, pianist.

SATURDAYS AT FOUR: Jan 10,4 om, Chamber Music featuring the Detroit String Quartet, Madame Cadillac Hall, Marygrove College, 862-8000.

JAZZ

pUAN RS 8, Awvin's Finer Twilight Bar, 832-2355.

BUGS BEDDOW: Dec 28, Delta Lady, 545-5483. just twinkling baseball. by Michael

CHARLES BOLES: Dec. 28, Union St. Too, 831-3965.

BESS BONNIER: Dec. 28, Jan. 4, 11, DIA Crystal Gallery, 832-2730. KAREN BOUCHARD and the MUSICAL UNIT: Jan. 9-10, Union St. 331-0018.

EXECUTIVES: Dec. 31, Mercy College Cultural Center, 335-5087.

FOSTER AND RITCHIE: Jan. 2-4, 9-11, Gregory's, 832-5732.

WENDELL HARRISON/PAM WISE: Dec. 31, Jan. 2-3, 9-10, Sparky Herbert-s, 822-0266; Jan. 8-15, Gnome, 833-0120.

HONKY TONK HENRY: TW, Woodbridge Tavern, 259-0578. FRANK ISOLA S GANG: Dec. 31, Cafe Detroit, 831-8820.

ETTA JONES/HOUSITON PERSON QUARTET: Dec. 31, Dummy George, 341-2700.

ST. AUBIN RAMBLERS: Dec. 26-27, Woodbridge Tavern, 259-0578.

ENSEEM: Dec. 29, Cobb's, 832-7223.

RON JOHNSON TRIO: Dec. 28, Cafe Detroit, 831-6820.

KAMAU KENYATTA: Sextet and Jam, Dec. 30, Jan. 6, 13, Dummy George, 341-2700; Quintet, Jan. 2-3, 9-10, Arknartoon s, 867-3102.

RALPH KOZIARSRI: Dec. 28, Jan. 4, 11, Gnome, 833-0120.

LYNN LA PLANTE: Dec. 26-27, Union Street, 831-3965.

JAMES MANISCALCO: Dec. 30, Jan. 6-8, Sparky Herbert's, 822-0266. THE McKINNEY REUNION: Dec. 2627, Cafe Detroit, 831-8820.

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NEW RATING SYSTEM

T'm tired of pretending movies have numerical values, but also refuse to believe films are stars. So I've invented a new system, using three scales. film can get from zero to three symbols on each scale. *** Excellence scale (1.¢., what stars usually mean in movie ratings)

Z22Z Sleep scale (measuring amount of boredom experienced)

WWW- Weirdness scale (for imaginative strangeness regardless of ZZZs or x**s)

As will be apparent below, movies can get mixture of these three types of ratings. To clear up any confusion, read nry comments. Ifa film has no rating, haven't seen it AIRPLANE! (* *W) Writing critical review of this year's biggest slapstick hit is like asking Patiline Kael what she thinks of Soupy Sales. It's great if you go in the right frame of mind; there are so many silly jokes, you're bound to laugh at some of them. Spoofs are supposed to be outrageous, but the ride here gets less so, toward the end. Airplane! shows signs of being _mniddle America s answer to the Rocky Horror Picture Show. There will be many in the audience around you who've gone countless - times and anticipate every joke think the success of Airplane! is healthy sign, but could no more justify this opinion intellectually than could succesfully defend my passion for

ROSCOE MITCHELL QUINTET: Dec. 27, DIA Recital Hall, 832-2730. MODERN TIMES: Dec. 30, Cobb's, soundtrack.

Hollywood producer who thinks of every which way you can make money with sequels. THE ARISTOCATS. Latest Disney cartoon feature; the advance word is that the animation is the best in long time.

CHANGE OF SEASONS. (22Z) How many times can Hollywood re-make the same movie, an imbecilic adult romantic comedy about an over-40 couple dabbling in some younger blood? Like The Last Married Couple in America, Loving Couples, Middle-Age Crazy, 10, etc., the assumption is that every married man over 40 has fling with 20-year-old centerfold, and that the wife fights back by getting her own young sex object. Shirley MacLaine makes her mandatory appearance, this time opposite Anthony Hopkins, who, coming off an Oscar-level performance in The Elephant Man, appears to be gasping for breath in disbelief throughout. The woman who brought sex-object ratings back to the forefront, Bo Derek, also makes pudgy-cheeked appearance; the only redeeming feature of the movie is that

ble upper class. Oscar-level performances, but director David Lynch (Eraserhead) steals the show with an experimental-looking frame of sutrealistic contemplation on industrial society. Ultimately, the movie lacks cohesiveness and power and becomes something more to be thought about than felt despite some genuinely moving passages. With his detached, eccentric focus on human deformity. Lynch is on his way to becoming the English-language answer to Werner Herzog.

SEEMS LIKE OLD TIMES. Why shouldn't it, with Neil Simon getting in his annual year-end trip to the bank? Goldie Hawn and Chevy Chase star.

STIR CRAZY. Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor (pre-fire) team up in another Sidney Poitier caper flick.

FAUST. This 1926 German classic was directed by F. W. Murmau and stars the great Emil Jannings as Mephistopheles. A silent bargain for $1 afternoons at the Institute of Arts. (Afternoon Film Theatre, Dec. 26-28.)

832-7223.

NEW CHAMBER JAZZ SEXTET: Jan. 3, DIA Recital Hall, 832-2730.

LARRY NOZERO: Dec. 28, Crash Landing, 751-4444.

EILEEN ORR DUO: Jan 2-3, 9-10, Gnome, 833-0120.

PARADE: jan. 2-3, Union St. I, 3310018.

JEL PHILLIPS BAND: Dec. 26-27, Jan. 23, 910, Nemo s_ Fairlane, 963-3396.

MIKE PRYZBYLSEI: Th-F, Woodbridge Tavern, 259-0578.

GWEN SHEPHERD: W-Fr, Lounge, 963-8076.

SKLARE: jan. 1-3, Delta Lady, 5455483.

SOUNDSCAPE: Dec. 2627, Sparky Herbert's, 822-0266.

SUN RA and his OMNIVERSE JET SET

ARKESTRA: Dec. 26-31, Detroit Jazz Center, 964-9044 or 331-1165.

TRIFECTA: Jan. 6, Delta Lady, 5455483.

Il-V-I ORCHESTRA: Dec. 28, Soup Kitchen, 259-1374.

LYMAN WOODARD: Dec. 2627,Cobb's, 832-7223; Jan. 8, 15, Soup Kitchen, 259-1374.

ONSTAGE

ACTOR'S THEATRE: Btw. Tower 200 300, Ren Cen, 5682525. Through Dec. 28, Artichoke. W, F, Su, 8 pm. Through Jan. 17, The Man Who Came to Dinner. Tu, Th, Sa, pm. ATTIC THEATRE: 525 E. Lafayette, 963-7789. Through Jan. 3, Th, Su, pm; Sa, & pm. The Robber Bridegroom.

DETROIT REPERTORY THEATRE: 13303 Woodrow Wilson, 868-1347. Through Dec. 31, Istvan Orkeny s Catsplay. Th, Sa, 8:30 pm, Su, 7:30 pm. FISHER THEATRE: Fisher Bidg., 8721000. Through Jan. 31, Annie. Tu-Sa, pm; Sa-Su, pm; Su, 7:30 pm. MUSIC HALL: 350 Madison, 963-6943. Jan. 13-18, Tu-Sa, 8:30 pm, Sa-Su, 2pm; Su, 6:30 pm. Long Wharf Theatre presents Private Lives and A Lion In Winter.

RIDGEDALE THEATRE: 20128 N. Larkmoor, Southfield, 543-6943. Jan.9-11& 16-18, 8:30 pm, Heaven Can Wait. WSU THEATRES: Hilberry Theatre, Cass at Hancock, 557-2972. Jan. 7, pm, Jan. 8, 8:30 pm, Boy Meets Giri; Jan. 9-10, 14-15, 8:30 pm, Caesar and Cleo.

DINNER THEATRE

BOOK-CADIIIAC HOTEL DINNER THEATRE: Washington Blvd. & Michi gan Ave., 256-8000. Jan. 8-Feb. 14 Th, F, Sa, 8:45 pm, Mack & Mabel.

GEORGIAN INN: 31327 Gratiot, Roseville, 288-0450. Dec. 31, pm, Oscar.

GREEKTOWN NORTH: (Rudy's in Rochester), Main St., Rochester, 288 0450. Sa, pm, Su, 2 pm, Same Time, Next Year.

STOUFFER S EASTLAND DINNER THEATRE: i800 Vemier, Harper Woods, 371-8410. Opening Jan. 9, Dracula.

STOUFFER'S SHOWCASE: Northland Inn, Southfield, 569-4700. Every F-Sa, 7:30 pm, The Gonzo Theatre. WINE TASTERS DINNER THEATRE: 39909 Van Dyke, Sterling Heights, 2642000. Through Dec., Play It Again Sam.

ART COMPETITIONS

THE ART CENTER: 125 Macomb St, Mt. Clemens, seeks works in fibers, clay, glass, enameling, jewelry and metal for juried exhibition. Receiving dates Jan. 2-4. Call 469-8666 for details.

BIRMINGHAM-BLOOMFIELD ART BSSOCIATION: 1516 S. Cranbrook, Birmingham. Seeks works m stained glass. Deadline Jan. 1, for postmark of mailed slides. 644-0866.

DETROIT FOCUS GALLERY: 743 Beaubien. Seeks non-functional two and three-dimerisional objects in glass, fibre or clay for juried exhibition. Deadline Jan. 9. 962-9025.

EXHIBITIONS

ALIEN RUBINER GALLERY: 62! S. Washington, RO, 544-2828. Through Dec., Holiday Exhibition.

AFRO-AMERICAN MUSEUM: 1553 W. Grand Blvd., 899-2500. Through Jan. 5, 36 oil paintings by James Lewis, curator of museum. Ongoing exhibits of Black Inventors and African Art. ART GALLERY OF WINDSOR: 445 Riverside Dr. West, (519) 258-7111. Dec. 21-Jan. 18, works by David Bolduc. Through Dec. 28, prints by David Hockney.

ARTISAN S GALLERY: 19666 W. 10 Mile Rd., Southfield, 356-4449, Regular gallery exhibit.

ARTRAIN GALLERY: 316 Fisher Bldg. 871-2910. Through Jan. 23, June Whaley Brown, acrylic paintings.

THE ARTS CENTER: 125 Macomb St, Mt. Clemens, 469-8666. Jan. 11-31, competitive, juried exhibition of works in fibers, clay, glass, enameling, jewelry and metal.

BIRMINGHAM-BLOOMFIELD ART ASSOC: 1516 S. Cranbrook, Birmingham, 644-0866. Through Jan. 29, Groves Alumni Invitational Art Exhibition. Jan. 5-Feb. 2, acrylics by Corinne Weissmann. CADE. GALLERY: 8025 Agnes, 331-1758. Through Dec. 31, paintings and drawings by Di Dio Paluzzolo.

CANTOR/LEMBERG GALLERY: 538 N. Woodward, Birmingham, 642-6623. Through Dec. Masters of Coe porary Printmaking.

CENTER FOR CREATIVE STUDIES: 245 E. Kirby, 872-3118. Through Dec., Fine Arts Faculty Show. Jan. 14-Feb. 6, Graphic Communication Student Exhibition.

CRANBROOK INSITIUTE OF ART: 500 Lone Pine, Bloomfield. Through Jan. 11, The Road Show, billboard artwork by Victoria Stoll and others, and Cranbrook Fibre, works by Cranbrook faculty.

CRANBROOK INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE: 500 Lone Pine, Bloomfield, 654-3210. Through Dec, Our 50th Anniversary historical exhibit of the museum.

DETROIT ARTISTS MARKET: 1452 Randolph, 962-0337. Through Jan. 7, Annual Christmas Exhibition and Sale.

DETROIT GALLERY OF CONTEMPORARY CRAFTS: 301 Fisher Bldg, 873-7888. Wide variety of crafts for the holiday season.

DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS: 5200 Woodward, 833-7900. Through Jan. 4, Romantics to Rodin, 19th Century French sculpture. Through Jan. 11, work in situ by Daniel Buren, leading European conceptual artist. Through Jan. 11, Ansel Adams and the West, photographs of Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. Through Dec. 28, Michael Venezia's abstract paintings. Through Jan. 4, Metalwork in Michigan, in Art Rental Gallery.

DETROIT PUBLIC LIBRARY: Main Branch, 5201 Woodward, 833-4043. Through Jan. 7, photographs by Maureen O'Malley. Through Jan. 17, Callisraphy 80. Through Jan. 18, Invitational Exhibit.

DETROIT REPERTORY THEATRE GALLERY: 13103 Woodrow Wilson, 868-1347. Through Dec. works by Howard Weingarden.

Drive, Belle Isle, 824-3157. Opening Jan. 8, Great Lakes Photographic Exhibit by B. A. King. DU MOUCHELLE GALLERIES: 409 E. Jefferson, 963-0248. Ongoing exhibit and auctions. FEIGENSON-ROSENSTEIN GALLERY: 310 Fisher Bldg., 873-7322. Through Jan. 10, Investigations of Detroit Sites by Cay Bahnmiller. FOCUS GALLERY: 743 Beaubien, 962-9023. Black & White Photography Exhibition. FRIENDS OF POLISH ART/CITY OF SOUTHFIELD:

10, Early Chinese Settlers in Detroit. Photographs, documents and news clippings. HENRY FORD MUSEUM: Greenfield Village, Dearbom, 271-1620. Through Jan. 4, Christmas Crafts and Toys for Youns and Old. GALLERY RENAISSANCE: 400 Ren Cen, 259-2577, Through Dec., Gallery Selections.

GALLERY 22: 22 E. Long Lake, Bloomfield Hills, 642-1310. Through Dec, Holiday Art Show featuring various media and artists.

GRAFISKAS INC: 218 Mertill, Birrningham, 647-5722. Ongoing Exhibition of Graphic Arts. HABITAT: 28235 Southfield, Lathrup Village, 552-0515. Through Dec., glass works by Richard Ritter. Opening Jan., gallery artists and Howard Bentre.

Set to the

ANY WHICH WAY YOU CAN. bank with Clint Eastwood. You will, if you're

JEAN COCTEAU. New series at the Institute of Atts features the works of the French artist/ writer turned filmmaker Jean Cocteau, who is sort of super-romantic surrealist: the dense and strange Blood of Poet, surrealist classic of 1930 (an. 2-4); The Eternal Return (Jan. 7-1); Beauty and the Beast, the classic fairy tale and Cocteau's most acclaimed work Jan. 14-19). ELEPHANT MAN. (**ZZ) John Hurt is the horrendously deformed but intellisent and sensitive human being in Victorian England. Anthony Hopkins is the doctor who rescues him from the carnival freak show only to put him in a show as the toast of London's charita-

THE FIRST FAMILY. Bob Newhart, Gilda Radner and Madeleine Kahn lampoon White House mores just in time for the ascendancy of new president. Trouble is, it's hard to imagine anything funnier than the men and their fami lies who are currently exiting and entering that Pennsylvania Ave. mansion. (Opens Dec. 25.)

FLASH GORDON. wonder what Ingmar Bergman thinks of Max Von Sydow, his favorite leading man, playing the evii villain in this overbudgeted kiddie cartoon? Indications are it's no better than watching old 30s Bversions of Flash Gordon on late-night TV. Bolero is not part of the

THE FORMULA. (x*Z) The world is run by multinational of companies, and we're ail just helpless consumers. Big oil cartels commissioned German factories to produce synthetic fuels for Hitler's war machine, then grabbed the secret formula for converting coal to synfuel, bought up most of America s coal fields, and are waiting until their coal turns to gold to announce they've found the formula. This scenario is closer to fact than fiction, and Steve Shagan's best-selling novel is based on pretty strong evidence. The movie version of The Formula sticks close to the novel and is definitely not made possible by grant from Mobil Oil. Concealed beneath the conventional structrue ofa detective story/ political intrique film is damning indictment of our own oil sheiks. Marion Brando's eccentricity finally hits paydirt in a bravura portrayal of the most powerful man in the world, the oil company honcho in charge of the coverup of the solution to the world s energy crisis. Brando makes him slightly deaf, dishevelled and sinister old man who has reluctantly assumed the burden of being shepherd for the world s sheepish masses, lined up at the gas pumps, powerless to stop him as long as they continue to buy the American Dream. Opposite Brando, George C. Scott's leaden fine-reading is boring, but so is most of his pursuit of the secret formula. The ending is worth the wait, however. FLESH AND THE DEVIL. Cass City's six-week Sunday-only Greta Garbo festival begins with this 1929 silent co-starring John Gilbert; Garbo s debut film. (Cass City Cinema, Jan. 11.) THE HARDER THEY COME. (*Z) This sort of filmed Jimmy Cliff concert with shoot-em-up background action is the only movie grew tired of before even sawit (due to roommates

violent revolution, The

endless playings ofits regsae soundtrack). Asa cult movie, it wins points for an energetic soundtrack and an enthusiastic pace, but it still amazing to me how even sensible people seem to be enthralled with the way director Perry Henzell glorifies its macho star. For all those who think singers should lead us into Harder They Come is godsend; the rest of us should think little bit beyond the rhythms and the genuine revolt embodied in the fyrics and ask whether Cliff's character here is anything more than Jamaican James Bond.

THE JAZZ SINGER. Neil Diamond and Laurence Olivier together at last! Al Jolson would roll over in his grave to find pop singing non-actor paid big bucks to recreate his old role in the first talkie. What next, Kenny Rogers ina remake of Birth of a Nation?

MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS. (xZ) Agatha Christie comedy/thriller has enough good name actors to work as light caper flick, but it bogs down, takes itself too seriously and leaves one rather cold, like work done with professional exactitude but little real vigor. Worth seeing for free. (Royal Oak Public Library, Jan. 8.) MY BRILLIANT CAREER. feminist film from Australia about tum-ofthe-century woman writer, My Brilliant Career has earned plenty of respect and enthusiasm but not enough local screening. (Ontario Film Theatre, Jan. 13.)

A NIGHT AT THE OPERA. («x *WW) Classic Marx Brothers mayhem, featuring the fabulous stateroom scene, a triumph of choreographed claustrophobia, and several other very funny bits as the Marx Brothers lampoon fashionable society. But there s more in this special evening

Jan. 10.)

which attempts to recreate typical night at the movies 45 years ago: a 1935 newsreel, Laurel and Hardy comedy short, cartoon, and even contemporary coming attractions prior to the Marx Brothers feature. (Detroit Film Society, NINE TO FIVE. (Reviewed this issue.)

autobiographical road movie

ONE-TRICK PONY. («) Paul Simon stillneeds 10.) someone to comfort him, if this rather listless believed. One wonders how to reconcile the integrity of Simon's movie character (who refuses to sell his musical soul to producers of Top 40 musack) with the real Simon (who sells his latest album by making cop-out movie).

without blatant can be apache. Heartfelt performances from Eleanore Klarwein and Odile Michael salvage shaky script, and Peppermint Soda is welcome if for no other reason than its topic at last, film about growing up female! Firstin series of flms by women directors. (Cass City Creme. Jan. 9

But Paul Simon is not the itinerant, barelymaking-ends-meet musician he plays in the film, and as result we can't really feel or believe in his character's phony plight. What does ring true in the film is Simon's rather forlorn love for his ex-wife and son. Simon s not much of an actor and should have contented himself with providing the music and script.

One-Trick Pony is painless entertainment, but not nearly up to the level ofa good Simon song.

PEPPERMINT SODA, (ZZ) If director Diane Kurys' point, in her debut film, was to create worldview as confusing and incoherent as an adolescent's, she has succeeded with movie that is more series of vignettes. At first Pepper mint Soda is mildly interesting character study of the puberty rites of an adolescent French girl, then shifts to focus of her older sister's awakening involvement in politics. Politics here takes the form of series of topical causes, and seems entirely incidental to the story and the lives of the principals just another adolescent interest. There is fumbling attempt to recreate the era (early 60s), but not

POPEYE. («**W) A wonderfully wacky comeback movie for Robert Altman, who proves he can make great comedy when he wants to with this de-animated cartoon that is quite unlike any other movie ever made, from the Oscarworthy cantilevered set to the bodies flying through the air like they do on Saturday morning cartoons to the unique and delightful comic presences of Robin Williams, Shelley Duvall, Ray Walston and Paul Dooley and splendid supporting cast of loonies. Popeye looks and sounds like was made by Walt Disneyon speed, and that's due to witty script by Jules Feiffer and silly, crazy soundtrack by Harry Nilsson as much as to Altman's talent for making many amazing things happen simultaneously on screen. This isn't the punch-drunk cartoon Popeye either, but the original conception of Elzie Segar's comic strip an orphan in search of his father who becomes faithful mudder to another orphan; fiercely independent, sarcastic and loveable sailor who fights only when he s endlessly provoked; family man with guts, pride and, best of all, the ability to poke fun at himselfand others; rebel against the corporate henchmen who run the town of Sweethaven in short, superhero most of us can heartily endorse in an age of television superheroes with cosmic pretensions. Popeye is simple morality play, cleverly done, endlessly amusing and endearingly

Roscoe Mitchell, DIA Recital Hall, Dec. 27

DOSSIN GREAT LAKES MUSEUM: Strand

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HALSTEAD GALLERY: 560 Woodward, Birmingham, 644-8284. Through Jan. 10, photographs by Andre Kertesz.

HAMPTON-TVEDEN GALLERY: 330 Hamilton Row, Birmingham, 646-2030. Through Dec., group showing of Toy Art. Jan. 7-Feb. 6, Art of the Orient, 19th and 20th Century.

HILBERRY GALLERY: 555 S. Woodward, Birmingham, 642-8250. Through Dec., new works by Linda Bengfis.

KIDD GALLERY: 107 Townsend, Birmingham, 642-3909. Through Jan. 3, New Talents in Photography.

KLEIN GALLERY: 4250 N. Woodward, RO, 647-7709. Through Dec. 27, pastel landscapes by Larry Blovits.

LAWRENCE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: 2100 W. Ten Mile, 356-0200. Jan. 7-23, French Architecture.

LONDON ARTS GALLERY: 321 Fisher Bidg., 871-3606. Gallery Selections.

MORRIS GALLERY: 105 Townsend, Birmingham, 642-8812. Gallery Exhibit.

MUCCIOLI STUDIO GALLERY: 511 Beaubien, 962-4700. Paintings, sculptures and jewelry.

MULLALY GALLERY: 1025 Hayes, Birmingham, 645-2741. Gallery Exhibit.

NORTHWEST ACTIVITIES CENTER: 18100 Meyers, 224-7595. Through Dec., Workers and Allies: Female Participation in the Union Movement, 18201976. Photos assembled by the Smithsonian and sponsored by THREADS, a program of the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union.

PEWABIC POTTERY: 10125 E. Jefferson, 822-0954. Through Dec., Annual Christmas Show. Jan. 16-Feb. 7, Byron Temple, Joe Zajac.

PIERCE ST. GALLERY: 217 Pierce, Birmingham, 646-6950. Through Jan. 3. Group Showing of White-on-White Images.

PONTIAC ART CENTER: 47 Williams St, Pontiac, 333-7849. Through Dec. 20, Potters and Weavers Choice, plus Holiday Sales Gallery.

THE POSTER GALLERY: 304 Fisher Bidg., 875-5211. Fine Art posters.

PYRAMID GALLERY: 240 Grand River E., 963-9140. Through Dec., drawings by Carl Owens, original silkscreens by Romare Bearden, prints by Mathais

Muleme, photos by P. H. Polk.

RUBINER GALLERY: 631 S. Washington, RO, 5442828. Through Dec., Group Holiday Show.

TRIKA GALLERIES: 1140 N. Telegraph, Dbn., 562-2300. Metal sculpture by Murat Brierre. Also, classic sportscars.

TROY ARI GALLERY: 755 W. Big Beaver, Troy, 362-0112. Through Dec., Art for Holiday Giving.

VENTURE GALLERY: 28235 Southfield Rd., 552-1511. American Artists. Resident Artist-Jeweler.

WILLIS GALLERY: 422 W. Willis. W-Sa, 4-7 pm. Through Dec. 21, Nelson Smith. Jan. 9-24, Adam Thomas.

WOODLING GALLERY: 42030 Michigan Ave., 397-2677. Ongoing Craft Exhibition.

YAW GALLERY: 550 N. Woodward, Birmingham, 647-5470. Through Dec., group show, Textiles from Eastern Sumba.

YOUR HERITAGE HOUSE: 110 E. Ferry, 871-1667. Regular exhibits, tours booked by reservation.

XOCHIPILLI GALLERY: 115 E. Fourth, Rochester, 652-0337. Through Dec., Group Holiday Show.

DANCE

DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS: 5200 Woodward, 883-1998. Harbinger Dance Company, Dec. 26, 2 & 7 pm, Dec. 27, 11 am & 2 pm, Dec. 29, 2 & 7 pm, Ebenezer's, dance/play which focuses on a modern family evicted by their slum landlord.

JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: 6600 W. Maple Rd., West Bloomfield, 6611000, Ext. 164. Dance classes continuing, fees vary.

AIRWAVES

ASK A SILLY QUESTION: Sa, 7:30 am; Su, 9 am. Kids program hosted by kids and emphasizing active participation. WDIV, Channei 4.

STEVE DAHL BREAKFAST CLUB: Weekdays, 6-10 am, live from Chicago, the master of gonzo radio. WABX, 99.5 FM.

DETROIT BLACK JOURNAL: Fri. Dec. 26, Herb Boyd, our illustrious colleague is interviewed; Jan. 2, local jazzman Wendell Harrison; Jan. 9, Nigerian Showcase. WIVS, Channel56. HOMEGROWN: Mondays, midnight. Local rock talent gets a chance.

Eartha Kitt, Music Hall, Dec. 31 WWWW, 106 FM.

GERHARDT KNODEL: Dec. 26, 10:45 pm. A 15-minute documentary by local filmmaker Sue Marx on Cranbrook artist Knodel. WIVS, Channel 56.

JAZZ ALIVE: Wed., Dec. 31, 9:30 pm, Cross Country New Year's Eve Party originating from four nightclubs nationwide, including our own Dummy George. WDET, 101.9 FM. KING BISCUIT FLOWER HOUR: Mondays, 11 pm. BBC-produced show presents music from rock's finest. WABX, 99.5 FM. NOT FOR MUSICIANS ONLY: Sundays, 11:30 pm. Host Carl Coffee talks with people involved in all facets of the music biz. Charlie Martin, former Seger drummer, co-hosts. WRIF, 101 FM. PRISONER: CELL BLOCK H: MF, 11 pm. This intellectual soap from Australia has attracted a cult following for its realistic portrayals of women in prison. WKBD, Channel 50. THE SPORTS EXCHANGE: Su, 9 am. New show features guest commentators. in magazine format. WCAR,

1090 AM. SPORTS WITH ELI: 7:30 & 8:30 am, weekdays, WRIF, 101 FM. Fri, noon, Sa-Su, 6 & 11 pm, WDIV, Channel 4. Sports pundit knows all, tells all. TOURNAMENT OF ROSES PARADE: Jan. 1, 11:30 am. Watch the blossoms pass while you nurse your hangover. WDIV, Channel 4. WHISKEY BEFORE BREAKFAST: Sat., 11 am. Hosts Judy Donlin and local singer/songwriter Joe Vermillion bring you the finest in folk both recorded and live. WDET, 101.9 FM. W4 PLAY: Sundays, 11 pm-midnight. An hour of alternative new music, commercial free. WWWW, 106 FM.

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CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: 67 E. Kirby, | 494-1210. Dec. 24, 26, 31, 11 am, Museum Treasure Hunt and planetarium demonstration, The Star of Christmas ; Dec. 29-30, 10 am, Calendar Workshop, 11 am, planetarium demonstration, The Winter Sky ; 2 pm, Movie Matinee. Planetarium demonstrations: Jan. 10, 11 am, Stars for Little People, 1 pm, Saturn: New Views of an Old Planet, 3 pm, Mapping the Winter Sky. Jan. 10, 10 am, Storytelling Workshop, 4-7 yr. olds, 50¢ materials fee; Jan. 10, pm, Homage to Martin Luther King.

CRANBROOK INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE: 500 Lone Pine Rd., Bloomfield, 645-3210. Dec. 26, 27,29 &30,2,3,4&. 7:30 pm, planetarium show Holiday Skies and the Christmas Star ; Dec. 27, 2:45 & 3:45 pm, award-winning film Universe. Dec. 26, 27, 29, 30, 9 am1 pm, Holiday Workshops, includes planetarium and nature center observations and science projects. $10 fee includes lunch-time beverage. Jan. 7-28, 4pm W, 2, 3, & 7:30pm Sa, 2,3, 4pm Su, planetarium show, Celestial Preview for 1981, admission. Closed New Year's Day.

DETROIT HISTORICAL MUSEUM: 5401 Woodward, 833-1805. Jan. 10, 10:30 am and 1:30 pm, Auto Assembly Line, learn the history of the assembly line while building your own wooden truck, ages 812; Jan. 10, 9:30 am & 1:30 pm, Porcelain Doll Course, create an antique reproduction doll, ages 16 & up.

DETROIT PUBLIC LIBRARY: Conly Branch, 4600 Martin, 833-9750. Dec. 6-27, 10 am, Leam How to Play

DETROIT PUBLIC LIBRARY: Main Branch, 5201 Woodward, 833-4044. Dec. 27, 2 pm, Friends Auditorium, Kwanza, an Afro-American Holiday Celebration.

DETROIT PUBLIC LIBRARY: Mark Twain Branch, 8500 Gratiot, 833-9150. Dec. 30, 6 pm, Kwanza An AfroAmerican Holiday Celebration.

DETROIT PUBLIC LIBRARY: Parkman Branch, 1766 Oakman Bivd., 833-9770. Dec. 29, 7 pm, Kwanza An AfroAmerican Holiday Celebration.

MUSIC HALL: 350 Madison, 963-7622. Dec. 26-30, matinees and evening shows, A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. Call for times and prices.

DETROIT SCIENCE CENTER: 5020 John R, 833-1892. The Eruption of Mt. St. Helens and Atmos, Super 70 Onnimax films. Call for times. Open New Year's Day.

DETROIT YOUTHEATRE: DIA, 5200

Woodward, 832-2730.Jan. 10, il am& 2 pm, giant marionettes perform Peter and the Wolf ; Jan. 3, 2 pm, Mystical Morocco, film, ages 7-adult. $2 admission.

GREENFIELD VILLAGE & HENRY

FORD MUSEUM: Dearborm, 271-1620. Dec. 26-31, 2 pm, Museum Theatre, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs; Dec. 6-Jan. 4, Christmas at Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village.

INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE: 111 E. Kirby, 871-8600. Jan. 10, 10:30 am, International Potpourri of Children s Games, Tales and Crafts. Call for reservations, 50¢ materials fee.

SOUTHFIELD PARKS & RECREATION DEPT.: 26000 Evergreen, Southfield, 354-4717. Jan. 11, 1 pm, Other Things & Company, stories, fairy tales and music for children. Lively Arts for Little Ones series tickets $10.

POLITICAL

CITY COUNCIL: Public Hearing Jan. 8, 10:30 am, 13th Floor, City-County Bldg. 224-3266 for more info. MICH. COALITION ON UTILITIES AND ENERGY is lobbying Lansing for an elected Public Service Commission on Jan. 13 and needs your voice. 963-2465 for info.

BENEFITS

AIM FOR VICTORY: Jan. 9, Masonic Aud., a benefit concert by the Prismatic Band. Proceeds to ERAmerica in Michigan. 832-6648 for more info. FRIENDS OF THE DETROIT FREE SCHOOL: Dec. 30, Alvin's. Benefit performances by locals including The Fantasy Theatre. Proceeds to pay obligations left by the school s closing. 893-2480.

NEW YEAR'S EVE RUN: Dec. 31, Belle Isle, sponsored by Hughes and Hatcher (entry forms available at stores). Mail-in deadline Dec. 26. Proceeds to Special Olympics. 965-7900 or 224-1184.

SERVICES

FREE HOME WINTERIZATION PROGRAM: Sponsored by the Neighborhood Services Dept., 224-6817. Program offers free weather stripping, caulking and insulation for Detroit residents.

SENIOR CITIZENS: Call 963-8800 for information or referrals.

FREE BLOOD PRESSURE PROGRAM: The Senior Citizens of the Fitzgerald Community Council have a continuous free blood pressure program every Tuesday. 12:30-2:30 pm at the FCC Office, 6337 W. McNichols, 863-4960.

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VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC ABUSE: Find help and shelter by calling toll-free 1-800-292-3925 24 hours a day.

VIETNAM VETS who have been exposed to the lethal defoliant Agent Orange can get legal and treatment info from the Veteran s Multi-Service Center, 14631 W. McNichols, 272-7070. QUESTIONS ABOUT CANCER? Cali the Public Response Program at Michigan Cancer Foundation, 1-800461-9191.

VOLUNTEERING

MARTIN PLACE HOSPITAL: Needs Nursing Aides for various duties with patients, and Clerical Aides to answer phones and make appointments for Social Services Department. Call Betty Huffman, 548-2505, Ext. 388, M, Tu, W between 7 am and 3 pm.

ASSOCIATION FOR RETARDED CITIZENS/OAKLAND COUNTY: Needs Citizen Advocates to develop a friendship with a retarded person to help in developing daily living skills. Training and ongoing support provided. Call Ellen Castaldini, 646-4522, weekdays 9 am-5 pm.

UNITED CHILDREN AND FAMILIES

HEAD START: Needs mature persons in programs for pre-schoolers. Assist classroom teachers, assume filing, typing and other clerical needs, use nutrition and food preparation training to help in food service area, prepare materials for component training. Call David Hearst, 865-1800, Ext. 7, M-Th, 8:30 am-4:30 pm.

F.AR. CONSERVATORY: Needs performing arts assistants to help a teacher of music, movement, drama or visual arts in instructing a class of handicapped students. Call Ann Peckham, 646-3347, weekdays 9 am-5 pm.

THE EXPERIMENT IN INTERNATIONAL LIVING: Needs persons to coordinate homestays for foreign students and Outbound programs and to help promote international understanding via student, adult and special groups exchanges. Write to Lance Sinclair, 310 S. Michigan Ave., Suite 1401, Chicago, IL 60604.

DES ACTION/DETROIT needs DES exposed and others interested to help promote general information about diethyistilbestrol. Call Jan at 371-8696 for more information.

VOLUNTEER ACTION CENTER: United Community Services of Metro Detroit has many openings for volunteers. Contact the Center at 833-0622.

WAYNE STATE ENGLISH LANGUAGE INSTITUTE: Needs conversation partners for foreign students. Contact Darlene Job, 577-2729.

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CAMBRIDGE NURSING CENTER-

EAST: Needs friendly visitors to talk to residents, pianist who can play sing-alongs or accompany resident band, performing arts group or projectionists for showing movies. Call Ann Steffy, 5857010, weekdays 9:30 am-5:30 pm.

MACOMB COUNTY DEPT. OF SOCIAL SERVICES: Answer phones, file, prepare mailings and assist clients with applications. Call Donald Porter, 469-7729, 8 am-5 pm.

OAKLAND COUNTY DEPT. OF SOCIAL SERVICES: Needs Welfare Rights Advocates to give information, explain rights and responsibilities under Depatment policies. One-day weekly assignment, 10 am-3 pm, for six months is requested. Leave a message at 334-8483 weekdays 9 am-5 pm.

PROJECT HEAD START: 10100 Grand River, needs help in programs. Men over 25 with management skills to assist in organizing Head Start fathers in a school-community project. Persons to assist classroom teachers or tutor Head Start parents. Training available. Call Edna Henderson, 931-5470, 8:30 am3:15 pm, M-F.

ROCHESTER-AVON RECREATION

AUTHORITY: Needs volunteers for the Telephone Reassurance program. Daily phone calls to shut-ins may be made any day at any time. Call Marye Miller, 651-6210, Ext. 60, any business day 8 am-5 pm.

LECTURES

CRANBROOK INSTITUTE OF SCI

ENCE: Lone Pine Rd., Bloomfield Hills. Dec. 28, 1:30, 2:30 & 3:30 pm, Marla Bowman on The Many Dimensions ot Light. 645-3200.

DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS: 5200

Woodward. World Adventure Series, Jan. 11, Biff Madsen on The Wonders of Greece. 832-2730.

DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS: 5200 Woodward, 832-2730.Jan. 7, 9, William Rauhauser on Ansel Adams photography.

LAWRENCE INSIITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: 21000W. 10 Mile, Southfield. Design Lecture Series, Tuesdays, noon. Jan. 6, Fred Bertram on Works In Progress,Jan. 13, Gary Steffy on Lighting Design. 356-0200.

BIRMINGHAM COMMUNITY WOMEN'S CENTER: 746 Purdy, Birmingham. Jan. 8, 5:30 pm, Barbara Carey and Barbara Mazer on Looking Your Best. 642-1132.

WAYNE COUNTY EXTENSION & EDUCATION CENTER: 5454 Venoy Rd., Wayne, 721-6565 or 563-2950. Jan. 6, 7:30 pm and Jan. 13, 9:30 am, Living With Your Spouse in Retirement, speaker from Madonna College.

LITERARY

DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS: 5200 Woodward. Lines Series, Jan. 15, Imamu Amiri Baraka (Lerot Jones), 3 pm, informal talk, Holley Room; 7:30 pm, reading, Lecture Hall. 832-2730. POETRY RESOURCE CENTER OF MICHIGAN: PO Box 1322, Southfield, 48075. Publishes monthly newsletter by subscription and guide to Michigan small presses. Contact above address for more info.

POETS CORNER: Features Tuesday workshops, 4-6 pm at Inner City Sub Center, 8411 E. Forest; Wednesday workshops, 4-6 pm at U of D Student Activities Bidg. Dec. 28, Minster s Lounge, U of D Student Activities Bidg., Poetry Reading/Jazz and Urban Folk Music by Dudley Randall, Wardell Mont.gomery, Aaron Ibn Pori-Pitts, Farug Bey and Ali Muhammed. Randall's farewell reading. 491-2164.

LEARNING

ACCOUNTING AID SOCIETY: 232 W. Grand River, Suite 1400, 961-1840. Jan. 14, 1-4 pm, Workshop: Accounting for Multiple Sources of Income. BIRMINGHAM-BLOOMFIELD ART ASSOCIATION: 1516 S. Cranbrook, Birmingham, 644-0866. Registration for winter classes now in progress. Call for info.

CHILDBIRTH WITHOUT PAIN EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: Jan. 9, Grace Northwest Hospital Aud, 18700 Meyers. Two films on Lamaze-Paviov childbirthing method: Lynn and Smitty and American Naissance. 588-4032 or 885-8532.

CRANBROOK INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE: Lone Pine Rd., Bloomfield Hills. Jan 5-9, a free Stop Smoking Clinic with Dr. Arthur Weaver. 645-3142 for more info.

DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS: 5200 Woodward. Dec. 26-28, Romantics to Rodin, a film presentation about the current exhibit. 833-7900 for more info.

DETROIT INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY REGISTRATION: 2727 Second Ave. Jan 6-7, for classes beginning Jan. 8 in business and technical fields. 962-0830 for more info.

UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT WINTER REGISTRATION: 4001 W. McNichols. Jan. 7-9 registration for more than 100 programs. Classes begin Jan. 12. 927-1245 for more info.

Rackham Memorial, 60 Famsworth. Jan. 5, registration for classes, workshops, etc. in wide variety of fields beginning Jan. 26. Sponsored by WSU/U of M. 577-4665 or 8327900.

- ARTSPACE is dedicated to _ . DUKE ELLINGTON@ great Afro-American composer. and musical genius. (1899-1974)

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by Bill Rowe

In 1977, when being twisted within the Great White Chapel of rock'n'roll was not a cue for critical communion but, in retrospect, a saintly state of grace, Stiff records disrupted the blissfully bland wedding of rock'n roll and big business with the psychotic grace of the Phantom of the Opera. Stiff was, and is, the most berserkly effective of independent labels: like their bedfellows (Chiswick, Rough Trade, Factory, Ralph, Rhino, LR.S.), Stiff was/is a haven for eccentric/sick artists/clinically interesting examples of brain damage. Forthwith, a brief history.

Once upon the punk rebellion, a gang of Englishly jaded rock'n'roll shysters decided to stifly cash in on the chaos of said rebellion. They bribed the services of an unemployed, drunken sod named Nick Lowe, who set to debauchery by producing hits for a diseased pack of lunatics, including himself and a Poindexterly little cur with small-dog charm and a mighty talent, one Elvis Costello.

As other talented jerks signed on, a wondrously worthless plethora of 45s appeared, along with. disgustingly delightful LP collections (A Bunch of Stiffs, Hits Greatest Stiffs, The Stiff Akron (Ohio) Collection, the immortal Stiffs Live, Heroes and Cowards), and LPs by now famous people (Ian Dury, Lene Lovich, Rachel Sweet, the Loveable Damned, Wreckless Eric ad nauseam). The rest, as they say, is history.

Early on, it was decided that Stifftypes were most safely kept in line by touring corporately. The first Stiff tour featured the now-legendary MC Kozmo Vinyi, Nick Lowe's Last Chickens in the Shop, the drunkenly winning Wreckless Eric, the then unknown Ian Dury, embryonic Elvis the C., and the drugcrazed former Motorheaderhippie, Larry Wallis. Anyone familiar with Stiffs Live is aware of the aesthetic damage done by this tour. A tradition is born. A tradition is born.

In 1978, the Stiffs toured England again in force. New signings yielded a radically different outfit, including young media jailbait Rachel Sweet, songbird (as in Hitchcock) Lene Lovich, librarian rocker Jona Lewie, pub veteran Mickey Jupp, and the still soused Wreckless Eric. Critical success, excess, etc. Although this bunch wasn t good for a live LP, they did manage to cross the Pond for four dates at New York's critic-infested Bottom Line. Success, ditto.

In 1979: no tour. A sign of the times?

With Reagan elected, 1980 is ripe for lunacy. Thus came the Sons of Stiff 80 to Detroit's loosely comfortable. Madison Theatre, for an evening of

lowbrow revelry. Although Stiff may be cooling out a little, we got a whale of an evening. (In Stiffs defense, they've recently released trash by New York sicko-rockers the Plasmatics. Stiff is still cretinously credible.)

This year s model:

1. Joe King Carrasco and the Crowns. Four Texans bent on reviving the spirit of Flint/ Mex ers ? and the Mysterians. Hooks: 90 mph, '59 Cadillac out-of-control drive, frenetically fashionable female organ player, an endless debris of smoking two-minute tunes, the King (velveteen crown and Telecaster aboard), personally assaulting the crowded dance floor, cheesy two-note spewings intact. Verdict: wonderful. Can't wait for more.

2. Tenpole Tudor. Former Sex Pistol associate leads punky greasers through set of raucous 2¥2-minuters. Abrasively loud, spasmodic. The guitarist resembles early Link Wray with a hangover, the singer the Flying Nun with rabies. Tentative rockabilly overtones. Their limited scope spread surprisingly well over 30 minutes.

3. Dirty Looks. Long Island trio who play quite well and do their best to overcome it. Your usual stream of fast songs but each with twists and turns that hold attention. Amid the speed one catches well-voiced hints of rockabilly, ska, R&B, and a discreet metal sensibility. Interesting visual contrast, with Gene Vincent-type guitarist flanked by Ollie Hardy-lookalike bassist and spider-limbed drummer. A

quickly developing band with plenty of potential.

4. The Equators. Another in the endless stream of English ska bands, this one all Black and much different than most of their ska playmates, hence perfect for Stiff Somewhat sloppy, rowdy and goodhumoredly earnest, they lack the staccato precision of most current ska bands but recall, refreshingly, the days when ska was about loosely shaking ass and little else. They win through likeability and sincerity. Good luck to em.

5. Any Trouble. The surprise of the evening. I'd cursorily heard their LP and found thema step above the banal. After moseying off for auxiliary entertainment when they came on, was quickly summoned back by the sheer excellence of the band.-I found myself recognizing songs I thought I hadn't even listened to, which says a lot for Any Trouble s hookmanship. Although a standard fourpiece with the mandatory Costello influence, they moved from a step above the banaltoa step above a damned good band. Again, up-and-coming eamestness makes its point.

Among other highlights were great choices for covers: Carrasco with 96 Tears and Wooly Bully, Dirty Looks with Richard Hell's Love Comes in Spurts, the Equators:with the Equals Baby Come Back, and Any Trouble with Springsteen's Growin Up and Abba s Name of the Game. The Kozmo Vinyl mad MC tradition was admirably carried on by some pestly, turbanned geek (a Carrasco associate, I ve learned).'And the sentimental Stiff tradition of communal encores found the entire entourage closing the evening by joyously thrashing some Gary Glitter tune-or-another. And commendations must go to both the Stiff crew and the Madison staff for an efficiently comfortable presentation.

So, a toast to Stiffs 80, anda reach for the bottle for 81. Here s Stiffing ya.

Jimmy Cliff I Am the Living MCA Records

Maybe this review should have gone in the issue that we put out on reggae. But, then again, if it had then I wouldn't have the experience of seeing him live to also draw upon for this bit. When he opened up his portion of the concert with Bongo Man from the Give Thankx album, was definitely ready for one heck of a concert by the reggae artist who I enjoy listening to most. My ears had their musical taste buds whetted with that high clear voice, and then came the rest of his show. I m glad saw Cliff, but was disappointed in the overall presentation.

All the percussionists that he had on stage with him for Bongo Man would have been better off replaced with some backup vocalists to give some of the punch of this new album. Therein lies my only gripe so far. Comparing his live album and live performance with his studio material, think that he s come

Pere Ubu

The Art of Walking Rough Trade Records

Ever since their first album, Modern Dance, Pere Ubu has defied both audiences and music reviewers (most ofthem) to place them in a neat little musical hole. If this band belongs in a_ classification, though, this reviewer would place them under DADA, which is not a neat little classification by any means.

Their name comes from a character created for the stage by Alfred Jarry, a crazed 19th century Absurdist playwright who made the fat, foul-mouthed and rude Ubu to represent everything base in society.

Perhaps the modern-day Pere Ubu is not as nasty as their namesake, but they are just as concerned about digesting modern life and its banal side

into his own in the studio, but the fullness of his writing and performance doesn t come across as well as it should on stage. I mean, he bounces around marvelously on stage, and he writes undeniably great songs but...

and spewing it back at the audience with glee. Their fifth and latest album, The Art of Walking, is no exception.

Perhaps more so on The Art of Walking than any of their previous albums, Pere Ubu jumps around on the wire between melody and atonality. The band consists of Scott Kraus on drums, Tony Maimone on bass, Mayo Thompson on guitar, Allen Ravenstein, much improved on anew mix of synthesizer, organ and piano, and the incomparable voice of David Thomas, now yelling, now mumbling, now trying (not too hard!) to hold a rapidly dissolving melody.

Previous fans will find the mix of tunes more maddening than ever; count at least five tunes on this album with a beat you can dance to, including Rounder, which one would think was inspired by the latest, Talking Heads album had this not been released at least a full month before Remain In Light. Then there is Crush This Horn, which sounds something akin to Omette Coleman coming through a short-wave radio on the moon.

How else can I describe a band that defies simple description? Conceptual Art-Rock? called my friend John, who is somewhat conceptual himself, for another opinion. The Art of

purely to the soundtrack of The Harder They Come. Jimmy Cliff has been responsible for some great songs. Many Rivers to Cross is probably one of the most obvious, but such classics as My Ancestors, Struggling Man, Viet Nam, Sitting in Limbo and Universal Love also deserve more recognition from the masses.

With this new album he has come up with another super consistent demonstration of his studio artistry. He has extremely fine vocal backup with people like Denice WiZams and Cheryl Lynn to name justa few, and he has come up with some dynamite new material. It took a while and some constant thought, but I think that this album has even replaced Give Thankx as my personal favorite Cliff album.

How come when people think of reggae most people bow in the direction of Marley and the Wailers or some of the newer groups like Third World? While Cliff, who is definitely more accessible through his feel for the pop idiom, is relegated

Walking is seemingly trite, as is much of their material, his voice said over the phone, "yet subtly dense; a pithy work, altogether. guess that means he likes it. do, too. Sam Mills

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Jack Green

Humanesque RCA Records

Detroit has strongly supported an English band by the name of Pretty Things for many years. Reportedly one ofthe two or three strongest markets for their brand of textured metallic rock. After years of slogging around and trying to make a living doing melodic, high tension, metallic rock, they up and called it quits, leaving behind them a rather distinguished but littleappreciated repertoire on vinyl.

Then, as so many other late '60s and 70s bands have done, they came back with a new album earlier this year called Cross Talk which showed a little bit of a change in direction. It was a flawed gem, but. it did serve to put into vinyl some more hot guitar solos by one of my favorite tasty rock players, Pete Tolson. Now Tolson is on record again this year, and with a former bass player for the Pretties by the name of Jack Green. It's Green's album with all ofthe material either written or cowritten by Green, and he proves himself a convincing singer, rhythm player and writer of solid rock tunes. Not great, but give him a B+ for his overall performance. Pete deserves an A for superb solos that burn witha tastefully restrained fire that always explodes at the right time and interesting comping when Jack wraps his vocal chords around the lyrics. This album has its share of fun tunes, and most ofthem are on side one. Murder opens the album with a sinister but upbeat riff that degenerates quickly into the catchy hook. Talk about melodic hooks, any song with three quick melodic hooks should be declared a hit immediately. So be it. So Much starts off interestingly enough but then fails to finish it

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This album has great songs, pop songs with lyric content that is far above the majority of material now heard. Gone Clear is an eloquent statement on nuclear power, after a brief introductory statement on alto sax by Tom Scott, Morning Train moves out; All the Strength We Got and the title tune for the album could be legit singles.

This is a great record. I've heard it well over 50 times, and! can honestly say that I m not tired of it. Given the durability of the majority of stuff out on the market, that has to mean something. My definite choice for reggae album of the year, and its in my top 15 for pop album of the year, too.

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I work in a record store, and it gives me a rather neat feeling to play this album for a customer in the store and watch their face light up when they hear this album, which they certainly don't have a whole lot of opportunity to hear on the Detroit airwaves. It s an even nicer feeling to see someone pick it up right there. Now that s happened often enough in the store work in to prove that if given the exposure on the air that Cliff deserves, he could be known by a far wider public than he is at present.

off properly. Tolson s solo is quick, hot, relatively inventive, and manages to pull this tune partly out of the doldrums. Babe, Can't Stand It and Valentina all have good opening hooks but all, in varying degrees, don t fulfill the promise inherent in the hooks. T Call, No Answer is the only cut on the album which does not feature Tolson, but instead features Ritchie Blackmore (of Rainbow and Deep Purple) who plays surprisingly tastefully given the fact that I expected his usual excesses. This Is Japan is one of the most interesting songs on the album and shows a possible future direction or refinement of Jack Green's writing, the one song on the album that shows me that hope does exist for a second album. Too bad its at the end of side two, the weaker of the sides of the album.

All in all, this is a good solid album, one that feel rises above the mediocrity of REO, Head East, etc. Green sounds like he'll be around for a while; and ifTolson and he keep up the partnership through a couple more albums, then look out Tom Petty! These guys are good, solid rockers, and if the blend ages properly, then they'll be great solid rockers. An interesting first album. Garaud MacTaggart

Whirl of Dance

by Efua Korantema

A true rebirth of professional dance companies in Detroit can be seen in the diversity of the dance and theatre/mime companies in Detroit. La Palomia, an espanic group, received support from the city for summer performances and workshops. Unique Dance Theatre had a unique, interesting concert in November at the Detroit Institute of Arts Auditorium which utilized children and young adults in moder, spiritual and Afrikan-inspired dance.

would like to properly introduce you to some companies which you may not be aware of: close to the equator resides the Omowale Cultural Society, an independent non-profit group which does West Afrikan Dance, specifically from Senegal, Mali, Ghana and Guinea.

Moving along the equator, appears Ngoma Za Amen-Ra New African Cul-

tural Theatre which utilizes traditional griots from Afrika, the Caribbean and Afrikan people in the United States. The music is provided by Sun Drummer, an international group of drummers. Ngoma Za Amen-Ra New African Cultural Theatre has and does perform with many artists/dancers/drummers, a brotherhood and sisterhood marriage of music and dance. Kwanza celebrations, the holiday of the first fruits, a tradition of Aftikan people from Dec, 26 to Jan. 1 (see Getting By in this issue), is one of the rituals Ngoma Za perpetuates, as last Subira Karamoko, a member of Omowale Cultural Society, states what

the group is about: We are Afrikan people who are trying to perpetuate our Afrikan culture and heritage in the form of drumming, dancing and storytelling. We feel that people who have knowledge of their past history should have pride, cultural awareness and revive our heritage and culture.

Tarikh, which resides around the Pyramids, is another group of dancers in Detroit which is dispersed right now, in slow motion possibly due to the economy and the simple fact that dance has not always had the traditional financial support as musicians or singers have had in our society, and racism, the exclusion, drying up of monies for all but what is deemed essential keeps alldance hardpressed to survive.

Buono Natale, a folk dance group from South of the Border in Detroit brought a gift of dance usually seen at the ethnic festivals at Hart Plaza. It is nice to know that the winter Festival of Identity (Christmas) can acknowledge the multicultural, racisl and ethnic diversity of Detroit as also evidenced at the auditorium of the Main Library on Noel Night.

Still have a little energy left? Paradigm Dance Theatre is here, with Jean Raczkowski, director, choreographer, dancer and teacher, Stewart Shevin, likewise plus film editor; Ted Woods, technician/designer; and Hughthir White, choreographer, dancer/dance teacher, printer. If you missed them at Central United Methodist Church and with Men Working from Ann Arbor, contact Detroit Community Music School for a source to study/do contact improvisation.

Sunday, Dec. 28, from 7 pm to 2 am, at St. Andrew's Historic Society Hall, 431 E. Congress in Detroit, A Cultural Explosion featuring the Carol Morrisseau Dancers, Verline Zachary, Marcus Belgrave, Harold ~ McKinney, Perry Hughes, Roy Brooks and more. The attire is elegant whatever that means. Come one, come all, to benefit the Jazz Development Workshop with an assist from-the Detroit Council of the Arts.

Experimental Movement's executive manager Peter Bernard spoke of a fundamental difference between some black and white artists in the dance: Dance done by EM is not to entertain, and I believe black artists have a responsibility to communicate, educate, lead, analyze and to comment on major sociopolitical issues that affect the black community throughout the world. There is no qualified dance critic to comment on any of the modern dance groups, companies particularly black groups. It takes a dancer and/or a choreographer to critique dance. Around May of every year, the Experimental Movement may be found in the vicinity of the Paradise Theatre (Orchestra Hall).

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by Geoffrey Jacques

The appearance of Sun Ra and his Arkestra at the Detroit Jazz Center for a six-day residency beginning Dec. 26 will afford this area's music lovers with one of the most unique musical ensembles in the history of world music in the twentieth century.

Large orchestras with an entourage of dancers, singers and other performers, in addition to musicians, is nothing new to many ofus. From James Brown and the Flames back to Cab Calloway and before, great musicians of various styles have included complete shows with their musical presentations.

But Sun Ra is unique. His myth-science approach, gathering inspiration from both astronomy and ancient African history, provides us with an environment in which any sound combination imaginable (and unimaginable) is possible.

As an orchestra leader, composer and philosopher, he is one of the great believers in setting up a complete environment in which to present his art. Beyond this, however, he is a

musician and master of creative sound of the first magnitude.

All we can do is whet your taste buds a little by saying that this outstanding innovator's experiments will give you, without a doubt, the most exciting, if most unusual, experience of its kind.

Very little is known about this keyboard artist, composer and conductor who goes by the unusual name of Sun Ra. Born nearly 70 years ago in the South, christened Sonny Blount, he began his musical career in Chicago.

During the early 50s he learned his craft in the flourishing jazz scene of the Windy City, for a time working with the great bandleader Fletcher Henderson, who some historians credit with creating the first jazz orchestra sound.

In the Chicago scene of that time there were many fine professional musicians. Ahmad Jamal, Johnny Griffin, Wilbur Ware, and scores ofothers were playing in the city at that time, and, as a young pianist, Sun Ra learned his art in an atmosphere where high quality

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nes a musicianship was the normal State of affairs.

Around 1955, Blount organized his own band and took the name Sun Ra. From the beginning, his music was marked by its daring. He expanded on the polyrhythmic concepts of improvised music introduced by that generation of musicians known as the beboppers, and developed melodies which were among the first in jazz music to show a preoccupation with music of the Middle East and Africa.

By the time the orchestra, called an Arkestra by now, moved to New York in the early sixties, the band was already a legend.

Its leading saxophonist, John Gilmore, had, by this time, left an indelible mark on the most well-known saxophonist of the era, John Coltrane, an influence which the latter musician freely acknowledged.

Sun Ra was the first to break through the harmonic and rhythmic restraints which scores of musicians, including

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Coltrane, were stretching at that time, becoming not only the first to play what was then called free music, but the first to do so with a large orchestra.

He had added electronic instruments, a light show and dancers to his conception, creating a musical-theatrical environment which presaged much of the experimental art of the last 15 years.

Today Sun Ra still stands at the head of modern music and musicians, successfully conducting experiments others only dream about.

At the same time, he is not afraid to go into the past and play a swinging rendition of a 60-year-old song like King Porter Stomp or a Duke Ellington medley.

But Sun Ra, as serious as his music is, is also a whole lot of fun. One writer compared him with a circus. Though it might seem a little irreverent to his most serious admirers, I think the description helps explain the kind of experience music and theatre lovers are in for at the Detroit Jazz Center during the holidays. #1 TV & RECORDS

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Spirit of Detroit

Offbeat, Funky & 24 Hours

by Ron Aronson

Can a restaurant be all things to all people? Spirit of Detroit, across from Veterans Memorial, certainly tries. It may be, as the flier proclaims, a health food eatery it is also a deli and variety story. And it is open 24 hours (seven days a week) to boot. The combination is bizarre or, at least, colorful.

Up front, the first sight when you enter is the popcorn machine, Orange and Pineapple Bang drink dispenser, the Hostess cake and chip racks, the counter selling TV Guides and panty hose, and the assorted convention souvenirs and Alka-Seltzer hanging from the walls. And the first sound is loud, whether from the pinball machines, the rock-and-roll juke box, or the nonstop radio. In short, the flashing Christmas lights winding around the front may just fit year round.

In back, past the Wilson's ice cream counter, is the eating area, walls painted

avocado, decorated with hanging plants and golden records (for 500,000 album sales and 1,000,000 single sales) for records produced by owner Vic Givens. The restaurant area is as improbable as the rest of the place: tiny wine bottles with plastic roses on the tables, a long counter to one side with a microwave oven but no real kitchen, ending in a large display case filled with cakes, fruit and juices. At the rear is a door leading to a garage-like and chilly washroom.

On the wall is one menu for deli customers and one From the Garden, consisting of sandwiches using fruit, cheese, nuts and/or garden vegetables. While most of the sandwiches are too light to nourish a serious vegetarian for example, lettuce, salt, pepper and mayonnaise they make an enjoyable break from heavier food. And they are all served on your choice of good bread from the Frederick Model Bakery or on pita bread.

The prices are appealing, and even if we disliked eating everything with plastic utensils from foam plates and cups (and using carry-out packets of salt, pepper, ketchup and mustard), we settled down for a family dinner on Sunday evening. We ordered the homemade chicken noodle soup, which turned out to have been taken from a can (I was assured that they do make their own potato soup but were out of it), and Orange Bang all around.

For one dollar we ordered a large bowl of fruit salad canned unsweetened pineapple, fresh apples, pears and oranges which was delicious and plenty for four people to pass around. The children had quite decent salami sandwiches. ($1.45), and the adults ordered several inexpensive sandwiches on pita and health bread. The cucumber sandwich with muenster and onions was enjoyable. We had avocado sandwiches, one in pita bread with sprouts ($1.55) and one on health bread ($1.50),

but the avocado was cut too thin to be satisfying. The triumph of the place, however, is Adam's Apple pita bread filled with lettuce, cream cheese, nuts and thin apple slices. For $1.50 it was a real treat.

Afterwards we were in for two surprises which, taken together, summarize our experience of Spirit of Detroit one was delicious homemade cake baked in someone s own kitchen (we had our choice of pound, pineapple, caramel, German chocolate or chocolate). The other was instant tea and the world s strongest Maxwell House coffee: coffee truly to sober up by, or to keep bus drivers awake through the night, but hardly to enjoy homemade cake with. Oh well, the good outweighs the bad in this zany place. Picking and choosing we managed to put together a satisfying and inexpensive meal. Health food itwas not, but Spirit of Detroit is offbeat, funky and fun.

(Location: 126 W. Jefferson between Shelby and Griswold.)

Daily Specials

Buffet

served from 11 am to 4 pm Cocktail Hour

Hors d'oeuvres and sandwiches served from 4 em until 6 em Banquet and meeting room Facilities for 10 to 1,200

Phone 259-0677 for reservations or information regarding meeting rooms or banquet facilities.

Sam . Abdoo, Proprietor

Hearns Wins Detroit Loses

by Tony Rothschild and Lloyd Storey

Tommy Hearns sixth round knockout of Luis Primera to retain his welterweight title two weeks ago was in front of 10,000 empty seats representing Detroit-area fans knocked out of the arena by Muhammad Ali Productions (MAP) staggering combination of ticket prices $25, $50 and $100.

Two fans in the $25 section were typical of many of the roughly 9,000 people in attendance. L. A. Cox and Dan Molina, Ford workers for 12 years, feel the MAP is greedy, but as long as Hearns fights they'll come and see him. MAP comes out a winner as long as boxing fans continue to shell out big dollars.

Detroit comes up the loser though when our only true world champions Hearns and Hilmer Kenty can t fill the arena. Even the last place Red Wings get larger crowds. Everyone knew the fight would not last long before Luis Primera crashed to the canvas enroute back to Venezuela.

Pressure from Kronk manager Emanuel Steward or Hearns himself might have convinced MAP to lower the

price tag and allow Detroit working people the opportunity to fill the arena and cheer for their hero, a sight more appropriate than empty seats for Detroit's great champion:

Not only would the arena be a sell out, but the crowd make up, which in boxing is highly diversified both racially and economically, would be a phenomena that would certainly serve in boosting the spirit of Detroit.

The biggest losers of all are Detroitarea youth who look to Hears as a role model and hero. Where youth unemployment is highest in the country, one couldn't find many youth buying the cheap low-priced $25 tickets to the fight.

Sports events have always been priced to appeal to a mass audience. MAP seems to want boxing to serve only the people who can fill their pocketbooks while selling the smallest number of seats.

If Hearns truly wants his fans to see him fight, he might best go to Las Vegas so all Detroit can watch for free on television.

FOR SALE

LING ROOM SET, blue striped, excellent condition. 479-0738. USED SEWING MACHINES. Call 549-2600. ANTIQUE BUFFET, rocker, rectangular mirror, must sell. Great bargains. 399-1270.

ANTIQUE CAROUSEL HORSES, excellent condition. 751-8078.

FRENCH DOORS, several matching sets, from $50, windows from $20, omate. 824-2994,

DINING SET, pool table, sleeper sofa, odd chairs, leather bar stools. Best offer.

SEWING MACHINE Sears Kenmore, loaded, with case, $225 or best offer. 521-8595.

WEIGHT ROOM EQUIPMENT, professional 9-station weight lifting apparatus, leg curl machine and wrist roll. All chrome, very good condition. 1/3 replacement cost. A steal at $7,200. 535-9104.

VEHICLES

22 BROWNING 1977 MATCH Ill, open hull type, full canvas, good condition, trailer included, good price. Must sell. 863-5488.

27 TRANSCOACH by Sportscoach, 1977, side bath, sleeps 8, loaded, clean. $15,000 or offer. 626-9513.

1979 PROWLER, 24 , used once, like new, must sell make offer. 634-3484 or 695-1523.

1966 BONNEVILLE CONVERTIBLE, completely rebuilt, mechanically excellent. New top and interior. No rust. A

real collector's item. Regretfully must sell. 245-0982.

1977 TOYOTA CELICA-GT, excellent condition, low miles, very good MPGs, AM/FM stereo, snow inc. $3,500. 259-1949 evenings, weekend, 237-6981 days. Ask for Marc,

1974 MUSTANG V8, posi, auto, power steering, AM/FM cassette, rollbar. $4,200 or best offer. 491-8611.

1978 GRAND MARQUIS, excellent condition, low miles, rustproofed, full power, stereo tape, cruise, air. 642-3958.

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PHOTOGRAPHIC FACILITIES for rent -to professionals and semi-professionals without studios. 10 am-2 pm, M-F. 961-8534.

HARPER WOODS-2-bedroom brick ranch, family room with cathedral ceiling, central air, full basement, covered patio. Grosse Pointe school district. $72,500. 886-9078.

GARDEN CITY 3-bedroom brick ranch, $25,000 down, difference financed by owner at 11%. 427-2282.

NORTH WARREN anxious owners have drastically reduced this 4-bedroom colonial. Bring in all offers. Simple assumption, only $75,900. 977-2432.

NOVI 3-bedroom colonial,4-1/2 baths, beautifully decorated living room and family room, drapes. 2-car insulated garage with opener. $84,900. 348-6036 or 355-4054.

LOOKING FOR FEMALE to share furnished flat on east side. Prefer mid-twenties to thirties. Julie: 962-0034, Ext. 302 or 3318087.

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ROMANTICS TO RODIN film presentation about the current exhibit will be .shown at Detroit Institute of Ars, 5200 Woodward, Dec. 26-28. For more information call 833-7900.

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POLISH SONG AND DANCE ensemble is now accepting new members fo leam traditional Polish folk songs and dances. The Galicja Orchestra is also opening membership to qualified musicians of traditional folk instruments. If you wish to participate in this ultimate expression of ancestral cultural heritage, call evenings 849-5702 or 365-4975.

CLASSICAL BALLET classes for ages 8-12. 547-0513 or 891-1790.

CHILDBIRTH WITHOUT PAIN Education Association is showing films on LamazePavlov childbirthing method: Lynn and Smitty and American Naissance on Jan. 9 at Grace Northwest Hospital Auditorium, 18700 Meyers, Detroit. For information call 588-4032 or 885-8532.

FREE STOP SMOKING CLINIC with Dr. Arthur Weaver will be held Jan. 5-9 at Cranbrook Institute of Science, Lone Pine Road, Bloomfield Hills. For more information call 645-3142.

CLASSES IN BUSINESS & TECHNICAL fields. Registration Jan. 6-7, classes begin Jan. 8 at Detroit Institute of Technology, 2727 Second Ave., Detroit. Call 962-0830 for more information.

ARTIST to share 3,000-square foot studio. Central Business District Downtown. No welding. $250 per month plus elect. Call 731-9553 from 10-2.

BOOKS WANTED by the Library Company, 16129 Mack at Bedford. Cash paid. Also unique kites available. Cigsed Sun. & Mon. 881-5800.

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CREATIVE FASHION DESIGNERS wanted to place unique garments in upcoming show. Call Barbara at 345-4550, 9-5:30 pm.

DRUMMER for new band playing originals. Influences: Gang of Four, Talking Heads, Devo, etc. Requirements: power, restraint, funk, twisted sense of humor. Attitude and orientation far more

The Elyton Missionary Baptist Church presents That s Entertainment, Gospel Style

The Glory Dancers (from Ch. 62 s Spirit of Detroit Program)

Mr. Rick Ross

The Voices of Eden

The Lucille Lemon Gospel Choir

The Sons of God

Ms. Tilley Foster

Ms. Jan Spencer The Voices of the Spirit James Peddy and the Gospel Theatre Group Elyton Concert Choir Wed. Dec. 31,1980 8:45pm 8903 St. Cyril

Following the service, the New Year's celebration will continue in the church dining room. There will be all kinds of fabulous desserts served buffet-style. For more info call 921-4072, 537-4019. All are welcome FREE Admission! Joyce Moulden & Marilyn Lewis, Co-chairpeople Rev. Elmer Smith, Pastor $150 per month Desk Clerk on Duty

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Dec. 30. Call 893-2480 or 899-5529. CANCER EXAMS: offered by Michigan Cancer Foundation. Painless, free Pap tests, breast cancerexams and exams for mouth cancer offered regularly. For more info call 493-0043.

C.ALLL TOGETHER, INC. announces the sponsorship of the Child Care Food Program. This program is designed primarily to provide meals to children in child care centers, outside school hours, programs and family day care homes. Meals are available at no separate charge to all children 18 and under enrolled in C.ALLL Together, without regard to race, sex, color, religion or national origin.

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