Metro Times 12/24/1981

DETROIT S ALTERNATIVE PUBLICATION OF NEWS AND THE ARTS

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VOL. 2, NO. 6, Dec. 24, 1981-Jan. 21,

Preventing Another | Poletown

As speculation increases about plans for the neighborhood south of Poletown, a larger question emerges: exactly who controls city planning in Detroit and what role should the public have in that process?

by Jeanie Wylie

ity residents who live Q directly south of the Poletown area that was evacuated to make room for a General Motors assembly plant are nervous.

It seems to some of them that their land would be valuable to either small manufacturers or the city because it is bordered by I-94 and I-75; its well serviced by the railroads; its close to City. Airport; adjacent to the planned GM plant; and much of the land is already vacant.

Three recent meetiags, called to prevent another Poletown, have been well attended. Representatives from the city planning department were there to assure

The Cops on Hill Street

After nearly being cancelled last year because of poor ratings, guess what television program just popped into Nielsen s list of the ten most-watched programs in the country?

by Hugh Grady

T here has always been precious

little connection between what cops do in real life and the wonders they accomplish in pulp fiction, movies and TV. There they have reached mythic stature: Marshall Dillon vs. the blackhatted gunslinger; Elliot Ness the incorruptible.

Alternately, cops become foils to the private heroics of their rugged individualistic brothers, the private eyes. You remember Bogart as detective Sam Spade riding them a little in The Big Sleep as blundering, slow-thinking plodders who never figured out that they couldn t beat the system.

Television usually tried to be more realistic and fell back on

the honest cop epitomized by such characterizations as Joe Friday in Dragnet. In-the process, it succeeded in reducing the mythic to cardboard stature, without coming close to getting at the actual social role of police in America.

There is a special relation between the police and the poor that seldom surfaces in the myths

residents that their land wasn t being considered for any projects, but for many people the trauma of watching 3,500 people cleared out of the GM site in one short year ruins their confidence in city promises.

The industries they are so quiet but they are moving in on us, Lilhan Cyranski, a Hancock Street resident, recently complained. She says that for years small companies in her neighborhood have been buying up property lot by lot, isolating residential areas. They'd buy an alley, curb, lots. Inch by inch they were buying the whole neighborhood. They were purchasing homes, then suddenly a fence goes around the lot and its called the Boomer Co.

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CONTRIBUTORS

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NEWS

Preventing Another Poletown, by Jeanie Wylie. To the Shores of Tripoli, by David Armstrong King Birthday Rally Planned, by Herb Boyd

FEATURES

Fresh Fortnightly, by Susan Stone Temptations, by Susan Stone Flicks, by Michael Betzold 10-Second Novel, by Ken Winokur

THE ARTS

The Cops On Hill Street, by Hugh Grady Hot Jazz on a Winter s Day, by Toby Goldberg Record Reviews: David Byrne, by Bill Rowe; Terje Rypdal, by Garaud MacTaggert

Robert Burkert: Monet On Memory Lane, by Dan Acosta

The Revenge of Coalhouse Walker, Jr., by Michael Betzold

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LETTERS

NOTICE TO OUR READERS

As usual, Detroit Metro Times is taking an issue off during the craziness of the holidays. The next issue of the Metro Times will be dated Jan. 21, 1982. Deadline for calendar and classifieds for our next issue is Jan. 13. Have a special and peaceful holiday season!

SUCCESS

We very much appreciated your story about us in The Metro Times. The Holly Mart was a big success, and many people mentioned having read your well-written article.

The publicity was invaluable for us, and we sincerely thank you for your interest.

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CUT THE WHINING

So Mark J. Norton is unhappy that Iggy hasn t measured up to what he could have been, and every album since The Idiot Sust plain stinks. Well, yeah, I must admit its kinda hard to get excited over the guy these days, but don t you think you re being a little harsh on him? I mean, what s the point in whining about what could ve been?

Lester Bangs once said a Iggy, (he) never wanted to be a punk, he wanted to be a man. Those of us who have followed Iggy s career through its rollercoaster ups and downs (musical elite?) can at least be proud to say that here s a guy who should have been dead (thanks to self-nihilism) at

least four times that I ve heard of. Yeah, here s a guy who suffered all that degradation and more, yet still came back to grace the stage of Masonic healthy and. whole. As for calling on Iggy for a safe, vicarious rush of self-nihilism, sure, safe for us, but what about him? 4

As for suburban America not appreciating the subtlety (huh?) of Iggy s music, so what else is new? If they d rather listen to a foul-mouthed, shtick-ridden, sexist, obnoxiously manic character with a bug up his ass like Ted Nugent, fine, let them. Or if they want to boogie to a pot-bellied, mellowed-out old fart like Bob Seger (boy, am gonna get it for that one), hey, go for it. No skin off my nose.

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EAR BOXING

I m glad Mr. Michael Kramer of Detroit, whose letter appeared in this space last issue, derives some pleasure from my wholesome cartoon features. If Mike had not liked my cartoons, my bodyguards would ve driven to Detroit and boxed his ears. Apparently, however, he is a most discerning individual, a paradigm of fine taste and a pillar of the literary community. Here in the northern suburbs soon, a jumbo Happy Face Balloon will be released unto the troposphere in his honor.

May I take this opportunity to say hellow to Uncle Scuz and Aunti Butts, please? They raise roundworms for sandwich spread in the Krunchum Kennel n Deli, and promised I d plug em.

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BUSINESS SIDE OF ART: Today from 9 am. to 3 p.m. a seminar on copyrights, grants and taxes will be held at the Detroit Focus Gallery, 743 Beaubien, Detroit. It is being presented by the Artists Equity in cooperation with the State Bar and Michigan Council for the Arts. To register, call 965DI TF.

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PENGUINS PLIGHT: Michigan playwright.. Shelly Sawyer s award-winning children s fantasy How the Penguin Got His Tuxedo is being produced by the Family Players of West Bloomfield. Show times are at 2:30: p.m. today and also on Tuesday, Wednesday and next Sunday at the Jewish Community Center in West Bloomfield.

TUES. JAN.

VOICE OF NOW: Those of you concerned about the issue of separation of church and state will not want to miss a discussion on that topic to be held tonight at 7:30. The speaker will be Robert Marsh, a Unitarian minister who also happens to be vice president of the Voice of Reason s Michigan chapter.It ispart of an ongoing series of discussions presented by the Oakland County National Organization for Women, which meets regularly on the second Tuesday of each month at Good

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JOB SOLUTIONS: Plant Closings and the Alternatives is the title of winter semester course which should have no trouble filling up fast. It may be taken for credits (4) by people who are not enrolled in the university. Class begins tonight from 6 p.m. until 9 p.m. on campus, lasts 15 weeks and is being taught by attorney Deborah Groban Olson. You may register by calling 577-0833.

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BEITER RED THAN ...: Where were you in 72? Chances are you were at or happened to be parked near a political meeting and were the target of the nototious State Police Red Squad spy unit. It was later forced to release files gathered to the subjects of investigation. In what promises to be the political/social event of the year, the National Lawyers Guild Political Surveillance Project is putting

on a party for anyone who has their file or was notified of the existence of their file. It will be held today from 4-7 p.m. at the Woodbridge Tavern in Detroit, and a special Snooperbow!l souvenir will be given to everyone who brings and donates their personal or organizational Red Squad file. Files willbe held confidentially at the MSU Special Collections Library, RSVP by calling 963-0843.

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...To the Shores of Tripoli

by David Armstrong

hat goes around comes W around. can think of no more telling illustration of that street wisdom than the massively publicized fear of Libyan hit squads that are said to be stalking Ronald Reagan and other high U.S. officials. It was, after all, ex-CIA agents who taught Moammar Khadafy s operatives all they knowsabout modeling ski masks and playing with plastique. If assassination teams are really here, their arrival completes a perfect circle of terror.

If they re here. Given the Reagan administration s white paper proving Soviet control of the revolutionaries in El Salvador a document that proved, upon inspection, to be amazingly shoddy this whole affair could have been manufactured out of whole:cloth in an office in Langley, Virginia.

Reagan s' warning of the danger of terror from Tripoli comes just as he is moving to unleash this country s intelligence establishment. The president has signed an executive order permitting the CIA to spy on Americans even if they re not suspected of being foreign agents. The order also allows the agency to infiltrate domestic political groups and covertly disrupt and direct their actions. This is massive violation of the CIA s 1947 charter which bars the agency from spying on Americans at home and constitutional guarantees of the right to dissent.

In order to convince the American people that such measures are necessary, the administration and its friends in the New Right must convince us that there is a terrorist under every bed and a traitor behind every bush. Thus, the publicity blitz for books such as The Spike, a best-selling novel that portrays American activists as tools of Soviet disinformation techniques, the The Terror Net-

work, a tome that attributes every act of violence on the planet to the wily Reds in the Kremlin.

This fear campaign is, by its very nature, one sided. There.is noin-depth analysis in The Terror Network, for example, of the CIA-backed overthrow of the - Allende government in Chile. Nor do the current characterizations of Cuba as Latin America s high executioner make mention of the CIA s attempts to assassinate Fidel Castro, or the training and financing given to right-wing

Moammar Khadafty ae invaders at the Bay of Pigs. guess its only terrorism if your enemies do it.

As for Moammar Khadaty. he is clearly being promoted as the Arab Castro the foreign infidel behind every nasty turn in history and every plot, real or imagined... Khadafy may or may not be the unstable egomaniac he is portrayed as being by Washington. In either case, his stability could not have been helped any when the U.S. provocatively violated Libya s airspace to conduct military exercises last summer.

That s the incident, you'll recall, that triggered a dogfight in which U.S. jets shot down two Libyan planes that allegedly attacked them. The president ~

snoozed through the dogfight, but he. was wide-eyed and bushytailed the next day, when he praised the American pilots in terms usually reserved for the home team in a sporting event. Many of the media played: the same fight song. A radio newscaster in my area repeatedly referred to the Americans as our side, as he excitedly detailed the fighting capabilities _ of planes. A daily newspaper ran a headline that read: U.S. 2, Libya Oe

The message of the contest with Libya is that America may have been put on the defensive by Vietnam, Watergate and the hostage crisis, but believe it! we re preparing a furious fourth quarter comback. Just where the game will be finished Central America? The Middle East? is unclear, but the evacuation of U.S. oil company employees from Libya may provide a clue. Obstensibly, they are leaving to avoid harm from the Libyan government, but the worst threat to their safety could come indirectly from the U.S. government.

The Gipper, Al Haig, Cap Weinberger and the rest of the Reagan team seem eager to return to the shores of Tripoli, perhaps via a protective-reaction strike that unforgettable term from the Vietnam war. The Gipper would like to win one this time, and if we can get a little extra oil in the process .. hey, the winners of the Super Bowl don t send back their rings.

If would-be Libyan assassins are in this country for that matter, even if they're not the pretext for U.S. intervention abroad is set, as is ready-made reason to clamp down on criticism at home. And if assassinations do take place, we have, in part, the invisible government of the intelligence establishment to thank. When secretive, violent agencies such as the CIA are unleashed, even their handlers are likely to get bit.

King Birthday Rally Planned

by Herb Boyd

anuary 15 is still not a national J holiday, but that won t stop thousands of people from celebrating the birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., who was assassinated in 1968. He would have been 53:

Since 1968, Congressman John Conyers has introduced legislation in Congress to have King s birthday set aside as a national holiday. Though the bill was nearly passed in 1980, only the most optimistic of supporters gives it much chance in today s conservative-laden Congress.

This year s celebration, which is coordinated by Conyers, Stevie Wonder and Congressman George Crockett, will again feature a national march and rally. Stevie Wonder has moved into a more active role in the.planning, and supporters hope that with increased organization and Wonder s popularity the pressure will continue to build on Congress to enact the legislation. More than 25,000 people

attended last year s rally at the Washington Monument.

At a recent meeting in Detroit, the national coordinators, along with Wonder s political and media consultants, Guy Draper andTheresa Cropper, discussed strategies to extend the impact of the ~ celebration. Plans are already underway to include civil rights organizations, labor, education and religious Communities in the national effort.

Some states, including Michigan, have taken steps of their own torecognize the contributions of Dr. King. But the coordinators are hoping that Wonder s march and rally, which will include many of the nation s leading activists and King s widow, Coretta, will highlight the importance of King s memory.

Congressman Conyers pointed out that this year s march and rally will bring a new and continuing focus on the importance of honoring Dr. _King. It is an important cultural and political concept that is even more important now than several years ago. a Martin

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Poletown

Continued from Cover City assessment rolls for the neighborhood, which extends from I-75 to Van Dyke and from 1-94 to Gratiot, indicate that its true that small companies own a large percentage of the land in the area and that the city owns the bulk of the rest. Nearly half of the industrial and commercial buildings in the area are vacant, according to 1980 census data. And the same is true of nearly half of the World War I-era homes that are assessed at a $4,000 average. That center-city area has been failing since the 1930s, and some believe its too late to revitalize the property.

A LOT OF POSITIVES.

City officials uniformly denied knowledge of plans to destroy the neighborhood. They all mentioned the enormous cost of the Poletown project, both financially and politically, and doubted that the city would be ready to repeat the process. But some officials

conceded that the land did offer a lot of potential for industrial development.

Ken Dobson, at the Detroit Economic Growth Corporation (EGC), a quasi-private development corporation that unofficially controls nearly all federally funded projects in the city, says the area has not been specially designated. But I m sure thatifa consultant went in and took alook at it they would find a lot of positives, he added. Dobson mentioned the area s highway access, steadily dropping property values and proximity to the planned GM plant as area assets. If Japanese car company wanted to locate in the area and asked to be near another assembly facility, that area would have.-to be considered, he said. But see that being years and years away, if ever.

Bert Altman, at the Community and Economic Development Corporation, insists that the city doesn t enjoy forcing people out° of their homes and has no plans to repeat its Poletown performance. ~ We have sufficient space in the

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might be Detroit Renaissance. It might be Max Fisher. [don t Rnow, but it sure isn t us.

A City Planning Department employee when asked who does the city planning.

churches. stand within those parameters. Rumors fly rapidly in the neighborhood, as they did in the part of Poletown that has been evacuated. People claim they ve heard that the only Polish Catholic church that will be left standing is St. Josephat s which is on the other side of I-75 and therefore outside the bounds of the area some believe will be converted to an industrial park. The archdiocese of Detroit denies this, but some parishioners insist that their congregations have dwindled, and they know that the archdiocese prefers to consolidate parishes.

For those who didn t visit Poletown last spring when arsonists and vandals were making any legal argument about the community s right to face off against GM and the city amoot point, the concerns of these residents may seem exaggerated. Yet, two factors contribute to their concern. The first is the quick-take law which allows the city to take any private property in an expedited fashion, whenever the city embraces a project that seems to promise jobs. The second is the fact that city planning is currently a closed process. Plans for new development are announced after the wheels are already in motion. There is no room for. public debate.

KEEPING THINGS UNDER WRAPS

city of Detroit to provide for the needs of the small manufacturers: up to one million square feet, he explained. However, he added that for a large manufacturer, we don t have enough space and we'd have to acquire more land.If someone else offered 6,000 jobs, we'd look at that area.

The neighborhood currently includes the Eastern Market, which is targeted by the EGC for development, meat packing centers, Faygo, Stroh s, a city training center, the city transportation department, and GM s Chevrolet Gear and Axle among others. Nearly all the facilities were built before 1930. In its prime, the area was known as part of Poletown and housed Polish immigrants who came to Detroit for work in the auto factories. Five Polish Catholic

One employee at the City Planning Department recently. said that the department didn t know of Mayor Coleman Young s plans to build the Joe Louis Arena or the Central Industrial Park Project in Poletown until they read about it in the papers. The employee, who asked not to be identified for fear of being fired, said° its not clear who does the city planning. It might be Detroit Renaissance. It might be Max Fisher. don t know, but it sure isn t us.

People at the Chamber of Commerce, the city council s planning commission and at the City Planning Department comment that the mayor s hand is free when the planning department is weak. Some suggest that Young s appointments to the department have deliberately weakened it. They suggest that the. mayor doesn t want the department to complete a master plan which might bind him to developing the city according to a public plan. (Once a master plan is approved, the mayor will have to get City Council approval any time he deviates from the plan. The current operating plan was devel-

Arson in Poletown.

A Poletown resident walks through the neighborhood. oped 20 years ago and is very flexible.) a I m personally and frequently concerned about the lack of public input, Dave McKeehan at the Chamber of Commerce said. He said the lack of a thorough and up-to-date master plan in Detroit may encourage laissezfaire capitalism, but added that it also discourages investment because no one knows what changes to expect in any given area. On the other hand, McKeehan said, I can understand why the city plays_a tight hand.

One of the advantages of keeping city plans under wraps is that all the participants can be aligned in advance. Another is that any opposition to the project operates at a disadvantage, because the plans are already well formed and agreed upon. Thirdly, the city can avoid the land speculation that, would most certainly result if the public knew an area had been specially designated.

Private corporations often find it advantageous to keep their plans secret for many,of the same reasons. When General Motors decided to build its Orion Township and Oklahoma City plants, it did not announce the projects and then acquire the land. Instead, several land holding companies bought the site in Oklahoma and Grand Trunk Western Railroad purchased the. land in Orion Township. It wasn t until the smaller companies controlled the land that area residents learned GM had selected the plant site.

When asked about Detroit s acquisition of land for GM s Poletown plant and about the city s tendency to funnel money into corporately. sponsored development projects, a city project planner indicated that its not the city s choice. Wallace Jackson explained that federal guidelines favor big business development projects.

GIVE AND TAKE

We have at best very little control over where federal money is spent in our city, Jackson, who works at the Community and Economic Development Department, explained. We control the city budget, and 85 percent of that money goes out to the community. But whenever the federal government gives out money, there are constraints. The big guys get the bucks. You get what you can from these guys it s their ballgame.

As in_ northern © Poletown, where many residents saw their

best articulated that concern when he insisted that when a city contributes nearly $300 million for preparation of GM assembly plant, it ought to get some sort of a job guarantee in return. There ought to be a give-and-take, he says. But the problem, in his eyes, is that our elected representatives have not got the stomach to make the fight.

Many of the former Poletown residents, whose attempts to influence policy making in their neighborhood failedso miserably, share Cockrel s view. They eye the city, General Motors and the Roman Catholic Archdiocese with equal disdain, because none

homes destroyed against their will, the issue for all city residents is one of democracy. Do the taxpayers actually have any control over development in. this city,or does all the power rest in the hands of the mayor and his eminently powerful corporate associates? Is the public able to ask corporations to make concessions in return for public aid?

City councilman Ken Cockrel.

of these institutions expressed a sincere interest in their right to self-determination.

One of the few people who did attempt to articulate the commu-/ nity s rights was Fr. Joseph Karasiewicz, 59, who died Dec. 14. At his funeral, Fr. Francis Skalski, credited this gentle priest with trying to stand between the force of corporate power and his parishioners.. a

_ THE COSTA HAIR STYLING

Now that simple French braiding is as common as designer jeans, the hair stylist who brought the technique to Detroit has come up with some striking geometric: hair -designs for the woman who is looking for something slightly different like having her hair weaved into the shape of a sun visor, or even a | hat. These designs work best on people with long hair of one length and are not very practical or cheap, - but definitely something you won't see on every other person you meet. If this sounds like the perfect frosting for your New Year s Eve cake, call Ralph Costa of Ferndale s Ooh-la-fa Salon at 546-8300 for an appointment.

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Hinkle Chair is not just another unfinished furniture story in fact, they supply many such local stores with much of their stock. For three generations they have been selling solid oak furniture; as well as a few maple and mahogony pieces at prices so low you'll gasp incredulously. You may buy tables, chairs and chests either unfinished orjust

Geometric hair design by Ralph Costa.

a little bit more for the finished thing. They also do repair work on rush-bottom chairs. Hinkle Chair has two locations: 20323 W. Eight - Mile, Detroit, 533-8775, and also at the Five Mile and Merriman Plaza, 422-7177.

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musical map. They're off to a good start with the recent release of Say You Will, a stylish'album by Doug. Brown and the Ones which has been getting a fair amount of play airwaves. Transcity Records, only a few months old, has been heavily marketing their recording of Double Take by two area power-pop bands, Retro and Trainable. They plan to expand their promotional efforts to the east and west coasts after the first ofthe year. Transcity is known to provide considerable support for their artists (read: tour money) and is always looking for new talent.

HONORABLE MENTIONS

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Hope the following entertainment keeps all of you busy until we return. In the meantime, keep sending information to Linda Solomon, 2410 Woodward Tower, Detroit, MI 48226. Deadline for the next issue is Jan. 13.

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AL BRAY-RON ANDERSON DUO: ThSa in Jan., Union Street II, 831-3965.

ALEXANDER ZONJIC QUARTET: Jan. 3, 10, 17, Crash Landing, Warren, 7514444. Mondays thru Jan. 25, Jimmy's Lounge, Farmington Holiday Inn, 4774000.

ALEX KALLAO TRIO: Jan. 3, 2-4 pm, Somerset Mall, Troy. Free.

ANDREA CHEOLAS TRIO: Th-Sa, Sir Charles Pub, Royal Oak, 541-9593.

CHARLES BOLES QUARTET: Jan. 8-9, Old Detroit, 222-7972.

CHARLES HILL: Jan. 2-3, 9-10, Gregoty s,-832-5732.

CHERYL RENEE: Saturdays, midnight6 am, Oakland Express, 871-9614.

CHRIS JAMES & THE REBOP ENSEMBLE: Dec. 27-29, Music Man Lounge, 838-5430.

CUT GLASS featuring ORTHEIA BARNES & MILDRED SCOTT: Th-Sa, Piper's Alley, Edison Plaza.

DOUG JOURDAN: Sundays in Jan., Union Street II, 831-3965.

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SKI: Dec. 31-Jan. 1, Old Detroit, 2227972.

GAIL BAKER & CATZ: Dec. 26, Old Detroit, 222-7972.

GEORGE HIGGINS: Jan. 1, 7-8, Gregory s, 832-5732.

GIQUE ORCHESTRA: Sundays, Pappy s North, Mt. Clemens, 791-9050. Jan. 6, Shenanigans; 538-7651.

JERRY FERRY: Wednesdays in Jan., Union Street II, 831-3965.

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KOKAYI BAND, RICKEY ROUSE CLUB, INFINITY BAND with MICHAEL SWEET FINGERS GREEN: Cobb's Corner, 832-8022.

KRIS LYNN: F-Su, 101 Lounge, 9612338.

LARRY NOZERO QUARTET: Jan. 15Feb. 7, Baker's, 864-1200.

LYMAN WOODARD ORGANIZATION: Dec. 26, Larned Place East, 963-1053.

NEW CHAMBER QUINTET: A. SPENCER BAREFIELD, FARUQ Z. BEY, ANTHONY HOLLAND, JARIBU

SHAHID, TANI TABBAL: Dec. 26, 8 pm, DIA Recital Hall, 863-5197.

PARADE: F-Sa in Jan., Larned Place East, 963-1053.

RON BROOKS TRIO: Dec. 26, 29-31, Jan. 2, 8-9, 15-16, The Earle, Ann Arbor, 994-0211.

RON JACKSON: F-Sa, Shenanigans, 538-7651.

RON JACKSON, LYMAN WOODARD & NORMA JEAN BELL: Jan. 10, 2-4 pm, Somerset Mall, Troy. Free.

ROSCOE MITCHELL SOUND ENSEMBLE: Jan. 2, 8 pm, DIA Recital Hall, 832-2730.

STAN BOOKER QUARTET:Jan. 15-16,Old Detroit, 222-7972.

VIKKI GARDEN: Thursdays, Old DetrOity 2227/9722

BLUES

BILL HODGSON: Sundays, Alvin's, 8322355.

BLIND JOHN DAVIS: Jan. 15-16, Blind Pig, Ann Arbor, 996-8555.

BOOGIE WOOGIE RED: Dec. 28, Blind Pig, Ann Arbor, 996-8555.

CHICAGO PETE & THE DETROITERS: Dec. 26, Alvin's, 832-2355.

CHICAGO PETE & THE DETROITERS

plus KIP ROBERTS: Jan. 6, U-M University Club, Ann Arbor:

CHUCK COLE: Feb. 6, Ethel's Cocktail Lounge, 922-9443.

CORKY SIEGEL: Jan. 8-9, Soup Kitchen, 259-1374. x

JUANITA McCRAY & HER MOTOR

CITY BEAT: Jan. 8-9, Delta Lady, Ferndale, 545-5483.

KOKO TAYLOR: Jan. 29-30, Soup Kitchen, 259-1374.

LITTLE SONNY: Dec. 30, Soup Kitchen, 259-1374.

SONNY TERRY & BROWNIE McGHEE: Jan. 15-16, Soup Kitchen, 259-1374.

R&B

BLUE FRONT PERSUADERS with VELVETA: Dec. 31, Blind Pig, Ann Arbor, 996-8555.

DIANA ROSS: Jan. 22, Joe Louis Arena, 962-2000.

DICK SIEGEL & HIS MINISTERS OF MELODY: Dec. 26, Mr. Fiéod s, Ann Arbor, 995-2132. Jan. 2, Blind Pig, Ann Arbor, 996-8555.

FOUR TOPS: Jan. 6, Second Chance, Ann Arbor, 994-5350.

_LENNY WHITE with TWENNYNINE plus LYMAN WOODARD ORGANIZATION: Dec. 29, Harpo's, 823-6400.

LUTHER VANDROSS, PEABO BYSON, THE JONES GIRLS: Jan. 3, pm, Cobo Arena, 962-5921.

MOTOWN REVUE featuring MARY WELLS, THE MARVELETTES, MARTHA REEVES, THE CONTOURS, FANTASTIC FOUR, LATIN COUNTS, MARV JOHNSON: Dec. 26-27, Madison Theatre, 961-0687.

SHAKERS featuring GENE MORGAN: Dec. 30-Jan. 2, Delta Lady, Ferndale, 545-5483.

URBATIONS: Dec. 26-27, Jan. 1-2, Soup Kitchen, 259-1374.

ROCK

BARON: Jan. 18-19, Token Lounge, Westland, 261-9640.

AXE: Dec. 26-30, Danny's Canadian Club, Windsor, (519) 256-2393. BAROOGA: Jan. 13-17, Bentley's, Royal Oak, 583-1292.

BITTERSWEET ALLEY: Dec. 28-Jan. 3, Main Act, Roseville, 778-8150. Jan. 6-9, September's, Warren, 756-6140. Jan. 14-17, Papillon Ballroom, Dearbom, 278-0079.

BOLTS: Jan. 5-9, My Place Lounge, East Detroit, 777-1238.

BOUNTY HUNTER: Dec. 26, Traxx, 3722320.

BUMPERS: Dec. 28-29, Bentley's, Royal Oak, 583-1292. Jan. 1-2, Main Act, Roseville, 778-8150. Jan. 5-10, Sidestreet, Allen Park, 388-1186.

D.C. HAWKS: Dec. 23, 26, Main Act, Roseville, 778-8150.Jan. 1-3, Papillon s, Dearborn Hts., 278-0079. Jan. 4-5, September s, Warren, 756-6140.

DESTINY: Dec. 26, Danny's Canadian Club, Windsor, (519) 256-2393.

DITTILIES: Jan. 11-12, Token Lounge, Westland, 261-9640.

DON TAPERT & THE SECOND AVE.

BAND: Jan. 2, Ranch Bar, 538-0877. Jan. 4-5, 11-12, Wagon Wheel, Troy. Jan. 7, Alvin's, 832-2355.

DOUG BROWN & THE ONES: Dec. 23, 26, Dec. 30-Jan. 2, Nauti-Times, Mt. Clemens, 465-9321. Jan. 4-5, Bentley's, Royal Oak, 583-1292.

E.S.P.: Dec. 26, Traxx, 372-2320.

FALCONES:Jan. 9, Red Carpet Lounge, 885-3428.

FOUR HEADS: Dec. 30, New Miami, 833-4897.

HOUNDSTOOTH JONES BAND: Dec. 31, New Miami, 833-4897. Jan. 7, Paycheck's, 872-8934. Jan. 15-16, Delta Lady, Ferndale, 545-5483. Tuesdays in Jan., Ranch Bar, 538-0877.

1.0.U.: Jan. 20-24, Bentley's, Royal Oak, 583-1292.

INCREDIBLE MOHAWK BROTHERS: Dec. 26, New Miami, 833-4897. Jan. 2, Free Style, 531-1311. Jan. 8, Traxx, 3722320. Jan. 10-12, Studio Lounge, Westland, 729-2540.

INTERIORS: Dec. 22-26, Dec: 28-Jan. 2, Player's Lounge, Drayton Plains, 6744837, J. GEILS: Jan. 27, Cobo Arena, 962-

JOHNNY ANGELOS & THE REPUTATIONS: Jan. 6-7, Red Carpet Lounge, 885-3428.

LOOK OUT: Dec. 22-23, Dec. 26-Jan. 3, Sidestreet, Allen Park, 388-1 186. Jan.\610, Bentley's, Royal Oak, 583-1292. MADAME x: Jan. 7-10, Blondie s, 5358108.

MARIAH: Jan. 5-10, Papillon Ballroom, Dearborn Hts., 278-0079.

MARINER: Dec. 26-27, Papillon Ballfoom, Dearborn Hts., 278-0079.

MICHAEL QUATRO joins TILT: Dec. 23, Main Act, Roseville, 778-8150. Jan. 8-9, Suds Factory, Ypsilanti, 485-0240. MILLERZ KILLERZ: Jan. 18-19, Bentley s, Royal Oak, 583-1292.

MUTANTS: Jan. 2, Lili's, 875-6555. MUSTANGS: Jan. 7, Ranch Bar, 5340877. Jan. 13-14, Red Carpet Lounge, 885-3428.

NILS LOFGREN: Jan. 21, Harpo's, 8236400.

PENDRAGON: Jan. 1-2, Harpo's, 8236400.

PURPLE HAZE EXPERIENCE: Dec. 26, Harpo s, 823-6400. ROB TYNER & THE NATIONAL ROCK GROUP: Jan. 1-2, Red Carpet Lounge, 885-3428.

ROCKABILLY CATS: Jan. 8-9, Blind Pig, Ann Arbor, 996-8555.

ROMANTICS: Dec. 27-28, Royal Oak Music Theatre, 546-7610.

ROUGH CUT: Dec. 31, Red Carpet Lounge, 885-9881. Jan. 5, Second Chance, Ann Arbor, 994-5360.

RUMORS: Dec. 30-Jan. 3, Token Lounge, Westland, 261-9640. SALEM: Jan. 13-17, Token Lounge, Westland, 261-9640.

SCOTCH: Jan. 7-10, Token Lounge, Westland, 261-9640.

SKIDS: Dec. 21-23, 26-27, Jagger's, Pontiac, 681-1701. Dec. 30-Jan. 3, Bentley's, Royal Oak, 583-1292.Jan. 19-24, Papillon Ballroom, Dearborn Hts., 2780079.

SKYDANCER: Dec. 21-23, 26-30, Jan. 2-

3, Struttin Club, East Detroit, 778-2650. Jan. 4-6, Token Lounge, Westland, 2619640. Jan. 7-8, Harpo's, 823-6400.

SLANDER: Dec. 26, New Miami, 8334897.Jan. 2, Free Style, 531-1311.

STAGE: Dec. 29-Jan. 2, Silverbird, 5423630. Jan. 14-17, Blondie s, 535-8108.

STRAIGHT AHEAD: Dec. 31, Jan. 1516, Ranch Bar, 534-0877.

STRUT: Dec. 21-22, September's, Warren, 756-6140. Dec. 23, Main Act, Roseville, 778-8150. Dec. 26-27, Silverbird, 542-3630. Dec. 28-30, Jan. 12-13, Papillon Ballroom, Dearbom Hts., 2780079. Jan. 7-9, Harpo's, 823-6400.

TEEZER: Dec. 31, Papillon Ballroom, Dearborn Hts., 278-0079.

TOBY REDD: Dec. 26-27, Main Act, Roseville, 778-8150. Dec. 31-Jan. 3, September's, Warren, 756-6140.

TRIFECTA: Jan. 11-12, Bentley's, Royal Oak, 583-1292:

VENDETTA: Dec. 21-22, September's, Warren, 756-6140. Dec. 23, Main Act, Roseville, 778-8150. Dec. 26-27, Silverbird, 542-3630.

ZOOSTER: Dec. 21-23, Spangles, Windsor, (519) 344-7411.

NEW WAVE

ARTISTS: Jan. 9, Traxx, 372-2320.

BONERS: Dec. 26, Meat Market, 8825841. THE CONDITION: Jan. 14, Paycheck s, 872-8934.

DATES: Jan. 22-23, Lili's, 875-6555. FIGURES ON A BEACH: Dec. 26, Paycheck s, 872-8934.Jan. 1-2; Traxx; 3722320.

GLASSINGS DAVID: Jan. 21, Lili's, 8756555.

JOHNNIES: Dec. 30, Traxx, 372-2320.

NIKKI CORVETTE: Dec. 31, Paycheck s, 872-8934. Jan. 15-16, Lili s, 875-6555. Jan. 20, Red Carpet Lounge, 885-3428.

PHOBELEX: Dec. 26, Paychecks, 8728934.

Clementine s Kitchen

(Family owned for close to half a century)

Quality is like buying oats. If you want to buy nice clean oats, then you must pay a fair price. However, if.you can be satisfied with oats that have already been through the horse, that comes a little cheaper.

Open: Mon.-Thurs. 11. am-4 pm Fri. 11 am-9 pm (Saloon

am)

PLASMATICS: Jan. 9, 8 pm, Grand Circus Theatre, 965-5563.

PRIVATES: Jan. 13-14, Traxx, 2320. Sy

RHYTHM METHOD: Jan. 6-7, Traxx, 372-2320. Jan. 8-9, Ranch Bar, 5340877. Si

ROOMATES: Dec..31, Traxx, 372-2320. Jan. 1-2, Paycheck s, 872-8934. Jan. 1516, Red Carpet Lounge, 885-3428.

SEATBELTS: Jan. 8-9, Paycheck 's, 8728934.

STEVE NEWHOUSE & WHITE LINE

FEVER: Dec. 30-Jan. 2, Mr. Flood s, Ann Arbor, 995-2132.

STINGRAYS: Jan. 8-9, Lil's, 875-6555.

THE SUITS: Dec. 30, Traxx, 372-2320. Jan. 6-7, Red Carpet Lounge, 885-3428. 3-D INVISIBLES: Jan. 1-2, Paycheck's,872-8934. Jan. 7, Lili's, 875-6555.

TAKE ME: Jan. 1-2, Traxx, 372-2320.

TIGHT FITT: Jan. 9, Traxx, 372-2320.

FOLK

CHUCK MITCHELL: Dec. 26,8 pm, Folktown, Southfield Civic Center, 8559848.

KAREN BOUCHARD: Dec: 27, Delta Lady, Ferndale, 545-5483.

MIMI HARRIS: Jan. 4, Blind Pig, Ann Arbor, 996-8555:

NEIL WOODWARD: Sundays, Aberdeen s, Northville, 348-3490. Jan. 4, Mr. Flood' s, Ann Arbor, 995-2132.

RONNIE GAY: Mondays thru Jan., Union Street I, Grosse Pointe, 3310018.

SALLY ROGERS: Jan. 10, 8 pm, Folktown, Southfield Civic Center, 3415687. Proceeds benefit Sierra Club.

CLASSICAL

AMERICAN ARTIST SERIES: Kingswood Aud., Bloomfield Hills, 647-2230. Jan. 10, 3 pm, Gala Opening Concert with the American Artists Trio. AMICI MUSICAL CHAMBER MUSIC: tig.

HAPPENIN:

born

372-2320.

December 24, 1907

ASTROLOGICAL PREDICTIONS FOR

4145 Woodwa rd 831-3965 Detroit

Mon.-Fri. 11 am to2.am Sat. noon,fo 2 am Sun. 6 pm to midnight

Scarab Club, 217 Farnsworth at John R. Jan. 10, 7 pm, Trio Toronto.

BACH BACON & EGGS: Sundays, live classical brunch, Cafe Detroit, 8318820.

BRUNCH WITH THE CLASSICS: Sundays, live classical brunch with Corey Traeger and Janet Roehm, The Gnome, 833-0120.

CENTER SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: Jewish Community Center, N. Bloomfield, 661-1000, Ext. 164. Jan. 31, 3:30 pm, Celebration of Jewish Music and Dance.

CONCERTS IN THE GARDEN: Prudential Town Center, Southfield, 354-4717. Jan. 17, 10 am, Detroit String Quartet. D.S.O. NEW YEAR'S EVE GALA: Ford Auditorium, 962-5524. Dec. 31, pm performance, Mitch Miller, conductor. Dancing afterwards.

INTERMEZZO CHAMBER MUSIC

SERIES: Farmington Community Center, 477-8404. Jan. 17, 3 pm, Ervin Monroe, flutist, and Fontaine Laing, piano.

RENAISSANCE CONCERTS: Edsel and Eleanor Ford House, Grosse Pointe Shores, 851-8934. Jan. 10, 4 pm, DSO Bassoon Quartet.

RENAISSANCE CONCERTS: Orchestra Hall, 851-8934. Jan. 12, 8 pm, Micha Rachlevsky, Itala Babini and Jonathan Shames.

MUSIC ETC.

BLACK MARKET: Dec. 27, reggae, New Miami, 833-4897. FRANK SINATRA: Jan. 20, Joe Louis Arena, 962-2000.

NEW YEAR'S EVE

ADRENALIN, DANGER POINT, THE ROOMATES, THE RESISTORS: Traxx,

DELIGHTS

Fine Foods Christmas Delights a Fruitcakes

* Plum Puddings

* Creative Gift Baskets

Hours: Mon.-Fri. 10:30 a.m.-6:30 p.m. Saturday 11 a.m.-4 p.m. 516 Brush Street Detroit, Michigan 48226 313/961-6150 Tues., Wed., Thurs. HENRY

BUSH TETRAS: Clutch Cargo's, 9610687 for info.

BUZZTONES: Rock Palace, 792-1900.

CADILLAC KIDZ, MISSING PERSONS, ROUGH CUT: Red Carpet, 885-3428.

CAN-AM NEW YEAR'S JAM Axe, Destiny, Sweet Crystal, Tough Kids: Danny s Canadian Club, Windsor, (519) 252-2393.

CHAMBER MUSIC & MORE: Dancing, food and drinks, iBrowse Bookstore, W. Bloomfield, 851-8934.

DR. BOP & THE HEADLINERS: Second Chance, Ann Arbor, 994-5350. HOUNDSTOOTH JONES BAND, THE MUSTANGS: New Miami, 833-4897.

JESSIE PALEDOFSKY & CHARLIE

REESE: Gregory's, 832-5732.

MITCH RYDER: Harpo's, 823-6400. NIKKI CORVETTE, THE EMISSIONS, AMERICATZ: Paycheck 's, 872-8934.

PATHETX: Coronation, Riverside Drive at Curry, Windsor.

PRODIGY: Cafe Fior, Southfield, 3584540.

RUMORS plus PULSTAR: Token Lounge, Westland, 261-9640.

SHADOWFAX & BROTHERS OF THE ROAD: Alvin's, 832-2355.

STRAIGHT AHEAD: Ranch Bar, 5340877.

WEST INDIAN NEW YEAR'S PARTY: West Indian American Hall,,893-3311.

Herbal Experience Reggae Band and other entertainment.

AIRWAVES

ALL THINGS CONSIDERED: National Public Radio s award-winning nightly news magazine is broadcast weekdays 5-6:30 pm and weekends 5-6 pm.

WDET, 101.9 FM.

ALL TOGETHER NOW: Tues., 7 pm, Metro Detroit's longest-running radio show produced by and for women addresses events and music from a feminist perspective. WDET, 101.9 FM.

1982: Dec. 27, 10 pm, Debbie Beller hosts Street Level. Tonight's guests are Bob Thibideau, local astrologer and psychic, and John Barnwell, psychic card reader. WIWR, 92 FM.

BLACK MAGIC: Fridays, 11-12 pm, Ken Donaldson recounts different eras in the 80-year legacy of Afro-American music and. its influence on sotiety. WMZK, 1400 AM.

CARIBBEAN CONNECTION: Tuesdays, pm. Music, interviews and news from the Caribbean hosted by Horatio Bennett. WDET, 101.9 FM.

CRISIS IN THE HORN OF AFRICA: Dec. 29, 8-9 pm, documentary on the plight of millions of war and drought victims in East Africa. WJBK, TV 2.

ELECTRIFYIN MOJO: M-F, 10 pm- 3 am. The show that takes theJ off jazz and kicks azz. WGPR, 107.5. FM.

EVENING EDITION: M-F, 10 pm. Bruce Brown anchors local and world news with emphasis on the broader issues behind the headlines. WIVS, Channel 56.

GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN: Saturdays, 10 pm-midnight. The Golden Era of Rhythm and Blues hosted by Fred Zelanka. WDET, 101.9 FM.

JAZZ YESTERDAY: Saturdays, 8-10 pm, vintage recordings with Jim Gallert providing background into on the music and the performers. WDET, 101.9 FM.

KALEIDOPHONE: Saturdays, 6-8 pm. Music of the 50s, 60s, "70s and up into the 80s, with Geoff Jacques. WDET, 101.9 FM.

MORPHOGENESIS: M-F, 3-5 pm.

Unique forms of creative music from all. places and periods with Judy Adams. WDET, 101.9FM.

RADIOS IN MOTION: Thurs., 10 pm. Alternative rock for an alternative society. Hosted by Mike Halloran. ~ WDET, 101.9 FM.

RIFF ROCK CAFE: M-Sa, 2-4 am, 354WRIF. Best of new and old rock, reggae,

DISCOVER

WHAT: A new restaurant and bar with entertainment. In the Warehouse District just East of the Renaissance Center. WHY: Delicious food, daily specials, a fun place for friends to gaiher.

WHEN: Right now! 11:00 a.m.-2:00 a.m., Mon.-Sat. 201 Jos. Campau - 259-8325 o OPEN ON

modem and local music hosted by Carl Coffey. WRIF, 101 FM.

SELF-RELIANCE: Saturdays, 10 am. The state of recession/depression in metropolitan Detroit mandates that people make more efficient use of their resources. This live, call-in program hosted by Michael Grofsorean offers practical information. on food and energy topics. WDET, 101.9 FM.

SOUND PROJECTIONS: Fridays, 10 pm-midnight. Featuring contemporary black creative music and literature with Kofi Natambu. WDET, 101.9 FM.

BENEFITS

CONCERTS BY THE RIVER: Vanity Ballroom, E. Jefferson at Newport, 8820007. Jan. 17, 2-4 pm, The Detroit Jazz Legacy: Music and Dance 1920-1980. Local artists survey Detroit's contributions to the world of jazz, blues and modem music. Proceeds go toward the 1982 concert series.

OPEN HOUSE BENEFIT DANCE PARTY: 1437 Randolph, 963-7316 or 831-3353. Jan. 9, pm-1 am, Paradigm Dance Cooperative celebrates the opening of their new studio. Music and dancing, BYOB.

POST-CHRISTMAS PAGAN PARTY: Grinning Duck Club, corner Willis and Third, 554-0352 or 581-3886. Dec. 26, 9 pm, The Buzzards perform in a benefit for the Crooked Beat._.

RED SQUAD SNOOPERBOWLI: Woodbridge Tavern, 289 St. Aubin, 963-0843 for info. Jan. 17, 4-7 pm, party for those of you who have (or at least ought to have) files. Fundraiser for the Political Surveillance Project of the National Lawyers Guild.

FAMILIES

BELLE ISLE CONSERVATORY: 2677133 for info. Thru Jan. 15, Detroit's traditional Christmas Flower Show.

CRANBROOK INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE: 500 Lone Pine Rd., Bloomfield Hills, 645-3210. Dec. 28-31 Children's workshops for ages 6-12. Planetarium demonstrations and special exhibits continuously. Dec. 26, 2:45 & 3:45 pm, the movie, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.

DETROIT AUTO SHOW: Cobo Hall, 962-5921. Jan. 16-24.

DETROIT HISTORICAL MUSEUM: 5401 Woodward, 833-1805. Thru April, - Bell Broadcasting exhibit that explores the history of the black owned and operated TV and radio stations.

DETROIT SCIENCE CENTER: 5020

John R, 833-1892. Open Tu-Su, exhibitions and two films, The Eruption of Mt. St. Helens and Oceans, projected on a - 180-degtee domed screen.

DETROIT PUBLIC LIBRARY: 5201 Woodward, 833-4043. Thru Jan. 16, exhibit of wall hangings of favorite storybook friends.

FAMILY PLAYERS OF W. BLOOM-

FIELD: Jewish Community Center, Maple at Drake, W. Bloomfield, 6611000 or 644-4075. Dec. 26-27, 29-30 & Jan. 2-3, live on stage, How the Penguin Got His, Tuxedo.

ICE SKATING: Hart Plaza, 224-1000. Daily thru March, free ice skating on the Plaza's rink. Rentals available.

KID S CABARET: Stafford s, Maple at Orchard Lake Rd., W. Bloomfield, 8518952. Saturdays, pm, magic, mystery, comedy and audience particiation.

MACOMB THEATRE FOR THE YOUNG: Macomb Theatre, 31 N. Walnut, Mt. Clemens, 468-6285. Thru Jan.

born January 8, 1935

3, Sa & Su, The Stingiest Man in Town, musical based on Dicken s A Christmas Carol.

YOUTHEATRE: DIA, 5200 Woodward, 832-2730. Dec. 26, 2 pm, The Seasons of Michigan. Jan. 2, 2 pm, Florida and Disney World. Jan. 9, 11 am and 2 pm, The Pied Piper. Jan. 16, 11 am &2 pm, the musical Susan B!

LEARNING

ACADEMIE DES BEAUX ARTS: 30800 Evergreen, Southfield, 642-1178. Jan. 9, 1-3 pm, interview/auditions for people interested in theatre arts workshops. CENTER FOR NEW THINKING: Somerset Mall Auditorium. Jan. 7, 10 am, Sherwin Wine leads discussion on Gail Sheehy and her book Pathfinders. Jan. 14, .10:am, Wine discusses Betty Friedan and her book, TheSecond Stage.

MEDITATION AND THE MIND: 902 Baldwin, Ann Arbor, 994-5625. Jan. 910, two-day meditation intensive led by Swami Narayanananda. Sponsored by the SYDA Foundation.

MIDWEST DANCE CENTER: 8556 W. Nine Mile Rd., Oak Park, 545-8055 or 546-4949. Dec. 28-30, annual holiday dance workshops in modern dance, ballet and jazz: PLANT CLOSINGS AND THE ALTERNATIVES: 222 Cohn Bldg., WSU, 5770833 for info. BeginningJan. 14, 6-9 pm, 10-week course. Can be taken on a credit or non-credit basis.

LECTURES

MICHIGAN ARTISTS EQUITY: Detroit Focus Gallery, 743 Beaubien, 965-5777 for info. Jan. 9,9 am-3 pm, seminar with

speakers on Copyrights, Grants and Taxes.

DESIGN LECTURE SERIES: Lawrence Institute of Technology, Southfield.Jan. 19, noon-1 pm,. Balthazar Korab lectures on Architectural Photography. Free and open to the public.

LIVING MEDITATION: Detroit Siddha Meditation Center, 21543 Grand River, 994-5625. Jan. 6, 7:30 pm, Swami Narayanananda speaks.

NUTRITION LECTURE SERIES: Hamilton Place, 30333 Southfield Rd., Southfield, 557-3110. Jan. 10, Felor Jourdikfan discusses Vitamin E in-Health and Disease.

PHOTOGRAPHY LECTURE SERIES: Pierce Street Gallery, 217 Pierce, Birmingham, 646-6950. Jan. 13, 7:309 pm, First Responses to the New Medium of Photography. Jan. 20, Pictorialism and the Photo-secession. Both lectures led by Carla Anderson, WSU and HFCC photography instructor.

PHYSICAL FITNESS: Cranbrook School assembly hall, Bloomfield Hills, 645-3635. Jan. 19, 7:30 pm, running expert Charlie Blanchard discusses attributes of the committed adult athlete. Emphasis placed on training for the 1982 Detroit Free Press Marathon.

WORLD ADVENTURE SERIES: DIA, 5200 Woodward, 832-2730. Jan. 10, 2:30 pm, Siberia with Raphael Green. Jan. 17, 2:30 pm, 50 Years of Adventure with Col. John C. Craig.

LITERARY

DETROIT POETS GUILD: WSU StudentCenter Bldg., Wesley Lounge, 833-6416 for info. Group meets regularly second Tuesday of each month, 7:30 pm.

LINES: NEW AMERICAN POETRY AT THE D.I.A: 5200 Woodward, 832-

2730. Jan. 14, Al Young gives an informal talk in the Holley Room at 3 pm. Young will read from his work at 7:30 pm in the Lecture Hall.

POETRY RESOURCE CENTER: 743 Beaubien, 964-0888. Jan. 17, 2 pm, Hank Malone, author of The Fashion Model and the Astronaut, discusses Charles Bukowski, author of Gothic, Sex and Magic.

POLITICAL

PEOPLE'S FIGHTBACK RALLY: BookCadillac Hotel, 883-4940. Jan. 16, rally begins at 8 pm, dance follows. Speakers include Gus Hall, General Secretary, Community Party USA, and other trade union leaders. Sponsored by the Communist Party.

DINNER THEATRE

ALFRED'S SOMERSET DINNER THEATRE: 2475 Big Beaver, Troy, 6438865. Thru Jan. 9, F & Sa, Tribute. COOPER'S ARMS: 306 Main St., Rochester, 651-2266. Wednesdays, St. Aubin Street Ramblers; Saturdays, Chris Hertz; New Year's Eve, Chuck Mitchell and St. Aubin Street Ramblers. MR. MAC'S STABLE: Parkland Tower, Dearborn, 288-0450. Opening Jan. 15Feb. 13, CaDance.

STOUFFER S EASTLAND DINNER THEATRET: 18000 Vernier, St. Clair Shores, 371-8410. Dec. 26 & 31,A Musical Salute to Vaudeville and Burlesque. Opening Jan. 8 thru Feb. 20, Sleuth. THE WINE TASTERS RESTAURANT THEATRE: 17 Mile Rd. and Van Dyke, Sterling Hts., 961-0533. Thru Feb. 27, Murder at the Howard Johnson s.

ONSTAGE

ATTIC THEATRE: 525 E. Lafayette, 963-7789. Thru Jan. 2, Watch on the Rhine. BIRMINGHAM THEATRE: 21! S. Woodward, 644-3533. Opening Dec. 26, Oughta Be in Pictures.

COMEDY CAPERS: Stafford s, Orchard Mall, W. Bloomfield, 851-8952. Dec. 26, Gary Ker, Uncle Dunkel and Walter Ross. Dec. 31, two different shows, call for info.

COMEDY CASTLE: Maximilian s, 4616 N. Woodward, 549-2323. Dec. 23 26, Tom Sharp; Dec. 30-31 and Jan. 2, Malone and Mootcheez. New Year's Eve, Mike Binder and Malone and Nootcheez.

DETROIT REPERTORY THEATRE: 13103 Woodrow Wilson, 868-1347.

Thru Dec. 31, A Lesson from Aloes. Opening Jan. 14, The Captivity of Pixie Shedman. Special New Year's celebration. Call for info. EAGLE THEATRE LIVE: 13 S. Saginaw, Pontiac, 335-5470. Jan. 18 22,8 pm, Mardi Gras on Subourbon Street, open forum improvisational theatre. Music provided by the Angelo Primo Jazz Quartet.

FISHER THEATRE: Fisher Bidg., Grand Blvd. at Second, 872-1000. Thru Jan. 9, Children of Lesser God. Opening jan. 15, Twigs, starring Cloris Leachman.

FOURTH STREET PLAYHOUSE: 301 W. Fourth St, Royal Oak, 543-3666. Thru Jan. 23, Habeas Corpus. GREASE PIT THEATRE: Under Doug's Body Shop, 22061 Woodward, Ferndale, 399-1040. Sa, musical review, According to John/Paul.

MASONIC TEMPLE: 350 Temple, 8327100. Thru Jan. 3, Sesame Street Live. Jan. 5-24, Madwoman of Central Park West, with Phyllis Newman. MEADOW BROOK THEATRE: Oakland University, Rochester, 377-3300. Thru Dec. 27, Noel Coward's Hay Fever. Opening Dec. 3i-Jan. 24,View From the Bridge, written by Arthur Miller. MUSIC HALT: 350 Madison, 963-7680. Opening Jan. 6-9, 8:30 pm, Les Ballets Trockadero des Monte Carlo. Opening Jan. 15, Michigan Opera Theatre. Jan. 15-23,-The Mikado. Jan. 29-Feb. 7, Porgy and Bess.

W.S.U. THEATRES: HILBERRY THEATRE: Cass at Hancock, 577-2972. Opening Jan. 6-8, 13, 16,21, Ah, Wilderness! Jan. 9, 14, 22, The Imaginary Invalid. Jan. 15, Cyrano de Bergerac. STUDIO THEATRE: Downstairs at the Hilberry, 577-2960. Opening Jan. 1417, 21-24, The Talking Drums. WILL-O-WAY REPERTORY THEATRE: 775 W. Long Lake Rd., Bloomfield Hills, 644-4418. Thru Jan. 30, Gypsy. Dec. 2627, children's play, The Broken Doll. PHOTOGRAPHY

DETROIT PUBLIC LIBRARY: Main Branch, 5201 Woodward, 833-4043. PHOTOGALLERY: Thru Jan. 6, Fields, 1978-1981," photos by Robert Mosher. Opening Jan. 14-Feb. 10, East/West, photos by John Haapaniemi.

DETROIT REPERTORY THEATRE GALLERY: 13103 Woodrow Wilson, 868-1347. Thru Dec. 31, photos of Solidarity Day and UAW Art by Bob Buchta, Russ Marshall, Barbara Weinberg and Jim West. ELOQUENT LIGHT GALLERY: Birming-

ham Camera, 145 S. Livernois, Rochester, 652-4686. Thru Jan. 1, group exhibit featuring Brett Weston. FOCUS GALLERY: 743 Beaubien, 9629025. Thru Jan. 7, Select Photographers, featuring the work of 26 photographers exhibiting variety ofapproaches including cliche verre and xerox. CENTER FOR CREATIVE STUDIES: 245 E. Kirby, 872-3118. Thru Jan. 25, faculty exhibit. Juried by Martha Madigan. HALSTED GALLERY: 560 Woodward, Birmingham, 644-8284. Thru Jan. 14, Recent Acquisitions and Portfolios, photos by Bernice Abbott; Marsha Burns, Michael Bums, Christopher James, Misha Gordin, John Ward and Cole Weston. Opening Jan. 16-March 20, Betty Smith and other women photographers.

PIERCE STREEI PHOTOGRAPHY GALLERY: 217 Pierce St., Birmingham, 646-6950. Thru Jan. 2, photographs of Mexican life by Manuel Alvarez Bravo.

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Martin Luther King, Jr.

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EXHIBITIONS

THE ART CENTER: 125 Macomb, Mt. Clemens, 469-8666. Opening Jan. 3-31; paintings by Charles McGhee and Allie McGhee. ART GALLERY OF WINDSOR: 445 Riverside Drive West, (519) 258-7111. Thru Jan. 10, early works by sculptor David Smith. Thru Jan. 3, fiber and paintings exhibit.

CAD.E. GALLERY: 8025 Asnes, 3311758. Thru Jan. 7, paintings and drawings by Russell Keeter. CANTOR/LEMBERG GALLERY: 538 N. Woodward, Birmingham, 642-6623. Thru Dec. 31, recent watercolors and drawings by Mel Rosas. CAROL HOOBERMAN GALLERY: 155 S. Bates, Birmingham, 647-3666. Thru Cheryl Renee. Dec., mixed-media affordable art exhibit.

CRANBROOK ACADEMY OF ART MUSEUM: 500 Lone Pine Rd., Bloomfield, 645-3312. Thru Jan. 17, oils, tapestries, constructions and models by George Ortman. Primitive folk carvings by Edgar Tolson.

CUTTERS ART GLASS: 1048 N. Woodward, Royal Oak, 544-3812. Continuous stained-glass exhibition.Jan. 9, 9:30 am-4 pm, Christmas bus tour to Detroit sites housing stained glass works by Louis C. Tiffany. DETROIT ARTISTS MARKET: 1452 Randolph, 962-0337. Thru Dec. 30, annual Christmas exhibit. DETROIT ARTISTS MARKET'S OTHER SPACE: 7th Floot, Hudson's, Downtown, 962-0337. Thru Dec. 30, recent works by Richard Jerzy.

DETROIT GALLERY OF CONTEMPORARY CRAFTS: 301 Fisher Bldg., 8737888. Thru Dec., holiday show of American handcrafts with emphasis on functionalism.

DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS: 5200 Woodward, 833-7900. Thru Feb. 14, selection of 17th century European masterworks from the permanent collection. Thru Feb. 28, 20th century American prints and drawings from the. permanent collection.

DONALD MORRIS GALLERY: 105 Townsend, Birmingham, 642-8812. Thru Dec., group exhibit featuring works by Lester Johnson, Milton Avery and Robert Wilbert.

FEIGENSON GALLERY: 310 Fisher Bldg., 873-7322. Thru Jan. 2, paintings and sculpture by Robert Sestok. Opening Jan. 8 (reception 4-7 pm) thru Feb. 6, paintings, pastels and works on paper by John Lees.

by Michael Betzold

THE CONTROVERSIAL BETZOLD RATING SCHEME

Want snob appeal? Want to impress your friends at parties with your knowledge of film noir, auteurism, mise en scene and other French words which no one understands?

Here's quick and sleazy film rating system which will guarantee that you can one-up even Jack Mathews. Here s how it works:

*kkx Stars are for quality

WWWW W s for weirdness

ZZZZ Z's for sleeping.

The more (up to four) the more. Four s isa sleeper; four W's is Strangeness itself; but don't bother to look for four x's, cuz Mr. Controversy is a snob. He don t give four stars to anything that comes down the pike. If a movie doesn t have any rating, missed it; and you can figure out whether did on purpose.

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ABSENCE OF MALICE. (**Z) All the hardened cynicism and mangled idealism of the typical reporter float in sea of editorial guilt in former Free Press editor Kurt Luedtke s waking nightmare about the power ofthe irresponsible press. Trouble is, Luedtke s notorious misogyny gets mixed in, too. By the end, we are

to assume that Sally Field s character is at fault for shoddy, overzealous journalism, but why does her kindly editor escape the finger of blame? Malice is enlightening and disturbing in that it shows how reporters can be stooges of higher powers, and how freedom of the press can have frightening consequences for people falsely reported about. But the deck is unfairly stacked, as Luedtke wanted to exercise his self-doubts (and every journalist has them) about his job. The Common-Man hero (Paul Newman) who is wronged by the free pressisa hopelessly idealistic construct, and his victimized ftiend, pathetic assistant principal in Catholic school, is laughably overdrawn to evoke sympathy more sorry cat than real person: Luedtke can't shake the blinders about the objects of reportial prose that this movie accuses Field of having. And the Field-Newman romance is so minimal that it almost not there. One salvation is another excellent badguy performance from the slight, commanding Bob Balaban.

BUDDY BUDDY. Billy Wilder, Walter Matthau and Jack Lemmon reunited for laughs for the first time in eight years. Anyone for another odd couple?

CUTTER S WAY. Opening the DFTs 17th season is this acclaimed feature, starring Jeff Bridges and Lisa Eichhom, that has been an art house success in every major U.S. city since its 1980 release as Cutter and Bone. Deiroit premiere. (Detroit Film Theatre, Jan. 15-17)

D.O.A. New Film from Polish director Lech Kowalski; Detroit premiere opens the new season at the Punch Judy. (Classic Film Theatre Punch Judy, Jan. 1, 2) ERASERHEAD. («***WWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW) Before The Elephant

Man, David Lynch turned modem American cinema inside out with this visceral experiment, shot on shoestring budget, that combines grotesquery and comedy into one of the most horrifying and entertaining nightmares ever dreamt by filmmaker. Definitely not for the squeamish, Eraserhead pushes some primitive emotional buttons, combines science fiction with psychiatry and vaudeville, and allows dead chickens to dance. If you wondered where all the pulsating, steaming machinery around the edges of The Elephant Man came from, the answer is in Eraserhead, where dark technology is the milieu for journey into inner space. You will never look at radiator in quite the same way again. (Punch & Judy, Fri. and Sat. midnights through December.)

GHOST STORY. More screen nursing home than topical movie, this particular haunting brings together Fred Astaire, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., John Houseman and the shade of Melvyn Douglas. Spooky. HEARTBEEPS. swear I'm not kidding .. this one s romantic comedy, set in 1995, about two robots who escape from repair factory. Oh. boy.

IPHIGENIA. Ancient Greek fable about man who sacrifices his daughter to the powers of war, brought to the screen in 1977 with Irene Papas. (Palmer Park Film Forum, Jan. 14, 15) ERNST LUBITSCH FESTIVAL. The satirical comedy of the German director who became Hollywood success started with Passion starting the immortal Polish screen siren Pola Negri (Dec. 29, 30, Jan. 2, 3) and moved to the U.S. with The Marriage Circle starring Adolfe Menjou Qan. 5-10) and Lady Windemere s Fan (an. 12-17). Silent classics at Institute of Arts. (Afternoon Film Theatre)

MODERN PROBLEMS. Chevy.Chase is an air traffic controller. No wonder it not safe to fly any more.

MY BRILLIANT CAREER. This popular recent Australian release about the life ofa turn-of thecentury writer is minor feminist classic. It kicks off Cass s 3rd annual Women Directors Series, with Ida Lupino s Outrage showing Jan. 15 16. (Cass City Cinema, Jan. 8, 9)

NEIGHBORS(*ZZZWWW)John Belushi and Dan Akyroyd continue to play it safe with dull> uninspired movie-length skit about conventional suburban homeowner, his bored wife, and two crazy neighbors who make life impossibly difficult. Since there are not enough laughs, the only redeeming feature of Neighbors is its offhand indictment of the impoverishment of middle-class suburbia. John Avildsen s directing is uninspired, the film looks like it was shot with an instamatic, and the only motivation seems to be easy profits.

PENNIES FROM HEAVEN.Would you believe Steve Martin in straight role, Christopher Walken in dancing role, and 1981 movie that tries to recreate the profound existential themes of Busby Berkeley movies from halfcentury ago? Why not, with Reagan in the White House, turn back the clock?

THE PLUMBER. Fix-it man lays seige to awoman's apartment in taut mixture of psychological terror and black humor from Australian director Peter Weir (The Last Wave). This Detroit premiere opens Classic Film Theatre's fourmonth-long Australian film festival. (Classic Film Theatre Punch & Judy, Jan. 6-8)

RICHARD PRYOR LIVE IN CONCERT.

#@I!!#&xx/?! funny movie. (Cass City Cinema, Jan. 1, 2, 3)

RAGTIME. (x*«*WW) (See review this issue.)

REDS. (x*Z) A tame achievement compared with the possibility, Reds is Warren Beatty's overlong romantic epic about journalist Jack Reed, author of the chronicle of the Bolshevik Revolution, Ten Days That Shook the World, and comrade/lover Louise Bryant (Diane Keaton). The emphasis is on the romance, and the politics is confined to sprawling background and to chattery embroidery. Either Beatty didn't want to bother with providing solid explanation of the values which moved Jack Reed, or he didn't think they mattered. But without such grounding, most of this character's adventures seem only silly. Beatty's uninspired portrayal of Reed as complete non-hero doesn't help, nor do far too many scenes of Keaton s pained anguish at being deserted for political meetings, which make Reds into domestic melodrama. There is strength in supporting performances from Jack Nicholson as Eugene O'Neill and Maureen Stapleton as Emma Goldman, and there is undeniable excitement in the events which the film involves itself in. Even flawed film about Jack Reed which fails to explain his radicalism beats another flick about more rich and famous heroes.

RETURN OF THE SECAUCUS SEVEN. (x ***-

W) In an era of spectacle, this quiet, low-budget gem about the weekend reunion of group of political activists is the most genuine and enjoyable American film ever made about the generation that is now reaching 30. No heavy messages interfere with the depiction of an unspoken shared community, and no easy plot turns ruin the natural tensions that happen whenever sensitive people get together. John Sayles writing and direction, and the acting of

an ensemble of newcomers, are marvelously restrained. We Detroiters haven't had much ofa chance to see Secaucus take this opportunity. (Classic Film Theatre Punch & Judy, Jan. 15.)

ROLLOVER. (xZZW) Whatever happened to baby Jane Fonda? Some cynics on the right might say she has grown out of her infantile pacifism and fashionable left liberalism and. reached the muddled maturity of worldview which sees American capitalism as the salvation- of world threatened by heathen sheiks. Rolfover is stupid, shallow, sensationalist movie which represents an abrupt about-face for Fonda, who plays the smug, ambitious chairman (not chairperson) of an American petrochemical corporation. Miscast Kris Krist-offerson, looking completely burned out on something, walks through role as highfinance troubleshooter, cowboy who be-,. comes Jane podner in business and very cold, detached romance. Jane gets to wear fancy clothes and pose on stairways as Rollover lamely attempts to make money marketing interesting entertainment. isn t. And neither is the film's blatant pandering to the worst kinds of prejudices against Arabs, who are painted as the world s bad guys while American banks and corporations are the good guys. Rollover betrays almost every message movie Fonda has made. Fortunately, it so dull that few people are likely to see it.

SHARKEY S MACHINE. (**ZZWWW) Adolescent voyeurism and zen gun battles provide another vapid but classy-looking glimpse into the soul of Burt Reynolds, the ultimate Good Guy who loves little kids but nails bad men who control beautiful women. Burt's thin persona this time around is Sgt. Sharkey, big-shot

GALLERY RENAISSANCE: 400 Ren Cen, 259-2577. Thru Jan. 1, resin wall pieces by Mary Sobiechowski.

GRAFISKAS: 218 Merrill St., Birmingham, 647-5722. Fine Art posters. HABATAT: 28235 Southfield, Lathrup Village, 552-0515. Thru Jan. 10, blown glass sculptural pieces by Michael Glancy.

ILONA AND GALLERY: 14 Mile Rd. and Orchard Lake Rd. 855-4488. Fantasia Dreams, mixed-media crafts for gift siving.

JAZZONIA GALLERY: 1435 Randolph, 964-3110. Thru Jan. 16, cloth and clay exhibit.

KLEIN GALLERY: 4250 N. Woodward, Royal Oak, 647-7709. Thru Dec., Landscapes Ancient and Mysterious, by A. G. Smith...

LAWRENCE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: School of Architecture Gallery, 21000 W. 10 Mile Rd., Southfield. Thru Jan. 8, faculty art exhibit.

PARK WEST GALLERY: 29469 Northwestern Hwy., Southfield, 354-2343. Thru Jan. 15, Sculpture Now, exhibition of contemporaty American sculpture.

G.M.B. GALLERIE INTERNATIONALE: 344 Hamilton Row, Birmingham, 6426647. Thru Dec., graphics, paintings and sculpture by gallery artists.

PEWABIC POTTERY: 10125 E. Jefferson, 822-0954. Thru Jan. 10, Christmas sale featuring 50 Michigan potters. PITTMAN GALLERY: 300 Ren Cen, 259-2235. Thru Dec., group show of gallery regulars. POSTER GALLERY: 304 Fisher Bidg, 875-5211. Fine Art posters. ROBERT L. KIDD ASSOCIATES: 107 Townsend, Birmingham, 642-3909. Thru Jan. 9, assemblages by Glenn Michaels and vessel forms by Susanne Stephenson. RUBINER GALLERY: 621 S. Washington, Royal Oak, 544-2828. Thru Jan. 7, The Monet Series, mono-prints, oils and paintings by Robert Burkert. SCHWEYER GALDO GALLERIES:

undercover dope cop demoted to the vice squad by police superiors who are part of scheme to elect corrupt governor. Burt spends much of the movie peering through binoculars at the candidate favorite hooker, and the rest of the time wisecracking with his off-the-wall buddies. Director Burt seems ready to make an art movie and, surprisingly, there are several beautifully constructed scenes here but he is held back by actor Burt who can't refrain from silly grins and stupid lines. Reynolds is talent very obviously afraid to take himself seriously.

SWEPT AWAY. (*ZZWWW) Lina Wertmuller's addle-brained sexual politics reach their nadir in this story of the brutal romance between snooty bourgeois woman (Mariangela Melato) and swarthy pig of sailor (Giancarlo Giannini). In the disguise of revolutionary allegory, Wertmuller propounds the awful thesis that women enjoyed being treated with contempt. (Palmer Park Film Forum, Jan. 7, 8.) TAPS. («**WW)As in the British movie If. ..,a high school becomes microcosm for violent world in this unlikely anti-war drama about cadets spirited armed defense of military academy threatened with closure. Timothy Hutton, who deserves another Oscar nomination for his work here, plays the confused, idealistic cadet major who takes to heart the gungho philosophy of George C. Scott, the school's commandant who revels in the valor and glory of old-fashioned warrior codes of conduct. With armed conflict reduced to battle over the souls of teenagers, Taps puts the issue of war into profound clarity, documenting with precise detail the escalating steps that lead to violence. What is most frightening about Taps is the plausibility ofwhat at first seems an improbable

occurrence: what

GALLERY: 550 N. Woodward, Birmingham, 647-5470. Thru Jan. 1, New Works in Clay Ill, group exhibit of ceramic work produced at the Syracuse Clay Institute.

Ron Jackson.

Benefit Promises Hot Jazz on a Winter's Day

by Toby Goldberg

he Jefferson-Chalmers Citizens T District Council is a community organization deserving of some praise. These neighborhood residents should be thanked for their abundant energy and determination in this time of economic cutbacks and cultural roadblocks.

You see, they have taken on the role of concert promoters, and without as much as the budget for one big commercial concert (how much do you think the Rolling Stones limo cost?) they have presented an entire series of free outdoor concerts during. each of the last three summers!

These musical gatherings, known as the Concerts by the River series, developed from what in 1977 was just a pipe dream (or more accurately a number of grant proposals waiting to be read). Ron Alpern, producer of the series and.a former board member of the District Council, remembers wanting very much to present the talent oflocal musicians in a way which encouraged community participation and recognized the unique and nationally prominent musical institutions found in Detroit.

Luckily, he wasn't the only one, Financial support came from such diverse sources as the Michigan Council for the Arts, the Detroit Federation of Musicians, and many private businesses. An enthusiastic force of volunteers - organized and executed the first concert series in 1979, and you could say that it has since become an institution in the far-eastside neighborhood.

According to saxophonist Erie Rodgers (of the Jimmy Wilkins Orchestra and the New McKinney Cotton Pickers), The community turnout has been phenomenal. There is a tremendous amount of talent (in the series) which far exceeds any other park program. . It has credibility.

For a free concert series, the talent presented is more like incredible! Bands like the Detroit Blues Revue, Griot Galaxy, Marcus Belgrave and the New Detroit Jazz Ensemble, and the ever-soimportant church gospel choirs, student jazz ensembles and~- neighborhood bands play on select weekend afternoons, nooding the banks of the Detroit River with the sights, sounds and smells of life: music, dance, barbecue the sharing of culture.

Now you are probably wondering why I m conjuring up visions of hot jazz ona hot afternoon when Jack Frost is nipping at your nose. Never mind the weather folks. Concerts by the River is changing locale and season to present a special benefit concert: The Detroit Jazz Legacy:

Tap Dancer Lloyd Storey.

Music and Dance 1920-1990. Thisis an opportunity to share an extraordinary musical experience and at the same time help insure the future of the Concerts by the River series.

This is a one-time-only offer. Thirtythree of Detroit's most well-respected performers will take their places on the stage of the historic Vanity Ballroom and bring to life, through their own and fellow Detroiters compositions, 60--plus years ofjazz history.

Do not underestimate the contributions Detroit artists have made in shaping the music of this century. Take for example the McKinney Cotton Pick ers. The original Cotton Pickers were instrumental in bringing in the Jazz Age of the 1920s.- The band featured composer/arranger Don Redman and had a reputation on par with the bands of Fletcher Henderson and Duke Ellington.

Vocalist Dave Wilborn, the last of the original Cotton Pickers, will be on hand at the benefit concert as a featured performer, backed by the Motor City Masters Quintet. This quintet, which will

provide backup for all the featured performers of the day, includes Marcus Belgrave on trumpet, Charles Boles on piano, Roy Brooks on drums and percussion, Don Mayberry on bass and Emie Rodgers on saxophones.

The program will be divided into four segments. Tap dancers and leading members of the Clifford Fears Dance Company will be performing throughout to remind us that dance has played an integral role in the development of music through time.

Part One: The Roots Music of the Twenties and Thirties will feature Dave Wilborn and Howard Armstrong, master of the old time swing fiddle and mandolin.

Part Two: From Swing to Bop will showcase saxophonist LaMonte Hamilton and vocalist Pancho Hagood, harpist Kafi Nassomo and saxophonist and composer Miller Brisker.

Part Three: The Blues Connection -will feature pianist Harold McKinney, Suitarist Eddie Burns and vocalist Alberta Adams, Motown pianist and composer

Earl Van Dyke and Pianist Miche Braden. Part Four: The Music of Tomorrow Today will have Contemporary Jazz Quintet alumni Kenn Cox on piano, Ron

English on guitar and Danny Spencer on_ drums; organist Lyman Woodard and saxophonist Norma Jean Bell; and last but certainly up front will be Farug Z. Bey on saxophones, Tani Tabbal on drums and Jaribu Shahid on bass.

Those familiar with the Concerts by the River series will remember the debut of Bird-Train- Sco-Now! in the 1979 summer series. As an added attraction to this year's benefit, two of the members of this masterful group of young musicians will join in the finale.

Saxophonist Cassius Richmond and clarinetist Serena Morris will unite with the entire ensemble of musicians in a_ finale certain to. make new musical history.

The Detroit Jazz Legacy: Music and_ Dance 1920-1990" will be presented Sunday, Jan. 17, 1982, at the VanityBallroom on Detroit's east side. For more

David Byrne

The Catherine Wheel Sire

Rarely have we been able to enjoy, in such glorious detail, the kind of incredibly accelerated development of artistic growth that has characterized David Byrne. Within four short years we've seen Byrne, as leader of Talking Heads and as Brian Eno s most dynamic collaborator, ascend from being a sort of gripping curiosity to a level of aesthetic/ musical leadership, an innovator with few footnotes.

Talking Heads '77 has Byrne as a gifted goon with a knack for catchy, warped little tunes. More Songs About Buildings and Food (enter Eno) shows Byrne embracing a singular ageression, his sensibilities in all areas reaching and coming up with substance. Fear of Music ditto, but even more significantly: the funk arrives, no art-school tomming but a legitimate absorbtion of Black street rhythms into an ever-broader personal vision. Remain In Light takes it uptown, a thousand popping and scratching strings, percussion the focus, Byrne and bandmates dancing the edge in Funkadelic s face. My Life in the Bush of Ghosts, Byrne's LP with Eno, worked without T. Heads thick cushion, instead relying on an astonishing array of sonic specifics, ideas transmuted to spirit and rhythm through Bryne s vision.

The physical significance of those specifics is what probably attracted premier choreographer Twyla Tharp to Byrne. Tharp s penchant for powerfully unconventional movement

Twyla Tharp and David Byrne. seems an ideal mate to Byrne's universal beat. haven't seen Catherine Wheel danced, and its story (the doings of a sick American family) is a bit fuzzily documented on the LP, but, as another installment in the Book of Byrne, Cathetine Wheel works magnificently. It s the most auspicious showcasing of Byrne's talents as composer, arranger and performer to date. The songs follow Byrne's now-characteristic modus operandi: take a fairly conventional funk bottom and get convolutedly, complexly twisted on top. This schematic works best on the instrumentals ( Red House, Two Soldiers ), as Byrne moves farther from his voice as focus point, while com-

manding attention through pointed, often boldly staccato ensemble statements. Byrne s singing, however, is more news, as his flirting with warped personality exposition through an assumed vocal manner is now truly unsettling. Byrne is surprisingly emotional, his distance gone. On His Wife Refused and Big Blue Plymouth; he compels with honest pathos, the R & B in his blood beyond the lab and onto the floor. His electronic vocal treatments (especially on the frightening My Big Hands ), even more lucidly make the point. Byrne s guitar playing, usually a backsground-shaping element in T. Heads, has now taken on more force; as his

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This has everything to do with Byrne s working for the past couple of years with the astonishing Adrian Belew, today's reigning bad-ass of guitar, whose severity as a noisemaker, embellisher, dervish and outright lunatic make him Bryne s perfect shotgun. Dance responsibility is given to the vastly underrated Yogi Horton on drums, a powerhouse player whose advanced and unique funk feel*is essential to Cathetine Wheel s success. Eno is aboard but in a decidedly auxiliary role, offering us tentative proof as to how much substance Byrne has provided within their team work.

Soon, we're to be offered new live and studio records from. Talking Heads, indeed ajoyous prospect. But let's hope that David Byrne continues to aggressively pursue outside projects, as the danger of his current work has already given him an Ellingtonian presence among his contemporaries. Christ, this former goon could, with time, become another deg. Who knows?

Bill Rowe

Terje Rypdal To Be Continued ECM Records

Somehow, when I looked at contents of the package, my mouth started to water. Alas, the promise of the ingredients went unfulfilled. Here s what I mean.

This is a rhythm section that could have backed Miles Davis at one time. Jack DeJohnette

played drums with Miles on the historic Bitches Brew sessions, Miroslav Vitous, bassist, joined the ex-Davis alumni, Shorter and Zawinul, in the first incarnation of Weather Report, and Terje Rypdal is the Scandanavian guitarist who at one time was suggested-to Miles as a replacement for John McLaughlin when that worthy left the shelter of Davis group. Why then is this album boring? Perhaps boring is the wrong word and my attitude can be better summed up by the phase, So what. I've heard better material from each of these musicians in different contexts.

Rypdal is possessed ofa nonfrantic, sustained note spinning style of playing which features a wonderfully broad tone. was first introduced to his music back in 1974 with an album called What Comes After, and became an instant fan. After a few more years and a couple more albums, I ve become less enamored, mainly because I Raven t heard much develop? ment in his songwritng abilities. There s still Nordic calm, and in the title tune, written by DeJohnette, there s even a trace of that icy fire Rypdal used to bring forth more frequently in times past.

On the whole, though, the playing from DeJohnette is close to fine, Vitous base playing is solid and at times inventive, while the material that they play with Rypdal is pretty uninspired. Making the best of a mediocre situation, all can say is, ifthisis To Be Continued, thenI await the next installment with few expectations but much hope. If the writing is there, then the ability of these folks to play it certainly should be.

Garaud MacTaggart

Hill Street

Continued from Cover of our mass culture because it is too painful and tells too much about what kind of society we live in. It is not, of course, that most poor people commit crimes, because they do not; they are, in fact, disproportionately the victims of crime. But poverty breeds:a subculture of street hustlers, prostitGtes, pimps, petty thieves, burglars .. it feeds the numbers, drugs and shakedowns that form the enormous financial base of organized crime.

Crime is where America s secret is no secret. Its class structure is revealed for all to see, the place where the rug doesn t cover up what s swept under it.

And cops, being among the chief sweepers, know exactly what s piling up under there. They know the miseries and pain; they are on intimate acquaintance with the brutality of life of the cities , poor.

The police are in fact perhaps the chief brutalizers of many of the poor. The cop who gives in to the temptations of petty power can let arrogance, prejudice and machismo blot out the pain with which he is surrounded and add to it immensely. Those who refuse that temptation and doa job quietly are among our hidden heroes. It is difficult, precisely because as agents of power among the powerless, they are expected to be bastards. The problem of the police is ultimately a political problem, a problem of power.

But all this has largely been suppressed in the myths of our culture industry at Yeast until the much-acclaimed NBC series about a New York City precinct, Hill Street Blues. Intelligent and intriguing by any standards, the show seems like a diamond surrounded by rhinestones measured against the vapid inanities of most prime-time TV, it is simply stunning.

The show s style is chiefly a product of American film realism over the last decade the realism of The French Connection, or even The Godfather. Just as those films, despite their fantasy elements, tried to reproduce the look and feel of, say, a police garage or Italian-American culture

in ways Hollywood usually glossed over; so in its television way, Hill Street tries to capture the authentic urban drabness familiar to Detroiters with on-site filming and stories that take us into the worlds of prostitutes, street bums, junkies, gangs, crazy cops all, by the way, at a breakneck pace with rapid juxtapositions of images and plots, comedy and tragedy, like nothing before on TV.

As with films, the- realism isn t literal. We see a hyped-up and stylized slice of life, not the real thing. But we see aspects of reality that had been suppressed previously; above all on TV. Most important, we see that the cops are capable of evil as well as good, and we see how their lives and social positions help them to beso. For example, these cops lie all the time. They lie to a crazy old man who was taking pot shots at neighborhood kids by telling him he'll probably be sent to a low-security prison when they know he won't. They lie to cover up their partners brutality or mistakes. Some of them are shown to be openly racist and sexist. And all this constitutes an important advance for television cop shows.

At the same time, Hill Street Blues is a good index of the very real limits of network television. Imagine if you will a script for a Hill Street clone, this time set in the trendy Sun Belt city of Houston, Texas. Scene One: Two cops work over a handcuffed Chicano youth, beating him mercilessly and then push him into Buffalo Bayou. Scene Two: Back at the main station, a few of the boys talk about the week s Klan meeting and wink at the justfiled story of a prisoner drowned while resisting arrest. Scene Three: Indignant community people protest. Scene, Four: Results of in-house investigation exonerate cops. End of show.

A bit melodramatic, perhaps, but accurate in every detail. But that one isn t going to be aired on NBC just now. Anyway, it would probably be depressing and get low ratings.

Rene Enriquez plays Lt. Ray Calletano.

But how many times can they play the scene where, after an impassioned argument about a client s rights or an officer s brutality, the two melt into each other s arms murmuring, My place or yours?

There seems to be a magnetic force operating on television series, the effects of which are already evident on Hill Street, which causes all groups of characters to turn slowly into One Big Happy Family. There has to be a big, warm Dad, who loves all the children but has to get tough every now and then. Sometimes he s split into two characters in orthodox Freudian fashion, but he seems to have to always be there. Mom seems to be expendable these days. But then the cute, lovable kids are omnipresent, squabbling with each other like Rossie and Billie on Lou Grant or Radar and_Klinger on M.A.S.H. This gives Dad something to do and is called Sibling Rivalry.

Occasionally an Oedipal revolt happens, but that tends to break up the Big Happy Family and is frowned on. It is Grady s Law of Television Series that all shows, given enough time, tend to become Big Happy Families. Consider what happened to M.A.S.H. In the movie, and_in the first TV episodes, the commanding officer was a sonofabitch universally despised. War was hell, and the people in it were not particularly nice.

But the magnet keeps up its steady pull.

Out went the s.o.b. In came lovable, warm, fatherly Harry Morgan, calling everybody son. Hotlips Houlihan mellowed into one of the kids, even becoming something of a feminist. The family was in place. Something like that is already in evidence on Hill Street. To be sure, the writers had their fun with the network formula by providing both the show's father figures with very un-IV-like sex lives. The precinct sergeant (father figure one) looks like a retired lineman from the Steelers but talks Seventies psychobabble about reaching his full erotic potential in lightly ironic, often hilarious scenes. The captain (father figure two) is involved in a spicily aggression-tinged affair with the idealistic, feminist public defender. But how many times can they play the scene where, after an impassioned argument about a client s rights or an officer s brutality, the two melt into each other s arms murmuring, My place or yours?

Sooner or later, the deep social fissure symbolized by these two characters will be brought as well into the Family, and network television will have done it again. Try. to catch Hill Street before the process is complete. a

Veronica Hamel and Dan Travanti.

CLASSIC

FILM THEATRE at the ; ~PUNCH & JUDY

Metropolitan Detroit's full-time repertory film house, the Classic Film Theater at the Punch & Judy is a community-oriented organization dedicated to presenting the finest in foreign and classic American films. The prices are $2.50 for adults, $1.50 for children under the age of 12, $3.00 for double features and special premieres.

WED, DEG; 23 79:19

REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE

(Nicholas Ray, 1955)

CLOSED DEC, 24

MIDNIGHT SHOWS

FRI. & SAT., DEC. 25, 26

ERASERHEAD (David Lynch, 1977)

FRI DEC; 25 7, 9:30 ROMEO AND JULIET (Franco Zeffirelli, 1968)

SAT., DEC. 26 7, 8:40, 10:20

HEAVY METAL (Steve Rash, 1981)

SUN, DEC. 27 3)5,.7; 9 THE MUPPET MOVIE (James Frawley, 1979)

MON., DEC. 25 7, 9

PHILADELPHIA STORY (George Cukor, 1940)

UES, DEC. 29-7) Fala: THE GREAT SANTINI (Lewis John Carlino, 1980)

WED., DEC. 30 7, 9 DAYS OF HEAVEN (Terrence Malick, 1978)

CLOSED DEC. 34

FRI. & SAT., JAN. & 2 7, 9, 12

D.O.A. (Lech Kowalski, 1981)

SUN., JAN. 3 3, 5, 7, 8:30 PUBLIC ENEMY (William Wellman, 1931)

MON. & TUES., JAN. 4 & 5 7, 9

THE EMPIRE OF PASSION (Nagisa Oshima, 1978)

Sundays are generally reserved for families, featuring a variety of children s films alternating with the works of one or Our greatest screen actors, James Cagney. On Wednesdays and Thursdays, CFT is proud to present an extensive festival of films from Australia.

Discount Coupon books are now available 5 tickets for $10.00 and are good for all CFT shows including premieres and double features.

MIDNIGHT SHOWS

FRI. & SAT, JAN. 8 & 9

D.O.A. (Lech Kowalski, 1981)

SAT., JAN. 9-7, 9

GET OUT YOUR HANDKERCHIEFS

(Bertrand Blier, 1978)

SUN., JAN. 10 3, 5, 7, 8:45

WATERSHIP DOWN (Martin Rosen, 1978)

MON. & TUES., JAN. 11 & 12

TOAD

LAST TANGO IN PARIS (Bernardo Bertolucci, 1972)

WED. & THURS. JAN. 13 & 14 7, 9 THE CHANT OF JIMMIE BLACKSMITH (Fred Schepisi, 1978)

MIDNIGHT SHOWS

FRI. & SAT., JAN. 15 & 16

D.O.A. (Lech Kowalski, 1981)

ERIE JAN 19-7, 9 RETURN OF THE SECAUCUS 7 (John Sayles, 1980)

SAT., JAN. 16> 7,.9:19

TOMMY (Ken Russell, 1975)

SUN., JAN. 17 3, 5, 7,9

FOOTLIGHT PARADE (Lloyd Bacon, 1933)

MON. & TUES., JAN. 18 & 19 7 only BELLISSIMIA (Luchino Visconti, 1951) 9 only THE LADY WITHOUT CAMELIAS (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1953)

WED. thru FRI., JAN 6 thru 8 | WED. & THURS., JAN. 20 & 21 7, 8:30, 10 | 7, 9:15

THE PLUMBER (Peter Weir, 1979) | NEWSFRONT (Phillip Noyce, 1978)

CLASSIC FILM THEATRE

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/ DEC. 24, 1981-JAN. 21, 1982

Robert Burkert: With Monet on Memory Lane

Robert Burkert Rubiner Gallery

621 S. Washington Royal Oak

by Dan Acosta

laude Monet first painted at ( Giverny in 1883. He later bought a house there and, for the last 40 years of his life, the master impressionist painted the flower gardens and water lily ponds surrounding his country home near the Seine northwest of Paris.

Now Robert Burkert, chairman of the graphics department at the University of Wisconsin, takes us on a nostalgic trip down the garden path in his latest exhibit called the Monet Series.

Monoprints are the major signpost of Burkert's memory Jane. A monoprint is the paradox that the word suggests a print which can be pulled from a plate only once. Its a marriage of printing and painting: paint .is applied directly to a glass or metal plate, then the image is transferred to the paper by burnishing or pressing. Burkert uses up to five plates and pressings to create a single work of art.

All of Burkert s prints are lush with color. They're gorgeous, whether he uses a subdued palette of grays or an intense palette of reds and oranges. Some can outglow a snifter of brandy after a chilly evening of tobogganing.

The man is clearly enraptured with color. In fact, he s sometimes overindulgent. Many of the prints have a spectrum of colors at the bottom. These adjacent swatches of color look like a student's exercise in color theory and add nothing to the art aside from more decoration an embellishment these prints certainly don't need.

Just as the bearded master would have them, the Monet Series is full of color and light. A Japanese bridge or a garden of hanging flowers will be aglow with brilliant hues, but where Monet was breaking new artistic ground by capturing the fugitive aspects of natural light,Burkert never manages to shed any new

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light in his art. The series is ingratiatingly pretty but rarely goes beyond that. The few oils and watercolors of Monet are also like this very handsome, but more academically right than lively.

Burkert is more successful with his landscapes andportraits that aren't part of the Monet Series. In monoprints like Arched Sky or Ancestor, we see a less restrained application of paint, the strokes are freer and with more feeling. And even more importantly, there is a more harmonious use of the monotype medium. The paint is smeared to liven theimagery. At some points the plate is wiped clear so that the absence of color becomes white spaces, or even better, broad, gestural lines.

Robert Burkert s colorful art will continue through January 7. |

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The Reveng e of Coalhouse Walker, Jr

by Michael Betzold

VY ou can't make a silk purse out ofa

sow s ear, but Milos Forman has come close with his film version of Ragtime, the overrated E. L. Doctorow novel merging real and fictitious characters in a highly allegorical series of vignettes about American life in the decade just prior to the First World War.

Forman s film is every bit as fluid and engrossing as Doctorow s novel was stiff and detached. Ragtime the movie still

suffers from the incoherencies of Ragtime the book, but with the help of a scriptwriter, Michael Weller, who was not aftaid to make wholesale changes.in practically every key scene, the Czech director Forman has again. demonstrated his ability to find the pulse of American life, as he did so successfully in Hair and One Flew Over the Cuckoo s Nest. - Ragtime greatly benefits from some of Forman s collaborators. Cuckoo's Nest actor Brad Dourif (who played Billy

Bibbit in the film version of the Kesey novel) appears here as the volatile Younger Brother who, depressed by his unrequited love for socialite Evelyn Nesbit (Elizabeth McGovern), turns his knowledge of fireworks manufacturing to more radical ends. Dourif is dour and terrific. (So is McGovern, who debuted in Ordinary People). Choreographer Twyla Tharp, who worked with Forman on Hair, comes along for the ride on Ragtime but has little to do. Cinematographer Miroslav Ondricek once again gives Forman s scenes a painterly quality. The rest of the casting is every bit as eccentric as the story line. Mary Steenburgen gives a perfectly restrained but marvelous performance as Mother. James Olson, as the upstanding Father buffeted from all sides by the forces of change,. is appropriately confused. Howard E. Rollins, as the jazz pianist turned revolutionary Coalhouse Walker, Jr., is dignified and seering. Oldtimers Pat O'Brien and Donald O'Connor have bit parts, as does novelist Norman Mailer. Typically for Forman, Ragtime is an actor's movie, and the biggest news ofall

is James Cagney's return to the screen after a 20-year absence to play Police Commissioner Rheinlander Waldo, a part inflated from a mere mention in the book to a prominent position in the movie. Cagney is astonishing if only because he appears at all. Luckily he has little action to perform. When he must bend over to pick up a phone, the movie slows to a crawl while the octogenarian's muscles almost audibly creak.

Missing from the film, sadly, are most of the real-life characters that gave the book much of its interest. Emma Goldman, J. P. Morgan, Henry Ford, Admiral Perry and Sigmund Freud do not appear at all, and Harry Houdini 's part is trimmed. to a few snippets. Forman has wisely decided to fictionalize Ragtime almost completely, in the process turning it from a raggedy collection of barely connected impressions into an almost coherent film. Still, there are alot ofloose ends, and the plot proceeds lurchingly, its gaps concealed only by Forman s deft creations of mood.

Astory called Ragtime should sizzle with the spunky fever of a period of history that was a remarkable juncture between tradition and modernity. But Doctorow, whom. some critics charge merely sanitized the notions of Ishmael Reed s Mumbo Jumbo, wrote in a flat, lifeless manner. Fortunately, Forman has nothing if not vigor, but Ragtime remains more of a puzzle than a satisfying evocation of an era.

Like Fame, Reds, Health and similar titles, part of the problem lies in the scope of the ambitions of Ragtime. Making a film about.an entire period of history, or an entire concept or group of people, Forman has tried his best to corral the good but failed intentions of Doctorow into a manageable story. There s still too many characters floating around doing unexplained things, making chance connections. Technical quality, including fine acting, helps to flesh out these figures, but no one will mistake Ragtime the movie for Ragtime the era. The latter was presumably much richer. @

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Left: Elizabeth McGovern as Evelyn Nesbit. Center: Howard E. Rollins as Coalhouse Walker. Above: James Cagney as New York police commissioner Rheinlander Waldo.

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COMMUNITY SERVICES

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NEED ADVICE on financing or otherwise starting your small business through these times? The State Commerce Department has a hotline for (perhaps even) help. 1-800-292-9544, 8-5, M-F.

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PROJECT START has begun GED: (high school equivalency) classes. All interested probationers and parolees lacking a high school diploma are encouraged to obtain a GED certificate to improve their employability. For info, call Project Start at 965-3517.

need to kick the habit at the American Lung Association s third annual Great New Year's Cigarette Send Off. The popular smoking-withdrawal clinic will be held Sun., Jan. 17, 1982, from 1pm to 4 pm, atthe Community Arts Auditorium

at Wayne State University. For more info, Call 963-3029.

VISION ANALYSIS, THERAPY, REHABILITAtion Referals, Community Services. Ability to pay. The Optometric Institute, 832-2088.

EMPLOYMENT

BAR HELP WANTED: Bartenders, waitresses _and door people for downtown nightClub with contemporary entertainment opening soon. Experience heipful but not necessary. Applicants call Madison Theatre Office, 961-0687.

FOR SALE

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EXTRA TICKET TO NEW YORK for New Year's (round trip). Departure 12/29/81. Info, 331-3965.

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SOLIDARITY BUTTONS Available at Changes, 17300 Woodward, Detroit 48203, 869-3137. $1 each, 60¢ for 10 or more.

WHITE ON BLACK T-SHIRTS FOR SALE! When Jourmalists do it, it makes the front page. «J-M Enterprises. Send $8 plus $1.25 shipping and handling to J-M Enterprises, PO Box 1241, Detroit, MI 48231. Specify size. Allow three weeks for delivery.

HOUSING/REAL ESTATE

CANADIAN SURVIVAL PROPERTIES. Security, stability, peace and quiet. Lots, farms, away from population centres, with or without buildings. Some heavy woods, arable land, some sireams. Invest now and prepare for the future. Your U.S. $ buys more in Canada. Call 1-519-2274339 or write A. D. Murray, RR 2, Lucan, Ontario, Canada, NOM 2J0. (Representing Sharen Reaity Limited.) GRAND CIRCUS PARK Downtown, Park Ave. Club, 2110 Park Ave. Studios and bedrm. apartments starting at $130. All utilities included, swimming pool all year round. 961-0687.

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LEARNING

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MANY OF DETROIT'S MOST CREATIVE artists can be found in the pages of Solid Ground: A New World Journal. We feature essays, reviews, poetry, philosophy and interviews. A Quarterly of the Arts, Politics and Culture. Get your copy of the Fall, 1981 issue today. Published by Go-ForWhat-You-Know, Inc., 4929 Scotten, Detroit 48210. 898-0367.

MUSIC

BASSIST AND DRUMMER forming original Modem Music Combo. Open fo all instruments. Mike, 873-0841, btw. 6-7 pm. GUITARIST NEEDED for New Wave/Pop Band. Male or female. Pro s need not respond. Call Vince at 772-6059.

ORIGINAL GUITARIST & BASSIST needed for a working, progressive, new wave funk band. Call D. Keys, 283-0242.

W.O.R.B. 90 FM wants local band music, vinyl/tape; possible air time. Call Greg: 476-9400, Ext. 505.

NOTICES

CANT REMEMBER THE NAME of that old movie, actor or plot? Cass City Cinema, 832-6309.

HANDGUN CONTROL Af various times our members have indicated a concern about the use of handguns in oursociety. An organization has been formed called OUCH Organization United to Control Handguns. For more information, contact OUCH, 7808 Senator, Detroit, MI 48209.

LISTEN TO WOMEN: Tuesdays, pm, WDETFM (101.9), All Together Now. Detroit Women s Radio Workshop meets monthly to plan shows collectively. New members welcome. Call 837-2469 for more info, or leave message at 577-4146. TWO YOUNG INDEPENDENT MISSIONARIES need support to reach Orient with God's love. Call Keith, 831-2639.

Would you have an abortion? I asked. I can t have a baby now, I can t even have houseplants.

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You know what hate more than-Christmas songs? Christmas specials! It was bad enough just with Bob Hope, but now its Dolly Parton s Special, Christmas with Donnie & Marie, Christmas with Gerald Ford with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, Christmas with Three s Company, its really sick. It's enough to make you want to buy a video game or something, you know, mean its terrible! Next it will be Christmas with the Jerk on the Remington Shavers ads telling you he likes Christmas so much, he bought the Holiday!

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Why did Teddy Kennedy cross the road? To get to the middle.

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VOLUNTEERS

DETROIT COUNCIL FOR WORLD AFFAIRS needs aids for office help and talking to interested students. Persons 18-70 can choose half-day commitments any weekday. Call Marjorie Katz, 577-3453, 94, M-F.

THRESHOLD. in. Hazel Park needs receptionists for the phones, the typewriter and for compiling data on clients. Call Joan Klepsch, 543-4680,-9-5, M-F..

HELP AN EX-OFFENDER get STARTed back in the community. Call Project START at 965-3517.

NORTHWEST GARE CENTER in Detroit needs patient adults willing to help create and maintain a recreation program for the elderly. Three-month commitment, moming or afternoon. Call Iris Morgoes, 273-8764; 9-4.

WOMEN IN COMMUNITY SERVICE, Detroit, seeks para-counselors to help disadvantaged young women, aged 16-21. Flexible weekday commitments between 9-

3, after training. Call Alice King, 962-8933, 10-3, M-F.

WORLD MEDICAL RELIEF in Detroit needs those with basic carpentry experience to crate medical supplies and equipment for missionaries. Call Mrs. Kohn at 8665333, 8-4, M-F.

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ENERGETIC PERSON WANTED to help spread the alternative voice (DMT) across the metro area. Knowledge of the triccounty: area, van or station wagon, and a valid driver's license a must. Call Michael Vaughn, 961-4060. NEED CASSETTE OR REEL RECORDING of King Crimson-Nitro 11/9/81. evenings, 729-2475.

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With. the wintry months upon us, wouldn't it be great to live downtown where so much is within walking distance. Just no more timeconsuming traffic to contend with.

Call Dan, or call (313) 961-9458.

15510 LIVERNOIS DETROIT, MICHIGAN 48238 341-0953

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Yes, a residence at Trolley Plaza is much more than an apartment in the usual sense. These & 2 bedroom units feature many delightfully unexpected luxuries. Balconies with panoramic views. Over-sized master bedroom suites. Worksaving kitchens and extraordinary closet space. Now's the time to get out of the traffic and into Trolley Plaza where you can experience the advantages of high rise living in downtown Detroit.

Special Grand Opening Suites from $375 -

$1000. 2

Spend your New Year's Eve van at CAFE FIOR ee All drinks and food are 2 for 1 all night. Enjoy the precision rockof PRODIGY

Couples Singles $4500 S10.00 Includes Party Favors FREE BOTTLE OF CHAMPAGNE if tickets are purchased in advance.