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Tom Russell: The Ark.
"In Bruges": Michigan Theater Foundation.
"City of Men": Michigan Theater Foundation.
 Monday
March, 2008
 9 a.m.
"Monday Chelsea Winter Ride":
Ann Arbor Bicycle Touring Society. Every Monday. Slow/moderate-paced ride, 34-45 or 55-65 miles, to either the Munith or Stockbridge area.
meet at Aberdeen Bike & Fitness, 1175 S. Main, Chelsea. Free. (517) 285-6830.
10 a.m.-noon.
Monday Club:
Ann Arbor Salvation Army. Every Monday. Drop-in social group for seniors age 55 & older. Every meeting includes a speaker, word game, craft, or activity. Also, Bible study and chair exercises. Coffee, tea, juice, and doughnuts served. Followed by lunch ($1) and socializing.
Salvation Army, 100 Arbana. Free. 668-8353.
11:30 a.m.-1 p.m.
"Cancer Prevention and Survival Cooking Course":
Whole Foods Market. March 3 & 10. Jan Kemp, a local representative of the D.C.-based nonprofit the Cancer Project, shows how to prepare foods thought to help prevent cancer. Today: "Immune-Boosting Foods." Also this month: "Maintaining a Healthy Weight" (March 10).
Whole Foods Cooking & Lifestyles Classroom, 3135 Washtenaw. Free. Reservations requested. 975-4500.
Noon-1 p.m.
"Yoga at the Gardens":
U-M Matthaei Botanical Gardens . Every Monday. Local yoga instructor Janine Bennett leads a session of Vinyasa-style hatha yoga sun salutations and postures to recorded music. Bring a mat and towel.
Matthaei, 1800 N. Dixboro Rd. $10. 998-9540.
"In Bruges":
Michigan Theater Foundation. (Martin McDonagh, 2008). February 29-March 6. Comedy about 2 Irish hitmen who hide out in Belgium after a contract killing goes bad, where one wants to hunker down and the other to sightsee.
Times TBA, Michigan Theater $8.50 (children, students, seniors, & veterans, $6.75; MTF members, $6). 668-TIME.
"City of Men":
Michigan Theater Foundation. (Fernando Meirelles, 2008). February 29-March 6. The movie version of the TV series City of God, inspired by Meirelles's epic 2002 drama set in Brazilian slums, City of God.
Times TBA, Michigan Theater $8.50 (children, students, seniors, & veterans, $6.75; MTF members, $6). 668-TIME.
"The Italian Job":
Michigan Theater Foundation British Classics Series.
"The Italian Job": Michigan Theater Foundation British Classics Series.
1-3 p.m.
Table Game Day:
Ann Arbor Senior Center. All seniors age 50 & older invited to play games like bridge, chess, tile rummy, and Skip-Bo.
Ann Arbor Senior Center, 1320 Baldwin. Free. 769-5911.
1-2:30 p.m.
Mah-Jongg:
Ann Arbor Senior Center. Every Monday. All seniors age 50 & older invited to play this popular tile game.
Ann Arbor Senior Center, 1320 Baldwin. Free. 769-5911.
1-4 p.m.
Bridge:
U-M Turner Geriatrics Center. Every Monday & Friday. All seniors invited to play bridge. Refreshments.
Turner Senior Resource Center, 2401 Plymouth Rd. Free. 998-9353.
4 p.m.
"Julian the Apostate in Modern Literature":
U-M Modern Greek Program. Lecture by Yale University Hellenic studies professor George Syrimis.
2175 Angell Hall. Free. 764-0360.
6:45-8:45 p.m.
"A Course in Miracles":
Interfaith Center for Spiritual Growth. Every Monday. All invited to join a group reading and discussion of this popular Foundation for Inner Peace metaphysical book.
Interfaith Center for Spiritual Growth, 704 Airport Blvd. Donation. 327-0270
7-8:30 p.m.
"Organic Lawn Care":
Project Grow. Talk by Michigan Groundwater Stewardship Program environmental educator Aistis Tumas.
Leslie Science Center, 1831 Traver Rd. Free; donation appreciated. 996-3169.
7 p.m.
"Camera Buff":
U-M Center for Russian & East European Studies. (Krzysztof Kieslowski, 1979). Tragicomic tale of a factory worker-turned-amateur filmmaker whose experience becomes a parable of the perils of filmmaking in the face of Party censorship in Communist Poland. Polish, subtitles.
Lorch Hall Askwith Auditorium, 611 Tappan. Free. 764-0351.
7:30-9:30 p.m.
Large Ensemble Meeting:
Ann Arbor Recorder Society. All beginning and advanced players of the recorder and other early instruments invited. Directed by local flutist Corinne Hillebrandt. Music provided; bring your own music stand.
St. Andrew's Episcopal Church, 306 N. Division. Free to visitors ($30 annual dues). 213-3172.
7:30 p.m.
Romance Readers Group:
Barnes & Noble. All invited to join a discussion of Morning Light, Catherine Anderson's new novel about the romance that develops between a psychic and a handsome rancher who helps her search for an orphaned boy lost in the wilderness. Refreshments.
Barnes & Noble, 3235 Washtenaw. Free. 973-1618.
7:30 p.m.
Dream Group.:Every Monday. All invited to join veteran local social worker Rebecca Mullen to discuss their dreams from Jungian, Buddhist, and other spiritual perspectives.
location TBA. Donation. 662-5925.
8 p.m.
Tom Russell:
The Ark. Veteran Texas singer-songwriter whose folk-based songs, usually set in a noir version of the American West, explore and celebrate the spiritual struggles of ordinary people with an often revelatory acuity and warmth. He is best known for several song cycle CDs, including The Man from God Knows Where, a widely acclaimed exploration of the experiences of his ancestors' move to America in the early 19th century that deftly incorporates Irish and Norwegian musical elements, and Hotwalker: Charles Bukowski and a Ballad for Gone America, a portrait of the outsider cultural voices of the 1960s that blends original songs, narration, and the actual voices of everyone from circus midgets to Jack Kerouac, Charles Bukowski, and Lenny Bruce. Russell's new CD, The Wounded Heart of America, is a compilation of songs - by an array of songwriters from Johnny Cash and Jerry Jeff Walker to Iris DeMent and Eliza Gilkyson - that Russell performs in his shows, along with a handful of sparkling new originals.
The Ark, 316 S. Main. Tickets $20 in advance at Borders on Liberty, Herb David Guitar Studio, the Michigan Union Ticket Office, & all other Ticketmaster outlets; and at the door. To charge by phone, call 763-TKTS.
8 p.m.
Joel Schoenhals and Jolyon Pegis:
EMU Music Department. EMU piano professor Schoenhals and Dallas Symphony cellist Pegis perform Beethoven's F Major Sonata, Faure's G Minor Sonata, and Prokofiev's C Major Sonata. Schoenhals and Pegis reprise this program on March 4 at Kerrytown Concert House (see listing).
Pease Auditorium, EMU campus, W. Cross at College Place, Ypsilanti. Free. 487-2255.
8 p.m.
Robert Spalding Newcomb:
Kerrytown Concert House. This local composer performs his compositions for amplified sitar, electric nylon string guitar, and computer from his new CD Anastasia of the Gardens. "Newcomb creates musical koans, floating gently through the air," says Current music critic Mark Ziemba.
KCH, 415 N. Fourth Ave. $10. Reservations suggested. 769-2999.
8-10 p.m.
Motor City Metro Chapter of the Barbershop Harmony Society.:Every Monday. All male singers invited to join the weekly rehearsals of this local barbershop harmony chorus.
Oz's Music Environment, 1920 Packard. Free to visitors ($130 annual dues for those who join). 474-1155.
8:30-11:30 p.m.
Pub Quiz:
Conor O'Neill's Irish Pub. Every Monday. Local high school English teacher Geoff Cost throws out questions for anyone to answer at this popular weekly trivia fest. The March 17 quiz is an Irish Trivia Contest. Prizes.
Conor O'Neill's, 318 S. Main. $5 team fee. 665-2968.
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