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"Native Gardening Series": The Garden Faerie.
Steve Earle: Live Nation.
"Vino Veritas": Purple Rose Theatre Company.
 Wednesday
March, 2008
 10 a.m.
Children's Storytime:
Lohr Road Borders. Every Saturday & Wednesday. Borders staff read from picture books and books for babies, infants, and toddlers. Books TBA (today and March 8), Duck Soup, Night of the Veggie Monster, A Visitor for Bear, and Bear Wants More (March 12 & 15), books TBA (March 19 & 22), and Stuck in the Mud, Big Chickens Fly the Coop, A Birthday for Cow, Duckie Duck, Five Noisy Ducks, Peekaboo, and Blueberry! (March 26 & 29).
Borders, 3140 Lohr Rd. Free. 997-8884.
10-11 a.m.
"Crossing Borders: Trade, Transmission, Trafficking":
U-M Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies. Every Wednesday. Talks by U-M and visiting scholars. Today: U-M visiting scholar Hans-Lukas Kieser discusses "America and the 'Near East': Millennialist Mission and Trauma (19th-Early 20th Century)." Also this month: U-M history professor Hussein Fancy on "Mercenary Logic: Rethinking the Social History of Religious Interaction in the Middle Ages" (March 12), Georgetown University sociology professor Louise Shelley on "Trafficking in the Turkic World" (March 19), and Princeton University history lecturer Elaine Kane on "Accidental Imperialists? Muslim Pilgrims and the Extension of Russian Power Abroad" (March 26).
1636 SSWB, 1080 South University. Free. 764-0350.
11 a.m.
Wednesday Winter Ride:
Ann Arbor Bicycle Touring Society. Every Wednesday. The assembled riders choose their own pace, distance, and destination.
meet at Wheeler Park, N. Fourth Ave. at Depot St. Free. 994-5908.
11 a.m.
"The Taste of Ann Arbor No-Mile Ride":
Ann Arbor Bicycle Touring Society. March 5 & 19. Riders meet for lunch at different restaurants the 1st and 3rd Wednesdays through the winter.
location TBA. Free. 662-5052.
11 a.m.
"Storytime with Mr. James":
Arborland Borders. Every Wednesday. Borders staffer "Mr. James" reads stories and leads a craft project for toddlers. Also, raffle. Today: Karen Katz's Princess Baby and Carmela Coyle's Do Princesses Scrape Their Knees? Also this month: Jon Scieszka's Smash Crash and P. D. Eastman's Go, Dog, Go! (March 12). Alexander Steffensmeier's Millie Waits for the Mail and Lauren Thompson's Wee Little Chick (March 19), Candace Fleming's Tippy-Tippy-Tippy, Hide! and Regan Johnson's Little Bunny Kung Fu (March 26).
Borders, 3527 Washtenaw. Free. 449-9394.
11:30 a.m.
Mario Impemba:
Saline Area Chamber of Commerce. The Detroit Tigers TV play-by-play announcer discusses the Tigers' prospects for the coming season.
Kensington Court Hotel, 610 Hilton Blvd. (off S. State just past Briarwood). $30 (Chamber of Commerce members, $25). Preregistration required. 429-4494.
Noon-1 p.m.
Noon Lecture Series:
Kempf House Center for Local History. Every Wednesday. Today: "The Davis, Markert, Nickerson Lecture," a talk by U-M Academic Freedom Lecture Fund president Peggie Hollingsworth about the events during the McCarthy era that led the U-M Senate Assembly to establish this annual lecture on academic and intellectual freedom. Also this month: Kempf House operations director and former Massachusetts historic preservation officer Cara Metz discusses "History from the Ground Up: Interpreting Historic Period Archaeological Sites" (March 12), veteran Kempf House volunteer Christian Roux discusses "Improving the Quality of Life for the Walking Aid Dependent" (March 19), and Detroit Free Press reporter Patricia Chargot discusses "Reading Newspapers Is Important for Children Today" (March 26).
Kempf House, 312 S. Division. Admission $2 (Kempf House members, $1). 994-4898.
Noon-1 p.m.
Colloquium Series:
U-M Center for Korean Studies. March 5 & 26. Talks by visiting scholars. Today: Cornell University professor Michael Shin discusses "Print Capitalism and the Nationalist Movement in Korea, 1890s-Early 1920s." Also this month: Columbia University grad student Jisoo Kim on "Petition System and the Construction of Legal Culture: Gender, Class, and Law in Late Choson Korea" (March 26).
1636 SSWB, 1080 South University. Free. 764-1825.
Noon-1 p.m.
Cooking Sessions:
Kitchen Port. March 5, 9, 12, 16, 19, & 30. Cooking demos by local chefs. Today: Christine Nguyen reprises her sold-out January demonstration of delectable pad thai.
Kitchen Port, 283 Zeeb Rd. $8. Preregistration recommended. 665-9188.
Noon-1 p.m.
"Learning in a Soft Authoritarian Regime: What the Borat Episode Tells Us about (the Real) Kazakhstan":
U-M Center for Russian & East European Studies. Talk by University of Toronto political science professor Edward Schatz.
1636 SSWB, 1080 South University. Free. 764-0351.
Noon-1 p.m.
Toastmasters General.:Every Wednesday. Members give speeches and are critiqued by their audience. Note: Different Toastmasters chapters meet every Monday & Thursday (see listings).
F206 Veterans Hospital, 2215 Fuller Rd. Free to visitors. 769-7100, ext. 55678.
Visitors Night:
Ann Arbor Model Railroad Club. All invited to check out the trains whizzing around on the club's big, elaborate layout, housed in a depot restored by the club. 7:30-10 p.m., Michigan Central depot, 3487 Broad St., Dexter.
Free. 426-5100.
"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.
Scrabble:
Ann Arbor Scrabblers. Every Wednesday. All invited to join local Scrabble enthusiasts to play this popular word game. Bring a board and tiles, if you have them.
Note new location. 5-8 p.m., Arbor Brewing, 114 E. Washington. Free. 994-0084.
"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.
12:15 p.m.
Timothy Tikker:
U-M School of Music. This St. Thomas the Apostle Church music minister performs a program TBA on the Walgreen Organ, a music school practice organ recently installed in the School of Public Health.
U-M School of Public Health Community Room, 109 S. Observatory. Free. 764-0594.
1-4 p.m.
Chess:
U-M Turner Geriatrics Center. Every Wednesday. All seniors invited to play chess. Refreshments.
Turner Senior Resource Center, 2401 Plymouth Rd. Free. 998-9353.
4-5:30 p.m.
"The Generational Shift in the Philosophy and Practice of the Women's Rights Movement":
U-M Center for the Education of Women. Talk by Women of Color Resource Center activist Linda Burnham.
CEW, 330 E. Liberty. Free. 998-7080.
5-6:30 p.m.
"Energy and the Environment: The New Financial Game":
U-M Erb Institute. Talk by Global Change Associates (New York) chairman Peter Fusaro.
0750 Wyly Hall. Free. 647-9799.
5:15-6:15 p.m.
"Shulchan Ivrit (Hebrew Table)":
American Movement for Israel. Every Wednesday. Conversation group for all Hebrew speakers.
Espresso Royale, 322 S. State. Free. 769-0500.
6 & 7 p.m.
Meditation.:Every Wednesday. All meditators invited to join a 45-minute session.
4125 Jackson. Free; donations accepted. 994-1026, 663-1675.
6-7 p.m.
Soup Supper:
King of Kings Lutheran Church. March 5 & 12. All invited to enjoy a pretty good potluck of congregant-made soups, salads, and breads. "We eat well here," admits pastor Michael Ryan.
King of Kings Lutheran Church, 2685 Packard at Eisenhower. Free. 971-1417.
7-9:30 p.m.
Works-in-Progress Series:
Crazy Wisdom Bookstore & Tea Room. March 5 & 26. Featured writers read from their current work. 5 March: fiction readings by U-M creative writing grad students Steve Woodward and Delia DeCourcy. 26 March: readings by local poet Jennifer Metsker and local fiction writer Dave Karczynski, a U-M creative writing grad who reads from his novel-in-progress Kanadia, a metaphysical picaresque set in a fictional country north of the U.S.
Crazy Wisdom, 114 S. Main. Free. 665-2757.
7 p.m.
Rosemary Harris:
Aunt Agatha's. This Fairfield, Connecticut, master gardener discusses her debut novel Pushing Up Daisies, a mystery featuring a New York City media executive who moves to suburban Connecticut to start a gardening business when she's laid off. While restoring the grounds at a local landmark, she discovers the mummified body of a baby. Signing.
Aunt Agatha's, 213 S. Fourth Ave. Free. 769-1114.
7-8:30 p.m.
"Jackie Ormes: The First African American Woman Cartoonist":
Ann Arbor District Library. Local writer Nancy Goldstein discusses her book about this mid-20th-century cartoonist whose work appeared in the Chicago Defender and other African American newspapers. In conjunction with Women's History Month.
AADL multipurpose room, 343 S. Fifth Ave. at William. Free. 327-4560.
7 p.m.
"Native Gardening Series":
The Garden Faerie. Every Wednesday. Talks by local gardening experts. Today: Plant Wise LLC owner David Mindell discusses landscaping with native plants. Also this month: master gardener Aunita Erskine discusses plant choices and ethnobotany (March 12), Washtenaw County Drain Commission natural area preservation worker Harry Sheehan and Ann Arbor Natural Area Preservation representative Jason Frenzel on rain gardens (March 19), and Wildtype Native Plant Nursery representative Bill Schneider on maintenance and invasives removal (March 26).
Leslie Science Center, 1831 Traver Rd. Free. 996-3190.
7-8:30 p.m.
"Escapes from Marital Intimacy and the Long Way Back: Affairs, Overwork, and Cyberspace":
U-M Center for the Child and the Family. Rescheduled from February 25. Talk by local psychologist Peggy Buttenheim.
UCCF, 530 Church St. Free. Registration required. 764-9466.
7-11 p.m.
Ann Arbor Bridge Club.:Every Wednesday. Each 2-person team plays 2 or 3 hands against a dozen or so other pairs during the evening. Players at all levels welcome. If you plan to come without a partner, call in advance or arrive 20 minutes early to arrange for one.
Walden Hills clubhouse, 2114 Pauline at Maple. (Park on the north side of Pauline.) $3 per person. 971-7530.
7 p.m.
Huron Valley Model Builders.:All invited to join a show-and-tell discussion. Bring your models built from scratch or from kits, including cars, tanks, boats, airplanes, spacecraft, figures, and more.
Lakeview Mobile Home Park clubhouse, 9910 Geraldine (off Bunton south of Textile), Ypsilanti Twp. Free. 481-1044.
7:30 p.m.
Steve Earle:
Live Nation. (See review . ) Solo acoustic performance by this iconic alt-country singer-songwriter, an erratic, shoot-from-the-hip performer with a vocal style - at times irresistible, at times just plain irritating - that seems always barely to rescue articulate words from a whirlpool of primitive howls, grunts, cries, and groans. As a songwriter he moves with surprising ease through a wide variety of country, folk, and rock 'n' roll forms, but his songs are most distinguished by a vitalizing tension between reticence and a barbaric yawp, between country classicism and rock iconoclasm. For the past several years Earle's songwriting has also carried a sharp left-leaning political edge. Opening act is Earle's wife, Allison Moorer, an acclaimed neotraditionalist country singer-songwriter who writes searching, sharp-minded songs exploring a wide range of frequently dark and unsettling moods and emotions.
Michigan Theater. Tickets $30 in advance at the Michigan Union Ticket Office & all other Ticketmaster outlets, and at the door. To charge by phone, call (248) 645-6666.
7:30 p.m.
Children's Storytime:
Barnes & Noble. Every Wednesday & Thursday. Storytelling programs and craft activities for kids.
(Wed.) & 11 a.m. (Thurs.), Barnes & Noble, 3235 Washtenaw. Free. 973-1618.
7:30 p.m.
Shamanic Journeys:
Magical Education Council. Every Wednesday. Using special postures, participants enter a meditative state to the beat of a shaman's drum and discuss their experiences afterward.
Intercooperative Council Education Center, 1522 Hill (in the carriage house behind the co-op buildings). Free. 214-2755.
8 p.m.
"Comedy Jamm":
Ann Arbor Comedy Showcase. Every Wednesday except March 12. Performances by up to 12 aspiring area stand-up comics. Alcohol is served.
old VFW Hall (below Seva restaurant), 314 E. Liberty. $5 in advance and at the door. 996-9080.
8 p.m.
"Vino Veritas":
Purple Rose Theatre Company. Every Wednesday-Sunday through March 8. (See review . ) Guy Sanville directs the world premiere of Livonia playwright David MacGregor's edgy comedy about 2 couples spending Halloween with a bottle of ceremonial South American wine made from the skins of tree frogs. The cast includes Phil Powers, Suzi Regan, Quetta Carpenter, and Tommy Gomez.
Purple Rose Theatre, 137 Park St., Chelsea. Tickets $25 (Wed. & Thurs.), $30 (Sat. & Sun. matinees), & $35 (Fri. & Sat. eves.) in advance and at the door. 433-7673.
8 p.m.
Orion String Quartet with David Krakauer:
University Musical Society. One of the country's leading string quartets, the 21-year-old Orion has performed everywhere from Good Morning America to Lincoln Center and is known for its articulate style and warm tone. The quartet - violist Steven Tenenbom, cellist Timothy Eddy, and violinists (and brothers) Daniel and Todd Phillips - is joined tonight by Krakauer, an internationally acclaimed clarinetist-composer who's one of the foremost musicians in the new wave of klezmer, a music he says his mission is to keep "out of the museum." His soulful, infectiously energetic music draws on elements of hip-hop, funk, jazz, rock, classical, and avant-garde concert music while maintaining klezmer's vibrant core as Jewish party music. Krakauer is featured in Osvaldo Golijov's K'vakaraat for Clarinet and Strings and Pulitzer Prize-winning composer David Del Tredici's Magyar Madness, a songlike work co-commissioned by the UMS that employs the clarinet in the role of the voice. The Orion also performs Haydn's String Quartet in C Major and Beethoven's String Quartet no. 9 in C Major.
Rackham Auditorium. Tickets $20-$44 in advance at Burton Tower and (if available) at the door. To charge by phone, call 764-2538 or (800) 221-1229.
8 p.m.
Carrie Newcomer Quartet:
The Ark. Acoustic pop-folk ensemble led by Newcomer, an acclaimed singer-songwriter and dynamic performer from northern Indiana whose songs explore the nourishments of the spirit in everyday life with a gritty realism and soft-spoken charm. A stylish singer with a dark, smoky alto, she uses a honky-tonk drawl and a bluesy purr to give her songs a seasoned toughness and a seductive sensuality, despite her Quaker roots. Newcomer has a brand-new CD, The Geography of Light. Opening act is Colin O'Brien & the MadWaukee Stompers, a Wisconsin string trio, led by Newcomer's guitarist O'Brien, whose repertoire ranges from whimsical Tin Pan Alley jazz to Celtic romps and sing-alongs.
The Ark, 316 S. Main. Tickets $17.50 in advance at 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.
Colin Stetson:
Kerrytown Concert House. This Ann Arbor-born, New York-based saxophonist and clarinetist, a former member of the popular Detroit avant-jazz ensemble Larval, celebrates the release of his new live recording, New History Warfare Vol. 1 , which showcases Stetson's mastery of the circular breathing technique, enabling him play powerfully for long periods and to produce a sonorous, looping sound that's a cross between a clarinet and a bagpipe.
KCH, 415 N. Fourth Ave. Tickets $10, $15, & $25 (students, $5). Reservations suggested. 769-2999.
8-9:30 p.m.
"Introduction to Steiner's Thought":
Rudolf Steiner Study Circle of Ann Arbor. Every Wednesday. All invited to discuss one of Rudolf Steiner's basic anthroposophical books, Theosophy.
Rudolf Steiner House, 1923 Geddes. Free. 485-3764.
8 p.m.
"Speaking Up for Rights?":
U-M Campus Chapel. Talk by Yale University religion professor Nicholas Wolterstorff.
call for location. Free. 668-7421.
9-11:30 p.m.
"Juke Box Jungle":
Conor O'Neill's Irish Pub. Every Wednesday. Conor O'Neill's staff member Brian Aherne hosts a music trivia quiz. Prizes.
Conor O'Neill's, 318 S. Main. $3 team fee. 665-2968.
9:30-11 p.m.
Wednesdays @ Michigan Union:
Swing Ann Arbor. Every Wednesday. Swing dancing to prerecorded music. No partner needed. Bring casual or nicer shoes that stay on your feet when you're active. Preceded by beginning Lindy (6:30 p.m.), intermediate swing (7 p.m.), progressive Lindy hop (8 p.m.), and beginner East Coast (9 p.m.) lessons.
Michigan Union Pendleton Room (occasionally Ballroom or U-Club). $5 (includes lessons). 945-8428.
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