The Calendar

This Week's Events

By Day

Highlights:

"Status and Spectacle: Stagings of Gender, Race, and Class in Modern U.S. Popular Culture": U-M Institute for Research on Women and Gender.

"Trainspotting": Michigan Theater Foundation British Classics Series.

Andy Statman: The Ark.

Monday
March, 2008

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.

"Trainspotting": Michigan Theater Foundation British Classics Series. (Danny Boyle, 1996). Sharp, visually arresting, street-level view of heroin addiction in a gang of young burnt-out Scottish misfits. Times TBA, Michigan Theater $8.50 (children, students, seniors, & veterans, $6.75; MTF members, $6). 668-TIME.

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.

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.

3-5 p.m.
"Transformation: Fears and Fantasies in the Roman Empire": U-M Classical Studies Department Jerome Lecture Series. March 31 and April 3, 5, 8, & 10 (different locations). A series of talks by Stanford University classics lecturer Maud Gleason, author of Making Men: Sophists and Self-Presentation in Ancient Rome. Today's topic: "Skin Changes," the first of 3 talks in the series devoted to "The So-Called Elephant Disease." Michigan League Vandenberg Room. Free. 764-0360.

4-6 p.m.
"Status and Spectacle: Stagings of Gender, Race, and Class in Modern U.S. Popular Culture": U-M Institute for Research on Women and Gender. Short talks by U-M and visiting scholars. U-M women's studies professor Nadine Hubbs discusses "Musical Cross-Dressing as Class Rebellion: Gretchen Wilson and the Country Rhetoric of the 'Virile Female,'" Tennessee State University history professor Michael Bertrand discusses "It Was Only Rock 'n' Roll, Wasn't It? Southern Culture, White Manhood, and the 1956 Assault of Nat 'King' Cole," University of Kansas American studies professor Sherrie Tucker discusses "Where Joe Dogface Can Dance with Hedy Lamarr," and UCLA anthropology professor Sherry Ortner discusses "Indie Producers: Class and Gender in the Making of a Social Field." Michigan Union Kuenzel Room. Free. 764-9537.

4-5:30 p.m.
"Changing Big Systems: Barriers to Innovation in Energy Technology": U-M School of Public Policy. Talk by University of Denver technology and public policy professor Frank Laird. 1110 Weill Hall, 735 S. State at Hill. Free. 615-3893.

5 p.m.
"Paved Roads Country Roads Ride": Ann Arbor Bicycle Touring Society. Every Monday beginning March 31. Fast-, moderate-, and slow-paced training ride, 18-24 miles, along country roads west of town. meet at Royster Clark, 885 Parker Rd. at Pine Cross Lane (just south of Jackson Rd.), Scio Twp. Free. 426-5116.

5 p.m.
"The Bird Sanctuary": U-M English Department. Adam Webster directs Chicago's Side Project Theater Company in University of Missouri English professor and poet Lynne McMahon's new play. RC Auditorium, East Quad, 701 East University. Free. 615-3710.

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

7:30 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.
"Mad about Chamber Music": Kerrytown Concert House. An informal concert with U-M student musicians performing instrumental and vocal works solo and in duos, trios, and quartets. Proceeds benefit a local charity. KCH, 415 N. Fourth Ave. Free; donations accepted. Reservations suggested. 769-2999.

8 p.m.
Andy Statman: The Ark. (See review . ) This veteran virtuoso mandolinist and clarinetist plays a klezmer-bluegrass hybrid that one critic has described as "a spontaneous, American-roots form of very personal, prayerful hasidic music, by way of avant-garde jazz." He performs tonight with a drummer and bassist. The Ark, 316 S. Main. Tickets $20 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.

8-10 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.

9:30 p.m.-2 a.m. (doors open at 9 p.m.).
Minus the Bear: The Blind Pig. Indie pop-rock quintet from Seattle known for its inventively syncopated rhythms, lush arrangements, ambitiously literate lyrics, and whimsical song titles. Opening acts TBA. The Blind Pig, 208 S. Ashley. Tickets $15 in advance at the Michigan Union Ticket Office & all other Ticketmaster outlets, $18 at the door. To charge by phone, call (248) 645-6666.