Saturday, December 30 at Xhedos Cafe in Ferndale, beginning at 8 p.m.

Former Detroiter, Missy Gibson, returns from Los Angeles for the holidays and her band, Nellie Bly, will perform at Xhedos Cafe in Ferndale. Paul Einhaus will perform a solo set to start the evening off.

Missy won many a Metro Times Detroit Music Poll Award in the late 80's and early 90's fronting both Strange Bedfellows and Breech. Since moving to Los Angeles, Breech has frequently been named one of L.A.'s top unsigned acts and Nellie Bly has received rave reviews as well. More information can be found about Missy and Nellie Bly at www.breech.net.

Paul Einhaus is the former lead singer of The Happy Accidents, and The Winonas, among other bands.

MORE EVENTS COMING THURSDAY. Please Check back then.

Want to know about Art Openings? You can always check our comprehensive and always up-to-date arts calendar.

Don’t forget, Thursday, December 21, 2006 is the Winter Solstice – the return of the sun. For words on that event, happening this Thursday, check out last year’s Solstice editorial here.

DSG 3rd Thursday Happy Hour

'Twas the Third Thursday of December...
...and all through the D, Synergizers were gathering at the Old Ye Tap Room. Come all and have one, and share in some cheer and maybe St. Nick will be generous this year! Join us at our December Third Thursday Community Happy Hour.
Date Thursday, December 21st
Time 6:30 - 8:30pm
Location Ye Old Tap Room | 14915 Charlevoix Street, Detroit, MI 48215
(313) 824-1030
on the border of Detroit and Grosse Pointe Park
Contact Paula pr@detroitsynergy.org

SHOPPING OPPORTUNITIES!!!

We know it’s close to Christmas, and probably you’re going to go shopping. Well, while you’re at it, shop right here in the city, and use Detroit Synergy’s handy guide to retails shops downtown, and avoid the rush of malls and the rest. Have fun!!

GIVE GIFTS FROM THE (HE)ART FROM
THE GROSSE POINTE ART CENTER

This holiday season, the Grosse Pointe Artists Association will give holiday shoppers more than one reason to give gifts. The GPAA opens its Holiday Show and Boutique at the Grosse Pointe Art Center on Wednesday, Dec. 6. The show and boutique features a mix of fine art and hand-made crafts created by members, which includes painting, sculpture, photography, decorated hand-bound books, jewelry, scarves, glassware, ceramics, fabric art, published works and greeting cards. All items featured in the Holiday Show and Boutique are for sale on a take-with basis.

In addition, all artists are invited to bring materials they no longer use but others may enjoy. Such items will be resold at extremely reasonable prices. “This is a great opportunity for the community to purchase holiday gifts and pick up reasonably priced art materials for their or their children’s experimentation,” said Susan Macdonald, Art Center director.

During the course of the show, the GPAA will collect holiday gifts for children and adults that will be donated to Crossroads in Detroit, which runs a food pantry and community closet. Crossroads is in need of new underwear, hats, gloves, and socks; toiletry items; like-new and clean coats and jackets; and non-battery and non-electrical toys.
The Holiday Show and Boutique is open during Art Center hours noon-5 p.m. on Wednesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays and noon-7 p.m. on Thursdays through Dec. 23. The GPAA Art Center is located at 1005 Maryland, at the corner of Jefferson, in Grosse Pointe Park. For more information, call (313) 821-1848, e-mail gpaa1@sbcglobal.net, or visit www.myspace.com/grossepointeartcenter.

DAM 74th Annual Holiday Show
Restocking Everyday with New Items!

Show Runs Through December 23, 2006
The Detroit Artists Market Holiday Show is a one-of-a-kind gift shopping experience for all! The gallery transforms from a fine art exhibition gallery to a fun, energetic, gift shop featuring all hand-made items by local artists offering a wide range of products and price points. This show includes jewelry, glass, metal, ceramic, photography, accessories, paintings, drawings, sculpture, cards, framed prints and the list goes on...
This show brings artists from all over the Metro Detroit area together to create an eclectic mix not available anywhere else. the possibilities are endless! The items are all handmade and the sale of the season is here! Support local artists and the Detroit Artists Market by finding your gifts here.
SHOP ALL HOLIDAY SEASON!
Open Tues - Sat, 11a.m. - 6p.m.
November 10 - December 23
For more information please contact staff at 313.832.8540
CARE An Exhibition of Soft Sculpture Installations
December 16-30, 2006
Opening Reception: Dec 16, 6-10pm

Satori Circus

http://www.myspace.com/satori_circus

MUSIC EVENTS

Paris ’68 - Saturday Nights at the Majestic Café
9:30 p -2 a
Majestic Cafe
4140 Woodward/Detroit
Sonic service:
International Style
(Paris' 68 DJs)

Poetry @ the Zeitgeist
with James Hart III
Wednesday December 13, 8:00 PM

featuring:
Norene Cashen
James Lacroix
Jhon Clark

Smoke Free, Admission Free
2661 Michigan Ave
West of Tiger Stadium, East of the I-96 Overpass
(313) 965-9192
www.zeitgeistdetroit.org

SHOPPING OPPORTUNITIES!!!

We know it’s close to Christmas, and probably you’re going to go shopping. Well, while you’re at it, shop right here in the city, and use Detroit Synergy’s handy guide to retails shops downtown, and avoid the rush of malls and the rest. Have fun!!

http://www.detroitsynergy.org/projects/shopdetroit/

GIVE GIFTS FROM THE (HE)ART FROM THE GROSSE POINTE ART CENTER

This holiday season, the Grosse Pointe Artists Association will give holiday shoppers more than one reason to give gifts. The GPAA opens its Holiday Show and Boutique at the Grosse Pointe Art Center on Wednesday, Dec. 6. The show and boutique features a mix of fine art and hand-made crafts created by members, which includes painting, sculpture, photography, decorated hand-bound books, jewelry, scarves, glassware, ceramics, fabric art, published works and greeting cards. All items featured in the Holiday Show and Boutique are for sale on a take-with basis.

In addition, all artists are invited to bring materials they no longer use but others may enjoy. Such items will be resold at extremely reasonable prices. “This is a great opportunity for the community to purchase holiday gifts and pick up reasonably priced art materials for their or their children’s experimentation,” said Susan Macdonald, Art Center director.

During the course of the show, the GPAA will collect holiday gifts for children and adults that will be donated to Crossroads in Detroit, which runs a food pantry and community closet. Crossroads is in need of new underwear, hats, gloves, and socks; toiletry items; like-new and clean coats and jackets; and non-battery and non-electrical toys.

The Holiday Show and Boutique is open during Art Center hours noon-5 p.m. on Wednesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays and noon-7 p.m. on Thursdays through Dec. 23. The GPAA Art Center is located at 1005 Maryland, at the corner of Jefferson, in Grosse Pointe Park. For more information, call (313) 821-1848, e-mail gpaa1@sbcglobal.net, or visit www.myspace.com/grossepointeartcenter.

DAM 74th Annual Holiday Show
Restocking Everyday with New Items!
Show Runs Through December 23, 2006

The Detroit Artists Market Holiday Show is a one-of-a-kind gift shopping experience for all! The gallery transforms from a fine art exhibition gallery to a fun, energetic, gift shop featuring all hand-made items by local artists offering a wide range of products and price points. This show includes jewelry, glass, metal, ceramic, photography, accessories, paintings, drawings, sculpture, cards, framed prints and the list goes on...

This show brings artists from all over the Metro Detroit area together to create an eclectic mix not available anywhere else. the possibilities are endless! The items are all handmade and the sale of the season is here! Support local artists and the Detroit Artists Market by finding your gifts here.
SHOP ALL HOLIDAY SEASON!
Open Tues - Sat, 11a.m. - 6p.m.
November 10 - December 23
For more information please contact staff at 313.832.8540

CARE An Exhibition of Soft Sculpture Installations @ CAID

December 16-30, 2006
Opening Reception: Dec 16, 6-10pm

Plenty more Art Openings this weekend, from our feature story “Tick Tock” at the Paint Creek Center for the Arts and many more, all which can be found in our comprehensive and always up-to-date arts calendar.

Satori Circus

http://www.myspace.com/satori_circus

MUSIC EVENTS

Bohemian National Home Friday, Dec, 15th:
X Records Showcase with Terrible 2s, Tyvek, Heros and Villians, The Frustrations, Fontana, The Mahonies and DJ Tim Vulgar

Local label X Records showcases its roster of Detroit rock bands that are somewhat under the radar. The emphasis is on raw, garagey and mischievous music. Most of these groups have played The Bohemian before; Tyvek will be taking their place next to Cuckcold as the 2 rock bands who've played here the most (Human would be there too if Tim V hadn't sliced his hand before his own festival!). Doors at 8pm; $5.

Bohemian House
3009 Tillman (22nd)
Detroit 48216
313 737 6606

Paris ’68 - Saturday Nights at the Majestic Café
9:30 p -2 a
Majestic Cafe
4140 Woodward/Detroit
Sonic service:
International Style
(Paris' 68 DJs)

Thursday, dec 7th, This Week In Art special edition a silent auction to benefit the school of san pablo,guatemala
Artists include: lowell boileau, ray katz, karen sepanski, betty brownlee, diane carr, gilbert pike, and more.
Motor City Brewing Works

Lots of art openings, check 'em out in our arts calendar here.

BOHEMIAN NATIONAL HOME
12/6 Andrew Drury, Wade Matthews, Reuben Radding
Bohemian National Home
3009 Tillman (22nd)
Detroit 48216
313 737 6606

Friday, December 8 - 55 West Canfield Lofts Grand Opening!

www.555westcanfield.com

RecycleDetroit - December 9!!
Hello recyclers! Do you wonder where your recyclables go after you deposit them in the big orange Recy-clean semi?

recycleDetroit wants to give Detroit an early holiday gift to set the season right. recycleDetroit with would like to invite you on December 9, 2006 from 10 am - 2 pm to Recy-clean's facility to see the operation where your recyclables are processed for the end market.

This tour is important so you the recycler can see why it is important that recycleDetroit receives only clean, separated material. This is necessary so proper efficient service can be provided to you the recycler.

Second Saturday will NOT be canceled for December. The location will also NOT be the parking lot at Second and Forest, it will be moved to 1331 Holden Ave. Please the see link for directions and map. 1331 Holden St, Detroit, MI 48202-3325, Wayne County, US

Recy-clean's facility is less than 2 miles away from the parking lot, so we won't be taking you far.

Thank you for your patience,
Sarah Kubik
recycleDetroit

OSLO - Second Detroit.
Saturday December 9, 2006.
Check out live DJing, also broadcast into Second Life's Second Detroit.
Details at www.seconddetroit.com.

Sunday, December 10, 3 PM
READINGS: Vievee Francis, Bill Harris, and Peter Markus

Vievee Francis has had work appear in Callaloo, The Crab Orchard Review, markszine and Dispatch Detroit among others. Her first book Blue-Tail Fly (Wayne State University Press) was named by Poets and Writers as a notable book of 2006. Read an interview with Francis on the Shaman Drum Bookshop website.

Bill Harris is a playwright, poet, and professor of English. His New York productions include Stories About the Old Days, starring S. Epatha Merkerson and Denzel Washington; and Robert Johnson: Trick the Devil, with Guy Davis. His books of poems include Yardbird Suite: Side One, a bio poem of jazz musician Charlie Parker (Michigan State University Press), and The Ringmaster's Array (Past Tents Press). There are two novels in progress.

Peter Markus is the author of three short books of short fiction, Good, Brother, The Moon is a Lighthouse, and The Singing Fish. His stories have appeared in such journals as 3rd Bed, Post Road, Black Warrior Review, Massachusetts Review, Quarterly West, New Orleans Review, among others, and have appeared in anthologies brought out by Bloomsbury USA and W.W. Norton. He lives in Michigan. Read an interview with Peter Markus.

SATURDAY SCREENING - Darkness Swallowed
Film By Betzy Bromberg
(2005) (16mm, color/sound, 78 min.)

A personal investigation of cellular memory, a bio-metaphysical musical.

"Los Angeles-based experimental filmmaker Betzy Bromberg returns to the screen this week with her latest gem, a Darkness Swallowed, a 78-minute meditation on the evanescent traces of memory and loss. At once her most elliptical and also her most overt work in a career that spans nearly 30 years and more than a dozen dazzling films, a Darkness Swallowed opens on a pair of faded photographs showing an old dented car, one with a child standing beside it and the other without. Speaking in voice-over, Bromberg references a past event, one that will forever haunt her although it occurred before her birth. The film then sinks downward, dipping below the surface of the rational world to mine the seemingly infinite layers of the past stored within the fleshy entrails, chalky bones, sinewy spider webs and gnarled ligaments of both the body and the Earth. Noises – of clanging metal, bells, heartbeats and jazz music, to name only a few – combine to create a dense sound environment, a seemingly immense, three-dimensional space for contemplation. As with all of Bromberg's films, there are images that, once seen, will stay with you forever, and then there are the colors – rich, luscious hues to be savored slowly. Dedicated to the filmmaker's mother, the film is also a gift to us, a reminder of cinema's organic basis in chemistry and light,
and of its ability to take us deep inside."
-Holly Willis, LA Weekly

DFC
Saturday, Dec 9th
Doors @ 7pm, Films @ 8 pm
$5 admission, $3 members

Song Circle, Sunday, December 10

The Grosse Pointe Artists Association is hosting a song circle at the Grosse Pointe Art Center from 2 to 4 p.m. on Sunday, Dec. 10.

Bring your voice and/or any acoustic instruments. No voice training is required, just the love of song. The theme of the gathering is “Winter Holiday.” The GPAA’s Annual Member Holiday Show and Sale is sure to provide an inspirational backdrop and a gift shopping opportunity, as well.

Admission is $5 for members and $8 for non-members. The Grosse Pointe Art Center is located at 1005 Maryland in Grosse Pointe Park. For more information, call (313) 821-1848, e-mail gpaa1@sbcglobal.net, or visit www.myspace.com/grossepointeartcenter.