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New World Take a look behind the scenes as the Battle Creek Symphony prepares for a new season. Page 6

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Two years ago, “Rayman Raving Rabbids TV Party” had comical, party mini-games with one stand out: the dancing game. In my review at the time, I stated that the publisher Ubisoft could make an entire game around matching dance moves on-screen and sell it. Coincidentally, a year later “Just Dance” was released for the Nintendo Wii and sold well. To this day, it still makes the NPD Group’s top twenty games sold by volume in America. Luckily for dancing fans, if you needed a fresh song list, “Just Dance 2” has hit the shelves and delivers the same fun and energy. With a Wii controller in hand and wrist-strap secured, you select from over forty songs that range from rock, contemporary R&B, electronic and international hits. After choosing, you are shown a silhouette of a dancer

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who performs the song. While they dance, you try to mimic their moves and align your right hand to his or her on-screen position. Y ou earn points for having your motions match. Even for the dancing impaired, it is easy to match the moves. “Just Dance 2” does not map feet or body movements,

so getting just your arms into action can still earn you a decent score. Being able to copy the full-motion video choreography would take formal dance training, but “Just Dance 2” is for the casual player. There is no way to lose. The worst is that you will receive a mediocre score. Songs are rated on their energy and their technique. A “technical” song will have some precise movements whereas a high “energy” song with have lots of successive movements. There are also a few duet dances where two dancers can perform together, but most songs are built for the single player or group trying to match the solitary dancer. Most importantly for any party, there is a nonstop continuous mix where songs will auto-play all night. While containing more songs than its predecessor, “Just Dance 2” boasts a downloadable

library including Katy Perry’s “Firework” and M.A.R.R.S.’s “Pump Up The Volume.” With more songs promised in the future, Wii owners can spend 300 Wii points (three dollars) to get a new song. Due to the huge success of “Just Dance,” I guess that the online store will grow and prove very profitable for Ubisoft. While “Just Dance 2” was an easy pick-up-andplay game, my biggest complaint is in the workout mode called Just Sweat. Though I was excited to see the fitness feature with high-energy dancing, the omission of a nonstop mode is a real disappointment. After trying a short work out, my heart rate kept dropping while I selected a new song and

The sounds of syntax I am a word man. I like the way words, if used the right way, can paint pictures sometimes better than any brushstroke. They can recall memories and lead thoughts and start and end wars. As a print journalist, I try to pay very close attention to my diction and syntax — that is, the words I choose and the order in which I place them in a sentence. There’s no inflection in print, so my words have to stand on their own, without any of that little “umph” on a syllable that makes a sentence mean something completely different than it might if it

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were just read. But in life, the way you say a word is almost as important as the word itself. The same is true in music, and I think artists are getting better and better at it. Everclear is my favorite band largely because of

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waited for the screens to load. Complaints aside, “Just Dance 2” is just as much fun as “Just Dance.” The version you buy will depend on which song list you like the best. My opinion? Get both for your next party. While some of the

new party and competition modes are a blast to play, most gamers will stick to the main dancing mode – and they will not be sorry. “Just Dance” and “Just Dance 2” are the best dancing games on the Wii. I look forward to their “Just Dance Kids” coming out this November.

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my car in pure, sonic emotion. Ida Maria’s the queen at this. “O h, my god” is really a dull little phrase, softened by all the teenyboppers typing “O MG” into their cell phones over the pizza flavor in their high school cafeterias. But when Ida sings it on the song of that title, it’s drawn out and pulled from the bottom of her lungs

and splattered all over the place with so much dripping angst that you can’t help but slip and fall into her pain. “O h ... my ... God, did you think it’s all for fun?” Tears in my eyes. Every time. There are others. Kings fO Leon, for example, brings up a simple “Hey” for a few measures before landing into the chorus

of their “Sex on Fire.” A meaningless article that gets the heart pumping a few BPM’s faster. Everclear is not without this talent, by the way. See “The Twistinside,” off their album “Sparkle & Fade.” O ther artists have somehow wrapped the knack for poetic diction with a Buddhist sense for timing and inflection and made the perfect word-song.

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The unseen work behind the music ANDY FITZPATRICK The Enquirer

A major operation is being staged in Battle Creek, concentrating the efforts of an army of people. The Battle Creek S ymphony Orchestra will open for its 112th season S aturday, but only after a legion of musicians, administrators, volunteers and others worked for months on making it happen. One cog in the machine is symphony operations manager Megan MacLeod. Just two months into her post, the musician-turned-administrator is going through the trials of the final week before the season opener. “I’m kind of in my biggest week of surprise now as the concert’s coming and all these crises are arising,” she said Monday, although she said most things were going according to plan. That plan actually was initiated in March. After Music Director Anne Harrigan has selected the music for the season, MacLeod gets to work keeping the musicians prepared, and even hiring new players. “We have our core members who are contracted and they play every concert,” MacLeod said. Other musicians that may be needed for certain pieces are then found; MacLeod said she works from a list of top players in the area. A librarian then finds the music and distributes it to the players while MacLeod works to meet their needs, such as arranging hotel rooms and travel plans. “We’ve got players that come from Chicago, northern Michigan, Ann Arbor, Lansing, Indiana, Traverse City; they come from all over,” she said. The people are only part of the equation; equipment elements like the players’ chairs and stands, the music shell and box office equipment have to be brought in. For a show like “Dvorak’s New World,” the season opener, more technology is needed. As the symphony plays, photographs by Michael a S mple of landscapes and animals from national parks will show on large screens. For Harrigan, that meant a lot of

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Al Barney rehearses with the Battle Creek Symphony. The symphony’s first concert of the 2010-11 season is Saturday.

preparation, not only when we’ve got a lot of people that sifting through about 400 love the different styles,” she photos and matching them to said. music, but writing a script for Harrigan said larger cities like the parts of the show where Detroit and Chicago will have the audience will be treated segregated symphony fans. to the origins of Dvorak’s “The people who will go “S ymphony for the New to see the Beethovens won’t World.” go to see S inatra,” she said. “People who are against “Audiences here, they kind of like this sort of thing and against the variety.” using visuals and against Maintaining that variety getting involved in all of this, has to be done with only three they say the music speaks for rehearsals with the full symphony itself,” Harrigan said. MICHAEL S AMPLE “It speaks more deeply and per show, including once on the Photo by Michael Sample for Battle Creek Symphony’s more forcefully if you underday of the performance. opening performance of the 2010-11 season. stand the composer’s intentions It’s something that MacLeod still except with new twists, such as what will and the history behind it,” she marvels at, given the spread-out have to be in place for the high-flying said. locations of the musicians. “Cirque de la S ymphonie” in February To get that story out and provide the “To be able to bring all these people audience with a memorable experience, and “S imply S inatra” in April. and create such a beautiful masterpiece Those are just two of the five shows Music Center staff, caterers, Battle Creek together, I think is really sweet,” she said. lined up for this season by Harrigan, Public S chool staff, sound engineers, Andy Fitzpatrick can be reached at whose job it is to set the schedule. lighting technicians and more come 966-0697 or afitzpatrick@battlecr.gan“We cater to our standard auditogether for a single show. nett.com. ences that love the symphonic stuff, but Then it all has to be done again,


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MARSHALL – In February of 1940, Walt Disney’s “Pinocchio” debuted, America had just over a year before the Pearl Harbor attack would happen and journalist Ted Koppel was born. In Marshall, however, the citizens were busy making a movie, which has been recently rediscovered and is now ready to be shown at a public premiere 8 p.m. Saturday in the Marshall Middle School Auditorium. It was a revelation to Marshall resident and Marshall Historical Society member Bob Lowman, who found a stack of 16mm film canisters in the basement of the Grand Army of the Republic Hall in July 2008. “I took them out of the container,” Lowman said. “They were numbered, but they were all mixed up.” Had Lowman seen the first reel, he might have found the title card bearing “We’re In the Movies – 1940.” However, he was able to secure a projector and a glimpse of Marshall from long ago was revealed to him. Scenes from businesses and schools around the town, in both

WHAT: “We’re In the Movies – 1940” movie premiere.  WHEN: 8 p.m. Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday.  WHERE: Marshall Middle School Auditorium, 100 E. Green St., Marshall.  COST: $8 for advance tickets and $10 for tickets at the door; a DVD copy will be sold for $10 before Sunday and $15 after Sunday.  INFO: The premiere and DVD sales will be used to raise funds for maintenance of Marshall’s historical markers. To order tickets or for more information, go to www.wereinthemovies1940.com or call 781-8544.

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Bob Lowman, left, and Keith Kehlbeck look at an old book in the basement of the Grand Army of the Republic building which is home to the Marshall H istorical Society. Right: A still shot from the movie “We’re In the Movies - 1940.”

color and black and white, played out silently. Lowman said he first suspected the film was shot between 1935 and 1945 because of the style of cars on Michigan Avenue; a shot from an Eaton Corporation office with a 1940 calendar on the wall confirmed the year. “I took a legal pad and went through each one and wrote down the scenes; I started out with the very first one, and that was easy to do,” Lowman said. “Once I got them in the right order, I sent it to this company in Pittsburgh.” There, the film was cleaned, restored, burned onto a DVD and returned to Lowman. “We’re In the Movies – 1940” was a film project spearheaded by the organization that was known at the time as the Junior Chamber of Commerce. The John B. Rogers Producing Company of Fostoria, Ohio, came to Marshall for four days and shot a film showcasing the 30 local

businesses that sponsored the project. The film was silent, Lowman theorized, because of the extra cost of including sound. Background muisc has been added to the DVD. Lowman thought the plot of the movie was a standard one for the company – a movie star comes to Small Town, U.S.A., to choose a “movie queen” and take her to a lucrative Hollywood career – but it was the use of all-local actors and views of Marshall gone by that piqued his historical interest. Those were also the reasons Keith Kehlbeck, former president of the Society‘s Board of Directors, volunteered to help Lowman with the project; Jennifer Rupp also volunteered. Rupp is a former Executive Director of the Society. “It must have been quite an event,” Kehlbeck said. “Bob was looking at some of the newspaper coverage on this and it was a big deal.” The film opens with the story

of Mary and Joe, a young couple in love and on the hunt for their first home. After Mary sees an advertisement on the fictional star Gary Owens coming to town to select a girl to become a Hollywood actress, Joe attempts to put such thoughts out of her head and get her to focus on the upcoming marriage and the building of their dream home. What happens in the end, of course, will be revealed at the premiere. The Junior Chamber and what was then known as the Marshall Evening Chronicle organized a Movie Queen contest, allowing residents to vote for who would be Marshall’s “glamour girl.” What originally served as a fundraiser for the Junior Chamber will come full circle and become a promotion again, this time for the Historical

Society’s maintenance and refurbishment of Marshall’s green and gold historic markers. “We have 43 historical markers; only the cities of Detroit and Lansing have more,” Lowman said. He said the cost of a brandnew marker is $2,000. To send one off for sandblasting and repainting is about $750. “It’s something the historical society has borne the cost of over the years, but as it gets more expensive, we needed to do something to help underwrite that in the future to make sure those are maintained,” Kehlbeck said. “This seemed like a good way to do that.” Andy Fitzpatrick can be reached at 966-0697 or afitzpatrick@battlecr.gannett.com.

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ART & EXHIBITS “ART OF THE AUTO” EXHIBIT, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesdays through Friday, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday; Art Center of Battle Creek, 265 E. Emmett St., Battle Creek. “HISTORY OF STOCK CAR RACING” EXHIBIT, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Daily through Oct. 31; Gilmore Car Museum, 6865 W Hickory Rd, Hickory Corners; 671-5089. LECTURE: RACE AND ETHNIC IMAGES IN POP CULTURE, 7 p.m. today; Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, 314 S. Park St., Kalamazoo; free; 349-7775. LIGHT WORKS: PHOTOGRAPHS FROM THE COLLECTION, until Dec.

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12; Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, 314 S. Park St., Kalamazoo; 349-7775; www. kiarts.org. PAUL NEHRING EXHIBIT, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday-Friday until Nov. 14; First United Methodist Church, 111 E. Michigan Ave., Battle Creek; 963-5567. STRONG WOMEN, BEAUTIFUL MEN: JAPANESE PORTRAIT PRINTS, until Oct. 31; Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, 314 S. Park St., Kalamazoo; 349-7775; www.kiarts.org. “VOICES OF CONCERN” ART EXHIBIT, until Nov. 6; Calhoun County Democratic Party Election Headquarters, 38 E. Michigan Ave., Battle Creek; 9620447. NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

character and play Clue in the cafe area; 6 p.m. today; Barnes & Noble, 5775 Beckley Road; 979-8060. “The Dining Room,” the play creates an indepth portrait of a vanishing species: the uppermiddle-class, 7:30 p.m. today through Saturday, 3 p.m. Sunday; Kellogg Community College, 450 North Ave., Battle Creek; $10; $5 KCC students, staff, senior citizens; 965-4154. Spooky Science Saturday, activities for kids with the theme “Science Safari”; 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday; Kingman Museum, 175 Limit St.; free; donations of toiletry items accepted.

GREATEST PORTRAITS, Oct. 30-Jan. 2; Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, 314 S. Park St., Kalamazoo; 349-7775; www. kiarts.org.

DANCES MOTHER AND SON DANCE, 7 to 9 p.m. Saturday; Gull Lake Middle School, 9550 M-89, Richland; $20; 731-2711; for first through sixth graders.

ETC. BELLEVUE FARMERS MARKET, 4 to 7 p.m. Thursdays; Washington Park, Bellevue; 746-4648.

BATTLE CREEK Beats and beer

For more information, call Katie at 965-5117, ext. 13.

Arcadia Brewing Company, 103 W. Michigan Ave., will host musical group C.A.T. at 8 p.m. today. Drummer Carolyn Koebel, pianist Arlene McDaniel and violinist Tia Imani Hanna will play original pieces, covers and improvised songs. For more information, call Arcadia at 963-9690 or go to aracdiaales.com.

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Party with the Hounds The Battle Creek Chapter of the Barbershop Harmony Society will hold their Fall Cabaret Dinner Show at 2 and 8 p.m. Saturday. Harmony Hounds and The Party will be the show’s headliners. There will also be a 6 p.m. social hour and a 7 p.m. chicken supreme dinner. The show will be held at Convis Township Hall, 19500 15 Mile Road. For ticket prices or more information, call Don Burrill at 729-9250 or Bob Dixon at 962-9903.

Get spooky on Saturday The third annual Making a Difference at Spooky Science Saturday will be held at Kingman Museum, 175 Limit St., from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday. The theme is “Science Safari” and families are encouraged to save hotel/ motel toiletries to donate at the free event, which encourages volunteerism and the exploration of science.

CLUE GAME NIGHT, 6 p.m. today; Barnes & Noble, 5775 Beckley Road, Battle Creek; 979-8060. DR. SCREAM’S SPOOK SHOW REVIVAL: “NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD,” 7:30 p.m. today; Riviera Theatre, 50 N. Main St., Three Rivers; $10 advance, $12 at door; 278-8068. SEMINAR: EXPLORE SPECIALTY TEAS, 7 p.m. today; Willard Library, 7 W. Van Buren St., Battle Creek; 968-8166; www.willard.lib.mi.us. SEMINAR: TEA TASTING, 3 to 5 p.m. today; Willard Library, 7 W. Van Buren St., Battle Creek; 968-8166; www. willard.lib.mi.us. HAUNTED TRAIL: THE NIGHTMARE TRAP, 7:30 to 11 p.m.

Kellogg Community College will be the site of an art showing and a poetry reading Monday. Paintings and ceramics from former Battle Creek Public Schools Fine Arts Coordinator Sharyn Austin will be on display until Nov. 19. There will be an opening reception for her work from 4 to 6 p.m. Oct. 28. The showing and reception are free; the Eleanor R. and Robert A. DeVries Gallery is located on the campus at 450 North Ave. The winner of the Juniper Poetry Prize 2010, Diane Seuss, will read from “Wolf Lake, White Gown Blown Open,” her poetic memoir of growing up in Niles. The reading will be at Cafe Connection on campus at 7 p.m.

Music to say boo to The Community Music School Concert Band will perform at the Costume Contest Concert, a free event at 7 p.m. Oct. 29. The band, made up of adult and teenaged musicians from the area, will perform music from “Edward Scissorhands,” “Spider-Man,” “Beetlejuice,” “The Incredibles” and more. Judges will award prizes for the best costumes and kids will get a free treat. For more information, call 963-1911 or go to yourmusiccenter.org.

Friday and Saturday and Oct. 29-30; Marshall Recreation Department, 900 S. Marshall Ave., Marshall; $7; 781-5166; https://recpro.cityofmarshall.com. WILDER CREEK HAUNTED CASTLE, 7 to 10:30 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays until Oct. 31; Wilder Creek, 19833 S. D Drive, Marshall; $5; not recommended for ages ten and younger; www.wildercreekconservationclub.org. BATTLE CREEK FARMERS’ MARKET, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturdays and Wednesdays; Festival Market Square, downtown, corner of McCamly and Jackson streets, Battle Creek; 968-3448; www.battlecreekfarmersmarket.com. HOPS & PROPS, 7 p.m. to midnight Saturday; Air Zoo, 6151 Portage

Road, Portage; $50, $500 table of 10; 350-2813; www.hopsandprops.org. PUMPKIN GLOW AND CARVING CONTEST, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. carving; 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. display at Brook’s Fountain Saturday; Oerther’s, 311 W. Spruce St., Marshall; 789-2379. “THE QUES OF COMEDY,” 7 p.m. Saturday; Miller Auditorium, 1903 W. Michigan Ave., Kalamazoo; 800-2289858. PUMPKING DECORATING AND CRAFT SHOW, noon to 5 p.m. Sunday; St. Thomas Episcopal Church, 16 E. Van Buren St., Battle Creek; $5 table; 9652244. Please see CALENDAR, 9


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HAUNTED THEATER, 7 to 10:30 p.m. Oct. 29; McQuiston Learning Center, 100 W. Van Buren St., Battle Creek; $5; 965-9541. ILLUSIONIST TOM COVERLY: “TEMPLE OF TERROR,” 9:30

p.m. Oct. 29; Athens Christian Center, 128 Church St., Athens; $2; 729-5685; athenschristiancenter@yahoo.com. MURDER MYSTERY DINNER, 6:30 p.m. Oct. 29; W.K. Kellogg Manor House, 3700 E. Gull Lake Drive, Hickory

Corners; $75; 671-2400; reservations required; conference@kbs.msu.edu. MURDER MYSTERY PARTY, 6 to 8 p.m. Oct. 29; Marshall District Library, 124 W. Green St., Marshall; free; 781-7821, ext. 15; www.MarshallDistrictLibrary.org.

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CALENDAR, from 8 3-11, $60 family; 574-215-0751 or 517279-7687. STEAM TRAIN FALL COLOR HALLOWEEN WALK, 11:30 a.m. to EXCURSIONS, 2 p.m. Sundays until 1 p.m. Oct. 29; downtown, Battle Creek; Oct. 31; Little River Railroad, 19 W. Park 9681 622. Ave., Coldwater; $18 adults, $11 children


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FAMILY THE GREAT ZOOB OO, 5 to 8 p.m. Wednesdays-Fridays, 1 to 8 p.m. Saturdays-Sundays; until Oct. 31; Binder Park Z oo, 7400 Divison Drive, Battle Creek; $7 Wednesday-Friday, $8 Saturday-Sunday; www.binderparkzoo. org. HALLOWEEN STORY TIME, 11 a.m. Saturday; Barnes & Noble, 5775 Beckley Road, Battle Creek; free; 9798060. HAUNTED ADVENTURE, 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Saturdays, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sundays until Oct. 31; Cornwell’s Turkeyville U.S.A., 18935 15 1/2 Mile Road, Marshall; $10; 800-228-4315; www.turkeyville.com. SPOOKY SCIENCE SATURDAY, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday; Kingman Museum, 175 Limit St., Battle Creek; free; donations of toiletry items accepted; 965-5117 x13. STORY TIME: CAR, WHEELS ADVENTURES, 11 a.m. to noon. Saturday; Art Center of Battle Creek, 265 E. Emmett St., Battle Creek; $2 per person, $5 per family; 962-9511;

www.artcenterofbattlecreek.org; kparkerartcenter@yahoo.com. CABIN FEVER GAME NIGHT, 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Mondays through March 7; First Presbyterian Church, 111 N.E. Capital Ave., Battle Creek; $3 per night; 288-0076; www.cirfun.com; msears@cirfun.com; Michelle Sears. GHOSTS, GHOULS AND GOODIES HALLOWEEN PARTY, 5 to 8 p.m. Oct. 28; Kimball House Museum, 196 Capital Ave. N.E., Battle Creek; $5, $3 Historical Society members; 966-4157. CHILDREN’S COSTUME PARADE, 11 a.m. Oct. 30; Marshall City Hall, 323 W. Michigan Ave., Marshall; free; 781-5183; donations of nonperishable foods accepted. HALLOWEEN CRAFT AND BIN GO, 2 p.m. Oct. 30; Albion District Library, 501 S. Superior St., Albion; 517-629-3993. WITCHES’ TEA, 2 p.m. Oct. 31; Kimball House Museum, 196 Capital Ave. N.E., Battle Creek; $15, $12 Historical Society members; 966-4157; reservations required.

MICHIGAN READS STORYTIME: “THE RUNAWAY GARDEN,” 10:30 a.m. today; Marshall District Library, 124 W. Green St., Marshall; free; 781-7821, ext. 15; registration required. B OOKSIGNING: “THRIFT STORE SAINTS: MEETING JESUS 25 CENTS AT A TIME,” 1 p.m. Saturday; Barnes & Noble, 5775 Beckley Road, Battle Creek; 979-8060. WRITERS’ GROUP, 6 to 7:30 p.m. Monday; Albion District Library, 501 S. Superior St., Albion; 517-629-3993. NOOK READING GROUP: “THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY,” noon Tuesday; Barnes & Noble, 5775 Beckley Road, Battle Creek; 979-8060. AUTHOR OF “THE SHACK” WILLIAM P. YOUNG, 7 to 8:30 p.m. Oct. 28; First Congregational Church, 145 N.E. Capital Ave., Battle Creek; 962-2990; reservations requested. WRITER’S SUPPORT GROUP, 6:30 p.m. Oct. 28; Barnes & Noble, 5775 Beckley Road, Battle Creek; 979-8060.

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DISCOVERY FILMS: “IRAN: THEN AND NOW,” 2:30 p.m. Saturday; Lakeview Middle School, 300 S. 28th St., Battle Creek; $7 adults, children free; 965-8693.

B ATTLE CREEK SYMPHONY: THE NEW WORLD, 7:30 p.m. Saturday; W.K. Kellogg Auditorium, 60 W. Van Buren St., Battle Creek; $8-45; 565-2199; www. yourmusiccenter.org.

VerHages Fruit Farm & Cider Mill Children’s activities Gold Mine Dig Hay Rides, Pony Rides Homemade Fudge

850 Foot Zip Line Private Birthday Parties Field Trips All ages welcome

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FALL CAB ARET DINNER SHOW, 2 p.m. matinee, 6 p.m. social hour, 7 p.m. dinner, 8 p.m. show Saturday; Convis Township Hall, 19500 15 Mile Road, Marshall; 729-9250 or 962-9903. NEW SUPERIOR JAZZ B AND, 2 to 5 p.m. Sunday; Bayview Gardens, 12504 E. D Ave., Richland; 731-4911. CD RELEASE CONCERT: TRI-FI, 8:15 p.m. Oct. 28; Western Michigan University, 1903 W. Michigan Ave., Kalamazoo; $12, $10 seniors, $5 students; 387-2300 or 800-228-9858.

THEATER “THE DINING ROOM,” 7:30 p.m. today through Saturday, 3 p.m. Sunday; Kellogg Community College, 450 North Ave., Battle Creek; $10; $5 KCC students, staff, senior citizens; 965-4154. “TARTUFFE,” 8 p.m. Friday; Suzanne D. Parish Theater, 426 S. Park St., Kalamazoo; 343-1313; www.kazoocivic. com. “MIRACLE IN MUDDVILLE,” 7 p.m. Oct. 28-29, 2 p.m. Oct. 30 ;Tibbits Opera House, 14 S. Hanchett St., Coldwater; 517-278-6029; www.tibbits.org. “SLEEPY HOLLOW: A MUSICAL TALE,” 7 p.m. Oct. 29 and Nov. 5, 1 and 4 p.m. Oct. 30 and Nov. 6; 2 p.m. Oct. 31; 9:30 a.m. and noon Nov. 2; 5 p.m. Nov. 4; ;Kalamazoo Civic Theatre, 329 S Park St, Kalamazoo; $7; 343-1313; www. kazoocivic.com.

Making a Difference at Spooky Science Saturday 2010 “Science Safari!” Located at Kingman Museum and Children’s Garden

FREE Admission!!! Free showing of Cosmic Safari 30 interactive science stations Giveaways Hayrides around Leila Arboretum Food vendors

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Friday October 29, 2010 Doors open at 5:30pm

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NAACP Reception ~ October 28th 6:00 – 7:00pm ~ WK Kellogg Foundation ~ One Michigan Avenue East Calling all middle, high school and college students! Spoken Word Competition October 28th ~ 7:30 – 9:00pm

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