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You’re responsible for all your well-done things, and you’re also responsible for all your errors and shortcomings and losses.“ Marc Saggese, real-life inspiration for the CBS show ‘The Defenders,’ page 8.

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Explore the Egyptian afterlife at the Toledo Museum of Art

ummies, which scare some but fascinate others, are the centerpiece for the Toledo Museum of Art’s 18month exhibit, “The Egyptian Expe-

rience: Secrets of the Tomb.” While the exhibit has only two mummies, it still has plenty for the public to explore. The Egyptians fascination with the afterlife spanned thousands of

years, touching every part of their culture.

Check out the Egyptians’ perceptions of the afterlife while you can. The ticketed exhibit, unlike the mummies, won’t live forever. O

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Folk artist Russ Franzen sings the history of the Great Lakes

By Amy Biolchini

Toledo Free Press Staff Writer star@toledofreepress.com

Russ Franzen, veteran journalist and accomplished writer, has moved onto songwriting and performing as a way to share the history of the Great Lakes region.

“There’s so much history out there. Some of the stories are so good they just beg to be told,” Franzen said.

The release of his third album, “Songs of the Great Lakes,” marks the fifth year of his foray into the music realm.

“It’s more fun,” Franzen said of why he’s switched from writing books to songs. “I’m having too much fun writing songs and performing.”

Franzen said his folk songs percolate in his mind before, eventually bringing stories of the Great Lakes waterways to life.

One of the inspirations for a song on Franzen’s new album is docked in the Maumee River.

Now known as the S.S. Willis B. Boyer, the ship was formerly the Col. James M. Schoonmaker.

The Schoonmaker, dubbed the “Queen of the Lakes,” set sail on its maiden voyage in 1911 when it carried 12,650 net tons of coal from Toledo to Sheboygan, Wis. “When I first decided I was going to write a song about it, I was trying to think, ‘What rhymes with Schoonmaker?’” Franzen said.

When Franzen realized the ship was now called the Boyer, he said his job got a lot easier.

“Some songs just write themselves,” Franzen said.

While Franzen was able to write a song about the discovery of the shipwrecked L.R. Doty within a week, he worked on “The Indian’s Great Season” for two years.

The sunset at the South Haven Pier Lighthouse inspired Franzen to write a song about young lovers who made their home on the lake-shore, and is one of the few stories that Franzen embellished.

“It was one of the few stories I made up.

Russ Franzen writes songs inspired by the Great Lakes.

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Every time I go, there’s couples there, holding hands— they stand out to me. I didn’t want to write about history, I wanted to write about the romance I saw there.”

He calls it “filling out the facts.”

“You find that in folk songs all over the place,” Franzen said.

One of Franzen’s friends asked him to

write a story about the S.S. South American, a passenger steamboat from the early 1900s.

Although Franzen didn’t know specific details about the history of the ship, he wrote about activities he knew happened on cruise ships of that era, like couples strolling handin-hand down the deck. When he performed the song and sang that lyric, his friend broke

down and cried.

“Apparently, her parents were one of the couples strolling hand-in-hand on the deck,” Franzen said.

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n FRANZEN CONTINUED FROM 4 Franzen had previously written a song about it, and said he looks forward to performing it at next year’s festival.

“If I do a song, I want to sing it at the place I’m writing about,” Franzen said. “What I do is a little niche in the music world. Lighthouse people are a lot of fun. There’s so much material: Every lake boat, every lighthouse has a story, and music is a fun way to tell it.”

Franzen attributes his foray into the world of music to his wife, Ruth.

“We went up to Northern Michigan with the expressed interest of talking to lighthouse owners,” Franzen said.

After a three-hour conversation with a widowed woman who believed her husband haunted her home at the Presque Isle Lighthouse, the woman said to Franzen, “In all those years we stayed there, it was our honeymoon cottage.”

The moment particularly struck Ruth. She wrote the memory into a song, “The ghosts of old Presque Isle,” and gave it as a Christmas present to Franzen.

“I wanted to sing it at the lighthouse,” Franzen said.

Franzen performed his first 45 minute set at the Presque Isle Lighthouse during a festival and was very well-received, he said.

“Once I got the bug, it just never went away,” Franzen said.

Franzen’s career began when he dropped out of college to manage a cable TV affiliate.

He shortly went back to his radio roots and

landed a full-time job at a station in Michigan. After stringing features and columns together for the Detroit News and the Plymouth Journal, Franzen took a job at the Lapeer, Mich. District Court as the magistrate.

In 1987, there was a controversy over the construction date of the Lapeer Courthouse. The editor of the local newspaper wrote a blurb that said, “Why does no one know why the courthouse was built?”

Franzen said he thought this was ridiculous too.

“It was then that I started looking deeper in to the story of the courthouse and I found the story of the courthouse was really the story of the county,” Franzen said.

His intense research led to his 1990 book, “Squabble City: The Story of the Court House War and the People Who Fought It.” Tired of questions from police officers and citizens about what to expect in the courtroom, Franzen decided to write a book to help people through the process. After authoring “Your Day in Court: Navigating Your Way Through the Courts” in 2000, Franzen soon turned back to journalism and writing.

The Wayne, Mich. media group was home to many of Franzen’s columns, for which he was honored by the Michigan chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists.

“I didn’t get tired of the writing, I got tired of the accounting,” Franzen said, explaining why he dropped out of the newspaper business.

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Toledoan writesClassics religious inspired poetry book Rave Cinema she said, and enjoys reading poetry and litBy Hannah Nusser – Levis Commons erature. Pringle said her poetry is a gift from Toledo Free Press Star Writer star@toledofreepress.com

It was 1993. In the quiet and comfort of her front room, Toledo resident Beverly Pringle let the Holy Spirit pour through her pen as she wrote an inspirational poem, “A Prayer for You.” Seventeen years later, Pringle, 49, released her first book of poetry, titled after that very poem.

“A Prayer for You,” a collection of 22 uplifting poems, was published in May. “An idea came to me,” she said.

“I didn’t write the poems down saying, ‘Oh, I’m just going to put a book together.’ I wrote the poems down and the spirit came over me, [as if to say] take the poems and put them together in a book and then the book can be beneficial to someone, to be able to help them.”

Pringle is hopeful her poems will reach people from all walks of life, lifting spirits in times of pain or suffering.

“It is hopefully going to be a message that will be administered to churches, to people that have needs: maybe the homeless, maybe people in nursing homes, people in hospitals,” she said.

She was a strong writer from childhood,

God. “A Prayer for You” also contains passages from the Bible; Pringle chose passages that motivated her to write.

“I’ll read the Bible and the words I’ve read … kind of stem into writing something in a poem,” she said of some of her motivations.

Her family was also a driving force in the creation of the book, she said, as family members contributed several poems and pictures to the book. Her 12-year-old daughter, LaSweeta, contributed the opening poem, “Flowers Everywhere,” to the collection.

The poet comes from a large, artistic family, with three brothers and three sisters. Her father and uncle play guitar, she said, and many of her nephews are musically inclined. She has a niece in interior design and a cousin who designs jewelry.

“We’re all kind of into creativity,” she said.

“It’s a blessing.”

Pringle, a member of Mount Pilgrim Church on North Detroit Avenue, was born in Alabama and moved to Toledo at the age of 4.

The paperback book is published through RoseDog Books Publishing in Pittsburgh, Pa.; it is available for $10 online at www. rosedogbookstore.com or by calling 1-800834-1803. O

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“We decided we wanted to do winter tours not only to showcase these incredible houses, but to also let people know Old West End is an incredible neighborhood to live in,” she said. “It is a neighborhood of neighbors. We all know each other down here and we work on many projects together.”

In addition to showcasing the neighborhood, the tour allows visitors to experience and appreciate the history of one of Toledo’s oldest neighborhoods, Moore said. Many of the houses were built in the late 1800s and early 1900s.

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Down the street, Dennis Lange’s home will also be on tour. Lange got involved with the tour again to show his commitment to the neighborhood, he said.

“I’m just one of those people who can’t say no,” Lange said.

Lange will have individuals leading tours throughout the first and second floor of his 1892 home. Groups will get to enter the rooms and really see them, he said.

Lange, who has a large collection of Santas, will have more than 300 on display. In addition, he has one yearround Christmas-themed room in his home.

While all the homes are within walking distance of each other, shuttle service is available, Moore said. Shuttles will run from the Park Lane Luxury Apartments, 142 23rd St., to each house.

Tours de Noel is from noon to 7 p.m. Dec. 5.

Tickets for the tour are $15 a person or $10 for those 55 and older. Tickets can be purchased the day of the event or by calling (419) 244-4921.

In addition to the tour, a gift boutique featuring 12 different vendors will be setup within the Park Lane Apartments. Vendors will have many affordable gifts including jewelry, candles and homemade soaps, Moore said.

Also at Park Lane Apartments is the annual Arboretum Cookie Walk, benefiting the Old West End’s Agnes Reynolds Jackson Arboretum.

Each year more than 5,000 cookies are made and sold by Old West End residents to help cover the costs of the park.

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Holiday tours at Wolcott House

By Sarah Ottney Toledo Free Press Star Writer star@toledofreepress.com

“The kids in girl and boy land will have a jubilee, they’re going to build a toy land town all around the Christmas tree.” Staff at The Wolcott House in Maumee have done just that for the museum’s annual holiday guided tours, which started Nov. 18.

This year’s theme is “The Joys and Toys of Christmas Past,” with each room decorated to depict a Christmas of a different era, ranging from the mid-1800s to the 1930s, said curator Marilyn Wendler.

The theme was chosen to showcase some of the museum’s collection that isn’t always seen, said museum store manager Judy Walrod.

“We just started talking about it and we have so many toys that people don’t see,” Walrod said.

Many pieces were taken out of storage to display while others were taken from other parts of the museum and rearranged into Christmas scenes. Displays include children’s tea sets, teddy bears, trains, books, metal toys from the turn of the century and a dollhouse and dolls from around the world, some dating from the 1840s, Wendler said.

One room depicts the 1930s, during the Great Depression, a time period many people have compared to today, Wendler said.

“How did parents cope and manage to buy

toys for their children? They had to make do and often hand-made the toys,” Wendler said. “We wanted to try to show what children played with and how they managed to make it during the Depression.”

The Maumee Garden Club decorated a room depicting a turn-of-the-century-era Christmas, including a collection of teddy bears, which became popular during that time because of President Teddy Roosevelt, Wendler said.

Another room, decorated with a Christmas scene from the early Victorian period of the 1850-1860s, features recently installed wallpaper hand-blocked from an original 1930s pattern.

Holiday tours last about an hour and will run Thursday through Sunday at 12:30 p.m. and 2:30 p.m. through Sunday, Dec. 19. Admission is $3.50 for adults, $3 for seniors and $1.50 for students. The museum, at 1035 River Road in Maumee.

Also coming up at the museum: Wednesday, Dec. 1: Christmas Tea in the Wolcott House, 1 p.m., $18, reservations required. Tea and holiday food favorites served.

Saturday, Dec. 4: Holiday Tea and Tours in the Wolcott House, 12:30-3:30 p.m., $3 for adults, $2.50 for seniors, $2 for students. Tea, hot chocolate and sweets will be served.

Thursday-Sunday, Dec. 16-19: Inventory clearance sale at museum store, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

For more information, visit www. wolcotthouse.com or call (419) 893-9602. O

Rooms in the Wolcott House are decorated for the holiday season PHOTO BY Charlie Longton

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“Boxing is very much like popgoesjeff@gmail.com being a lawyer. It’s you against the other side. There’s one other opMarc Saggese leads a compliponent. You’re responsible for all cated life. He’s one of the country’s your well-done things, and you’re most prominent defense lawyers, also responsible for all your errors practicing in Las Vegas. He’s the inand shortcomings and losses,” he spiration for one of the lead charsaid. “And it is very much a fight, acters in the new hit CBS drama being a lawyer.”

“The Defenders.” He served as a It’s not a fight Saggese has to captain in the army. face alone. He and his partner, The more one learns about the Michael Cristalli, have practiced young attorney, the more one finds together in Vegas since 2004. Both to learn. For example: Saggese curmen grew up in the same city ­— rently has a 3-0 record as a profesbut, strangely, never met until sional boxer. they both lived in Las Vegas.

“I was training — to stay fit, “I had flown out to Las Vegas and stay focused — and the trainer Saggese to set up shop and a practice,” I had was a professional boxing Saggese said of his arrival in 1999. trainer,” Saggese said in an interview. “He gave me some compliments, and some “I met up with a family friend, who was from commentary related to the fact that I hit as hard Michael’s and my home town of Utica. And this as, and could compete on an entry level with, individual said, ‘You’re a young guy here in Las Vegas, you’re an attorney from Utica, there’s some of these pros he trains.”

Years after he first competed as an amateur, someone else here just like you.’”

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“Come to find out, he just lived a couple miles from my house his whole life.”

The firm of Cristalli & Saggese has been a staple of the Las Vegas legal scene for more than five years now. They had semi-regular dealings with the media relating to various cases, so when a documentary crew asked to shoot at their firm for a film, the pair had no problems.

“They were much more passive, much more flies-on-the-wall. They would be with us at 7 a.m., they would be with us at midnight. You just kind of get used to them being there. You’d forget that they were there half the time. So, we were comfortable very quickly with that type of passive filming.”

The documentary crew was originally telling the story of their client, but the interaction between the two lawyers was so compelling, Cristalli and Saggese were soon pitched the idea of a reality show/docudrama centered on them. That show, however, would be done in by logistics before ever reaching the air.

“CBS determined, correctly, that there would be some difficulty with filming open cases and active clients, and then airing the issues on TV. It would affect the outcome of the case; there would be a lot of liability. So they determined that it would be best if they could dramatize the issues, and dramatize the

Marc Saggese, left, and Michael Cristalli, third, pose with the stars of “The Defenders,” Jim Belushi and Jerry O’Connell.

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clients, and dramatize Michael and I. And we agreed wholeheartedly.”

Saggese said that he and his partner are very involved with the making of “The Defenders.”

The partners had a say in many levels of the show’s development, right down to choosing the actors who would portray their televised counterparts.

Saggese admitted to being very critical of actors being considered to play Pete Kaczmarek,

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Saggese said he thinks the show brings an important element to legal dramas that usually tend to focus on prosecutors.

“I’m sick of that formulaic nonsense, because it’s not true. It is one half of the legal world. But on TV, it’s like a hundred percent. So, to have the show be successful, it really means a lot to me, because finally, people will see defense attorneys — or just attorneys in general — as likable people.” O

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the character based on himself. Until, that is, he was sent Jerry O’Connell’s picture.

“I saw it and went, ‘I love that guy! He’s great! I love it! Awesome!’,” Saggese said. “And I remember sharing it with Cristalli — going in his office and saying, ‘Hey, look!’ with my laptop in hand. I showed him my laptop and said, ‘That’s the guy.’”

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That means more Toby Keith, Garth Brooks, Reba McEntire, Rascal Flatts and many more. The Wolf, 107.7 FM, is proudly locally owned and operated by Toledo Radio LLC. This is Northwest Ohio’s answer to the increasingly large demand for country music.

The Wolf is based in the heart of Downtown Toledo. In order to make this happen for Toledo, Toledo Radio LLC, donated its original transmitter, tower, antenna and land in North Baltimore to the University of Findlay. This allowed the university to upgrade its noncommercial station, WLFC, from a mere 155 watts to a whopping 4600 watts and allowed WPFX to move its 107.7 frequency to Toledo. Its current tower is located in a prime location along Interstate 75 just south of Perrysburg.

Dan Dudley, co-owner and president, has been instrumental in the history of Toledo broadcasting. He was involved with the development of stations like WIOT, as well as breaking in new markets like the mid-’90s success Buzz 106.5 FM— a perfect example of Dudley leading his team ahead of the curve and taking risks that have paid off for Toledo and surrounding areas.

Even Kid Rock contributes some of his rise to success with his first multiplatinum

album to the local support of stations like the Buzz.

For those of you who remember, Kid Rock was local here. (Yes, Kid Rock was spinning records and slinging his tapes right here in Downtown Toledo, our own backyard.)

After Dudley’s decades of success in radio and after the Buzz was sold in 2000, he decided he would retire. This retirement didn’t last and as we tune in on our FM dial, Dudley didn’t walk away.

Dudley saw and claimed Kc SAINT an excellent opportunity he couldn’t deny and picked up a frequency that could move from Findlay to Toledo.

Knowing he had a successful staff from The Buzz he could still count on, Dudley decided to give Toledoans something he claims they haven’t had for 20 years — a country-variety independent radio station, 107.7 on the dial, Wolf.

Real country variety isn’t something new to radio but it is new to Toledo and has already made quite an impact. The Wolf hit

the airwaves early in November and strategically started its broadcast by playing 10,000 songs back-to-back to boast its more-musicless-talk broadcast, delivering 50 minutes of music every hour.

Craig Snyder, the Wolf ’s premier radio personality is glad to be with the Wolf.

Snyder worked 10 years with the other country station in Toledo, before taking a chance with the new alternative station, WBUZ, beginning a gratifying relationship with Dudley. Snyder is now again on a team with Dudley, led

by Laura Hart, 107.7 FM’s general manager. Hart started working in radio in the early ’90s with 94.5 FM and eventually, as careers developed, decided to make her move with Toledo Radio’s 106.5 FM and her success continues with Toledo Radio, LLC. Hart knows Toledo, and knows it is a very competitive market and loves what she does. She is confident that with the talent and staff at the Wolf that Toledo will

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To ultimately guarantee success, WPFX takes guidance from Rusty Walker, a 25-year veteran and seven-time Country Consultant of the Year. Walker is labeled as possibly country radio’s greatest programmer and is also on the Country Music Association Board of Directors.

With his guidance 107.7 FM is guaranteed to be a contender in the consistent battle for ratings among stations.

Country currently leads, holding 14 points in this market, almost twice the points of the next station. The Wolf gives 50 minutes of music every hour and still handles all your traffic, news and weather. Take a minute to check it out on your FM dial or tell a country-loving friend; good things are happening for Toledo.

WPFX 107.7 FM is located at 720 Water St. 4th Floor. O Kc Saint John is a glass artist and fire-breather who enjoys teaching and creating with a focus in glass. He works to develop talent and promote unity and information within the community.

He is a former Chicago WEA A&R Rep and major label multiplatinum talent manager of Chicago’s infamous cabaret Metro Smart Bar and is now back in Toledo’s Old West End, “Enjoying Toledo and all it has to offer.” Kc owns Lost Peninsula Arts & Glass; a music/art school and gallery and manages The Glass Dojo, a collaborating artists’ group.

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omeone must have told the winter we’re not ready for it yet.

I don’t know about you, but every day that I don’t see snow is a reason to celebrate!

A couple organizations in Toledo felt the same way, and are making December the precedent for wonderful things to come in the New Year.

For the fourth year, the Diabetes Awareness Red Carpet Event Fashion Show will help raise awareness of diabetes while providing entertainment for people of all ages. What separates this fashion show from other shows of its kind with people walking down a stage wearing clothes, is the cultural aspect.

There are seven different scenes with accompanying fashion, ranging from Hip-Hop urban wear to a yacht scene to a kids scene. Thanks to local and national businesses like Priceless Designs, Charlotte Rousse and Caroleah’s Hair and Beauty Salon, each scene will have a unique look and feel to it.

Clubs advisor and choreographer Shawanda Johnson understands how difficult it can become to draw a crowd to something other than Free Before 11 at the club.

Even though diabetes is most prevalent in the African-American community, “we’re the ones that really aren’t trying to find a cure,” Johnson stressed.

So in an effort to attract younger people to the show, there are more than just models walking down a runway.

There are LIL dancers, spoken-word artists and musicians.

R&B crooner Tracy will perform, as well as female rapper E~B and Owens Dance Express.

The show will be “entertaining and educational” for all who attend, Johnson said.

The Diabetes Awareness Red Carpet Event Fashion Show will be this Friday, Dec. 3 at Owens Community College

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The cash proceeds will buy more unwrapped toys, which will be distributed to the Family House, and a few families that the Hands Over Hearts Organization has decided to help.

Both the Diabetes Awareness Red Carpet Event Fashion Show and Dunkin’ 4 Donations will provide so much entertainment, you won’t even realize you’re doing a good deed! (Is that more encouragement to go?) O

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Just a couple weeks after the Fashion Show is a basketball tournament like nothing you’ve ever seen (unless you saw the tournament last year).

Dunkin’ 4 Donations is a basketball championship with teams of local entertainment groups.

Each team competes until there is only one left, to whom the trophy and bragging rights go.

Organizers Tracy Haynes (yes, the singer), David Ross and Damon Hogan from Hogan’s Bail Bonds saw a depressed economy in 2009 amidst the recession, and felt no child should go without the joys of the holidays because times were hard. Instead of talking about it, they organized a charity basketball event.

Haynes was ready to change the negative stereotype carried by young African-Americans in Toledo, and wanted to “show that the youth can come together and do something positive.”

Last year’s game was a huge success, and this year can only get bigger. With regionally known teams such as the Swagger Boys, Hustle Hand and ATL competing, and a surprise musical performance, this year’s game will be talked about well into 2011.

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where their families could continue to visit and offer gifts, Knudsen said. As long as their names lived on, they would live forever, she said.

“Here in Toledo, every time we repeat [the individuals featured in the exhibit’s] names, according to their own beliefs, we strengthen their existence,” Knudsen said. “So, they are living forever. They’re just doing it in Toledo, Ohio, not in Egypt.”

The exhibition’s artwork ranges from the time of early Egyptians, before the pyramids were built, to the early Christian period.

“Ancient Egyptians had a series of interesting ways of thinking about death and immortality, which began long before the pyramids were built and

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ndividuals will experience ancient Egyptians’ approach to life and the afterlife as they explore the Toledo Museum of Art’s (TMA) exhibit, “The Egypt Experience: Secrets of the Tomb.”

“The reason we’re doing this exhibit is people keep asking ‘Where are the mummies?’” said Sandra Knudsen, the exhibition’s curator. “This is an art museum and for the last generation or more art museums have hesitated putting human remains on view because they are not works of art and they deserve very special care and consideration.

“However, when I was asked this question one more time by Rod Bigelow, then active director, I said we could probably put them out if we very carefully managed to put them into context; so the mummy itself is the kernel where the vast amount of ancient Egyptian funeral objects, architecture, coffins, rituals, prayers and ancestor practices all are displayed around it.”

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“Inside a tomb, there would be a place that you can still looked like a door that was believed to be the find strong evidence of spiritual door where the Ka of the dead person this thousands of years later,” Knudsen said. “You literally could communicate,” Knudsen said. can see some of the early images of the way they “Sometimes it was a closed door, sometimes you represent themselves, the way they talk about had a statue of the deceased there and sometimes their bodies and their souls and follow through you had a window. Where the statue, in a hidden [the exhibit] and see how it becomes more soroom call the serdab, could look out through the phisticated and more complex over time.” slit and commune with people and The exhibit is designed to showreceive the aromas of the good food case how architecture and objects that had been cooked.” inside tombs were intended to make Elsewhere in the exhibit is a hole the mummy comfortable, Knudsen in the wall that peers into a mural said. Tombs could be laid out like of the tomb chapel of Aket-hotep. homes with storage rooms and Two reliefs, pieces of the wall, from some of the most elaborate tombs the chapel will also be on display. even had bathrooms, she said.

Toward the end of the exhibit, is Egyptians would also be buried an interactive display of the Hall of with objects that may be used in the Judgment. Individuals will hear the afterlife, including jewelry, makeup 42 questions of the gods for which instruments and toys, Knudsen said.

Egyptians would have to offer negaIn The Egypt Experience: Setive confessions to before entering crets of the Tomb, patrons will wind Sandra Knudsen the afterlife. their way through the exhibit, enThese negative confessions countering 12 individuals, different Egyptians would have to be able to state to enter architecture and various objects along the way. the afterlife include: “I have not stolen”; “I have Upon entering the exhibit visitors will encounter false doors from a mastaba tomb not killed”; “I have not blocked a running stream”;

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TMA Families with children 10 and The museum encouryounger can also parages individuals to become ticipate in handsmembers and see the exand “I have not eaten the cakes of on activities hibit as many times as the dead,” Knudsen said. during “I Want they’d like.

The exhibit will also feature My Mummy,” at “Like all your faTMA’s two mummies with informathe Family Fun vorite T.V. shows, you tion from forensic and radiological Center the week can enjoy it on mulstudies that tell about their ages, of Dec. 26. tiple levels,” Knudsen genders and lifestyles.

Children will said. “We hope some One mummy is unwrapped, but also be able to will say ‘I reis displayed inside a 42-inch tall create a mini sarmember this’ and sarcophagus, giving individuals cophagus during someone says ‘I the option to not view the body. this time. The don’t, let’s go back Some of the objects in the center is open and see it again.’” exhibition are owned by the from noon to Membership TMA, with many acquired 5:30 p.m. Sunday to TMA is $75 a by the museum’s founder Edand 10 a.m. to 3 family, $60 for seward Drummond Libbey on p.m. on Tuesday nior couples and $55 his trips to Egypt. Other oband Thursday. for individuals. For jects on display are on loan from “Hands-on acmore information on various institutions including The tivities are geared memberships, visit the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Ancient Egyptian. toward everybody.

TMA website at www.toIndiana University Art Museum, Portrait of a Woman. Tempera If you’re a child ledomuseum.org.

The Field Museum and the Orion linden wood panel you can do it on In addition to the exental Museum Institute of the Unione level, but if hibit, the museum will feaversity of Chicago. you’re an adult you can do it on another level. ture a number of Egyptian programs during The 18-month exhibit opened They are really fun,” Weinberg said.

The Egypt Experience: Secrets of the Tomb’s Oct. 29 and has exceeded atAll programs are free and open to the public.

18-month run. tendance expectations, said Teri Also running concurrently with the special “Our goal is to create the kind of proSharp, public relations manager for exhibit is “Travelers Through Ancient Lands,” grams that complement the exhibition and the museum. More than 500 mufeaturing paper artworks of Egypt. This exhibibring people in, something they would like seum members toured the exhibition is free and open through Feb. 6. to do,” said Judy Weinberg, program coordition during its pre-exhibit party the TMA is open Tuesdays to Thursdays from 10 nator at TMA. evening before the display opened a.m. to 4 p.m., Friday from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m., Programs include hands-on activities, films to the public, she said.

Saturday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Sunday noon and lectures.

The Egypt Experience: Seto 6 p.m. The museum is closed on Christmas.

The classic film, “Abbott & Costello crets of the Tomb is a ticketed Admission to TMA is free.

Meet the Mummy,” was shown Nov. 26 exhibition. The exhibit is During December if patrons spend $25 in the and more mummy-themed movies are free for museum members Ancient Egyptian. Cartonnage museum gift store, or café, their parking is free. scheduled to come. and children younger than of the Lady Ankh-Tesh. Wood with paint, For more information about upcoming events, Hands-on activities in6. Prices for nonPtolemaic Period Ancient Egyptian. Shabti (servant figure) visit www.toledomusuem.org. O cluded “Secrets of the Mummy, ” members are $10 for of Henut-wedjebu. Wood with the chance to create a mini saradults, $8 for seniors Egyptian blue inlays and black pigment, Background: Ancient Egyptian. Shabti (servant figure) of Henut-wedjebu. cophagus, on Nov. 26. and $5 for students.

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What’s what, where and when in NW Ohio

Compiled by Whitney Meschke Events are subject to change.

MUSIC The Ark This small venue offers a showcase for lesser-known acts, as well as folk, bluegrass and acoustic acts. 316 S. Main St., Ann Arbor, Mich. (734) 761-1451, (734) 761-1800 or www.theark.org.

O J.J. Grey, Mofro, Daryl Hance: 8 p.m. Dec. 1, $22.

O Lil’ Ed and the Blues Imperials: 8 p.m. Dec. 2, $15.

O Orpheum Bell, Lac La Belle, Danny Kline: 8 p.m. Dec. 3, $15.

O The Gibson Brothers, Detour Bluegrass: 8 p.m. Dec. 4, $15.

O Over the Rhine: 7:30 p.m. Dec. 5, $25.

O John Berry: 8 p.m. Dec. 6, $25.

O Lee Murdock: 8 p.m. Dec. 7, $15.

O Concert for Peace, featuring Chris Buhalis, Stewart Francke, Jay Stielstra, Annie and Rod Capps, Hana Malhas, Laz and Friends, Stella, Dave Boutette, John Latini, Dave Keeney and Sophia Hanifi, FUBAR, the Ann Arbor Bicycle Choir, LaRon Williams, Mr. B: 7:30 p.m. Dec. 9, $15-$20.

O Lucy Kaplansky: 8 p.m. Dec. 10, $17.50.

The Blarney Irish Pub Catch local acts while taking in the pub’s modern Irish and American fare. 601 Monroe St. (419) 418-2339 or www. theblarneyirishpub.com.

O Rick Whited: Dec. 2.

O Jeff Stewart & the 25s: Dec. 3.

O The Earregulars: Dec. 4.

O Jeff Stewart: Dec. 9.

O Toast & Jam: Dec. 10.

Blind Pig A variety of rock, soul, pop and alternative acts perform at this bar. 208 S. First St., Ann Arbor, Mich. $3-$20 unless noted. (734) 996-8555 or blindpigmusic.com.

O Prhyme Rhyme Boss, London Homicide, Versatai, Tree City, Mason’s Motif, Tru Klassick: 9 p.m. Dec. 1.

O Frontier Ruckus, Cotton Jones, White Pines: 9 p.m. Dec. 2.

O Ann Arbor Soul Club, Robert Wells, Brad Hales: Dec. 3.

O The Muggs, Cetan Clawson, Laith Al-Saadi: 9:30 p.m. Dec. 4.

O Langhorne Slim, Ryan Lauder, Black Jake & the Carnies: 9 p.m. Dec. 7.

O Bryan Greenberg: 8 p.m. Dec. 8.

O Crown Royale, Magestick Legend, Guilty Simpson, New Jack Kings, Tres Styles, DJ Graffiti, DJ Rhettmatic: 9:30 p.m. Dec. 9.

O The Mighty Diamonds, Yellow Wall Dub Squad, London Homicide: 8 p.m. Dec. 10.

Bronze Boar Be sure to check out this Warehouse District tavern’s namesake, overhead near the entrance. 20 S. Huron St. (419) 244-2627 or www.bronzeboar.com.

O Jerod: Wednesdays and Thursdays.

O Open mic night with Chris Knopp: Mondays.

O Karaoke: Tuesdays.

O See Alice: Dec. 3.

O Bush League: Dec. 4.

O Gin Bunny: Dec. 10.

Brooklyn’s Daily Grind Coffee and music, what more can one want? If a snack is the answer, this is your spot. 723 Airport Hwy., Holland. (419) 724-1433 or www.brooklynscafe.com.

O Argentinean tango: 6:30-9 p.m. Dec. 2.

O Gene Zenz and Friends: Dec. 9.

Caesars Windsor If you have your passport, consider hopping the Detroit River for this casino’s entertainment offerings. Ticket prices, in Canadian dollars, are for the cheapest seats; attendees must be 19 or older. Caesars Windsor Colosseum, 377 Riverside Dr. East, Windsor, Ontario. (800) 991-7777 or www.caesarswindsor.com.

O Classic Christmas: 2 and 8 p.m. Dec. 2, $15.

O Sylvia Browne: 9 p.m. Dec. 4, $15.

O Mannheim Steamroller: 9 p.m. Dec. 10, $25.

Cheetah’s Den A different band performs each week. 702 E. Broadway St. (419) 754-1903.

O DJ Lamont: Tuesdays.

O Devious: Thursdays (also open mic night)-Saturdays.

The Distillery Karaoke is offered Tuesdays, but paid entertainers rock out Wednesdays-Saturdays. 4311 Heatherdowns Blvd. (419) 382-1444 or www.thedistilleryonline.com.

O Nathan Cogan: Dec. 1.

O DJ Party: Dec. 2.

O City Limit Sundown: Dec. 3-4.

O Greg Aranda: Dec. 7.

O Nathan Cogan: Dec. 8.

O The Bridges: Dec. 9-11.

Ice Restaurant & Bar This local, family-owned enterprise offers food, drinks and music in a sleek atmosphere. 405 Madison Ave. (419) 2463339 or icerestaurantandbar.com.

O Kirbys: 7 p.m. Dec. 3.

O Ronn Daniels: 8 p.m. Dec. 4.

O Postmodern Blues Band: 9 p.m. Dec. 10.

Kerrytown Concert House

Serving blues and similar sounds, as well as bayoustyle grub. Levis Commons, 6140 Levis Commons Blvd., Perrysburg. (419) 931-3474 or fatfishfunnybonetoledo.com.

O Bourbon Street: 9:30 p.m. Dec. 10; 9 p.m. Dec. 11, $2.

This venue focuses on classical, jazz and opera artists and music. 415 N. Fourth Ave., Ann Arbor, Mich. $5-$30, unless noted. (734) 769-2999 or www.kerrytownconcerthouse.com.

O Ben Miller: 8 p.m. Dec. 2.

O Detroit Symphony Orchestra: 8 p.m. Dec. 3.

O Today’s Brass Quintet: 11 a.m. Dec. 4.

Frankie’s

Manhattan’s

Toledo’s venue for rock. 308 Main St. Tickets vary between $5 and $15, unless noted. (419) 693-5300 or www.

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O Auto Tune karaoke: 9 p.m. Mondays.

O Deals Gone Bad, El Blanco Diablo: 7 p.m. Dec. 1.

O Kid Liberty, With the Punches This Is a Lifetime: 6 p.m. Dec. 5.

O Ice Nine Kills, His Name Was Iron, A Violent Perfection: 6 p.m. Dec. 7.

O Cary Ann Hearst, Michael Trent, Owlwood: 9 p.m. Dec. 9.

O TeamNate, The Fight Within, MindFish, Don’t Fear the Sun: 9 p.m. Dec. 10.

This “slice of the Big Apple” in the Glass City puts on a show for the weekends. 1516 Adams St. (419) 243-6675 or www. manhattanstoledo.com.

O Cynthia Kaay Bennett: 6 p.m. Dec. 1.

O Quick Trio: 6 p.m. Dec. 2.

O John Barile: Dec. 3.

O Tom Turner & Slowburn: Dec. 4.

O Jon Jelinger Trio: 6 p.m. Dec. 9.

Fat Fish Blue

French Quarter J. Pat’s Pub Live entertainment at 9:30 p.m. Fridays-Saturdays. Holiday Inn, 10630 Fremont Pike, Perrysburg. (419) 874-3111 or www.hifq.com.

O Green Eye Soul: Dec. 3-4.

O Larry Kane: Dec. 10-11.

Headliners All ages, all genres are welcome. 4500 N. Detroit Ave. Ticket prices vary between $5 and $15, unless noted otherwise.

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O Evans Blue, Rains, Lifeline: 7 p.m. Dec. 2.

Mickey Finn’s A variety of genres to wash your drinks down with. Open mic nights, 9 p.m. Wednesdays, no cover; $5-$7 cover other nights. 602 Lagrange St. (419) 246-3466 or www. mickeyfinnspub.com.

O Tokyo Police Club, Words After, the Miracle Vitamins: 8:30 p.m. Dec. 2.

Murphy’s Place Jazz — straight, smooth, bebop or traditional — all kinds are played here. 151 Water St. $4, unless stated otherwise.

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O Clifford Murphy and Claude Black: 8 p.m. Dec. 1.

O Ellie Martin: Dec. 3.

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O Glenda McFarlin: Dec. 4.

O Dominick Farinacci: Dec. 10.

Broadway Boys

8 p.m. Thursdays, South Briar Restaurant, 5147 S. Main St., Sylvania. (419) 517-1111 or (419) 708-0265.

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O Memphis May Fire: 5:30 p.m.

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O Panama (Van Halen tribute): 9 p.m. Dec. 10.

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Ottawa Tavern Casual meals with weekend entertainment. 1815 Adams St. (419) 725-5483 or www.otavern.com.

O Icarus Himself: 10 p.m. Dec. 3.

O Great Lakes Crew, TeamNate, Nathan Mattimoe, Yusef Lateef: 10 p.m. Dec. 4.

O Frank & Jesse, Thirty Three and 1/3: 10 p.m. Dec. 10.

Choirs Christmas concert

The Maumee Community Band will join the singers in this participatory show featuring holiday standards.

Franciscan Theatre & Conference Center, Lourdes College, 6832 Convent Blvd., Sylvania. (419) 824-3772 or www.lourdes.edu/music.

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Dancing is encouraged. 8-10:30 p.m. Tuesdays, Trotter’s Tavern, 5131 Heatherdowns Blvd. (419) 381-2079 or (419) 708-0265.

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Some of the city’s most talented performers entertain museum-goers during TMA’s It’s Friday events.

6:30-9:30 p.m. Dec. 3, Cloister, 2445 Monroe St. (419) 255-8000 or toledomuseum.org.

TMA concerts Visual and audible arts combine for a new experience. Great Gallery (unless noted), 2445 Monroe St. (419) 255-8000 or toledomuseum.org.

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O Rejoice Handbell Choir: 7:30 p.m. Dec. 10.

The Village Idiot

Regional entertainers will perform in an intimate setting.

7:30 p.m. Dec. 3, Ritz Theatre, 20 S. Washington St., Tiffin. $10. (419) 448-8544 or www.ritztheatre.org.

Tunes combined with pizza and booze, some would say it’s a perfect combination. 309 Conant St., Maumee. (419) 8937281, (419) 740-2395 or www.villageidiotmaumee.com.

O Old West End Records: Wednesdays.

O Mark Mikel: Friday afternoons and Tuesday nights.

O Bob Rex: Sunday afternoons.

O Frankie May, Ben Barefoot: Mondays.

O Polka Floyd: Dec. 4.

O The Nu-Tones: Dec. 10.

UT concerts The university’s music students and friends will perform the pieces they’ve been perfecting. (419) 530-2452, (419) 5302448 or www.utoledo.edu/boxoffice.

O UT Symphony Orchestra: 8 p.m. Dec. 2, Doermann Theater, University Hall, 2801 W. Bancroft St. O UT Jazz Holiday Concert: 8 p.m. Dec. 4, Doermann Theater, University Hall, 2801 W. Bancroft St. $3-$10.

O UT Community Band & Tuba Christmas: 8 p.m. Dec. 5, Doermann Theater, University Hall, 2801 W. Bancroft St. O UT Symphonic Band & Wind Ensemble: 8 p.m. Dec. 8, Doermann Theater, University Hall, 2801 W. Bancroft St.

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This group from New York City will sing new arrangements of classic pop and show tunes. 7:30 p.m. Dec. 4, Perrysburg High School auditorium, 13385 Roachton Road, Perrysburg. $12-$18. (419) 874-3181 or www.nextstagestudios.com

The Keller Brothers This talented sibling trio blends voices in performance of operatic songs, hymns and pop tunes. 7 p.m. Dec. 7, Point Place Branch Library, 2727 117th St. (419) 259-5390, www. toledolibrary.org or www.thekellerbrothers.com.

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Carriage rides Visitors can glide through this shopping center as jingling bells and clip-clopping hooves provide the soundtrack. Proceeds will benefit Maumee Valley Habitat for Humanity. 5-8 p.m. Fridays-Saturdays and 1-4 p.m. Sundays through Dec. 19, pickup location is next to the Gap, Shops at Fallen Timbers, 3100 Main St., Maumee. $5 a family. (419) 878-6255 or www. theshopsatfallentimbers.com.

Wolcott House Museum Complex The house will be decorated for the holidays, and visitors also can examine “The Elegance of the Edwardian Era” exhibit and get guided tours at 12:30 and 2:30 p.m. Noon4:30 Thursdays-Sundays through Dec. 20, Wolcott House Museum, 1031 River Road, Maumee. $2.50-$5. (419) 8939602 or www.wolcotthouse.org.

Lights Before Christmas This Toledo tradition, now celebrating its 25th year, is all about illumination — a million lights, lighted animal images, dancing lights — as well as ice-carving, model

Eight trees will feature traditions of holidays past, present and future and offer tips for creating and decorating at home. 10 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Tuesdays-Sundays (until 8 p.m. Wednesdays) through Jan. 6, University of Michigan Matthaei Botanical Gardens conservatory, 1800 N. Dixboro Road, Ann Arbor, Mich. (734) 647-7600 or www.lsa.umich.edu/mbg.

Hayes Train Special “The spirit of holidays past is revived” with an operating 12-foot by 24-foot, three-tier layout and model trains in styles relating to the life of 19th U.S. President Rutherford B. Hayes; visitors can act as engineers. 9 a.m.-5 p.m.

Tuesdays-Saturdays and noon-5p.m. Sundays through Jan. 9, Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center, Spiegel Grove, Hayes and Buckland Avenues, Fremont. $3-$7.50. (419) 332-2081, (800) 998-7737 or www.rbhayes.org.

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Dec. 6: “Scrooge – A Christmas Carol” a 1938 film with Reginald Owen and Gene Lockhart.

Tickets are $2 for the Cinema Classics series, which runs Mondays at 1 p.m. The lobby opens half an hour before the show. The Rave Motion Pictures Cinema Classics series is sponsored by Toledo Free Press Star and the Area Office on Aging. JB’s Sarnie Shoppe at Levis Commons will join Toledo Free Press Star in a social networking promotion that will award a weekly winner with free lunch for two. For more information, call (419) 874-2154 and watch www. facebook.com/toledofreepress for contest and weekly promotion details. O

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Jingle Bell Ball Swingmania will perform for this dance. 7-11 p.m. Dec. 3, Stranahan Theater, 4645 Heatherdowns Blvd. $5. (419) 708-0265, (419) 381-8851, www.swingmania.org or www. stranahantheater.com.

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Proceeds from the sales of Bittersweet Farms artists’ one-of-a-kind pieces will help to maintain the art studio, wood shop and horticulture programs, which assist individuals with autism. 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Dec. 3, 10 and 17, administration building, Bittersweet Farms, 12660 Archbold-Whitehouse Road, Whitehouse. (419) 875-6986 or www.bittersweetfarms.org.

Heralding the Holidays Area artists will offer their pottery, glass, fine art, photography, jewelry and additional creations as unique holiday gifts. Entertainment, food, children’s activities and visits with Santa will be offered, and Friday’s events will include free horse-drawn wagon rides and a tree-lighting ceremony at 7. 5-9 p.m. Dec. 3; 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Dec. 4; and noon-5p.m.

Dec. 5, Toledo Botanical Garden, 5403 Elmer Dr. (419) 5365566 or toledogarden.org.

“Meet Me in St. Louis” Over the course of the year before the 1904 World’s Fair, a family prepares to move from their Missouri home in this musical based on the Vincent Minnelli movie. 8 p.m. Dec. 3-4 and 10-11; 3 p.m. Dec. 5 and 12, Croswell Opera House, 129 E. Maumee St., Adrian, Mich. $15-$22. (517) 264-7469 or www.croswell.org.

“It’s a Wonderful Life” A musical version of the story about a good man in hard times and the angel sent to help him see the value of life. 7 p.m. Dec. 2, 9, 16; 8 p.m. Dec. 3, 10, 17; 3 and 8 p.m. Dec. 4, 11, 18; 3 p.m. Dec. 5, 9, 12, 16, 19; Encore Musical Theatre, 3126 Broad St., Dexter, Mich. $25-$28; $35-$38 for the Dec. 18 cabaret night. (734) 268-6200 or www.theencoretheatre.org.

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The Old Lights of Holiday Nights This program traces the origins of the modern calendar and holiday celebrations. 7:30 p.m. Dec. 3, 10 and 17, UT’s Ritter Planetarium, 2801 W. Bancroft St. $5-$6. (419) 530-4037, (419) 530-2650 or www.rpbo.utoledo.edu.

A Winter’s Sale UT art students and faculty hope the thought of cookies and hot chocolate — not to mention purchasing unique art — will entice patrons to this event. 6-9 p.m. Dec. 3 and 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Dec. 4, UT’s Center for the Visual Arts, 620 Grove Place. (419) 530-8300.

“A Christmas Story” Ralphie dreams of a Red Ryder BB gun, escaping the neighborhood bully and life as a Little Orphan Annie secret agent.

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O Film: 4 p.m. Dec. 5, Michigan Theater, 603 E. Liberty St., Ann Arbor, Mich. (734) 768-8397, (734) 668-8463 or www. michtheater.org.

“The Santaland Diaries” and “Season’s Greetings”

Glacity Theatre Collective will enact David Sedaris’ tale about his stint being elf at Macy’s and a housewife’s efforts to keep holiday traditions alive while her family falls apart. 8 p.m. Dec. 3-4 and 10-11; and 2 p.m. Dec. 5 and 12, Valentine Theatre’s Studio A, 410 Adams St. $20. (419) 242-2787 or glacity.org.

Holiday Lantern Tours Experience a turn-of-the-century Christmas by candlelight with costumed interpreters leading the way, sharing customs and celebrations of the 1900s in Northwest Ohio.

4-8:30 p.m. Dec. 3-4 and 10-11, Sauder Village, 22611 Route 2, Archbold. $6-$10. (800) 590-9755 or www. saudervillage.org.

Tree and gazebo lighting Santa will welcome children and adults with refreshments and entertainment. 3:30 p.m. Dec. 4, Old West End Common’s Park, Robinwood Avenue and Bancroft Street. (419) 244-4921 or www.womenoftheoldwestendinc.com.

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Lil' Timbers Kids Klub

Santa will greet visitors in downtown Sylvania, plus cocoa, cookies and carriage rides will be available. 4:307:30 p.m. Dec. 4, downtown Sylvania. (419) 882-4865 or www.cityofsylvania.com.

Mrs. Claus and Santa will be on hand for a holiday story, milk and cookies. 1 p.m. Dec. 4, Shops at Fallen Timbers, 3100 Main St., Maumee. (419) 878-6255 or www. theshopsatfallentimbers.com

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Lee Greenwood’s Christmas Show

The Perrysburg Symphony Chorale will be joined by the Children’s Choir of Northwest Ohio and SonoNovo Chamber Ensemble to celebrate the holidays with traditional seasonal music, including “The Messiah.” 7:30 p.m. Dec. 4, St. Rose Catholic Church, 215 E. Front St., Perrysburg. $5-$10. www. perrysburgsymphonychorale.org.

Greenwood will present holiday melodies from modern interpretations of the classics to originals. 7:30 p.m. Dec. 4, Central Auditorium, 200 W. Main Cross St., Findlay. $28-$33.

(419) 422-4624 or www.artspartnership.com.

Christmas Choral Concert Dinner & Dance

The Teutonia Maennerchor and Damenchor will provide Germanic holiday tunes to accompany the prosciuttostuffed chicken dinner. 5 p.m. Dec. 4, Oak Shade Grove, 3624 Seaman Road, Oregon. $9 concert/dance; $20 with dinner. (419) 691-4116, (734) 847-2416 or www. gafsociety.org.

Breakfast with Santa Christmas carolers will provide the tunes for this meal with the North Pole’s big man. Games and crafts are planned, and breakfast is all you can eat and photos with Santa will be offered. 8-11 a.m. Dec. 4, Northview High School cafeteria, 5403 Silica Dr., Sylvania. $5 meal; $5 photos. (567) 686-6602.

Breakfast with Santa Join Santa Claus for a breakfast buffet, entertainment and giveaways. 8:30 and 10 a.m. Dec. 4, Granite City, Shops at Fallen Timbers, 3100 Main St., Maumee. $7 (benefits Maumee Valley Habitat for Humanity). (419) 878-6255 or www.theshopsatfallentimbers.com

Olde Fashioned Christmas Firefighters will lead Santa through Oak Harbor to Adolphus Kraemer Park (West Main and North Church streets) to light the village Christmas tree. Afterward, children can share their wish lists with the elf in chief, get cookies and cocoa and shop for gifts. 4:15 p.m. Dec. 4, Portage Fire Station, 242 W. Water St., Oak Harbor. (419) 898-0479 or www.oakharborohio.net.

Santa’s Secret Star Visitors can hear about how Santa Claus lost his way one winter, but used the stars to find his way home to the North Pole. Ritter Planetarium-Brooks Observatory. 1 p.m. Dec. 4, 11 and 18, UT’s Ritter Planetarium, 2801 W. Bancroft St. $5-$6. (419) 5304037, (419) 530-2650 or www.rpbo.utoledo.edu.

“A Christmas Carol” A miser gets a second chance to live a life filled with more than money in this Toledo Rep production featuring a live orchestra and choreography. 2 and 8 p.m. Dec. 4 and 2 p.m.

Dec. 5, Stranahan Theater; 4645 Heatherdowns Blvd. $15$25. (419) 381-8851 or www.toledorep.org.

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‘Don’t Call Me Shirley’ “Surely, you can’t be serious.”

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n the time since news broke of Leslie Nielsen’s death on Nov. 28 at the age of 84, fans have taken to the Web to pay their respects to the actor, frequently citing moments and quoting JEFF lines from his work. The exchange above, however, has proven far and away the most oft-repeated of them all.

Small wonder. That simple, two-line piece of comic dialogue has long since taken its place in the pantheon of classic film moments. Long in the future, fans of movie comedy will still speak of Buster Keaton on the train, Harold Lloyd on the clock, Charlie Chaplin boxing, Woody Allen and the spider as big as a Buick, Christopher Guest and his amp that goes to 11 and Leslie Nielsen’s protest to not be called Shirley.

Looking at the exchange in print doesn’t do it justice. Indeed, the line in lesser hands would be hokey and weak. It would produce a bad laugh, if it got a laugh at all. The fact that it will stand the test of time is a tribute to the comedic talents of the actors delivering it — Nielsen in particular.

I’ve watched that moment countless times in the years since I was first exposed to “Airplane” at the tender age of 7. Exposure to the broad-yet-hilarious comedy helped shape my sense of humor. And as I grew, I found that while most of the movies I laughed at and loved as a child aged poorly, this one still holds up as a rare comedic gem— as have most of the films by its makers, Jim Abrahams and the Zucker brothers.

The ZAZ team, as they were called, had many techniques that distinguished their work from the run-of-the-mill satirists that dominated Hollywood then and still dominate now.

ZAZ movies weren’t just content to put one joke on screen at one time — they filled their frame with visual and background gags, so the audience would always have to pay attention.

They increased the pace, so the audience was never sure when the next joke might hit. They were fearless, and didn’t care how obvious or silly a gag might be.

And they were smart enough to fill their movies with good, dramatic actors, instead of well-known comedians. Under someone else’s supervision, one of the old guard of show biz comics could easily have been given Nielsen’s role in “Airplane.” Henny Youngman, perhaps, or maybe Buddy Hackett. But this would have been fatal to the role, the film, and that line.

When you watch the movie, you never see

a moment where someone is straining for comic effect. No one looks at the audience for a wink, or pauses to build up the joke. Nothing is delivered with traditional “timing.”

Indeed, Graves and Nielsen say their lines completely straight, never even hinting that they might be funny.

This, of course, makes them funnier still.

“Surely, you can’t be serious,” Graves intones dramatically, after the doctor has informed him that the plane must land as soon as possible. “I am serious,” a grave-faced Nielsen says in a somber tone. After all, they have a plane full of passengers dying of food poisoning.

“And don’t call me Shirley,” he adds, with the same grave-face and tone. Because, after all, he called him Shirley.

Nielsen’s early career as a straight-laced and handsome actor made him wildly unlikely to become a buffoonish comedy legend, but then

mCGINNIS

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again, it also made him perfect for the role. He was willing to laugh at himself, but still acted as though every line had been penned by Tennessee Williams himself. Like Graves, Robert Stack, Lloyd Bridges and others, his ability to see the humor without seeming to see the humor, honed through years as a basic “dramatic” actor, re-introduced Nielsen to a whole new generation of fans who had never even heard of his earlier work.

And now, an entire generation of actors — comedic and dramatic alike — could stand to learn from Nielsen’s example. So many people in entertainment today take themselves way too seriously, and could stand to take a few jabs at their public image once in a while. And so many comic actors feel the need to overplay every line to excess, mugging at the camera and generally acting like they just downed 40 shots of pure caffeine just before the camera rolled.

Their work may be popular short-term, but nine times out of 10, it will be forgotten as soon as the movie ends. The straightforward, understated yet still incredibly goofy “Don’t call me Shirley” will live forever.

Raise a glass and tip a hat to the man who made that moment work, and work brilliantly.

You will be missed, Mr. Nielsen. O

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