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On the Silver Screen: 'Battleship,' 'What to Expect When You're Expecting'

We've got your movie times for the Palladium 12 and Birmingham 8 for May 18-20.

Looking to take in a movie this weekend? Battleship opens at the Palladium 12 while What to Expect When You're Expecting opens at the Birmingham 8. Friday Film Rating Showtime (p.m. unless otherwise noted) Battleship PG-13 11 a.m.; 12:30; 2; 3:45; 5:15; 7; 8:30; 10:15; 11:45 Dark Shadows PG-13 11:30 a.m.; 12:15; 1:30; 2:30; 3:15; 4:15; 5:30; 6:15; 8:10; 9; 10; 11; 11:55 Marvel’s The Avengers PG-13 Noon; 1:15; 3:20; 4:30; 6:45; 8; 10:10; 11:15 Marvel’s The Avengers 3D PG-13 11 a.m.; 2:20; 5:45; 9:15 The Dictator R 11:45 a.m.; 1; 2:15; 3:30; 4:45; 6; 7:15; 8:15; 9:30; 10:45; 11:55 The Hunger Games PG-13 11:15 a.m.; 3; 6:30; 9:45 Think Like a Man PG-13 11 a.m.; 1:45; 5; 7:45; 10:30 Saturday Film Rating Showtime (p.m. unless otherwise noted) …

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Linda Solomon Talks About Starting Photo Career at Birmingham Paper

In new video profile, local celebrity photographer recalls early work for the Eccentric

Lesbian Birmingham Filmmaker to Create Anti-Bullying Film

Amy Weber, the lesbian mother who spoke up against Troy Mayor Janice Daniels at a December Troy City Council meeting, is working on the fictional documentary-style movie 'The Bully Chronicles' to raise bullying awareness.

Bullying. It's a hot topic, it's seemingly everywhere, and it's the focus of award-winning Birmingham filmmaker and lesbian mom Amy Weber's upcoming film, The Bully Chronicles. "In light of the past events with Mayor Daniels, as well as for kids across this country struggling each and every day, I have decided to move forward with a project that is very personal to me – The Bully Chronicles, a movement toward change in the form of a narrative feature film shot in an unscripted documentary style," Weber wrote in an email to Patch. In December, Weber and her wife Tina stood up with their two young daughters to publicly comment on Daniels' Facebook post at a Troy City Council meeting just days after the mayor's anti-gay Facebook status …

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Library Picks: Newest Book from Toni Morrison and More

Also new at Baldwin Public Library is 'In One Person' by John Irving and the film 'The Vow.'

What's new at Baldwin Public Library this week? Check out this week's Library Picks, courtesy of Baldwin librarians: Home by Toni Morrison Frank Money is an angry, self-loathing veteran of the Korean War who, after traumatic experiences on the front lines, finds himself back in racist America with more than just physical scars. His home may seem alien to him, but he is shocked out of his crippling apathy by the need to rescue his medically abused younger sister and take her back to the small Georgia town they come from and that he’s hated all his life. As Frank revisits his memories from childhood and the war that have left him questioning his sense of self, he discovers a profound courage he had thought he could never possess again. In …

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On the Silver Screen: 'Marvel's The Avengers' Comes to the Palladium

We've got your movie times for the Palladium 12 and Birmingham 8 for May 4-6.

Looking to take in a movie this weekend? Marvel's The Avengers opens at the Palladium 12 while The Giant Mechanical Man opens at the Birmingham 8. Friday Film Rating Showtimes (p.m. unless otherwise noted) Chimpanzee G 11:30 a.m.; 2; 4:15; 6:30; 9 Marvel’s The Avengers PG-13 11 a.m.; 12:30; 2:15; 3:45; 5:30; 7:30; 8:45; 10:15; 10:45; 11:55 Marvel’s The Avengers 3D PG-13 11:45 a.m.; 1:30; 3; 4:45; 6:15; 8; 9:30; 11:15 Safe R 11:40 a.m.; 2:10; 4:30; 6:50; 9:15; 11:55 The Cabin in the Woods R 4; 9:45 The Hunger Games PG-13 1; 4:20; 7:40; 11 The Pirates! Band of Misfits PG 12:30; 2:45; 5:15; 7:45; 10 The Pirates! Band of Misfits 3D PG 11 a.m.; 1:45; 6:45 The Raven R Noon; 2:30; 5; 7:30 The Three Stooges PG Noon; 2:30; 5 Think Like a Man PG-13 …

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Books? Designers' Show House Has Them Covered

See how interior designers get clever with books galore in various rooms at the Junior League of Detroit Grosse Pointe Shores' home tour, which opens Saturday.

Books seem to be everywhere. Not only are they in homes and on bookshelves, but paperbacks and hardcovers aplenty are also adorning window displays at apparel shops and boutiques and in fashion designer and home-furnishings ad campaigns. There's even book-page wallpaper.  Books are wearable, too. Kate Spade, in fact, introduced clutches that replicate classic tomes, from Romeo and Juliet to Emma to The Importance of Being Earnest. Is this our way of holding on to physical books in our Nook-ish, Kindle-ized world of “E?”   Perhaps, and that may be why many of the designers at the Junior League of Detroit's (JLD) 2012 Show House used books in a variety of displays. They cherish books not only for design inspiration but also as intriguing …

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Last Chance: Only a Few More Days to Check Out Michigan Fine Arts Competition

Planning ahead for the week? Don't miss these important deadlines.

This week, don't miss your last chance to: Michigan Fine Arts Competition exhibit wraps up Friday The entries and winners from the 2012 Michigan Fine Arts Competition will only be on display for a few more days at the Birmingham Bloomfield Art Center (BBAC). The exhibit ends Friday. Lynn Spanke of Detroit won the top prize in this year's competition, during which 177 artists from around the state submitted 236 pieces of all shapes, sizes and mediums. Spanke's piece "We Believe in Dreams" won her $5,000. Artists from Troy, Holly and Bloomfield Hills also placed. The exhibit is free and open to the public during normal gallery hours. The BBAC is open Monday through Thursday 9 a.m.-5 p.m. and Friday and Saturday 9 a.m.-6 p.m. Know about an …

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Home and Garden

Designers' Show House Showcases Pewabic Tile

Want a glimpse of Detroit's artistic past? Check out the stunning, several-decades-old tile work during the Detroit Junior League's stylish house tour in Grosse Pointe Shores.

Soon, the Junior League of Detroit (JLD) will open the doors to its 2012 Designers’ Show House, located at 22 Webber Place in Grosse Pointe Shores. The massive 10,304-square-foot house, which was built in 1928 as the home of Oscar Webber, nephew of Joseph L. Hudson, is undergoing a magical transformation, thanks to design specialists who hail from everywhere from Ferndale, South Lyon, Plymouth, Royal Oak and Birmingham to Rochester, Clinton Township, Grosse Pointe and Troy. For several weeks, dozens of interior designers, painters, electricians, power washers, boutique staff and more have been working at the renowned home, designed by architect Leonard B. Willeke. Open to the public May 5-20, the Show House features seven bedrooms, a third…

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