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Week of November 20-26, 2014 Volume 6, Number 47Off The Water | The place to be entertained.

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SPOTLIGHT

Nobodies of ComedySecond annual stand-up comedy event returns to the LMC Mendel Center Mainstage Thanksgiving weekend

BENTON TOWNSHIP, Mich. – After eating too much turkey,

watching too much TV and spending too much time in the stores this Thanks-giving, it will be time for southwest Michigan to get off the couch and have some laughs. The second Annual Nobodies of Comedy is coming to the Lake Michigan College Mendel Center Mainstage Thanksgiving weekend on Saturday, Nov. 29, at 8 p.m. as part of the Artists You Should Know series.

Mendel Center leaders have scoured the country for the funniest and most outrageous comics they have ever seen and guess what... you’ve never even heard of them. But all that’s about to change. The eve-ning will feature nearly two hours of stand-up com-edy with the best “unknown” comedians from across the country rolled into one hilarious show. No over-hyped stars, just hilarious comics and a great night out with guar-anteed laughs.

Comedians scheduled to appear are Adrienne Iapalucci, Liz Miele, Dwayne Murphy, Jr., and Mark Walton. They are all on the national touring cir-cuit having appeared on Comedy Central, Letterman, and other TV comedy outlets.

Adrienne IapalucciBorn in the Bronx,

Adrienne Iapalucci’s skewed look on life is reflected in her unique brand of intelligent comedy. Her dark sense of humor is enhanced by her political incorrectness, and counter-acted by her love of pup-pies.

She has been featured in the Daily News, New York Times, and Stage Time Magazine. She was named by Huffington Post as one of their 53 Favorite Female Comedians and “Top 18 Women You Should be Following on Twitter.” She has appeared on David Letterman and was a semifi-nalist on season seven of NBC’s Last Comic Standing.

Liz MieleBy 18, Liz Miele was

turning heads with a profile in the humor issue of the The New Yorker Magazine. Now a “veteran” at 28, Liz is a regular at the best clubs in the city including Carolines, Gotham and Stand-up NY.

She tackles such topics as inter-racial dating, fear of walking home alone, and mental illness in her family with a sarcastic wit and youthful charm. She

was recently featured on Comedy Central’s Live at Gotham.

Dwayne Murphy, Jr.Dwayne Murphy, Jr. is a

small town kid with a big city personality and his comedy is reflective of that. From lamenting on his origins in Nebraska to real-izing that not all black peo-ple are city people, Dwayne brings a fresh voice to

audiences everywhere. In 2013, Dwayne toured North America with stops at numerous colleges, com-edy festivals, comedy clubs, and as an opening act for Loni Love. Dwayne is a comic on the rise with no ceiling in site.

Mark WaltonMark Walton technical-

ly began comedy in fourth grade when he performed a

short set to blank stares in Mrs. Mandiak’s class. He waited until he was a little bit older before writing and performing jokes again, but when he got on stage a few years back, the audience had a completely different reaction. Since then, Mark has kept audiences laugh-ing with his unique style, and has entertained on Sirius Satellite Radio, at comedy clubs, colleges,

and even at the Lucille Ball and Buffalo Lebowski Festivals.

The show contains adult language and content and is recommended for audi-ences 18 and older.

Tickets for the second Annual Nobodies of Comedy are $25 and $28 and are available by calling the LMC Mendel Center Box Office at (269) 927-1221 or visiting www.lmc-mainstage.org. Special rates are available for groups of 10 or more. For information about group rates, pre-show party options, and other special arrangements, contact Mike Nadolski at (269) 927-8109 or [email protected].

Patrons may upgrade their experience by adding a VIP package to their Stage Side and Platinum seats for just $20. The VIP package includes a meet and greet with the stars of the show, private pre-show and intermission party area with bar, two complimen-tary drinks and snacks, as well as prize drawings.

A cash bar will be open for all patrons one hour before show time and dur-ing intermission. Special Mendel Center drink cups are available for purchase, which allow patrons to enjoy their beverages inside the theater.

Rock 107 WIRX and Comcast Spotlight are sponsoring the LMC Mendel Center performance of Nobodies of Comedy.

The full line-up of LMC Mendel Center Mainstage entertainment can be found at www.lmcmainstage.org.

The Lake Michigan College Mendel Center is located just 40 minutes from Kalamazoo and South Bend on the Lake Michigan College Napier Avenue Campus in Benton Township, Michigan, one mile east of I-94 (Exit 30) and one mile west of the US 31 Bypass (exit 24).

The LMC Mendel Center Box Office is open Monday through Friday from 2 to 6 p.m., and one hour before show time. Tickets may be purchased in person, by phone at (269) 927-1221, or online at www.lmcmainstage.org.

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Clockwise from top: Adrienne Iapalucci, Dwayne Murphy, Jr., Liz Miele and Mark Walton.

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White Saturday Celebration returns to Buchanan Nov. 29BUCHANAN, Mich.

– As a kick-off to the 2014 holiday

shopping season and to promote shopping local, The Buchanan Art Center invites the public to its White Saturday Celebration — including BAC Gift Shop Artists’ Sale, and Raku Walk-Through Fundraiser on Saturday, Nov. 29, 2014, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Held in conjunction with the other planned efforts by fellow down-town Buchanan merchants, the BAC White Saturday Celebration will feature an expanded selection of unique, one-of-a–kind items from local artists cur-rently featured in the BAC gift shop.

Participating artists will have booth space through-

out the BAC galleries, and will be on hand to answer questions and/or craft their items during the sale. Holiday refreshments will be served.

The BAC will also offer its popular Raku Walk-Through Fundraiser. This event gives participants the chance to experience the “dynamic coming together of clay, fire, smoke and water” by offering pre-made pottery for glazing and firing in Raku kilns set-up behind the BAC. No RSVP is required. All ages are welcome, but children under 12 must be accompa-nied by an adult.

Pre-fired pieces avail-able for glazing and firing are priced between $10 and $25. All glazing must be done one hour before firing to allow time for drying.

The entire process takes approximately three hours. Please arrive no later than 3 p.m. to glaze.

The Buchanan Art

Center is located at 117 West Front Street in Buchanan, Michigan. The Center features three gal-leries with rotating exhibits of regional artists’ works, a program of educational art classes for all ages, and a gift shop offering works of local artists. Current hours are Monday – Thursday 10 a.m.- 6 p.m., Friday 10 a.m.–5 p.m., and Saturday 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.. Closed Sundays. More informa-tion, including a schedule of classes, can be obtained at the Center by calling 269-697-4005, or by visit-ing their website at: www.buchananartcenter.org.

ST. JOSEPH, Mich. — "Rust Belt Songwriters III" will be presented at The Box Factory for The Arts,

in St. Joseph, Michigan Saturday Nov. 29 at 7:30 pm.

Hosted by area songwriter Monte Michel Bleu, the concert will feature three (3) Midwestern songsmiths: Adrienne Frailey, Molly B Moon, and Jess Lucille, performing their compositions; "as they were written, one instrument/one voice."

Each artist will perform a solo seg-ment, and then “in the round” with all

three taking the stage and sharing songs and stories about the tunes, the song-writing process, and tales of life as a performing artist. A very intimate show for audiences and artists alike.

Tickets are $10 for adults, $8 for students and seniors and free for chil-dren under 12 with adult supervision.

The concert is dedicated in memory to the highly revered Northwest Indiana songwriter Larry Platz, who participat-ed in the previous Rust Belt concerts in 2012 and 2013.

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Inn at Harbor Shores celebrates winterPhoto gallery opens Dec. 5

BENTON HARBOR, Mich. — An artist’s reception featuring

photography by the artists in the permanent collection of the Inn at Harbor Shores is scheduled for Dec. 5th from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.

This is the third exhibit of the Gallery at the Inn in its inaugural year. The theme of the exhibit is the spirit of winter and the work, as always, is by pro-fessional Michigan artists and is focused on the natu-ral beauty of the winter season.

The featured artists are: Jan Nelson: born and raised in St Joseph, Michigan, Jan received her degree in pho-tography from the Center for Southwest Photographic Studies at Daytona State, Daytona Beach Florida. Jan considers herself a visual storyteller and her work in this exhibit focuses on close up botanical features remi-niscent of snowflakes.

Richard Hellyer: resid-ing in Sawyer, Michigan Richard is primarily a com-mercial photographer with a strong body of creative work. His artistic focus in this exhibit is landscape in winter with its gray white tones and starkness of form.

Robert E. Lee: living in Grand Rapids, Michigan Robert sees himself as a photojournalist art photog-

rapher capturing life in real time so he can show that life to others.

Brett Maniscalco: living in New Buffalo, Michigan Brett says of his work, “I shoot mostly local scenes,

both in black and white and in color, depending on how the image speaks to me. A photo is just a photo unless it can tell a story or evokes a memory or an emotion, and then it is art.”

Everyone is invited to come and celebrate the beginning of the winter season and all its beauty with this fine art exhibit at the Gallery at the Inn at the Inn at Harbor Shores.

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ST. JOSEPH, Mich. — The Twin City Players (TCP) will hold audi-tions for its March production of

the 2014-2015 season next month. Auditions for “The Dixie Swim Club,” book by Jessie Jones, Nicholas Hope and Jamie Wooten, directed by Larry Nielsen, will begin at 6 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 13 and 2 p.m. on Sunday, Dec. 14.

The Dixie Swim Clubs offers roles for five women.

Participants will be asked to perform selected readings and a comedic mono-logue from the script. They should also bring a monologue to perform or be prepared to read from one provided at auditions. Participants are asked to arrive early to fill out audition forms and check the tentative rehearsal schedule.

Auditions will be held at on TCP Campus at 600 West Glenlord Road,

St. Joseph, Michigan 49085. Perusal scripts are now available at

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is one of the oldest, continuously oper-ating community theaters in Michigan. It is a volunteer based nonprofit orga-nization that offers quality live theatre to the communities of southwest Michigan. The TCP Playhouse is located at 600 West Glenlord Road, St. Joseph, Michigan. New members are always welcome. For more informa-tion about TCP, call 269-429-0400 or visit us at twincityplayers.org.

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The line of spirits will be available exclusively at the distillery, which is located in the old Featherbone Factory in Three Oaks. The first

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While these Feather-bone Series spirits are a higher proof than the stan-dard 90 proof versions of these products, the pricing will be the same, repre-

senting an added value for the distillery’s visitors.

The series takes its name from the distillery’s location in the historic Featherbone Factory. Once the manufacturing center for E.K. Warren’s feather-bone corsets and buggy whips, the building now houses one of Michigan’s largest craft distillers.

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name for our distillery-exclusive spirits, we knew we wanted to honor the building’s past as the Featherbone Factory,” said Bill Welter, founder of Journeyman.

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I was walking through the grocery store last week and upon seeing

stacks and stacks of bagged fresh cranberries, it sud-denly hit me that Thanksgiving is right around the corner. Of all the squash and yam dishes I’ve been making recently, I’m not sure why it was the cranberries that made it click for me, but I figured I better get on it and get some holiday recipes out to you all.

The holidays are such an emotionally charged time and for many of us, the connection between food and emotions are much stronger than we think. Basically, all of our holidays center around food. I’m not going to get into it too much here, because I really want to dedicate this piece to the cranberry, but if you want

to eat well and avoid feel-ing alienated this holiday season, please visit my website where you’ll find some great vegetarian mains, most of which are gluten free as well.

There’s also plenty of potlucks for all walks of dietary restrictions. Search meet-up and facebook groups to find one that fits your needs. In the mean-time, on to the cranberry!

These tart fruits are a great compliment to many types of dishes. They add a nice punch to a sweet crisp or cookie, and a side of rel-ish or sauce serves to fresh-en up a rich holiday plate.

Of course, there are health benefits to this tart little berry too. Everytime I read about the nutrients and properties fruits and vege-tables, I get excited that delicious foods can help maintain and improve your

health. The cranberry, for example, is good for your cardiovascular system and your liver, and is a natural anti-bacterial that helps in the prevention of urinary tract infections and even stomach ulcers. Awesome, right?!

Cranberries can be enjoyed dried or fresh in equal measure. I find it’s nice to have dried ones around to toss in with nuts for trail mix, or add to cook-ies and breakfast breads for a little zip. Last fall, I was on a huge fresh cranberry kick, making the homemade cranberry sauce recipe I’m going to share below con-stantly.

It’s really easy and an impressive dish to pass at parties. My dad has always loved the canned version, but we were able to switch hit with this from scratch version with little resis-

¾ pound fresh or frozen cranberries1 tart apple, peeled and cut into ½ inch pieces1 ¼ cups organic (pure cane) sugar1/8 cup orange zest plus ¼ cup fresh orange juice (juice of 1 orange)1/8 teaspoon sea saltNatural cooking spray

In a medium saucepan, bring all ingredients to a simmer over medium to medium high heat. Cook, stirring often, for about 10 minutes or until cranberries burst and you have a nice thick jamlike consistency.Carefully transfer mixture to a blender or food processor and blend until smooth. You may want to remove the cap from the hole in the lid and cover with a towel or cheesecloth to allow some of the heat to escape.If you want a really smooth jelly, press through a wire mesh strainer and remove solids. Sometimes I like mine chunky so I skip this step. If you strain, you have to do it quickly before the mixture cools too much.Spray a jello mold or fluted cake pan with cooking spray and pour the mixture into a dish. Spread evenly with a rubber spatula. Cover with a silicone lid or plas-tic wrap coated in cooking spray. Press against surface and refrigerate for at least one hour to set. Unmold just before serving.

Cook’s Note: This dish is really best made 2-3 days prior to serving.

Tahini and Coconut Cookies with CranberryYield: about 2 dozen mini cookies, or 1 dozen large

¾ cup coconut oil½ cup tahini paste1 ½ cups organic sugar1 teaspoon baking powder½ teaspoon baking soda½ cup soy milk1 teaspoon vanilla extract1 ¼ cups Bob's Red Mill Gluten Free Flour Mix or whole wheat2 cups shredded, natural coconut (unsweetened)1 cup dried cranberries1 tablespoon black sesame seedszest of 1 lemon (about 1 1/2 teaspoon)

Melt coconut oil in the microwave so it’s easier to work with. Beat the coconut oil and tahini in an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment. Add the sugar, baking powder, and baking soda. Beat until combined, scraping the sides often.Next, beat in the soy milk and vanilla. Gradually add the flour then coconut, sesame seeds, lemon zest and cranberries. Make sure there are no dry ingredients at the very bottom of your stand mixer bowl.Preheat oven to 375 and line two baking sheets with parchment paper. Using a small icecream scoop or 1 teaspoon measure, scoop out small balls and place them on sheet, a couple inches apart. Lightly flatten top of the ball with your palm. Bake for 10-12 minutes, or until golden brown at edges. Let cool slightly, then transfer to a wire cooling rack.

tance. The cookies are a new

creation I came up with when I was out of peanut butter but had ample tahini. I’ve found a lot of people don’t know what to do with tahini, but it has so many delicious and versatile uses. Hopefully this will open your eyes to some of them. Bring these along to your fete for those who don’t like pie, or even for a little sweet treat at brunch or before the big meal.

Kat Barry, a St. Joseph, Michigan native, is owner

of Kat’s Hot Cakes vegan catering, and co author of “The New Chicago Diner Cookbook: Meat Free Recipes from America’s Veggie Diner.” She also develops recipes for eHow.com, where you can find over 30 of her vegan instructional cooking vid-eos. She is also a certified yoga instructor. Kat cur-rently resides in Chicago, and in her free time she enjoys prac-ticing yoga, s a m p l i n g local spirits, lis-

tening to live music, and getting outdoors. Follow @katshotcakes on twitter. Kat can be reached via email at: [email protected].

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Downtown South Bend’s Gingerbread Village returns

SOUTH BEND, Ind. — Bakers of all age and skill

levels are invited to enter Santa’s Gingerbread Village competition by submitting a Gingerbread House. The deadline for entry into the competi-tion is Monday, Dec. 1.

First place prizes will be awarded in three cat-egories that include non-professional child (18 and under), non-profes-sional (individual, fami-ly or group) and profes-sional (individual or group). A people’s choice first place prize will also be awarded.

Registration is free. Forms are available at the Downtown South Bend, Inc. (DTSB) office, 217 South Michigan St.; online at http://downtown-southbend.com/downtown- holidays/ginger-bread-village ; or by email at [email protected]. Completed entry forms should be mailed to DTSB, Gingerbread Village Competition, 217 S. Michigan St., South Bend, IN 46601 or faxed to (574) 233-7382 by Monday, Dec. 1.

Entries are to be dropped off, fully assembled, at the former College Football Hall of Fame from Dec. 3-5 between noon and 1 p.m. The ginger-bread village will be on display for public view-ing in the lobby of the former College Football Hall of Fame as part of Santa’s Workshop from Dec. 5 to 24.

Judging will take place on December 13th at 11 a.m. with prizes awarded at 3 p.m. Everyone is encouraged to attend and place their vote for the People’s Choice Award.

Entries will be judged on originality, design, craftsmanship, degree of difficulty and overall

appearance. Santa House and Santa’s Workshop are locat-

ed in downtown South Bend on the former College Football Hall of Fame campus. Hours are Friday, Dec. 5, 6:30 to 9 p.m.; Saturdays, Dec. 6, 13 and 20, noon to 6 p.m.; Sundays, Dec. 7, 14 and 21, noon to 4 p.m.; Friday, Dec. 12 and 19, 5 to 9 p.m.; and Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, Dec. 22, 23 and 24, noon to 4 p.m.

Admission to Santa House and Santa’s Workshop is free and open to children of all ages.

Free Santa Trolley rides, underwritten by TRANSPO, will be available on Dec. 5, 6, 13, 20, 22, 23 and 24.

In addition to the Gingerbread Village display, Santa’s Workshop offers free cookie decorating along with a variety of other fun, hands-on activities and crafts for children.

Santa’s Gingerbread Village competition is generously sponsored by Jordan Automotive Group. For more information on Santa’s Gingerbread Village call DTSB at 574.282.1110 or visit www.DowntownForTheHolidays.com.

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People from all over Michiana visit downtown South Bend each year to enter handmade gingerbread houses in the annual competition.

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Okay, that’s a bit harsh but annually holiday gather-ings can have their moments of tension. Why add to the tension by over thinking the menu or the wine choices? Keeping it simple is never better advice than around the holidays.

The annual Thanksgiving wine column is a staple for every wine writer. Today’s “Thanksgiving column is my seventh so I decided to look over advice and offer a ‘best-of’ remarks for the holiday bird and juice match up. After all, there are only a few dif-ferent ways to suggest the same wines.

“Thanksgiving is about family so make it a festive occasion,” I wrote back in 2011, still good advice. “Try a light sparkling wine before the big meal. It’s sure to be a hit. Look for a Spanish Cava, Italian Prosecco, or Gloria Ferrer’s delightful Sonoma County sparklers. For some-thing really festive and deli-cious, I love Banfi Rosa Regale. The Banfi wine sells for right at $20, has just seven percent alcohol, and is delicious.”

It’s hard to improve on that start to your dinner or holiday wine recommenda-tions.

Back in 2010 the col-umn was largely about tra-ditional Thanksgiving whites like Riesling which

offers nice fruit and bal-anced acidity for foul. The great thing about Riesling is the availability. Any wine shop, and most gro-cery stores and liquor shops, will have a Riesling. New York’s Finger Lakes and upper Michigan winer-ies all produce great Riesling. If you want the classics look to the German Mosel region and France’s Alsace versions.

A really great choice, and personal favorite, is unoaked Chardonnay. More specifically, a pre-mier cru or grand cru Chablis is unparalleled at the Thanksgiving table. The rich fruit along with the crisp acidity and min-eralality mixes perfectly with the bird and most of the side dishes. Good Chablis of such pedigree will set you back at least $25-$30 for starters. There are many Chablis wines, non appellation specific, for under $20. But give the cru wines a try for an important family holiday meal.

Indiana’s signature grape Traminette also works well if you like sweeter wines . Gewurztraminer was a very fashionable pick for years but Traminette substitutes nicely. You can enjoy a flo-ral, light-bodied wine and support Indiana’s wine industry. I prefer the drier versions of Indiana’s Traminette but they can be hard to find. Most Indiana Traminette has substantial residual sugar. A few win-

eries, like Turtle Run, Corydon, and others are producing Traminette in a dry version now days.

Pinot Noir is an easy red pick for your turkey and dressing but I prefer Beaujolais Grand Cru wines if I’m having red. No, we’re not talking about the gimmicky Beaujolais Nouveau wines but the Grand Crus wines which have some oak aging. There are 10 Beaujolais Grand Cru wines and all are reasonably priced in the mid to upper teens. Gamay is the grape of Beaujolais and it offers a wonderful light bodied wine with a wisp of earthiness that pairs well with the bird.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Howard W. Hewitt, Craw-fordsville, Indiana, writes about wine every other week for more than 20 Midwestern newspapers. Reach him at: [email protected]

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The Children’s Music Workshop will present Disney’s Peter Pan Jr. at the Lake Michigan College Mendel Cen-ter Mainstage in Ben-ton Harbor, featuring theatrical flying effects created by Hall Asso-ciates Flying Effects. Showtimes are 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday and 4 p.m. Sunday. Tickets are $10 for adults and $6 for se-niors and students.

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ing of one of the most loved holiday films. Di-rected by Arnie Saks, Acorn’s It’s A Wonder-ful Life features Mar-tha Cares as Mary, Bob Swan as Mr. Pot-ter, David Lahm on piano and Darren Ste-phens as Clarence. Dennis Scott will play a short pre-show con-cert on the Barton The-ater organ! Proceeds from this event will support Radio Harbor Country’s “Reach the Beach” campaign and Harbor Arts’ “Support the Acorn…It’s A Won-derful Theater” cam-paign. General admis-sion tickets are $15. Tickets for the VIP re-ception are $40.

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Sarett Nature Center’s annual Nature Book and Attic Art Sale takes place on Nov. 22 and 23 during regular business hours. Call the nature center at (269) 927-4832 for more details.

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Irving Berlin’s White Christmas performs in the Wilson Theatre, 403 N Main Street, South Bend, Nov. 28- Dec. 21. Performances times are 7:30 p.m. Wednesdays through Saturdays and 2 p.m. Sundays. Ticket prices are $18 Wednes-

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After eating too much tur-key, watching too much TV, spending too much time in the stores this Thanksgiving, it will be time for southwest Michi-gan to get off the couch and have some laughs. The 2nd Annual Nobod-ies of Comedy is com-ing to the Lake Michigan College Mendel Center Mainstage Thanksgiving weekend on Saturday, November 29, at 8 p.m.

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Kindle Your Christmas Spirit in Downtown Ber-rien Springs will be Thursday, Dec. 4 from 6 p.m. – 9 p.m. The downtown streets will be closed so visitors can en-joy strolling from store to store, listening to the out-

side musicians, watching ice carving, take a ride on the horse drawn car-riages or take a tram ride down to Grove Park and back to the festival an-other tram will be avail-able from the public li-brary to downtown.

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Experience “Camelot” as Lerner and Loewe envisioned it in one of theatre’s most legendary musicals. Recount the time-honored legend of King Arthur, Guenevere, Lancelot and the Knights of the Round Table in an enchanting fable of chivalry, majesty and brotherhood in this four-time Tony Award win-ning show. See the event page for pricing informa-tion.

Light Up the Bluff on Dec. 5 will transform Lake Bluff Park when the may-or flips the switch at 6:30 p.m. and a million lights twinkle on the community tree and holiday-themed displays. The light dis-play and music will con-tinue each evening until the end of December. The lights will then re-main on through Feb. 15 for Valentine’s Day plan-ning in Michigan’s Most Romantic City. This dis-play is sponsored by the St. Joseph Improvement Association.

Dec. 6

Tea With Ruth and Friends does a Victo-rian benefit Tea every December for Soup Of Success, an intensive 5 month job and life skills training program, in Elkhart. This year’s tea will be held Saturday, Dec. 6 at Living Faith Fellowship, 2601 Ben-ham Avenue in Elkhart, Indiana 46516 from 1 to 4 p.m. Suggested dona-tion is $5 and a nonper-ishable food pantry item or personal care items. Background music will be furnished by Adrienne Frailey. Tea sandwiches, salads, and desserts will accompany Downton Ab-bey Lord Grantham tea,

coffee, and Christmas punch.

Round Barn Winery, Distillery and Brewery, located in Baroda, Michi-gan, is gearing up for the holidays with its annual “Giggle & Mingle Toy Drive with Santa.” The family centered festivi-ties will take place Satur-day, Dec. 6 from 1 to 4 p.m. eastern time at the Round Barn Winery, Dis-tillery & Brewery (10983 Hills Road).

The 2014 Victorian Christmas Tea will be held December 6 from 1 until 4 p.m. at Living Faith Fellowship pn Ben-ham Avenue in Elkhart. We will be serving the Downtown Abbey tea as well as Good Earth Tea, Refinery Coffee, Christ-mas Punch, sandwiches, cookies, cakes, and fruits. Several new vendors are joining us this season. All proceeds to benefit Soup Of Success. Admission $5 and a non-perishable food product or personal care item. We do hope to see you!

Dec. 13

Barn Swallow closes out its season with “Christ-mas at Barn Swallow,” showcasing choirs and music ensembles from local schools, churches and performance groups.

Dec. 13-14

The Twin City Players (TCP) will host auditions for its March production of the 2014-2015 season next month. Auditions for The Dixie Swim Club, book by Jessie Jones, Nicholas Hope and Ja-mie Wooten, directed by Larry Nielsen, will begin at 6 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 13 and 2 p.m. on Sunday, Dec. 14.

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Everyone is invited to come meet two, live reindeer on Friday, Nov. 28, noon to 5 p.m., and Thursday, Dec. 18, 4 to 8:30 p.m. at the Silver

Beach Carousel. Entry is $1 per person (children 2 and under free) into Santa’s Christmas Cor-ral in the Shadowland Ballroom where you can pet these friendly, gentle animals of North Pole fame. Have a profes-sional keepsake photo taken with your family for just $3.

Dec. 19

The Lake Michigan Col-lege Mendel Center is giving the gift of laugher this holiday season with the Ha! Ha! Holidays Show – A Comedy Ex-travaganza on Friday, Dec. 19, at 7 p.m. as part of its new Hanson Liv-ing Room Series. Tickets for the Ha! Ha! Holidays Show – A Comedy Ex-travaganza are $15, and $10 for Mendel Center Mainstage series ticket holders, students, and seniors. They are avail-able by calling the LMC Mendel Center Box Of-

fice at (269) 927-1221 or visiting www.lmcmain-stage.org. For informa-tion about group rates, pre-show party options, and other special ar-rangements, contact Mike Nadolski at (269) 927-8109 or [email protected].

Dec. 19-21

For the first time ever, the

Twin City Players (TCP) will bring one of its sea-son’s productions to the Lake Michigan College Mendel Center Main-stage. Performances of the holiday musical The Christmas Schooner, book by John Reeger, music and lyrics by Julie Shannon and directed by Paul Mow, will be on Friday, Dec. 19 and Sat-urday, Dec. 20 at 8 p.m. and Sunday, Dec. 21 at 2 p.m.

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SOUTH BEND, Ind. — Based on the beloved, timeless film, “White

Christmas” is a heartwarming musical adaptation features many of Irving Berlin’s finest songs showcased in a book by David Ives and Paul Blake. World War II veterans Bob Wallace and Phil Davis have become a successful song-and-dance team.

When they meet a duo of beautiful singing sisters, they follow them to a Christmas show at a Vermont lodge, run by their former army commander. Featuring dazzling standards such as “Blue Skies,” “I Love a Piano, “How Deep is the Ocean,” this show will have you dream-ing of a “White Christmas.”

Critics have fallen in love with this delightful holiday musical: “White Christmas is enchanting as a first snow… Audiences drank it up like spiked egg nog” – San Francisco Examiner; “A jolly live extrava-ganza that only Scrooges can resist” – New York Magazine; “The show left me twinkling like a Christmas tree” – Minneapolis Star Tribune; “I don’t see how anyone who loves Broadway musicals can fail to

be pleased by so polished and ingenious a show,” – Wall Street Journal.

Jewel Abram-Copenhaver directs with Roy Bronkema as Music Director. The cast includes Laurie Balla, Lucy Barron, David Case, Alexandra Fontenot, Melaney Gabris, Morgan Garber, Zach Gassman, Dawn Hagerty, Chris Handy, Will Heckaman, Jill Hillman, Allan Holody, Bill Hunt, Allison Jean Jones, Sarah Klepinger, Libby Klesmith, Sean Leyes, Natalie MacRae, Lea Melton, Gary Oesch, Rachel Raska, Mandie Siems, Anna Thompson, Doug Thompson, Sara Walding, and Sara Womar Hawn.

“Irving Berlin’s White Christmas” performs in the Wilson Theatre, 403 N. Main Street, South Bend, Nov. 28- Dec. 21. Performances times are 7:30 p.m. Wednesdays through Saturdays and 2 p.m. Sundays. Ticket prices are $18 Wednesdays and Thursdays, and $21 Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays. To order tickets, call (574) 234-1112 or go online sbct.org.

Sponsors for “Irving Berlin’s White Christmas” are Villing and Company, Alfred H. and Martha J. Choitz, Holy Cross Village, and Lake City Bank.

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