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Grave matters in Paris

By Madame X

What you don't need is one more account of Paris's Celebrated landmarks.

Let's by-pass the fashionable Champs-Elysees and the tawdry Place Pigalle in favor of a Metro ride to the venerable Cimetiere Pere Lachaise, La Cemetery, named in honor of one Father LaChaise, confessor to Louis XIV.

Now that you've been brought to this unlikely site, you discover hill after hil compacted with ponderous stone monuments and mausoleums. Even at a distance, the aura is much like that of a movie set from some gothic thriller of Biograph Studio days.

However, the gentleman at the cemetery entrance is not a set designer.

He's an attendant who, for a franc, provides you with a list of interred notables and with a map of marginal usefulness given the formidable terrain and congestion of graves.

Surprises occur everywhere as you seek out famous personages in historical range from Heloise and Abelard to Jim Morrison. Check your list again and doubtless you'll quickly notice names of some kindred spirits: Frederic Chopin, Gertrude Stein and, patriarch, Oscar Wilde.

Finding Chopin's tomb was particularly pleasant for me. Despite some circuitous and nonplused searching, I was for: tunate to encounter a very comely gentleman of whom I asked, "Excusez-moi, monsieur, mais le tombeau de Chopin, ou' est-il?"

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Happily, he was able to direct. me, but, even if he had been ignorant of it, I wouldn't have minded a bit. And now, Voila'le, tombeau de Chopin bestrewed with flowers and flanked with burning candles. Considering the locale, I thought this not too unusual..

However, some explanation for this apparent vigil occurred

by my noticing near the tomb an ethereal looking woman in a gray hat and dress with a lavender. scarf.

The ghost of Georges Sand, perhaps? After this almost metaphysical experience, my next objective was concrete, to find Stein. This search was fruitless, and just as well, because a possible visit from Alice B. would have been too uncanny at that moment.

Oscar I found with relative ease, and his tomb is almost worth the visit itself. The monument features a massive, rather art deco, strangely postured, nude angel with its genitalia missing.

This I assume to be the work of a vandal.

Furthermore, the purloined. privates seem to add a bizarre dimension to a theory of sociology that all acts of vandalism are symbolic.

Do not, however, end your tour with Oscar. Go on to contemplate also the unsung and their monuments, noticing in them the often graphic or sometimes quaint expressions of bereavement.

Be careful, however.

Monument hunting at Father Lachaise can become so intriguing that, despite your aching feet, you might want to continue looking at "just one more", and you might miss all the divertissement. provided by our living kindred spirits who haunt the area near." the Opera. But that's not a tour; that's a trip.

Ninth annual Michigan Women's Music Festival

Once again the yearly madness approaches. Next month from August 13 through the 16th the wonders of the 9th annual Michigan Women's Music Festival will once again call women from all over the United States and Canada. This yearly four day event features the top names in Women's music. Last year almost 10,000 women made the pilgrimage to a quiet little town in Michigan.

Although the publicity has not yet been received listing this year's artists, the releases should be received soon. Please keep an eye out for further details at the · GEAR Community Center and Coventry Books.

For the uninitiated, the Music Festival is held in a remote area of Michigan. A low cost covers vegetarian meals and the concerts. Tenting is the order of the day. Physically handicapped challenged are welcome and planned for.

.So watch for details coming soon... and find out what you've been missing.

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1. Another Place---MF, S 140 Payne Ave....... Dean's Lounge---M,D 11120 Clifton Blvd........ '. Exedra---MF, D, S

· 762 E. 18th St............ Godmothers II--F, D

2014 E. 63rd St........

Key's---M, Z

2211 E. 9th ...............

.... 522-9452

961-7407

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18. Downtown Book & News

1352 W. 6th St..............

...... 861-4869

19. Blue Bijou Cinema

2006 Prospect Ave.......................... 694-3722

....361-5172

....... 566-0060

Leather Stallion---M, L

2203 St. Clair ............

881-1432

7. Michael's Last Call Saloon---M

2350 St. Clair .........

8. Nantucket---M

11624 Clifton Blvd......

281-7188

9. New Dimensions---MF, D, S

1012 Sumner Court...............

621-6900

10. Pickwood Lounge---M

11633 Clifton Blvd.........

11. 620 Club---M, D, S

221-6040

620 Frankford NW .......

241-9719

12. Sumner Trucking Co.---M, D

1020 Sumner Court......................................................... 621-9243

13. Traxx---MF, D

1273 W. 9th St.........

241-1769

14. 2402 Club---MF, D, S

2402 St. Clair .........

....694-9823

15. Vaults---M

1281 W. 9th St.......... HS

6. Club Cleveland

1448 W. 32nd St..............

7. West 9th Club Baths

1293 W. 9th St........

241-8677

961-2727.

20. GAY COMMUNITY CENTER 2641 W. 14th St....................

..... 621-6546

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F-Mostly Women

MF-Mixed

D-Dancing

L-Leather

Z-Dress Code

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