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Friday, 6:35 p.m. & 9 p.m.; Saturday, 6:35 p.m.
Seal Of Approval
Hillel Day School and West Bloomfield High School grad Mark Leuchter's Seal
of Approval tells the story of a grad student on the cusp of getting his Ph.D. in reli-
gion and cinema. This Michigan Filmmaker Outreach Project (MFOP) film plays
at the Michigan Theater, 603 E. Liberty, in Ann Arbor. (734) 668-8480.
Friday, 7 p.m. & 9:30 p.m.
Touch Of Evil
The Detroit Film Theatre premieres the newly restored Orson Welles film
noir classic Touch of Evil, a thriller about police corruption in a seedy Mexican
border town. Originally shot in 1958, this new version, garnering rave reviews,
is edited according to Welles' original, newly discovered editing notes. Also plays
4, 7 and 9:30 p.m. Saturday and 4 and 7 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 26-27. At the DIA,
5200 Woodward Ave. $5.50. (313) 833-2323.
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Saturday, 6-8 p.m.
Redefining
The Art Of Painting
"I.D.Series," an exhibition of new works by
Beverly Fishman exhibits
Beverly Fishman, opens with a meet-the-artist
reception at the Susanne Hilberry Gallery. Head her work at the Susanne
Hilberry Gallery.
of painting at the Cranbrook Academy -of Art,
Fishman uses cellular images and a laser copier
to create photo-based collage paintings. Through Oct. 31. 555 S. Old Wood-
ward, Birmingham. (248) 642-8250.
Sunday, 7:30 p.m.
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The Cleveland Duo
Featuring Carolyn Gadiel Warner on violin and piano and violinist Stephen
Warner, the Cleveland Duo will be accompanied by James Umber on saxophone
in Temple Israel's Schmier Chapel Chamber Concert. 5725 Walnut Lake Road,
West Bloomfield. No charge. (248) 661-5700.
Sunday 6 p.m. & 8 p.m.
Surviving The Shoah
Showtime presents an evening of films about surviving the Holocaust, begin-
ning at 6 p.m. with An Island On Bird Street, based on the real-life experiences of
author Uri Olev, in which an 11-year-old boy creates a hideaway in a bombed-
out building in war-torn Poland. At 8 p.m., the Barbra Streisand/Cis Corman
produced Rescuers: Stories of Courage - Two Families follows a young woman
(Robin Tunney) who falls in love with a man (Michael Rappaport) from a Jewish
ghetto and a circus couple who hide Jews by posing them as big-top performers.
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1998
78 Detroit Jewish News
Musical
Notes
The 4th annual
Birmingham
Invitational
Marching Band
Festival welcomes
GAIL
bands
from nine
ZIMMERMAN
area
high
schools
Arts 6.
7 p.m. Saturday:
Entertainment
Sept. 26, at
Editor
Groves High
School, 20500
West 13 Mile Road, Beverly Hills.
$4/adults; $2 students/seniors; $10
family. (248) 203-3607.
The Lyric Chamber Ensemble pre-
sents Tango Fest, with double bass
player Tom Knific, jazz and classical
guitarist Gene Bertoncini and Peter
Soave on the bayan, accompanying
the Stardust Dance Studio dancers, 11
a.m. Sunday, Sept. 27, at the Gem
Theatre, 333 Madison Ave., Detroit.
$1-8/$25 with brunch; students and
seniors deduct $3.
Folk artist/songwriter Hugh Blu-
menfeld performs 2 p.m. Sunday,
Sept. 27, at Borders Books and Music,
34300 Woodward, Birmingham.
(248) 203-0005.
Adult-contemporary pianist Jim
Brickman brings his music to MSU's
Wharton Center for Performing Arts
in E. Lansing 7:30 p.m. Thursday,
Oct. 1. $16-$25. (517) 432-2000.
Recording artist and pianist Arthur
Greene performs 8 p.m. Friday, Oct.
2, in the premiere of the U-M School
of Music artist faculty recital series at
Kerrytown Concert House, 415 N.
Fourth Ave., Ann Arbor. $10-$25.
(734) 769-2999.
Neeme Jarvi conducts the DSO
with pianist Igor Zhukov at Orchestra
Hall in a concert of Scriabin's Poem of
Ecstacy and Piano Concerto and
Strauss' Ein Heldenben 8 p.m. Friday,
Oct 2; 8:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 3;
and 3 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 4. $13-$63.
(313) 576-5111.
On The Stage
The Mousetrap, Agatha Christie's
chilling tale of murder, mystery and
mayhem - and the longest-running
play on the London stage - opens
the 1998 Hilberry Theatre season 8
p.m. Friday, Oct. 2. It will run in
repertory with Shakespeare's Hamlet
and Moliere's Scapin through Dec. 3.
Call for showtimes. Cass and Han-
cock, in Detroit. $10-$17. (313) 577-
2972.
The Big Screen
The 6th annual Michigan Lesbian
and Gay Film Festival showcases work
by, about and of interest to gay men
and won-len, their family and friends.
At the AMC Abbey 8 Theatres, Oct.
2-8. 1-75 and 14 Mile Road, Madison
Heights. Call for showtimes and
prices. (248) 547-5878.
Laugh Lines
Dubbing herself "the founder of
Judyism,” American Comedy Award
winner Judy Tenuta brings her own
brand of humor to Chaplin's Comedy
Club 8:30 and 10:30 p.m. Friday and
Saturday, Sept. 25 and 26. 34244
Groesbeck, Clinton Township.
$12.50-$17.50. (810) 792-1902.
The Second City-Detroit Touring
Company presents The Best of The
Second City, a collaboration of the
group's best work, every Tuesday night
at 8 p.m., through Oct. 27 (excluding
Oct. 6). $7. 2301 Woodward, Detroit.
(313) 965-2222.
The Art Scene
The Community Arts Gallery
opens its multimedia 1998 Faculty
Exhibition Friday, Sept. 25, with a
reception from 5-8 p.m. Through
Oct. 31. 5400 Gullen Mall, on the
WSU campus. Detroit. (313) 577-
2423.
Cranbrook Art Museum hosts artist
and filmmaker Robert Andersen's
Motel/Movies24Hours, which
engages neighborhoods and architec-
ture while challenging our usual expe-
rience of cinema and film media. The
museum's Lower Gallery features two
rooms and ten looping 16 mm projec-
tors running several short film works.
Through Nov. 1. During the evenings
of Oct. 9 and 10, a related series of
films will be projected onto the win-
dows of vacant commercial properties