Arts & Entertainment

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MOTOR CITY BIRTHDAY

Commemorating the founding of the city of
Detroit by Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac on July 24,
1701, everyone is invited to celebrate the Motor
City's official 299th birthday, 11 a.m.-3 p.m.
Saturday, July 22, on the grounds of the Detroit
Historical Museum and Detroit Public Library,
Woodward Avenue between Kirby and Putnam.
Heading the entertainment are the Chenille
Sisters at 1:25 and 2:35 p.m. and Jack Scott, per-
forming at 11:10 a.m. and 12:40 p.m. There will be
a magic show at 1:45 p.m., and the Mosaic Youth
Theatre entertains at 11:45 a.m.
The event also features free cake, an activity area
for children, face painting, historical re-enactments,
a treasure hunt and more.
For additional information, call the Birthday
Party hotline at (313) 833-1849 or check the Web
site at vvvvw.detroithistorical.org.

TAMING SHAICESPEARE

The Ridgedale Players, one of
Michigan's oldest community theaters,
will hold its first annual Shakespeare
Festival this summer. The group's first
production, The Taming of the Shrew,
takes the stage 8 p.m. Fridays and
Saturdays and 3 p.m. Sundays, July 28-
30 and Aug. 4-6.
"We've been doing a full season of

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a variety of activities sure to please the
theater every year since 1934," says John
whole family.
Rowland, artistic director for the event.
"But our theater has always been dark in
At the Cra.nbrook Institute of Science
the summer. Now we're going to use that
through Sept. 4, amateur gumshoes,
time to bring Skakespeare to town."
would-be sleuths and sometimes-
Sherlocks have the opportunity to recog-
The story told in The Taming of the
nize, analyze and synthesize criminal evi-
Shrew, detailing Petruchio's wooing of the
cantankerous Kate (the "shrew" of the
dence in the traveling exhibit Whodunit:
title), has remained a popular one. Film
The Science of Solving Crime.
versions include the early talkie starring
Visitors will get hands-on experience in
GAIL ZININIERMAN
Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks Sr.,
scientific tools including DNA profiling,
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the 1967 Franco Zefferelli classic starring
fingerprinting, firearm identification and
Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton and
forensic anthropology. On Fridays from 1-
the recent 10 Things I Hate About You, a modern
3 p.m., forensic scientists from the Michigan State
version set in a high school.
Police Crime Labs will be on hand to answer questions.
The Ridgedale Taming will employ period costumes.
The museum is open daily from 10 a.m.-5 p.m.,
"We're playing it straight this year," Rowland says. "But
with extended hours on Fridays till 10 p.m. $4-$7.
in the future we have plans to break the mold."
The Cranbrook Art Museum is offering two 90-
Tickets are $11, and include admission to an out-
minute docent-guided tours, both running through
door festival that will add a
October. The Saarinen Houk and Garden Tour,
Renaissance flavor to the
exploring the home of Cranbrook's resident artist
event with games and enter-
from 1925-1950, is available Tuesdays-Sundays at
tainment beginning two
1:30 p.m., with additional tours 3 p.m. Saturdays
hours before the play. (248)
and Sundays. Special twilight tours are available
7:30 p.m. Friday evenings through August. An
988-7049.
Outdoor Sculpture and Architecture Tour, exploring
Cranbrook's celebrated grounds, is given 1:30 p.m.
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Saturdays and Sundays.
Tours are $7 and include admission to
CRANBROOK
Cranbrook Art Museum.
Head to Cranbrook's
For more information, call (877) 462-7262.
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Happy Birthday, Detroit!

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The Detroit Symphony
Orchestra at Meadow Brook Music
Festival features "Symphonic
Blockbusters" with fireworks, 8 p.m.
Friday, July 21; an all-Mozart con-
cert, "Mozart-in-the-Meadows, 8
p.m. Saturday, July 22; and a salute
to composer Henry Mancini,
"Mancini Gold," 7:30 p.m. Sunday,
July 23. $10453. (313) 576-5111.
Chicago, with special guest Little
River Band, performs 7:30 p.m.
Friday, July 28, at Pine Knob.
$35.25/$20.25. (248) 645-6666.
Detroit native Marshall.
Crenshaw makes a rare acoustic
appearance at Ferndale's Magic Bag
Saturday, July 22. Doors at 8 p.m.
$15. (248) 544-3030.
Country rocker Steve Earle plays
Pontiac's Clutch Cargo's Thursday,

July 27. Doors at 8 p.m. $23.
(248) 333-2362.
The Satin Dolls perform nostalgic
music from the '40s and '50s at Oak
Park's Shepherd Park, at the corner of
Church and Northfield, 7:30 p.m.
Tuesday, July 25. Free. (248) 691-7555.
The DSO's African Summer
Rhythms Festival 2000 continues 8
p.m. Friday, July 28, at Orchestra Hall
with South African singer Miriam
Makeba and bassist/vocalist Richard
Bona. $15-$40. (313) 576-5111.
Stagecrafter's Youth Theatre pre-
sents You're a Good Man, Charlie
Brown and Stuart Little in rotating
repertory at Royal Oak's Baldwin
Theatre July 21-July 30. Call for show
times. $5-$7. (248) 541-6430.
Cartoon Network presents
Hullabaloo, a big-screen event featur-
ing the networks' biggest stars, 3 p.m.
Saturday, July 22, at the Royal Oak

Theatre, 318 W. Fourth St.
Admission is a nonperishable food
item, to be donated to Food Bank of
Oakland County.
Scholastic's Magic School Bus ...
Live, with children's entertainer
Norman Foote, makes a stop at
Meadow Brook Music Festival for
two shows, 11 a.m. and 7 p.m.
Wednesday, July 26. $12.50/$8.
(248) 645-6666.
Amish Quilts 1890-1940 from the
Collection of Faith and Stephen
Brown are on display at the University
of Michigan Museum of Art through
Sept. 10. (734) 763-8662.
The Music and Motor Fest 2000,
formerly the Michigan '50s Festival)
presents a classic car show, specialty
food vendors, entertainment and
more, July 26-30 at the Novi Expo
Center. Entertainment includes Eddie
Money with Stewart Francke,

Wednesday, July 26; America,
Thursday, July 27; Herman's Hermits,
Friday, July 28; Bad Company lead
singer Brian Howe and Twistin'
Tarantulas, Saturday, July 29; and
Davy Jones, Sunday, July 30. All per-
formances are at 8 p.m. $15420. For
more information, call (248) 349-
1950 or go to the Web site at
www.motorandmusicfest.com .
The Jewish War Veterans sponsors
a benefit dinner dance for orphaned
brothers Benjamin and Jeremy
Michalson 7:30 p.m. Sunday, July
30, at the JWV Memorial Home,
featuring music by Eric Harris, door
prizes and a raffle. For tickets and
more information, call Euni
Mickelson at (248) 559-5680.
Extras are needed to appear in
crowd scenes for Billy Crystal's 61* film-
ing Aug. 7-18 at Tiger Stadium. Call
(248) 988-1094 for more information.

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