Best Bets
Road and Woodward with a series of con-
screened 2 and 8 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 18. Organ
cert acts, including Verve Pipe (Aug. 21),
overtures begin one-half hour before the screenings.
Violinists Jannina Barefield and
The Temptations (Aug. 29) and the
$4/tickets available at the door. For more informa-
Lisbeth Dreier will present a classical con-
Beach Boys (Aug. 30). Admission to the
tion, go to http://theatreorgans.com/mi/redford.
cert 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 25, at
fairgrounds is $9 and includes general
Exhibit A, a Gallery of Art and Design, to
admission to the 7 p.m. concerts.
help benefit the James Tatum Foundation
.Guaranteed seats are $15 and available by
THE SMALL SCREEN
for the Arts Inc, a nonprofit organization
calling (248) 645-6666.
Taxi Dreams, a two-hour PBS documentary pre-
which awards scholarships to young, tal-
Detroit native Sandy Cash grew up at
miering
9 p.m. Monday, Aug. 20, on WTVS-
ented Detroit-area artists, musicians and
GAIL ZIMMERMAN
Congregation Beth Shalom and Berkley
Channel 56, follows five immigrant New York City
Arts & Entertainment
dancers to further their education. Both
High School, and graduated with a degree
Editor
cab drivers who were hoping to find the streets
violinists are studying at the Manhattan
in Judaic studies from Yale University. She
paved
with gold, only to discover them pitted with
School of Music in New York, and recent-
made aliyah in 1987, and has been a fix-
potholes.
They include Rafik Bakayev, a Jewish
ly formed their duo for chamber music.
ture on the Israeli English entertainment scene ever
refugee
who,
with his wife and two children, emi-
The gallery is located at 288 Maple Road in
since. Her repertoire draws on narrative "story"
grated
from
Tajikistan
five years ago. Check your
Birmingham. A reception will follow the perform-
songs of her own composition and from other corn-
local listings.
ance. Suggested donation for the concert and recep-
posers. She'll make a special
tion is $25. For reservations, call (313) 891-2514.
appearance 7:30 p.m. Thursday,
Tickets may be purchased in advance at the gallery,
Aug. 23, at the Anna and Meyer
FAMILY FUN
or at the door preceding the concert.
Prentis Jewish Apartments, 15100
The Michigan Renaissance Festival
W. 10 Mile Road, in Oak Park.
is "joust" around the corner. It returns
The concert proceeds will be
to Township Park in Holly, Mich., 10
donated to a fund drive, initiated
a.m.-7
p.m. weekends and Labor Day,
in
Cash's
hometown
of
Bet
Detroit techno pioneer Carl Craig stages "A Night
Aug. 18-Sept. 30. $12.50. (800) 601-
Shemesh,
for
a
bullet-proof
van
for
of Sound," with an unusual visual and audio per-
4848; www.michrenfest.com .
special-needs children. $10. For
formance manipulating the sound sculptures of
Folksinger Sandy Cash performs
more
information,
call
Elie
Kloc,
Harry Bertoia, 7-11 p.m. Friday, Aug. 17, at the
Thursday at Anna and Meyer
(248) 547-4449, after 5 p.m.
Cranbrook Art Museum. $5. (248) 645-3000.
Prentis
Jewish Apartments.
Get Back! The Cast of
THE ART SCENE
Songwriter Dick Siegel plays his hometown when
Beatlemania visits Meadow Brook
The Toledo Museum of Art hosts
he presents a concert at The Ark in Ann Arbor 8
Music Festival 8 p.m. Friday, Aug. 24. $10-$20.
Star Wars: The Magic of Myth through Jan. 5,
p.m. Saturday, Aug. 18. $12.50. (734) 761-1451.
(248) 645-6666.
2002. Developed by the Smithsonian's National Air
Highlights at Detroit Energy Music Theatre this
and Space Museum with items on loan from ,
week include Southern rock pioneers The Allman
Luzasfilm Ltd, the exhibition includes more than
Brothers Band, 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 18,
LAUGH
250 models, props, costumes, and original artwork
$22.50-$39; rock band The Doobie Brothers, 7:30
from the Star Wars films. Timed tickets ($10
Dave
Coulier's
Comedy
Jam
visits
Sterling
p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 22, $15.50-$27.50; and the
Heights' Freedom Hill Amphitheatre 7:30 p.m.
adults/$7.50 seniors and students/under 6 free) are
The Guess Who, with special guest Joe Cocker, 7:30
available by calling (419) 243-7000.
Saturday, Aug. 18. $15-$45. (248) 645-6666.
p.m. Friday, Aug. 24, $20-$48. (248) 645-6666.
New York artist Donald Sultan's series of "Smoke
Southern country-rock band Alabama takes the
Ring" canvases, large-scale "Iris" prints and small-
stage at Sterling Heights' Freedom Hill
scale photographs will be on display at the
THE BIG SCREEN
Amphitheatre 7:30 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 19. $15-$45.
University of Michigan Museum of Art Aug. 18-
(248) 645-6666.
Temple Israel's adult education
Nov. 25. (734) 764-0395.
Nigerian-born Sade
program presents a screening of
The Dossin Great Lakes Museum looks at the city
brings her "Lovers Rock
Jeroen Krabbe's Left Luggage, a
of
Detroit as it was recorded in pencil sketches,
Tour" to the Palace of
post-Holocaust saga of a chasidic
watercolors
and oil paintings before the invention of
Auburn Hills 7:30 p.m.
Jewish woman, 7 p.m. Thursday,
the
camera
in
the exhibit Frontier Metropolis,
Sunday, Aug. 19. $35.25-
Aug. 23, at the Maple Theatre in
through
Sept.
4. For hours and more information,
$65.25. (248) 645-6666.
Bloomfield Township. $5.
call (313) 852-4051.
Grammy winner Shawn
Reservations: (248) 661-5725.
Colvin, with Kim Richey,
This weekend at Detroit's
performs 8 p.m. Monday,
Redford Theatre, Jewish Men in
Aug. 20, at the Royal Oak
WHATNOT
Space William Shatner and
Music Theatre. $27.50.
The African World Festival, featuring open-air
Leonard Nimoy star in two big-
(248) 645-6666.
screen Star Trek vehicles. Star Trek
markets, music, children's activities and more, takes
The Michigan State
III.. The Search for Spock will be
place 5-11 p.m. Friday and noon-11:30 p.m.
Fair returns to the fair-
Lizbeth Dreier and Janinna Barefield present shown 8 p.m. Friday, Aug. 17; Star
Saturday and Sunday, Aug. 17-19, in Detroit's Hart
grounds near Eight Mile a classical concert on Saturday, Aug. 25.
Trek IV The Voyage Home will be
Plaza. (313) 494-5800.
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