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. CLASSICAL NOTES P o p/Roc K/J Azz Lis FYI: For Arts and Entertainment related events that you wish to have considered for Out & About, please send the item, with a detailed description of the event, times, dates, place, ticket prices and publishable phone number, to: Gail Zimmerman, JN Out & About, The Jewish News, 27676 Franklin Road, Southfield, MI 48034; fax us at (248) 354-6069; or e-mail to gzimmerman@thejewishnews.com Notice must be received at least three weeks before the scheduled event. Photos are appreciated but cannot be returned. All events and dates listed in the Out & About column are subject to change.