Best Bets ON THE STAGE CLASSICAL NOTES Fine Arts Friday at the DIA features violinist David Litven and pianist Mick Dobday, perform- ing the music of Mozart, Beethoven, Aaron Copland and Ferruccia Busoni, 6:30 and 8 p.m. Friday, June 13, at the Detroit Institute of Arts. Free with museum admission. (313) 833-7900. The Jewish Community Center's Encore Concert Series presents the Zamir Chorale 3:30 p.m. Sunday, June 15, at the JCC in West Bloomfield. Free. (248) 432-5577. After a barbecue dinner at Kensington Metropark's Martindale Beach, Paddle to the Symphony by canoe across the lake to Maple Beach and enjoy the Detroit Symphony Orchestra in concert. The event runs 6-9:30 p.m. Friday, June 20, with proceeds to benefit the Michigan Council of Hostelling International American Youth Hostels. $18/$12 for children 12 and under. (248) 545-0511. POP/ROCK/JAZZ/FOLK Enjoy an intimate performance by avant-garde Jewish rocker Lou Reed 7 p.m. Saturday, June 14, at Detroit's St. Andrew's Hall. $35. (248) 645-6666. Meadow Brook Music Festival hosts the all-day V98.7 Smooth Jazzfest, beginning 12:30 p.m. Saturday, June 14, with Rick Braun, Down To The Bone, Earl Klugh, Alexander Zonjic and more. $30-$45. (248) 645-6666. Art Garfunkel Trumpeter Wynton Marsalis joins performs at local performers bassist Rodney Freedom Hill Whitaker, pianist Rick Roe and Amphitheater. drummer Randy Gelispie 7:30 and 9:30 p.m. Monday, June 16, at Ann Arbor's Kerrytown Concert House. $30-$50. (734) 769 - 2999. Janis Siegel, Grammy-winning vocalist of the Manhattan Transfer, leads a jazz ensemble 9 and 11 p.m. Friday, June 20, at the Firefly Club in Ann Arbor. $20 at the door. (734) 665-9090. Freedom Hill Amphitheater welcomes Art Garfunkel, with Don McLean, 7:30 p.m. Thursday, June 19. $25-$45. (248) 645-6666. Ferndale's Magic Bag presents the country and blues sounds of Jorma Kakonen & Blue Country Friday, June 20. Doors at 8 p.m. $18. (248) 544-3030. NORA EPHRON is one funny woman. Now 62, she first made her reputation as an essayist for magazines. She recently wrote a hilarious account for the New York Times of her time as an intern in the Kennedy White House. It was prompted by the recent disclo sure that Kennedy had an affair with 19-year-old intern Mimi Fahnestock. Ephron first took issue with the woman THE ART SCENE Performance Network in Ann Arbor University of Michigan School of Art presents Brilliant Traces, by Cindy Lou & Design presents Double Vision, an Johnson, an imaginative allegory using A&D staff exhibition in a range of media, fantastic situations and characterizations June 13-July 3. Opening reception: 6-9 to probe into the nature of modern rela- p.m. Friday, June 13, at Work, 306 S. tionships, 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday and State St., in Ann Arbor. (734) 998-6178. 2 p.m. Sunday, June 13-15. $18/$15 sen- This weekend's outdoor art fairs, running iors/$10 student rush tickets. (734) 663- Saturday and Sunday, June 14-15, include 0681. GAIL ZIMMERMAN the Royal Oak Clay & Glass Show on Arts & Entertainment Ann Arbor native Rick Sperling directs Washington Street in downtown Royal Oak, Editor Mosaic Youth Theater, a nationally (734) 216 3958, and Northville Art in the acclaimed Detroit-based ensemble of Sun in downtown Northville, (248) 349-7640. young performers ages 12-19, in Reality, a reality In conjunction with its current exhibit on wood TV show adapted from Moliere's The Learned turning, Janice Charach Epstein Gallery in the West Ladies, 8 p.m. Thursday-Saturday and 2 p.m. Bloomfield JCC hosts Coffee, Culture, Sunday, June 19-22, at Performance Network in Conversation with guest lecturer Sean Ulmer, cura- Ann Arbor. Performances are preceded at 7:30 p.m. tor of modern and contemporary art at the U-M by the Mosaic Singers. $18/$15 for seniors/$10 stu- Museum of Art, 7:30 p.m. Thursday, June 19. dent rush tickets. (734) 663-0681. Reservations: (248) 432-5448. Ann Arbor Civic Theater's Songwriters Showcase Art Gallery of Windsor presents Michael Graston: Concert features more than two dozen vocalists and Mirror Image, a display of editorial cartoons, through singer-songwriters, performing show tunes, blues, July 20. Opening reception: 7-9 p.m. Friday, June 20. pop, rock, ballads and gospel, 8 p.m. Friday and Waterworks, showing the various ways Canadian Saturday, June 20-21, at 408 W. Washington, in artists have depicted or used water in their work, runs Ann Arbor. $10. (734) 971-2228. June 14-24, also at the AGW. (519) 977-0013. The Purple Rose Theatre Company of Chelsea Ariana Gallery in Royal Oak displays wood fired stages Noel Coward's Blithe Spirit 8 p.m. ceramics by John Jessiman through June 30. (248) Wednesdays-Saturdays, with matinees 3 p.m. 546-8810. Saturdays and 2 p.m. Sundays, June 19-Aug. 30. $17.50-$32.50. (734) 433-7673. WHATNOT NEW ON DVD Miramax Home Entertainment has released Frida, the biopic starring Salma Hayek as famed Mexican artist Frida Kahlo, in a two-disc DVD set with com- mentary by Best Score Oscar winner Elliot Goldenthal and director Julie Taymor, as well as additional programming on the real-life Frida. THE SMALL SCREEN Dance in America: Othello from the San Francisco Ballet explores human emotion through contemporary dance and music with a specially commissioned score by composer Elliot B. Goldenthal (Frida) 9:30 p.m. Wednesday, June 19, on Detroit Public Television-Channel 56. who "fingered" Fahnestock as Kennedy's mistress and who "cattily pointed out that Mimi can't type." Ephron said this remark was incredibly unfair in that interns were not provided with a desk and there was no place for them to type. Ephron, whose screenplays include Heartburn (from her novel - a thinly disguised account of her marriage to journalist CARL BERNSTEIN), Greenfield Village stages its annual Motor Muster, one of the area's premier car gatherings, with more than 500 automobiles, racecars, motorcycles and bicycles from 1933-1973, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday and noon-5 p.m. Sunday, June 15-16. Free with museum admission. (313) 271-1620. This year's Detroit Zoological Society's black-tie fund- raiser, Sunset at the Zoo - 75 Years of Celebrating Wildlife, featuring a strolling supper by area restaurants, entertainment by Poncho Sanchez Latin Jazz Band, dancing, a beer garden and wine tasting, takes place 7- 11 p.m. Friday, June 20. $125-$500. (248) 398-0900. Borders on Liberty Street in Ann Arbor hosts a reading and book signing with Julie Sussman, author of Dare to Repair, the home repair guide she co-wrote with Stephanie Glakas-Tenet, 7 p.m. Friday, June 20. (734) 668-7652. When Harry Met Sally and Sleepless in Seattle, ended her piece with this pithy commentary: "It has become horribly clear to me that I am probably the only young woman who ever worked in the Kennedy White House whom the pres- ident did not make a pass at. "Perhaps it was my permanent wave, which was a truly unfortunate mistake. Perhaps it was my Wardrobe, which . mostly consisted of multicolored dynel dresses that looked like distilled Velveeta cheese. "Perhaps it's because I'm Jewish don't laugh, think about it, think about that long, long list of women JFK slept with. Were any Jewish? I don't think so. "On the other hand, perhaps it's sim- ply because JFK somehow sensed that 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, 29200 Northwestern Highway, Suite 110, Southfield, MI 48034; fax us at (248) 304-8885; 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.