Arts 15 Life e., CLASSICAL NarEs Long Way Home recounts the sojourn of Holocaust survivors following World War II as they search for a place to set down roots, and In Search of Peace Part One: 1948-1967 probes the Middle East and its conflicts during the first 20 years of Israel's existence. The Detroit Symphony Orchestra opens its season with Verdi's Requiem, featuring soloists and the UMS Choral Union, 8 p.m. Thursday and Friday and 8:30 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 11-13, at the Detroit Opera House. $19-$60. (313) 576-5111. POP/ROCK/JAZZ/FOLK GAIL ZIMMERMAN THE SMALL SCREEN Showtime commemorates the second anniversary of Sept. 11 with the docudra- ma DC 9/11: Time of Crisis, an inside view of the Bush administration, 8 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 7. Portraying Jewish members of the Bush team are Stephen Macht as Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz and Scott Alan Smith as White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer. Check your local listings. Arts & Entertainnzent Editor Beatlesque band The High Strung (taking the stage 7-7:45 p.m.) are part of the 26th annual Daily in the Alley performing arts festival, running 11 a.m.-11 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 6 (rain date Sunday, Sept. 7), in Detroit's Cass Corridor. Schedule: http://dallyinthealley.net . The Yiddishe Cup Klezmer Band performs 7:45 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 6, at Temple Shir Shalom in West Bloomfield. $12. (248) 737-8700. Sterling Heights' Freedom Hill Amphitheatre hosts Aretha Franklin's Final World Tour, 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 6, $25-$55; and crooner Tony Bennett, 7:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 12, $25-$65. (248) 645-6666. The Ark in Ann Arbor presents veteran folksinger Ramblin' Jack Elliott, 7:30 - p.m. Sunday, Sept. 7, $17.50; and Aussie acoustic pop group Fruit, 8 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 11, $13.50. (734) 761-1485. Wharton Center in East Lansing welcomes Linda Ronstadt, with the MSU Symphony Orchestra, 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Sept. 12 13. $30.50-$50. (248) 645-6666. - ON THE STAGE Village Players of Birmingham mount a produc- tion of the rock opera Chess, with music by ABBA songwriters Bjorn Ulvaeus and Benny Anderson and lyrics by Tim Rice, 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays, Sept. 12-27, and 2 p.m. Sundays, Sept. 21 and 28. $15. (248) 644-2075. FAMILY FUN PuppetART/Detroit Puppet Theater presents a new production, Turtle Island, inspired by the leg- ends of Native Americans, 2 p.m. Saturdays, Sept. 6-27. $7 adults/$5 children/puppetry workshop after performances: $8 per puppet. (313) 961-7777. THE ART SCENE FESTIVAL . . • F Tim Alas 3 ust as the planes were crashing into the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001, attorney Ed Cherniak was taking a picture of the Guggenheim Museum in New York City. The photo was not to have been a traveler's remembrance; it was to have been the latest in a series of images building his artistic portfolio. Although associated with all the emotion of the day on which it was taken, the Guggenheim picture is among 29 others Cherniak has prepared and framed for showing at the Detroit Festival of the Arts to be held Friday-Sunday, Sept. 12-14, in a 20-block area of Midtown Detroit's University Cultural Center. Besides featuring juried artists in a variety of media, the.event will offer international performers, children's activities and food concessions. One act, Margot Leverett and the Klezmer Mountain Boys, will mix some traditional Jewish sounds with blue- grass 4:30-6 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 13, on the MASCO/Metro Times Stage. "I will be showing buildings, landscapes and flowers," says Cherniak, who has been a photo hobbyist for 30 years and a photo artist .,.. for three years. "My interest in photography kept growing, and I read books, took classes and set up a studio and darkroom in my Birmingham Bloomfield Art Center's Robinson Gallery showcases The Art of Fun, a collection of works by Jerome Ferretti, Jim Pallas and Ronald Paysner, Sept. 5-Oct. 10. Opening reception: 6-8 p.m. Friday, Sept. 12; gallery talk by Ronald 11° Cme he. ;nia-k, who Prefers Paysner: 7 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 18. (248) 644- e starknesS and drama 0866. black and white Meadow Brook Art Gallery in Rochester hosts the Edward Cherniak m es . likes to bring work of sculptor Sharon Que in "Retrofit," an "Guagenheim Museum," through exhibit running Sept. 6-Oct. 5. Opening reception: Sept. 11, 2001, photograph. cHe 6-8 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 6. (248) 370-3005. 1,17'Ginf::1.ri i t i steothuse ard°d a h Pewabic Pottery in Detroit presents the work of . ti . 1 look,, and he works with tracing paper to draw West Coast ceramicist Jun Kaneko Sept. 12-Nov. 1 negatives for a distinct, style in final °rms. Opening reception: 6-8 p.m. Friday, Sept. 12. (313) n in other shows but never one as big as 822-0954. erniak, who lives in West Bloomfield More than 1,000 quilts, as well as quilted cloth- Vtit ' with r Temple.Ico : Ami of 'before his chi Kol ing, dolls and other quilted items, will be on display re e ,N,2 ,: ,0 .a ,, ygo vec b oeenl un:y K rt co unecxh a ibfits spon- - , P w in nine venues in the Flint area during Quilts at the Crossroads, running Friday-Sunday, Sept. 12-14. e Street Gallery in Pontiac." ° rh Arts Info: www.gfn.org/gfac/quilt or (810) 238-2787. Cherniak photographs buildings, he tries to . LAUGH LINES Comedy Works, featuring the Guild, a collective of veteran improvisers, returns to Detroit's Century Theatre 8:30 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays, Sept. 5- Nov 8. $15/$6.50 students. (313) 963-9800. Professional comedy troupe the Cottage Cheese House Players take the stage at the Starlight Theater in Summit Place Mall 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Sept. 5-6. $10. (248) 335-1788. Rob Becker's Defending the Caveman, Broadway's longest-running solo comedy, comes to Meadow Brook Music Festival Wednesday-Sunday, Sept. 10-14. $15-$39.50. (248) 645-6666. NEW ON DVD Two documentaries from the Simon Wiesenthal Center and its Moriah Film Division become available on DVD Sept. 9 through Koch Lorber Films: The 9/ 5 2003 56 WHATNOT Performance artist Michael Israel creates art on canvas live on stage, which will be auctioned to ben- efit the autism research of Dr. Mark Geier, 7 p.m.- midnight Friday, Sept. 12, at Canterbury Village- Castella DiBologna Banquet Hall in Lake Orion. $75/ includes strolling buffet, auction and dancing. (586) 427-5639. Common Ground Sanctuary needs volunteers to help run Art in the Park in Birmingham's Shain Park Sept. 20-21. Call Liz Christopher, (248) 456- 8158, Ext. 208, by Sept. 12. zero on certain Parts, either because of their %%Metrical form. , His other images also have to do with unique sights. "My summer has been devoted to preparing for this show," he says. "I'd like people to enjoy what I have done without thinking about the technical part." -- Suzanne Chessler The Detroit Festival of the Arts runs 4-10 p.m. Friday, 11 a.m.-10 p.m. Saturday and 11 a.m.-9 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 12-14, in Detroit's University Cultural Center. Info: vvwvv.detroitfestival.com or (313) 577-5088. FYI: For Gail 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 num- ber, to: 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 gzimmermangthejewishnews.com at least three weeks Notice must be received 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.