Arts st Life

SEEING MAROON

The two Jewish members of Grammy-winning
Best New Artists Maroon 5 — vocalist-guitarist
Adam Levine and drummer Ryan Dusick — join
bandmates bassist Mickey Madden, keyboardist
Jesse Carmichael and guitarist James Valentine in a
concert at the Palace of
Auburn Hills 8 p.m.
Thursday, April 14.
The pop-rock group began
as the Los Angeles group
Kara's Flowers in the mid-
1990s and took on its cur-
rent moniker when Valentine
joined the band in 1999. In
2002, Maroon 5 released its
debut album, Songs About
Jane, which has sold more
than 8 million copies and
includes the No. 1 hits "This
Adam Levine of
Love" and "Harder to
Maroon 5
Breathe." Rolling Stone maga-
zine named the group the
"second best band in the
world."
Opening for Maroon 5 is modern rock band the
Donnas. Tickets are $35. (248) 645-6666.

SPRINGTIME OPERAS

Michigan Opera Theatre opens its 34th spring
opera season with the Giacomo Puccini masterpiece
Tosca, a tale of obsessive love, manipulation and

CELEBRITY JEWS

NATE BLOOM

Special to the Jewish News

Boychiks Of Summer

The pro baseball season began this week; here is a
list of this season's Jewish players: BRAD AUSMUS
(Houston); SHAWN GREEN (Arizona); JOHN
GRABOW (Pittsburgh); MIKE LIEBERTHAL
(Philadelphia); JASON MARQUIS (St. Louis);
SCOTT SCHOENEWEIS (Toronto); and KEVIN
YOUKILIS (Boston).
As with any roster, there are a few "asterisks":
GABE KAPLER, last year with Boston, has gone to
play in Japan. San Francisco hadn't decided whether
to offer former Tiger pitcher AL LEVINE a spot as
of press time. Boston rookie ADAM STERN is on

Nate Bloom, the California-based editor of
wwwjewhoo.com, is happy to answer letters at
middleoftheroadi @ao l. corn.

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betrayal. Venezuelan soprano Inez Salazar
funded Gary Kasparov Chess Academy
and Lisa Daltrius alternate as Tosca. The
opened in Tel Aviv. The academy is
opera will be performed at the Detroit
designed to promote chess worldwide,
Opera House 8 p.m. Saturday, April 9; 2
especially among young people.
p.m. Sunday, April 10; 7:30 p.m.
At 7:30 p.m. Monday, April 11, the
GAIL ZIMMERMAN
Wednesday, April 13; 8 p.m. Friday, April
Detroit Film Theatre will screen Game
Arts Editor
15; 8 p.m. Saturday, April 16; and 2 p.m.
Over: Kasparov and the Machine
Sunday, April 17.
(Canada — 2004 — Vikram Jayanti), a
The world premiere of composer Richard
new documentary about the invincible player as
Danielpour's Margaret Garner, a collaboration
he confronted his most difficult-to-date chal-
with Pulitzer Prize-winning author Toni Morrison
lenger, Deep Blue, an IBM supercomputer able to
about a fugitive slave's quest for freedom, runs
process 50 billion game moves in three minutes
May 7-22; and Gaetano Donizetti's light-hearted
and zero rest breaks,
comedy The Daughter of the Regiment will be per-
and the charges
formed June 4-12.
Kasparov later leveled
Individual tickets range from $28-$113. Call
at his liquid-cooled
(313) 237-7464 or go to www.MichiganOpera.org .
opponent.
Tickets are
$7.50/$6.50 students
CHECKMATE
and seniors. (313) 833-
Born in 1963 and a formidable world chess
3237.
champion (in 1985, he became the youngest player
ever to hold the title), Gary Kasparov is the son of a
Jewish father, who died when Gary was 7, and a
BOB'S BACK
non-Jewish Armenian mother. As reported by
Bob Dylan is again
jewhoo.com, his original last name was Weinstein.
on tour, this spring
After his father's death, his .coach suggested that tak-
with "The Bob Dylan
ing a less "Jewish name" would help his career in
Show," a concert also
the old Soviet Union, and Gary changed his last
featuring country leg-
name when he was 12.
end Merle Haggard
Kasparov has certainly not been reticent about
and the Strangers, as
talking about his "Jewish half," says jewhoo, and he
well as the relatively
has visited Israel several times. In 2000, a heavily
unknown Amos Lee.
Bob Dylan

the disabled list, and his Major League status will
be unclear for a few weeks.
All of the above players have at least one Jewish
parent and identify- as Jewish or as "nothing" in a
religious sense. There are a couple of other Major
Leaguers with some Jewish background who identi-
fy with another faith.

Full Moon

Former child star SOLEIL
MOON FRYE, 28, and her
husband, JASON GOLD-
BERG, 34, are having a good

year. Goldberg produced the
current Ashton Kutcher hit
movie, Guess Who.
Meanwhile, Frye, who's best
known for her title role in
TV's Funky Brewster, is
Soleil Moon Frye
expecting the couple's first
child.
In 1998, Frye, whose moth-
er is Jewish, was married to Goldberg in a tradi-
tional Jewish ceremony. This fall, Frye's voice can

be heard in Bratz, a new cartoon series inspired
by a line of cool dolls that are the rage among
young girls.

Puttin' On The Ritz

Only France could produce a famous philosopher
stylish enough to make Vanity Fair's new list of the
best dressed. We are speaking of BERNARD
HENRI-LEVY, the scion of a wealthy family,
whose last book was about the life and death of
reporter DANNY PEARL.
Also in the news is top-tiof designer MARC
JACOBS, who just opened a Los Angeles store.
The opening party drew so many celebs that some
of them, like TORI SPELLING, ended up spend-
ing the night on the sidewalk. (Quel domage.
Inside, Jacobs took pictures with some of his
actress favorites, like former Detroiter and Hillel
Day School attendee SELMA BLAIR. This year,
Jacobs honored Blair by naming one of his coveted
Louis Vuitton bags after her.
Blair has her own line of fashion accessories
("Elegantly Wasted") and has just been cast as the
star of a remake of the horror film classic The Fog.

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