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maker Deborah Levine of North
Carolina, glass blower Stan
Megdall of Michigan and painter
Stan Kotzen of New Jersey.
Live music, storytelling, craft
demonstrations and an array of
specialty foods round out the
event. New children's entertain-
ment includes the Blue Sky
Puppet theatre, which will per-
form original scripts and music
on topics like individuality, ener-
gy conservation, self-esteem and
peaceful conflict resolution.
Rock Financial Showplace is
located at 46100 Grand River
Ave. Daily adult admission is $7,
free for children under 12.
Parking is free. To preview the
show, get discount admission
coupons, detailed directions and
more, visit Sugarloaf's Web site
at wiAPAr.SugarloafArtFair.com or
call (800) 210-9900.
Jews Who
Rock
Former Phish bassist Mark
Gordon will take the stage 7:30
p.m. Sunday, Oct. 23, at the
Michigan Theater in Ann Arbor.
He'll join guitar virtuoso Leo
Kottke, with whom he collabo-
rated on the recently released
album Sixty-six Steps, a follow-
up to their first collaboration,
2002's Clone.
Inspired by Gordon's memo-
ries of calypso band the
Mustangs, heard on a childhood
trip to the Bahamas, Sixty-six
Steps is an experimental piece
that fuses island rhythms with
Kottke and
Gordon's usual
folksy rock and
blues. They'll be
joined by drum-
mer Neil
Symonette. Tickets
are $32.50. (248)
645-6666.
Known as the
"the hip-hop vio-
linist," classically
trained Miri Ben-
Ari has been
"throwing bows"
Miri Ben-Ari
with everyone
from Wynton
Marsalis to Jay-Z over the last
few years. Recently appearing
on Twista's hit Overnight
Celebrity and on Kanye West's
The College Dropout, Ben-Ari is
now pulling strings on her own
aptly titled debut, The Hip-Hop
Violinist, featuring Kanye West,
Scarface, Anthony Hamilton
and a roster of other A-list
artists. "I don't believe in limit-
ing myself musically:' she
explains, "but hip-hop is who I
am.
Hear Ben-Ari 8 p.m. Monday,
Oct. 24, at the
Royal Oak
Music Theatre,
as she performs
with hip-hop
artist Busta
Rhymes and All
Mighty
Senators.
Tickets are $15
advance/$19
day of show. 18
and older. (248)
399-2980.
Vocalist Chris
Robinson
"appropriated
the sound and style of vintage
Rod Stewart" while guitarist
Rich Robinson "fused Keith
Resistance during World War II.
Richards' lean attack with Ron
When he is
Wood's messy rhyth-
rejected, he
mic sense" when the
takes anoth-
brothers founded the
er job —
Black Crowes in 1990.
collaborator
While Chris Robinson
with the
(hubby of Kate
Gestapo.
Hudson) has been pur-
Later, he
suing a solo career of
becomes
as late, the band comes
involved
back together to cele-
with a
brate 15 years of "cos-
Jewish tailor
mic rock 'n' roll" 7:30
and his
p.m. Thursday, Oct. 27,
Pierre Blaise in
daughter,
at the State Theater in
Lacombe, Lucien
who are in
Detroit. Tickets are
hiding.
$39.50. (248) 645-
"Malle poses the question of
6666.
what a moral choice is, how one
is made, and just what is the pre-
cise point at which one crosses
from self-interest to evil:' Writes
Elliot Wilhem in VideoHound's
The Detroit Film Theatre at the
World Cinema, adding, "Malle
DIA presents Louis Malle's mas-
distills political and ideological
terwork Lacombe, Lucien 7 p.m.
madness to its simplest, most
Sunday, Oct. 23. The film was
human elements, creating what
inspired by the director's memo-
may be the most important mas-
ries of a childhood during the
terpiece of his career."
German occupation of France.
Tickets are $6.50-$7.50.
In the film, 17-year-old Lucien
(313) 833-3237.
Lacombe (Pierre Blaise) makes
an attempt to join the French
some movie critics would
take note of before
declaring that such-and-
such actor doesn't "look
Jewish enough" (or looks
"too Jewish") for a part.
ner, Israeli economist/mathe-
matician Robert Aumann,
has been widely covered in the
Jewish press.
The other Jewish winner,
physicist Roy J. Glauber, has
not.
Glauber, 80, grew up in New
York City and graduated from
the famous Bronx High School
of Science. He went to work for
the Manhattan Project (build-
ing the first atomic bomb) right
out of high school. A Harvard
professor, Glauber was awarded
his Nobel for his theoretical
description of how particles of
light act. His research helped
explain how light can spread
around a large area or form a
narrow line of intense light, as
from a laser.
Three Nobel Prizes for a group
(Jews) that numbers about one-
quarter of 1 percent of-the
world's population isn't bad.
By the way, the most com-
mon method to count Jewish
Nobel Prize winners is to
include "half-Jewish" winners
regardless of how they were
raised and to count in a few
Jewish winners who converted
away (plus one winner who
converted to Orthodox
Judaism). By this standard, 170
Nobel Prize winners are count-
ed as "Jewish:' or about 22 per-
cent of all winners of a Nobel
— ever.
Malle
Masterwork
Celebrity Jews from page 52
novels cover
the adven-
tures of a 14-
year-old boy
who happens
to be a James
Bond-type
secret agent.
The novels
have sold
over 8 mil-
lion copies to Sophie Okonedo
date.
Jewish
actresses Alicia Silverstone
and Sophie Okonedo co star.
Okonedo, an Oscar nominee for
The Hotel Rwanda, is English
Jewish on her mother's side and
Nigerian on her father's side
(she identifies as Jewish).
Silverstone and Okonedo make
an interesting statement about
the diversity of the Jewish peo-
ple — a statement that I wish
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October 20 2005
Nobel Work
This was a significant
year for Jewish Nobel
Prize winners.
British playwright
Harold Pinter was
awarded the Nobel Prize
for Literature. Best
known for enigmatic
plays like The Birthday
Party and The
Homecoming, Pinter,
born in London in
1930 to working-class
Jewish parents, also is
a well-known peace
activist.
Another Jewish win- Harold Pinter
Roy J. Glauber
Weisz Hot, Moss Not
The beautiful actress Rachel
Weisz, hot
after co-
starring in
The
Constant
Gardener
(a rare crit-
ical and
box-office
hit), has
reportedly
been
Rachel Weisz
offered the
position of
chief model for the Burberry
clothing company. Weisz would
take over the job from super-
model Kate Moss, who was fired
by Burberry after the publica-
tion of photos showing her using
cocaine.
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