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Bows On Fire

Jazz violinist Lenny Solomon, a Juno
Award winner (Canada's Grammy), is the
creator and artistic director of Bowfire,
a critically acclaimed musical theatrical
production that
brings the vio-
lin to the fore-
front as viewers
are entertained
by a group of
top virtuoso
violinists and
fiddlers who
perform both
individual
numbers and
group show-
stoppers.
Brian Chase
Bowfire artists

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Gail Zimmerman

Arts Editor

showcase styles as diverse as classical,
rock, bluegrass, jazz, gypsy, Texas-style,
country, Celtic and electric.
Backed by a quintet of guitar, cello,
bass, piano and drums and directed for
the stage by Broadway's Marion J. Gaffey
(Three Mo' Tenors), Bowfire offers audi-
ences scenes of moonlit romance, high-
octane jazz sounds of the electric violin
and the exotic flair of the Chinese erhu.
The show climaxes with a fiery ensemble
reel.
Bowfire takes the stage 8 p.m.
Saturday, April 8, at Macomb Center
for the Performing Arts in Clinton
Township. $35-$42 with discounts
available for students, senior citi-
zens and for groups of 20 or•more".
(586) 286-2222 or
www.MacombCenter.corn.

Rockin' Jews

Two hot bands — each with a Jewish
member — grace Metro Detroit's stages
in the upcoming week.
The glam-punk trio the Yeah Yeah Yeahs
is first up with a performance Tuesday,
April 11, at the Royal Oak Music Theatre,
Doors are at 7 p.m.
The Yeah Yeah Yeahs formed in
Brooklyn three years ago, when Karen
0 (vocals) and Nick Zinner (guitar)
stumbled upon
each other at a
New York bar.
They started
writing songs
and soon called
in Karen's old
Oberlin College
pal Brian Chase

Nick Valensi

— the Jewish guy— to back them up on
drums. After several years of touring with
hipster behemoths like the Strokes and the
White Stripes, the band finally released
an album, Fever to Tell, which contained

Brian Chase

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_LA Batter Up!
Monday, April 3, is Major League base-
ball's opening day. The following play-
▪ ers are on a Major League roster as of
March 29, have at least one Jewish par-
. ent and don't identify with a faith other
than Judaism. This list was prepared
) with the help of the Jewish Sports
Review newsletter:
Brad Asmus, Houston; Scott
Feldman, -
Texas; Shawn
Green, Arizona;
John Grabow,
Pittsburgh; Mike
Lieberthal,
Philadelphia;
Jason Marquis,
St. Louis; Scott
Schoeneweis,
Toronto; Adam
Stern and Kevih
Youkilis, Boston.
(Gabe Kapler,
Mike Lieberthal
Boston, is still

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recovering from off-season surgery, and
the Red Sox cannot put him on their
roster until May 15.)
Turning to football, Jewish Sports
Review just named University of
Michigan offensive lineman Adam
Kraus to its 2005 all-star team of
Jewish college football players.

Barkin's Blues
Actress Ellen Barkin has just been
cast in a major steamy role in Ocean's
13, an upcoming film sequel to
Ocean's.11 and Ocean's 12. Barkin,
51, is apparently still sexy enough to get
the part of the love interest opposite co-
star Matt Damon, who is only 36.
This good news follows a few months
of bad news for the Bronx native.
In January, Barkin's hubby Revlon
billionaire Ron Perelman, 63,
shocked her by seeking a divorce
after nearly five years of marriage.
Perelman's action didn't shock observ-
ers, who noted that he isn't exactly

"easygoing," and
he wasn't happy
in three previ-
ous marriages to
Jewish women.
Getting out
of these prior
marriages cost
Perelman about
Ellen Barkin
$180 million,
but, based on their prenuptial contract,
he got away with giving Barkin a mere
$20 million by filing for divorce by
January 2006.
It seemed to observers thdt Barkin,
who was previously married to actor
Gabriel Byrne, tried to make the mar-
riage work, and by all accounts she
happily followed Perelman's Modern
Orthodox lifestyle. ,
Anyway, she showed class, didn't
draw the divorce proceedings out and
settled in February for the $20 million.
Then, in early March, Barkin nearly
choked to death while eating at a posh

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Los Angeles restaurant. Brad Pitt's
agent saved her with the Heimlich
maneuver.

Such A Shmeggeggy
"I was such a shmeggeggy."
So said scientist Eric Kande',
76, in a recent Newsweek interview.
Shmeggeggy is a Yiddish word meaning
"idiot!" It's a fun word I hadn't heard
in years, and I thought it was hilarious
and charming that a Nobel Prize win-
ner like Kandel would refer to himself
this way,
Kandel, a psychiatrist whO does his
research at the Center for Biology and
Behavior at Columbia University in
New York City, won a Nobel Prize in
Medicine in 2000 for his work on brain
cells and memory. He called himself an
"idiot" because as a young researcher,
he thought he could find — in just six
months — the brain center of the id,
the ego and the superego.
His new book, In Search of