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Gail Zimmerman

Arts Editor

Multicultural Arts

musical heritage, including songs from
Africa, South America, Eastern Europe
The Detroit Festival of the Arts, an annual
and American folk and jazz, as well as
multidimensional family-friendly arts
theater productions and literary events.
extravaganza featuring a juried fine art
Performers range from the Detroit
and crafts market, multiple
Symphony Orchestra and
stages of entertainment and
New York City poet Barry
a large children's fair with
Wallenstein to Ann Arbor
almost 50 hands-on activi-
folk-roots artist Dick Siegel
ties, takes over the streets of
and family entertainers Cathy
the University Cultural Center
Fink and Marcy Marxer.
June 9-11. Hours are 4-11 p.m.
Catskills comedian Mikhail
Friday, noon-11 p.m. Saturday
Horowitz, who has been
and noon-9 p.m. Sunday.
described as "a wild blend of
Festival visitors will encoun-
Lord Buckley, Jack Kerouac
ter a street painting exhibition Mikhail Ho rowitz
and Professor Irwin Corey:'
in the ancient Italian style of
also will appear.
the Modonnari (chalk painting), watch
All events are free (including admission
sculptors create a 75-ton sand sculpture,
to the Detroit Institute of Arts during fes-
sample a multitude of ethnic cuisines and
tival hours). For a complete schedule, call
witness the comic antics of the festival's
(313) 577-5088 or go to the Web site
international cast of street performers.
www.detroitfestival.com .
The performances on the 10 festival
stages will reflect Detroit's multicultural

Time With Harry

Storyteller, composer, actor, playwright
and singer Danny Maseng has presented
his Off-Broadway musical Wasting Time
with Harry Davidowicz for almost a
decade now He will bring the show to
Temple Israel in West Bloomfield 7 p.m.
Wednesday, June 14.
"The stories my grandfather told me
lit up my life says Maseng, who weaves
together Harry's tales of wisdom with a
journey from Jerusalem to Eilat, from a
Chasidic rabbi's shtetl to a Zen monastery
— with the audience along for the ride.
Accompanying himself on guitar, Maseng
includes familiar and original songs in
Hebrew, Yiddish, English and Ladino.
Born in Israel to American parents,
Maseng first came to the United States in
1971 to star on Broadway in Only Fools
Are Sad. A featured guest soloist of the
Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, he has
been hailed as one of "Israel's greatest

singers." He currently
serves as the direc-
tor of the Spielberg
Fellowships for the
Foundation for Jewish
Camping Inc., as well
Danny Maseng
as the artistic director
of the Brandeis-Bardin
Institute, a center for Jewish culture and
learning in California. His new Broadway
musical, Let There Be Light, is currently
in production.
Admission is free; to reserve tickets, call
Temple Israel at (248) 661-5700.

Toby Tunes

Toby Lightman's summer memories
include times spent playing and working
outdoors at the Jewish camp Pinemere in
Pennsylvania and soon will include seven
weeks spent touring outdoor stages as the
opening act for Rob Thomas and Jewel.
Lightman,lArhose second album, Bird

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Marshall Brickman, up for Best Book for
a Musical for Jersey Boys.

Tony Time

Premieres

The Tony Awards, for outstanding
work on the Broadway stage, airs 8
p.m. Sunday, June 11, on CBS. Some
of the more notable Jewish nominees:
Lansing's Lisa Kron, up for Best Leading
Actress in a Play for Well; Judy Kaye,
vying for the Tony in the same category
for Souvenir; Danny Burstein, up for
Best Featured Actor
in a Musical for The

HBO premieres the new series Lucky
Louie on 10:30 p.m. Sunday, June 11.
Louie is about the lives of a working-
class couple and their young child.
Jewish actress Pamela Segall Adlon,
who has great comic timing, plays the
wife.
The cable channel is high on Louie,
a gritty and frank comedy. They just
ordered another 10 episodes of the
series, on top of the 12 that have already
been filmed.
The pretty Teresa Strasser, best
known as the former host of TLC's While
You Were Out, returns to TV as the co-
host of the six-part ABC summer series
How to Get the Guy. It debuts 10 p.m.
Monday, June 12.
This reality docu-drama, which is set

Drowsy Chaperone;
Zoe Wanamaker, up

Judy Kaye

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for Best Featured
Actress in a Play
for her role as a
Jewish mother in
the current revival
of Clifford Odds'
Awake and Sing; and

in San Francisco and features a lot of
gorgeous Bay area scenery shots, fol-
lows four women as they try to find "Mr.
Right." Strasser, a San Francisco native,
and her male co-host,
J.D. Roberto, act as
"love coaches."
Strasser, who once
worked as a reporter
for San Francisco's
Jewish newspaper,
regularly writes on
relationship issues for
Teresa
Los Angeles papers,
Strasser
including the Jewish
Journal of Greater Los Angeles. In addi-
tion, last month she became the "news
girl" on Adam Carolla's syndicated radio
program.

a cliffhanger ending. Such is the interes
in the season-ending finales that Lost's
producers have employed extra security
to keep details from leaking out.
Recently, however, the producers did
disclose their code names for the cliff-
hangers: "Bagel" was the code name for
the first season's final scene, while "cha
lah" was the code name for this season'
cliffhanger ending.
By the way, in response to viewer
complaints about too many reruns,
Lost will have no reruns during the next
season. New episodes will run from
September through November, and
the show will be replaced by another
series until new episodes air again from
February through May

Returning

Is Rugelach Next?

For the last two years, the hit ABC
series Lost has finished its season with

The TNT cable series Closer, starring
Kyra Sedgwick as a crack police detec-
tive, became a critical and ratings hit not