Arts & Entertainment About others continue to be posted on the Web site, www.postsecret. (248) 432.5579 or gallery@jccdet.org ; or go to www.jccdet.org. COM. Tell everyone you know to post his/her secret. Post Your Secret One person admitted "a glimmer of hope" whenever she saw an ugly bride. "What I am really seeing;' she wrote, "is: Maybe I will marry someday!' "I sometimes think non-living things communicate with each other when humans are not around;' another wrote. The confessions of a third: "My dad is the only person who says 'I love you' to me. Sometimes I call to ask him dumb ques- tions just to hear it once in awhile' Who knows what secrets lurk in the hearts of men? Frank Warren does. Warren is the man behind PostSecret, a community art project where anyone sub- mits a postcard revealing a secret never before shared. Some of these secrets are contained in his book, PostSecret, while The Janice Charach Epstein Gallery, located in the Jewish Community Center of Metropolitan Detroit in West Bloomfield, invites local residents to sub- mit a secret of their own in preparation for the exhibit "PostSecret," opening at the gallery in October. Secrets should be written on a post- card (one of your choosing, or blank cards may be obtained through the gal- lery) and mailed to the Janice Charach Epstein Gallery, 6600 W. Maple Road, West Bloomfield, MI 48322. Each secret may be a regret, a hope, a funny experi- ence, a fantasy, a belief, a fear, a betrayal, a confession, an unseen kindness — or something else. Please remain anonymous. Reveal any- thing, so long as it is true and you have never shared it with anyone. Feel free to be creative, and please make certain hand- writing is legible. A selection of the cards will be exhib- ited in conjunction with the opening of Frank Warren's "PostSecret." For information, contact the gallery at Art For Lovers The Song of Songs, one of the shortest books in the Bible, has provided generations of human- ity with some of the most passionate and most lasting love poetry in history. Artist Debra Band interpreted these T c he oon love poems as the daydreams of a couple within a walled garden, enabling the verses to be understood simultaneously as both human and religious words of love, in her book The Song of Songs: The Honeybee in the Garden (Jewish Publication Society, 2005). In an exhibition of the same name running through August, Temple Israel's Goodman Family Judaic and Archival Museum displays Band's illustra- tions for the book. The paintings contain no full-body human imagery. Instead, hand and arms (and one foot) reveal the lovers' presence, while several recurring textile patterns hint at the lovers' activities. A honeybee is hidden in each illustra- tion for several reasons: The name Debra 110N1 • ■ ,a is a transliteration of the biblical name Devorah, which is the Hebrew word for "honeybee and the bees included in the paintings relate to the Hebrew scribal tradition of representing the scribe's or illuminator's presence in the work. Band, based in Washington, D.C., has worked in the Hebrew manuscript arts for more than 20 years. In October, Jewish Publication Society will release I Will Wake the Dawn: Illuminated Psalms, a full- color art book that features 36 of the most well-known psalms presented in the original Hebrew as well as in English translation. In addition to the artist's illuminations and commen- tary, the volume will include literary commentary by the artist's father-in-law, Arnold J. Band, a professor of Hebrew and comparative literature at UCLA. For more information about the Temple Israel exhibit, call (248) 661-5700. Folk Traditions Michigan State University Museum's Great Lakes Folk Festival is a one-of-a-kind fusion of arts fair, music festival, county fair, hands-on activity workshops, living museum exhibitions and celebration of WS Nate Bloom Special to the Jewish News LN ‘12 Super Geek In a recent Time magazine profile, (11) Neil Gaiman, 46, was described as a "geek god" because his comics /IW (Sandman, etc.), graphic books and prose fantasy novels have attracted a huge cult following among those often called "geeks." Fantasy's recent popularity at the movies (Harry Potter, Lord of the Neil Gaiman Rings) spurred Hollywood's interest in Gaiman and Stardust, the first full-length film from a Gaiman work. Starring Claire Danes, Robert DeNiro and Michelle Pfeiffer, Stardust is a love story set in an entirely mythical world. It opens in area theaters on Friday, Aug.10. This November, a new version of the ancient fantasy tale Beowulf will hit theaters. Written by Gaiman, the film is directed by Oscar-win- 54 August 9 e 2007 ner Robert Zemeckis (Forrest Gump). Next year, Dakota Fanning will star in a film version of Gaiman's children's novel, Coraline. Gaiman, who now lives in Minneapolis, was born and raised in England, the son of parents of Polish-Jewish background. He told Time he has mixed feelings about all the attention he is currently receiv- ing and that he won't be that upset if his films flop: "Five years ago, I was absolutely as famous as I want- ed to be. I'm now more famous than I'm comfortable with," he said. Trekking On The "geeks" hit San Diego in huge numbers late in July for Comic-Con, the world's largest convention devoted to comics and related fantasy/sci- fi material. It was a fit- ting place for J.J. Abrams, 41, the Jewish creator Leonard of Lost, to make Nimoy the announcement that Leonard Nimoy, 75, would reprise his role as Spock in a new Star Trek film Abrams is directing. Joining Abrams at the podium were Nimoy and young actor Zachary Quinto (Heroes). Quinto bears a great resemblance to Nimoy and will Zachary play the young Quinto Spock in the movie. Abrams also said that William Shatner, 76, will likely appear as Captain Kirk in his movie. Nimoy amused the crowd by responding the way Spock would to the news of Shatner's casting: "It is only logical." Walter Koenig, 70, who played Chekov on Star Trek, hasn't been cast in the new film, but he's plenty busy. He recently visited Burmese refugees in camps along the Thailand border and told a Bangkok news conference that he was urging Trek fans and others to oppose the vicious Burmese military dictator- ship. The son of Jewish-Russian refugees, Koenig is trying to use his celebrity to make the world pay some attention to the plight of the Burmese. Sports Center The charming and genuinely amus- ing TBS cable original series My Boys, starring the pretty Jordana Spiro, 30, was a surprise hit when a limited season of 10 episodes aired last fall. My Boys returned for a sum- mer season of nine new episodes on July 30. Spiro plays a Chicago sports columnist who has to cope with being Jordana Spiro a woman in a field dominated by men. Complicating her life is the fact that most of the single guys she meets are also colleagues. New episodes air Mondays at 10 p.m., with repeats all week. Past episodes can be viewed on the TBS Web site.