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June 19 • 2008
The former Oak Parker's first
Michigan appearances are set for
Friday, June 20, at the White Crow
Conservatory in Saginaw and
Saturday, June 21, at the Painted
Lady Lounge in Hamtramck.
"We're planning on playing a
variety of old-time, bluegrass, jug
band and original music:' says
Lewis, 26, mainly a fiddler and
vocalist but also comfortable on
Aaron Lewis: "Completely on the road."
mandolin and bass.
"We use acoustic instruments in
Suzanne Chessler
a high-energy performance, and
Special to the Jewish News
there's always a lot of humor, sometimes
satire, involved. We comment on current
aron Lewis studied serious
events and the human condition!"
music as a junior and senior
The band, which has recorded four
high-school student at the
CDs, includes Ed Brogan on guitar
Interlochen Arts Academy, but his
and vocals; Ben Belcher on banjo, bass
musical career has taken a "funny"
and vocals; Josh Bearman on mando-
turn.
lin, bass, banjo and vocals; and Jake
Lewis, a quintet performer work-
Sellers on percussion.
ing with Special Ed and the Shortbus,
"I got started with the band in
brings bluegrass sounds mixed in with 2002 while going to the College of the
comic exchanges among band mates
Atlantic in Maine," Lewis says. "I met
to venues around the world.
the other members through a friend. I
a
Airing during Gay Pride Month,
poignant Israeli documentary
has U.S. TV premiere.
Michael Fox
Special to the Jewish News
T
he deeply, darkly mysterious
Israeli documentary Stefan
Braun is the closest we are
ever likely to get to Mediterranean
Gothic.
This fascinating and ultimately
haunting film introduces us to elder-
ly Eliezer Rath, who spends his days
and nights alone with the memories
and mementoes of the love of his
life. Rath is comforted, and perhaps
a little tormented, by the ghost of his
partner of 39 years, Stefan Braun.
Braun owned a high-end fur
salon in Tel Aviv for decades, but he
wasn't a businessman so much as
a designer, impresario and benign
tyrant who inspired total devotion.
He was also an active gay man at
a time when homosexuality was a
crime and discretion was advised,
even if you were wealthy, handsome
and established enough to live by
your own rules.
Braun's vibrant personality shines
through the trove of photographs
and home movies Rath shares with
the filmmakers. However, it's not
what we see that makes Stefan Braun