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Arts & Culture
Watch five videos, including one
by Bruce Nauman, that focus on
cause-and-effect relationships and
show how video has progressed as
an art form at "Action Reaction:
Video installations," opening
Friday, July 3, at the Detroit
Institute of Arts, 5200 Woodward.
Open 10 a.m. Wednesday-Sunday.
Allow two hours to see all five.
Free with museum admission.
(313) 833-7900, www.dia.org .
Learn how Detroit native Steve
Luxenberg, associate editor at the
Washington Post, researched his
family's history for his new book,
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Annie's Ghosts: A Journey Into a
Family Secret, 7:30 p.m. Tuesday,
July 7, at the Community House
of Birmingham, 380 S. Bates.
Sponsor is Program for Holocaust
Survivors & the Auxiliary for
Jewish Home & Aging Services.
Free; and includes kosher refresh-
ments. RSVP required: (248) 661-
2999, ext. 328.
Attend the opening, including
live music, of Detroit Industrial
Projects' hip "Unfiltered Show,"
works by Josh Slavin and others,
6 p.m.-midnight Saturday, July 11,
at Russell Industrial Center, 1610
Clay, Detroit 48211. Located on
the third floor of the complex's
second building, the multi-media
show offers an eclectic mix of
outsider/folk/naive/street art with
an emphasis on the self-trained
artist. Gallery hours:1-5 p.m.
Saturdays, or by appointment,
through Aug. 22. Details: (248)
840-5117, strezins®gmail.com .
Under The Stars
Worship at "Shabbat
Services Under the Stars"
7:30 p.m. Fridays, at Temple
Israel, 5725 Walnut Lake
Road, West Bloomfield.
Kabbalat Shabbat service
features the Temple Israel
All-Stars, July 3, and the
Simone Vitale Band, July
10. Buffet picnic available
at 6 p.m. for a charge,
or bring your own food.
RSVP: sandi®temple-
israel.org , (248) 661-5700.
See Marlee Hoffman's show "An
Invitation to the Moment" daily
except Mondays, through Aug.
2, at Washington Street Gallery,
306 S. Main, Ann Arbor. (734) 761-
2287, www.wsg-art.com .
Browse the exhibit "Opening
the Doors to Fulfill Our Mission"
through July 16, at Janice
Charach Gallery inside the West
Bloomfield JCC. Featured art-
ists include Steven Gamburd,
Lorraine Goldberg, Danny Gutman,
Marc Maddin, Jennifer Maiseloff,
Jonathan Nickovich and Marat
Paransky. Open Sunday and
Monday-Thursday. (248) 432-
5579, www.charachgallery.org .
Explore the world of "Art
Spiegelman: Portrait of the Artist
..." through July 26, at Museum
of Contemporary Art Detroit,
4454 Woodward. The Pulitzer
Prize-winning cartoonist created
the Holocaust memoir, Maus: A
Survivor's Tale. Open 11 a.m. daily
except Monday and Tuesday. Free.
(313) 832-6622, www.mocadetroit.
org .
Learn from "The Story of the Aliya
Bet and Machal" through July 31,
at Amster Gallery inside Jewish
Community Center of Washtenaw
County, 935 Birch Hollow, Ann
Arbor. Informative panels tell
about American and Canadian
men and women, Jews and
Christians, who risked their lives
between 1946-49, for the creation
of the State of Israel. juliegales®
jccfed.org . (734) 971-0990.
See current work by Lynne
Avadenka and other artists
at "Sculptures in Love with
Architecture" through Aug. 8, at
Lemberg Gallery, 23241 Woodward,
Ferndale. (248) 591-6623, lem-
berggallery.com .
Take pride in the tribe at the
"From Haven to Home: Jewish
Life in America" exhibit through
Aug. 30, at the Detroit Historical
Museum, 5401 Woodward at
Kirby. Open Wednesday-Sunday.
Admission: $6 adult, $4 discount
rate. Exhibit information: (313)
833-1805, www.michjewishhistory.
org .
Cinema & Stage
Reserve seats to next season's
Broadway shows coming to
Detroit theaters. Scheduled are
Jersey Boys, Spring Awakening,
Wizard of Oz, Ethel Merman's
Broadway, Legally Blonde and
Young Frankenstein. Subscription
prices start at $219. Details: www.
BroadwaylnDetroit.com , (313) 872-
1000.
Concerts
Check out Comerica Cityfest,
a chance to taste food from 40
restaurants and hear nearly 80
musical acts, along W. Grand Blvd.
at the Fisher Building in Detroit's
New Center area. Annual event
continues through July 5. Hours:
11:30 a.m.-11 p.m. daily, except
closing 8 p.m. Sunday. Admission
and music are free. Purchase food
with tickets. www.
comericacityfest.com .
Show patriotism attending the
annual "Salute to America"
concert featuring the Detroit
Symphony Orchestra with conduc-
tor David Alan Miller 8:30 nightly
through July 4, at Greenfield
Village, 20900 Oakwood Blvd.,
Dearborn. Doors open at 6 p.m.
Fireworks show at approximately
10. Purchase tickets:
www.henryford.org , (313) 982-
6001.
Find an eclectic mix of music,
dance, comedy, film and family
activities through July 5, at the
Ann Arbor Summer Festival.
Prices vary for "Mainstage" shows
at indoor theaters; programs held
at Ingalls Mall are free. Schedule:
www.annarborsummerfestival.org ,
(734) 764-2538.
Event Hotline
Take a narrated, two-hour city bus
tour, "The Good, the Bad and the
Hopeful: You Be the Judge," 11:30,
a.m. Saturday, July 11, leaving
from 2934 Russell at Wilkins in
Eastern Market. The tour leader is
Linda Yellin, owner of Feet on the
Street, $25. Next tour: July 25.
Tickets: (248) 353-TOUR, www.
FeetOnTheStreetTours.com .
Come along on Center Travel
excursions beyond Michigan,
including shows at Huron Country
Playhouse, July 16, Aug. 13 and
19; Niagara on the Lake, July
28-29; New York City in August;
Stratford Festival, Sept. 9-10.
www.jccdet.org .
Events That Help
Enjoy a picnic dinner and exhibit,
"Voices of Change; The 1960s,
Birmingham, Michigan, the
World," 5-6:30 p.m. Wednesday,
July 8, at Birmingham Museum,
556 W. Maple Road at Southfield
Road. Birmingham Historical
Society's museum fundraiser
includes concert at 7 with guitar-
ist Gary Quackenbush, a short
walk away in Booth Park, off
of Old Woodward and Harmon
Street, north of downtown