arts & entertainment >> editor's picks About CLASSICAL NOTES the riverfront with free Festival, featuring a wide concerts (War, Chaka variety of Michigan-made The Detroit Symphony Orchestra Khan, Macy Gray and and Michigan-themed short returns to Greenfield Village for its more), activities on land films, as well as two full- annual Salute to America concerts, an and water celebrating length features, Saturday, entire Fourth of July program of musical Detroit's history and June 25, at Genittis-Hole- Americana topped off with Tchaikovsky's Gail Zimmerman culture, and good eats in-the-Wall, 108 E. Main St., 1812 Overture and a lavish fireworks fina- 4-11 p.m. Thursday, 11 in Northville. The films will le, Wednesday-Sunday, June 29-July 3, with a.m.-11 p.m. Friday and be shown in three groups at pre-concert musical entertainment, kids Saturday and 11 a.m.-10 p.m. Sunday, June noon, 3 p.m. and 6 p.m. (films shown at 6 activities and food available for purchase 23-26 (followed on Monday, June 27, by p.m. are for ages 17+ only). $5-$10. (248) (or bring your own picnic). Gates open the Parade Company's 53rd annual Target 344-0497. The film festival runs as part of at 6 p.m. For detailed information and a Fireworks). $3 admission/free for kids 3 Northville's 2011 Arts and Acts, with an range of ticket prices, go to and under and seniors 65 and older. Free art fair in the center of historic Northville, thehenryford.org or call (313) 982-6001. to all 11 a.m.-5 p.m. on Friday. Info and musical entertainment and food and schedule: (313) 566-8200; riverdays.com . drink, running 4-9 p.m. Friday, 11 a.m.-8 POP/ROCK JAZZ p.m. Saturday and 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Sunday, THE BIG SCREEN June 24-26. (248) 349-7640; ci.northville. Detroiters Josh Epstein (the Jewish mem- mi.us . ber) and Daniel Zott (the gentile mem- Four classic Shakespearean plays will be ber) of the indie group Dale Earnhardt shown in U.S. movie theaters nationwide THE ART SCENE Jr. Jr. are receiving great reviews for their this summer and fall, filmed in 2010 at newly released CD, It's a Corporate World the renowned Globe Theatre in London. — old fashioned pop (not music for Shakespeare's Globe London Cinema NASCAR). They'll play a CD release show Series kicks off with The Merry Wives 8 p.m. Saturday, June 25, at St. Andrew's of Windsor (Monday, June 27), followed Hall, 431 E. Congress, in Detroit. $12. (313) by Henry IV Part 1 (Monday, Aug. 1), 961-8137; livenation.com . Henry IV Part 2 (Thursday, Aug. 18) and In support of his new album, Ukulele Henry VIII (Thursday, Sept. 15). Each Songs, a collection of original songs and performance begins at 7 p.m. and will covers performed on ukulele, Eddie include a 20-minute historical perspective Vedder takes the stage 7:30 p.m. Sunday, on the Globe, its modern reconstruction June 26, at Detroit's Fox Theatre, with spe- (spearheaded by the late Jewish American cial guest Glen Hansard (Oscar winner actor and director Sam Wanamaker), the for "Falling Slowly" from Once). $75. (313) work of the Globe today and a behind- 471-6611; olympiaentertainment.com . Sidney Hurwitz: Twin Tanks, watercolor the-scenes look at each production with and aquatint on paper, 2002 interviews from the actors and directors. EVENTS $12.50-$15. For participating theaters and tickets, go to fathomevents.com . MOCAD (Museum of Contemporary Presented by the Detroit Riverfront The Northville Art House and its char- Art Detroit) hosts Barely There: Part 1 Conservancy and marking its fifth anni- ity partner, Forgotten Harvest, present through July 31. The two-part group exhi- versary, Detroit River Days returns to the first annual Reel Michigan Film bition deals in its first installment with Jews Nate Bloom Special to the Jewish News New Flicks The following movies open on Friday, June 24: In Cars 2, the sequel to the Pixar mega-hit Cars (2006), the lead (car) characters com- pete in a world Grand Prix. British Jewish actor Jason Isaacs, Jason Isaacs 48, has a large role as the voice of Siddeley, a state-of-the-art British twin-engine spy jet. The screenplay was co-written by Dan Fogelman, 40, who also co-wrote the original Cars. Bad Teacher stars Cameron Diaz as a foul-mouthed high school teacher who couldn't care less about her job or her students. She is just looking for a 30 June 23 a 2 011 IN rich husband who will allow her to quit her job forever. She sets her sights on a handsome substitute teacher (Justin Timberlake) who happens to be heir to a big fortune. The sub, however, is somewhat smitten with another teacher. Meanwhile, Diaz fends off the advances of a sarcastic gym teacher, played by Jason Segel, 31. Segel, by the way, is now film- ing the romantic comedy Five Year Engagement, co-starring Emily Blunt and directed by Nicholas Stoller, (Get Him to the Greek), 35. Most of the film is set in Ann Arbor, and location filming in Ann Arbor and Detroit (a scene at the MGM Grand Detroit) has been going on since April. Two weeks ago, Ann Arbor residents were surprised to see Jason Segel thousands of pounds of fake snow on a city street; it was used to film a winter scene. Opening July 15 is A Better Life is the poignant, but realistic, story of an undocumented Mexican gardener in L.A. who struggles to keep his son from gangs and immigration agents while he ekes out a living working for the wealthy. The high-quality script led Chris Weitz (Golden Compass, About a Boy), 42, to sign on to direct and actress Jami Gertz, (Still Standing), 46, to make the film the first project of her new production Jami Gertz company. New On TV Debuting 10 p.m. Thursday, June 23, is the USA Network lawyer series Suits, about a young stoner/college dropout the mind, touching on abstract concepts such as death, love, identity, imagination, knowledge and the unintelligible. The second part, to be presented in the fall of 2011, will feature work that focuses on the body. Part I's multigenerational group of artists, with work represented from the late 1920s to the present, includes Luis Camnitzer, a conceptual artist who was born in Lubeck, Germany, in 1937 and fled with his Jewish family to Uruguay in 1939. Camnitzer, whose art often deals with the ambiguities of identity, language, exile, imprisonment and the experience of reality, has lived and worked in the United States since 1964 and has written of the alienation and familiarity he feels while straddling two cultures imperfectly. Hours: 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday; 11 a.m.-8 p.m. Thursday-Friday. 4454 Woodward Ave., in Detroit. (313) 832-6622; mocadetroit.org . The Flint Institute of Arts presents an exhibition showcasing the graphic works of artist Sidney Hurwitz through July 3. The Massachusetts native, who received a B.A. at Brandeis University and an M.F.A. at Boston University, is a professor emeritus at B.U., where he taught for more than 30 years. His hand-colored aquatints focus on imagery from the steel industry and related industrial and urban subjects. Hours: noon-5 p.m. Monday-Wednesday and Friday, noon- 9 p.m. Thursday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday and 1-5 p.m. Sunday. Free. (810) 810-234-1695; flintarts.org . Please email items you wish to have considered for Out & About to Gail Zimmerman at gzimmerman@thejewishnews. corn. Notice is requested three weeks before the scheduled event. (Patrick Adams) who teams up with a top corporate lawyer, ill played by Gabriel Macht, 39. Brad Garrett, 51, stars in I Kid with Brad Garrett, corn- Gabriel Macht ing to TLC 8 p.m. Tuesday, June 28. The former Everyone Loves Raymond actor does candid and funny interviews with children. At 10 p.m. Wednesday, June 29, check out the new USA Network series Necessary Roughness, about a female psy- chotherapist (Callie Thorne) who takes on a football team and celebrities as clients. Scott Cohen It co-stars Scott Cohen (Kissing Jessica Stein), 49, as a sports "fixer" for the team.