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CLASSICAL NOTES
Subscriptions are on sale for the Detroit
Symphony Orchestra Neighborhood
Concert Series, with four performances
scheduled beginning Jan. 8, 2015, through
July 19, 2015, in each of the following
locations: Beverly Hills (Seligman
Performing Arts Center), Bloomfield
Hills (Kirk in the Hills), Southfield
(Congregation Shaarey Zedek), West
Bloomfield Township (Berman Center),
Canton (Village Theater at Cherry
Hill), Dearborn (Ford Community and
Performing Arts Center) and Grosse
Pointe (Our Lady Star of the Sea).
General admission subscriptions are
$75 for Dearborn, Southfield and West
Bloomfield Township and $100 for Beverly
Hills, Bloomfield Hills, Canton and Grosse
Pointe. A $25 donation to the DSO's
Annual Fund waives all fees. Individual
tickets for all neighborhood concerts will
be $25 and will go on sale Nov. 10, 2014.
For performance details and to buy tickets,
call (313) 576-5111 or go to dso.org/neigh-
borhood.
POP / ROCK / JAZZ / FOLK
The Happy Together Tour, coming to
DTE Energy Music Theatre at 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, Aug. 2, features numerous hits
from the '60s and '70s, with highlights
from the following groups: the Turtles fea-
turing Flo & Eddie (a.k.a. Mark Volman
and Howard Kaylan); Chuck Negron,
formerly of Three Dog Night; Mark Farner,
formerly of Grand Funk Railroad; Gary
Lewis & The Playboys (Gary Lewis is the
son of actor-comedian Jerry Lewis) and
Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels. $15-
$35 pavilion/$15 lawn. (800) 745-3000;
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The Ark in Ann
(800) 745-3000; palacenet.
Arbor hosts several
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Jewish performers dur-
Celebrating 40 years of
ing the month of
rock 'n roll, KISS, with
4 co-headliner Def Leppard,
August: keyboard-
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playing songwriter A.J.
brings their tour to DTE
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Saturday, Aug. 23, at 7
p.m. Monday, Aug. 4, $20; composer-gui-
p.m. Jewish members of KISS include co-
tarist Joshua Davis, a former Oak Parker
founders vocalist-bassist Gene Simmons
and Tamarack song leader, at 8 p.m.
(born in Israel as Chaim Witz) and
Thursday, Aug. 14, $15; father-daughter
vocalist-guitarist Paul Stanley (his recent
folk duo San and Emily Slomovits, with
memoir, Face the Music: A Life Exposed, is
bassist Jacob Warren, at 8 p.m. Saturday,
a great behind-the-scenes read). $79.50-
Aug. 16, $15; and underground blues diva
$175 pavilion/$36 lawn. (800) 745-3000;
Candye Kane at 8 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 19,
palacenet.com.
$15. (734) 761-1451; theark.org .
Linkin Park, including its Jewish
Longtime songwriters, twin brothers
members and co-founders, guitarist-
Logan and Roger Raskin, better known
keyboardist Brad Delson and drummer
as The Raskins, have put out a self-titled
Rob Bourdon, joins forces with Thirty
album of their original music — a "blend
Seconds to Mars, featuring lead singer and
of rock and metal with a poppy punk
newly minted Oscar winner Jared Leto,
sound" and are now heading out on their
and rock band AFI for the Carnivores
first national tour. They'll open for Motley
Tour at 6:30 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 30, at DTE
Crue and Alice Cooper at DTE Energy
Energy Music Theatre. $40.50-$100.50
Music Theatre on Saturday, Aug. 9, at 7
pavilion/$26 lawn. (800) 745-3000;
p.m. The siblings — "raised on music" in
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New York City by their parents, Tommy
Raskin, a former Broadway performer,
DANCE FEVER
and jazz singer Judith Raskin (a.k.a. Judy
Lee) — are being managed by their broth-
The Motor City Tap Fest, taking place
er, Micah Raskin, a well-known and very
Aug. 13-16 on the campus of Wayne State
successful big-stakes poker player. $39-
University in Detroit, features four days
$125 pavilion/$25 lawn. (800) 745-3000;
of tap classes, a panel discussion with
industry tap experts and a tap jam; par-
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ticipants include Avi Miller, Ofer Ben
Toronto-born nice Jewish boy Aubrey
Drake Graham, the Grammy Award-
and Michigan natives Shelby Kaufman
winning, multiplatinum-selling rapper
and Eric Gutman. The event culminates
with Motor City Soles, a performance
better known as Drake, co-headlines a
open to the public at 7:30 p.m. Saturday,
U.S. tour with Lil Wayne this summer.
Aug. 16, at Orchestra Hall in Detroit. The
It makes a stop at DTE Energy Music
concert features leading tap artists, as well
Theatre on Saturday, Aug. 16, at 7 p.m.
as world-class dancing in salsa, ballroom,
flamenco and step dancing. Tap fest info:
(917) 687-4811; motorcitytapfest.com.
Concert-only tickets start at $30: (313)
576-5111; dso.org.
LAUGH LINES
This summer's Funny or Die Presents
Oddball Comedy & Curiosity Festival
2014, beginning at 5 p.m. Friday, Aug. 29,
at DTE Energy Music Theatre, will feature
performances by a slew of comedians,
including headliner Sarah Silverman.
A Second Stage will be hosted by comic
Brody Stevens. $29.75-$59.75 pavilion/$20
lawn. (800) 745-3000; palacenet.com .
THE BIG SCREEN
While the Detroit Film Theatre at the
Detroit Institute of Arts is undergoing
renovations this summer, the DFT will
present outdoor movies at three Huron-
Clinton Metroparks that celebrate the
anniversaries of two pioneering films:
the original, uncut 1954 Japanese ver-
sion of Godzilla and the Beatles' A Hard
Day's Night in a newly restored version
by its director, Richard Lester. Movies
will begin each night at 8:45 p.m. with a
short reel by award-winning Michigan
student filmmakers. Films are free with
park admission and will screen Fridays
and Saturdays Aug. 1-2 at Kensington
Metropark in Milford, Aug. 8-9 at Stony
Creek Metropark in Shelby Township and
Aug. 15-16 at Willow Metropark in New
Boston. metroparks.com ; dia.org/dft.
The Redford Theatre in Detroit screens
these movie classics: Carrie, featur-
ing Piper Laurie, Aug. 1; Christopher
Guest's Best in Show, with Eugene Levy
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At The Movies
in the 1920s. Colin Firth stars as a
master magician who is trying to
expose a charming psychic medium
(Emma Stone).
Boyhood, opening Friday, Aug.1, was
filmed over 12 years with the same
cast. The central character is Mason
Jr., played by Ellar Coltrane, who
was 6 years old when the filming
began. Largely through his eyes, we
watch him grow up, literally, until
he is 18 and a high school graduate.
Ethan Hawke plays his father, and
Patricia Arquette, 46, plays his
mother (Arquette was 34 when
filming began). Lorelei Linklater,
daughter of Richard Linklater, the
film's writer-director, plays Mason
Jr.'s sister.
Also opening Aug.1 is the much
lighter Magic in the Moonlight. A new
romantic comedy by Woody Allen,
79, it is set on the French Riviera
Tongue firmly in cheek, I might
argue that the fact Jews are the
most "highly regarded" religious
group in America (Pew Survey,
June 2014) is partially due to the
astonishing rise in the number of
Jewish women appearing on lists
like Maxim magazine's "100 Hottest
Women in the World."
Yes, I know these lists can be
viewed as sexist. But there's no
denying the fact that showbiz is
largely about sex appeal, and very
few showbiz women (or men) object
to their name appearing on these
"hottest" lists.
These lists are very popular on
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Special to the Jewish News
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Hot Hebrews
the Web, and, recently, a Jewish
website got scads of visitors with
its terribly inaccurate list of who is
Jewish among the 2014 Maxim 100.
I say if you are going to venture into
sexist territory, you might as well be
accurate. So, here's my accurate list;
numbers preceding names are the
Maxim rankings.
Unless otherwise
noted, the woman
is an actress: (2)
Scarlett Johansson,
29; (9) Mila Kunis,
30; (33) Ashley
Tisdale, 29; (41)
Lauren Cohan,
32; (62) Emily
Ratajkowski, 23;
(64) Melissa Rauch,
34; (66) Israeli model Bar Paly, 29;
and (84) Gal Gadot, 29.
Four other women on the list
Ratajkowski
come with big asterisks: actress Lea
Michele, whose father is Jewish,
was raised Catholic; actress Lake
Bell has three Jewish grandparents,
but for some reason calls herself
"not Jewish"; model Dylan Penn,
the daughter of the (secular) actor
Sean Penn, has just one Jewish
grandparent (her father's father);
and actress Olivia Wilde, who's
on that inaccurate list, has only
incredibly remote Jewish ancestry.
R.I.P.
As you no doubt have heard, the
likable and talented actor James
Garner died on July 19 at age 86.
One footnote not found in most bios:
his widow, Lois Garner, is Jewish;
they had been married since 1956.
Three years ago, Garner wrote about
meeting Lois: "I fell in love for the
first and last time in my life."
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