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PLAY IT
AGAIN, DSO

On Aug.12, the Detroit
Symphony Orchestra became
the first American orchestra to
make its performance archive
available on-demand, on any
device. Through Replay, music
fans can stream more than
100 full-length classical works
— including Gershwin's Porgy
and Bess, Rimsky-Korsakov's
Scheherazade and more — orig-
inally performed on the DSO's
Live from Orchestra Hall web-
cast series, under the direction
of musical director Leonard
Slatkin. Patrons who join the
annual fund with a gift of $50
or more will receive full access.
Dso.org/replay.

David Lee Roth and Eddie Van Halen

STREET STYLE

JAZZ AND ART

Four of Detroit's most innova-
tive street artists — Fel3000ft
(shown), Malt, Tead and DECO23
— come together in Awesome
Weirdos, currently on exhibition
at the Janice Charach Gallery
at the JCC in West Bloomfield.
Showing all new works, many
inspired by the artists' outdoor
murals and large-scale commis-
sions, the show offers a look at
the art form. Through Sept. 24.
(248) 432-5579; charachgallery.
org .

Detroit native, jazz vocalist
and painter Kathy Kosins
makes a hometown appear-
ance at the Berman Center
for Performing Arts at the
West Bloomfield JCC 7:30
p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 1. Kosins
and her trio will present
songs from the West Coast
Cool Movement, including
songs by Anita O'Day, Julie

London and more, plus debut
songs from her forthcom-
ing album, Uncovered Soul.
Kosins will also paint small
pieces on the stage to auction
off during intermission (with
half the proceeds benefitting
the JCC). $15/advance; $20/
door. (248) 661-1900;
theberman.org .

Nate Bloom
Special to the
Jewish News

MOVIE AND MUSIC
NEWS

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August 27 • 201

Powley

Born and raised in England,
most of Powley's work has been
on the stage and on U.K. TV. Her
non-Jewish father, Mark Powley,
is a British TV actor. Her mother
is (Jewish) casting-agent Janis
Jaffa. What's known about
Powley's Jewish background is
limited to a tweet in which she
called herself 'Uewish."
Margarita Levieva, 35, has a
large supporting role as a wild
lesbian friend of Minnie's and
famous underground cartoonist
Aline Kominsky (voiced by an
actor), 67, is a character in the
film. She's an idol of Minnie's,

Despite bad blood between
David Lee Roth (he learned
to sing while studying for
his bar mitzvah) and Eddie
Van Halen since the former
walked out on Van Halen
almost 30 years ago, the
band has reunited (along with
Eddie's son, Wolfgang) for a
North American tour. 7:30
p.m. Friday, Sept. 4, at the
DTE Energy Music Theatre,
Clarkston. $30-$149.50. (800)
745-3000; palacenet.com .

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Celebrity Jews

Opening this week, a youth
movement: The Diary of a
Teenage Girl is a coming-of-age
story about 15-year-old Minnie
(Bel Powley, 23), an aspiring
cartoonist who doesn't think of
herself as pretty. Longing for
love and a sense of purpose, she
enters into an affair with her
hippie mother's (Kristen Wiig)
handsome 35-year-old boyfriend
(Alexander Skarsgard). The
affair is handled in a frank, but
sensitive way that has aston-
ished almost all critics. Virtually
all reviews are raves and there's
real Oscar buzz about this indie
film and its young star. The
Chicago Tribune says: "Movies
concerned with the life, the
mind, the body and the dawn-
ing self-respect of a 15-year-old
girl running every sort of risk
— these are rare. Diary is one of
them, and it's terrific."

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DIAMOND DAVE

Kirke

Beer and Gilinsky

who has fantasy conversations
with her.
Director/screenwriter Noah
Baumbach, 45, has made eight
mostly well-reviewed films
(including The Squid and the
Whale and Margo's Wedding)
that have focused on the prob-
lems of hip urbanites. While
they contain some funny lines,
these flicks could hardly be
called comedies. So it's a pleas-
ant surprise that his ninth film,
Mistress America, which has
gotten raves, is a screwball
comedy harkening back to the
Carole Lombard pics of the

1930s. Greta Gerwig, who co-
wrote the film, plays Brooke,
an infectiously upbeat woman
who moves heaven-and-earth to
open her Brooklyn dream store
— part cafe and part hair salon.
Meanwhile, Brooke takes under
her wing her soon-to-be step-
sister, Tracy (Lola Kirke, 24), an
18-year-old aspiring writer who's
in a funk until she meets Brooke.
You might know Kirke as the
nasty "white trash" woman who
robbed Amy in a motel in Gone
Girl. Kirke was born and raised
in England, the daughter of a
Jewish mother (Lorraine Kirke,

whose NYC boutique Geminola
supplied many outfits for Sex
and the City) and non-Jewish
father (Simon Kirke, drummer
of the bands Bad Company and
Free). Her maternal grandfa-
ther, the late Jack Della!, was a
wealthy property investor with
Jewish-Iraqi heritage. Lola's
maternal grandmother is Israeli
and the Dellals gave generously
to the Israeli arts. Her sister,
Jemina Kirke, 30, plays the
co-starring character Jessa on
HBO's Girls. Jemina has called
herself "Jewish" and has two
kids with her Jewish husband,
an American lawyer.
Reports say that singers
Madison Beer, 16, and Jack
Gilinsky, 18, are a romantic
item and they may be the
youngest Jewish celeb couple,
ever. Bio briefs: Beer is a pro-
tege of Justin Bieber and she
now has one million Twitter fol-
lowers. Gilinsky is one-half of
the rap/pop duo Jack & Jack,
best known for their 2014 song
"Wild Life," which hit No. 2 on
iTunes.

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