34 July 7 2016
arts & life
ART NEWS
Under the guid-
ance of artist
Harriet Gelfond,
students of the
Farber Art Class
at the JCC have
learned to create
art with various
media. See the
works created
by the students
among them
James Britt,
Marcia Fast,
Carole Master, Debra Nelson, Arthur
Schwartz, Sandy Tarnopol and more
at the Farber Art Show, July 10-14.
An opening reception will be held 1-3
p.m. Sunday, July 10. Janice Charach
Gallery at the West Bloomfield JCC.
(248) 432-5579; jccdet.org.
ONE DAY
Born Matthew Miller, Matisyahu turned
to Judaism when he was 16 to help
him through a troubled adolescence.
Blending reggae, electronic and dance
music, Matisyahu performs Tuesday, July
12, at the Freedom Hill Amphitheatre
in Sterling Heights, opening for 311.
$29.50-$75. Palacenet.com.
NATIVE SON
Award-winning theater artist and film-
maker Jeremy Xido (his dad is Jewish)
returns to his native Detroit after a
20-year absence for a pair of one-night-
only events. The Angola Project his
much-lauded solo performance piece
that he adapted into a TEDx talk
constructs a movie in real-time from
fragments of film and narrative that
tears apart the tradition of 19th-century
travel lectures. At the heart of the per-
formance is the city of Detroit, Xido
Editor
s Picks
Nate Bloom
Special to the Jewish News
AT THE MOVIES
Opening July 8: Director/writer
Todd Solondz, 56, is known for his
dark, quirky films like Welcome to
the Dollhouse (1996). His new film,
Wiener-Dog, is lighter in some ways,
but still, all critics agree, it
s not for
everybody. The basic plot: It follows
the adventures of a dachshund that is
owned, in turn, by the world
s worst
mom (Julie Delphy); a beleaguered
screenwriter (Danny DeVito); an
adult version of the lead character
of Dollhouse (Greta Gerwig); and a
suburban shut-in grandma (Ellen
Burstyn). The last segment, which co-
stars Zosia Mamet, 28, as Burstyn
s
flaky granddaughter, has been hailed
as the film
s best segment and visu-
ally stunning.
TV NEWS AND NOTES
The Bravo scripted series Odd Mom Out
got pretty good reviews when it started
in June 2015. Jill Kargman, 41, who
created and co-writes the show, stars as
Jill Weber, a Jewish woman who marries
into a rich WASP family and lives on the
swanky Upper East Side of Manhattan.
Weber is a stay-at-home mother with
three kids and her husband is an attor-
ney, and the series has had a lot of
Jewish content. Its premiere episode
had Weber wearing a T-shirt that said
Chai Maintenance, and the second
episode of this season (first aired June
Celebrity Jews
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Arts & Life Editor
Solondz
Farber Art Show
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