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

Lynne Konstantin
Arts & Life Editor

Solondz

Farber Art Show

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