Art: This coming week, the Norton Museum of Art, which just opened a retrospective of the work of artist Edward Gorey, new photography curator Tim Wride offers more than 75 images devoted to the crowds and places of popular music. Clubs, Joints and Honky-Tonks brings together work by eminent lens artists such as Jeff Dunas, Lynn Goldsmith, Henry Horenstein, and even the quirky DJ Moby, who has taken interesting work from his position up on stage. The show runs through Sept. 30 and opens at the Norton’s Art After Dark gathering Thursday, beginning at 5 p.m., as the museum hosts its Summer SOULstice party to welcome in the hot months. For more information, visit www.norton.org or call 832-5196.
Theater: West Boca’s Slow Burn Theatre Co. specializes in offbeat musicals, usually with an edge. For its first summer show, however, the edge has been traded in for lightweight daffiness. Even so, it is hard to imagine any other local company tackling Xanadu, the goofy mortal-meets-Greek-goddess tale in which they manage to open a disco roller rink in Santa Monica. If that doesn’t convince you to leave your brain at the door, maybe the vintage hits from the 1980 Olivia Newton-John/Michael Beck movie will. Followers of Slow Burn will recognize the cast, who are all alumni of past productions, and perhaps they will find something familiar in the choreography of director Patrick Fitzwater, created for his dancers on roller skates. Opening Friday, June 22, running through July 1. Call Ovationtix at (866) 811-4111 for reservations.
Film: Seven years ago, Jane Fonda ended her self-imposed retirement from the movies with a couple of trivial releases, Monster-in-Law and Georgia Rule. Her newest film, Peace, Love and Misunderstanding is also not destined for awards, but it features a more at ease Fonda who has fun with his liberal image, playing a hippie-dippy grandmother living the counter-culture life in Woodstock, N.Y. Naturally, at least as these films go, she has an uptight, straight-laced, conservative lawyer daughter (the always welcome Catherine Keener), who has a grown daughter and a teenage son, who are both instantly drawn to the pot-smoking, free-love-touting granny they never knew much about. Little in Peace. Love and Misunderstanding will come as a surprise, but the movie will do for low-key, human-scale summer entertainment. Playing this week at Living Room Theaters in Boca Raton.
Music: It’s a good few days ahead for jazz and blues, beginning tonight with Little Jake Mitchell and his Soul Searchers, a longtime favorite in Gainesville, coming to the Arts Garage in Delray Beach for a sold-out show. Mitchell has been at this a long time – his first recording was for Chess Records in 1957, when that Chicago label was busy with a St. Louis songwriter named Chuck Berry – but he still brings the ineffable power of the blues to song he sings, backed by a James Brown-style big band that really knows what it’s doing. The concert starts at 8 p.m.; maybe someone can get you a ticket if you call the Garage at 450-6357.
Meanwhile, down at Revolution Live in Fort Lauderdale on Monday, it’s a night of combo jazz with the British pianist Harry Waters and his quartet. Waters is a multi-keyboardist with a famous father – none other than Pink Floyd icon Roger Waters – but he’s been making his own mark in jazz for a few years. His recordings feature a very tasteful, very skilled pianist doing traditional, conservative charts with his band in a most agreeable way. His special guests include guitarist Bobby Lee Rodgers and the Spam All-Stars. His next stop after Lauderdale is Joe’s Pub in New York, so catch them now. The concert starts at 7 p.m.; tickets are $20 and available through Ticketmaster.