The Interestings
In her new novel The Interestings, Meg Wolitzer dances between two time-tested tropes. It’s...
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In her new novel The Interestings, Meg Wolitzer dances between two time-tested tropes. It’s...
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Back in the early sixties, the Blue Front Cigar Store was my home away from home. Our Saturday...
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Last year at The Ark, my klezmer show got bumped for Judy Collins. She took our slot. Ann...
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“I see him!” someone shouted and we all broke in applause. I jumped up and down, as...
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Birds of a feather flock together. My mother used to always say this to us as we ran across the...
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Shortly after Pohrt’s death, Fricke, chair of the U-M Anthropology Department, shared these...
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‘I reached down the pants cuff with the eraser end of my pencil and poked it. Frozen solid....
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I attended Measure for Measure, a men’s choral society performance, at the University of...
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The cardinal rule of book reviewing is, Don’t spoil the plot. Nowhere is that maxim more...
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On November 8, 9, 10, and 11 at the Power Center, University of Michigan’s Opera Theatre...
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These are dark times for America indeed. Not just because of all the polarization and disunity we...
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When I left the Michigan Theater after viewing the documentary The Queen of Versailles, the world...
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The arts, be it visual, music, or theatre, bring enrichment and a sense of joy to the beholder....
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Much of the pleasure of going to the Detroit Repertory Theater, for this Ann Arborite, anyway,...
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This is the twelfth year Kate Mendeloff has produced Shakespeare in the Arb. She stages scenes in...
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Early on in the movie Five Year Engagement, my companion nudged me, and whispered, “You don’t hunt deer in spring!” “What?” I said, watching Jason Segel and Chris Parnell gleefully bagging a deer in...
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When I was invited to be one of the “stars” in a Dancing with the Ann Arbor Stars...
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The last night was by far the best night of the three nights of Michael Tilson Thomas & the San Francisco Symphony’s American Maverick concerts. Not that they didn’t perform superbly all three nights with a tight ensemble,...
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The second night of Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony play more or less modern more or less American music opened with what I’d call the worst piece of music I’ve ever heard if there were any real...
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