Everyone's a Critic

Mel was released from the Women’s Huron Valley Correctional Facility in June 2024 after completing a two-year sentence. In this essay, she talks about art–and specifically a print-making class–that helped her express what she...

Omowale African in origin, from the Yoruba, Meaning ‘The Son Has Come Home.’ Omowale John Sinclair …And now our dear friend Omowale John Sinclair has come home. So much has been said and written about his varied life I really...

    The last time Michigan won the Rose Bowl, New Year’s Day 1998, it had been a dazzling season for the undefeated Wolverines. It had also been a spectacular football season for my then three-year-old son and me, but in a very...

My favorite place, Ann Arbor, my grandparents’ house. I go once or twice a year, my whole life.I imagine the smell of the turkey on Thanksgiving Day, prepared by grandma. I imagine the smell of grandpa’s old books,...

Mickey Rooney was marred eight times. He quipped, “Always get married early in the morning. That way, if it doesn’t work out, you haven’t wasted a whole day.”His third wife, the model and actress Martha...

At the Sonic Lunch Concert SeriesElla Riot playing one day, a band of five, all in their twenties, doing their thing, electro, techno, funk, fusion, rock– don’t know exactly what to call it– and people of all...

Mid-morning dawns slow over arbored lawns,Where collegiate airs mix with quirky town affairs.Now traverse Washington & State, downtown cosmopolitan and quaint;Breath stilled at the view long west ‘cross...