Everyone's a Critic Archives - Page 2 of 6

REPRINT: ANN ARBORITE JOAN BLOS, by Eve Silberman

Oct 27, 2017 |

Joan Blos died on October 12, 2017. This profile originally appeared in the December, 1994 issue...

A FAMILY STORY IN THE DIGITIZED MICHIGAN DAILY, by Tim Athan

Sep 22, 2017 |

The Michigan Daily was founded in 1890 as a voice for U-M students. Recently it was announced that...

DEET DEETLE DEET, by Gene Gaunt

Aug 4, 2017 |

I’m at choir rehearsal. A “Brünhilde” soprano asks me, can I arrange piano accompaniment for her next concert? An unpublished John Denver tune? With three chords? C (deet deetle deet), F (deet deetle...

GHOST STORY, by David Swain

Jul 14, 2017 |

John Cain played trumpet in my big band, the II-V-I Orchestra, for about 20 years. He died...

JIM COGSWELL’S ARTS AND ANTIQUITIES, by Lois Kane

Jul 11, 2017 |

Many of the huge windows at the University Museum of Modern Art and the Kelsey Museum look like...

MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN, by Tim Athan

Apr 4, 2017 |

Some suspect that the slogan “Make America Great Again” is a wish for a return to a...

NOTE TO SELF RE NEXT CHRISTMAS, by Mary A. Jones

Jan 9, 2017 |

Remember 2016 was hard. If you are a Hillary fan, a democracy fan, a fan of this country, a Wolverines fan, a Tigers fan, a Lions fan – just about everything you could root for lost. Defeat after defeat after defeat. But...

A MUSLIM PSYCHIATRIST’S EMOTIONAL POST-ELECTION JOURNEY, by Ahmad Zubairi

Dec 14, 2016 |

Elizabeth Kubler-Ross defined the stages of grief in her landmark paper on death and dying. Even...

GREGORY LINDSAY ADKINS, STOIC by Matt Adkins

Jul 1, 2016 |

My father, Gregory Lindsay Adkins, died on June 8, 2016, in Durham, North Carolina. He was 69...

THE GHOST OF PERFORMANCE NETWORK PAST, by Jeff Mortimer

May 3, 2016 |

The first words of Dickens’ A Christmas Carol are “Marley was dead: to begin...

THE YOUNG@HEART #WCDP, by Kevin Duke

Feb 8, 2016 |

January 9, 2016: I arrived early for a powwow of the Washtenaw County Democratic Party (WCDP), dutifully signed in and then wrote my name in big, bold and blue capital letters on a HELLO MY NAME IS sticker. A smiling Chris...

MICHIGAN’S WATERLOO CONNECTIONS, by Tim Athan

Jul 2, 2015 |

June’s bicentennial of the Battle of Waterloo passed largely unnoticed in Michigan. But the French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte, and the site of his final defeat, are still remembered in the names of Napoleon and Waterloo...