Natalie Ruth Joynton
There is a subgenre of the American memoir about city folks moving to the country and learning to...
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Event Reviews
The Ivalas Quartet
Classically trained, college educated, and well on their way toward careers as professional...
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Grown Folks Story Time
I admit I had some initial trepidation about attending Grown Folks Story Time at Bookbound. I...
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Ancient Color at the Kelsey
In the popular imagination, the color spectrum of ancient Rome ranges only from alabaster to...
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Four Local Writers
An informal group of writers and illustrators has been meeting in and around Ann Arbor since the...
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Chris Buhalis at the Ravens Club
Chris Buhalis is taking a few weeks off in May from his weekly Tuesday-night gig at the Ravens...
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Ifetayo Ali-Landing
Teenaged cellist Ifetayo Ali-Landing’s online presence includes a trail of videos leading...
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Aron Kaufman
Percussionist Aron Kaufman has been playing on other musicians’ albums since the early...
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Misha Tuesday
“The hardest part of what I do is explaining what I do,” says Misha Tuesday. His...
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Franny Choi
Each section of Franny Choi’s first collection of poems, Soft Science, begins with a poem...
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The Blue LLama
The Blue LLama jazz club and restaurant finally opened on Main St. last month with a full program...
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Boneshaker
Among the wonders of the short history of jazz is its urbanism. The musical chronicles of American...
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Polly Rosenwaike
In her short story “Ten Warning Signs of Postpartum Depression,” Polly Rosenwaike...
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Mathias Eick
Downtown Ann Arbor has not had a dedicated jazz club since the Firefly closed almost two decades...
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Anthony Marra
It has been six years since Anthony Marra’s A Constellation of Vital Phenomena startled...
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Triptych (Eyes of One on Another)
Among the most intriguing entries in Robert Mapplethorpe’s photographic soft parade of...
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Fraser & Haas
Many musicians, perhaps especially ones with early immersion in traditional folk music, eventually...
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Handel’s Semele
My first immersive listening experience involving the High Baroque was hearing the tenor aria...
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