Mathias Eick
Downtown Ann Arbor has not had a dedicated jazz club since the Firefly closed almost two decades...
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Culture
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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Never Not Once
Cary Crim’s latest Purple Rose premiere, Never Not Once, is one of those plays that uses its...
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We Banjo 3
Ireland’s We Banjo 3 call their music “Celtgrass.” The description is apt...
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Art in the Age of the Internet
There’s not much point waiting for the Internet art of tomorrow. As Art in the Age of the...
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The Little Mermaid
“It’s so clear, can’t you hear, I’m the ONE,” careens a soprano into...
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Kristin Roupenian
About a year ago The New Yorker published a short story, “Cat Person,” by Kristen...
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Andre Mehmari 2019
When Brazilian pianist Andre Mehmari returns to the Kerrytown Concert House on January 19, it will...
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Britten’s War Requiem
Over the past year, Benjamin Britten’s War Requiem has been performed in cities across...
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Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s
Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s at the U-M Museum of Art is for those who like...
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The Paul Keller Orchestra at Zal Gaz Grotto
The Zal Gaz Grotto is a Masonic lodge offering traditional American food, a sensibly stocked bar,...
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Smell & Tell with Michelle Krell Kydd
Michelle Krell Kydd’s free “Smell & Tell” sessions usually meet downtown on...
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Joyce DiDonato
Classical music is not for the faint of heart. This is especially true of opera, a mind-altering...
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Charles Lloyd & Lucinda Williams
For more than six decades, saxophonist and flutist Charles Lloyd has been investigating wide...
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Brennan Andes
It’s a little after five on a fall Sunday afternoon. On the patio outside the Ann Arbor...
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Elizabeth Alexander
When Elizabeth Alexander recited her poem “Praise Song for the Day” at President...
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