Sarah McQuaid
Many of us have been listening to guitar-driven popular music for most of our lives. As a result,...
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Culture
Ruth Behar
Ruth Behar is an anthropologist who has always reached out beyond her discipline. She was one of...
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Stormy Chromer
“The borders of my mind can always be redrawn.” Even those who don’t consider...
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Harrington Brown at the Distillery
Bemoaning the demise of Ann Arbor music spaces is a favorite pastime, but the fact is there are...
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Keith Taylor
In a 2011 interview with Michigan Quarterly Review, the poet (and Observer contributor) Keith...
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West Side Story
No matter how many times this sixty-year-old treasure is parodied or its gorgeous songs are turned...
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Eugene O’Neill’s Hairy Ape
Since 2009, the Brass Tacks Ensemble has specialized in creative reinterpretations of works from...
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Willow Run
If you’ve ever wondered what the characters from the 1998 film Pleasantville did during...
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One Helluva Ride
Last spring my editor at the Observer asked if I’d ever done One Helluva Ride, the Ann Arbor...
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Haley Heynderickx
Haley Heynderickx–real name–opened for Ani DiFranco at the Summer Festival and is the...
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Marcia Ball
Marcia Ball’s regular touring circuit has included our neck of the woods since 1989, when...
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Jazzmeia Horn
America’s fastest rising young jazz vocalist was born in DeSoto, Texas, south of Dallas, in...
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Abigail Stauffer
Abigail Stauffer is a ball of overly self-conscious energy onstage, constantly verbalizing her...
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Richard Russo on Writing
Richard Russo likes big, sprawling nineteenth-century novels told from the omniscient point of...
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Lunar Octet
If you lived around here in the 1980s and 1990s you couldn’t miss the music of the Lunar...
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If I Forget
By turns funny and heartbreaking, If I Forget is the rare play that manages to make several...
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The Jewish Film Festival
There is a particular “what if” game that many people like to play: if you were alive...
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Historic Keyboards
Even if you’ve never heard of the Historical Keyboard Society of North America, you might...
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The Pherotones at The Last Word
It’s easy to miss the nightclub entrance on West Huron, with its dark red door recessed like...
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