Dave Sharp Worlds Quartet
OMG moments are rare enough in places like Hill Auditorium, where you’ve paid nearly three...
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Culture
Galeet Dardashti & Divahn
Iranian American performer Galeet Dardashti sings a wide range of Jewish and Muslim music, from...
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Rabbit Wilde
Looked at broadly and setting aside rock, which has seen its market share decline, the recent...
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DakhaBrakha
If you Google “Ukrainian tall hats,” the first result is a series of images of people...
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Richly Radiant
Over the course of his four-year trek through Beethoven’s thirty-two piano sonatas, EMU...
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Ann Arbor Film Festival 2017
Towards the end of Tyler J. Kelley and Araby Williams’ documentary Following Seas, Nancy...
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Betroffenheit
“And all at once I’m disconnected from what’s happening,” says the...
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Marie Howe 2017
As I look around at the work of contemporary poets, I find several of them returning to the great...
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James Ilgenfritz
For half a century or so, jazz had been a collective artistic form. When ace saxophonist Coleman...
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Lake Street Dive
Lake Street Dive offers artful, luscious sounds rooted in 1960s music, mostly Motown, Southern...
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Joe Hertler and the Rainbow Seekers
Even before a Joe Hertler & the Rainbow Seekers show begins, you get the feeling that...
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Smart Love
Smart Love, a new play by Brian Letscher at the Purple Rose, begins and ends with a bang. A...
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Julian Lage and Chris Eldridge
Guitarist Julian Lage (say “Lahzh”) was a jazz prodigy who became the subject of a...
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Pale Flower
The term film noir calls to mind both formal characteristics and a very specific time and place:...
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Dave Douglas
Historians may quibble, but to me the history of the jazz trumpet began in 1924, when the young...
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Terrance Hayes
When I teach contemporary poetry to the young, I tell them to pay attention to everything about...
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A Dangerous Experiment
It was not till 1870, more than fifty years after the U-M’s founding in 1817, that it first...
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That 1 Guy
That 1 Guy–Mike Silverman of Las Vegas–is a one-man band. He plays the Magic Pipe, a...
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