Culture

The members of the bluegrass quartet Mipso met as students at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and chose the name because they wanted something unique–even now, they say, when you Google Mipso you find only...

Jazz in Detroit relies heavily on tradition. This has never been simply a matter of local pride, but recognition of the unique musical history of the city and a consequence of robust community bonds. More often than not, a...

In the middle of a Sunday night snowstorm, tenors, altos, and sopranos trickle into the Northside Community Church. The singers introduce themselves enthusiastically, unwrap their scarved throats, and file into the first few...

When Camille Brown choreographed Black Girl: Linguistic Play, she had both personal and political motivations: to “remind myself of the beauty of who I was before the world defined me,” she explained at the...

There’s a good chance that if our era is remembered for any of its literature, it will be as the moment that opened up to new influences on writing done in English. Despite recent nativist screaming on cable news networks,...

There’s no prettier performance venue in the area than the repurposed Chelsea Depot. The ornate nineteenth-century former railroad stop with curlicue moldings, wooden floor, high ceilings, and many tall windows is the kind...

Back in December, pianist Igor Levit took on J.S. Bach’s Goldberg Variations at Manhattan’s Park Avenue Armory for a run of seven concerts presented in collaboration with performance artist Marina Abramovic. In...

While American comic-book superheroes have only recently become a dominant cinematic genre, Japanese comics (manga) have inspired decades’ worth of animated film and TV adaptations (anime). While many live-action manga...