Culture

If all the musicians that Brad Phillips has accompanied on stage, recorded with in the studio, or produced albums for in the past decade show up for his show at the Ark on September 29, there won’t be any room for the rest...

On an otherwise barren stage, the willowy limbs of Li Nan and Gu Jiani roll weightless through space, pausing in weary contemplation as various complexities of their partnership arise. Right & Left, choreographed by Gu, is...

Once upon a time there was a little girl named Vitka who lived in Brno, Moravia, in what is now called the Czech Republic. Vitka’s mother, Viktorie, was a very pretty classically trained vocalist. Vitka’s papa,...

For the past three years, EMU professor Joel Schoenhals has been trekking his way through Beethoven’s thirty-two piano sonatas, performing them free of charge at EMU’s historic Pease Auditorium, where the biannual...

Gary Snyder is now eighty-five years old. Most poets appear to slow down rather dramatically as they age, but not Snyder. In recent years he has published his correspondence and/or interviews with Allen Ginsberg, Wendell Berry,...

Epitaph, Mary Doria Russell’s new book about the gunfight at the O.K. Corral, might almost be a called a nonfiction novel, like In Cold Blood. The gunfight story is as overlaid with myth as anything that ever came out of...

Animal rescues, pictures, information, and videos make up 90 percent of my sister-in-law Jennifer’s Facebook posts. Volunteering at the Huron Valley Humane Society, she wanted to bring every animal home, but her three cats...

In 1987, less than a year after the first-ever poetry slams were born in Chicago, Ann Arbor became just the second city in the world to host them. They’ve continued here, almost without interruption, ever since.Poetry...

“As a scientist, I’m not supposed to advocate,” says Sara Adlerstein, whose love-letter paintings of water are on exhibit in the WSG Gallery at 306 S. Main.”As a journalist, I’m not supposed to...