Culture

Most jazz musicians finish their local apprenticeships and musical education and then head off to New York or Chicago to hone their craft, immerse themselves in a richer musical environment, and find success. Woodwind player...

The Michigan Theater’s Hitchcock Film Series began in February and runs through May, featuring thirty-three films in all. It’s quite an accomplishment. All the Hitchcock classics are included; April brings Notorious...

Despite all the complaints we hear about shrinking attention spans and the trivialization of our culture, we live in an age of expansive, even sprawling novels. Those of us who like to disappear into a book, submerge for a week...

Upon entering the current temporary exhibit at UMMA, my boyfriend and I said, “This is bullcrap!” Really, it’s an exhibit about Doris Duke, American heiress, once described as “the richest girl in the...

More than thirty years ago, musicians employed by orchestras in Soviet-controlled East Berlin began a clandestine collaboration that led to the formation of a collectively run early music ensemble, operating in defiance of state...

Ann Arbor may be a mecca for folk and indie rock music, but one often has to make a pilgrimage to Detroit for some old-fashioned rock ‘n’ roll. Ann Arbor musician Chris Taylor is aiming to change that this spring...

The word fusion, when applied to music, is sometimes used dismissively or pejoratively. It implies that two or more genres have been mish-mashed for no good purpose other than that they can be. The resulting hodgepodge is...

Venus in Fur by David Ives made a big splash off Broadway and an even bigger one on Broadway when Nina Arianda won a Tony in 2012 for playing the role of Vanda in this two-hander based on a nineteenth-century erotic novella....