Culture

Though they have worked together in various combinations before, when William Bolcom and Joan Morris join Gabriel Bolkosky and Michelle Cooker for “An Afternoon of American Music” at the Kerrytown Concert House on...

Since the glory days of the old Pretzel Bell, bluegrass music has been heard only occasionally in Ann Arbor bars and clubs. But what goes around comes around again, and the Wednesday night bluegrass shows at the Circus are a...

Many years ago, New Yorker jazz writer Whitney Balliett wrote that jazz was “the sound of surprise,” but in much of today’s mainstream this phrase has become a bit moldy, as tradition and homage have taken the...

If you want to start a fight among classical music fans, ask them: “Who’s the best orchestra in the world?’Nationalists will proudly point to the great American orchestras–the grand symphonies of Boston,...

Here’s a telescope–a time-travel telescope. Set it for eleven years ago, and focus it on senior curator Carole McNamara gazing at Whistler’s painting, Sea and Rain, and wondering how the U-M Museum of Art could...

Although I am an avid reader of contemporary poetry, I understand why many people, predisposed to the art because of their appreciation of the great poems of the past, have chosen to ignore its current practitioners. Unless you...

It’s the day before Halloween, and two sweet little puppet children are lost in a haunted forest. They make their way out, however, and enter a place marked by a huge sign that says “Ypsilanti City” over a...