Culture

The duo of guitarist Tuck Andress and vocalist Patti Cathcart perform with in-ear monitors. “The result of these is that everything but Patti and me disappears while we are playing,” says Tuck. They draw the listener...

When I arrive at the Elbow Room, Stevie Wonder is pumping through the dark, dingy space. It’s wonderfully funky. The husband-wife team that runs MoFo Karaoke is setting up, but I don’t see any bubbles. That’s...

Jeff Daniels is author of about a dozen plays, most of which have been produced at his Purple Rose Theatre. And if he ever turns up on one of those “This I Believe” spots on NPR, I think I know what he’ll say:...

Inside the elegant 1920s golden marble lobby at the U-M Exhibit Museum, children gather around a folding table to guess how many Brazil nuts are in a jar. A staffer restocks cold apple cider and cookies. A flushed three-year-old...

Every good song recital should have a theme, even if it’s only “An Evening with Frank Sinatra.” Otherwise how is the audience supposed to know what it’s in for? So for Joan Morris and Bill Bolcom, the...

Of the poets who have been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature during the last quarter century or so, almost all of them are primarily concerned with history and the individual’s place within the historical swirl. Of...

Mary Isabel Catherine Bernadette O’Brien was, of course, Dusty Springfield. Shelby Lynne is, of course, Shelby Lynne. The intersection of these two singers—one a phenomenally popular beehive-haired, blue-eyed-soul...