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Jazz vocalist Madeleine Peyroux has climbed the Ann Arbor musical ladder all the way to the top: she’s appeared at the Ark, the Michigan Theater, and now — on Thursday, November 8 — at Hill Auditorium. Among the singers...

It's the third Tuesday night of the month. If you're browsing downstairs in the Crazy Wisdom Bookstore on Main Street you'll hear the sound of drumming from above, maybe even feel it. Climb the stairs, turn left,...

The Dutch jazz scene is as varied as it is quirky. Often celebrated for their humor, improvisers from the Netherlands are actually quite serious when it comes to musicianship and music history. Unlike many of their American...

Dainty $3 bills, a busty wood nymph, toy soldiers making a PB&J, and about sixty other works exploring the theme of "green" fill Work Gallery, and they're made of everything from sewn leaves, Coleman fuel,...

Plenty has already been written about Mary Gauthier's famously interesting life: her rough-and-tumble beginnings in Louisiana, her eighteenth birthday in prison, her studies in philosophy and the culinary arts, her years as...

Orpheum Bell bills its music as "country and eastern," and indeed some of it has old-time country or Gypsy flavors. But that doesn't quite give you the right idea. This band's songs are rarely zippy, even when...

People who like to categorize things often refer to Ron Padgett as a second-generation New York School poet. What that really means is that he's one of a group of friends who have worked and played in the city for the last...

Somehow you don't expect much from a play with pizza in the title. The word itself is so redolent of soggy cardboard, third-rate ingredients, and stale pop culture. And while it's true that large slices of the second act...

In my family, it's a story about my grandfather. This would have been sometime around 1942, in a tiny town in southern West Virginia, where my grandfather, Sam Setrakian, owned and operated a saloon dubbed, with some...

Yuri Temirkanov has had what one would have to call a great career. Born in the Caucasus in 1938, he moved to Leningrad at thirteen to study violin. He soon switched to conducting and graduated in 1965. Two years later,...