Mamele
By the time she made the 1938 film Mamele, Molly Picon was so well known that her name merited...
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Dave Sharp Worlds Quartet
OMG moments are rare enough in places like Hill Auditorium, where you’ve paid nearly three...
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Galeet Dardashti & Divahn
Iranian American performer Galeet Dardashti sings a wide range of Jewish and Muslim music, from...
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Rabbit Wilde
Looked at broadly and setting aside rock, which has seen its market share decline, the recent...
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DakhaBrakha
If you Google “Ukrainian tall hats,” the first result is a series of images of people...
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Queen of the Prom
“The dresses are pretty themselves, but when the girls put them on, it’s just like a...
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Unplanned Duet
At the Prague Philharmonia concert at Hill Auditorium in January, soloist Sarah Chang was nearing...
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Richly Radiant
Over the course of his four-year trek through Beethoven’s thirty-two piano sonatas, EMU...
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Ann Arbor Film Festival 2017
Towards the end of Tyler J. Kelley and Araby Williams’ documentary Following Seas, Nancy...
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Betroffenheit
“And all at once I’m disconnected from what’s happening,” says the...
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Marie Howe 2017
As I look around at the work of contemporary poets, I find several of them returning to the great...
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James Ilgenfritz
For half a century or so, jazz had been a collective artistic form. When ace saxophonist Coleman...
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Lake Street Dive
Lake Street Dive offers artful, luscious sounds rooted in 1960s music, mostly Motown, Southern...
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Joe Hertler and the Rainbow Seekers
Even before a Joe Hertler & the Rainbow Seekers show begins, you get the feeling that...
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Smart Love
Smart Love, a new play by Brian Letscher at the Purple Rose, begins and ends with a bang. A...
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Julian Lage and Chris Eldridge
Guitarist Julian Lage (say “Lahzh”) was a jazz prodigy who became the subject of a...
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Looping Detroit
Traffic on the Detroit People Mover surged in January. The additional riders, though, were not...
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Pale Flower
The term film noir calls to mind both formal characteristics and a very specific time and place:...
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