Oct 13, 2010 | Community, Event Reviews |
In 2002, when U-M music composition instructor Erik Santos traveled to Japan for a three-week band tour, a friend joked he was going there to fall in love. During the final week of the tour he met Toko Shiiki, a stage actress...
Read MoreOct 12, 2010 | Event Reviews, Uncategorized |
Scores of arrows come flying out of the woods, propelled by unseen men, and pierce again and again the samurai warrior’s bare chest. When I first saw Throne of Blood I was no big fan of Shakespeare, Akira Kurosawa, or...
Read MoreOct 11, 2010 | Event Reviews, Marketplace |
It wasn’t until a third visit to Tomukun, the new noodle bar on Liberty, that I appreciated the brilliance bouncing around this dark-wooded den of refreshed Asian standards. Contrasting impressions had been amassing up to...
Read MoreOct 10, 2010 | Event Reviews, Uncategorized |
With fifty-three separate productions scheduled around the world over the next year, Sweeney Todd is currently the most often performed of Stephen Sondheim’s musicals.The second most often performed isn’t West Side...
Read MoreOct 9, 2010 | Marketplace |
Andy Kwon is from a restaurant family. His parents owned several restaurants in Korea, including a traditional, high-priced sushi restaurant near Jeonju (Jeonju is the food destination city of South Korea that invented...
Read MoreOct 8, 2010 | Community |
Jay Leno, Madonna, Billy Crystal, Julie Andrews, and Whoopi Goldberg are talented, wealthy, and famous. Less known is their authorship of children’s books–some of which will be on display later this month at the...
Read MoreOct 6, 2010 | Community |
A little before four every Wednesday afternoon, a crowd starts gathering at Maryfield Wildwood Park.Just north of Dexter Road, the small park is horseshoed by Linwood, Westwood, and Maryfield streets. It is usually quiet, with...
Read MoreOct 6, 2010 | Marketplace |
Julie’s Music, the tiny store selling sheet music for “piano, voice, and band instruments, but not string because Shar does string,” is closing October 15, says owner Julie King. She opened the store in 2006,...
Read MoreOct 5, 2010 | Event Reviews, Uncategorized |
Every so often an art show comes along that perfectly encapsulates the contemporary moment. Politics of Fear, at the Gallery Project downtown until October 17, is just such a show. Speaking directly to an age of prolonged global...
Read MoreOct 4, 2010 | Community |
“How fun to see the Lucas Samaras sculpture,” writes Julia Jickling. “Sometimes I know these and sometimes I don’t, but this sculpture I have enjoyed too many times to resist entering!” Katie DeBona...
Read MoreOct 3, 2010 | Community |
Writer-director Chris Farah, thirty-four, and producer Mike Farah, thirty-one, shot Answer This! in Ann Arbor in August 2009. It’s a coming-of-age story about a young man who emerges from the shadow of his father, an...
Read MoreOct 2, 2010 | Community |
The Blackbird Theare celebrated its new freedom with nude male wrestling.The scene, in the theater’s current production of Women in Love, would never have been possible in its former home on Pauline. While the space in the...
Read MoreOct 1, 2010 | Marketplace |
When friends complained one evening about the end of the free fall “loose” leaf pick up from the streets of Ann Arbor, property manager Mike Calderone discovered his inner entrepreneur. He and his wife, Linda, who...
Read MoreOct 1, 2010 | Community |
Really? Fifty thousand of you thought Seva really served stewed rhubarb? Really?We don’t know how else to explain that only seventy-eight cagey Fake Adders spotted the ad for the Eat. Write. restaurant review website on...
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