Leslie Stainton
I drove through Lancaster, Pennsylvania, once, but I didn’t stop at the theater named for that city’s most famous son, Robert Fulton, the inventor of the steamboat, the submarine, and the naval torpedo. Nonetheless,...
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Dady Mehta
The Well-Tempered Clavier is J.S. Bach’s two-part compendium of forty-eight preludes and fugues based in each of the major and minor keys. On November 2, in observance of the centennial of EMU’s Pease Auditorium,...
Read MoreAnn Arborites Run for Regent
Near the end of the November 4 ballot, far below the hotly contested races for governor and the U.S. Senate, is another contest: with, arguably, even greater impact on Ann Arbor–two Democrats and two Republicans are...
Read MoreSusan Werner
Susan Werner’s fan base likely does not include many right-wing Republicans. She makes her own politics clear in a song about Barack Obama’s election titled, “The Night We Won the War.” It’s also...
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Ann Arbor Stamp Show
I’m at the 2013 Ann Arbor Stamp Show, and the show’s chair, Mike Homel, is giving me a tour of the bourse, where more than two dozen dealers perch behind tables crowded with tubs of stamps, postcards, and other...
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