There's a moment in one of the first scenes of Steven Soderbergh's new punches-and-espionage thriller "Haywire," when the director is setting up a rescue operation for the audience with a montage of an important-looking series of images and diagrams tacked onto a bulletin board. In one shot there's a yellow ...
Two of the regular live-music dates that lost their home in a recent ownership change at the nightclub Live have found new homes. Laith Al-Saadi, the local guitarist who played at Live with his band each Thursday, has announced that he has a new regular Thursday gig at Melange. And ...
Naomi Long Madgett, a professor emeritus of English at Eastern Michigan University, has been named the 2012 Kresge Eminent Artist. The Detroit resident, known as "the godmother of African-American poetry," receives a $50,000 award from the Kresge Foundation. Following is the announcement from the foundation:
Maybe we shouldn’t be surprised that an annual live music event called Wine, Women and Song, happening Jan. 27-29 at the Kerrytown Concert House, is so popular that a fourth show was recently added. I mean, of those three things, what’s not to love? Plus, this year marks the 10th ...
People generally bristle at the sight of someone whipping out their cell phone in a movie theatre auditorium - but if you’re attending the Laugh Out Loud Short Film Fest, screening at theaters across the country—including the Goodrich Quality 16, at 3686 Jackson Road—you’ll be asked to do just that. ...
For theater aficionados, at least, no app in the world can compete with a gripping script. And one day last year, Pirooz Aghssa—a theater professor at Eastern Michigan University—was seduced in a New York drama bookshop by Sarah Ruhl’s play “Dead Man’s Cell Phone.” “There were several copies of it ...
A near-capacity crowd at Thursday night’s Sundance USA program at the Michigan Theater didn’t just get treated to a raunchy female comedy, fresh from the ongoing Sundance Film Festival (and a newly-minted distribution deal with Focus Features), but also a surprise guest and some behind-the-scenes dirt on a couple of ...
Hey there, pardner … there have been a few changes in these here parts when it comes to Ann Arbor Civic Theatre’s production of Shakespeare’s beloved comedy “Much Ado About Nothing.” For one, the show-directed by Cassie Mann—has been reimagined in the American West of the 19th century. Cowboy hats ...
Huron High School's Huron Players are preparing an ambitious production for spring, the Stephen Sondheim musical "Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street." And Thursday afternoon, they got a visit from someone with some very deep ties to the show: Judy Dow Rumelhart, the local philanthropist and performer who ...
ArtServe Michigan’s new "Community Supported Art" program takes a lesson from a big trend in local farming. As with community supported agriculture (CSA) farms, ‘shareholders’ will purchase an equal portion of a ‘yield.’ But in this case, the share is not vegetables, milk, or meat. Instead, participants will get farm ...
Movie Listings for Jan. 26-Feb. 2, 2012: Download a PDF of current movie listings here: Jan26-Feb02.pdf Local Theaters: Michigan Theater, 603 East Liberty Street, Ann Arbor, MI 48104, 734-668-TIME (8463), http://michtheater.org
Michigan junior Kiki Couger, of Franklin, and sophomore Maria Robisnon, of Fort Wayne check out a new 17 foot-high by 78 foot-long mural, titled "Language: The Human Quintessence" on the fourth floor of Palmer Commons on Wednesday night. Melanie Maxwell I AnnArbor.com A new student-created mural was unveiled Wednesday at ...
Maybe Zingerman's is why President Barack Obama keeps coming back to Ann Arbor. The popular Ann Arbor gourmet food destination ......
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