The Buzz: November
Passion Pit // Royal Oak Music Theatre / Nov. 2 by Jasmine Zweifler Advice for the day: don’t get all scandalized when a friend asks if you’ve gotten tickets to Passion Pit. Passion Pit is not actually a trench filled with ...
Found Footage Festival
The Found Footage Festival began, as too few great things do, in the back of a McDonald’s in Wisconsin. The catalyst on that day was what co-curator and host Nick Prueher refers to as a “remarkably dumb and insulting” tra...
7.26.12 Sonic Lunch // Mayor Hawthorne & The County
*Note tomorrow’s Sonic Lunch has moved from Liberty Plaza to the Michigan Theater. Doors open at 10:30 a.m. and the first 1,700 people will be guaranteed in. Bank of Ann Arbor is bringing R&B/hip-hop artist Mayor Ha...
Local Food to the Rescue: a talk by Joel Salatin
“Everything I want to do is illegal” says author (& farmer) Joel Salatin, who will be giving a talk called “Local Food to the Rescue” on April 24 at the Michigan Theater. Salatin returned full-time to his family far...
The Buzz: March
The Black Keys // Joe Louis Arena / Mar. 3 by David Nassar The Akron-based power duo who seem to be everywhere these days – from countless TV commercials and HBO series to every 15 minutes on ESPN – are rolling into the Mot...
The Ann Arbor Film Festival Celebrates its 50th Year
On March 27, the oldest experimental film festival in North America will start spinning the reels of nearly 200 independent films in the Michigan Theater. What started in a university lecture hall as a humble alternative to mor...
Cursive Brings New Life to Prog-Rock
photos by Daniel Muller After more than 15 years together, Cursive’s newest album, “I Am Gemini,” is a heavy, theatrical, prog-rock narrative of biblical proportions. Cursive has technically been around since 1995, and, w...
Einstein casts spells in Ann Arbor
This is an account of my experience at a preview performance of “Einstein on the Beach” on Saturday, January 21st. For more background information about the opera and events leading up to its remount, check out our feature ...
Einstein on the Beach
Groundbreaking opera is resurrected in Ann Arbor In July of 1976, the curiously-titled opera “Einstein on the Beach” premiered in Avignon, France, to an audience who was expecting, well, an opera. The sprawling musical coll...
The Buzz – December
by Marissa McNees Here in the Washtenaw County area, we’re lucky to be a part of one the best local music scenes you can find anywhere. Case in point—Hope Thomas. Thomas, the one-woman show better known as Jo Pie Whyld,...
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