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Nick Shoulders & The Okay Crawdad Takes Country Music Back to Its Roots
by strattonl
Nick Shoulders doesn't think the stereotypical images of country music are sexy.
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Love, Grief, Class, and Cancer: A.H. Kim's “Relative Strangers" reimagines a Jane Austen plot set in modern-day California
by christopherporter
The details of who knows whom, and what happened in their pasts, result in drama in Ann Arbor author A.H. Kim’s retelling of Sense and Sensibility through her new novel, Relative Strangers, set in modern-day California.
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Locals Rule: Highlighting the Washtenaw County creatives in the 62nd Ann Arbor Film Festival
by christopherporter
The Ann Arbor Film Festival (AAFF) draws experimental filmmakers from across the world, but ever since it began in 1963 it's also made room for local creators to show their works.
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A Devilish New Comedy: David MacGregor's "The Antichrist Cometh" debuts at The Purple Rose Theatre
by christopherporter
David MacGregor's plays have been performed in 15 countries, including India, Israel, South Korea, and Tasmania.
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Through the Grisly Maze: "Elizabeth Cree" is a puzzle-filled operatic mystery
by christopherporter
As the opera begins, Elizabeth is hung for the murder of her husband, the playwright John Cree.
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Six-Pack of Shorts: Ann Arbor Civic Theatre tackles David Ives' comedy anthology "All in the Timing"
by christopherporter
When Bruce Morey was looking for a play to direct for the Ann Arbor Civic Theatre, he wanted a comedy that would engage a large cast and that wouldn’t be too time-consuming for cast members. Instead of one play, Morey found six plays in one package, David Ives’ All in the Timing.
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U-M law professor Barbara McQuade fights against disinformation in her new book
by christopherporter
When Barbara McQuade, a University of Michigan law professor and MSNBC legal analyst, prosecuted a doctor who “cured” cancer in patients who didn’t have cancer, some victims refused to believe they’d been duped. They had trusted their doctor, after all, and how could they have been so wrong?
In her new book, Attack From Within: How Disinformation Is Sabotaging America, which she will discuss at the Ann Arbor District Library on March 7, McQuade uses many examples from history, here and abroad, to show us just how disinformation works.
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U-M Writer-in-Residence Caroline Harper New's poetry book “A History of Half-Birds" unfolds time and explores human-animal interplay
by christopherporter
“Control is a delicate science,” writes Caroline Harper New in her poetry collection, A History of Half-Birds. This book won the 2023 Ballard Spahr Prize for Poetry as selected by Maggie Smith.
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Insulation Versus Isolation: U-M's production of “Arbor Falls” holds a mirror to society's divisions
by christopherporter
Caridad Svich’s play Arbor Falls is set in a small, landlocked, tree-lined town of that name. We know little about the town, save that it is near another place where something terrible happened, and the people of Arbor Falls want to feel safe. We know, too, that it is home to a church with a dwindling congregation and a preacher unsure of his faith.
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U-M anthropologist Ruth Behar sails “Across So Many Seas” through the stories of four 12-year-old girls
by christopherporter
Spanning hundreds of years and four countries, Ruth Behar’s new middle grade novel, Across So Many Seas, features four 12-year-old girls, each facing their own momentous challenge.
Behar, a University of Michigan professor, will be in conversation with fellow professor Devi Mays at Literati Bookstore on Tuesday, February 13, at 6:30 pm.