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January 2012

Staying ahead of the game

Library to host Sustainable Ann Arbor, four once-a-month collaborative discussions...

Are there holes in the bucket?

On Tuesday, January 17 Great Lakes Echo commentator, Gary Wilson, will lead a discussion on the Great Lakes Compact

Real life Rain Man

Language: How We Communicate is the theme of the 10th annual Ann Arbor/Ypsilanti Reads...

Renovation and change

The fate of a proposed six-story apartment building between South Main Street and Ashley at West Mosley Street...

Health & Wellness

As the holidays turn into the new year, we stop thinking about buffet-style meals with our extended families and start wondering what we can do better.

Seoul Street

Seoul Street has distinguished itself from the pack of Ann Arbor Korean restaurants by focusing on a dish previously unknown here: Korean-style fried chicken.

Eat up

The time has come for Ann Arbor’s Restaurant Week.

Just a taste

Got a taste for chocolate? Learn a little at Mindo Chocolates & The USDA Cocoa Genome Project

Go it alone

Okay, so, I’ve got my own blog. Whenever I feel like it, I click “post” and I ruthlessly relay scrolls of (hopefully insightful) essays about music to the world.

Singing in the year

The Ann Arbor Folk Festival's motto might very well be, “if it works, don’t fix it!”

"Classics" from 2011

I thought it'd be easy. A list of my top ten local albums of the year.

International Guitar Night

Take four of the best guitar players from around the globe, put them on the same stage and let them jam — you now have a six-string fan's dream.

The blues included

Our world is rich in human-made and naturally occurring musical sounds.

Folk the Police

During the weekend of Ann Arbor’s annual Folk Festival haters may think the city has gone a little soft,

Love's Labor Not Lost

The struggle for labor rights has shaped politics and society for most of the last century and early into this one, especially here in Michigan.

U of M grad nabs best doc honors

Love can be complicated. Just ask Sophia Kruz. Kruz’s documentary about her parents’ love story, “Time Dances On,”...

A Shakespearean twist

For all his intricate and ambiguous passages, Shakespeare's plots were relatively simple, applying the basic elements of love, lust, greed and revenge to the human condition.

Wrong side of the curtain

Mikhail Bulgakov had a very interesting — and lucky — relationship with Joseph Stalin.

Disillusioned and driven

The Purple Rose Theatre’s second play of their 2011-2012 season, William Mastrosimone’s A Stone Carver, opens on January 19 and runs through March 10.

World-class re-opening

Ask any art aficionado in Paris or London, Los Angeles or Tokyo to name the most important art institution between New York and Chicago...

The way of life

Artist Richard Wilt could take the most ordinary situation and make it striking and profound, providing a beautiful simplicity that made his viewers connect and wander.

Video 50

Art cannot be contained. It mixes, mingles, mutates and contaminates through all forms and genres.

Pearloiners, Masturboats, and Silken Flesh Communicators! Oh my!

Simon & Schuster recently posted videos on YouTube of various employees taking turns trying to read aloud portions of Nicholson Baker’s new novel House of Holes.

Philip Glass and Robert Wilson

Enjoy a rare opportunity to hear two titans of twentieth-century performance tell their stories in their own words, as the University of Michigan Museum of Art...

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