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ARTS AROUND ANN ARBOR

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MUSIC

AADL 2025 STAFF PICKS: HOMEPAGE
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The Radar: New music by Washtenaw County-associated artists and labels
The Radar: New music by Washtenaw County-associated artists and labels
The Radar: Podcasts Edition
Sympathetic Strings and Drums That Sing: J.J. Gregg and Pavan Kanekal at AADL

VISUAL ART

AADL 2025 STAFF PICKS: HOMEPAGE
Narsiso Martinez's artwork highlights the lives of migrant farmworkers
Ypsi's Dzanc House offers accessible and welcoming ways to explore art and writing within a creative community
Silver Sightings: Gallery 100 is an art gallery tucked inside Silver Maples of Chelsea, a retirement neighborhood
All the Small Things: Joseph Ferraro's macro photography captures the tiny beauty that surrounds us
Window Gazing: Jaye Schlesinger's "Points of View" exhibition at WSG Gallery

FILM & VIDEO

AADL 2025 STAFF PICKS: HOMEPAGE
AADL 2025 STAFF PICKS: SCREENS
Michigan Theater head organist Andrew Rogers dies at 74
UMich professor emeritus Andy Kirshner’s latest film, "Sex Radical," tells the tale of a little-known feminist, spiritualist, and educator
"Resilience Revealed" wins award in Accolade Global Film Competition
Alive and Well: AADL's Dead Media Day celebrates the past in the digital age

THEATER & DANCE

AADL 2025 STAFF PICKS: HOMEPAGE
Encore Musical Theatre's "Frozen" deftly navigates challenges to bring the movie's charms and songs to the stage
Penny Seats' "The Thanksgiving Play" is a satire on political correctness, written by a Native American
Dark comedy and serious drama come together in U-M’s production of Jessica Dickey’s "The Convent"
"Othello" goes West in Brevity and PTD Productions' unique take on Shakespeare's tragedy
Farce With a Bite: Ann Arbor Civic Theatre's "Dracula: A Comedy of Terror" looks to the original book for emotional inspiration, jokes

WRITTEN WORD

AADL 2025 STAFF PICKS: HOMEPAGE
AADL 2025 STAFF PICKS: WORDS
"Sick Days" to "Snow Days": Erin and Phil Stead revisit Amos McGee, the kind zookeeper who helped launch their career
Subversive Retelling: Jihyun Yun’s new horror novel brings to life a dead sister in “And the River Drags Her Down”
Ypsi's Dzanc House offers accessible and welcoming ways to explore art and writing within a creative community
Playwright Cary Gitter delves into a character’s consciousness in his novel “Cammy Sitting Shiva”

PULP LIFE

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Revolution, the Chinese yoyo team at U-M, keep its audience on a string

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