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ARTS AROUND ANN ARBOR

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MUSIC

The Band Abides: The Dude Revue, a musical tribute to "The Big Lebowski," returns to The Blind Pig
"Easy" Does It: Singer-songwriter Kyle Joe explores the light and dark on a new album with Chris DuPont
Friday Five: French Ship, Racing Mount Pleasant, The Missing Cats, J-Classic, Sacha
Friday Five: Louise Toppin and Darryl Taylor, Gifts of Art compilation, Latimer Rogland, Matt McCleskey, Lauren Blackford
Friday Five: Elliot McConnell, Punto de Fuga, Maddy Ringo, Dick Texas, AGN7
The Psych Doctor: George Mashour's Vintage-Sounding Psychedelic Rock Album Was Inspired by His Consciousness Studies at U-M

VISUAL ART

So Much Larger Than Life: Meggie Ramm's winsome "Batcat: Cooking Contest!" graphic novel helps kids process big-time emotions
Dedicated Followers of Fashion: Gutman Gallery's "In Style" exhibit highlights wearable design
Sasha Gusikhin's NeuroArts Productions organizes multidisciplinary creative events to promote mental health awareness
Curiosity Knocks: "asses.masses" at Stamps Auditorium showed the power of building community
UMMA's "La Raza Art and Media Collective, 1975 to Today" highlights the pioneering work of a campus student group
Common Ground: Philippa Pham Hughes' "Hey, We Need to Talk!" at UMMA is an interactive exhibit that ponders how to build sustainable relationships

FILM & VIDEO

iFFY the Filmsters: The Independent Film Festival Ypsilanti returns for its sixth edition
The 63rd Ann Arbor Film Festival will show that de-evolution is real
Monday Mix: Michigan Creates, Music Un-Tuxed, A2AC Murals & Planters, Blue LLama live streams, Ann Arbor 200 documentaries
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Long-Awaited Sequel: Cinetopia Film Festival returns to Ann Arbor

THEATER & DANCE

Theatre Nova's world premiere of "Eclipsed" is an intimate look at a Black family trying to better itself in the racially charged climate of Detroit
Battle Lines: Purple Rose's "My Mother and the Michigan/Ohio War" swings from funny to poignant
"Our Oz" opens a new U-M theater project to address issues via BIPOC and queer lenses
The Mendelssohn Theatre is haunted by a chilling opera version of Henry James' "Turn of the Screw"
Fight for Rights: UMGASS views the Gilbert and Sullivan musical-comedy "H.M.S Pinafore" through the lens of empowerment
Kids Cape Up: EMU’s "Cause Play" celebrates a super trio of Detroit middle schoolers who create costumes and search for identity

WRITTEN WORD

So Much Larger Than Life: Meggie Ramm's winsome "Batcat: Cooking Contest!" graphic novel helps kids process big-time emotions
Writing Into Clarity: Poet Carmen Bugan’s “Tristia” collection engages with loss and pain
Chelsea's Midwest Literary Walk returns with Sarah Vowell, Angie Kim & Shelby Van Pelt
Mother Sky: Ellen Stone sees the moon as a guide and caretaker in her new poetry collection
Window to Our World: Poet Tree Town posted poems by community writers to 66 area locations for National Poetry Month
A Ghostly Chorus: Motherly apparitions tell the story of Salvadoran sisters affected by trauma in Gina María Balibrera’s “The Volcano Daughters”

PULP LIFE

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Origin Stories: As Tree Town celebrates 200, Museum on Main's "Ann Arbor's Story" looks at the first 50 years

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