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ARTS AROUND ANN ARBOR

UNPASTEURIZING THE ARTS

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MUSIC

Collecting "Chaos": The Destroy All Monsters exhibit at Cranbook gathers artifacts from the pioneering Ann Arbor art and music collective
The Radar: New music by Washtenaw County-associated artists and labels
Telegraph Quartet will perform a free concert of Haydn, Bartók’, and Skye in Ann Arbor
Both Sides Now: Janelle Haskell traded her jazz saxophone for folk guitar and reintroduced herself as a singer-songwriter
The Radar: New music by Washtenaw County-associated artists and labels
Remembering Ben Lorenz, co-founder of Willis Sound and drummer for Restroom Poets

VISUAL ART

Collecting "Chaos": The Destroy All Monsters exhibit at Cranbook gathers artifacts from the pioneering Ann Arbor art and music collective
"Beyond the Cover: Celebrating Local Art" highlights the creatives behind the Chelsea District Library's newsletter fronts
Ghanaian artist Bright Ackwerh brings his satirical political paintings to Ann Arbor Art Center
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

FILM & VIDEO

The University of Michigan Center for Japanese Studies' film series returns with a laugh
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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

THEATER & DANCE

The Ann Arbor Civic Theatre has to move, but it's not going away
Forge Theater announces first play, other performances in its new collaborative creative space in Ann Arbor
Ann Arbor Civic Theater's character-driven "The Humans" mixes love, humor, and tension
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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

WRITTEN WORD

Kyle E. Miller's "The Idiot’s Garden" is a poetic postapocalyptic novel where few humans exist but the world flourishes
Washtenaw Jewish News editor Clare Kinberg discovered her estranged aunt's life story for “By the Waters of Paradise”
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"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”

PULP LIFE

Two Ann Arbor food events will help thaw the January chill
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