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ARTS AROUND ANN ARBOR

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MUSIC

Boogie-Woogie Birthday: Mark Braun Recovers From Hand Surgery and Celebrates His Big Day With Kerrytown Concert House Show
One Track Mind: 3Steez, "Stand Up!"
The Radar: New music by Washtenaw County-associated artists and labels
The Radar: New music by Washtenaw County-associated artists and labels
A Colorful Bouquet: U-M group's multidisciplinary "All the Flowers Festival" celebrates queer and female artists
One Track Mind: North Ingalls, “North Ingalls Street”

VISUAL ART

Lynn Galbreath's U-M exhibit combines paintings that draw on travel, commercialism, and communications
View From the East: Terry Swafford's new exhibit at U-M captures a specific side of Detroit
A new exhibit at Ann Arbor's CLUSTER Museum helps us remember what we might forget or ignore
Shared Humanity: The "Black Artist Exhibit" at Riverside Arts Center promotes unity
Collecting "Chaos": The Destroy All Monsters exhibit at Cranbrook 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

FILM & VIDEO

Memory Cares: A recent film and a play about dementia are coming to Ann Arbor
A Colorful Bouquet: U-M group's multidisciplinary "All the Flowers Festival" celebrates queer and female artists
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

THEATER & DANCE

Under the Hood: Purple Rose's "The Classic King" is a detailed comedy-drama set in the used-car world
Memory Cares: A recent film and a play about dementia are coming to Ann Arbor
Theatre Nova's "Kayak" combines comedy, character studies, and current events
A Colorful Bouquet: U-M group's multidisciplinary "All the Flowers Festival" celebrates queer and female artists
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

WRITTEN WORD

A viral video tests friendships in Lillian Li’s new novel, “Bad Asians”
Afrodiasporic Verse: Aaron Coleman's recent poetry books look to the past to unlock possibilities for the future
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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PULP LIFE

Two Ann Arbor food events will help thaw the January chill
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