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ARTS AROUND ANN ARBOR

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MUSIC

Friday Five: Dave Sharp Worlds Quartet & Elden Kelly, Loss of Life, Scoops Lively, Normal Park, Pajamas

Inside Story: Jess Merritt's new songs display a bold, transformative mindset

Singer-songwriter Joe Reilly lets kids know there's a place for them in the circle

Friday Five: Jason Engling, Dollie Rot, Dave & Kristi, Latimer Rogland, Delos Prismatic

Monday Mix: Fans With Bands/Mazinga, UMich Symphony Band, DJ Art/MEMCO, DJ DC

Friday Five: Mei Semones, Nadim Azzam, Bill Edwards, Chip Kramer, Tinn Parrow and His Clapfold Platune

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

Ann Arbor-filmed comedy flick "Hometown Summer" premieres at the Michigan Theater

Barbara Neri's "Unlocking Desire" film looks to a Tennessee Williams classic for inspiration

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

THEATER & DANCE

Neighborhood Theatre Group's "The Stranger in My Breakfast Nook" is a hilarious musical send-up of Lifetime movies

Rory and Evelyn: PTD Productions’ comedy "Welcome to Paradise" celebrates a chance encounter between generations

A beauty parlor creates a safe place to gather in Ann Arbor Civic Theatre’s staging of "Steel Magnolias"

Still Wilde: Encore Theatre's "The Importance of Being Earnest" is an energetic physical comedy with seriously good acting

Big Time: U-M Theatre offered the rare chance to see "Titanic: The Musical"

WRITTEN WORD

Human Depth: Danielle Leavitt's "By the Second Spring" covers the first year of the invasion of Ukraine through the eyes of seven people

Cult of Personality: Omar Hussain's psychological thriller, "A Thousand Natural Shocks," explores how far people will go to forget their pasts

U-M professor Leah Litman makes a ruling on the Supreme Court in her new book, "Lawless"

Poet Zilka Joseph imparts memories, history, and culture of the Bene Israel people by way of food in “Sweet Malida”

Attack Mode: David Wolinsky looks at the Gamergate scandal and internet culture in "The Hivemind Swarmed" and a panel discussion at AADL

So Much Larger Than Life: Meggie Ramm's winsome "Batcat: Cooking Contest!" graphic novel helps kids process big-time emotions

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