BIRMINGHAM - artBLAST, the quintessential summer arts celebration at the Birmingham Bloomfield Art Center on July 3, will feature entertaining art adventures, nostalgic Michigan food, live music by folksinger Joel Mabus and the City of [...]

Forget that silly rabbit's foot. And don't even bother with a four-leaf clover. Michael Cunningham doesn't need any of those trinkets to lure him some serendipity. "I'm a lucky fuck," the out author declares. But [...]

Sara Celina's determined soul initially announced a hunger to be a singer/songwriter, and then a mere three months later she was wowing a crowd at Detroit's famous C-POP Gallery. All of this, by the way, [...]

'Hey Paula' Bravo C+ Anyone looking for stupid-slurry-simple Paula Abdul may want to turn to YouTube repeats of her embarrassing drunken days on "Good Day L.A." Or on a Fox affiliate. Or on TiVoed "American [...]

YouTube It Caution: Dick will make you slap somebody. Or at least Alexyss Tylor, the Atlanta Public Access "Vagina Power" pundit, claims so during an episode of her unintentionally-sidesplitting sex talk show. The babbling bullshitter [...]

Zoe Lewis June 30 Michigan Pride, Lansing http://www.zoelewis.com Bite into a sliced lemon. Breathe into a bag. Swallow some sugar. Hiccup home remedies could have their own Bible. But Zoe Lewis prefers the simple antidote: [...]

Capitol Correspondent ANN ARBOR - Alain Bantsimba had no idea what was happening when the U.S. Department of Immigration and Naturalization raided his Ann Arbor home. The Congolese citizen thought all of his paperwork was [...]

July 2, 2007 NEW THIS WEEK: A Mighty Heart Journalist Marianne Pearl (Angelina Jolie) is pregnant and about to leave Pakistan to await the birth of her son when, on their last day in the [...]

Capitol Correspondent There is something about reading a book that clearly states what should already be obvious. It should be a simple walk in the woods, not a terrifying reality check. Unfortunately for anyone involved [...]

EDITOR'S PICK: Frozen lakes, native woodland flowers, insects and other nature scenes are part of a new photography exhibit by Farmington resident Norm Thompson that runs through July 13 at the Nature Center at Heritage [...]

ARTS FUNDING UPDATE Both good news and bad were delivered June 11 when Governor Jennifer M. Granholm announced the lifting of a moratorium on grants to the state's arts and cultural organizations. The freeze withheld [...]

If broadcast television can program reruns all summer long, why can't theaters do something similar - but with a twist? They can - and one venue is doing just that every Sunday evening with "The [...]

By Robert W. Bethune As director, Brian Bedford gives us a play of "the old raging on the old." His Lear is certainly "fourscore years and upwards," and Goneril and Regan are played in their [...]

COG1_1526.jpg: The Comic Opera Guild will present its fifth ÒVictor Herbert FestivalÓ this weekend at Madonna College. Photo: Comic Opera Guild COG2_1526.jpg: Greg Wakefield, Barbara Scanlon and Nick Fitzer in a recent production of "Pirates [...]

EDITOR'S PICK: Mason Street Warehouse, an uptown theater in downtown Saugatuck, is pleased to announce the first show of its 2007 season: the regional premiere of "Altar Boyz." This very funny musical follows a fictitious [...]