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2015 Italian Film Festival USA to Screen a Trio of Award-Winning Films in Ann Arbor
by John Ball
THE 2015 ITALIAN Film Festival USA Metro Detroit recently announced the complete schedule of its 11th edition, which takes place April 1-26 at various locations across the metro area, including Ann Arbor. A trio of the…
Matthaei Botanical Garden Exhibition Marks 15th Anniversary of Shakespeare in the Arb
by Joe Mooney
SHAKESPEARE IN THE Arb turns 15 this summer, and Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum are celebrating with the upcoming exhibition, “Shakespeare’s Garden.” The week-long celebration kicks off March 27 and…
The Foodist: Lentil Underground Author Liz Carlisle Coming to Ann Arbor April 20
by Ari LeVaux
THE HUMBLE LENTIL is found in the earthiest of foods. Not the kind of fancy dishes that tap dance around the table atop a frozen cloud of nitrogen, but simple, nourishing foods like Indian dal or hippy mush, foods that feed…
“Rocking for the Homeless”—Mar. 22 Benefit Concert to Feature George Bedard and the Kingpins
by Donna Iadipaolo
ON SUNDAY MARCH 22, George Bedard and the Kingpins will be playing a benefit concert, “Rocking for the Homeless,” for the Ann Arbor Vineyard Homeless Ministry at 2275 Platt Road from 4-6 p.m.
Not only will attendees…
Performance Network Theatre Review: “Stones in His Pockets”
by Christian Usera
“Stones in His Pockets” not only drowned a character during the show, but my expectations as well.
IT’S MARCH, WHICH brings to mind one ubiquitous holiday: Saint Patrick’s Day. It’s that time of year when…
Businesses of Ann Arbor—Angelo’s
Editor: Zoe Ash is a Junior at Ann Arbor Skyline High School and an intern at The Ann Arbor Independent. Beginning this week, she will be working on a project called Businesses of Ann Arbor. The photo essay project is a riff on the "Humans…
U-M Partners to Make 25,000 Early First Edition English Books Available to Public
The University of Michigan Library, the University of Oxford’s Bodleian Libraries and ProQuest have made public more than 25,000 manually transcribed texts from the first 200 years of the printed book (1473–1700).
by Sydney Hawkins…
Feb. 11 U-M Poet Lorna Goodison to Receive 4th Annual Shirley Verrett Award
by Eilisha Dermont
CELEBRATED POET Lorna Goodison, a University of Michigan professor of English language and literature and of Afroamerican and African studies, will receive the 4th annual Shirley Verrett Award. The ceremony will take…
Covering Your Nut: Performance Network Theatre Crowdfunds for “Non-production based expenses”
by Christian Usera
THE ANN ARBOR Independent has published two articles regarding Performance Network Theater’s (PNT) beleaguered finances, missing tax filings and the non-profit’s loss of its “Right to Solicit” licensure from the State…
Jan. 26 Arab, Jewish Women Share “Peacemaking” Stories in Film, Panel Discussion at U-M
A film screening and panel discussion of “Refusing to be Enemies: The Zeitouna Story.”
by William Foreman
ON JAN. 26, 2015, the University of Michigan Center for the Education of Women and the Minerva Project is sponsoring a showing…