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Broadway nerd heaven

Touring show revives a four-person show-tune revue

Free Will Astrology (May 7-13)

What do the stars have in store for you this week?

35 years of Motor City Comic Con

Pop culture icons descend on metro Detroit for Michigan’s biggest fan event
Forbidden Broadway lovingly lampoons musical theater.
Touring show revives a four-person show-tune revue
By Erica Hobbs
Image: Warren’s historic Gillett-Beer Farm hits market [PHOTOS]
By Lee DeVito
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By Rob Brezsny
Motor City Comic Con has grown popular over the years.
By Jim McFarlin
Sturgill Simpson With his 2014 breakthrough Metamodern Sounds in Country Music, Kentucky-born Sturgill Simpson helped rejuvenate the genre with a neo-outlaw sound. He’s spent the rest of his career gleefully defying expectations: tapping Amy Winehouse’s former backing band the Dap-Kings for the Grammy-winning A Sailor’s Guide to Earth, soundtracking an anime film with the hard-rocking Sound & Fury, and releasing a suite of bluegrass albums in 2020 and 2021. When a vocal cord injury seemed like it might end his career, Simpson once again pivoted. Released under the moniker Johnny Blue Skies last year, Simpson’s Passage du Desir exists somewhere between Jimmy Buffet and Pink Floyd, but the live shows are on another level. Simpson and his tight band draw from his entire catalog, interspersed with long stretches of improvisational noodling to give his voice a rest — delighting fans of jam bands. And somehow, it’s still very country. Starts at 8 p.m. on Saturday, May 10 at Meadowbrook Amphitheatre, 3554 Walton Blvd., Rochester Hills; ticketmaster.com. Tickets start at $59.50.
By Lee DeVito
Image: All the colorful characters we saw at Detroit’s Space Dive ‘Star Wars’ fan event [PHOTOS]
By Mike Pfeiffer
From left: Thunderbolts* assembles a ragtag team of Bucky (Sebastian Stan), Ghost (Hannah John-Kamen), Yelena (Florence Pugh), John Walker (Wyatt Russell), and Red Guardian (David Harbour).
By Jared Rasic, Last Word Features
The House of Tarot exhibit gives us major Silent Hill vibes (in a good way). Matt Rozensky’s Judgment installation.
By Randiah Camille Green
Mr. Climax (Jim McCarty Plays the Blues in Pere-Lachaise Cemetery, Paris). Acrylic on vinyl.
By Dave Mesrey
French neoclassical ballet company Malandain Ballet Biarritz returned to the Detroit Opera House.
By Erica Hobbs
With a similar embrace of the natural surroundings, artist James Rodriguez sat painting a landscape, surrounded by his other paintings of the natural world hanging from trees nearby with a Henry David Thoreau-type vibe.
By Erica Hobbs
60th Annual Cinco de Mayo Parade and Fiesta This year’s Cinco de Mayo festivities in Southwest Detroit are extra special. Not only is Detroit’s Latino community celebrating six decades of its cultural parade, but it’s also commemorating the election of Mexico’s first female president, Claudia Sheinbaum. A two-day Cinco de Mayo Fiesta starts on Saturday at Patton Park with vendors, food trucks, musical performances, and more. The parade starts at noon on Sunday at Patton Park, ending at Clark Park.Fiesta from noon-8 p.m. on Saturday, May 3 and Sunday, May 4 at Patton Park, 8151 Dix St, Detroit; detroitcincodemayoparade.com. No cover.
By Lee DeVito
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By Rob Brezsny
Image: Detroit’s ‘Star Wars’-themed Space Dive event strikes back
By Jeff Milo
Image: Sprawling barn-themed Ann Arbor mansion hits market [PHOTOS]
By Lee DeVito
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