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Arts

Detroit’s Kresge Arts intermingles sound with visual and literary arts in first-ever online exhibition

The exhibition includes themes of solidarity and community, inspired by 1970s Detroit radio DJ The Electrifying Mojo

By Layla McMurtrie
Apr 5, 2024

Tags: Arts, Music, News, Kresge Arts, Detroit artists, Michigan artists, Detroit art, sound art, music, visual art, poetry, Detroit poets, Slideshow
Arts

MAP Fest returns for a second year with goals to grow and highlight ‘the beauty of the hood’

Organizers hope to expand the day of music, art, and poetry with more interactive activities

By Layla McMurtrie
Mar 14, 2024

Tags: Arts, Music, Things to Do, MAP Fest, Detroit events, Detroit festivals, music, art, poetry, Detroit music, Highland Park, Avalon Village, Mama Shu, Rock Local Entertainment Cafe, Detroit artists, Detroit talent, Slideshow
Things to Do

Historic African American film exhibit headed to the DIA this February

‘Regeneration: Black Cinema 1898-1971’ will include nearly 200 historical film posters, costumes, props, and excerpts

By Randiah Camille Green
Jan 9, 2024

Tags: Things to Do, Things to Do, Movies, Critics’ Picks, Detroit Institute of Arts, Things to Do, Detroit art scene, film
Arts

Inaugural MAP Fest brings Detroit’s creative forces together for a day of art and entertainment

From vision to reality

By Layla McMurtrie
Jul 20, 2023

Tags: Arts Stories & Interviews, Arts & Culture, Music, Art, Poetry, Festivals, Community
Arts

Ypsi’s The Deep End Cafe & Gallery is for the people

Detroit poet promotes healthy living and local art at new coffee shop

By Layla McMurtrie
Jul 14, 2023

Tags: Arts Stories & Interviews, Arts & Culture, Coffee, Art, Coffee, Food, Poetry, Ypsilanti, The Deep End Cafe & Gallery
Arts

Brooklyn artist brings absurdist ‘Plastic Bag Store’ installation to Ann Arbor

The experience is part-mockumentary, part-performance art, and full-on dystopian future

By Randiah Camille Green
Jan 27, 2023

Tags: Arts Stories & Interviews, Visual Art, Robin Frohardt, The Plastic Bag Store, visual art, film, performant art, Ann Arbor, Arts Stories & Interviews
Movies

The limits of ‘Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance With Somebody’

Biopic struggles to capture what made the star so compelling

By Maurice Tracy
Jan 26, 2023

Tags: Movies, Movies, Whitney Houston, I Wanna Dance With Somebody, film
Cannabis News

Michael Thompson opens up about being Michigan's longest serving non-violent offender

Heart-wrenching documentary features Flint native who spent decades in prison after selling weed

By Steve Neavling
Oct 28, 2022

Tags: Cannabis News, Weed, News, Michael Thompson, Documentary, MSNBC, Film, Marijuana, justice system, war on drugs
Movies

With Korean thriller ‘Decision to Leave,’ Park Chan-Wook smartly updates classic noir

The ‘Oldboy’ director stages a comeback

By George Elkind
Oct 24, 2022

Tags: Movies, Movies, Decision to Leave, Park Chan-Wook, Tang Wei, Park Hae-il, Korea, film, noir
Movies

Noir City film fest brings a world of classic movies to Detroit’s Redford Theatre

More noir: This year’s fest as a return to basics, with double features of films from the 1930s-50s

By George Elkind
Sep 19, 2022

Tags: Movies, Movies, Noir City, Redford Theatre, Detroit, film, film noir
Arts

Influential Detroit artist Aaron Ibn Pori Pitts honored with memorial

Beloved by the community, the artist and activist died in August

By Amber Ogden
Sep 19, 2022

Tags: Arts Stories & Interviews, Visual Art, Aaron Ibn Pori Pitts, Detroit, art, poetry, Wayne County Community College, labor, unions, activism
Movies

Cinema Lamont and Detroit Puppet Company bring a month-long puppet film series

(Some) strings attached

By George Elkind
Aug 3, 2022

Tags: Movies, Movies, film, movies, puppets, art house, Detroit, Michigan
Movies

A wide-ranging self-portrait, ‘Beba’ traces its director’s cross-national family history

Filmmaker Rebeca Huntt is fighting for control of her own story — but it doesn’t always land

By George Elkind
Jul 18, 2022

Tags: Movies, Movies, Beba, documentary, film
The Fiction Issue

The 2022 Fiction Issue

Metro Detroit writers and artists take on the theme ‘Conjuring Future Visions’ and meditate on what lies ahead, guest edited by Nandi Comer and deputy editor Zig Zag Claybourne

By Nandi Comer
May 18, 2022

Tags: The Fiction Issue, Arts & Culture Features, Detroit, Michigan, metro Detroit, fiction, literature, writing, Kresge Arts in Detroit, Cover Story, Video
Things to Do

You can catch wacky shorts at the seventh Detroit International Festival of Animation this Saturday

Staff pick

By Randiah Camille Green
May 4, 2022

Tags: Things to Do, Things to Do, Detroit International Festival of Animation, film, Senate Theatre, DIFA, 2022
Arts

Detroit’s jessica Care moore gets shoutout from Oprah for poem about Ketanji Brown Jackson

The Detroit native is overjoyed to be recognized by one of her longtime idols

By Randiah Camille Green
Apr 14, 2022

Tags: Arts Stories & Interviews, jessica Care Moore, poetry, Ketanji Brown Jackson, Oprah
Movies

New documentary explores devastating impact of human sex trafficking industry in metro Detroit

By Steve Neavling
Jan 27, 2022

Tags: Movies, Film, movie, documentary, sex trafficking, prostitution, Men Who Buy Sex – Everyone Pays, Wayne County Medical Society Foundation
Movies

The best films of 2021, quite possibly the last great year of movies

By George Elkind
Dec 22, 2021

Tags: Movies, 2021, movies, film, Procession, Red Rocket, El Planeta, Wife of a Spy, The French Dispatch, Souvenir, Pt. II, Bergman Island, North By Current, France, Worst Person, Memoria, Licorice Pizza, Days
Arts

Darkroom Detroit resumes in-person film and photography workshops

By Marisa Kalil-Barrino
Aug 16, 2021

Tags: Darkroom Detroit, Photography, Film, Workshops, Classes
Arts

Noted poet laureate of Detroit Naomi Long Madgett, dead at 97

By Herb Boyd
Nov 8, 2020

Tags: Detroit, Naomi Long Madgett, poetry, poet, laureate