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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
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

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
Michigan

How attacks on drag queens in Howell foreshadowed the right’s national anti-LGBTQ+ push

By Jon King, Michigan Advance
Jul 25, 2022

Tags: Michigan News, Michigan Advance, Drag Queen, Livingston County, LGBTQ, Howell, politics, Michigan Government, Government, election
Michigan

Whitmer signs general budget, vetoes anti-abortion items

By Allison Donahue, Michigan Advance
Jul 21, 2022

Tags: Michigan News, Abortion Rights, Michigan Advance, Roe v. Wade, Abortion Rights, Reproductive Rights, government
Michigan

Under fire from Congress, FDA chief says baby formula shortage will improve soon

By Jennifer Shutt, Michigan Advance
May 23, 2022

Tags: Michigan News, Politics, Government, baby formula, FDA
Michigan

Soldano floats conspiracy theory that Whitmer staged kidnapping plot to influence 2020 election

Soldano is one of 12 Republicans hoping to challenge Whitmer in the 2022 election.

By Andrew Roth, Michigan Advance
Apr 15, 2022

Tags: Michigan News, Whitmer, Gretchen Whitmer, Governor Whitmer, kidnap, January 6, protest, verdict, politics, government, Michigan Government, Lansing
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
Michigan

Division, disarray mark Macomb County GOP convention

Party ousts chair amid turmoil, delegates chosen for April 23 state convention

By Laina G. Stebbins, Michigan Advance
Apr 13, 2022

Tags: Michigan News, Michigan Advance, government, politics, GOP, Macomb County
Michigan

Susan J. Demas: Republicans said KBJ was soft on pedophiles. But they have a Michigan problem.

By Susan J. Demas, Michigan Advance
Apr 11, 2022

Tags: Michigan News, Lee Chatfield, Michigan, Government, Michigan Advance
Michigan

Detroit area legacy politician arrested faces drunken driving charges

The state representative faces her second OWI offense

By Alex Washington
Apr 6, 2022

Tags: Michigan News, Michigan, politics, government, election, state representative, Mary Cavanagh, Jewell Jones, Bryan Posthumus
Michigan

Whitmer vetoes bill to suspend state’s gas tax beginning in 2023

By Andrew Roth, Michigan Advance
Apr 4, 2022

Tags: Michigan News, Michigan Advance, Gas, Government, Michigan Government, Politics, Gretchen Whitmer, Governor Whitmer
Michigan

Michigan good-government groups: check your districts before election time

By Lily Bohlke, Michigan News Connection
Apr 4, 2022

Tags: Michigan News, Michigan News Connection, Redistricting, voters, vote, election, government, Michigan government, politics
Michigan

Michigan GOP House candidate vows to introduce ‘Don’t Say Gay’ legislation if elected

By Andrew Roth, Michigan Advance
Mar 28, 2022

Tags: Michigan News, Michigan Advance, government, GOP, LGBTQ
Michigan

Michigan will now accept credit cards for FOIA requests

Gov. Whitmer takes step toward transparency in new directive accepting card payments for FOIA requests, even though her office is still immune

By Alex Washington
Mar 18, 2022

Tags: Michigan News, Governor Whitmer, Michigan, government, politics, FOIA, Freedom of information act, Gretchen Whitmer
Michigan

Column: Income tax cut deserves a veto, because Michiganders deserve better

By Monique Stanton, Michigan Advance
Mar 17, 2022

Tags: Michigan News
The Incision

The COVID mistake we keep on making

By Abdul El-Sayed
Mar 16, 2022

Tags: The Incision, COVID-19, coronavirus, pandemic, government, CDC, Congress, Biden
Metro Detroit

Under Armour's downtown Detroit location to permanently close

By Randiah Camille Green
Jan 12, 2022

Tags: Under Armour, News Hits, downtown Detroit