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

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

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

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

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

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

From vision to reality

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

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

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

‘An accidental caregiver’ turns the page

Tags: Arts Stories & Interviews, Stage, Breeda Kelly Miller, Mrs. Kelly’s Journey Home, theater

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

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

Biopic struggles to capture what made the star so compelling

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

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

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

The ‘Oldboy’ director stages a comeback

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

The celebrity stylist will host a sip-and-shop on Sunday on the Avenue of Fashion

Tags: Culture, Things to Do, fashion, Detroit, stylist, Marv Neal, Avenue of Fashion, Livernois

Here’s what our readers were interested in this week

Tags: ICYMI, ICYMI, Top 10, Two18, Sneaker, boutique, fashion, Tudor Dixon, GOP, Election Dining

$3 of each subscription to the Fire Exchange app will be donated to the Detroit Public Schools Community District

Tags: Culture, Arts & Culture, sneakers, sneaker culture, sneaker, DPSCD, Detroit Public Schools, DPS, Avenue of Fashion, Livernois, Detroit, fashion

(A)lex(Z)ander the great

Tags: Television, Television, Detroit, fashion, HBO, The Hype, (A)lex(Z)ander, Video

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

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

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

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

Tickets go on sale Sept. 30

Tags: Things to Do, Stage, Tina Turner, The Tina Turner Musical, Detroit Opera House, Broadway in Detroit, theater, musicals

Fashion-forward

Tags: Fall Arts Guide, Arts & Culture, PizzaPapalis, Greektown, Cover Story

(Some) strings attached

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

‘Ain’t Too Proud’ will run in August

Tags: Things to Do, Things to Do, Detroit Opera House, The Temptations, Motown, theater