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‘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

‘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 84-year old Davis is one of few artists to be inducted into three halls of fame, and he’s playing at the Southfield library

Tags: Local Music, Music Feature, Billy Davis, the Billy Davis Rhythm Machine Band, Hank Ballard and the Midnighters, local music, Southfield Library, music features, Jimi Hendrix

Lizzo and openers Saucy Santana and Latto remind us it’s OK to be your wonderful, beautiful, boss bitch self

Tags: Local Music, Concert Reviews, Lizzo, Little Caesars Arena, The Special tour, Local music, concert review, music, Slideshow

The 34-year-old singer battled congestion during the set, but that didn’t stop her from twerking and playing the flute like a boss

Tags: Local Music, Concert Reviews, Lizzo, Saint Andrew's Hall, SiriusXM, SiriusXM Small Stage Series, local music, concert review

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

The band will play Saint Andrew’s Hall Oct. 28 with founding member Brian Eschbach now at the helm

Tags: Local Music, Music, The Black Dahlia Murder, Local Music, Michigan metal, Saint Andrew's Hall

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

Influential New York band ESG is also set to headline

Tags: Local Music, Music, Hamtramck Labor Day Fest, ADULT., ESG, Kelly Jean Caldwell Band, Local Music

(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

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

Tags: Movies, Movies, Beba, documentary, film

After a four-year hiatus, the Bard is back — but if people think SiD’s performances are just about ‘the dead dude who wrote them,’ they’re missing the point, says director Sam White

Tags: Arts Stories & Interviews, Stage, Shakespeare in Detroit, Marygrove Conservancy, Sam White, Shakespeare, theater

Staff pick

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

Local playwrights and actors will have 48 hours to write and perform new work

Tags: Things to Do, Detroit, theater, Marygrove College

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