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The Ann Arbor Art Fair

The Ann Arbor Art Fair debuted in 1960 and since then has evolved and grown into one of Michigan’s main artistic showcases, attracting over 500,000 visitors each year.
Today the event is comprised of 4 award-winning fairs: the Ann Arbor Street Art Fair, the original; the State Street Area Art Fair; the Ann Arbor Summer Art Fair; and the Ann Arbor South University Art Fair. Approximately 1,100 local and national artists will exhibit their work at this year’s fair.

Fair-goers will find art in all of its forms — sculpture, ceramics, painting, jewelry, glass, wood, fiber and photography — as well as...

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Love story turns to ashes

Forbidden love set in Jazz Age Europe, balanced on the brink of war and revolution. Sound exciting?
Maybe so, but even the Spanish Civil War can’t save Little Ashes.

Little Ashes purports to tell the story of the impossible love affair between Spanish surrealist master Salvador Dali and his countryman, poet Frederico Garcia Lorca. Their passion proved impossible, thanks to the repression of gay relationships in the conservative religious and fascist political environment of the pair’s homeland.

It’s hard to imagine a film with such a storyline going adrift, but it does, in part due to shoddy prod...

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Ann Arbor’s transitory son, Drunken Barn Dance

Ann Arbor’s transitory son, Drunken Barn Dance: “The finest, most spirited and talented collection...”

“Where’s the beaten path, and how do I stay the f*** off it?”

Scott Sellwood has one of the more unique voices in the indie/neo-folk scene; seven years of banding around Ann Arbor, and we are (almost) losing him...(but, not really.) To qualify that statement, his uniqueness is not born solely from his invigorating palate — as much Cash and Dylan as it is Neutral Milk Hotel or My Bloody Valentine, born not just from the sizzle of his high range vocals, but also for his breadth of perspective, pa... Read more...

Ida Maria at The Necto

In Review

“Have you ever been so drunk you’ve been dancing on tables in your father’s wedding suit?”
This question was suddenly posed to the audience at The Necto by the swanky and sweaty Ida Maria Silversten on the evening of Tuesday, June 16.  Answering solely in cheers and fist-pumping (because who hasn’t cut a rug in a 1970 polyester get-up?), the dense crowd maneuvered closer still to the stage.  The general spirit in the air begged for the rock to continue, and Ms. Silversten did not disappoint.
Known simply as Ida (pronounced eee-da) Maria, the Norweigian retro fireball stopped b...

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