Blues Master Lonnie Brooks at Callahans

[ November 14, 2009; 8:00 pm; ] Saturday, November 14th, 2009
Callahan’s Bar & Grill

Lonnie BrooksAlligator recording artist, guitarist/vocalist Lonnie Brooks, brings his incendiary band to Calahans for a roof-raising live performance on November 14, 2009. Lonnie’s mix of Louisiana swamp blues, Texas string bending, proto-rock and roll and hard Chicago blues is a sure-fire recipe for a wild, good time. In addition [...]

“Serenading Louie” at The WSU Studio Theatre

[ October 22, 2009 2:00 pm to October 31, 2009 2:00 pm. ] The WSU Studio Theatre will open its season with Lanford Wilson’s Serenading Louie – a play that provides patrons with a sweet serenade and a harsh slap back to reality. Performances will take place October 22-24 at 8 p.m. and October 28-31 at 8 p.m. in the Studio Theatre.

Serenading Louie tells the tale of two [...]

Celebrate the Autumn Season at Michigan Harvest Beer Festival

[ October 24, 2009; 2:00 pm; ] Saturday, October 24, 2009, 1-6pm
Presented by the Michigan Brewers Guild & Metrotimes
at Detroit’s Eastern Markett

Based on the success of past events and a steadily growing interest in locally-crafted beer, officials at the Michigan Brewers Guild and Metrotimes say they are planning on a sell out crowd of 2500 for their inaugural Michigan [...]

Day of the Dead Exhibition – Border Crossers Never Forgotten

[ October 28, 2009 2:00 pm to November 12, 2009 2:00 pm. ] Installation and Performance
October 28 – November 12, 2009
Artists: Gabrielle Pescador and Juan Javier Pescador

MSU Museum
Community Gallery (ground floor)

The Michigan State University Museum will host and coordinate activities in celebration of the 2009 El día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) in connection with the Cristo Rey Community Center in Lansing. Featured Oct. [...]

Masquerade Mystique at The Music Hall

[ October 30, 2009; 7:00 pm; ] The Area’s Most Exclusive & Upscale Masqerade Event
Friday, October 30, 2009 at 7:00pm

One of the best charity events of the season – the first ever Mystique Masquerade at Music Hall from 7 p.m. – 12:30 a.m. Friday, October 30. Monies raised will go directly to support Music Hall Center for the Performing Arts.

Unmask the mystery [...]

Deadline Approaching For Dzanc Literary Prize

The Dzanc Prize Fostering literary excellence
The Application deadline November 1, 2009
“In 2007, to further its mission of fostering literary excellence, community involvement, and education, Dzanc Books created the Dzanc Prize, which provides monetary aid in the sum of $5,000, to a writer of literary fiction. All writers applying for the Dzanc Prize must have [...]

“Loves and Lies” Opens With Verdi’s “Nabucco” at MOT

[ October 17, 2009 1:00 pm to October 24, 2009 1:00 pm. ]
October 17-24, 2009
At the Detroit Opera House

Michigan Opera Theatre opens its 39th opera season entitled “Loves and Lies” with Giuseppe Verdi’s exotic and heart-rending Nabucco in a limited three performance engagement October 17-24, 2009 at the Detroit Opera House. This will mark the first time in Michigan Opera Theatre history that the company will [...]

Towards The Threadbare and The Bra Show

[ October 17, 2009 7:00 pm to January 17, 2010 5:00 pm. ] Never before have you seen neckties and bras like this!

Saturday, October 17, 2009 at 7:00pm
Sunday, January 17, 2010 at 5:00pm
Janice Charach Gallery

Isaac Amala and Liz Simpson have taken ordinary neckties and transformed and reconfigured them into sculptural, artistic statements. The show features massive conceptual sculptural installations made solely from tens of thousands of men’s neckties, [...]

Lance Armstrong in “Race Across the Sky – Leadville Trail 100″

Oct. 22nd, 2009

Glenn Barr Solo Art Show at 323East

[ October 28, 2009 12:00 am to November 27, 2009 12:00 am. ] First Detroit solo show in seven years!

Wednesday, October 28, 2009 at 6:00pm
Through Friday, November 27, 2009 at 9:00pm

Glenn Barr is one of the few artists around whose “juvenilia” excites as much interest (and cash) as his most current works. If you were a regular customer at some of the better independent record, book, and magazine [...]