Letter from the Editor — The Artist’s Home

It’s Gallery Week! I hope you are as excited as I am about Detroit’s Gallery Week. This is where all of the major galleries (and some museums) in Detroit open their doors and really push themselves to impress their visitors. Galleries provide you with easy access (and pampering) to walk through their space and explore their individual aesthetics. [...]

Letter from the Editor . . . “Mmmm, bacon”

“Mmmm . . . bacon,” Homer Simpson.  Did you know that if you add bacon to any food – seriously any food– it tastes better: a sandwich (check), a salad (check, check), a water chestnut (check), or an ice cream sandwich (I haven’t tried this, but probably check)?  Detroit Restaurant Week returned this past Friday [...]

Letter from the Editor — What’s Happening?

“A squirrel is just a rat with a cuter outfit,” Carrie Bradshaw. To all of my macho friends, I am sorry for that reference . . . I’ve watched Sex in the City (my wife made me do it!). I also watch Tim Gunn’s “Make it Work” think tank Project Runway (no one made me do it). [...]

The Grosse Pointe Artist Association May Need To Relocate

The Edward Frohlich Trust may not last forever
For the past 72 years there has been an association for artists in our community. This group is collectively know as the Grosse Pointe Artists Association and has recently obtained more visibility in the community thru the generosity of the beneficiaries of the Edward Frohlich Trust. [...]

Memorial For Arts Advocate E. Ray Scott at The Gem Theatre

Saturday, February 27th, 11am

E. Ray Scott
It was Saturday, Feb. 6, when the cheerful, tuxedoed members of Detroit’s Players Club gathered for their monthly show of plays at their historic Playhouse. The mood quickly sobered when they heard that Player E. Ray Scott had died at 86. As Executive Director of the Michigan Council for [...]

How Can a “Music of the Spirit” Die?

Amiri Baraka – “Whether African Song, Work Song, Spiritual, Hollers, Blues, Jazz,
Gospel, etc., no matter the genre, the ideas contained in Afro-American art, in the
main, oppose slavery and desire freedom.”
Jazz is dead! Here we go again. The recent Wall Street Journal article by Terry Teachout, (the journal’s drama critic? Why is he writing about [...]

Letter To The Editor: Prelude To A Very Long, Hot Summer?

Shamus Cooke: “The alarm bells should be ringing day and night about what’s being prepared at General Motors — the ripple effects could produce tidal waves.”
The Obama administration has made clear its plans for GM: the Chrysler bankruptcy was the “test case,” and now Obama’s Wall Street buddies inside the Auto Task Force plan to [...]

Letter to the Editor: Strip Auto Despair From The Front Page

It’s time to strip the auto industry stories of despair from the front page.  With bailout money in place, the situation seems to be going in some direction and a higher power will ultimately determine its fate.  Plenty of great things are happening in the City and region, but have become “white noise” lost in [...]