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River Raisin Rock Academy makes live debut Nov. 1
MONROE — River Raisin Rock Academy students will make their live performance debut Sunday, November 1, at the River Raisin Centre for the Arts. The concert begins at 3 p.m. and marks the academy’s first-ever performance. Students have been working to develop their sound and bring their musical...
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Experience fashion, fun, and fall festivities this weekend
Trick-or-treating isn’t the only fun activity happening this Halloween weekend. People will also be rocking costumes at Youmacon. The anime convention is bringing fans together for cosplay, gaming, music, and beyond. More than 300 vendors, artists, and creators are expected to be at the convention at Huntington Place in Detroit. This year’s theme is “Spirits & Shadows.” Youmacon runs Oct. 29 through Nov. 1.
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Dweezil Zappa Brings 20 Years of Dad's Music to Royal Oak Theatre
Dweezil Zappa is bringing more than two hours of his late father's music to Royal Oak Music Theatre on Friday, marking 20 years since he first began performing Frank Zappa's catalog on stage. Doors for the show at 318 W. Fourth St. open at 6:30 p.m., with the 57-year-old guitarist leading a tour he's calling DZ20: Like Father, Like Son.
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“Andrea Gibson’s Love Letter from the Afterlife” touches down in Ann Arbor
This story is part of a series about arts and culture in Washtenaw County. It is made possible by the Ann Arbor Art Center, Destination Ann Arbor, the University of Michigan Arts Initiative, and the University Musical Society. For Megan Falley, “Andrea Gibson’s Love Letter from the Afterlife,” a multimedia...
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CHS Student Poets Share the Stage at Ann Arbor Poetry Night
Azalea VanderElzen reads aloud at Poetry Night in Ann Arbor at the Lydia Mendelsohn Theater. She had spent the weeks prior preparing and revising her work for the event, and was able to perform without any stage fright due to her experience as a performing poet and actress. “I didn’t really have any stage fright, I felt confident,” VanderElzen said. “It hasn’t always been that way, but I think just [from] the amount of exposure I’ve had to being on stage for poetry readings or acting, I’ve become a lot more comfortable performing.”
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Grande Ballroom in Detroit – Where Rock Legends Played
The Grande Ballroom in Detroit once hosted Led Zeppelin, MC5, Iggy Pop, Pink Floyd, and many more of rock history's biggest names. Today, the legendary venue stands as a haunting reminder of Detroit's rock-and-roll past. Imagine walking into a Detroit ballroom where Led Zeppelin is playing just a few feet...
The Detroit News
Revealing Houdini's last trick
Good morning! Few Detroit stories could be more fitting for Halloween than the mystery surrounding the death of Harry Houdini in Detroit's Grace Hospital 100 years ago this weekend. For George Hunter, the assignment was a chance to indulge one of his favorite pursuits: digging into Detroit history. “I was elated when my editor instructed me to write a story commemorating the 100th anniversary of the death of legendary magician Harry Houdini,” George says. “My elation turned to intrigue when I started nosing around.” What he found went well beyond the familiar legends about Houdini’s death. His reporting revealed recently raised questions about Houdini's Detroit death certificate and cites official records and experts, including a former Michigan health department fraud investigator who said there is strong evidence the certificate had been altered. But why? And how? George is a lifelong Metro Detroiter who has covered some of the area's biggest mysteries. And he came away convinced that there are legitimate questions about how and when the famed escape artist died and how it was officially recorded. It’s a fascinating Detroit mystery, and an especially good read for Halloween. Read George Hunter’s story on the mystery surrounding Harry Houdini’s death See
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Insane Clown Posse Returns to Detroit's Masonic Temple for 33rd Hallowicked
Insane Clown Posse is set to headline its 33rd annual Hallowicked concert at Detroit's Masonic Temple on Saturday, Oct. 31, continuing a Halloween tradition the Detroit duo has kept alive in its hometown since 1994. Violent J, born Joseph Bruce, is 54 years old and has spent nearly 35 years building out the group's Dark Carnival mythology, which still anchors the band's live shows and recordings.
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Ghosts, Monsters and Local Legends Ride Along on Milan’s Haunted Bus Tour
Moving Milan Forward and Milan Theatre Co. brought spooky stories, theatrical surprises and local humor to Milan’s streets. Milan has apparently been keeping a few secrets. There’s a mysterious businessman who may have made a deal with the devil, a chocolate-covered creature near the railroad tracks and something decidedly fishy lurking in the Saline River.
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Halloween weekend in downtown Detroit is about to get considerably stranger
For four days this Halloween weekend, downtown Detroit will belong to the cosplayers. Youmacon returns to Huntington Place with thousands of anime fans, gamers, artists, and some seriously elaborate costumes. Huntington Place will fill with anime characters, superheroes, villains, video-game icons, elaborate handmade costumes, and people who have been planning...
The Detroit News
Insane Clown Posse's Violent J on new Joker's Cards, Hallowicked, more
For Insane Clown Posse fans, it's the most wonderful time of the year. The demented Detroit rap duo is headlining its annual Hallowicked concert Saturday night at the Masonic Temple. It's the Spooky Season tradition's 33rd year; going back to 1994, ICP has performed in its hometown every year on Halloween night. (There was just one exception, in 1996, when ICP's Joseph "Violent J" Bruce shattered his collarbone in a pro wrestling match, and the Halloween show was postponed until December.) The face-painted, Faygo-loving Clowns have been weaving the tale of the Dark Carnival, the umbrella under which their entire mission unfolds, since the release of their debut album, "Carnival of Carnage," in 1991. Last year's "The Naught" represented the sixth and final entry in the group's second deck of "Joker's Cards," the storytelling cycles that have made up the group's main thread of recorded output; one more five-album cycle remains before the Clowns say they'll call it quits. With Hallowicked on the horizon — along with a pair of shows Oct. 29 and 30 at The Vault, their first-ever concerts in Saginaw — we talked to Violent J, 54, about all things ICP, including his Juggalo Championship Wrestling pro
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D.L. Hughley Headlines Detroit Voter Rally With Tlaib, Waters Days Before Election
Comedian and radio host D.L. Hughley is coming to Detroit's west side Wednesday to headline a get-out-the-vote rally stacked with members of Congress, a Grammy-winning hip-hop group and a Detroit poet laureate, all pushing residents toward the polls one week before Election Day. The free event, called “The Fierce Urgency of Now: Turn Up & Turn Out The Vote!”, starts at 6 p.m. at Fellowship Chapel, located at 7707 W. Outer Drive.
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Holiday market set for Nov. 14 at Tecumseh library
TECUMSEH — The League of Women Voters of Lenawee County will host a holiday market Saturday, November 14, at the Tecumseh District Library. The market will run from 10:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. at the library, located at 215 N. Ottawa St. in Tecumseh. Shoppers can browse locally made...
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Swing for a cure: Attorney’s golf tourney raises funds for ALS of Michigan
In a treasured photo on their wedding day in 2013, attorney Brad Peri and his wife Jill are pictured with Jean Peri, who fell victim to ALS in 2015 at the age of 65. Brad Peri, a partner with the Goodman Acker law firm based in Southfield, recently doubled as a delivery man.
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Rod MacDonald at the Cul-de-Sac Soundtrack, Ann Arbor, MI
Players: Rod MacDonald, vocals, acoustic guitar, harmonica; Cheryl Dawdy, vocals. A traveling poet, composer, musician and street performer—these are all the requisite qualities of one known as a troubadour. Singer-songwriter Rod MacDonald has fulfilled all those roles, including the author of three books, for nearly five decades. He’s released over 15 albums, with his latest being Undo the Damage.