The specters of jazz greats Duke Ellington and Oliver Nelson were definitely present in last night’s Jazz Band concert season opener, Stolen Moments. Under the direction of Dr. Tom Evans, last season’s jazz band sported a tight group of senior members. This quarter’s jazz band was young, of the fourteen members in the ensemble eight [...]

Read the full story

Around a quarter of the way through my second beer of the evening my excellent time at the Fillimore Detroit seeing Converge, Mastodon, and Dethklok was starting to grow uneasy. Perhaps it was the extreme proximity of people—the show was extremely crowded—but that’s not unusual at a show with two popular headliners. The thing that [...]

Read the full story

I’m going to be up front about two facts: First, I am an unabashed Twilighter, and second, as contrary as it may seem, I am a raging feminist with a vendetta against her future employer (i.e. the film industry). That being said, I have a few praises for the most recent installment of the Twilight [...]

Read the full story