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• Weekend preview: EXCHANGE brings Chicago to Detroit

  Holding up our end of the bargain: Detroit to host Chicago in a month-long exhibition, which will run through March 16.

  This weekend marks the double-opening of EXCHANGE, an art event that invites a cadre of nine Chicago-based artists to exhibit here in Detroit, fair trade for the contingent of [...]

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• STOMP lives up to its name in E.J. Thomas Performing Arts Hall appearance

  When we were leaving a performance of STOMP at the E.J. Thomas Performing Arts Hall, we were walking behind a woman whose high heels were clicking steadily on the sidewalk. I started using my playbill as a kind of counter rhythm to her constant beat by tapping it [...]

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• Jenny Larsson looks to voice

  A few months ago, I saw Jenny Larsson’s “Look at how you’re looking at me when I’m telling you this,” featuring performers Celeste Fraser-Delgado, William Rey, Fernando Landeros, Oscar Fuentes, Matthew Taylor and Larsson. “Look at how you’re looking” is Larsson’s thesis project for her MFA in Performing Arts from [...]

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• Guare’s “The House of Blue Leaves” coming in March

  Spirit Square Uptown Charlotte.

  The Charlotte Shakespeare theater company goes beyond the Bard this March to delve into 20th-century American theater with John Guare’s “The House of Blue Leaves.” Opening Thursday, March 7 this production promises to be a zany riot. It will be performed in the Duke Energy [...]

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• Walter Dunnington’s “Rocks”

  Some of the most vibrant geology in Philadelphia can right now be found at the Crane Arts Building. In the Archive Space, Walter Dunnington takes a closer look at the stuff the earth is made of with his many views of stones and sediment.

  Walter Dunnington, “Tumblestack.”

  Dunnington’s [...]

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• Knight Foundation’s Tatiana Hernandez joins the National Association of Latino Arts and Cultures

  We’re living in a time of incredible change. In 2011, the nation’s Hispanic population reached 52 million, an increase of 48% from 2000, according to a Pew Research Center analysis. Now more than ever we have the chance to engage our country’s diverse people in helping build more inclusive local [...]

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• Behold None Too Fragile’s “A Behanding in Spokane”

  None Too Fragile’s “A Behanding in Spokane” isn’t in the “gotta see” category of one-act dramas, but it certainly is in the “worth seeing” group, especially because of the stellar performances by the cast – Michael Regnier (Carmichael); Nick Yurick (Mervyn); Kelly Strand (Marilyn); and Brian Kenneth Armour (Toby).

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• An astonishing night of Cage at the New World

  Jessye Norman and New World fellows in John Cage’s “Song Books.” Photo by Rui Dios-Aidos

  There are concerts and there are concerts, and then there are explosions of art, bursts of concentrated, disciplined energy that sweep in like a wind and leave everything leveled and changed.

  Such was the performance I [...]

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• Riot Act Reading Series takes the Clown Lounge stage this Sunday

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  Punk poet Paul D at the Turf Club. Photo by Sharyn Morrow, courtesy of Riot Act Reading Series

  I’ve seen hundreds of author readings in bookstores and libraries over the years, but the usual routine – writers who stand at a podium and hold forth – hardly makes for a compelling [...]

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• Mercer Jazz Ensemble to present ‘The Colors of Jazz’

  The Mercer Jazz Ensemble performs. Photo courtesy of Mercer University

  Mercer University, a Knight Arts grantee, offers some of the best performing arts programming in the region, and Macon is all the better for it. The university is the home of the Townsend School of Music, the Robert McDuffie [...]

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