Over the years, trends in popular music have come and gone, but country music has maintained popularity despite the ever-changing musical landscape. Anyone who doubts the music's incredible staying power would have been turned into a full-fledged believer Saturday evening when the George Strait Country Music Festival came to the Pontiac Silverdome.
'Hootenanny' rocks Silverdome
Yesterday marked the world premiere of a new musical written by Music senior Sam Davis and graduate student Ron Nyren. "Mina & Colossus" is based upon the life of Mina Loy, a poet and visual artist who fell in love with boxer / poet Arthur Cravan during the '20s.
Panel discusses creation of musical genius
Chris Whitley's show at the Magic Bag in Ferndale was proof both of his incredible talent and his relative obscurity. Many in the crowd at Magic Bag had never even heard of Whitley before coming to the show, but by the end of his set, the crowd was cheering him back onstage for encores.Whitley proves talent
"I believe in the soul." Upon hearing this, fans of baseball movies should immediately kick into a recitation of Crash Davis' musings on life, love, and his holy game from the classic baseball film "Bull Durham." In the movie, Kevin Costner plays Crash, a catcher who can never quite cut it in the big leagues but is able to star in the minors.
Has the nation's pastime become past tense?: With the release of 'Major League: Back to the Minors,' the once-great baseball film genre continues its extended slump
Things are looking pretty grim when you actually wish for Charlie Sheen to appear in a movie.This is the case with "Major League: Back To The Minors," an awful rehashing of the tired and no longer amusing baseball series. The movie is not funny and most of its attempts at humor are either borrowed from its predecessors or involve a baseball hitting someone in the head.Minor 'Major' lands in foul territory
For years, Dan Bern has been traveling from city to city across the United States playing mostly in relatively small folk clubs for crowds who go to his concerts with very minimal knowledge of his music.
But once concertgoers hear his sarcastic, political, upbeat folk performances, the majority walk out as Bern fans, entertained and inspired by an extraordinary show. Bern delivers his 'Eggs' to Ark
HOLLYWOOD (AP) - "Emmys, we have a problem."
In a decision that has put the group that presents the Emmy Awards squarely at odds with the major networks that televise them, the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences ruled that "From the Earth to the Moon" - Home Box Office's 12-hour docudrama about the space program - can be considered for the Emmy as outstanding miniseries.
'Moon' takes giant leap for Emmy
Like a painter's brushstroke, "Mrs. Dalloway" unfolds deliberately, revealing layers of colors and textures previously unseen. Based on the Virginia Woolf novel of the same name, "Mrs. Dalloway" breathes new life into a frequently explored subject - London upper-class society.'Dalloway' denes the indescribable
John Edgar Wideman, two-time PEN/Faulkner Award winner and National Book Award nominee, has published a new novel tackling spirituality, racism and love - heavy topics for most writers, but well-mapped ground for this talented Pennsylvania native.
'Cattle Killings' tackles spirituality, love and racism: The Cattle Killings
Capitalizing on what is becoming a popular motion picture trend, "The Object of My Affection" is Hollywood's glossy answer to "Chasing Amy," last year's highly praised indie phenomenon about a romance doomed by issues of sexual preference. Affectless 'Object' lets down Aniston
In "Health Against Wealth," George Anders, senior special writer for the Wall Street Journal and part of a team that won the Pulitzer Prize in 1996, closely examines the managed-health industry. Incomplete solutions place 'Health' below average: Health Against Wealth
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