Arts

Concert blends music and poetry

Music and poetry join together to celebrate creativity at the Michigan League Underground tomorrow when the University Activities Center and Rude Mechanicals sponsor Ann Arbor's first State Street Poetry Project Concert. Members of the State Street Poetry Project, a fresh and rapidly expanding new club on campus, will present four bands as well as two experienced poets as part of the night's entertainment.

Author hooks A2

Black feminist writer bell hooks took the packed Borders by storm Wednesday night as she read from her new lyrical novel, "Wounds of Passion." hooks called this book, "The sexy bell hooks book, the ex-rated one." "Wounds of Passion" varies in point-of-view between first person, which is written in the present tense, and third person, written in the past tense. This technique allows hooks to analyze and reflect on her past while writing her immediate views to the audience.

Near East art finds its way to Midwest

A small museum sits quietly on State Street, next to the unmistakable orange-bricked LSA building and opposite the grand columns of Angell Hall. The Kelsey Museum of Archaeology is something of an unknown to most students, a little building housing almost 100,000 objects from the ancient cultures of Greece, Rome, Egypt and the Middle East.

Dancers perform for diverse Impact

Diversity is the tie that binds Impact Dance Theatre, and the program is diverse in many aspects. From its members to the assortment of dance styles performed, the Impact Dance Theatre thrives on the combination of different artistics elements.

Buffett brings Margaritaville to Motown

Salvador Dali probably would have enjoyed Jimmy Buffett's concert Tuesday night. But for those of us less into the surreal, it was a bit startling.

'Sound' debut spreads the message of '80s rap

Since MTV started its new programming strategy six years ago, it has become a pastime of media critics and other assorted hipsters to wonder for what the "M" really stands. Instead of music videos, all the channel ever airs are game shows, chat shows, cartoon shows and reality shows.

Brater celebrates surrealism

Have you ever wanted to write down a strange dream, but although the dream made sense while you slept, when you had pen and journal in hand to write it down, you couldn't follow its logic? The surrealist theater has been trying to capture the essence of the human experience in the unconscious, dream-like state. This type of theater is, "Not based on life as we know it in the waking world, but to go beyond and discover a more profound reality, beyond the mask of everyday life," said English Prof.

02-20-98

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