Opera Review: “The Barber of Seville” Shears Detroit!
“The Barber of Seville’s” opening night performance on Saturday night at the Detroit Opera House was sheerly brilliant! Grammy Award-winning tenor Lucas Meachem’s Figaro rivaled […]
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GALLERY: “Standing Still, Lying Down, As If” exhibit @ MOCAD (Detroit)
AmericaJR’s Gloria and Jerome Rzucidlo recently visited MOCAD to check out their new exhibit, Standing Still, Lying Down, As If. It is is a group exhibition that […]
Throwing Down At The Flint Jazz Festival: Saving David Bowie’s Legacy with Donny McCaslin!
“The cigars are ballast, sweetheart. Sheer ballast. If he didn’t have a cigar to hold on to, his feet would leave the ground. We’d never […]
Opera Review: ‘Rigoletto’ Invigorates Detroit, Rigorously
“Blackbird singing in the dead of night….” The Beatles Verlander may be gone; but Verdi is back in town. One of his best operas, with […]
WATCH: Total Solar Eclipse from Sweetwater, Tenn.
AmericaJR’s Mike Wrathell was LIVE in Sweetwater, Tenn. on Monday afternoon to watch the Great American Eclipse. The city is within what’s called the “path […]
U of M: A Friend of Student-Athletes?
“One does nothing who tries to console a despondent person with word. A friend is one who aids with deeds at a critical time when […]
Opera Review: ‘The Girl of the Golden West’ Hits Detroit
“By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.” ~~~Ben Franklin I’m trying to get myself edumacated. So, when I saw that a relatively […]
Pluto On My Mind (Editorial)
In kindergarten, at Carleton Elementary in Detroit, Mrs. Boyce told us the nine planets one day, starting with Mercury. It was 1966. When she got […]