Community Culture
London aims to leave a legacy with Summer 2012 Olympic Games
- Haley Goldberg/Daily
BY HALEY GOLDBERG
We are on the east side of London, which was chosen as the location of the 2012 Summer Olympic Games to help revitalize an industrial area that has become decrepit over time. Now, shiny, modern buildings and structures jut into the sky, beckoning the start of the Olympic Games and, hopefully, the start of a revitalized East London.
Scenes from the 2012 Ann Arbor Art Fair
BY TERRA MOLENGRAFF
Photographs capturing several aspects of the Art Fair to bring you a taste of some of the highlights of the annual summer event.
Ann Arbor Art Fair's 53rd annual season kicks off
BY MICHAEL SPAETH
Celebrating its 53rd year, the Ann Arbor Street Art Fair is the oldest of four art fairs taking place in downtown Ann Arbor. The other three art fairs are the State Street Area Art Fair, the Ann Arbor Summer Art Fair and Ann Arbor’s South University Art Fair. Each year, the four art fairs attract a total of more than 500,000 visitors from all over the country.
Hunks of burning love at 13th annual ElvisFest
- Patrick Barron/Daily
BY JENNIFER XU
ElvisFest can best be described as a lo-fi affair. Whereas music festivals like Bonnaroo and Pitchfork promise a weekend of blistering auditory overload, ElvisFest boasts just one soundstage with an audience mostly comprised of people my grandparents’ age amicably sitting in beach chairs.
Summer Festival brings new artists and acts to 29th annual season
- Terra Molengraff/Daily
BY ANDREA DAVIS
This is Ann Arbor Summer Festival’s 29th season, with events and performances in music, dance, food, film and more. And Top of the Park is packed with diverse entertainment that is free for the community (which includes you, poor college student).
Natalie Bakopoulos tackles dictatorial Greece in novel 'The Green Shore'
- Simon & Schuster
BY ANNA SADOVSKAYA
Taken as an excerpt from Kostas Karyotakis’s poem “Sleep,” the Green Shore symbolizes the need for something lost; a missing person, place or sentiment. Encompassing the horrific history of Athens in the late ’60s and the fragile lives of a family, “The Green Shore” provides a glimpse into the psyche of characters cornered and a nation besieged.
Peony festival brings arboretum to life this month
BY ANNA SADOVSKAYA
Bursting with color, the peonies stand tall in their rows, blooming under the sun. The 90th anniversary of the U-M Nichols Arboretum Peon y Festival came early this year as the March weather warmed the flowers and sped up the blooming time.
Alzheimers and the Arts: museums push forward novel approach to combating dementia
- Terra Molengraff/Daily
BY JENNIFER XU
Andrea Simons, a docent for the Detroit Institute of Arts, is giving a tour. She pauses at a sculpture called “The Genius of the Dance,” showcasing a man with long, flowing locks holding a tambourine. His body, taut with muscles, sways with the motion of the imaginary music.
Indigo Girls' Amy Ray to perform at Blind Pig
BY JOHN BOHN
As artist and social activist, Ray, one half of the folk-duo Indigo Girls, is a clear example of that unclear and rather dizzying oscillation between art and identity, art and politics and politics and identity. Tonight Ray will be returning to Ann Arbor for a performance at the Blind Pig where she will be sharing her music, and perhaps inextricably her identity and her politics.
The Beet Box: engaging and creating a health community
BY JOHN BOHN
The Beet Box is a place where students can not only eat a quick, healthy meal to the sweet sounds of Motown, but also meet others with a similar passion and together join this vertex to a community founded on the celebration of health and empowerment.
The B-side
Gamer's paradise
The walls are covered with graffiti-esque murals of Mario and Megaman. The shelves contain every imaginable object of the gaming world, from the latest PlayStation 3 releases to the rulebooks to the latest edition of “Dungeons & Dragons.” Welcome to Ann Arbor's gaming Mecca.
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