The Ann Arbor-based Fifth Wall company will present "Michigan Trees: A guide to the Trees of Michigan and the Great Lakes Region," a folk opera about a trans person's journey to embrace her womanhood.
Ypsilanti Community Schools' successful Jazz in the Parking Lot event returns this year with a big-name headliner: Thornetta Davis, the vocalist known as Detroit's Queen of the Blues.
Staff at Ypsilanti's Parkridge Community Center have realized a years-long dream of creating a world-class music recording studio to host educational programming for area youth.
A laid-back, experimental spirit has continued to draw performers and audiences to the annual event, which takes place in unconventional venues across Ypsi.
Frances Master opened The CoOp in January with a vision of offering the Ann Arbor community an intimate, accessible, and community-oriented concert venue.
The city and members of the business community are considering a variety of new strategies to diversify the area's business mix and add new infrastructure and amenities.
Festival director Leslie Raymond says it was inspiring and surprising to see the festival ranked so highly, given its relatively small size and experimental focus.
Concentrate's managing photographer, Doug Coombe, has been with us almost since we got started. To mark the occasion, we asked Doug to choose a few of his favorite photos from his nine years of shooting for us.
Highlights from the Ottawa Animation Festival will screen April 19 at Riverside Arts Center, and organizers say they're "testing the waters" for bringing other film events to Ypsi.
We stopped by to chat with attendees at this Friday's Black Empowerment Awards and Black Business Block Party, just one facet of a weekend-long celebration of Booker T. Washington.
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