June 13, 2015
‘Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo in Detroit’ exhibit explores a pivotal period in both artists’ lives
No matter how frustrating life can get in the Motor City, the Detroit Institute of Arts is one of those...
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June 10, 2015
What’s it like to run a record store in 2015? My interview with Wazoo owner John Kerr
“Notebook dump” is an old newspapering term for material gathered in the course of reporting a story that never gets...
June 6, 2015
Vinyl’s resurgence a welcome trend for Ann Arbor’s long-running record stores
I recently wrote a freelance story exploring the business of running a record store in my home town: It wasn’t...
May 30, 2015
Book review: ‘This Town’ an entertaining skunk crashing D.C.’s garden party
A few years ago, during a trip to Washington D.C. for a conference, I visited an old college friend who...
May 18, 2015
The 8-Wood Blog Manifesto; or how I overcame inertia
Being that it’s now mid-2015, I figured it was high time to finally launch my own blog. Plus I hear...
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