Category: Arts and Culture

  • The Metro Events Guide: Funky Ferndale, Better Cities Film Festival + more

    The Metro Events Guide: Funky Ferndale, Better Cities Film Festival + more

    Jenny Sherman is 101.9 WDET’s Digital Editor. She received her bachelor’s in journalism from Michigan State University and has worked for more than a decade as a reporter and editor for various media outlets throughout metro Detroit. View all posts .pp-multiple-authors-boxes-wrapper.pp-multiple-authors-layout-boxed.multiple-authors-target-the-content .pp-author-boxes-avatar img { border-style: none !important; } .pp-multiple-authors-boxes-wrapper.pp-multiple-authors-layout-boxed.multiple-authors-target-the-content .pp-author-boxes-avatar img { border-radius: 50% !important;…

  • The Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story Casting Is So Spot-On

    The Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story Casting Is So Spot-On

    Nicholas Chavez as Lyle Menendez Los Angeles Times/Getty Images; Netflix Nicholas Chavez plays Lyle, the elder of the two brothers. Chavez has previously starred in General Hospital (he appeared in 358 episodes!) and is also set to appear in Grotesquerie, premiering this fall. Cooper Koch as Erik Menendez Los Angeles Times/Getty Images; Miles Crist/Netflix Cooper…

  • PAC Welcomes Beijing Guitar Duo Oct. 1

    PAC Welcomes Beijing Guitar Duo Oct. 1

    The UNLV Performing Arts Center welcomes the distinguished Beijing Guitar Duo to the Artemus W. Ham Concert Hall at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 1. This concert is sponsored by Dr. Mitchell and Pearl Forman. Meng Su and Yameng Wang, two exceptional artists who both hail from Qingdao, China, form Beijing Guitar Duo. They met…

  • Mid Autumn festival kickstarts OCC AANHPI student achievement program

    Mid Autumn festival kickstarts OCC AANHPI student achievement program

    Orange Coast College hosted a Mid-Autumn festival on Tuesday to celebrate students of AANHPI heritage and to educate people on Asian culture and traditions. Booths were set up for tea tasting, origami as well as educating people on the folklore and the tradition of making moon cake.  Event organizer Hannah Hoang wanted to kick start…

  • Mid Autumn festival kickstarts OCC AANHPI student achievement program

    Mid Autumn festival kickstarts OCC AANHPI student achievement program

    Orange Coast College hosted a Mid-Autumn festival on Tuesday to celebrate students of AANHPI heritage and to educate people on Asian culture and traditions. Booths were set up for tea tasting, origami as well as educating people on the folklore and the tradition of making moon cake.  Event organizer Hannah Hoang wanted to kick start…

  • PHOTO ESSAY: Orange Coast College Mid-Autumn festival

    Mooncake samples were available for students to try.  Photo by: Haver Greenman Students gathering at the mooncake booth.  Photo by: Haver Greenman Lion dance troupe setting up instruments for the lion dance.  Photo by: Haver Greenman Lion dance troupe setting up instruments for the lion dance.  Photo by: Haver Greenman

  • Study illustrates the economic value of Oregon’s arts and culture sector

    Study illustrates the economic value of Oregon’s arts and culture sector

    Americans for the Arts, a nonprofit that advocates for arts and arts education in the U.S., released data on how the arts sector affects Oregon. The study showed that Oregon’s nonprofit arts industry generated more than $800 million in economic activity in 2022. Randy Cohen is the vice president of research for the organization. He…

  • 11 Chatham-Kent cultural icons, legacy artists named to Wall of Fame

    11 Chatham-Kent cultural icons, legacy artists named to Wall of Fame

    Breadcrumb Trail Links News Local News Six local cultural icons and five legacy artists are to be inducted to the Chatham-Kent Arts and Culture Heroes Wall of Fame this year. Published Sep 19, 2024  •  2 minute read Chatham-Kent Arts and Culture Network Article content Six local cultural icons and five legacy artists are to…

  • Dunhill Doubles Down on Arts, Culture With BAFTA Partnership, Frieze Program

    Dunhill Doubles Down on Arts, Culture With BAFTA Partnership, Frieze Program

    LONDON — It’s lights, camera, action for luxury menswear label Dunhill and BAFTA’s newly announced two-year partnership. The BAFTA Elevate program will support up to 20 mid-senior development producers, directors and producer-directors from underrepresented backgrounds. Applications to the program opened on Wednesday and the cohort will be unveiled at Dunhill’s annual pre-BAFTA fete in February.  …

  • Danyelle Means Named Director of Museum of Indian Arts & Culture

    Danyelle Means Named Director of Museum of Indian Arts & Culture

    Some nine months after taking over the Interim Director position at the Museum of Indian Arts & Culture stalwart arts professional Danyelle Means (Oglala Lakota) has officially been appointed as the museum’s director. Means stepped into the interim position in December following the near-closure of the Center for Contemporary Arts last year (which survived, btw), and…