Stage & Canvas (September 3, 2008)
Three things are required of every reporter who covers the art scene: a good eye, an objective mind and the skill to translate what the eye sees and what ...

Stage & Canvas (August 27, 2008)
Although you’ll never see it mentioned in their ads, the Majestic Theatre Complex is pretty much a perfect bio-sphere. You’ve got music, pizza, a ...

Stage & Canvas (August 20, 2008)
You can lead a person to the arts, but you can’t make him/her pick up a brush. Forget that!  Listen up, people — it’s high time you realized that creativity ...

Stage & Canvas (August 13, 2008)
Ever since Duchamp showed up at the armory with that porcelain port-a-john of his, the public has been intrigued by and (occasionally) dismissive of found ...

Stage & Canvas (August 6, 2008)
Motorcycles. Why DO those two-wheeled steeds of steel and freedom inspire so many artists and poets ... and pleasantly cleavaged women? If you need ...

Stage & Canvas (July 30, 2008)
If, as Alan Moore once observed, “the word is the unit of currency of the left brain, and the image that of the right,” then Derek Hess and Kent Smith ...

Stage & Canvas (July 23, 2008)
If propaganda is an art (and it is whether we choose to admit it or not) then it is a modern one that parallels quite closely the art and history of the poster ...

Stage & Canvas (July 16, 2008)
We ran into raconteur Dan Demaggio at Cityfest and discovered that he’s selling his rocks in Royal Oak. Say what? Yes, we were intrigued. As it ...

Stage & Canvas (July 9, 2008)
Meditation — or the mere acknowledgment that our mind/body/soul trifecta is the key to our appreciating what is truly beautiful in this world — doesn’t ...

Stage & Canvas (July 1, 2008)
Jeff Daniels claims he wrote no fewer than six versions of his theatrical oater Panhandle Slim & The Oklahoma Kid before coming up with a version he ...