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Pulp covers art, culture, music, books & theater in Washtenaw County, Michigan. A production of @aadl.org.
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Always Be Haunting:
Ghostly International's new book showcases the Ann Arbor-founded record label's music and passions. We spoke with label creator Sam Valenti IV about "We'll Never Stop Living This Way" and 25 years of Ghostly.
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Book cover for We'll Never Stop Living This Way in a grayscale tone with a hint of purple on the top of the book. The title text runs in a circle around the ghost logo. Tadd Mullinix poses outside of the Michigan Theater marquee, which displays signage for his 2000 Ghostly release "Winking Making a Face." Photo by Doug Coombe. Ghostly International's original artist roster included several Ann Arbor natives including: (front row, left to right) Chad Pratt, Matthew Dear, Michael Dykehouse; (back row, left to right): Drew Schmedling, Ben Mullins, and Tadd Mullinix. Photo by Doug Coombe
November 10, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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The Radar tracks new music by Washtenaw County-associated artists & labels. This week: Griot Galaxy, Alexis C. Lamb, Moonmill, Fangs & Twangs, Alex Anest, deegeecee, Boy Detective, Hemmingway Lane, 3Steez, Chris DuPont, Pat2Dope, Idle Ray, Dre Dav & Splitfuse.           
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November 7, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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Gallery 100 is a unique art gallery tucked inside a Chelsea, MI, retirement neighborhood. We chatted with Winn Nichols, the director of life enrichment at Silver Maples of Chelsea, ahead of Gallery 100's new exhibit, "Colorful Explorations," which runs through Jan. 5.  
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Keto Green's painting called Value World. It's a colorful abstract portrait with the word VALUE printed across the man's forehead. Chris Huang's painting called Harmony featuring a buffalo near the bottom with Southwest U.S. and Native American imagery emerging in the background. Gallery 100 organizers Lois DeLeon and Winn Nichols sitting on a couch.
November 6, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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Barbara Stark-Nemon's "Isabela's Way" stitches together a suspenseful historical tale of persecution & survival. Check out the Ann Arbor author's September appearance at @aadl.org, where she talked with Dr. Jonathan Trobe.                                               
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Isabela's Way book cover on the left; Barbara Stark-Nemon author photo on the right.
November 4, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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@aadl.org’s Fifth Avenue Press imprint is launching 5 new publications by local authors during a Sun., Nov. 9, book-release reception at 1 pm in the Downtown location as part of the A2 Community Bookfest. Check out our interviews with the authors (thread below).
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Fifth Avenue Press logo and A2 Community Bookfest logo against a tan background.
November 3, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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The Radar tracks new music by Washtenaw County-associated artists & labels.

This week:
Kozora Quartet, T. Greens, Otherseas, Kylee Phillips, My Salamander, Manifest Zone, The Night Assembly, Brynn Hilliker, Intensity Recordings, and AGN7 label.
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October 31, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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Willis C. Patterson, an Ann Arbor native, bass singer & @umichsmtd.bsky.social legend, dies at 94. Find out more about this pioneering music educator & titan of opera, choral, and African American spirituals.                                          
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Willis C. Patterson performs with students at Wines Elementary School in Ann Arbor, 1969.
October 30, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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All the Small Things:   
@josephferraro.bsky.social's macro photos capture the tiny beauty that surrounds us. Check out some of his work from the "Closer: A look at the tiny world around us" exhibition at @umichmbgna.bsky.social & watch the talk he gave at @aadl.org in Aug.
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Joseph Ferraro's Ready to Pounce is a finalist in the People's Choice Nominee in the 61st Wildlife Photographer of the Year at the Natural History Museum in London. A yellow-green bug against a muddy green backdrop and a red-orange foreground that looks like grass.
October 29, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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Subversive Retelling:  
Jihyun Yun’s horror novel brings to life a dead sister in “And the River Drags Her Down.” We spoke to the Ann Arbor poet turned young adult fiction writer about her chilling new book.
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Book cover on the left; author photo on the right.
October 28, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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Visit A2Pulp.org's Visual Arts section for posts on:
➥ Hava Gurevich's "Organic Fiction: Nature Inspired Abstract Paintings," @a2artcenter.bsky.social
➥ Jaye Schlesinger's "Points of View," WSG Gallery
➥ Stacey L. Kirby's "Bureau of Personal Belonging," Stamps Gallery
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Blue Awnings - Jaye Schlesinger | painting: 11”h x 8”w : in oak frame, 18”h x 15”w | gouache painting on watercolor paper Cambrian Explosion captures that moment when life burst onto the scene in a dazzling display of creativity. Emerging from the deep blue depths, which symbolize the primordial oceans, are splashes of vibrant yellow, orange, and red. These bizarre tentacled shapes seem to emerge from a common source of cells, mirroring the Cambrian explosion's rapid diversification. Each swirl and curve hints at the unique forms and adaptations that blossomed in this evolutionary explosion: Large white pods, suggestive of primordial eggs, rest amidst the swirling currents, holding the promise of further evolution, while clusters of light blue bubbles, like miniature universes, hint at the nascent stages of new life. Stacey L. Kirby dressed as a bureaucrat in a suit in The Bureau of Personal Belonging.
October 27, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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The Radar tracks new music by Washtenaw County-associated artists & labels. 

This week: 
Janelle Haskell, Mista Midwest, George Mashour, Larkn, KUZbeats, Mei Semones, Shigeto, Disiniblud with Kelly Moran, State, Sex Change, Darrin James Band, and Winged Wheel. 
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October 24, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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Jim Manheim was a beloved WCBN DJ. His brother, Dan, posted on FB 10/14/25 that Jim passed away from pneumonia complications.

We interviewed Jim in 2018 & are highlighting it today to honor him.

Rocking the Roots: 
Jim Manheim spins polka, country & bluegrass on WCBN
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Jim Manheim in the WCBN studio with a phone receiver hanging from the ceiling; there's tape on it with writing that says COMPLAINT LINE. Photo by Doug Coombe.
October 23, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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William D. Lopez's "Raiding the Heartland" examines the immigrant crackdown from a public-health perspective. We spoke to Lopez, a professor at the University of Michigan, about his latest book on the community impact of deportations. 
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Raiding the Heartland book cover on the left; author portrait of William D. Lopez on the right.
October 22, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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Andy Kirshner’s latest film, "Sex Radical," tells the tale of a little-known feminist, spiritualist, and educator. We spoke to the UMich professor emeritus about his new documentary-style drama on Ida Craddock, which premieres at the Michigan Theater on Thu., Oct. 30, 8 pm.
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Emily Sutton-Smith as 19th-century sex educator Ida Craddock in Sex Radical. Sitting at a typewriter with an oil lamp next to her.
October 21, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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Farce With a Bite: 
Ann Arbor Civic Theatre's "Dracula: A Comedy of Terror" looks to the original book for emotional inspiration—and jokes. We spoke to director Ethan Gibney, plus actors Kara Williams & Abigail Copelia, about the fun-filled play, which runs Oct. 24-Nov. 2.
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Actor McKenna Forster is about to bitten by actor Kara Williams in Ann Arbor Civic Theatre's Dracula: A Comedy of Terror. Photo courtesy of Ann Arbor Civic Theatre. Poster for Dracula: A Comedy of Terror on a red-pink background featuring text about the show plus a cartoon-y drawing of fangs and lips dripping with blood.
October 20, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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The Radar tracks new music by Washtenaw County-associated artists and labels.

This week:
Intrusion, Louie's Feeder, Pluot, Whereisjah, BigPlanet, and Towner.
                                      
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October 17, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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Some great theater is happening in Washtenaw County this weekend:
➥ "The Woman in Black" (Penny Seats, thru 10/18)    
➥ “Black Cat: Folklore” (NTG, thru 10/25)   
➥ "Dry Summer" (Theatre Nova, thru 11/2)   
➥ "Norma & Wanda" (Purple Rose, thru 12/21)

Reviews/previews:
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Poster for The Woman in Black showing a female wearing a black veil and standing in a foggy forest. Poster for Black Cat: Folklore showing the name set against a forest background. Dry Summer poster featuring Liberty Street looking east with the Michigan Theater facade on the left. Norma and Wanda poster showing the text over a gingerbread cookie dough pan.
October 16, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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The Holy Bones Artisan Market celebrates ghosts, ghouls, and great local creators. We spoke to the founder, Ypsilanti visual artist Holly Bones, about this year's event, which happens on Oct. 19 at the Ypsi Freighthouse.   
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Holly Bones wearing skeleton gloves and holding a Welcome to Ypsilanti newspaper/map. Holy Bones Artisan Market promo poster with a vampiric-looking woman holding a knife in front of a blood moon.
October 15, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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Scares From Scratch:  
Neighborhood Theatre Group’s "Black Cat: Folklore" is the Ypsilanti troupe's latest original seasonal production. We spoke to NTG co-founder Kristin Anne Danko about the spooky new anthology ahead of its 10/17-25 run at @backofficestudio.bsky.social. 
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Neighborhood Theatre Group ensemble member Greg Pizzino in the 2023 production Black Cat: A New Nightmare. He's wearing a black pin-stripped suit, a brimmed black hat, and is making a menacing face.
October 14, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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A Sort of Homecoming:   
A young man finds his way back to Ann Arbor in Theatre Nova's thoughtful and humorous "Dry Summer." We reviewed this world premiere by playwright Robert Axelrod, which runs through November 2.
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Nick Smathers (Ethan), Sarah Burcon (Susan), and Brian Cox (Gary) co-star in Dry Summer at Theatre Nova. They are sitting at a kitchen table together. Photo by Sean Carter Photography.
October 14, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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The Radar tracks new music by Washtenaw County-associated artists and labels.  
  
This week features more artists than we can fit into a Bluesky message, but check the image's alt text for the full listing.
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VIRID and David Minnix, deegeecee, Marissa Conniff & The Starter Packs, Porcellan Hammer, Stephen Rush, KUZbeats, Mei Semones, VaporDaze, Bill Edwards, Sam Watson, Kid Jay, Acid Lab, Riot Course, Kelly Moran, Premium Rat, Pale Gallery, Vladimir's Universe, Post Scriptvm, Sigidy, A Church Made From Burnt Churches, and Michael Armstrong.  [Image is of a yellow radar screen with the A2Pulp.org logo in the center.]
October 10, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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Purple Rose’s revival of "Norma & Wanda" is an on-stage sitcom filled with physical comedy and double entendres. We reviewed the Jeff Daniels-penned play, which runs at the Chelsea theater through December 21.
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The cast of Norma and Wanda looking surprised on stage.
October 9, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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We'll be @aadl.org's Dead Media Day this weekend! Explore interesting old media items from our Digital Preservation Lab. Touch and learn about vintage tapes, records, floppy disks, and other "dead media." Discover how the Digital Preservation Lab works to keep digital history preserved. Also, zines!
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Alive and Well:
@aadl.org's Dead Media Day celebrates the past in the digital age. The 10/12 event pays homage to retro media, entertainment, and ephemera. To get in the spirit of it, Pulp writer Lori Stratton shares five pieces of dead media from her personal collection.
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Photos of a reel-to-reel tape machine, a typewriter, a VHS tape, and a floppy disk.
October 8, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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Spooky Season:  
Penny Seats Theatre’s "The Woman in Black" is a ghostly good time. We talked to executive director Lauren London about the British play, which was the 2nd-longest running nonmusical in London’s West End. The play runs through Oct. 18 @ Cahoots in Ann Arbor.
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Actress Princess Beyoncé Jones in a black dress with heavy eye makeup crouching down on stage in Penny Seats' The Woman in Black.
October 8, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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Alive and Well:
@aadl.org's Dead Media Day celebrates the past in the digital age. The 10/12 event pays homage to retro media, entertainment, and ephemera. To get in the spirit of it, Pulp writer Lori Stratton shares five pieces of dead media from her personal collection.
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Photos of a reel-to-reel tape machine, a typewriter, a VHS tape, and a floppy disk.
October 8, 2025 at 1:51 PM