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| 5.1 | Totally
Extreme Double-Feature Movie Night |
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| 5.5 | 555 Those cats at 555 know how to throw a party. You remember from when they had that space in Ypsi, and way back to the Tech Center days. This month they are having a benefit and auction to raise money for the gallery and for an educational program. Work from the artists of 555 (including gallery director Dan Gay, whose work is pictured here) will be on display, and there will be music from NOMO, Lowend, Bogotaimports, Ziam, Tene, Houseshoes, Tony Olivero, Edwin, Big Tone, Mr. De. 555, 4884 Grand River, Detroit. 8:00 p.m. $15 donation. 555arts.org |
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| 5.5 | Motion City Soundtrack at the Blind Pig. See interview. | |
| 5.6 | Dave
Attell Dave Attell, of Comedy Central fame, raunches into town on the Insomniac Tour. The Michigan Theater, 603 E. Liberty, Ann Arbor. 7:30 p.m. $32.50. michtheater.org |
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| 5.6 | Adult. Has the quintessential electro-art-punk Detroit duo turned a new page in their careers as the most infectiously sterile dance-floor fodder this side of Sheffield, England, c. 1979? Has minimalist diva extraordinaire Nicola Kuperus grown permanently tired of her detached delivery and decided to get her Siouxsie on? The newest EP, D.U.M.E., might give that impression, but one can’t imagine that this act could ever sacrifice an iota of dance-floor durability and enduring dance-ability, regardless of what direction they’re taking things. “Do you like my handbag?” and “Whyyyyyy can’t I come over?” I have a feeling that when ADULT. returns to Detroit, these will be the only questions people are asking. The Magic Stick, 4120-4140 Woodward, Detroit. $12 adultperiod.com |
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| 5.7 | Telenovela Telenovelas are Spanish-language soap-opera-like serial television shows that are extremely popular in Latin America and Mexico. Telenovela is a Chicago band that is becoming extremely popular in the Midwest after the release of their garagery-yet-Stereolabby 2004 release The Broken Heart is New. They perform during Ladylike Fest III, May 5 - 7, along with a lot of other worthy female musicians and bands. The Elbow Room, 6 S. Washington, Ypsi. See ypsirocks.com for details |
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| 5.8 | The
Duhks This Canadian quintet uses fiddles, banjos, gospel vocals and Latin percussion and sings honky-tonky folk versions of traditional songs about love and death. The Ark, 316 S. Main, Ann Arbor. 7:30 p.m. $12.50. a2ark.org |
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| 5.10 | Prefuse
73 Scott Herren’s glitchy beats and slippery layers of soulful sound are back on Surrounded by Silence (Warp Records, 4/05), arguably his best work yet. The Blind Pig, 208 S. First, Ann Arbor. 9:30 p.m. $15 blindpigmusic.com |
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| 5.13 | Great
Lakes Myth Society Ann Arbor’s favorite chroniclers of Michigan garnered much in the way of buzz around their show upstairs at Jacoby’s during last month’s Motor City Music Conference. In the March issue of the Paper, Davy Rothbart had this to say about the band’s recent self-titled release on Stop, Pop & Roll: “The self-titled record is a triumph—wild and tender all at once, drunken swagger mixed with lilting melodies, rough and tumble as a downriver Detroit bar, and as aching and open as a Northern lake in winter.” Go see them. Dress nice. The Elbow Room, 6 S. Washington, Ypsi. 10:00 p.m. $5 ypsirocks.com |
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| 5.13 | Gang
of Four Oh immortal Gang Of Four, oh mighty legends of angularity and unforgettable post-punk rawness, whose Entertainment knocks all 9,000 of the current bands that claim you as an influence out of the water with the first ferocious blast of treble… Is it true what they say? Have you become one of those “reissue, repackage” bands that mother warned us about? Is your newer material, the stuff that no one has ever heard, that inferior to your absolutely incredible debut? If so, will you play any of it? Most importantly, regardless of all the expected nay-saying, is anyone going to miss a chance to catch you live, even if it’s two and a half decades after the fact? The Majestic Theater, 4120 Woodward, Detroit. $25—M.S. |
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| 5.13-5.15 | First
Biennial Symposium on Culinary History At this three-day foodiefest, speakers such as Ari Weinzweig (of Zingerman’s, speaking on traditional American foods in the 21st century), Andy Smith (professor of culinary history at the New School for Social Research and author of books including histories of ketchup and popcorn, speaking on defining American cuisine) and Darra Goldstein (professor of Russian literature and scholar of Georgian cuisine at Williams College, speaking on setting the table during the Gilded Age) congregate to dedicate the Longone Center, an archive of cookbooks, food magazines and other research material from the 16th to 18th century, at the University of Michigan’s Clements Library. There will be an exhibition of rare cookbooks and other pieces of the collection. For lecture and meal details, visit clements.umich.edu |
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| 5.19-5.22 | Ann
Arbor Book Festival |
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| 5.19 | Mindy Smith opens for Mary Chapin Carpenter at the Michigan Theater. See interview. | |
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