Arts & Culture
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Living the blues
Students travel to the American south to experience the vibrant culture and living history of roots music – through people, places, and performance.
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Episode 4: How we went blue, featuring Albert Ahronheim
It’s short. It’s sweet. And it can really swing. But the origin of “Let’s Go Blue” as part of the University of Michigan’s call to arms was anything but simple.
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Episode 3: The write side of history, featuring Stephanie Steinberg
‘In the Name of Editorial Freedom — 125 Years at The Michigan Daily’ is a compilation of 39 essays from ‘Daily’ alumni who have gone on to impressive careers. Listen in, as the book’s editor and former ‘Daily’ editor-in-chief Stephanie Steinberg recounts the high stakes and high jinks of life as a student reporter at U-M.
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We’re with the band
Members of the New York Philharmonic get in tune with U-M students on stage and on the field during a rousing fall residency.
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Curiouser and curiouser
Novelist Nicholas Delbanco falls through the looking glass of high fashion and discovers its strange bedfellow, literature.
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From super fan to Super Bowl
Emmy-winning director Haley Geffen, BA ’99, takes her creative playbook to one of the biggest fields in sports today.
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The kitchen is open
“Kitchen sisters” Niki Serras, BA ’06, and Alisha Serras, MSW ’06, grew up in their father’s Main Street restaurants. Who better to trust with your kitchen redesign?
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Welles in his own words
It was an archivist’s dream come true recently when the U-M Library staff unearthed portions of a raw draft of Orson Welles’ incomplete, unpublished memoir.
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M is for MAD
MAD magazine’s Sam Viviano, BFA ’75, reflects on how he became (or still dreams of becoming) a rich and famous illustrator.