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The search for a lost Detroit soul singer whose music still lives on overseas

A woman known as September Jones has mesmerized Northern Soul fans in the U.K. for decades with her raw, haunting voice. Fans have been trying to track her down for years.

Big Rock Italian Chophouse readies to open in Birmingham’s former Big Rock Chophouse space

A previously announced restaurant and cigar club are planning to open this summer

Detroit’s Concert of Colors to return to The Aretha, announces full lineup

The riverside amphitheater will celebrate its 40th anniversary with a performance by Chicago R&B singer Mavis Staples
Covenant tells the story of Johnny “Honeycomb” James, who has returned to small town Alabama with uncanny musical ability after two years on the road.
The ending had the entire audience gagged
By Randiah Camille Green
Elijah Ahmad Lewis and Dana Cimone star in the wonderful The Wiz.
By Kahn Santori Davison
Soft Target is a new play by Emily Kaczmarek that tackles gun violence in schools through the story of 9-year-old Amanda and her bedroom toys.
By Randiah Camille Green
Todd Strange plays President Donald Trump in The Central Park Five.
By Randiah Camille Green
Forbidden Broadway lovingly lampoons musical theater.
By Erica Hobbs
French neoclassical ballet company Malandain Ballet Biarritz returned to the Detroit Opera House.
By Erica Hobbs
Image: Detroit’s ‘Star Wars’-themed Space Dive event strikes back
By Jeff Milo
Roosevelt Johnson plays ex-Detroit mayor Kwame Kilpatrick in Strawberry — What Party.
By Randiah Camille Green
Carol Teegardin, left, wrote Strawberry — What Party?, a stage play about ex-Detroit mayor Kwame Kilpatrick.
By Jim McFarlin
The Detroit Opera House.
By Lee DeVito
Image: 36th Erotic Poetry and Music Festival brings burlesque and more to Ferndale
By Lee DeVito
Rebecca Rose plays Sarah, an enslaved woman who is preparing to escape, in Dominique Morisseau’s The Confederates.
By Randiah Camille Green
Ruby: The Musical comes to Detroit’s Music Hall Feb. 7-9.
By Kahn Santori Davison
X’ydee Alexander, Evan Lewis Smith, Jeff Nahan, James Herriotte, Matt Hollerbach, Melanie Jones, Will Bryson, T. Pharoah Muhammad, and Antoine McKay in Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom.
By Randiah Camille Green
Image: ‘The Wiz’ is heading to Detroit in first Broadway tour in 40 years
By Lee DeVito
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The search for a lost Detroit soul singer whose music still lives on overseas

By Steve Neavling

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Big Rock Italian Chophouse readies to open in Birmingham’s former Big Rock Chophouse space

By Lee DeVito

Big Rock Italian Chophouse will replace the former Big Rock Chophouse in Birmingham’s old Grand Trunk Western Railroad Depot.

Detroit’s Concert of Colors to return to The Aretha, announces full lineup

By Lee DeVito

Hugh Masekela, of South Africa, warms up before performing at the Concert of Colors Saturday, July 20, 2002, at Chene Park in Detroit.

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