By Leslie D. Green The Ford Motor Company Fund recognizes that creativity and artistic expression enrich lives and inspire innovation and that communities which support and provide access to the arts are stronger for it. In this collection of stories, we share how and why music affects us at all ages and stages of our lives. Clothing and a safe
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By Leslie D. Green Songs are not minor in trumpeter’s life The Ford Motor Company Fund recognizes that creativity and artistic expression enrich lives and inspire innovation and that communities which support and provide access to the arts are stronger for it. In this collection of stories, we share how and why music affects us at all ages and stages
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Interviews with artist and educators George Shirley and Earl Lewis – pages 21 and 23.
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It was Sept. 30 when Lisa Scott, a mother of three, was watching the 10 o’clock news and saw the breaking news alert: A 16-year-old boy lost control of his speeding vehicle and struck a tree, killing himself and his two 15-year-old passengers. The driver had his license for a week. To make matters worse, it was the second teen
Read moreThe new presidential administration and questions about funding for school, after school and summer learning programs have amplified the national conversation about how we instruct our children. While many focus on traditional school day programs, some experts say out-of-school programs are equally, if not more, important to the development of today’s youth. Children spend about 20 percent of their waking
Read moreA condensed version of this story was originally published in Crain’s Detroit Business. By Leslie D. Green Come June, metro Detroit’s arts world will begin significant transformation. That’s when David DiChiera resigns after 46 years as artistic director of the Michigan Opera Theatre, Leonard Slatkin begins prepping for his 10th and last season as conductor and music director of the Detroit Symphony
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The advent of electronic books, surge in Amazon sales and closure of big-box bookstores have had many assuming independent bookshops will crash and burn, never to rise again. Yet, in Detroit…
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Who knew asking Mark Coker, founder of eBook giant Smashwords, a question at a book conference would lead to him writing his personal story for one of my clients? I enjoyed helping Mr. Coker refine his long, though fascinating, story.
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This story first appeared in Crain’s Detroit Business. When I started at The Detroit News in 2002, the paper employed a dedicated restaurant critic, a dance critic, two film critics, a couple of music critics, a theater, jazz and classical music critic, a fine/visual arts critic, a TV critic, a book reviewer, and an abundance of freelance arts critics and generalists, at
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