Ethnic News

Detroit -- When hometown musician Steffanie Christi'an takes the stage Saturday at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American history, she'll be doing what she does best.

The deeply flawed film version of Frank Herbert's novel was universally hated when it premiered 30 years ago, but it still successfully brought much of the classic sci-fi novel to life.

For this New Sounds, we'll sample music that shows the influence of traditional Cajun music from the fiddling, the accordion, the triangle and other instruments, in somewhat unusual contexts.

It's too bad that Twin Peaks didn't last longer on TV. It had some quirky characters and plenty of dark and bizarre goings-on.

One of the most ambitious projects was the failed film adaptation by director Alejandro Jodorowsky of the 1965 sci-fi novel Dune, written by Frank Herbert.

Since conservation morphed into environmentalism a generation ago, efforts to save something or dismantle something else increasingly resemble crusades to revive impossible dreams, rather than grapple with difficult trade-offs.

David Lynch is a master of the bizarre and unsettling, to make an understatement.

Since the collision of cultures spawns creativity, it's no surprise that Mali has become a center of musical innovation.

Here we go again with the racial insensitivity/dunder head-ism in fashion: Vogua Italia has published an editorial featuring Dutch model Saskia de Brauw in blackface.

The controversy surrounding blackface has been reignited after another high-fashion magazine has engaged in an act that has been deemed racially-insensitive as part of a newly-released fashion spread.

FOCUS: A Little of This, A Little of That -- Over the River and Through the Wood / Sheva's Promise / Roman Guardsman 62-BC -- AD 324 Over the River and Through the Wood -- An Anthology of Nineteenth-Century American Children's Poetry , Johns Hopkins UPress '14 paperback.

Kirkland Performance Center, the Eastside's premier live performance venue, is thrilled to welcome the following performances this March 2014: This year, HAPA celebrates its 30th anniversary.

Often encapsulated as the "Sound of Maui", HAPA's music evokes a place that many people at different times have referred to as heavenly.

Crestview Second-graders are learning about concepts of balance, counterweights and stable positions through science exploration.

Spoke Art is launching "In Dreams", an art exhibition inspired by the work of David Lynch , on Saturday, March 8. The collection of original paintings, sculpture, and limited edition prints from over 50 artists will be on display until March 29. The stated goal of the exhibit is to present "a closer look into the unsettling, yet hypnotizing realm ... (more)

Fantasia, who will perform Friday night at Chrysler Hall, says she's taking better care of herself and her voice, exercising twice a day and drinking lots of water.

BY CLIFFORD NDUJIHE, IF Nigerians had taken the prescriptions of the late sage, Chief Obafemi Awolowo, on fiscal federalism, regionalism and devolution of power to the federating units, the country would have frog-jumped the unending search for a people's constitution and the attendant socio-economic and political retardation.

Kimberly Chun , who wrote this week's cover story on the David Lynch tribute show opening this weekend at Spoke Art, decided to revisit some of Lynch's movies in preparation for her story.

Peddler's Village will celebrate the sweet art of cupcake decorating at the Third Annual Cupcake Decorating Contest on Saturday and Sunday, March 8th and 9th at the Cock n' Bull Restaurant.

Consumption of mobile video in the U.S. might best be described as wide but shallow.