By Brad Aspey
In Traverse City, the City Opera House wants to be managed by Lansing's Wharton Center.
Opera House leaders are asking the Downtown Development Authority to...
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From the C. S. Lewis Festival in Petoskey.
The work of northern Michigan artist Robert Fitzke is decorative, fun and warmly-colored. But it wasn't always cheerful times that motivated the artist.
Brad Aspey visited Fitzke's studio last month.
The new children's book, "Crossings," starts with a young boy on a train.
As he heads toward northern Michigan, the ghostly figure of a Native American eases the boy out of the car.
Together, they fly above the train, and the...
Later this month, the Interlochen Dance Department will present "Dance Revolution," a dance concert inspired by the ballet russes and its breaking of boundaries. Brad Aspey talked with Interlochen Dance Director Cameron Basden about the upcoming...
So, you want to be a filmmaker? Well, Rich Brauer may have a word or two of advice.
He's now in the post-production phase of a new movie called "Fitful."
And the business of getting an audience for a film is much harder than it...
No discussion of Lewis and friendship would be complete without some reflection about his older brother, Warnie, who Lewis once called his "closest and dearest friend".
One of the speakers at this year's festival was a personal friend of Lewis, Walter Hooper. Hooper is an American who became Lewis's secretary. Since his death he has been the literary advisor to the writer's estate. Hooper only knew Lewis for...
Professor of rhetoric and communications at York College in New York, James Como, tells how Lewis understood friendship and how he engaged friends in his life.
On the next "ArtForms," Brad Aspey talks with Traverse City filmmaker Rich Brauer. Rich's film, "Mr. Art Critic," has just been added to the Netflix catalog. Also, a talk with Patti Aiken. She's the author of a new children's book titled "...
