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CANNES, France (AP) -- It's the big Cannes question - what will catch Steven Spielberg's eye?...

Colin Stetson

photo by Brantley Gutierrez

In 2008, when saxophonist / composer Colin Stetson released the first volume of his "New History Warfare" trilogy, he figured that the music would become more complex and more challenging from one album to the next.

And that has definitely been the case: "Vol. 3: To See More Light," released last month, is the most ambitious of the three.

"It's definitely been a progression," says Stetson, an Ann Arbor native who graduated from Pioneer High School and then earned a degree in saxophone performance from the University of Michigan School of Music in 1997.

"The music on all three albums fundamentally comes from the physical act of playing the instrument, so as my abilities have grown, my compositional abilities have become more further-reaching, and more vast in scope. By the time I did the third one, I was definitely drawing on a broader palette, and using bigger musical ideas," says Stetson, who comes to the Blind Pig on Friday.

Continue reading Ann Arbor's Colin Stetson bringing his unique sax music home to the Blind Pig...

NEW YORK (AP) -- Beyonce is canceling her Tuesday concert in Belgium because of dehydration and exhaustion....

Some people have a particular set of skills. Skills they have acquired over hours of practice. Skills that make them a delight for people like you. They will not look for you, they will not pursue you. But they might find you at the Ann Arbor Juggling Arts Festival.

Continue reading Ann Arbor Juggling Arts Festival for jugglers, non-jugglers and soon-to-be jugglers alike...

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AP) -- NATO says four U.S. service personnel have been killed in a roadside bombing in Afghanistan's volatile south....

NEW YORK (AP) -- Before Dr. Phil and Dr. Drew and Dr. Oz, there was Joyce Brothers....

CHICAGO (AP) -- Treating breast cancer almost always involves surgery, and for years the choice was just having the lump or the whole breast removed. Now, new approaches are dramatically changing the way these operations are done, giving women more options, faster treatment, smaller scars, fewer long-term side effects and better cosmetic results....

LONDON (AP) -- Is it a boy? A girl? Prince William and the former Kate Middleton aren't telling, and palace officials are not revealing where the royal baby will spend its first few months, since renovation of their future home at Kensington Palace is taking longer than expected....

LONDON (AP) -- Is it a boy? A girl? Prince William and the former Kate Middleton aren't telling, and palace officials are not revealing where the royal baby will spend its first few months, since renovation of their future home at Kensington Palace is taking longer than expected....

VALLEY SPRINGS, Calif. (AP) -- The father of a 12-year-old boy accused of fatally stabbing his 8-year-old sister said he'll believe his son is innocent until he sees evidence that proves otherwise....

Oscar-winning actress Angelina Jolie announced on Tuesday that she had a preventive mastectomy after learning she had a gene that significantly raised her risk of breast cancer. Here's a crash course in the procedure Jolie had and why....

Alex Cacciari of Seeley Farm harvesting greens for market

Kim Bayer | AnnArbor.com Contributor

You wouldn't know it to look in the well-stocked grocery stores, and you might only guess at it when you're driving around on country roads, but even in this very agricultural area, we're not growing much food here for the 350,000 people who live in Washtenaw County.

Continue reading Seeley Farm points the way to a new food system in Washtenaw County...

The Washtenaw County Sheriff’s Office will hold a dedication ceremony Wednesday for the department’s Hall Of Honor, which will honor four fallen deputies.

Continue reading Sheriff's office to host ceremony remembering fallen deputies Wednesday...

The city of Ann Arbor is lending an assist on the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute's study of technology that helps cars communicate with each other.

The City Council voted Monday night to accept $622,884 in federal grant funds — part of a larger $14.9 million grant awarded to UMTRI — for the city's role in the multi-year project.

Continue reading Ann Arbor gets $623K grant to help out with University of Michigan smart car study...

VATICAN CITY (AP) -- The Vatican is getting back into its centuries-old tradition of arts patronage with its first-ever exhibit at the Venice Biennale, commissioning a biblically inspired show about creation, destruction and renewal for one of the world's most prestigious contemporary arts festivals....

Editor's note: The location has been corrected in this article.

A fire destroyed a semi tractor and kept the northbound entrance ramp to U.S. 23 from Michigan Avenue in Pittsfield Township closed for several hours early Tuesday.

Continue reading Fire destroys semi tractor, closes ramp to U.S. 23 for hours...

CONVERSE COUNTY, Wyo. (AP) -- It happens about once a month here, on the barren foothills of one of America's green-energy boomtowns: A soaring golden eagle slams into a wind farm's spinning turbine and falls, mangled and lifeless, to the ground....

MOUNT WASHINGTON, Ky. (AP) -- Authorities in Kentucky have charged a man who officers say had an overnight feast in a closed supermarket outside Louisville....

NEW YORK (AP) -- There aren't that many jokes in the U.S. Constitution and it's never really been a big generator of belly laughs. Unless, that is, you are Colin Quinn....

MILWAUKEE (AP) -- It might not be unusual for schoolchildren to write to the president or vice president. But one Wisconsin boy got an unexpectedly personal response....