Crysta Goes Visiting, Fall 2020

When I was asked to take over this column in 2014, I had no idea where it would take me. It goes without saying that I have met some amazing, passionate, and creative people. Some have become friends and touched my life in ways beyond the scope of my column.

Nicole Marinette Bedy (Spring 2015) performed a house cleansing when my now-husband and I purchased our first home. Jen Mullins (formerly Gossett) of Fairytale Baked Goods (Spring 2016) made the scones at our wedding, which people still talk about over three years later.

In celebration of the Crazy Wisdom Community Journal’s 25th anniversary, I wanted to look back and check in with some of the people featured in the Crysta Goes Visiting column. I hope our readers enjoy seeing where they are now as much as I did!

Posted on September 1, 2020 by Crysta Coburn and filed under Around town, Columns, community, Crysta Goes Visiting, Issue #75 and tagged Crysta Goes Visiting Crysta Coburn local businesses local artists theatre and creativity Issue #75.

Comedy, Drama, Music and More...Ann Arbor Civic Theatre Shares Secrets of Success

Alexandra Berneis smiles slightly. She leans back in her chair in her crowded office in the distinctive purple building on a quiet street in downtown Ann Arbor.

The executive director of the Ann Arbor Civic Theatre ponders the question at hand: “The secret to our success? Let me think for a minute. She knows there is one — maybe more than one. After all, the community theater group has celebrated its 90th anniversary and is still going strong, producing mainstage productions, junior theater, workshops, new play readings, and improv every season.

Posted on January 1, 2019 by Diane Majeske and filed under Art & Craft, Local Businesses, Issue 71, theatre, entertainment and tagged theatre and creativity local businesses entertainment.

Making It In Ann Arbor: Maker Works Give Your Creativity Space to Flow

We are in the midst of a quiet revolution, creeping from the secret places of our souls into the light of daily life: the desire to create, to build, to invent, to explore the world using our hands and our senses, and to do it in community. While sprouting everywhere, in Ann Arbor this “Maker Revolution” has the possibility to grow in bigger ways.

Posted on April 29, 2016 by Kirsten Mowrey and tagged local businesses theatre and creativity.

Ari Axelrod: A Life Transformed A Young Actor’s Journey Back to the Stage After Discovering He Needed Brain Surgery

Ari Axelrod is 22 years old and nearing graduation from the Conservatory of Theatre Arts at Webster University, near St. Louis. Axelrod is tall, with short brown hair, and a quick and wide smile. He also has a three-inch long, half-inch wide surgical scar at the base of his skull. (More about that later.) His voice is vibrant and well-modulated, and his conversation is enthusiastic, dramatic, and intensely engaged, just what you might expect of a budding musical theatre actor.

Posted on April 29, 2016 by Sandor Slomovits and tagged Summer 2016 Features theatre and creativity.