Arts, Interrupted

The 98th Oscar Awards Predictions

It's that time of year again! Awards season. Though the big night has passed, sit down with the cast of Arts, Interrupted, to hear what our picks were before the critics cast their votes. You'll see what we got right, and you'll get to judge us with 20/20 hindsight about all we got wrong. Without further ado...

Stranger Rivalry: A Comparative Analysis of Queer TV

Unless you live under a rock, you’ve most likely been invested in either the final season of Netflix’s Stranger Things or the premier season of Crave’s Heated Rivalry. Here at Arts, Interrupted, we couldn’t help but notice the two shows received very different reactions for their portrayals of the queer experience. Join us as we explore what went wrong, what went right, and what big TV can learn when it comes to doing their queer characters justice.

Ann Arbor Bar Breakdown

Tired of partying with underage undergrads? Ever lost a shoe to a sticky bar floor? Real ID yanked by a fake bouncer? Fed up with frequenting South U bars alongside the crustiest campus characters? Us too. Join the cast of Arts, Interrupted as we explore Ann Arbor’s lesser-known spots on the first-ever pod bar crawl.

ft. Grenadine

Over the summer Grenadine, a local Ann Arbor band, began posting content on TikTok and Instagram showing clips from their house shows. Their performance videos were instant hits, with some reaching more than 20k views. A few weeks into the school year, they began promoting their first live show, an immediately successful event with many people showing up just from the fifteen-second snippet they heard on TikTok. Is Grenadine Ann Arbor’s newest hit band? What are they doing differently? We hope you enjoy this episode of Arts, Interrupted featuring GRENADINE!

The Evolution of Fear

There’s something about storytelling and humanity’s fascination with fear that go hand in hand. For centuries, we’ve orated and written about the things that go bump in the night — those creatures, people, and monsters that make our skin crawl and prompt us to scoot a little closer together in the dark. For this episode of Arts, Interrupted, the team comes together to investigate what it is about horror films that make us so scared, how they’ve changed since their inception, and what the state of fear is right now. Featuring a special interview with English professor and horror expert Gina Brandolino. Written by Beat Editors Addie Nicolaou and Tessa Valera-Castro, and Content Producers Madison Austin and Ryne Van Andel. Written, produced, and engineered by Executive Producer Matthew Popp.