A 2003 Caddy Seville SLS is my new ride.

As I drove east toward Detroit on I-96, I saw a car that looked very much like mine passing me on the left. It was a white creamy colored Cadillac Deville with a faux convertible top. I...

Beethoven's symphonies are iconic and timeless. It is with some wonder, then, that the great one only penned one opera, Fidelio. It's as if he wanted to check the box and prove he could do it. And he can.

The Michigan Opera Theater is printing the 1805 opera this week...

If you go to the Michigan Opera's new production of Handel's Julius Caesar, do not expect to see togas and laurel wreaths. Instead, you will see army tanks, as well as sets, costumes and characters who will make you think of 1930s Hollywood.

The modern interpretation of the work is...

The Barber of Seville is a corker of an opera. Even non-opera fans can get their heads and laughter around it, the story and familiar melodies and arias having become so iconic. And for that reason, it is a strong selection to kick off the 2012-2013 season at Michigan Opera...

Rep. Paul Ryan, running mate of the presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney, voted in December of 2008 to lend billions to General Motors and Chrysler. His vote puts him at odds with Romney and spotlights the difference in political needs of a sitting congressman versus an out of work...

It's hard to believe, as we come into the last 90 days or so of the presidential election, that the rescue of General Motors and Chrysler, and most of the rest of the U.S.-based auto industry, is still being debated three years after the fact.

And what astonishes me about...

Cadillac has been advertising itself as "Standard of the World." But while sales of luxury brands like BMW, Audi, Mercedes-Benz and Lexus have been climbing this year, sales of Cadillacs have been trending downward, off 24 percent.

So, just who is believing the ad slogan? The company hopes that two...

No Super Bowl. No Facebook. But General Motors' chief marketer is saying "Yes, mate" to a major sponsorship and marketing initiative with the world's best-known soccer team, Britain's Manchester United. The Detroit News first reported the deal.

The move to align Chevrolet with Manchester...

When Ford's chief marketing executive James Farley showed media the new Ford C-MAX last year, he said all the versions of the small crossover vehicle would be hybrid and plug-in electric, with no traditional internal-combustion engine model. The strategy was clear: Take on Prius.

Farley came to Ford in 2007...

What's not to like about a mad, sad, murderous clown?

The Michigan Opera Theatre is amidst its production of "Pagliacci" at the Detroit Opera House. Opening night was last weekend and there are three more performances May 18, 19 and 20.

The opera, by Ruggero Leoncavallo and written...

As editor of a leading auto research channel, and a HuffPost columnist, I do a lot of radio and TV interviews and travel frequently. In recent weeks, I have been asked a battery of questions about the U.S. auto industry and the City of Detroit.

I thought it...

Sixty-seven years ago today, the German army surrendered to the Allied Forces in a little schoolhouse in Rheims, France. The news that the war was over was broken by the Germans in a broadcast between surrender signings in France and Germany. The first American reporter to break the historic news...

A few days after Chrysler reported its best quarterly earnings since its 2009 bankruptcy, the automaker announced it would move around 70 employees to the historic Dime Building in downtown Detroit.

The Dime Building is one of Detroit's architectural treasures. When completed in 1912, the tower was named...

The light rail project that would run for three miles up and down Woodward Ave. is not dead yet. But I think it should be.

The private sector group backing the project has said that it not only has the money to build the line, but it is also

I am not the first writer or reviewer to call "The Pearl Fishers" Georges Bizet's "other opera," referring to his crowd-pleasing masterpiece, "Carmen." But it's hard not to.

Like Bizet's better-known "Carmen," "The Pearl Fishers" offers a big, powerful, lavish story and staging, with lots of crowd scenes, memorable melodies...

Congratulations Michigan. Seriously. Congrats all around for being the 31st state in the union to not require motorcyclists to wear a helmet.

Freedom reigns! We are taking our country back! Government just got a little smaller! Hooray! Get government out of our lives! Gov. Snyder rocks it!

My favorite response...

There is a reason why John Wayne and his career advisers thought the name "The Duke" was better than his given name -- Marion Morrison.

There is something in a name. This week, General Motors is showing off the 2014 Chevy Impala, a car that looks like the...

Gilbert and Sullivan operas don't seem to be performed with great regularity these days. But the Michigan Opera Theatre Children's Chorus (MOTCC) on March 24 brought "H.M.S. Pinafore" to life for a local audience, most of whom probably had never seen Gilbert and Sullivan.

It was my first exposure to...

It's hard to knock Chrysler's ongoing effort to boost the image of Detroit, and to link its own resurgence with the struggling comeback of the city. But I'm going to.

As anyone who watches "Mad Men," or has worked in advertising, can attest, everybody thinks they're an expert in advertising....

Having failed at its organizing efforts with Toyota, Honda, Nissan and Mercedes-Benz in the U.S., the United Auto Workers has turned its sites to Volkswagen's growing manufacturing facility in Tennessee for new members.

It will be a tough slog for the union. The outcome will be perhaps the biggest single...