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Wheeeed!: Our trip to the Caregivers Cup, or a toke too far
3 Feb 2010, 12:00 am
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by News Hits staff. Seeing as how the hale and hearty crew here at News Hits hasn't yet found a way to qualify for a state-issued medical marijuana card, we made a beeline for the Marriott Hotel bar in Ypsilanti and ordered ourselves two or three (or was that four?) white Russians in honor of Jeff "The Dude"...
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Elder abuse alert: Why Michigan's elderly are more at risk than ever
3 Feb 2010, 12:00 am
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by News Hits staff. Whether they're suffering as relatives pilfer money from their Social Security checks or experiencing outright physical beatings, Mary Cay Sengstock knows the state could do more to protect its elderly citizens from abuse and neglect.
The state even said so, says Sengstock, a Wayne State University...
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Smashing ACORN: There's a bigger scandal than the pimp tapes
3 Feb 2010, 12:00 am
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by Curt Guyette. You haven't seen Carrie Guzman on the television shows hosted by archconservatives Bill O'Reilly or Glenn Beck. Her name hasn't appeared on the op-ed page of The Wall Street Journal. And she hasn't shown up in any surreptitiously videotaped sting operations conducted by youthful right-wing zealots.�...
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Motor City Cribs: The view from Jason Stollsteimer's Ferndale attic
3 Feb 2010, 12:00 am
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by Doug Coombe. It seems fitting that the roar from the Hounds Below should be a stone's throw from Ferndale's Alcoholics for Christ meetings. The band is, you'll note, Von Bondies' frontman Jason Stollsteimer's new band, and they rehearse in the attic of the bungalow he just moved into a couple of months ago. Stil...
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Letters to the Editor: A selection of outbursts from the public
3 Feb 2010, 12:00 am
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by Metro Times readers. Strike a pose
I appalud Mr. Gabriel for wishing to practice his tai chi in public spaces. This gentle and useful art is practiced around the globe by countless millions of people and has health benefits too numerous to mention here.
Whatever the reasons the security guards had for stopping him, it...
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Let us speak prankly: About that Louisiana break-in: 'Boys will be boys'
3 Feb 2010, 12:00 am
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by Leslie Savan. You know how you can tell the Age of Reagan has ended? Because at his State of the Union address, Barack Obama didn't do any of those ordinary-folks-who-make-a-difference shout-outs to the gallery, as every POTUS (that is, Populist of the United States) has since the Gipper's first SOTU in 1982. But...
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Two cheers for Granholm: Our governor (finally) decides to lead on two key issues
3 Feb 2010, 12:00 am
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by Jack Lessenberry. Last week Gov. Jennifer Granholm actually did blow me away for the first time since she took office more than seven years ago. What's more, she did so in a positive way — twice.
First, she came out strongly in favor of holding a convention to rewrite Michigan's now-broken Constitution. More t...
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Food Stuff: Wine dinners, Valentine's Day at the B&B and more
3 Feb 2010, 12:00 am
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by Metro Times food staff. Tuscan son — At 6:30 p.m. Feb. 11, winemaker Michele Scienza, from the Podere Guado al Melo estate in Italy, will host a winemaker's dinner at Modern Food & Spirits. The small, 42-acre vineyard is in a hilly, stream-crossed part of Tuscany, under grape cultivation for centuries. Have a tas...
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Jesus, it's cold: The Wonder Twins do the WAB
3 Feb 2010, 12:00 am
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by D'Anne and Laura Witkowski. When faced with Michigan's bitter winter nights, you basically have two choices — down a bottle of Wild Turkey and clutch its empty husk to your chest while curled up in a snow drift, or head somewhere warm where you can rock with good bands and good beer. On a recent Thursday, the Wonder Twin...
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Poems, prayers and promises: A teacher lives without students in a museum without visitors
3 Feb 2010, 12:00 am
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by Detroitblogger John. Her grandfather was a slave.�
So was her grandmother, who had white features she inherited from the man who'd raped her mother.
When Bettie Birch was growing up in Jim Crow Mississippi, these were the kinds of stories the family would tell the children. For her, as it was for many others, black hi...
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On good pedophiles: What about those who keep it to themselves?
3 Feb 2010, 12:00 am
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by Dan Savage. Q: Let's say, theoretically, I'm a pedophile.
I'm not stupid or evil, so I'm not gonna do anything. I'm not even gonna look at porn, because the production of it involves child exploitation. Hell, even porn that's just drawn pictures — perverts drawing smut for perverts with no kids or anyone...
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The Chase comes to an end: More cash for local life-changers
3 Feb 2010, 12:00 am
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by Travis R. Wright. Two weeks ago we looked at four metro-Detroit organizations competing for a cool million, thanks to an innovative, Facebook-fueled grant giveaway ("Chasing the buck," Jan. 13). Facebook votes propelled Mosaic Youth Theatre of Detroit, Friendship Circle and Sikhcess, both from West Bloomfie...
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Written on the mind and the body: John A. Rich argues that homicide statistics don't tell the whole story when assessing urban violence
3 Feb 2010, 12:00 am
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by Michael Corbin. Wrong Place, Wrong Time: Trauma and Violence in the Lives of Young Black Men
by John A. Rich
Johns Hopkins University Press, $24.95, 232 pp.
Tayvon pulls his shirt back down after showing me the scar that extends below his waistband to his groin and up to his sternum. About an inch wide, raised,...
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Sonic!: Duende! spins traditional Americana with classic noise rock. So how the hell does it work?
3 Feb 2010, 12:00 am
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by Brett Callwood. The word "duende," often used by flamenco musicians, describes that soulful time when, after hours of jamming, the music becomes less together — more instinctive and loose. It's the joy to be found in formlessness. A duende is also a Latin-American goblin or elf. When considering the...
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Metro Retro: Looking back over 30 years of Metro Times
3 Feb 2010, 12:00 am
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by Metro Times staff. 22 years ago in Metro Times: Almost the entire week's paper was devoted to talking about "Detroit's Strategic Plan." City council members, professors from three different Michigan colleges, a pastor and several journalists are all asked for their take on the city's $750,000 plan to rejuven...
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West of Wyoming: A handy shortlist of restaurants in Dearborn
3 Feb 2010, 12:00 am
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by Metro Times food staff. Al-Ajami 14633 W. Warren, Dearborn; 313-846-9330; $: Al-Ajami is comparable to a slew of other Middle Eastern restaurants in the area, but is much less expensive than most of them. Chef and co-owner Stephan Ajami offers 15 seafood dishes. Also good are the chicken lemon, which combines grilled chick...
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Comics
3 Feb 2010, 12:00 am
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Night and Day
3 Feb 2010, 12:00 am
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by Megan O'Neil. THURSDAY FEBRUARY 4
Earl Lloyd Reception
BASKETBALL JONES
In 1950, the four-year-old National Basketball League saw the first of its teams drop the bar on African American players. Of the season's three integrating pioneers, Earl Lloyd of the Washington Capitols gets a special place in hi...
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Days of wine and neurosis: From young idealist to folk-pop singer for the ages, Lloyd Cole sits five hundred floors below Hang Williams
27 Jan 2010, 12:00 am
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by Brian Smith. His fans know it's astounding what he can ring off inside four minutes. Besides pop hooks and tender epistles, you get literary gibes and folk-derived strolls through suburban dreams, slacker ennui and barstool tragedies that can simultaneously take the piss out of hipster totems and yupster self-gr...
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The can can: A treasure trove of lavatory tomes for tiny attention spans
27 Jan 2010, 12:00 am
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by Metro Times staff. How Many Licks? (or, How to Estimate Damn Near Everything)
by Aaron Santos, Ph.D.
Running Press; 175 pp.
In your entire life, how many times will you poop? And if you collected it all, how much would it weigh? Would it all fit in a train car? What about an Olympic-size swimming pool? I think abou...
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