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If You Don’t Like The 'Jazz,' Don'T Call Cops At Mocad 16 Mar 2010, 5:54 pm
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Iggy Pop: Best. Speech. Ever! 16 Mar 2010, 3:07 pm
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Local Tidbits: Weekend Shows, Upcoming Releases, White Stripes, Runaways & More... 12 Mar 2010, 11:25 am
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Lakes' law: New head for Great Lakes environmental group 17 Mar 2010, 1:00 am
News Hits by News Hits staff: Asian carp, climate change and clean energy are among the priorities for Nick Schroeck, the new executive director of the Great Lakes Environmental Law Center. The Detroit-based nonprofit center is affiliated with the Wayne State University Law School's new environmental law clinic, which started l... Read more >>
Unseen hands: About those vandalized atheist ads 17 Mar 2010, 1:00 am
News Hits by News Hits staff: The infidels here at News Hits were heartened a few weeks ago when news broke that a group called the Detroit Area Coalition for Reason placed ads on the outside of SMART buses that read: "Don't believe in God? You are not alone." Given the influence of the religious right in this country... Read more >>
Murder case curveball: Prosecutor wants to question law students who worked on defense 17 Mar 2010, 1:00 am
by Sandra Svoboda: In what legal experts say is a highly unusual move, a Wayne County prosecutor wants University of Michigan Law School students to testify against a man they've been working to exonerate. Innocence Clinic co-director David Moran is asking Wayne County Circuit Judge Tim Kenny to strike the students f... Read more >>
Letters to the Editor: Readers sound off on what's in our pages 17 Mar 2010, 1:00 am
Letters to the Editor by Metro Times readers: Village voice In your Feb. 24 article reviewing the taqueria Los Altos ("Mexican high"), you describe it as being in "Mexicantown's second downtown, near Springwells." The area that you visited is called Springwells Village. Mexicantown is really only the district located east o... Read more >>
Independents day?: Don't think the governor should be your best buddy? Here's your man. 17 Mar 2010, 1:00 am
Politics and Prejudices by Jack Lessenberry: John Joseph Henry Schwarz grew up a Republican. He supported the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Earlier, he served in Vietnam, and, afterward, went back to Indochina — with the CIA. He supported his friend John McCain for president two years ago, and twice was endorsed for Congress by George W... Read more >>
Welcome back, sorta: Nearly 30 Detroit ex-pat artists living in NYC tell us to stay put 17 Mar 2010, 1:00 am
by Travis R. Wright: For any cognizant creative whose finger is on the pulse of this ailing city, the news of one relocating to New York is a cliché. And other places too. Want to move to Los Angeles? Best of luck, see you in the valley, babe. You'll be back broke with smog-filled lungs, a runny nose and an uneve... Read more >>
Sharp young things: Meet Detroit dining's new breed of chef: They're twentysomething, tattoed and hang like rockstars 17 Mar 2010, 1:00 am
by Michael Jackman: shines on a sunny afternoon in midtown Detroit. With its 52 rooms, 10 bathrooms and 20 fireplaces, the three-story pink-granite edifice is in great condition, and pots of forced lilies decorate the front garden. It seems the manse-turned-restaurant is preparing for a wedding party later that day, an... Read more >>
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by Norene Smith: When I was a kid, I remember my mom taking me to a Wonka-ish shop that sold fake pill bottles filled with candy. It wasn't the sugary contents that made me decide I had to have one. It was the packaging. After all, who could resist candy "pills" labeled super rich, beautiful and brainy? ... Read more >>
HereSay: Chatting with Tower of Power saxman (and native Detroiter) Emilio Castillo 17 Mar 2010, 1:00 am
HereSay by W. Kim Heron: Emilio Castillo spends about 175 days a year on the road with Tower of Power, a 42-year-old musical institution based in the Bay Area, where Castillo grew up after leaving Detroit as a kid. We caught up with him by phone at an airport, en route to a New Orleans gig where he'd no doubt play "Wha... Read more >>
Happy feet: Gym shoes make my hubby sweat, and I'm jealous! 17 Mar 2010, 1:00 am
Savage Love by Dan Savage: Q: My husband and I have been married for one year, but we had been dating for 10 years before that. I thought we had a very understanding relationship. In the last couple of days, I have found out that he has a serious obsession with females wearing running shoes. He had in the past hinted at the f... Read more >>
Cheat Code: Down with Dante; Bioshock's new worlds 17 Mar 2010, 1:00 am
Cheat Code by Bryant Franks: Bioshock 2 2K Games Xbox 360, PS3, PC It was its setting that separated the original Bioshock from other first-person shooters. The undersea dystopia of Rapture was spooky, unpredictable and, most importantly, new. Problem is, you can never go back somewhere for the first time, so Bioshock 2... Read more >>
The Metro Times Dining Guide: A tasty breakdown of more than 100 metro Detroit restaurants 17 Mar 2010, 1:00 am
by Metro Times food staff: Vegetarian-Friendly Aut Bar 315 Braun Court, Ann Arbor; 734-994-3677; $: In the warmer months, historic Kerrytown's Aut Bar spills out onto a quiet courtyard it has nearly all to itself. Functioning as a restaurant and a bar for 21 years (the second level is 21 and older only), there's a popular Su... Read more >>
Metro Retro: Looking back on 30 years of MT 17 Mar 2010, 1:00 am
Metro Retro by Metro Times staff: 27 years ago in Metro Times: A cover story finds MT writers gearing up for Tiger baseball 1983. Michael Betzold hazards a prediction: "Under manager Sparky Anderson, the Tigers have been a perfect mathematical regression leading inexorably to the pinnacle of mediocrity, .500 ball, which they wi... Read more >>
Squeezeboxin': Due to a long history and love affair with the instrument, the Motor City might really be the eye of the accordion storm 17 Mar 2010, 1:00 am
by Amy Elliott: In a quiet office plaza off the I-696 corridor in Warren, John Castiglione sells accordions. The showroom's small and sort of corporate; there are no flashy displays, diamond-encrusted instruments or autographed posters for show, no polka music piped through the speakers. There aren't even that many... Read more >>
The delicious dozen: Dishing it about 12 of our readers' favorite local menu items 17 Mar 2010, 1:00 am
by Michael Jackman: Emilio Castillo spends about 175 days a year on the road with Tower of Power, a 42-year-old musical institution based in the Bay Area, where Castillo grew up after leaving Detroit as a kid. We caught up with him by phone at an airport, en route to a New Orleans gig where he'd no doubt play "Wha... Read more >>
Motor City's greatest 'bar band' ever?: The Hell Drivers may be a Detroit revue show ... but it's one helluva Detroit revue show 17 Mar 2010, 1:00 am
by Brett Callwood: On paper, it's a tired concept. Get four or five musicians or rock 'n' roll stars who've been gigging under various names with various bands for decades and throw them in a bar band together. Have them play songs from their combined pasts ... and claim that they're not, in fact, a bar band at all. ... Read more >>
Comics 17 Mar 2010, 1:00 am
Comics: The Boiling Point - by Mikhaela Reid ... Read more >>
Night and Day 17 Mar 2010, 1:00 am
Night and Day by Megan O'Neil: THURSDAY MARCH 18 Sarah Jones KARMA CHAMELEON An elderly Russian man, a Jewish grandmother, a young African-American rapper, a Pakistani immigrant — Tony Award-winning actress, playwright and spoken-word poet Sarah Jones has played them all. Jones' multicharacter, multicultural one-woman sh... Read more >>
Trunk Show 17 Mar 2010, 1:00 am
Review by Bill Holdship: Well, thankfully, at least he hasn't given us Journey Through the Past again. But Trunk Show is another Neil Young live performance filmed by Jonathan Demme, (who also shot 2006's Nashville-based Heart of Gold), this one taken from the Chrome Dreams II tour's stop at the Tower Theatre in Upper Darby... Read more >>
Red Riding Trilogy 17 Mar 2010, 1:00 am
Review by Jeff Meyers: "Battle not with monsters, lest ye become a monster, and if you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." —Friedrich Nietzsche The goal of any film is to successfully transport you to another time and place, to immerse you so completely in its story, characters and visual... Read more >>

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