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Shahida's
second set
Her
singing career was on the upswing. Then came tragedy. Now local jazz artist
Shahida Nurullah is an inspiration. PLUS: Sharida's Web-exclusive
personal note to those who helped her through the hard times.
8/30/00
Literary Review:
Flaunt,
August 2000
Trace, Issue #27
8/23/00
Seeing
is revealing
Other
Pictures, a sampling of Thomas Walther's collection of
anonymous photographs, lets us in on the discovery of creative genius
where we might not think to look for it.
8/23/00
Deadly
signifyin'
Paul
Beatty's poetic novel is a must-read for all ages, with a bigger-than-life
protagonist who defies racial stereotypes. It starts out like a classic
whodunit, but the similarities stop there.
8/23/00
Culture
and vultures
This
roman-à-clef memoir by Saul Bellow gets a little flabby in the
last quarter, but it's understandable (and forgivable – most of the
novel is focused and crisp).
8/23/00
Later,
skater
Bubblegum lip gloss, tight jeans and tube tops ... see
how you can take the best parts of retro '70s fashion and roll
with 'em.
8/23/00
Literary Review:
Reinventing
Comics
by Scott McCloud
8/16/00
House of seasons
Cozy
up with color this fall as we present smart ensembles and lasting looks
in our fall fashion shoot.
8/16/00
Redeeming
Bosie
An
MT Web exclusive: A new biography recasts Oscar Wilde's notorious
lover, Lord Alfred Douglas, as a poetic genius.
8/16/00
Agatha
unbound
An
MT Web exclusive: Psychoanalyst Pierre Bayard's new book puts Agatha
Christie on the couch.
8/9/00
Hair
aces
One
of metro Detroit's few salons that offers alternative beauty services,
London Calling opens doors to the past and future of coiffure.
8/9/00
Redeeming
Bosie
An
MT Web exclusive: A new biography recasts Oscar Wilde's notorious
lover, Lord Alfred Douglas, as a poetic genius.
8/9/00
Agatha
unbound
An
MT Web exclusive: Psychoanalyst Pierre Bayard's new book puts Agatha
Christie on the couch.
8/9/00
Literature review:
America's
Best Comics
by Alan Moore
8/2/00
Girlee
stuff
It's
a new spin on fashion, art and fun, with a collective dedicated to furthering
the careers of local female artists ... from photographers to fashion
designers.
8/2/00
Traveling
man
An
MT Web exclusive: A new biography traces the journey of the late,
great adventure writer Bruce Chatwin.
8/2/00
Literary
Review:
America's
Best Comics
by Alan Moore
7/26/00
700
miles in a box
Why would detroit contemporary founder Aaron
Timlin go to New York the hard way (by foot, in an oversized milk
carton)? There are a few reasons ... and raising money for
his youth/art mentorship program is only one of them.
7/19/00
Sex,
violence and sci-fi
An MT Web exclusive: Scott
Westerfeld's new novel Evolution's Darling is a daring,
futuristic stunner.
7/12/00
Summer
Fiction 2000
MT's Summer Fiction 2000 contest spawned some soulful prose and poetry ... now it's time to share the finest wordification from our readers, including several pieces we couldn't fit into print.
7/12/00
Literary Review:
In
the Forests of the Night
by Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
7/5/00
Post-industrial
deluxe
Setting a new architectural standard,
the Southwest Detroit Business Association has used industrial
scraps for a one-of-a-kind look in its renovated office building ... witness
their unique community vision in our online gallery.
7/5/00
Bio
ethics
An MT Web exclusive: Henry Hart's doorstop-sized
book on poet James Dickey and his fabulous falsehoods ... it's
a prime example of the problem with modern biography.
7/5/00
Literary Review:
Mute
(UK)
Issue 16 - Summer 2000
6/28/00
Eye
for I
The camera is a hall of mirrors
for multimedia artist and shape-shifter Bethany Shorb. It's an
autoerotic flashdance that won't let us look away ... visit our online
gallery of Shorb's self-portraits and see for yourself.
6/21/00
Literary Review:
The
Artist's Way Creativity Kit
by Julia Cameron
The
Danish Girl
by David Ebershoff
6/14/00
Real
people talkin'
Detroit playwright Jeff Chastang's first effort
captures the everyday spirit with impressively well-developed characters,
seamless dialogue, and a careful balance between humor and gravity.
6/14/00
Joking
off
A tiny venue in Royal Oak showcases a bizarre and very
funny original production entitled Canker Sores & Go-Go Juice,
with a small cast of characters who walk the edge of the rational.
6/14/00
Literary Review:
Mutant
Aliens
by Bill Plympton
6/7/00
Oceanic
reveries
It's certainly not a conventional
opera, but the Michigan Opera Theatre's brooding and gripping production
of Peter Grimes swells with pure musical drama.
6/7/00
Photo
Awards 2000
The winning entries of MT's 18th annual photo contest
manage to tell stories in a snap, freezing elusive moments in time.
Visit our virtual gallery and make plans to check out the real thing at
the detroit contemporary (admission is free).
5/31/00
Bridge
across the seas
Ghana's golden treasure, kente
cloth, not only illustrates sensual beauty, it illustrates complex
ideas. An enormous new exhibit displays kente made by master weavers and
videos showing how the cloth of honor is made.
5/31/00
Short
cuts
An MT Web exclusive: The new short story collection from
multitalented writer Stephen Dobyns manages to capture small-town
frustration.
5/31/00
Laughing
on the outside
The Tigers' new home, Comerica Park, calls up a
tale of two cities – the old, historic city and the new one, built
for urban tourists who only want to be entertained.
5/24/00
Depict
yourself
A shade here, a tone there ... Livonia-based
makeup artist and creator of up-and-coming cosmetics line Motor City
Makeup (MCM), Tiffany Palizzi was an early recruit to the art
of beauty.
5/24/00
Rock
mask replica
Camden Joy is both author and lead character of
a fictional novel about a real-life indie-rock band. Have a read and take
a journey into the talking heads of a band of crackers.
5/24/00
Literary Review:
Mean,
May-June issue
5/17/00
Democratic
vistas
Norman Rockwell: Pictures for
the American People is the catalog that accompanies
a new touring exhibition of the artist's work. Among its 14 scholarly
essays on the painter, revisionists scramble to explain that it was really
someone else who didn't like Rockwell for all these years.
5/17/00
Frames
of mind
324 artists from 29 countries contribute to Comix
2000, a mammoth, mute anthology of comic book art that readily
ushers in a new epoch of cartoon innovation. At $65 bucks for 2000
pages, it's easily the bargain of the century.
5/17/00
Thanks
for the Memorex
An MT Web exclusive: In her new essay collection Take
the Cannoli: Stories from the New World, writer Sarah Vowell
name-checks everyone from Sleater-Kinney to Sinatra.
5/17/00
Dear
Angel of Dust
Exclusive prose from author Nathaniel Mackey: "Part
of an ongoing series of letters written by composer/multi-instrumentalist N., founding member of a band formerly known as the Mystic Horn
Society."
5/17/00
Literary Review:
Jetlag
by Actus Tragicus with Etgar Keret
5/10/00
Kiss
me deadly
Sex, passion, corruption, murder
... Puccini's grandly tragic Tosca has it all. And the Michigan
Opera Theatre's
staging is not only up to snuff, it's one of the company's finest achievements
in recent memory.
5/10/00
Literary Review:
Details,
May 2000
5/3/00
Weird
bohemia
An MT Web exclusive: Don't
take Ann Powers' book on the new bohemian culture too personally.
She makes several interesting points and spins a lively tale ... but bases
the bulk of her assumptions on her own experience.
5/3/00
Gettin'
the hook-ups
Do clothes really make the man? Find out what's hot at
some one-stop hip-hop fashion shops on Detroit's west side.
4/26/00
Vincent's
Thrifty Acres
MT arts writers George Tysh
and Liz DiDonna spend an afternoon with that nutty, Dutch artist
who inspires millions: Vincent Van Gogh. See his portraits in a
special exhibit at the DIA ... and also find boxer shorts, tote bags and
umbrellas.
4/26/00
Hockey
and high art
Is the contemporary American art business is a game, "as
mean and shifty and opportunistic as hockey"? Decide for yourself,
as the Jeromes (Przybylski & Ferretti) pull a power play at the Whitney
Museum's Biennial in New York City.
4/26/00
Fences
vs. neighbors
Geoffrey James' fascinating exhibition of photographs taken
along the U.S.-Mexico border shows us America's forbidding face,
where one man's promise is another man's threat.
4/26/00
At
long last, Lancaster
An MT Web exclusive: Time and again, Burt Lancaster chose to
make smart, truly adult movies that challenged both himself and his audience.
A new biography paints a detailed and sympathetic (but not always flattering)
portrait.
4/19/00
S/he
loves me (not)
Richard Strauss' wistfully comic
opera Der Rosenkavalier ponders mortality and bends gender.
The Michigan Opera Theatre's production has plenty going for it
... even at three-and-a-half hours long.
4/19/00
Literary Review:
Scary
Godmother: Wild About Harry
by Jill Thompson
The
Ring of the Nibelung, Issue #1
by P. Craig Russell
4/12/00
Mode
This expanded, interactive Web gallery
takes you on a flight of photographs and fantasy ... featuring eclectic
Asian fashion and imaginative artistry for the year 2000 and
beyond.
4/12/00
Highway
to havoc
The wonderfully absurd world of gunrunning is portrayed
in Run, the first novel by Washington, D.C., attorney Douglas
E. Winter. The plot is straight out of Screenwriting 101, Die
Hard University ... but there's a method to Winter's madness of overkill
and it's called allegory.
4/12/00
Literary Review:
Blue
Monday, Issue #1
by Chynna Clugston-Major
4/5/00
Showing
off
The
fashion design department at Wayne State University is set to heat
up our world with spring fashions from up-and-coming young designers
and area stores ... attendees should expect the eclectic and unpredictable.
4/5/00
Literary Review:
Nest
a quarterly of interiors,Spring 2000
The Spirit of the Chinese
Character: Gifts from the Heart
by Barbara Aria & Russell Eng Gon
Frank
Issue No. 3, by Jim Woodring
Fantagraphics Books
3/29/00
Painter
on the spot
Fantastical
works of art, magic and puppets highlight Chagall's Arabian Nights,
Karim Alrawi's play about history and the marvelous in the mind
of Marc Chagall – currently getting its world premiere at
Meadow Brook Theatre.
3/22/00
Barest
essentials
Cranbrook
Art Museum reconsiders minimalism: its pared-down strategies and mega-attitudes
are displayed in Painting Zero Degree, showing through April 2.
3/22/00
Literary Review:
Weasel,
#1 & #2
by Dave Cooper
Fantagraphics Books
3/15/00
Media
margarine
After
beating around celebrity's bush for years, Douglas Coupland finally
takes on Hollywood in his latest novel, Miss Wyoming. Once
again, his characters are full of suburban malcontent and irony, and a
desperation for authenticity the author himself can't seem to find.
3/15/00
Literary Review:
Giant
Robot
Feb.-March issue
Tokyopop
Issue 3-6
3/08/00
Words
thick like paper
An MT
Web exclusive: Rhino/Word Beat's latest audio anthology covers 80
years of verse, running the gamut from a speech by NAACP co-founder W.E.B.
DuBois to the rap of Public Enemy. This spoken-word CD collection
demonstrates what cannot be gathered from textbooks.
3/01/00
Burning
inside
Rarely
does sculpture suggest as much conflict, as much soul-searching,
as do the works of one Hugh Timlin. Artist,
teacher, farmer and father, Timlin finds many ways to tend the flame as
he forges his work in the fires of a lifetime – now on display at
the Center Galleries.
3/01/00Miss
Wiggy
Raven-haired vamp or "I Dream of Jeannie" ponytail? Flipping
her lid with a longing for big hair, Christina Kallery goes through
a series of hair transformations courtesy of a local wig shop.
3/01/00
Wind
from the East
Viewed as a gauge of the current status of contemporary art,
this traveling exhibit of 13 Russian postmodernists is truly
art history in the making.
3/01/00
Literary Review:
Rockin'
Down the Dial: The Detroit Sound of Radio from Jack the Bellboy to the
Big 8
by David Carson
JazzTimes
March 2000
2/23/00
Outside laughing in
Those Canadians sure are funny, eh? Scott Thompson talks about why U.S.
cultural imperialism, cancer and the PC establishment are funny to Canadians
... and about the success of Kids in the Hall's uniquely off-brand weirdness.
2/23/00
Cranking up the volumes
A New York painter with a Detroit past, Elizabeth Murray offers up five
grand statements with extra-large, shaped canvases and vibrant, explosive
color.
2/23/00
Literary Review:
Speak
Winter 2000
2/16/00
We'll
take you there
Dream gardens, surreal palaces, apocalyptic towers, sculpture gardens
of the moon ... Fantasy Worlds, a large color photo book
by Deidi von Schwaewen, records such wonderland construction
projects from all over the world.
2/16/00
Absurd
surfaces
Searching for hidden meanings in a Harold Pinter play is tempting
but misguided. That's not to suggest his dramas lack depth – The
Dumb Waiter and More ... provides a largely entertaining evening
at University of Detroit Mercy.
2/16/00
Literary Review:
Extremities:
Stories
by Kathe Koja
The Deadenders #1
by Ed Brubaker & Warren Pleece
2/09/00
Sign
of the V
Say this word: vagina. OK, now say it without laughing. Or cringing.
Difficult, isn't it? In Eve Ensler's Obie Award-winning play, The
Vagina Monologues, the point is to talk about it – and to
end shame and violence against women.
2/09/00
Literary Review:
The
Deadenders #1
by Ed Brubaker & Warren Pleece
The
Duplex Planet
Issue #155
2/02/00
Natural-born
rhymers
The
outlaws of American poetry have rolled into town like Brando on a hog...
From the beats to the slammers, The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry
collects the baddest, meanest slashers of sonnets and writers of free
verse.
2/02/00
Literary Review:
Fragrant
Palm Leaves: Journals 1962-1966
by Thich Nhat Hanh
The
Atomics #1
by Michael Allred
1/26/00
Hate
me deadly
Plowshares
Theatre Company delivers one of its finest productions ever with A
Soldier's Play – the Pulitzer Prize-winning drama which spawned
the film A Soldier's Story. The play includes an engaging story
of characters and race, and rocks a whole world of preconceptions.
1/26/00
Literary Review:
The
Big Takeover
Issue No. 45
Punk Planet
Issue No. 35, Jan.-Feb. 2000
1/19/00
Sympathy
for the devil
An
MT Web exclusive: A new biography presents a kinder, more sympathetic
Francis Ford Coppola.
1/19/00
Shapes
at the movies
In our latest Web photo spread, the fashionable new look for
spring is right off the silver screen. Think the elegance of Veronica
Lake or Sophia Loren's sultriness, with a sprinkle of fairy
tale sparkle and shimmer.
1/19/00
All-male
cast
Judd Hirsch cultivates the manly Art of camaraderie
in the Fisher Theatre's latest production, which goes straight
for the intellect and soul.
1/19/00
Literary Review:
CMJ
New Music Monthly
January 2000, Issue No. 77
1/12/00
Dire
strait
Canadian photographer Stan Douglas puts together an exhibit
which shows us Detroit as a troubled, rusted city on its last legs.
1/12/00
Pardon
our emissions
The third annual Anti-Auto Show at detroit contemporary
features video, sculpture, theater and more ... all taking a long, hard
look at our relationship with the machine that made Henry Ford
famous.
1/05/00
Buddha
in the badlands
Tibetan
monks take a week-long residency at the DIA, sharing their
art, music and mindfulness ... healing the heart-of-Motor-darkness with
swirling sands and energies.
1/05/00
Literary Review:
Gadfly
Nov.-Dec. 1999
Cashiers
du Cinemart
Issue No. 10
12/29/99
Apocalypse,
please
It's
the list to end all New Year's countdowns. Presenting our 1,000 reasons
why we're glad this millenium is finally over.
12/22/99
Bound
for pleasure
Dress me up in garter belts, tie me
down with leather straps ... find your favorite fetish in a big
new photo book of obsessions.
12/22/99
Literary Review:
Art
in Detroit Public Places (revised edition)
By Dennis Alan Nawrocki; Photography by David Clements
12/15/99
Offhanded
thoughts
In this collection of writings, Timothy
Leary ruminates to the beat and whacks poetic on sex and love.
12/15/99
Literary Review:
8Track
Mind Magazine
Edited by Russ Forster
12/08/99
Days
of our knight
Holy Batmania!
A new, chock-full-of-visuals history traces the Batman's steps
from pulp novel to Hollywood blockbuster.
12/01/99
A
matter of "color"
The Detroit Institute of Arts
rediscovers over 100 paintings and drawings by American master Bob
Thompson, whose colorful, figurative works are now only beginning
to be understood.
12/01/99
In
the grip of letting go
Ann Marlowe entered a world of danger, sedation and self-deception
– her resulting book on heroin addiction is an unintentional
primer on smack for unwilling disciples.
12/01/99
Sensation
lite
Metro Times arts editor George Tysh explains why the recent
DIA flap over "freedom of expression" is not the event
of our dreams.
12/01/99
Literary
Reviews:
Motorbooty
2000 Calendar
Produced by the Motorbooty collective.
11/24/99
A
rage in Watts
Walter Mosley's new book is
a collection of loosely interwoven short stories centering around an unlikely
(anti)hero who tries to wrestle with his demons and do the right thing.
11/24/99
Literary Reviews:
From AbFab to Zen: Paper's
Guide to Pop Culture
Edited by Kim Hastreiter and David Hershkovits
The Doll House
Curated by Mark Laliberte
Essay by John Marriott
11/17/99
The
Cho must go on
Having put her self-destructive past
behind her, comedian Margaret Cho both defies and defines the notion
that humor comes from misery.
11/17/99
Literary Reviews:
Voyeur
Edited by Charles Melcher and Steven Diamond
11/10/99
Mode
The gang who puts out the Metro Times
each week gives you a glimpse of our different senses of style in this
first installment of MODE, a special metro Detroit fashion section.
11/10/99
Forbidden
fruit
Liyanja
is a Congolese dance drama combination that explores new theater frontiers,
and plans not only to entertain, but to address spiritual, social and
political issues.
11/10/99
Literary
Reviews:
Big City Blues
Oct.-Nov. 1999 issue
In the Year 2000...
by Conan O'Brien and the writers of "Late Night"
10/27/99
Going
public
An analysis of the architecture that
contains the public commission of our most intimate acts – the netherworld
of the the public toilet stall.
10/20/99
Shop
till you pop
The novel Fight Club
is a howl of rage against the empty promises of American consumer culture.
ALSO: Read Serena Donadoni's
five-star review of
Fight Club, the film.
10/20/99
Raw
redemption
One woman's powerful tale manages to personalize
the grassroots struggle for civil rights in a way that
few other accounts have.
10/13/99
Seeing
through water
Tacita Dean
is an artist obsessed with the sea ... her film and video exhibition on
display at Cranbrook Art Museum navigates persistent oceans of
the mind.
10/13/99
Throw
your set in the air!
It's a fun glimpse into the minds of
several hip hop superstars, but MTV's book ultimately comes
off as a personal scrapbook for groupies bragging about which celebrities
they've rubbed shoulders with.
10/6/99
Studies
'n' style
Fashion is a major outlet for
individual expression ... for WSU students, fall means cool beginnings
and laid-back looks.
10/6/99
Voices
si, acting no
In the Michigan Opera Theatre's production this week, The
Barber of Seville doesn't quite cut it.
9/29/99
Comic
booked!
Comic
books are under their biggest censorship barrage since
the 1950s. The latest news from the front is anything but funny.
9/29/99
Diamonds
are forever
In photographer Carl Schurer's photo-collage of Tiger
Stadium – 40 years in
the making– each memory
joins millions upon millions of others.
9/29/99
In
the surf of meanings
Detroit
playwright Ron Allen hears the sound of many waves crashing. His
new play WHAM!, like its creator, is unabashedly experimental
and off the beaten path.
9/22/99
The
man who loved movies
The
Detroit Film Theatre lovingly screens all 21 films by French New
Wave director François Truffaut "on the big screen
the way they should be seen."
9/22/99
Wild
horses
Sneak
a peek into an unauthorized biography of rock poet Patti Smith,
who created a new genre for herself: raw, undomesticated, electric and
sexy.
9/22/99
Lost
in the K-hole
Read
about Disco Bloodbath: a tale of drugs, sex, murder and
80's club culture in the Big Apple of despair.
9/15/99
Primal
pools
Carla
Licavoli's photographs return us to the joy of floating ... wander
through a Web-exclusive gallery of this CCS grad's dreamy, watery
world.
9/15/99
Laughing
away the pain
A
new book offers a brilliant analysis of what has distinguished and sustained
African-American comedy for more than a century, including poking
fun at a long history of oppression.
9/8/99
Things
ain't what they used to be
From
downtown Detroit's Center Galleries comes a breath of dysfunctional
air... a sculptural feast as diverse as it is witty and destabilizing.
9/8/99
Colorful
stages
An MT Fallguide '99 special feature: Metro Detroit's theater
scene is bursting with fall goodness... from well-loved classics to
bold new works – come pick your favorites.
9/8/99
Dream
displays
An MT Fallguide '99 special feature: Metro Detroit art
happenings this fall are too varied and vital for words... MT Arts
Editor George Tysh helps you sort through it all to discover eyefuls
of phantasmagorical art for the cooler season.
9/8/99
Socially
funny
An MT Fallguide '99 special feature: Progressive comedian
Danny Hoch brings real life to the stage with his complex one-man
performance in Jails, Hospitals and Hip-Hop.
8/11/99
On
a clear day
One of Detroit's truly poetic artists, Ann Mikolowski painted both
a record of her times and timelessness itself.
8/4/99
Downtown
hounds
Detroit
avant-music thrillers Blue Dog mix bytes and barks just the way
they wanna.
8/4/99
Old school
benefits
L.A. rhymers
Jurassic 5 make no bones about the "up" in straight-up
hip hop.
8/4/99
Shine
on
Memories
of reggae crown prince Dennis Brown, who stirred the pot of the
soul with his lover's rock.
7/28/99
Downtown
time capsule
Once the center of our metropolis
and site of the state Capitol, Detroit's Capitol Park is full
of fading echoes.
7/28/99
Dis/Passion
A local psychotherapist
fears that art mimics modern life... and that Stanley Kubrick's
Eyes Wide Shut inflames our fears of eroticism by presenting sexuality
as a destructive force.
7/28/99
Hooks,
lines and singers
Detroit's experimental pop
underground throws one helluva coming-out party –
bands Fletcher Pratt and Cloud Car
are among the guests of honor.
7/21/99
Couture
cameos
Combining uptown flair with
downtown attitude, fashion designer Cedrick "Cedi" Johnson
creates dramatic outfits for new city living.
7/21/99
Revenge
of the mohawks
Coming soon to Pontiac, the Vans Warped Tour and Social Chaos
Tour package punk rock for post-punk mass programming.
7/21/99
Clear
the decks!
A sonic revolution
that inspires rioting in the streets –
Berlin's Atari Teenage Riot brings the noise to burn.
7/7/99
Peace
and decay
Photographer
Matthew Davis finds the Cass Corridor's little-noticed environmental
art – an MT photostory.
7/7/99
Aye
aye aye, Cap'n
Two
new CD anthologies attempt to sail the seas of avant-rock deity Captain
Beefheart.
7/7/99
Six-string
pirates
One year after its closing,
the On Line Guitar Archive fights to keep the music public.
7/7/99
Future
perfect
In
Dan Sicko's new book, techno's tale finds new light in a brief
history of music's future past.
7/7/99
Wise
blood
Denver
alt-country quartet Sixteen Horsepower lives to chase the Holy
Ghost another day.
6/30/99
Satan's
apprentice
How
MT music editor Chris Handyside learned the heart of rock 'n' roll
darkness lies at the bottom of a $7 cup of beer.
6/23/99
13
reasons why...
De
La Soul is the most creative rap group of all time.
6/23/99
Summertime
songs
Sweet
street sounds in the open air market.
6/23/99
True
deception
AWOL
makes a sincerely artificial statement in C Pop's new space.
6/23/99
Primeval
dead
Thomas Huck's
pop culture woodcuts from the Middle Ages.
6/16/99
Cosmicomic
Pilots
Japan's
Boredoms take their art apart with what's around them.
6/16/99
Lyrical
lakes
Composer-in-residence
Ned Rorem makes the words sing.
6/9/99
Painted
places
Take
another look at Detroit's street-side art.
6/2/99
Sonic
rumbling
Detroit producer-sound provider Jay
Dee and Slum Village are fixing to serve the world a heavy
dose of Detroit hip-hop.
6/2/99
The
real deals
Ypsilanti indie label ReAl
stirs the pot of Michigan music.
6/2/99
Expressive
locations
A sampling
of spots boasting hip-hop regularity.
6/2/99
Evolutionary
ant-situation
Hamtramck coffeehouse-turned-theater-turned-renaissance
venue keeps the art and ideas marching on.
5/26/99
Hollywood
high
With few exceptions, the latest teen flicks are riding on retreads, kicking
back in the unreal.
5/26/99
Big
bard-on
Brushing up their Shakespeare, film adaptations
of the classics make a perennial comeback.
5/26/99
Forever
and... ever?
Big screen sci-fi in the late '90s tells a tale of endings.
5/26/99
Second
take: mummies, mammies and true lies
MT arts
editor George Tysh looks at the scariest monster in the new horror
flick The Mummy – the racist caricature of Arab-Americans.
5/26/99
Livin'
la vida loca
Club
Internacional is a rough-and-ready glimpse of one face of the wild, wild
Southwest.
5/26/99
1+1=3
Detroit
duo White Stripes mixes basic elements into simple beauty.
5/12/99
Momentary
Madness
Second City-Detroit continues a tradition of on-the-spot, spot-on
satire.
5/12/99
Kreem
of the Komics!
From Mad to Maus to Weirdo, an uncompromised selection
of the best in modern comics.
5/5/99
Write
on!
Detroit's second annual Worker-Writer
Festival gets organized.
5/5/99
Metro
Galleryscope
Expect to
be provoked, seduced and renewed by art this spring.
5/5/99
Raisin'
hell
Detroit rapper Esham's long and winding
road out of the independent underworld.
4/28/99
Motor
Mods
Midnight in Hamtown's boiler room of glam
and glory – an MT
photostory...
4/28/99
The
Duke meets the Duke
On
the occassion of Duke Ellington's birthday, we present the 100th
anniversary "inner-view" that should have been.
4/28/99
Deep
space woodsmen
The Northwoods Improvisers
bring their ethnographic sounds of the world to the jazz stage.
4/28/99
Magic, music, memories
Slam, jam magic... a full-color
photo retrospective of this year's Detroit Music Awards at the
State Theatre.
4/21/99
A
geisha's life
As captured by Michigan Opera Theatre, Madama
Butterfly is a passionate specimen.
4/14/99
Cross-pond
traffic
Bringing together a unique mix of American blues, electic recording experiments
and modern indie-pop, Gomez's funky rumuniations leave Brit-pop
in the dust.
4/14/99
Seething
and Signifying
Two revolutionary dramas resurface at Detroit's Zeitgeist Theatre,
and the result is an unexpectedly spirited success.
4/14/99
Outer
space productions
Here's
how one-time fans become music promoters, all for the love of the art.
PLUS: An array of Detroit-Area DIY
promoters have taken the lead in growing noncommercial culture
beneath the big-league radar.
4/7/99
Cold-blooded
Sister Souljah's debut
novel The Coldest Winter Ever takes a hard look at the hood.
4/7/99
Conn-man
of the Apocalypse
Chicago muso-musician Bobby Conn,
a man ahead of his time, is almost out of time.
4/7/99
Life-line
reading
Director Robert Altman tells his own fortune as one of America's
movie originals.
3/31/99
New
jail city
Jerry
Herron's cultural commentary on downtown Detroit's new holding tank,
the Wayne County Juvenile Detention Center.
3/31/99
Photo
factory
Lookinag at
the Art Gallery of Windsor's photography exhibit of turn-of-the-century
North America, "The Detroit Publishing Company: Looking Across the
River."
3/3/99
A man
for all seasons
The DIA showcases the multiple talents
of Gordon Parks: photographer, filmmaker, artist,
composer and poet.
1/20/99
Enter to (dis)enchantment
The lobby is where capitalism stages
its answer to the perennial question, "So, what have you done for me lately?"
1/6/99
The
long march to Disneyland
Pseudo-Maoist postcards from North
America at the Art Gallery of Windsor.
1/6/99
Portals
to the underworld
Ceramic sculptor Jerome Ferretti
fires up a visionary history of Detroit.
12/30/98
A Gift
at Year's End
The DIA's new 20th-Century
Galleries
are (almost) just what we needed.
12/02/98
Silent
light
A loving-edge
art form that will never seek an audience.
11/18/98
Room
to move
detroit contemporary's vast digs
turn on the mind bulbs.
10/28/98
Inventing
a past
Old-town nostalgia inspires a "new"
look in suburban planning.
10/21/98
Ghosts
of horrors past
Beloved challenges America to
confront the legacy of slavery which still haunts us.
10/21/98
Don't
start me talkin'
The Bill T. Jones-Arnie Zane Company
says it all with dance.
10/14/98
Mystery
dance
Detroit Artists Market's music and video show does the
horizontal-hold mambo.
10/07/98
Seeing
clear to forever
Poetic realist Ann Mikolowski
paints the long and short of it.
9/30/98
Eye-catching
icons
A celebration of famous Black men – dressed and undressed.
9/23/98
Welcome
to my garage
Wiping away Birmingham's old-town
flavor like a stubborn stain.
9/9/98
My
life to live
Greer Lankton bridges genders
in a show of terrifying beauty.
9/9/98
Museum
maker
Cranbrook's Elaine Huemann Gurian
is changing the way the public sees museums –
and how museums see themselves.
9/9/98
Changing
Cranbrook
The Institute of Science adds a dinosaur,
a hall of light and a new attitude.
8/19/98
Goodbye
polka-dot road
This time without bulldozers, the
Heidelberg Project is coming down again.
7/29/98
Art
meets meat
Artists' places in Eastern Market:
New frontier or already fading?
7/15/98
Bringing
it all back home
The promises and perils of renovating
the DIA's modern art galleries.
7/1/98
Seeds
of delight
Poets teach an art of wonder in metro
area libraries.
6/24/98
Art
for the future
There's vitality at the grass roots,
but Archer's new cultural plan isn't enough to cure Detroit's venue blues.
6/24/98
Pen-and-ink
representin'
Chilltown's comic hip-hop mileu is
drawn into the real world.
5/13/98
Spring
1998 Literary Quarterly
Tupac Shakur, Tao, architecture,
more...
5/13/98
Burying
a city dog
A tender meditation
on barrio streets, pets and morality.
4/29/98
The
art of politics
Sculptor-mayor Gary Zych combines aesthetic vision with a
community plan for Hamtramck.
4/15/98
Eve
of destruction
John Scott's doomsday machines and drawings
reach out to one and all.
4/1/98
Fly-splat
STREB makes dances in the Evel
Knievel mode.
3/18/98
Before
the gold rush
This is a crossroads year of architectural
choices.
3/4/98
Shaping
ideas
An author sits by her word in a reflective
exhibition at Cranbrook.
2/11/98
Writhing
& glistening
Gina Ferrari's new pieces work their way under
the skin.
2/4/98
Sublime
cadavers
Two metro events follow the arbitrary
and marvelous trail of the surrealist Exquisite Corpse.
1/21/98
Under
the overpass
Metro Times photographer Bruce Giffin indulges in some drive-by shooting.
1/7/98
Ill-suited
art
Artists fear that a court case could be the end of the rock poster as
we know it.
12/30/97
Another
World
A parable for the new year.
12/10/97
Contemporary
commitment
In a mall (of all places), Art Gallery of Windsor is a model of thoughtful programming.
12/3/97
Views
with some room
An enigmatic photography show looks at the spaces of human activity.
11/19/97
Machine
music
Detroit metal sculptor Chris Turner cranks up the volume.
11/5/97
Painters
have the power
WSU's new gallery opens with Spero and Golub's political visions.
10/29/97
City
of mystery
At Elmwood Cemetery, memories echo down through the
years.
10/8/97
Alley
Wonderland
If Alice had baggage, the pieces in this show would be it.
10/1/97
Erotic
reactions
A new book and an exhibition feature
the seminal paintings of Edward Clark.
8/20/97
"We
would have saved Detroit"
Architect Gunnar
Birkerts questions the path ahead.
8/13/97
One-man
art posse
By embracing the whole shebang, Brian Schorn breaks the mold.
7/9/97
Finding
the Edge in Outer Space
With Dance Gallery/Peter Sparling
& Co.'s "The Seven Enigmas," art and science
move as one on stage. |