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8/23/00
Kings
of the road
The
Lambda Car Club sets out for adventure on the chosen-family freeway
with gleaming gas-guzzlers from glory days gone by.
8/23/00
Found
for paradise
Using stones from old farmhouses and an old broken birdbath, two local
gardeners use their artistic passions to fuel a new look at landscape.
8/23/00
Video Game Review:
Perfect
Dark
Nintendo, Nintendo 64
8/23/00
Other Review:
dwell
Fall 2000
Utne
Reader
June-July 2000
8/16/00
On
top of it all
For Detroit City Council member Kay Everett, hats are more than
fashion – they're good friends.
8/16/00
Video Game Review:
Strider
2
Capcom, PlayStation
8/9/00
Getting
the kinks out
Leather
and mesh, PVC and rubber, dog collars studded with spikes ... Detroit's
fetish scene is whipping up the mainstream.
8/2/00
nv
magazine
nv
is a new periodical for African-American entrepreneurs and other businesspeople
of color. It's eye-catching, but could stand to take a more critical
view of diversity, technology and business culture.
8/2/00
Video Game Review:
Sim
City 3000: Unlimited
Maxis, PC
7/19/00
Chef's
secret
An
MT Web exclusive: Real cooks hate vegetarians – this and other
kitchen revelations are uncovered in chef Anthony Bourdain's new
book.
7/12/00
Video Game Review:
Warlocked
Nintendo, Gameboy Color
Crystalis
Nintendo, Gameboy Color
7/12/00
Hard
and fast
Local
women play real baseball on a team of their own, experiencing the
sheer joy of doing what they love best.
7/12/00
America
the pitiful
An
MT Web exclusive: Two new books take different tacks, but both document
the dearth of spirit in our material world.
7/12/00
Video Game Review:
Tech
Romancer
Capcom, Dreamcast
7/5/00
Beyond
the beat
In
divided Detroit, the Concert of Colors festival brings all kinds
of ethnic groups together to celebrate world music and culture.
7/5/00
Video Game Review:
Space
Channel 5
Sega,
Dreamcast
6/28/00
Alternative
health
MT's
annual focus on alternative health features an Eastern-style
approach to medicine ... different ways to quit
smoking ... the continuing struggle to legalize
medical marijuana ... soy
isoflavones: miracle
cure or modern snake oil? ... a new guide
to alternative therapies ... & more.
6/28/00
Dot.com
death pool
An
MT Web exclusive: Thousands of firms are struggling to survive...
now fuckedcompany.com charts the demise of Web start-up companies.
6/28/00
Video Game Review:
Chu
Chu Rocket
Sega, Dreamcast
6/21/00
At
what price?
First
it offered discounts on airfares ... then groceries and rental cars ...
now gasoline? Priceline.com may offer bargains, but it also discourages
comparisons for its online customers.
6/21/00
Video Game Review:
Chu
Chu Rocket
Sega,
Dreamcast
6/14/00
The
future is there
Japan's
cell phone innovations make American cell phones look like those
clunky devices we lugged around a decade ago ... but they give us a glimpse
into the communications world to come.
6/14/00
Eating
disorders
It's
easy to find authentic phony foreign cuisine at Chi-Chi's, Benihana and
Olive Garden ... at America's ethnic concept restaurants, we can
swallow our cultural troubles with the entrées.
6/14/00
Video Game Review:
Arcade
Party Pak
Midway, PlayStation
Activision Classics
Activision, PlayStation
6/14/00
Other Review:
Artbyte
May-June 2000
6/7/00
Biblio
tech
An
MT Web exclusive: No other book publisher has attempted such a leap
of faith – Toby Press is taking a gamble by selling its
books exclusively via mail order and its Web site.
6/7/00
Video Game Review:
Hydro
Thunder
Midway, Dreamcast
5/31/00
Higher!
Faster! Stranger!
Hitting
a little white ball around the lawn isn't really a sport, is it? Try one
of these weird new summer games if you're a true outdoor sports
nut.
5/31/00
Other review:
Good
Vibrations: The New Complete Guide to Vibrators
Three Rivers Press
5/31/00
Other review:
Who
Wants To Be A Millionaire: 2nd Edition
Buena
Vista, PC
5/24/00
Following
her bliss
For
Kathy Klein, the road to a better life led out of corporate America;
she quit her high-paying job to run a downtown Royal Oak boutique. And
she's not the only one – by one estimate, 12 percent of Americans
are now downshifting their lives in some way.
5/24/00
Video game review:
Jackie
Chan Stuntmaster
Midway, PlayStation
Power Stone
Capcom, Dreamcast
5/17/00
Leaving
Idaho
In
Geeks, author Jon Katz recounts the true story of
two computer nerds trying to escape small-town existence in rural Idaho.
But Katz's tale is as much about its author's devotion as it is about
the gumption of its bookish heroes.
5/17/00
Fictional
snip and tuck
Chick
for a Day is editor Fiona Giles' companion piece to her
previous anthology Dick for a Day -- which asked women to imagine
themselves so endowed. And why not? It's only fair to let the guys
have a turn at deciding what happens when the shoe (size 6, 4-inch heels)
is on the other foot.
5/17/00
Ever-changing
way
Crooked
Cucumber is the biography of Shunryu Suzuki, Soto Zen master and
Japanese citizen. Author David Chadwick's account of Suzuki's
life tells the story of an uncommon existence with humor and sharp observation.
5/17/00
Video game review:
Army
Men: Air Tactics
3DO,
PC
Army
Men: Toys in Space
3DO,
PC
5/10/00
It's
a guy thing
Female-to-male
transsexuals put the gender blender into high gear, alienating some hardcore
feminists along the way. PLUS: A local activist breaks
down the barriers to transsexual transformation.
5/10/00
Cable
invasions
An MT Web exclusive: Is your cable modem a Web party
line to your own hard drive? Find out how easy it is to tap into a neighbor's
computer (and how to protect yourself, too).
5/10/00
Drowning
in cold water
An MT Web exclusive: Author McKay Jenkins takes snow scholarship
to new heights with The White Death, which chronicles one
of history's largest snowbound manhunts.
5/10/00
Yo,
mama
Ariel Gore runs hipmama.com ... & her latest book teaches "alternative parents" how
to float above the crap about mainstream motherhood.
5/10/00
Video game review:
Jedi
Power Battles
Lucas
Arts, PlayStation
Episode One Racer
Lucas
Arts, Dreamcast
5/10/00
Video game review:
Onebox.com ,
Mytalk.com
www.onebox.com
www.mytalk.com
5/3/00
Summer
guide 2000
Don't
let summer pass you by. We highlight the hot spots for this summer's
fun, with extensive listings of the season's most happening events
and places. PLUS: Get
down on your back porch ... Go
topless in a convertible ... Dance
until you sweat ... Step out in summertime
sandals ... Indulge your golf
obsession ... Get wet, stay
cool ... and much, much more.
5/3/00
Video game review:
Syphon
Filter 2
Sony-989
Studios, PlayStation
Die Hard Trilogy 2
Fox Interactive, PlayStation
4/26/00
Home
universe
Expand
your personal habitat with MT's guide to all things house beautiful ...
including a how-to guide on finding
the perfect home ... fab
furniture fads of the past ... building your own art
collection ... gardening for busy (or lazy) people ... & the
"drool zone" (a special furniture wish-list).
4/26/00
Video game review:
The
Sims
Maxis, PC
Sim Theme Park
Bullfrog, PlayStation
4/19/00
Fetish
nation
Bring
your own toys to the Pin-Up Fetish Ball ... It's about what you're
wearing as much as what you're not wearing. And every half hour,
a new scene is presented for your delectation.
4/19/00
The
end of culture
Jeremy
Rifkin believes you will wake up one day soon and find virtually every
activity has become a paid-for experience. His latest book imagines
this brave new world of hypercapitalism.
4/19/00
Video game review:
Worms:
Armageddon
Nintendo 64
4/19/00
Website review:
Xchangecity
www.xchangecity.com
4/19/00
Other review:
The
Onion's Finest News Reporting
Three Rivers Press
4/12/00
Slattery's
dream
Meet
Bob Slattery of the Midtown Development Group, one of the
visionaries who's transforming the Cass Corridor. After daring
the laws of economic gravity for 19 years, he's finally seeing real results.
4/12/00
Website review:
Chickclick
www.chickclick.com
4/12/00
Video Game review:
Zombie
Revenge
Sega Dreamcast
4/5/00
Video Game review:
Vigilante 8:
2nd Offense
Activision, Sega Dreamcas
3/29/00
Notes
from an Egghead
Dave
Eggers' A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius has wowed
critics and readers alike. But has Eggers really rescued the memoir movement
from the hands of the cathartic-confessional crowd?
3/29/00
Video Game review:
Blue
Stinger
Activision, Sega
3/22/00
Cowboys
+ Catholics
Detroit's
Mexican barrio is arguably the first stable, vibrant, blue-collar
inner-city neighborhood the city has had in decades. Read how explosive
growth is reshaping the city and its Mexican community.
3/22/00
Grappling
girls
Young female wrestlers take on stereotypes as well as each
other, in championship matches across the country. Although most aren't
allowed to wrestle with their school teams, they're training hard for
scholarships and, hopefully, the Olympics.
3/22/00
Handheld
heroes
There's a dark
horse in the hand-held gaming race... SNK's new NeoGeo is a quantum
leap over Game Boy, with more colors, longer play time, built-in memory
and more.
3/22/00
All
Tuppered out
Did you know
the Tupperware home party was invented by a divorced single mom from Detroit?
Read a story about plastic bowls and domestic thrift and excess in Tupperware:
The Promise of Plastic in 1950s America. It's an exceptional,
American tale.
3/22/00
Video Game review:
Marvel
vs. Capcom
Capcom, Playstation
3/22/00
Website review:
Hollywood Stock Exchange
www.hsx.com
Popex
www.popex.com
3/15/00
Best
of Detroit
We
asked you to tell us about the best places to play, eat and
party in metro Detroit and you answered, in overwhelming numbers.
You told us about all the things you love (and hate!) about metro Detroit
– from shopping
to sex,
politics
to partying,
football
to foodstuffs – we've listed the winners in each category.
3/15/00
Video Game review:
Crazy
Taxi
Sega
3/08/00
Belgian
bully
Renowned journalist Adam Hochschild writes a sprawling, novelistic
account of exploitation and slavery in turn-of-the-century Congo, in King
Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa.
3/01/00
Being
nothingness
An
MT Web exclusive: It's nothing, really... but a couple of new books
present surprising and markedly different looks at the loneliest number
of all: zero. It's no surprise; when you try to add to zero, you
only get what you put in.
2/23/00
Video Game review:
South
Park: Chef's Luv Shack
Acclaim, N64
2/23/00
Movie
day
An
MT Web exclusive: A new book analyzes the postwar classroom films
which gave many a baby boomer a brief reprieve from the classroom grind,
lecturing us on sticky subjects like dating, etiquette, driving, and substance
abuse ... and teaching us conformity and lies.
2/23/00
Website review:
Mullets
Galore
mulletsgalore.com
2/16/00
What's
goin' on?
A
searching new study shows how the Motown sound was inspired by
the politics and culture of that era ... and discusses how Detroit's black community made its voice heard through music, with
lyrics that became a commentary on the realities of life.
2/09/00
Adventures
in trespassing
Urban
explorers boldly go where nobody's supposed to go anymore – into Detroit's abandoned hotels and theaters – to explore the fading
grandeur of the city's past. PLUS: To an artist obsessed with ruins,
celebrating Detroit's crumbling
architecture isn't such a crazy idea.
2/09/00
Review:
Wu-Tang
Shaolin Style
Activision
2/02/00
Simply
the best
From
entertainment to eats, from shopping to sex, your opinions are the
ones we trust. So take the time to share
them with us, and with others who, like you, know the best when they
see it. Accept no substitutes: This "Best of Detroit"
is the real thing.
1/26/00
Alternative
travel
Take
the offbeat path to the hidden cities of Rio,
find 101 adventures in Istanbul,
celebrate the patron saints of Jalisco
or just drive across America in MT's guide to Alternative Travel.
1/26/00
Home
is where the dedicated line is
An MT Web exclusive: The
diary of a born-again telecommuter – she works in her jammies
and looks like hell all day. And it is glorious.
1/19/00
George's
hooptie
Forget
about those fancy concept cars at the auto show. Take a survivor's tour
of a carriage of yore ... George Tysh's 1982 Olds Delta 88.
1/12/00
Fast
fun
The
best driving video games offer crashes, smashes and races –
and best of all, no speeding tickets.
1/12/00
Predictably
vague
Have a look back
at the incredibly inaccurate predictions made by tabloid psychics
for 1999, and meet the man who keeps track of their forecasts.
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.
12/29/99
Cruddy
A Web exclusive: Cartoonist
Lynda Barry's second illustrated novel is a gory, weary trip.
12/22/99
Y2K
Party Guide
Millennium
Fever is going around ... how will you celebrate? Whether you headbang
or hang at home, we'll
tell you what others are
doing and where
you shouldn't be –
and give you our comprehensive New
Year's Party Guide.
12/15/99
Rethinking
ink
In
the '90s, everyone wanted a gnarly, tough-guy tattoo. Now,
the trend is to get rid of them.
12/15/99
The
goddess speaks
It had to happen:
Here's Amy on Amy. (That's MT's loose-lipped
Amy Probst and Amy Alkon, Advice
Goddess.)
12/15/99
Flying
into a rage
The pain and suffering
of air travel brings out the worst – or the weirdest –
in us.
12/08/99
Holidays
'99
The Metro Times staff exposes the true
spirit of the season ... helps you find a truly
original gift ... introduces you to holiday
mood music ... & lots more.
12/01/99
Chic,
schmeek
These SuperGeeks speak Klingon,
meet girls in chat rooms, and listen to Japanese punk. Take a rare peek
into their private world.
12/01/99
Cool by design
When it comes to big-box with a difference, Target is right
on the mark with its cheap, well-designed wares.
11/24/99
Locks
unbound
Long and wild and free, dreadlocks
make a statement inna Babylon ... a spiritual tradition followed by MT's
own dread-headed editor, Larry Gabriel.
11/24/99
List servers
An MT Web exclusive: Browsing the best online holiday cards
... whether you celebrate Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Christmas or the Winter Solstice.
11/24/99
The chill of
the game
One man's search for cool leads to insights about pro basketball
and race relations in America.
11/17/99
Wired
Detroit
Detroit may have freeways galore, but
more people in the metro area are traveling the information highway than ever before. In this, MT’s third annual Wired Detroit issue,
we look at some of the implications.
11/3/99
Hello
cutie
America is saying hello
to Kitty, but the next big collector craze has been cool in Japan for
decades.
10/27/99
Freaks and cliques
From Buffy to Dawson
to Sabrina to Felicity, it seems television
has never been so teen-oriented. Here's why ... or at least how.
10/27/99
Members only
"The Penis Book" is a little red book about a big (so the
author says) object of obsession ... including 36 pictures of naked
guys and 92 terms for masturbation.
10/20/99
Beasts
and beauties
The Jeromes get their butts
kicked by the New Girl Order, female wrestlers who clash in a bottomless
pit of boiling estrogen.
10/20/99
Crazy contraceptives
From crocodile dung to candy bar wrappers: Birth control through
the ages ... and would you believe there's a museum celebrating it all?
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
Juices
flowing
Susie Bright's new manifesto
praises sex as the root of creative expression ... and
being honest about what really, truly turns us on allows us to be good
at anything else we do.
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
Victoria,
revealed
It's no surprise, really. The "Victoria's
Secret" catalog is selling big bazooms. And we're being invited,
ever so tastefully, to leer.
10/6/99
Java
jab
Can you live without your daily
cuppa joe? Most Americans are too addicted to caffeine to let go.
A highly-researched text reveals the dark history of the bean.
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
Smug
as a bug
It's cute, charming, lovable. Too bad
this book celebrating Beetle culture has let all that warm, fuzzy
nostalgia obscure the VW Bug's dark past.
9/22/99
Net
profits
A new book explains
the nation's attachment to throwing a ball through a hoop –
lots
of great stories and a history of the game from street basketball
to the NBA.
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
Hot
this fall
Zippy computers,
high-tech toys and other stuff to talk about ... with Web
links to most of the goodies, so you can consume and collect 'em all.
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.
9/1/99
High-maintenance
men
A little powder, a touch of mascara, a French manicure... and maybe a
quick liposuction – voilá, the beauty myth has finally crossed gender lines.
9/1/99
Radical
history meets Hollywood
An interview
with Howard Zinn, who wrote the so-called Bible for social activists...
find out why this respected radical author is soon to become a television
star, and how he intersects with pop icons Matt Damon and Eddie
Vedder.
8/25/99
Tempest
in a pee-pot
Dr. Audrey Becker debates mandatory drug testing with a
local temp agency... and comes to the conclusion that she'll never be
a Kelly girl. ALSO: According to popular 'zine "Temp
Slave!"... resistance
to drug testing may be futile.
8/25/99
Buddha
basics
A modern Taoist handbook teaches the urban warrior (that's you)
how to tap into the golden elixir of life, gather $100 bills off the money
tree, and most importantly, how to love yourself.
8/18/99
Keep
on busking in the free world
Street
performers, or buskers, don't need footlights or fancy stages to
woo an audience.
8/18/99
Make
the ad guys pay
They are
battling for our brains but our attention is waning... could we actually
get paid to watch commercials?
8/18/99
Illicit
cuisine
From
cocktails in Casablanca to Cheech & Chong's pot brownies...
what we cook and eat illuminates who we are — or
would like to become.
8/11/99
Outsides
in
Why bemoan the loss of field, forest and stream as we gradually pave over
America? All the natural wonders we need are at the mall.
8/11/99
Her-story
At the brink of a new millennium, feminist Germaine Greer looks
around and says, "it's time to get angry again."
8/4/99
Fortune
tattling
A tele-psychic pulls the Queen of Profits card from the pack and
tells all... for only $4.99 per minute.
8/4/99
Getting
psyched
Yeah, there are frauds and phonies... but professional palm reader Jewel
Sheldon promises she's the real thing.
7/28/99
Welcome
to the MT Grand Casino
We may have lost the bid, but the dream is still alive... check out the
proposed plans for the MT Grand casino.
7/21/99
Living
large
Big, beautiful women step out locally
and nationally to prove that fat is not a four-letter word.
7/21/99
Who
cares?
Left-wing sociologist Nina Eliasoph's new book examines why polite
silence has led to an epidemic of political apathy.
7/14/99
Simulation,
stimulation & emulation
When the line between virtual and reality
blurs in today's video games, it raises questions of what's really
real.
7/7/99
Hot
wheels & dirty tricks
Liz
Langley attends a taping of "Roller Jam," where roller
derby meets ultimate sports for the athletic comeback of the decade.
6/30/99
MT SPECIAL ISSUE
Well & good
Our
writers look at alternative therapies that have worked for others — and
might work for you.
6/16/99
Thou
shalt advertise
God's
word is getting louder and splashier — here's
why.
6/16/99
Rainbow
retrospective
Three decades after the historic Stonewall riots, it's
(almost) OK to be gay.
6/16/99
Corners
of the Market
Behind the scenes at one of Detroit's tastiest institutions.
5/26/99
Following
the Jedi path
The power of the Force is more than just a
silver screen fantasy.
5/19/99
Loverboy
in the ring
Business by
day, villain by night – welcome to the double world of Stephen
Proctor.
5/12/99
Guilt
and gefilte fish
Kosher Sex serves up a dose of old-fashioned values - an MT book review
by Audrey Becker.
5/12/99
And
Georgie makes three
Clinton, Lewinsky and Stephanopoulos: Love triangle or mere coincidence?
4/28/99
Ice dreams
Hoping for stardom, ten year-old figure skater Margaux
Whitney melts rinkside stereotypes.
4/28/99
All
that buzz
It doesn't matter what the Alabama state legislature says: With vibrators,
pleasure comes before politics.
4/21/99
Loco-mation
What started with "The Simpsons" has blossomed into
a bona fide toonsplosion.
4/21/99
Virtually
historic
Microsoft's controversial CD-ROM encyclopedia brings African past into
the future.
4/21/99
WDFN,
"The Pan"
Detroit's AM
"Sports Radio" juggles ignorance, insult, and insight.
4/14/99
Fidel
& fastballs
Forget about international treaties; Cuban and Yanqui ballplayers settle
the score.
4/7/99
It's
a microbe's life
No matter how much we sanitize,
purify and cleanse, the truth remains: Fungus is among us.
3/31/99
Breaking
stained-glass ceilings
Women ministers bring
subtle changes to the male-dominated profession of preaching.
3/31/99
Building
in green
Local developers put the Earth first
with recycled construction materials.
3/10/99
Peterman's
passing
The rise and fall of J. Peterman... In love
with the imaginary, chilled by the real, we forsake another dream.
3/3/99
Minefield$
of green
Finally, there's professional help for those
poor souls facing the trauma of sudden wealth.
1/6/99
Test
Drive
The
Jeromes take the new Chrysler 300M for a spin.
1/6/99
Drive
to live
Living room, bedroom, storage locker and kitchen: Our cars are our homes
away from home.
1/6/99
Auto-gratification
Fantasy rides are limp revenge in a world gone mall-istic.
1/6/99
Let your freak
Ford fly!
In
this season of the new, art cars make the old beautiful.
12/16/98
Hot
toys
Another holiday season, another feeding frenzy.
From the Strawberry Shortcake dolls to Furby.
12/16/98
Restaurant
ringmaster
A good maitre d' balances diners and dinners,
all in the name of civility.
12/16/98
Your
office is an ecosystem
Treat it like one.
12/9/98
Gifts
with a difference
This year, give 'em something they didn't even
know they needed.
12/9/98
Stop Santa's sweatshops
Activists urge holiday consumers to shop with
a conscience.
12/2/98
Pixel
pictures
Americans go digital for holiday snapshots.
12/2/98
Virtual
workplace
More than 11 million Americans telecommute
to their offices -- and their numbers are growing.
11/11/98
By
faith thus far
Musician Stewart Francke's message of hope
lights up the darkness of leukemia.
10/28/98
Exterminator
of hypocrisy
Bipartisan smart-ass goes where others Durst
not go.
10/28/98
Labor
movement
Midwives help give birth to new attitudes in
women's health care.
10/21/98
New
age breakout
Jerome and Jerome meet the millennium.
10/14/98
Cuddletech
New products so cute you just wanna pinch their
cheeks.
10/14/98
Tuneful
goodbye
The jazz world pays a musical tribute to bebop
diva Betty Carter.
10/14/98
Making it big
CoCo, Detroit's own first lady of comedy, is
super-sizing the laughs.
10/07/98
Walk
his way
How Ron Bachman transformed living with a disability
into his greatest calling.
10/07/98
True
life tale
New documentary is Ron Bachman's dream come
true.
10/7/98
Everyday
treasures
There's more to a cup of coffee and a newspaper
than meets the eye.
9/23/98
Scarlet
letters
The Starr Report as told by some of history's
greatest writers.
9/23/98
Diary
of a dirt eater
Dogs are frightened by his breath, but he feels
great.
9/23/98
In-body
experience
Tattoos, heroin and a shaved head--all in the
name of hands-on research.
9/16/98
The
naked lens
Ann Arbor photographer breaks the taboo of
public nudity.
9/9/98
Museum
maker
Cranbrook's Elaine Huemann Gurian is changing
the way the public sees museums.
9/9/98
Changing
Cranbrook
The
Institute of Science adds a dinosaur, a hall of light and a new attitude.
9/2/98
Intimate
ties
The president's neckwear may be busy, but,
hey, he's even busier.
9/2/98
Take
me back to the ballpark
Tiger Stadium's seats are filled with local
history.
PLUS: An
excerpt from A Place for Summer: A Narrative
History of Tiger Stadiium.
8/27/98
The
Tao of thrift
Searching for reincarnation, one polyester
shirt at a time.
8/27/98
Tricky
business
Local magicians conjure up profitable careers.
8/19/98
Wise
women's medicine
Dr. Christine Northrup urges women to listen
to their bodies and care for their souls.
8/12/98
In
defense of big tobacco
After all, they are corporations.
8/12/98
Debating
'queer'
Assimilation has led to a debate over what
the gay community should call itself.
8/12/98
The
life & death of a gay bar
When The Flame closed, so did a chapter in
Ann Arbor gay culture.
8/5/98
They
come in peace
Betsy Adams unlocks the healing power of our
pets.
7/29/98
Viagra:
The pill of steel
The stone tower of the Washington Monument.
The majesty of Egyptian obelisks. The exploding power of NASA's space
rockets. All symbols of the lofty ideal man covets over all things: an
erection made of steel.
7/29/98
Don't
whip it!
It's neither dominance nor submission that
turns Isadora Alman, of Ask Isadora, on.
7/22/98
Meet
Lady Chablis
RuPaul she ain't, baby. At 5-foot-5 and 100
pounds, The Lady Chablis is not the in-your-face, outrageous drag queen
trying to look feminine. She is feminine.
7/15/98
As
the crow trips
Reflections on the death and life of Carlos
Castaneda.
7/8/98
Radical
reflections
Socialists, peaceniks, suffragists and more
in a jam-packed collection of left-wing icons.
7/1/98
Cotton
for your life
Maggie's in Ann Arbor markets organic clothes
that are kind to your body and food for the planet.
6/24/98
Time
is on your side
Stop whining; a professor of leisure says you're
not as harried as you think.
6/24/98
Close-up
shot
Erstwhile scenes from the last great American
drive-in.
6/17/98
Working
family values
PBS show demonstrates how to balance work and
family demands.
6/10/98
1998
photo awards
Life slices, frozen moments, winks of the camera
eye -- whichever metaphor best describes photography's results, there's
no denying the impact and seductiveness of its aura.
6/3/98
She
got game
Women's
pro basketball is competitive,
inspiring -- and fun.
6/3/98
Yearning
for Las Vegas
Tripping
the flight fantastic in Windsor's dreaming.
5/27/98
Smart
talk
The
Jeromes sip Mensa tea.
5/20/98
Prom
& circumstance
The
real costs behind the big night.
5/13/98
Reading
transformation
Ann
Arbor club rewrites the book on gender.
5/13/98
Net
assets
So you've
heard there's gold in them there cyberhills. You aren't entirely wrong,
but it's definitely a challenge to make your Web site pay the bills.
5/6/98
Pedaling
in the Motor City
Bicyclists
bond in the face of automobile adversity.
4/29/98
Dog
days
The
Jeromes take on a pet project.
4/22/98
Green
reads
Books
worth the tree-based paper they're printed on.
4/22/98
Eden's
caretakers
Environmentalists
take responsibility for the kingdom of God.
4/15/98
Gasping
for help
More inner-city kids suffer from chronic
asthma than ever before. Fortunately, there are more ways to cope.
4/15/98
Jumping
at junk
Love
that lived-in look.
4/8/98
Kicking
out the bags
Kickboxing
combines the grace of martial arts with the burn of aerobics--and the
hype of self defense.
4/8/98
Virtually
terrified
While
most virtual pets have beeped their last, this one has yet to come to
life.
4/1/98
Prohibition
of history
Detroit's
casino site proposal ignores the riverfront's historic blind pigs.
3/11/98
TV's
cop-out
Reducing viewers to cheering squads for police
abuse.
2/25/98
Real
enlightenment
How Americans are discovering the road to the dharma.
2/18/98
What's
so funny about comedy?
Evolutionary
status, says one expert, is more than just a ticklish topic.
2/11/98
Wagging
the watchdogs
Pack journalism or corporate sheep? Is television
news missing the real stories behind Zippergate?
2/11/98
Clues
for the clueless
Women
are good with gum, and other so-called dating tips for guys, from guys.
2/4/98
Girl
power
Should
the femme be put back into feminism?
1/28/98
Mother
Nature's remedies
Alternative lotions and potions rival chicken soup in curing the common
cold.
1/28/98
Language
of the valley
As one woman discovered, ancient teachings bring lightness to contemporary
life.
1/21/98
Zen of bowling
The Jeromes face life's alley.
1/14/98
The
omnipotent omnivore
Proof
that pigging out is a pleasure.
1/7/98
The
Great Car Drive
The Metro Times Staff gets high on that new-car smell.
12/30/97
Marketing
the millennium
Your
once-in-a-thousand-years chance to cash in on New Year's is coming up
fast. Will you be prepared?
12/17/97
Goofy
gifts
What's the holiday season without a shrimp globe, a DNA test and a smear
of breast enlargement cream?
12/17/97
Great
gizmos
Put these nifty high-tech gadgets on your year 2000 wish list.
12/10/97
Hurry
up and wait
Our
intrepid reporter gets the inside scoop on the glitzy world of Hollywood
filmmaking.
11/26/97
Hyped
on Hamtown
It may
be officially hip, but Hamtramck is still a funky town.
11/26/97
Fun
over dysfunction
New approaches to family gatherings could make
this Thanksgiving a meal to remember.
11/26/97
Thanksgiving
temptation
I would
have a nervous breakdown, kill my husband or both. It was only a matter
of time.
11/19/97
Smoking modems
While the debate over cigarette advertising rages on, the Internet is
becoming home to numerous tobacco sellers.
11/19/97
Salsa
scene
Where everyone fits in, but great dancers stand out.
11/19/97
Cigar
crossing
Cuba, Canada: when you're hankering for a great smoke, you've got to cross
a few lines.
11/12/97
Clueless no more
Today's savvy girls offer advice we wish we'd had back when.
11/12/97
Help
for life
In 10 years, Alternatives for Girls has made a difference for many young
women. Especially Christine Thompkins.
11/5/97
Sensing
censorship
Expose corporate bias, risk limited exposure: That's the conundrum for
a new television documentary.
11/5/97
Cyber
confessionals
On the Internet, absolution is just a point and click away.
10/29/97
Faerie
power
A kinder, gentler men's movement.
10/29/97
On-screen
'zine
New media project explores the underground in Detroit's cultural life.
10/15/97
Feel-good
finance
Responsible
investing turns spare change into social change.
10/15/97
Barbie
bonanza
She's
nearing 40 and has sold almost a billion versions of herself. Welcome
to the pink zone.
10/15/97
Missions
in motion
Local
group evens the score for women in the entertainment industry.
10/8/97
Unsettled after the
storm
Residents struggle with a tornado's aftermath
-- and a system they say has failed them.
10/8/97
TV
or not TV
The future of television viewing lies in searching, not surfing.
10/8/97
Victims
of TV
Hollywood cop shows distort our view of crime.
10/8/97
Web
bites
Citizens go on-line to dig at Warren council
member they say is out of line.
10/1/97
Digital
divisions
A new video format war is on the horizon -- and consumers could be hardest
hit.
10/1/97
Hedging their bets
With the potential for widespread gambling adiction in the cards, local
support agencies aren't taking any chances.
9/24/97
What's
so funny about comedy?
In the new television season, the jokes are old and bad boys are center
stage.
9/17/97
Party
politics
Underground meets mainstream in a local club-culture remix.
9/10/97
Jet
Fueled
The Jeromes go jet shopping.
9/3/97
New
gigs for old jobs
Thanks to modern technology, your job may be here today, but gone tomorrow.
9/3/97
Working
our lives away
As one generation embraces the traditional American work ethic, another
questions the value of all work and no play.
9/3/97
Lofty
aspirations
Urban dwellers shape their living space outside the margins.
9/3/97
SPECIAL FEATURE:THE FUTURE OF WORK
The
union cure
How corporate excesses have pushed the most powerful and wealthy members
of our work force to sign up.
9/3/97
SPECIAL FEATURE:THE FUTURE OF WORK
Working our lives
away
As one generation embraces the traditional American work ethic, another
questions the value of all work and no play.
9/3/97
SPECIAL FEATURE:THE FUTURE OF WORK
New gigs for old jobs
Thanks to modern technology, your job may be here today, but gone tomorrow.
8/27/97
Composing
with compost
Here's the dirt on making your garden grow.
8/27/97
Nothing
gone to waste
Earth-friendly Detroiters reduce, reuse and recycle, even if it means
taking drastic measures.
8/20/97
'We
would have saved Detroit'
Architect Gunnar Birkerts questions the path ahead.
8/20/97
Mental
health shuffle
As Michigan reorganizes psychiatric care and closes hospitals, a mother
waits and worries.
8/20/97
RV
gypsies
Neo-nomads drive down the highway less traveled.
8/20/97
BOOK REVIEW
Safe
& clean
Protect yourself against poisons that you didn't even know were there.
8/6/97
Balls
& bytes
Combining home pages with home plates is giving city kids a sporting chance.
8/6/97
Fighting
for survival
Downtown Detroit gets the big bucks and attention; neighborhood groups
are working with the city to strategize their resurgence.
8/6/97
The
big chill
You could be frozen for future generations, for a small fee.
8/6/97
Facing
the fear
A contested rights ordinance grows from a clash between gays and a Ypsilanti
business.
7/30/97
Must
work for food
On the heels of a federal mandate, welfare recipients are volunteering
in exchange for their meals.
7/30/97
Senior
class
Master athletes are on the fast track to healthy aging.
7/30/97
Painters
of the hood, unite!
How the Cadillac crest became a weapon in an art war.
7/30/97
Alien
culture
I wanted to believe. I really did.
7/16/97
Retired
with grace
Ernie Enriquez and Chris White -- and many other former gang members --
aren't trying to kill each other anymore.
7/9/97
Witch's
brouhaha
Occult supply store conjures up controversy in Garden City.
7/9/97
DIA
identity crisis
As the DIA searches for a new head, the museum itself is in search of
a vision.
7/2/97
Community
bases
In La Liga Mexicana's neighborhood, everyone plays on the home team.
7/2/97
Hair-raising
For Detroit stylists, to hair is human, to
sculpt is divine.
7/2/97
Fighting
crime with design
How architects can create a sense of safety, from the Renaissance Center
to the neighborhoods.
4/23/97
Claiming urban territory
Historian Robin D.G. Kelley has a unique take
on hip hop and African-American history.
2/26/97
Are they talking about us?
Credit union employees struggle with diversity in southwest Detroit.
2/26/97
The outer limits
Is there really anything left that science can find out? |