BETTER ROCKIN' THROUGH SCIENCE...
by: on 11/16/2009
Frequent MT contributor and Wonder Twin Laura Witkowski is the brain behind this week's "Science Rocks!" -- an evening of live music, dancing and fun at the Detroit Science Center this Thursday, Nov. 19th, from 7 to 11 p.m. The special evening includes a screening of the Chrysler IMAX® Dome Theatre ... [MORE]

WE CAME AS ROMANS CRACK THE BILLBOARD TOP 200
by: Bill Holdship on 11/13/2009
This week's Metro Times cover dudes We Came As Romans charted impressively high on several Billboard charts this week with their debut full-length, To Plant A Seed. Among the most impressive, the band has claimed the No. 2 spot on the New Alternative Artist chart, No. 6 on the Heatseekers chart, ... [MORE]

IGGY & THE STOOGES REUNION ON YOUTUBE!
by: Bill Holdship on 11/10/2009
SPOILER ALERT!!! Some folks don't want to hear what the setlist is going to be before they attend a concert and we can respect that. So if you're one of those people, please read no further. For the rest of you, the recently reunited Iggy & the Stooges (with the legendary James Williamson back ... [MORE]

SECOND LIVE CD TO BENEFIT A2'S MICHIGAN THEATER
by: on 11/10/2009
Speaking of benefit stuff, Ann Arbor's 107one radio station has just released Live From Studio A2, Volume Two, the second compilation CD of live, locally recorded performances by top national touring artists. The CD is available exclusively at Borders stores in Ann Arbor, Brighton, Canton and N ... [MORE]

ART VAN STORES RECRUIT MOTOWNERS TO FEED THE HUNGRY
by: on 11/10/2009
So it's getting to be that season again -- peace, goodwill and even more drunk drivers on the road than usual. Seriously, though, November and December bring more local charity events than can be listed in one blog post -- and one of the season's first is already scheduled to take place tomorro ... [MORE]

STILL SMOKIN’: DETROIT INCINERATOR TOWN HALL MEETING
by: on 11/19/2009
A coalition of environmental groups and others advocating for curbside recycling in Detroit and an end to the incinerator that burns the city’s trash to produce steam and electricity will hold a town hall meeting on Saturday, Nov. 21, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at St. Elizabeth Church, 3138 Canfield (at ... [MORE]

ACORN FIGHTS BACK
by: on 11/13/2009
If you are like me, you probably don’t know what a “bill of attainder” is. At least I didn’t know until I began looking at the lawsuit the Center for Constitutional Rights just filed against the U.S. Government on behalf of the group Acorn. Turns out a bill of attainder refers to a legislative ... [MORE]

ONIONS & TANGOS: STEFANI’S REVEALING TESTIMONY
by: Curt Guyette on 11/12/2009
Think of the events that led to Kwame Kilpatrick’s undoing as an onion whose layers are still being peeled away.Last month, during proceedings before the Attorney Disciplinary Board, attorney Mike Stefani, who represented former cops Gary Brown, Harold Nelthrope and Walt Harris in their whistleblowe ... [MORE]

HOW BADLY IS MICHIGAN SCREWED? READ THIS!
by: W. Kim Heron on 11/12/2009
Here's something the Pew Center on the States does not say in its new report on troubled state economies:  Michigan, once a world technological leader, will settle slowly into the ooze. We will become Mississippi with ice storms, or maybe Haiti without sugar cane.  That was from a 2007 Pol ... [MORE]

DETROIT CITY COUNCIL: THE END OF LIVIN’ AT LARGE
by: on 11/4/2009
Concurrent with an election that produced the biggest rearrangement of Detroit City Council in memory, city voters also put a stake in the long-maligned at-large council system that held for most of the last century. This council sea change included the retirement of two council members (Barbara-Ros ... [MORE]

G.I. JOE: SHOWING IS HALF THE BATTLE
by: Corey Hall on 8/5/2009
In perhaps the least shocking surprise of the year, Paramount has declined to pre-screen G.I Joe for reviewing press. This, of course, is the international symbol that a movie is not only lame or not good, but likely bad enough to cause severe birth defects for generations to come. G.I Joe has been ... [MORE]

MCG HEARTS THE MITTEN.
by: Corey Hall on 5/21/2009
A few hundred eager area moviegoers were treated to a nice bonus on Monday night, when an advance screening of Terminator Salvation turned into a meet and greet with the film's director, the man know as McG.  Kalamazoo born and bred Joseph McGinty Nichol has made a splash in Hollywood with his ... [MORE]

ALL HAIL JACKIE EARLE HALEY
by: Brian Smith on 3/10/2009
I was a pup when I first saw Bad News Bears; developed a heady childhood crush on Tatum O’ Neal, as a matter of fact. Be that as it may, what really got me was the anti-heroics of 14-year-old Jackie Earle Haley — as Kelly Leak— the smirk-y, cigarette-pack-in-sleeve badass whose manner bucked all kid ... [MORE]

MORONS AT THE MOVIES.
by: Corey Hall on 2/11/2009
The president has been pushing for more civility lately, but it can't come soon enough to the multiplex. Last night I attended an advance screening for a hard R rated slasher movie, one held at a later time of night than usual. Exactly the sort of event where you wouldn't expect to hear the cries of ... [MORE]

MITTEN MOVIE NIGHT
by: on 1/29/2009
Every month for the last few years, the Mitten Movie Project has taken to the screen, showing some of the best short subject films from around the state and beyond. It happens the first Tuesday night of every month, half-screening, half-party, a way to showcase local talent and bring local movie fol ... [MORE]

RICHARD PRYOR: REGIFT OF THE YEAR?
by: Travis R. Wright on 11/19/2009
Back in the day, the City of Detroit bequeathed unto the legendary Pryor the Spirit of Detroit Award for an animal rescue he founded here with his wife. Well, times are hard. It's up for auction here.Thoughts? ... [MORE]

SAYS WINDSOR: WE'RE IN THIS TOGETHER
by: Travis R. Wright on 11/18/2009
Last night, Broken City Lab projected a message from Windsor to Detroit. It was a message they’ve been meaning to send for a while, actually. We wanted Detroit to know that we know that, “We’re In This Together.” And we mean that, in every way.Cross-Border Communication: We're In This Together fro ... [MORE]

CAID NEEDS A CURATOR, TAKE A SHOT AT IT
by: on 11/16/2009
We got word this morning that the Contemporary Art Institue of Detroit will be holding a curator’s exhibition at its Ladybug Gallery in South-West Detroit on December18. Curators who participate will be considered to curate a larger exhibition at a later date based on their prototype exhibiti ... [MORE]

CITY BIRD SPREADS ITS WINGS
by: Michael Jackman on 11/16/2009
For the last four years, brother-and-sister team Andy and Emily Linn have been marketing Detroit-themed odds and ends under the City Bird name. Anybody who has seen their colorful soaps or plates or glasses emblazoned with a classic Detroit map (sans freeways, natch) knows the disarming appeal of th ... [MORE]

DETROIT ARTS PATRON JAMES PEARSON DUFFY, 1923 - 2009
by: Travis R. Wright on 11/6/2009
    James Pearson Duffy, longtime Detroit businessman, consummate patron of the arts, and champion of the Detroit arts scene, died on Tuesday at his home in Grosse Pointe at the age of 86. He was the only child of James F. and Helen Pearson Duffy.     &nbs ... [MORE]

DAN DEMAGGIO: 100 PERCENT GENTLEMAN
by: Michael Jackman on 3/9/2009
After just barely getting to New Dodge Lounge in time to see the end of the Meltdowns, I got to catch Dan DeMaggio of his City Chicken Orchestra before he went onstage. Dan, quite rightly, gave me a hard time about the description I used of his group in the paper ("Boozy spoken-word blowhard Dan DeM ... [MORE]

STICK YOUR WOODSTOCK UP YOUR ASS.
by: Brett Callwood on 3/8/2009
Holy shit, I love the Blowout. I may have only just arrived home (at what I thought was 2 a.m. but what my computer clock is telling me is 3 a.m. – damn) and therefore still be enjoying the memories that are very fresh in my mind, but I think that this year's Blowout is the best festival ever put on ... [MORE]

WONDER TWINS BLOWOUT REPORT: FRIDAY
by: Laura Witkowski on 3/7/2009
Laura: We started off day three of Blowout right with pierogies at Polish Village.D'Anne: Those were some good pierogies. Definitely not on my diet.L: Diets are for housewives. Only a fool would go to a multi-day event in Hamtramck and NOT partake in good Polish food.D: I know. When in Rome, d ... [MORE]

THREE DOWN, ONE TO GO...
by: Bill Holdship on 3/7/2009
Man, I felt exhausted going into Blowout after putting all the editorial stuff together. and, today, finally, I'm an absolute zombie. But I figured I'd better scribble down a few random thoughts from these last three nights of my second-ever Blowout, which Brian Bowe once described to me on the phon ... [MORE]

THURSDAY NIGHT BLOWOUT HITS
by: Doug Coombe on 3/7/2009
Started out by checking out the amazing guitar heavy pop of Citizen Smile at Small's. Reminiscent of early Teenage Fanclub and bass player Adam Padden is arguably the Paul McCartney of Detroit. Besides, any band with a singer named James Brown is cool with me.Keeping the ridiculously good guitar po ... [MORE]