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Arts

Art is resistance for these Arab artists in metro Detroit

Dance, music, and painting become ways to fight for an end to occupation in Palestine despite censorship and backlash

By Randiah Camille Green
Apr 24, 2024

Tags: Arts, Longform, Visual Art, Palestine, Israel, Gaza, Palestine, Arab Americans in metro Detroit, Dearborn, Cover Story, Slideshow
Culture

The rising field of death doulas serves both the dying and the living

To help people to face mortality, these doulas offer a range of services to the living, dying, and loved ones of the recently deceased

By Randiah Camille Green
Jan 31, 2024

Tags: Culture, Health and wellness, Local Businesses, Longform, death doulas in Detroit, KristySue Bishop, Charon Collier, The Good Death Experience, Cover Story
Culture

It’s Detroit influencer Randi Rossario’s world — and we’re just living in it

The gift of gab

By Kahn Santori Davison
Dec 6, 2023

Tags: Culture, Media, Music, Things to Do, Longform, Randi Rossario, Detroit influencers, Detroit podcasters, Cover Story
Culture

In Detroit, a poetry workshop gives high school students freedom to be themselves

Burning their fires for all to see

By Eleanore Catolico
Nov 29, 2023

Tags: Culture, Longform, Youth, Nandi Comer, InsideOut Literary Arts, Detroit poets, Detroit youth, Cover Story
Arts

The contradictions of corporate-sponsored mural art in Detroit

Does the Motor City’s public art serve the public?

By Ian Matchett
Oct 11, 2023

Tags: Arts, Longform, Visual Art, Views & Opinions, Murals in Islandview, Murals in the Market, 1XRUN, Detroit murals, Detroit street art, public art in Detroit, Cover Story, Slideshow
Culture

‘Mental health gym’ says it can reset your mind, but gave me a terrifying past life regression

How do you reboot your brain?

By Randiah Camille Green
Jun 28, 2023

Tags: Culture, Local Businesses, Longform, mental health gym, Inception, metro Detroit businesses, David McCullar, Icewear Vezzo, The Breakfast Club, Cover Story
Arts

Detroit’s Toni Elling lives on through the Black burlesque performers who became her chosen family

Forever a Satin Doll

By Randiah Camille Green
May 10, 2023

Tags: Arts Stories & Interviews, Arts & Culture, Longform, Stage, Toni Elling, Detroit burlesque performers, Black burlesque performers, Lottie the Body, Cover Story
Arts

130 years on, Detroit’s Henry the Hatter stands tall

The business has ‘weathered every war, depression, recession, and riot’

By Hayley Cain
Apr 26, 2023

Tags: Arts Stories & Interviews, Local Businesses, Longform, Henry the Hatter, Detroit businesses, Detroit fashion, Cover Story
Arts

Sydney G. James beams with Detroit pride in MOCAD solo show, but her greatest masterpiece isn’t a painting

Girl with the ‘D’ earring

By Randiah Camille Green
Apr 12, 2023

Tags: Arts Stories & Interviews, Arts & Culture, Visual Art, Longform, Sydney G. James, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Cover Story, Slideshow
Culture

How Tay Crispyy took a fender-bender and a wig and became one of Detroit’s most distinctive characters

The social media star is launching a new YouTube talk show

By Kahn Santori Davison
Feb 1, 2023

Tags: Culture, Television, Tay Crispyy, Mr. Reporting Live, Detroit, Cover Story
Television

Made-in-Detroit Starz crime drama ‘BMF’ is all about family

As it heads into its second season, the hit TV series gets a real-life Motor City story right

By Kahn Santori Davison
Dec 28, 2022

Tags: Television, Television, BMF, Starz, Black Mafia Family, Kash Doll, Demetrius "Meech" Flenory Jr., Terry Flenory, crime, Cover Story, Video, Slideshow
Culture

For Sweetest Day, a look at how three Detroit-area couples navigate work, family, and marriage

Work hard, love hard

By Alex Washington
Oct 12, 2022

Tags: Culture, Arts & Culture, Detroit, Sweetest Day, AYV x Fresher, Cover Story
Arts

Detroit’s first themed Nike Air Jordan release solidifies its place in sneaker culture

Shoe game

By Kahn Santori Davison
Oct 5, 2022

Tags: Arts Stories & Interviews, Arts & Culture, Detroit, Nike, Burn Rubber, Two 18, Roland Coit, Air Jordan 2, Cover Story, Slideshow
Culture

A group of Detroiters is getting Black and brown people outdoors for hiking, kayaking, and camping adventures

Black to the Land Coalition aims to get more POC outside, exploring nature and building a harmonious relationship with the land

By Randiah Camille Green
Sep 7, 2022

Tags: Culture, Nature, Detroit, nature, Michigan, Black to the Land Coalition, systemic racism, environment, Cover Story
Arts

30 years of the Concert of Colors

How a free live music festival helped bring together metro Detroit’s ethnic groups

By Martina Guzmán
Jul 13, 2022

Tags: Arts Stories & Interviews, Music, Concert of Colors, Detroit, Michigan, festivals, Cover Story
Arts

Yemeni artist Alia Ali blasts off with far-out, futuristic installation at the Arab American National Museum

Space invader

By Lee DeVito
Apr 27, 2022

Tags: Arts Stories & Interviews, Visual Art, Alia Ali, Arab American National Museum, Yemeni, al-Falaq, Cover Story
Arts

Expensive jpegs or artistic autonomy? Detroit artists explore NFTs

By Randiah Camille Green
Mar 2, 2022

Tags: Arts, Detroit, NFTs, cryptocurrency, Sheefy McFly, Hygienic Dress League, CarCroach, FACINGS, Cover Story
Culture

Where to celebrate New Year’s Eve and ring in 2022 in metro Detroit and beyond

By Metro Times editorial staff
Dec 15, 2021

Tags: Culture, New Year's Eve, Detroit, 2022, Cover Story
Arts

Bakpak Durden, BLKOUT Walls, and Black figurative art in Detroit

By Steven Panton
Nov 17, 2021

Tags: Visual Art, Bakpak Durden, Detroit, Playground Detroit, Cover Story
Culture

Why are so many people turning to #VanLife?

By Lee DeVito
Oct 27, 2021

Tags: Culture, #VanLife, Drifter Vans, Nomadland, Gabby Petito, Brian Laundrie, Cover Story