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Historic African American film exhibit headed to the DIA this February
‘Regeneration: Black Cinema 1898-1971’ will include nearly 200 historical film posters, costumes, props, and excerpts
By Randiah Camille Green
Tags: Things to Do, Things to Do, Movies, Critics’ Picks, Detroit Institute of Arts, Things to Do, Detroit art scene, film
Brooklyn artist brings absurdist ‘Plastic Bag Store’ installation to Ann Arbor
The experience is part-mockumentary, part-performance art, and full-on dystopian future
Tags: Arts Stories & Interviews, Visual Art, Robin Frohardt, The Plastic Bag Store, visual art, film, performant art, Ann Arbor, Arts Stories & Interviews
The limits of ‘Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance With Somebody’
Biopic struggles to capture what made the star so compelling
By Maurice Tracy
Tags: Movies, Movies, Whitney Houston, I Wanna Dance With Somebody, film
Demas: Michigan Democrats can’t buckle on repealing Right to Work
Wiping the law from the books would send a strong message to Michiganders who have put it all on the line in the last couple of years for better working conditions
By Susan J. Demas, Michigan Advance
Tags: Michigan News, Labor, Views & Opinions, Michigan, Right to Work, Democrats, Republicans, unions, labor
Union membership in Michigan grew in 2022, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics
273,000 workers across the U.S. joined unions in 2022 — though membership is still at an all-time low
By Lee DeVito
Tags: Michigan News, Labor, unions, labor, Michigan, Michigan AFL-CIO, Bureau of Labor Statistics
Labor unions push for more NLRB funding
Michigan has a long history of union activism, but the movement has fallen on hard times in recent years
By Mark Richardson, Michigan News Connection
Tags: Michigan News, Labor, NLRB, National Labor Relations Board, unions, labor, Michigan
Michael Thompson opens up about being Michigan's longest serving non-violent offender
Heart-wrenching documentary features Flint native who spent decades in prison after selling weed
By Steve Neavling
Tags: Cannabis News, Weed, News, Michael Thompson, Documentary, MSNBC, Film, Marijuana, justice system, war on drugs
With Korean thriller ‘Decision to Leave,’ Park Chan-Wook smartly updates classic noir
The ‘Oldboy’ director stages a comeback
By George Elkind
Tags: Movies, Movies, Decision to Leave, Park Chan-Wook, Tang Wei, Park Hae-il, Korea, film, noir
Detroiters slam regulators for lax approach to stinky Stellantis plant
A nauseating smell has been wafting from the plant on Detroit's east side for more than a year.
Tags: Metro Detroit News, Stellantis, Jeep Grand Cherokee, Detroit, consent order, Michigan, environmental racism, environmental, air pollution, Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy
Chipotle CEO ‘disappointed’ at Lansing store’s vote to unionize
If anyone should be disappointed, it’s the workers being treated like capitalist slaves
Tags: Michigan News, Labor, Chipotle, union efforts, labor, news & views, Michigan news, Brian Niccol
Noir City film fest brings a world of classic movies to Detroit’s Redford Theatre
More noir: This year’s fest as a return to basics, with double features of films from the 1930s-50s
Tags: Movies, Movies, Noir City, Redford Theatre, Detroit, film, film noir
Influential Detroit artist Aaron Ibn Pori Pitts honored with memorial
Beloved by the community, the artist and activist died in August
By Amber Ogden
Tags: Arts Stories & Interviews, Visual Art, Aaron Ibn Pori Pitts, Detroit, art, poetry, Wayne County Community College, labor, unions, activism
Workers at a Michigan Chipotle formed the chain’s first union because of a ‘let them eat cake’ moment
Adding insult to injury, they didn’t even get to eat the cake, which was for management
Tags: Food News, Labor, Chipotle, Michigan, Lansing, unions, labor
Cinema Lamont and Detroit Puppet Company bring a month-long puppet film series
(Some) strings attached
Tags: Movies, Movies, film, movies, puppets, art house, Detroit, Michigan
How attacks on drag queens in Howell foreshadowed the right’s national anti-LGBTQ+ push
By Jon King, Michigan Advance
Tags: Michigan News, Michigan Advance, Drag Queen, Livingston County, LGBTQ, Howell, politics, Michigan Government, Government, election
Whitmer signs general budget, vetoes anti-abortion items
By Allison Donahue, Michigan Advance
Tags: Michigan News, Abortion Rights, Michigan Advance, Roe v. Wade, Abortion Rights, Reproductive Rights, government
Macomb County Starbucks workers go on strike, say company won’t cooperate with union
As a result of the strike, the Partridge Creek Mall store closed early
Tags: Drink News, Labor, Starbucks, union, labor
A wide-ranging self-portrait, ‘Beba’ traces its director’s cross-national family history
Filmmaker Rebeca Huntt is fighting for control of her own story — but it doesn’t always land
Tags: Movies, Movies, Beba, documentary, film
More Michigan Starbucks workers vote to unionize, including in Macomb County
The stores join a growing labor movement at the coffee juggernaut
Tags: Food News, Labor, Starbucks, labor, unions, Michigan
Under fire from Congress, FDA chief says baby formula shortage will improve soon
By Jennifer Shutt, Michigan Advance
Tags: Michigan News, Politics, Government, baby formula, FDA
Michigan’s ‘Bikers, Buds, & Brews’ taps Marcy Playground and Soul Asylum
Detroit illegally inflated taxes on lowest value homes, study suggests
Detroit’s ‘NSFW’ art and music exhibit is not what you think