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Things to Do

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
Jan 9, 2024

Tags: Things to Do, Things to Do, Movies, Critics’ Picks, Detroit Institute of Arts, Things to Do, Detroit art scene, film
Metro Detroit

Detroit promotes peace with free ‘Peacenic’ festival this weekend

The event is described as a “collective gathering of the community and law enforcement to share in food, fellowship and fun in the name of peace'

By Steve Neavling
Jul 11, 2023

Tags: Metro Detroit News, Things to Do, Detroit, Detroit police, Law enforcement, event, Peacenic, crime, games, Detroit Parks and Recreation, Heilmann Recreation Center
Arts

Brooklyn artist brings absurdist ‘Plastic Bag Store’ installation to Ann Arbor

The experience is part-mockumentary, part-performance art, and full-on dystopian future

By Randiah Camille Green
Jan 27, 2023

Tags: Arts Stories & Interviews, Visual Art, Robin Frohardt, The Plastic Bag Store, visual art, film, performant art, Ann Arbor, Arts Stories & Interviews
Movies

The limits of ‘Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance With Somebody’

Biopic struggles to capture what made the star so compelling

By Maurice Tracy
Jan 26, 2023

Tags: Movies, Movies, Whitney Houston, I Wanna Dance With Somebody, film
Michigan

Rick Haglund: Michigan Dems offer a refreshing change to a people-based economic growth strategy

Michigan has a golden opportunity to become a much stronger competitor for residents and workers

By Rick Haglund, Michigan Advance
Jan 17, 2023

Tags: Michigan News, Views & Opinions, Michigan, Whitmer, economy, population, transportation
Metro Detroit

Michigan dishes out $85M in tax money to fund QLine streetcars as costs increase

Fares and private boosters were supposed to fund the streetcars — not taxpayers

By Steve Neavling
Dec 30, 2022

Tags: Metro Detroit News, News, Transportation, QLine, streetcars, Detroit, Gov. Whitmer, tax subsidies, transportation
Cannabis News

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
Oct 28, 2022

Tags: Cannabis News, Weed, News, Michael Thompson, Documentary, MSNBC, Film, Marijuana, justice system, war on drugs
Movies

With Korean thriller ‘Decision to Leave,’ Park Chan-Wook smartly updates classic noir

The ‘Oldboy’ director stages a comeback

By George Elkind
Oct 24, 2022

Tags: Movies, Movies, Decision to Leave, Park Chan-Wook, Tang Wei, Park Hae-il, Korea, film, noir
Politics & Elections

Lime offers free e-scooter rides to vote in Detroit

The offer includes two free rides for up to $15 each way to and from the polls and is already available for early voting

By Steve Neavling
Oct 14, 2022

Tags: Politics & Elections, Politics & Elections, Election, Detroit, Lime, e-scooter, Transportation
Movies

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

By George Elkind
Sep 19, 2022

Tags: Movies, Movies, Noir City, Redford Theatre, Detroit, film, film noir
Movies

Cinema Lamont and Detroit Puppet Company bring a month-long puppet film series

(Some) strings attached

By George Elkind
Aug 3, 2022

Tags: Movies, Movies, film, movies, puppets, art house, Detroit, Michigan
Movies

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

By George Elkind
Jul 18, 2022

Tags: Movies, Movies, Beba, documentary, film
Things to Do

You can catch wacky shorts at the seventh Detroit International Festival of Animation this Saturday

Staff pick

By Randiah Camille Green
May 4, 2022

Tags: Things to Do, Things to Do, Detroit International Festival of Animation, film, Senate Theatre, DIFA, 2022
Metro Detroit

Mask mandates lifted for local transit authorities in metro Detroit

The decision comes after a Trump-appointed judge overturned the mask mandate in Florida

By Steve Neavling
Apr 20, 2022

Tags: Metro Detroit News, President Biden, COVID-19, public transit, QLINE, Smart, DDOT, mask mandate, health, transportation
Movies

New documentary explores devastating impact of human sex trafficking industry in metro Detroit

By Steve Neavling
Jan 27, 2022

Tags: Movies, Film, movie, documentary, sex trafficking, prostitution, Men Who Buy Sex – Everyone Pays, Wayne County Medical Society Foundation
Movies

The best films of 2021, quite possibly the last great year of movies

By George Elkind
Dec 22, 2021

Tags: Movies, 2021, movies, film, Procession, Red Rocket, El Planeta, Wife of a Spy, The French Dispatch, Souvenir, Pt. II, Bergman Island, North By Current, France, Worst Person, Memoria, Licorice Pizza, Days
Arts

Darkroom Detroit resumes in-person film and photography workshops

By Marisa Kalil-Barrino
Aug 16, 2021

Tags: Darkroom Detroit, Photography, Film, Workshops, Classes
Food News

NY-based Barcade to open in Detroit — finally

By Alex Washington
Aug 9, 2021

Tags: arcade, bar, barcade, games, craft beer
Arts

Detroit's Vault of Midnight eyes more space, announces move to Milwaukee Junction

By Jerilyn Jordan
Jul 14, 2021

Tags: The Scene, Vault of Midnight, Detroit, comics, games, comic shop, Ann Arbor, Grand Rapids
Metro Detroit

Report: EV technology, manufacturing to create job growth in Michigan

By Lily Bohlke, Michigan News Connection
Jun 23, 2021

Tags: Michigan, electric vehicles, EV, jobs, growth, transportation