Vol. 32, No. 6
Holiday Gift Guide
A collection of gifts for just about everyone on your list
By Metro Times editorial staff
Detroit’s death spiral
Bing to cut services, chasing away residents, lowering tax revenues, requiring more service cuts...
By Curt Guyette
$4.1 million question: Why did Detroit incinerator deserve tax credits
Letters to the Editor
Readers fired up about smoke and Schuette
By Metro Times readers
An Emergency Manager could be what Detroit needs
Maybe we should stop worrying and welcome the EM
By Jack Lessenberry
Are Bing and council playing politics over our budget crisis
Without a unified vision of where Detroit must go, we'll just get the unkindest cuts of all
By Larry Gabriel
Can't go for that
If I won’t sleep with a MTF straight woman, am I a transphobe?
By Dan Savage
Philip K. Dick keeps it (un)real
Hollywood's favorite sci-fi writer didn't think it was all fiction
By Aaron Mondry
Tragi-comic
The author revisits his Maus-terpiece
By Justin Rose
Detroit — in books!
This year, another truckload of tomes about our fair city, its heritage and its people
By Michael Jackman
Mr. Dick goes to Hollywood
They love his stories — and often screw them up
Now read this
The best Dicks for you
Miracle mile
Joseph Campau is the place for bargain-basement gift shopping
Low dough X-mas
A small bankroll can equal a high return this holiday season
By Megan O'Neil
Melancholia
Depression porn - Incredible cast, and Lars von Trier hasn't been this alive in years
By Jeff Meyers
Arthur Christmas
Christmas v.2.1 - Forget the old ways, dude, we've got smart phones and supersonic sleighs
By Corey Hall
My Week with Marilyn
Wing-a-ding fling - A nobody makes it with the most desired woman on earth
The Muppets
Kermit & kids - Movin’ right along, deep into the heart of Generation X
Hugo
Scorsese winks - In a true love letter to the history of cinema
The Decendants
Back-up dad - George Clooney's family man in troubled, disloyal times
Food Stuff
Plenty of places to watch the parade, and more
By Metro Times Food Staff
Barrio offers upscale Mexican in Birmingham
Yes, there is such a thing as sumptuous Mexican food with high-end ingredients
Riffs & things
Critics choose stocking stuffers that just keep on givin'
Got live if you want it!
Miles, Hendrix, Rollins and more, caught in the act
By W. Kim Heron
The K.I.D.S are alright
Ex-Silverghost man Deleano Acevedo talks of breakups and his new all-star power-pop combo
By Brett Callwood
Rock 'n' roll X-Mas
Books and DVDs roundup 2011
By Bill Holdship
Chuck Jackson: Soul man returns to Detroit
'Gonna do it just as hard for 200 as I do for 20,000'
By Kelly Caldwell
City Slang: Weekly music review roundup
City Slang: Ozzy drummer goes back to school
City Slang: Mike Watt prepares Spielgusher album
Recommended recent spins: Surfer Blood; The Bats
By Nathan Phillips
Muddy Waters and What's Wrong With The New Chrysler 300 Commerical
By Jonathan Cunningham
City Slang: Two proto-punk guitarists are now bobble-heads
City Slang: The Verve Pipe bag up the holidays
City Slang: “Rev Up!!” revisited
City Slang: Detroit Symphony Orchestra brings the joy
Amsterdam’s Cannabis Cup a tourist draw
And to think, Americans don’t want this source of tax revenue!
By John Sinclair